"This is the trading area, this is the business area, this is the medical area, this is the entertainment area..."

Big Poppy lowered his voice and whispered beside Han Biao to explain the functions of various areas in the prison, while the prisoners who came and went around were wandering in groups as if they were shopping, and they didn't look like they were in prison at all.

It's just that these people who are shopping are not beautiful chicks, but thugs with big shoulders and round waists, and their faces are full of meat.

Han Biao and the others were like Grandma Liu who had entered the Grand View Garden, looking around and walking towards the building complex in the middle of the huge prison area, because they had just been imprisoned, so they also needed to automatically go to the prison's management center to report.

When they were sent to the prison yesterday, they were locked in a closed prison car, with no view of the outside scenery at all, and after getting out of the car, they were directly interrogated and put in the cell, so that they did not know that they had been transferred to the Vostok Satellite Base, 200 kilometers away from the D.87 biosphere base.

It is densely packed with prisoners all around, and there are probably no less than tens of thousands of people as far as the eye can see, and this is only a part of the entire prison inmates, and the prison area in the other three satellite bases, the number of prisoners is probably not less than here, and it is said that in addition to these ordinary prisoners, there are also a large number of special felons who are isolated and serve their sentences in other special prisons.

There are so many prisoners in such a D-class base with a standard population of 1 million and an actual population of two or three million.

Han Biao stood in the crowd, secretly looking around, surrounded by prisoners with big shoulders and round waists or strange shapes, all with their faces full of horizontal flesh as if they were written that I was a bad guy, under the guard of the armed prison superintendents patrolling the surrounding brigades, they were also unruly and constantly provoking the prisoners in other phalanxes with murderous eyes, and the smell of gunpowder was thick everywhere.

The main duty of the prison governors, who wore combat uniforms and armed with firearms and weapons, was to suppress the prisoners who made trouble in the prison, although they were only the most basic armament, but the faint deterrent power was enough to suppress the restless prisoners, so that they did not dare to fight in the prison easily.

In the distance, there were rows of large machines, which did not look like tanks or giant robots that Han Biao had seen, but at first glance they looked like two mechanical legs were installed under a large machine, which was very strange.

The outermost layer is the prison wall that can be seen from afar, and the metal wall is more than 50 meters high, and it is densely packed with automatic defense weapons controlled by the central prison management system.

And above the prison, a faint blue power grid pulled out by dense electromagnetic generators shrouded the entire sky, no wonder the internal management is so loose, even if the prisoners are allowed to escape, they have to pass through this wall.

Although the D.87 biosphere base is only a D-level base, it can be upgraded by self-construction, as long as a sufficiently safe area is cleared in the four directions of the southeast, north, and west, and four smaller, barely classified E-level satellite bases are established, a new urban area can be built in the safe area between these four satellite bases and the main base to accommodate more people.

In fact, all the interstellar humans on planet γ-44 were originally sent to redevelop this abandoned star, except for the two A-class biosphere bases located at the north and south poles on γ-44 that were built by the federal engineering fleet, the other 8 B-class bases, 32 C-class bases and 128 D-class bases were slowly developed in this way.

If we think of Planet γ-44 as a small country, the A-level base is equivalent to the "provincial" level, the B-level is equivalent to the "city" level, the C-level is equivalent to the "county" level, the D-level is equivalent to the "township" level, and the E-level satellite base is naturally equivalent to the "village" level unit.

If D.87 can build the base into the standard of a C-level base, it will naturally be able to upgrade its own level, get more material supplies and capital injections from the Federation and major commercial groups, and its status will also rise.

The Vostok Satellite Base is not a large area, but the number of staff required is unusually large, and the standard population of 1 million D.87 can accommodate several times the population, partly because the large population is divided by the four satellite bases and all the development zones that dot the area around D.87.

The job of these prisoners is not to do the simple tasks of cleaning and building, and those jobs that are not dangerous are usually the responsibility of ordinary inferior citizens and inferior citizens, and they will act as "scavengers" in the danger area, responsible for exploring the ruins and ruins left by the war of the ancient interstellar era, killing the creatures that have been mutated by radiation and pollution, and paving the way for the development team.

Why do so many inferior and inferior citizens prefer not to have a job than to leave the base and go to the satellite base that requires a lot of manpower in the construction to find work?

