"Then why is it this ghost color now?"

"Pollution, obviously. Young master, you may not know our company's development strategy in the recent period, we now tend to use a simple and low-cost way to develop mineral resources, for the resources on solid planets, we generally adopt the mining method of blowing up the entire planet, and then dragging away the mineral-rich fragments for direct refining. Therefore, we are generally not interested in terrestrial planets like Aurora, which will obviously develop into large inhabited planets, and we are interested in those planets with harsh natural environments, although they can barely live after transformation, but it is obviously impossible to attract too many human immigrants, for example, Mars in the pre-space era is very typical. But this planet is different from other planets in that this planet is rich in element zero. ”

Element Zero is the key to giving life to the nanomachines in the human body, and is also the primary medium for the use of psionic energy, which is extremely important to all races in the galaxy.

"The mining of element zero has always been accompanied by terrible pollution. Aurora's Element Zero is so large that it has polluted most of its seawater in just over a decade. The Director said lightly.

"Haven't you thought about installing purification equipment?" Xia Yongzhi couldn't help but ask.

"Of course, we also have a plan to clean up pollution, but this plan requires a lot of money and equipment, and our funds are limited, and we need to improve the transportation and refining system of the planet first."

"But there are also a lot of mineral resources in the pollutants discharged, isn't it good to collect them?"

"This colony only has one orbital elevator, and the limited capacity is all used to transport Element Zero, miss," the Director paused, then added, "In addition, the money spent on collecting these by-products is enough for us to blow up a planet - you must know that bombing a planet is not ordinary and simple now, a planet killer is enough." Compared to the minerals obtained from the bombing of planets, the yield of the by-products of collecting is too low. ”

Xia Yongzhi was speechless for a while.

The Director was still gushing: "The process of our mining of uninhabited planets is generally like this: it is blown up with a bang, and after the explosion, the high-level refining ship warp into the debris area. After that, all we have to continue to pay is the wages of the miners. To collect these by-products, we need to build a whole refinery on the ground and then pay the miners. When the Element Zero resource is mined here, we will have to dismantle the refinery and transport it away, compared to the high-level refining ship that can leave at warp speed, it is obviously much easier. ”

"Even if that......"

As soon as Xia Yongzhi spoke, she was interrupted by the supervisor: "Even if we really deal with the pollution, the protests will not stop, do you think they just want the environment?" No, in fact most people came out to protest because they felt that we were making a lot of money from mining, and they wanted us to share the profits of mining with them. As long as we don't agree, they will find other reasons to protest, such as mining sites destroying the habitat of local creatures, noise from transport ships affecting their rest, and so on. ”

At this time, the elevator began to enter the long barrel-shaped "unloading area" of the ground base station, and the director seemed to be planning to take this opportunity to end the conversation, as soon as he stood up, Xia Yongzhi asked: "Since Aurora has so many zero elements, there is no reason why the Space Army should not come here to garrison, right?" If they are so unhappy with you, why don't the local people take back your mining rights and sell them to the United Nations? ”

"After the Space Army came to garrison here, we were also responsible for the development of Huanyu Mining." The director smiled, "So from the military's point of view, just throw the security guards to us, and they will save trouble." In addition, the military, as well as Huanyu Mining, knows the consequences of mining Element Zero on a manned terrestrial planet, and they are of course happy to throw the pot on our backs. ”

Indeed, if the military takes control of Aurora and throws the mining rights to Huanyu Mining in the form of a tender, it will be the Space Army who will be scolded on the placard.

"Wei Guangzheng's space army can't be stained in the slightest, so the dirty work is left to us dirty, mercenary capitalists. Bearing the blame for the Space Army is also the price we pay for profit. ”

The supervisor's words made Xia Yongzhi want to speak and stopped, and in the end, the girl didn't say anything, but took Lin Youde's hand and stood up.

**

When leaving the cabin of the rail elevator, Freya whispered to Lin Youde: "Listening to your conversation just now, I once again feel that your society is so complicated. ”

"Wouldn't the people of Ilarai have such a problem?"

"No, because our planets are all private lands, and most of them are what the lord says they want. The major planets, inhabited by multiple people, are largely devoid of industry, because all of our industries moved to the New Lands hundreds of years ago. ”

Lin Youde couldn't help but smack his lips, from a certain point of view, the society of the Ilalai people really has a bit of a utopian flavor.

[Based on the literature I have read, utopias will eventually collapse. 】

[That's because most of the works you watch are so-called dystopian works, and there was a time when human science fiction works were very keen to create a "utopia" and describe its collapse. Since the earliest "When the Big Machine Stops", more than half of the dystopian works have been in this tone, and the remaining half have achieved the same goal by depicting a utopia built on the basis of the absurd. 】

[Oh, by the way, you know a lot about these. 】

Hearing Noah say this, Lin Youde was a little proud.

