ACT255: Mining Areas
As soon as he succeeded in capturing Alex alive, Zhao Jian passed on the news of his success and the possibility of chaos in the AKY boat group to the committee. If there were no problems with the progress of the renovation on their side, then the armed fleet should have been fully completed by the time Zhao intimidated Alex.
In fact, just as Zhao expected, when they began to raid AKY, except for the four heavy gunboats with bow guns, they were still in the final stage, and everything else had been completed. There were suddenly more warships equipped with military naval guns in their hands, and the committee's confidence suddenly increased greatly!
However, when they learned that Zhao Jian's side had really pulled Alex out of his lair alive, they couldn't help but feel a little more worried while they were happy.
"This Zhao Jian is not simple! The strength in his hands is definitely far beyond what we have seen so far! ”
"But uncle, what if he becomes the second Alex in the future?"
Luo Shengnan pointed out a rather acute hidden danger, which was also a common concern of several other boat owners.
"The heart of defense is indispensable! But we can't help it now, who calls this situation compelling? ”
After all, Luo Hu is an old fritter who is mixed in the rivers and lakes, and he is sleek and will scrutinize the degree! He actually knew very well in his heart that although the Luo family seemed to be powerful in this Shattered Star Region, in the eyes of the national forces in the outside world, their strength was not worth mentioning at all. Zhao only gave them time to think about it, but the choice was never in their hands.
Either cooperate with Zhao Jian and be exploited by this profiteer, or be swallowed up by AKY and go to Alex to kneel and lick. No matter how you think about it, the former is more acceptable!
At present, there are nearly 200 armed ships in the hands of the committee, which is enough to fight AKY in terms of strength, and the information provided by Zhao Jian shows that AKY is currently in chaos. So the five ship owners agreed that they should seize the opportunity to die while they were sick! On the day of the completion of the four main gunboats, they poured out of the nest, under the guidance of Zhao's subordinate Meow Bo. Kill the AKY boat group in a mighty way!
On the other side, Zhao Jian also used the automatic repair equipment (those metal tentacles) to completely scare Alex into peeing, and pulled out a lot of useful information from his mouth, especially about the mining area and the mysterious organization.
10 years ago, Alex was just the "three masters" of his own boat group, although he was very ambitious, but he never thought that he would be so majestic 10 years later! Until one day, when he took someone to buy salt with a black merchant he knew, the other party introduced him to a mysterious person who changed his fate.
The mysterious man who took the initiative to contact Alex called himself "Bilbo", who claimed to be very rich and willing to fund him to do a great job in the Shattered Star District. And in return, Alex only needs to develop it. Just do something "simple" for them. Tempted by the other party, Alex agreed to cooperate.
The other party first helped Alex capture his own ship regiment, and then provided a large number of ships and weapons in the early stage of AK's development. During that time, the mysterious man Mr. Bilbo only asked Alex to grow and develop as much as possible, especially to absorb more people. As a result, the plundering AKY soon expanded its size to more than 10,000 people after annexing more than 30 small boat regiments.
At this time, Bilbo finally made a new request, which was to help them mine in the Shattered Star Zone!
Mining in the Shattered Star Zone is both easy and difficult! Simply put, there are countless open pit mines, and some asteroids are even huge ores in their own right. The difficulty lies in the fact that the environment here cannot be built and smelted on site, and it is time-consuming and laborious to transport it out. It is far less efficient than mining in the colonies or on the mainland.
However, Alex soon discovered that the minerals that the other party asked him to mine were not common minerals such as gold, silver, copper, and iron, but a special colored crystal. This colorful crystal stone is only found in the core of a larger asteroid. And the locals are not idle and bored to dig through those asteroids, so this crystal has never been discovered.
In addition, Bilbo also told Alex that their free funding for the AKY Boat Regiment had ended, and if Alex wanted to continue to get good things from them in the future. You have to exchange it for this crystal ore. So Alex, under the reminder of the other party, took advantage of a group of captives who were still unwilling to surrender to him!
These captives were forced to become slave miners under the pressure of guns and whips. With heavy iron shackles, use rudimentary tools to gouge those hard asteroids. Alex treated these slaves very cruelly, not only requiring them to do 16 hours of heavy labor every day, but also providing very little food.
In the past seven years, the AKY boat group has captured more than 30,000 slaves and put them into their mining area, but now there are only about 4,000 left. Others were either exhausted to death or tortured to death by the cruel pirate overseers.