It is because the abandoned planets in the interstellar war in the ancient interstellar era are more dangerous than the original planets that have never been developed, in addition to the ubiquitous radiation and pollution sources that fill the entire space, some dangerous creatures that have survived the pollution of the war and multiply are even more terrifying than the legendary demons and monsters, their crazy foraging instinct will take any moving object that appears in their territory as food, and once they find it, they will pounce on it and tear it apart and swallow it at all costs.

Naturally, this high-risk job is assigned to prisoners who have no human rights, but in order to allow the prisoners to work more dedicatedly, the valuable items that the base management allows them to find during the exploration mission will be owned by the discoverers themselves, and the official responsibility will be responsible for the purchase.

The high rewards make the prisoners who are already living with their heads not too resistant, and they may not be able to change their lives and destiny in this way without other talents.

The prisoners are separated from the ordinary people working in the development zone, and the area where Han Biao and them are now is specially assigned to the prison personnel of the D.87 base, in addition to being restricted from freedom and control, the official level in this area does not restrict the behavior of the prisoners too much, which is why the major organizations call this area a "safe zone".

In this area, no matter how great the hatred between the two organizations is, friction is not allowed, and once it happens, the light will increase the sentence, which is not at all important to those old oilmen whose sentences are thousands of years old, so it is serious, usually a huge fine, and the desperate work is to make money, and no one can get along with the money.

The population of the entire Oriental Satellite Base is about 500,000, of which prisoners account for about a quarter, which is equivalent to a small society.

Located in the middle of the prison block, a tall building is a joint office of the prison's governing body, D.87 Prison and D.87 conglomerates, which are responsible for all the management, needs and assignment of all prisoners in the execution of their tasks.

Just like in front of the counter of the management center in the bank hall, a dragon of people were queuing up to receive tasks, and when it was Han Biao's turn, the prison governor checked their identities from the central management terminal, and knew that they were newcomers who had just been sent, and immediately a prison supervisor took out a metal strap like a collar and put it on his neck to buckle it, and set up the "collar" with an electronic device the size of a handheld game console.

The role of this thing is equivalent to the nameplate of the soldier and the battlefield recorder, which can not only display the location of the wearer on the management terminal in real time, but also record the wearer's behavior data synchronously to judge the performance of the task.

But these functions are only the additional functions of this thing, the main function, and its dog collar-like shape, is to restrict the wearer's actions, to prevent prisoners from escaping when they are out of the task, not only has the punishment function of super electric shock, but also the function of truncating the wearer's nerve reaction, instantly making the wearer fall into a state of clear consciousness, but the body can not control itself, once forcibly removed, there will be a self-destruct surname explosion to eliminate the wearer.

The commercially managed D.87 prison is quite liberal in management from the perspective of human rights, but when the prisoners are sent to the outside world, the prisoners are left unguarded, which saves the manpower of the guards as much as possible and gives the prisoners the greatest degree of freedom.

When installing the limiter for Han Biao, he encountered a small problem, not because Han Biao's neck was too thick to wear, but because the "personal terminal" in Han Biao's hand could not be chained with the limiter.

The prison superintendent was surprised, and looked at the large old antique in Han Biao's hand that was several times thicker than the ordinary personal terminal, and said, "What kind of tatters are you picking up?" Don't even have the basic program for a personal terminal? It looks like it's still an old military model..."

The prisoners who were taken in, except for dangerous items such as weapons, D.87 Prison would not confiscate their personal belongings, and there were many mutants like Han Biao who could not afford to use the new personal terminal, so the prison governor did not ask too much, but just used the setter in his hand to load the required programs for the large old-fashioned "personal terminal" in Han Biao's hand.

After the cadres had finished registering at the management center, the prison governor threw them an electronic file and told them that they could move on their own, and the prison governor who escorted them stopped paying attention to them and walked away.

"Boss, what are we going to do now?" A minion looked at Han Biao with a blank eye.

Thinking that he was calling his own pea, he looked at Kassanlina, who was also dazed, and couldn't help muttering: "I know what to do..."

Han Biao himself had never done the work of a gangster boss, so he scratched the back of his neck and asked Big Bobby: "How did you all do it before?" ”

Big Poppy scratched his head: "According to the information, in two hours, we will go out on an escort mission with the rest of the B1 cell, but we will have to prepare the necessary tools and equipment ourselves." ”

Their mission is to work with the Merchant Group's mechanical engineering team, clear the road of mutant creatures, set up a makeshift development camp in the midst of an industrial ruin, and serve as combat guards, accompanied by a team of armed prison superintendents, the D.87 Merchant Group's mechanical engineering team and several supply vehicles.

