In the 414 office on the 4th floor of the urban management building of a certain city, which is a temporary station, Wang Qiu and others are taking stock of several recent incomes.

-- Through another cleaning and searching of the ruins of Alexandria, Queen Cleopatra again managed to scrape together some gold and silver, but the total was only a few kilograms, but the natural gems dug up from the wreckage of the royal throne were more valuable, but unfortunately they were only worth tens of millions of yuan. Such a small amount of money is not enough to compensate for the huge arms expenses in the previous war.

What's worse is that the actual rate of return on the human organ transaction, which was originally pinned on high hopes, is also disappointing.

“…… 50,000 for each living person and 20,000 for each corpse? Two hundred and twenty-three Roman prisoners of war and eight hundred and fifty-five Alexandria mobs are expected to be exchanged for less than 30 million dollars? What the hell are you kidding?!! ”

When Sanae Rika heard this, her eyes immediately widened, "...... I have sent two hundred and twenty-three Roman prisoners of war and eight hundred and fifty-five Alexandria mobs, a total of more than a thousand! A healthy dead person can provide a heart, a liver, two lungs, two kidneys, corneas, and a few other things...... How is it less than 30 million?! Don't bully me I don't know the market, just one kidney is worth 100,000! ”

“…… Look at what you said, Rika-chan! What is the relationship between us, even if no one can pit you! ”

Senior Sister Ma Tong pursed her lips, and immediately called out to hit the sky, "...... Due to the ultra-high mortality rate of crossing the wormhole, coupled with bad luck this time, more than a thousand people were inside. In total, only about a hundred people made it to this place alive, and the remaining more than 600 dead people had to be dissected as corpses, and the price naturally fell - because there were too many of them on the market at one time. Each corpse can only be exchanged for an ultra-low price of about 20,000 yuan......"

“…… However, even if you only count the organs of a hundred living people, it will be more than this after you sell them! ”

Sanae Rika continued to question unrelentingly-after hearing such a meager profit, she already regretted that she had blatantly broken through the bottom line of morality and engaged in the reckless behavior of buying and selling human organs: the pay was completely disproportionate to the income!

It's a shame that she still wants to make this thing a characteristic export industry of ancient Egypt!

“…… Alas, the question is not so simple, young man! Deputy Director Xiao Se, who was tapping on the computer, sighed and said. …… The person who sells the organs never gets much money because the actual profits are lost in the middle...... For example: In Iran and Pakistan, it's not bad for a kidney seller to get two or three thousand dollars. But once the air is shipped to the United States and Canada, the price can be at least five, or even tenfold! But does this price make any sense to kidney sellers in poor areas? Not at all! ”

“…… Wait a minute. You mean. This batch of organs was not digested by the domestic market, but was sold overseas?!! Senior Sister Ma Tong was also surprised to hear it, "...... Deputy Director Xiao, this seems to be different from what you originally said! How many things are you not telling us the truth?! ”

However, before Senior Sister Ma Tong's words were finished, an angry old voice suddenly sounded at the door.

“…… There's so much more she is hiding from you! I've only been gone for so many months, and you've learned everything!! ”

Hearing this familiar voice, everyone couldn't help but shudder. Then he turned his head stiffly and saw a figure on crutches.

“…… Belch...... Professor Yang Wenli? Didn't you transfer to Tibet? Weishenme is suddenly back again? ”

“…… weishenme back? You're embarrassed to ask! Of course I'm by you! Look what you've done! Professor Yang banged his cane on the floor. …… Is such a dirty thing as the trade of human organs also something that a state civil servant can do? ”

“…… Well, Professor Yang, may I point out a mistake, we are not state civil servants at the moment, we are just temporary workers......"

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“…… Comrade Cai Rong! Comrade Ma Tong! Comrade Wang Qiu! And Comrade Xiao Se! I didn't go to Tibet for a few months, how could you completely lose your party spirit and humanity and actually do such a thing? ”

Professor Yang Wenli, the former political commissar of Wang Qiu's squad and who had just returned from Tibet, was reprimanding his former colleagues with a painful face, relying on his old qualifications, "...... Actually sell the indigenous people of different shijie as piglets, and transport innocent healthy people to modern shijie to harvest organs for profit? Also exported to the United States? Do you still have a conscience? This is a more evil business than slave traders and arms dealers! ”

It seems that because of the relationship between staying on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for a few months, Professor Yang's originally pale face was also tanned and red by the plateau sun, and the whole person looked more radiant and angry.

However, Wang Qiu and the others behaved inadequately - if it was for the first time when they traveled through ancient Mesoamerica, with their moral concepts as ordinary citizens in peacetime, it is estimated that they would not be able to accept such a cold, bloody, and death-filled evil deal. But after so much brutal war and killing, and so much death and destruction, their hearts are already very numb.