In junior high and high school, this is one of Lin Youde's few strong points - other people look at ancient literature to pretend to be forced, so they glance at it completely without seeking much understanding, and then memorize it in their minds through the super memory of modern human beings, and then take it out when they need to pretend to be literary and artistic with girls. Lin Youde actually read these works and understood the essence of them, at least according to himself.

When Lin Youde was thinking about this, Freya and Xia Yongzhi were talking in a whisper, and they were also talking about the crowd of demonstrators outside the base station.

"Do you humans always come together like this when you want to express your opinions? Why? ”

"Because human beings believe that the majority represents right, they are always accustomed to gathering like-minded people when expressing their opinions, establishing the so-called 'majority justice', and putting themselves on the commanding heights......"

[This girl is a bit level.] Noah exclaimed, "Although it's not as good as me, it makes sense after all." 】

Lin Youde shook his head, and at this time he noticed that the gentleman in charge who was walking in front was also listening to the conversation between Freya and Xia Yongzhi with his ears pricked up. The supervisor noticed that Lin Youde was looking at him, so he smiled at Lin Youde and turned his gaze to the front, no longer focusing on the behind.

The group walked out of the main entrance of the base station building.

As soon as he went out, Lin Youde's ears were filled with earth-shattering slogans, and the whispers of the two girls behind him were immediately interrupted by the slogans. Freya and Xia Yongzhi both stared at the angry crowd with wide eyes.

Lin Youde always felt that the appearance of the two girls seemed to stimulate the crowd-

[To be precise, it was the appearance of your group that stimulated the crowd, and judging from the communications I heard, they seem to believe that you and your sisters are the young master of the Lin family who came to inspect. 】

Lin Youde smashed his mouth.

[I checked a little and found that since yesterday, there has been news on the Internet that someone from the Lin family's direct family is coming to inspect and vacation. Noah said by cramming a large number of text posts and moving image posts in the virtual reality space into Lin Youde's mind, and marking the time of these posts with highlights.

Indeed, the day before Lin Youde and their arrival, the Internet was full of news that he Lin Youde was coming. Lin Youde couldn't help smacking his lips, it stands to reason that he should keep this matter a secret, but obviously someone leaked it.

[Trace the source of the message.] 】

[I don't need you to say it, I'm looking it up.] 】

At the same time as Noah answered, a mark representing hostility appeared on Lin Youde's retina, which was his subconscious mind warning him, and the next moment Lin Youde found a person carrying a large bazooka at the location of the mark through Noah's perception.

Lin Youde just wanted to alert the guards, and a violent explosion occurred in the ground base station complex behind him.

Noah immediately completed the location of the explosion: [It was the force field fence generator that was blown up. 】

Lin Youde secretly said in his heart, "It's broken".

At this time, the crowd was also stunned by the explosion, and before they could react, the colonial security forces were the same, but the mercenaries, who were experienced and apparently aware of what had happened and what was about to happen, all of them took off their weapons and turned on the safety machines.

Also aware of what is happening are the militants hiding in the crowd.

[Noah, mark the location of the militants!] 】

A large number of arrows immediately appeared on Lin Youde's retina, and at the same time, one of the arrows was very large, pointing directly at the militant that Lin Youde had first discovered.

The man had already carried the bazooka.

Lin Youde drew his gun and opened fire the moment the rocket flew out - the target was the shielded shooter at first, but he immediately realized that it was time to hit the rocket warhead.

Modern rockets have the super acceleration force of instant acceleration to Mach 1, so it takes only one or two seconds to hit the launch, and only in this way will the rocket warhead not be intercepted by human beings using light weapons - if it is the kind of slow rocket in ancient times, modern human beings can use the rifle in their hands as a short-range defensive weapon with the help of the auxiliary system to shoot down the warhead.

Because of the instantaneous acceleration to the speed of sound or even faster, modern rockets are equipped with force field shrouds to solve the sound barrier, so that all rockets fly with warheads as bright as large bald heads in the moonlight.

Lin Youde's pistol was adjusted to the rapid-fire barrage mode, and the barrage instantly tore the force field shroud of the rocket's head, and the next moment the rocket that had reached the speed of sound seemed to hit the air wall, and then exploded into a gorgeous salute, and the scattered shrapnel swept over the colonial security forces below, triggering a flash of shield.

Someone in the crowd shouted: "There is no force field!" Rush up and do this gang of mother-in-law people! ”

The anger of the crowd was ignited again, and everyone shouted and rushed towards the human wall of the colonial troops. In this way, Aurora gave Lin Youde, who came to the "off-campus internship", a unique welcome ceremony.