"Where did the gear come from?"

"We can buy or rent this in the commercial area of the camp." After all, Big Poppy has been in prison a few times, and the basic situation is still known.

"All the funds we have on hand are less than 20 Europa copper coins, is it enough for our 28 people to equip them?"

Kasannana, who doesn't know the price of goods in the development zone, is a little worried, the money in her hand was still snatched by Han Biao from Da Bobi and them, and now it can be regarded as "taken from the people for the people", but as the chief financial manager of the "Kaku" organization, she is very nervous that the organization's funds will not be enough.

If they want to survive in the danger zone and earn enough money to offset the sentence and raise money for Xiao Xue's treatment, they must first find a way to survive, and the necessary capital investment cannot be saved.

"It should be enough, the basic equipment can be used first after paying a small deposit, and the lease fee will be settled when it is returned to the equipment store after the mission is over, as long as we have gained during the mission, we can generally pay the usage fee."

Walking around the business district, everyone was dazzled by the dazzling array of various equipment, and they didn't know how to resupply, and they were covered with radiation protection suits issued by the prison, which could protect their safety in the radiation environment, but it was unrealistic to rely on this anti-mutant creature to tear apart the steel minions, and if you wanted to come back alive, you had to consider it from a safety perspective.

In the end, at the suggestion of Big Bobby, Han Biao and the others rented a set of defensive combat suits with special ceramic outer decks attached to each of the 28 members of "Kaku", although in the face of the sharp fangs of mutant rats, these things are no different from pieces of paper, but at least they need to get some psychological comfort.

The prisoners did not have much choice in terms of weapons, and under the strict weapons ban of the Federation, it was impossible for high-powered thermal weapons such as energy weapons and laser weapons to be issued to prisoners, and in addition, the lethality of those thermal weapons to mutated creatures that could survive in the radiation environment was extremely limited.

In the interstellar era, the main role of various small-caliber thermal weapons is the tool used by the guards to deter the people, and in the real battle, those weapons that can only cause damage to the most vulnerable human beings are useless at all, but sharp cold weapons made of various special metals are popular.

Therefore, the "Kaku" organization, which has limited funds, is very shabby and only equipped with an alloy tomahawk that matches the combat suit.

Han Biao, who was unfamiliar with this era, looked around, and suddenly pointed to some mechanical equipment that looked like robots in the other prisoner teams that were also replenishing in the commercial area, and said curiously: "What is that?" ”

It looked a lot like Kassalina's lightweight "exoskeleton-assisted carrying arm", and Han Biao had seen similar things in some repair shops in G City.

"Hambio, that's the Groundhog-I engineering armor." Mechanically, Kassalina is a self-taught genius, knowing the model at a glance.

The concept of the so-called "engineering armor" is very similar to the "mecha" that Han Biao knows, but it is far less advanced, just a kind of manual operation, supplemented by computer-controlled large machinery.

This kind of machinery is collectively known as "mechanical armor", the original power vehicle between robots and mechas, to put it bluntly, it is like a crane, forklift, for people to sit in the construction machinery, belongs to civilian equipment.

In the course of a mission, it is often necessary to clear heavy rocks and scrap metal that block the road, which is obviously not possible with manpower alone, and this all-terrain humanoid shell-type mechanical lifting equipment can be put to use.

The groundhog engineering armor looks like a V5, but it is actually not a combat equipment, which makes Han Biao, who thought this thing was a legendary battle mecha, very disappointed.

However, although this thing is bulky, the protection of the thick plastic steel external armor is not bad, and after adding the loading steel frame to the back, it can also be used as a baggage unit to transport some heavy items.

There are various types of engineering armor for rent and sale in the leasing shop where they will be, Han Biao climbed into the cockpit of one of them and looked at it, and was immediately stunned by the dense longitudinal rods and buttons inside, this thing is definitely much more complicated than a car.

Of course, Han Biao, who can't even drive a four-wheeled car, can't do it, but Kassanlina and Pea, who are mechanical repairers, are masters and can control such heavy machinery very flexibly.

Among these people, if you want to say weak, it is Kassanlina and Pea, the two "big sister heads" and "big leaders", after wearing heavy defensive combat uniforms, it has become very difficult to even move, and they can't walk, even if they don't rent engineering armor, they have to rent a vehicle to ride.

So he simply used all the remaining Europa copper coins to lease 2 5-meter-high groundhog engineering armor, and Kashan and Pea acted as the pilots of the engineering armor.