“…… Professor Yang, you seem to be talking about 'innocent healthy people'? Hehe, but this time I sent in to execute the organ harvesters, none of them were innocent people, all of them were butchers and murderers with bloody hands! Sanae Rika yawned and replied slowly.

“…… According to my original jihua, I was going to crucify them all and wail for hours to days before they died...... Now it is already a very humane treatment to arrange for them to die quietly on the operating table. Is it civilized and disciplined to take their organs and feed them to wild dogs and crows, while watching hundreds of thousands of refugees starve to death without food or eat human flesh? ”

“…… What does it matter if the human beings of the other shijie starve to death by 10 billion? "In a fit of rage. Professor Yang also said very unscrupulous words, "...... The problem is that you can't abuse your privileges! If you have less money, will you die! ”

“…… Professor Yang. Although we all respect you, don't stand and talk without backache! With the salary of a civil servant at the senior level, enjoying all kinds of benefits, ensuring income in drought and flood, and worrying about food and clothing, you can naturally stand here and make a big fallacy. But what about us? ”

Listening to the old political commissar's sharp accusations, Wang Qiu, who was originally angry, couldn't help but blow up. “…… The boss wants us to travel through time and space, do the work of special forces and 007, but only give the treatment of temporary workers! Funding is seldom allocated. Instead, we have to raise our own funds and even pay profits and taxes! Last time, I said that I was going to make it official, but it turned out to be delayed until now! I'm still an intern, and I don't get paid a dime! It's hard to make a little money. Immediately, people used various reasons to withdraw the funds. Slightly more for money. Immediately, the superiors were angry and came to check the accounts...... Is this treating us like cows or ATMs? Now I'm kind of tempted to change jobs! He snorted, "...... You can't treat us like free thugs and hens that lay golden eggs, and at the same time you have to follow a lot of rules and regulations! ”

“…… Uh, isn't there enough funding for the work right now? Professor Yang was stunned, then turned his head to look at Deputy Director Xiao Se.

“…… That's true, Professor Yang, you also know how our unit came to be. Although the relevant departments have transferred all the work, they have not also transferred all the funds. The books have long been in deficit for years. Recently, it was also found that a guy embezzled public funds to speculate in real estate. In one go, I lost half a year's funds! If you don't engage in some crooked ways, you won't be able to live this day for a long time! Deputy Director Xiao spread his hands helplessly. …… For example, the last time I traveled to the end of the Ming Dynasty to save a certain traveler who became a small soldier in the border army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, I saw with my own eyes that the black-hearted officials of the Ming Dynasty at that time, on the one hand, did not pay the salary, put all the military salaries and rations into their pockets, and even ordered the soldiers to pay tribute regularly, so that the soldiers had no food or clothing, and they could only wait for death in the army; On the one hand, it also requires the army to fight bravely and be disciplined, and not to disturb the people...... This kind of thing of not giving the horses grazing and asking the horses to run fast is completely contrary to the common sense of the world, how can it be done? ”

In general, Professor Yang's rectification campaign was very unsuccessful because he was unable to solve some very important practical problems.

First, Professor Yang has no way to get the government to allocate a large amount of additional funds, and even has to collect money from transactions across time and space. Second, the state cannot legally recognize the right to life of the aliens - otherwise they would have to shoot all the members of the paranormal organization.

In fact, after gaining the ability to conduct cross-plane transactions, Wang Qiu's team has changed from a public institution to a state-owned enterprise, and it is also a state-owned enterprise with a serious separation of public and private interests, extremely chaotic powers, no guiding regulations, and a messy organizational structure. And there is no way to rectify it for the time being-no one, including Wang Qiu himself, knows when Wang Qiu's ability will disappear, so he just makes do.

Therefore, after Professor Yang announced the punishment notice of his superiors - for the illegal sale of human organs, Deputy Director Xiao Se warned once, Ma Tong and Cai Rong, two temporary workers, notified and criticized once, Wang Qiu was exempted from punishment because he was only an intern, and the frustrating topic about rectification came to an end for the time being, and everyone once again shifted the focus of the conversation to making money. However, in that part of ancient Egypt, there was almost no production except grain, papyrus and sand, and it was not easy to make money. Therefore, after discussing for a long time, everyone turned their minds to organ trading.

Professor Yang said that there are some connections that can be found to get death row prisoners from ancient Egypt to be sold in Pakistan – where it is legal to trade in organs. But the problem is that, as in the same Golden Triangle as a drug producing area, marijuana and the sea. Lotin can't be sold for the same price. In Pakistan, where the organ trade is legalized, the price of organs is also extremely low, and every major hospital is plastered with posters of locals selling their kidneys, described as "kidney eBay", with an average market price of only $1,500 per kidney, making it unprofitable to trade across time and space.