With such a risky investment, a total of 7 ore occurrences have been discovered before and after AKY, but only the E2 mine has the most abundant reserves. But Alex kept an eye on the "good stuff" and put the "good stuff" last, and the E2 mine was not put into use until several other mines were dug up and depleted, less than a year ago.
"Mr. Alex, as long as you are willing to take us to your mines, I can swear to God that I will release you alive!"
"Really?"
"Really! Absolutely true! I'm a very trustworthy man. ”
is not a good man who stands up to the sky, Alex thinks that he is alive, and even his biological parents can betray him without hesitation. So in this situation where there was no choice, he agreed to lead the way for Zhao Jian, and Zhao Jian also ordered someone to loosen his ties on the spot and provide him with rooms and food.
After the interrogation, as soon as Zhao Jian came to the next room, Jia Na asked a little eagerly.
"Admiral, do you really plan to let that scum survive?"
"I only promised to release him alive, but I didn't promise to let him live, okay? Imagine that! What a touching sight it would have been when we took the mine and I released Alex on the spot in the midst of the slave laborers! ”
“……”xN
Afraid of long nights and dreams, Zhao Jian couldn't wait to seize the mining area quickly, he only let Alex rest for less than 2 hours, and then asked the special combat team members who beat him before to "invite" him to the bridge. Alex honestly activated the beacon that Zhao Jianstuff had given him, and a subtle emerald green light suddenly appeared on the black disk.
"You can fly in this direction to the mining area, and the closer you are, the brighter the compass will be."
Regarding Alex's cooperation table, Zhao Jian nodded with satisfaction, but in fact, he could already see from the other party's slightly messy brainwave activity that the other party actually had a ghost in his heart. In this regard, the Zhao ship did not break it for the time being, and still let the fleet fly in this direction, anyway, they didn't plan to rush over directly so stupidly.
Therefore, except for Lang Bo, who stayed near the AKY boat group for surveillance, the remaining 7 ships all rushed to the mining area with the Zhao ship.
In the same external society, most people's eyes are still focused on Mother Earth, who is already "terminally ill".
Since April, the state of the planet has been getting worse and worse.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, these terrible natural disasters occur every day with high frequency and on a large scale. Looking at the ground from outer space, the land is densely packed with bright "red lines", which are the newly formed Great Rift Valley after the earthquake, and the lava flowing below!
Until this moment comes, even the most die-hard opponents have to admit that the earth is indeed going to end!
As of the end of March, according to incomplete statistics from the League of Nations, nearly 700 million people on the planet had not been evacuated. Of these, 20 per cent are in Southeast Asia, 50 per cent in Africa, and the other 30 per cent are scattered around the world. Some of them are religious figures who call themselves "martyrs" who have volunteered to stay and die with Mother Earth, but many more are poor people in backward areas.
The powerful can not only escape unharmed, but also most of their assets, even pet dogs, can be transferred to the colony. And at such a time, the poor cannot buy a ferry ticket even if they are bankrupt.
In the face of the constant distress messages sent from all over the world, the League of Nations, which has always been regarded by mainstream countries as a "small and transparent" and "big country meat X weapon", can only hold the mentality of trying and seeing, and call on those mainstream powers to help the people of those backward countries out of "humanitarian" considerations.
In the face of the appeal of the League of Nations, and even the desperate eyes of the representatives of those backward countries, most countries chose to remain silent and turn a blind eye. At this time, no one's transportation capacity is rich, and it is much better to be able to transport an extra shipload of grain out than a who can transport an extra shipload of food to consume food.
But at this moment, Datang made a statement!
The young Meng Zong's majesty said in a high-profile manner that Datang would help the suffering people in those backward areas in the spirit of benevolence and righteousness, and was willing to provide 1,000 spaceships. And after someone came out to take the lead, other countries were embarrassed to say nothing, everyone 10 ships, 5 ships and 200 ships came out, which finally made the League of Nations feel that it had a face!
However, after the ship was available, another problem came out, that is, these backward countries generally did not have extraterrestrial colonies, and even if their people were transported out, it was a big problem where to send them.
Therefore, the European powers, led by Britain and France, in order to contain Germany, put pressure on them in the League of Nations to accept these refugees from backward areas. In the face of this malicious "act of kindness", anger and resentment began to spread in German society! (To be continued......)