District 23, Xingchuan City.

The city of Xingchuan is very small, but it is also very beautiful.

This is the earliest colonial city of Thundercloud Star, but it was not developed later for one reason or another. However, there are gains and losses, because of the lag in development, many of the early buildings have been preserved.

Large and medium-sized cities are full of alloy steel, whether it is roads or buildings, entering the city is equivalent to entering the steel jungle. However, there are still many concrete buildings and even some civil engineering houses in Xingchuan City, and there is a sense of historical times everywhere.

"It's still a beautiful hometown. ”

Huang Siting walked out of the air station, stretched her arms and took a breath of air, very intoxicated.

She hadn't been back to her hometown for a long time, and although she was forced to come back this time, all her troubles disappeared when she stood here.

"Over the years, not much has changed. Huang Siting looked around, feeling extremely happy.

There are no busy jobs, no perverted idiots, just beautiful hometowns and happy memories.

After thinking about it for a while, Huang Siting didn't rush home in a hurry.

I haven't been separated from my parents for a long time, and I didn't say hello when I came back this time, and I must have to nag for a long time when I get home. So Huang Siting decided to walk around the city first to find childhood memories.

In this way, Huang Siting got on a tourist bus like an ordinary tourist.

There were others who were also in the same car, including a bearded man with a hat. Everyone looked normal, Huang Siting didn't seem suspicious, and she didn't even look at the others. Naturally, I would never have thought that this mustache was the idiot who had put on makeup.

Li Mu and Huang Siting are on the same flight, and they are even sitting very close. Of course, in order to avoid unnecessary panic, Li Mu did not go over to say hello. Along the way, Li Mu slept under a blanket.

Guo Dongming hasn't slept well these days, and Li Mu hasn't gotten better in the bunker. Anyway, Huang Siting couldn't run away on the flight, and Li Mu could rarely relax.

Now Second Young Master Li has cultivated enough spirit and is ready to go to the end in this strange city.

The flight landed at noon, and Huang Siting was ready to go shopping after lunch, but she lost interest after only half an hour of walking.

Because of the beast tide incident that happened not long ago, the city is now under martial law. Although there are no restrictions on the movement of residents, there are significantly fewer people on the streets. And even the people who appeared, they came and went in a hurry, and the atmosphere seemed a little tense.

When I walked around the city hall, I even found a lot of people holding banners, shouting slogans in protest.

Huang Siting cares about the changes in her hometown, and Li Mu is even more curious, so both of them inquired.

The matter is not complicated, and I quickly inquired clearly, and in the final analysis, it is all about land.

There are many historical reasons why the city has not developed, but one of the most important is that the residents here are not enterprising.

Because the vast majority of the residents of Xingchuan City are small landowners who own hunting grounds.

If you want the colonies to grow faster and better, you can't do it with the government and the army alone, and the power of the people is indispensable. In the early days of planetary colonization, in order to motivate people to participate in urban construction, the federation had many preferential policies.

Participating in city construction, hunting wild animals to gather resources, and even killing dangerous species will earn corresponding reward points. And these points can be exchanged for land, and the more points, the bigger the land.

Most of the early colonists were very courageous figures. For better development, for future generations, will work very hard. Like the Li family and the Beimen family, they can grow to this extent, which is inseparable from the efforts of the ancestors of the family. Of course, there are still many more people, whose descendants did not keep the family business, and eventually fell one by one.

The residents of Xingchuan City represent a group that is not up or down.

Instead of managing the land themselves, they leased it to the government for a certain amount of dividends every year. Those dividends are not enough to make a fortune, but they can also ensure that food and clothing are worry-free. In this way, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has been lived steadily.

The reason why many people go to the city hall to make trouble is because the land on which they depend for their livelihood is in crisis.

But this is not a government land acquisition, but quite the opposite. These people are clamoring and demanding that the government buy their land.

Because the third-level dangerous species could not be found, the military finally decided to conduct a thorough investigation so that it had nowhere to hide. To put it simply, it is to bomb all the possible hiding places of that dangerous species, and plow it with starship-level artillery fire.

It seems that this method is a bit extreme, and even suspected of killing chickens and eggs, but it is undoubtedly the most time-saving and labor-saving method.

The threat of the third-level dangerous species is too great, and one day of not being able to find it means one more day of danger. And that danger is not simply life and death, but a threat to the entire human race. Therefore, in the face of this extreme combat method, no one from Li Xuantong and Beimen Balo or even the parliament raised any objections.

However, if the people in the official position do not object, the opinions of the owners of the affected land will be greater.

After being bombarded by interstellar artillery, the land is in ruins. Although the ownership will not change, it will take at least a few decades or even hundreds of years to wait until it is intact.

The government rents private land not as a contract, but as a dividend according to the income. Once the land is wasted, it is equivalent to no income, how can the landlords be willing.

Of course, there is a compensation policy, but the standard is only based on the average of the ten-year dividend. It sounds fair, but most people disagree.

Because the annual income is different, it is common for the dividend income to double when the year is good. Especially if you are lucky, catch up with the interstellar monsters in the hunting ground area and even hunt dangerous species, the income will be multiplied several times.

It is now known that there are dangerous species that operate outside, and it is said that there are many high-level species. If the hunt is successful, the dividends they get for a year and ten years are not worth it. Compensation is only based on the average of previous years, and not many people agree.

But the small landlords are not stupid, knowing that the military's battle plan will not be changed casually. If you hold on, don't compensate, and wait for the hunt to succeed in the end. Of course, there will be short-term benefits, but their land will not grow anything longer for decades to come.

As a result, residents are demanding that the government buy the land directly.

And it's not enough to have less money, you have to compensate a huge amount of money, at least sell a piece of land to protect three generations of worry-free.

This willingness is quite strong, and at first it was a normal application, but then it became more and more intense. The wave of people who came to the city government to protest were all calm.

After inquiring, I learned that there were still a large number of people who were not calm enough and went out of the city to protest.

Many people went to their own land to set up tents and sit-ins, so that the army could not bomb the area.

After learning the whole situation, Li Mu was quite helpless.

These people are really natural, and they don't want money one by one.

It is impossible for the army to bomb, but the dangerous species will not pick their mouths.

Li Mu knew that the reason why many people had the courage to go was not because they were not afraid of death, but because they believed that the army would protect them. But those people had never fought against dangerous species, and they didn't know how terrible those aliens were.

Even if there is no third-level dangerous species, but only a first-level dangerous species is coming, it is difficult for the army to protect them.

However, Li Mu only sighed and had no intention of intervening.

It was because he was afraid of this kind of trouble that Li Mu had no intention of developing in the government. At the beginning of the immigration bureau, it was a lot of anxiety just to do work with a small number of people, not to mention this kind of group incident.

It's just that Li Mu doesn't plan to meddle in things, but Huang Siting and Teacher Huang can't stay out of it.

Because Huang Siting met her former neighbors in the crowd of protesters, she even got a message from her neighbors.

Huang Siting's brave father and mother were in the midst of the protests outside the city.