In addition, Professor Yang also made another suggestion, which was to teleport a field medical vehicle and a surgeon who was a spatial anomaly to ancient Egypt, where they would harvest organs. Circumvent the obstacles of the domestic legal system. But the problem is that in the process of passing through the wormhole, there is also about half a probability that the harvested organ will be inactive. Moreover, the working conditions in ancient Egypt are really bad, and the operation may not be done well.

Just when everyone was disagreeing, as the doppelganger of Cleopatra, the zombie witch Sanae Rika, who had a soul link between time and space and the deity, suddenly changed her face and stood up and announced. “…… Please stop! Don't think about making money for a while, hurry up and prepare a batch of wheat, someone from Alexandria has sent money - even though it was my money! She said through gritted teeth.

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Accompanied by the cheers of the sailors. The twelve ships under the command of Cato Jr. finally slowly sailed into the bay of Alexandria.

For many days, the sailors and soldiers of this small fleet had long been tired of seeing the blue sea and the yellow desert. Those lush date palms and palm trees that appear on the shore at this time. It suddenly became very refreshing, and it also made them look forward to going ashore to breathe.

-- By their very nature, the Romans were not seafaring peoples, and Roman soldiers were not adapted to sea travel.

Moreover, the food at sea is also very monotonous. From the time of the voyage of Paraetonium, bread, the all-purpose staple, disappeared from the tables of Roman officers and soldiers. None of the ships dared to risk fire to try to bake bread, and the sailors had to light a fire on a stove bed made of fire bricks to heat a cauldron. The same thing is cooked in it every day -- pea and barley porridge seasoned with salted meat. It's hard to swallow.

So, in the face of tedious sailing. Monotonous diet, everyone in the fleet is eager to land ashore, have a full meal, drink a good wine, and find a chick of what grade according to the number of coins in their pockets......

However, at this time, Alexandria, which had just experienced a catastrophe and was in the midst of a devastation, may not be able to fulfill their wishes.

Dressed in the purple-trimmed "toga" robes of the Roman senators, little Cato stood erect on the bow of the ship, squinting at the devastated city in the distance. The Alexandria Lighthouse on the island of Pharos is still a sight to behold, but the magnificent palace at the foot of the lighthouse is a pile of charred ruins. The harbor also looks empty, and there is no place to see the prosperity of the merchant ships and masts of the past.

Since the Egyptians had no navy at this time, the small Roman republican fleet easily broke into the royal dock in Alexandria, and then without waiting for the relevant officials to come to investigate, they were taken straight ashore by little Cato and wandered around enjoying the scenery.

-- Just outside the harbor on the sea, you can already see the ruin of the city. And when he actually arrived in the city, what little Cato saw was even more unbearable: due to the mob's large-scale arson, most of the houses in the city were now only charred and blackened. Only a few tall and sturdy stone buildings have survived, but many have been destroyed by missile and rocket bombardments.

Centered on the Ptolemaic palace, the most prosperous neighborhoods of the city were almost razed to the ground, and there was hardly a single intact house to be seen, as if it had been run over by the feet of the Titans. In the commercial area near the wharf, the scene is even worse and bleak, under the fire, whether it is shops, private houses, or the royal shipyard, there are no tiles left. Every wall was inlaid with arrows and splattered with blood, and the streets were covered with charred corpses and rubble. Even the royal merchant fleet, which Alexandria had always prided itself on in the past, with hundreds of large galleons, was no longer a single one in ten after withstanding the fire and plundering of two Roman armies.

Walking through a few more streets that had been completely burned down, little Cato finally saw some popularity. Cleopatra was organizing young men in the city to clear the rubble and ashes of the ruins and build ruins of mud bricks and wood to house displaced war refugees.

-- Because of geography and climate, it is difficult to find decent timber and high-grade stone in this part of Egypt. Stone such as limestone and marble were imported and used only for the palaces of the pharaohs, the mansions of the magnates, and the temples dedicated to the gods. Thus, with the exception of palaces and temples, most of the ordinary houses were made of mud bricks, reed mats, and palm branches, and it was rare to see a stone pillar - in Alexandria, the Egyptians, to be exact, the Greeks and Macedonians who emigrated to Egypt, mixed natural clay, reeds, and shrubs, and exposed them to the sun, to make a relatively strong, burned-out mud brick, and built such a gray and huge city.

In addition to mud-brick houses for the living, the Egyptian queen also organized manpower to dig large pits, bury corpses, and build mass cemeteries for those who died in the war. At this time, the cemetery was still a large coarse mound, but it was full of luxurious ornaments—all kinds of marble statues and relief panels, all of which were dismantled from the ruins of the royal palace and the noble mansions, and were not needed for a short time, and were simply used to please the families of the victims. (To be continued.) )