In order to prevent damage to the engineering armor during the mission, Kassalina also rented a complete set of full-featured field repair arms, which she could repair in case of a problem.

After spending all their savings, the almost poor "Kaku" organization rushed to the assembly point given on the mission data, and was immediately inferior to the equipment of other organizations involved in this mission.

Standing at the designated task assembly point are all the prisoners in the entire B1 cell, generally speaking, the mission is basically based on the entire cell, all the prisoners who ran out as soon as they opened the door in the morning saw Han Biao and them coming, and they were also carrying a sharp alloy battle axe in their hands, and they couldn't help but look at them with frightened eyes, and some timid guys even began to weaken their legs.

Their team of more than 1,000 people, in addition to their two or three hundred prisoners responsible for cleaning up the mutated creatures along the road, there are also 10 giant rhinoceros engineering vehicles and 5 supply vehicles from the commercial group engineering team, and a team of 10 prison governors in off-road armored vehicles to follow the whole process.

Departing from the safe area of the Vostok Satellite Base, they reached the destination at a distance of about 50 kilometers, and their mission was to search this section of the area and be responsible for cleaning up dangerous organisms along the road, and detecting sources of pollution and radiation.

The prison superintendent in charge of the command reorganized them into 24 squads according to the allocation of all the prisoners in B1, in the shape of a "man", and scattered to the front and sides of the team to move forward.

The cadres who had never participated in the task of cleaning up the danger zone were a little nervous and followed the team closely, while the team composed of members of the "Waste Furnace" organization who was close to them tried desperately to stay away from them, and after being scolded several times by the leader of the prison superintendent team in charge of command, they finally managed to maintain a complete formation.

Han Biao, who was carrying a sharp alloy battle axe and following the team, asked Big Poppy beside him strangely: "Why do those buddies keep looking at me?" ”

Big Bobby said, "Can I not look at you?" Now that they have left the security line of the development zone, the default 'peace rules' of the various organizations have automatically become invalid, and they are afraid that you will suddenly kill them..."

He knew what was going on, but he didn't dare to say it, so he could only smile and say, "Maybe I hope that the boss will protect them when you encounter a battle." ”

Han Biao was surprised: "Protect them? They're all covered so tightly, and they still need me to protect them, weird, huh? How do they know I'm good at fighting? I almost didn't say a word: "Everyone on earth knows it!" Da Bobby looked at Han Biao with some doubts, you don't know the good things you have done yourself?

The danger zone is not a danger zone, not long from the safe area of the development zone, the team began to encounter some mutated creatures, but basically some small insect creatures, such as a spider the size of a millstone, a scorpion the size of a bathtub, a beetle the size of a small basin, a giant centipede one or two meters long, and so on.

Of course, these giant insects can't be close relatives of the insects of his time that Han Biao knows, but they are creatures with similar appearances, for example, the spider here actually has 10 legs, but can you not call him a spider because it has two more legs?

In addition to being large and poisonous, these insects are much stronger than their close relatives, but as long as they are not splashed with venom, the threat to the team is not too great, and the combat clothes on everyone's body may be a little fragile to resist the strong mutant creatures, but it is enough to resist the fangs of these spiders.

An alloy tomahawk split a squeaky and screaming beetle rushing in front of him in half, Han Biao turned his head to look at Da Bobi who was collecting the corpses, and asked strangely, "What are you picking up the corpses of these insects for?" ”

"Boss, you don't know? Although these insects are mutant organisms, but the body is extremely rich in high protein, a variety of vitamins and minerals, after decontamination can be refined into high nutritional value of organic matter, we eat most of the raw materials of those vitamins and nutrient blocks are these insects, the base and development zone have acquisition banks to purchase, an average of 1 kilogram can be sold for about 1 credit, and they also have some special substances The price is also very high, There is a special team of hunters in the base, and they make money by hunting down these dangerous mutant creatures with low surnames. ”

Big Bobi hurriedly threw a centipede, which was two meters long, into the hands of his men standing on the cargo rack on the back of the engineering armor driven by Pea, and he stacked the loot in the cargo rack.

Han Biao suddenly looked at the other teams, and sure enough, the corpses of the bugs were all cleaned up, no wonder it was said that although the prisoners went out on a mission with high risks, it could also bring high returns at the same time, many citizens who had no way to live would rather join the organization and go to prison, probably in order to get this opportunity to make money under relatively safe conditions!

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