Chapter 991: The Black Market That Is Not Black
In both the Empire and the United Kingdom, the situation on the black market is quite different.
The empire is to suppress and control it with all its might, and even send people to infiltrate the interior of the black market and win over the members of the black market, so as to completely control the black market in the empire. Although there were some unavoidable losses when the empire carried out this matter, the final gains were also huge, the empire had almost completely controlled the black market in the territory, and monitored the underground world in the entire empire through the black market.
However, the kingdom's attitude towards the black market is much more relaxed, as long as the black market does not cause trouble, they turn a blind eye to many of the black market's behaviors, and even the federal government will do some transactions and cooperation with the black market, through the special channels of the black market, to buy some special materials, because the United Kingdom found that the black market seems to have mastered a special contact channel, not only to be able to contact the black market of other continents, but even to avoid the black fog to transport special goods from other continents.
In fact, the United Kingdom is very eager to master this black market channel, because even the most stupid people can think that as long as they master this channel, then the United Kingdom will also control the future.
However, this was eventually stopped by Rupert Fitz, who signed some secret cooperation agreements with the black market leaders of the Vilen continent, and the United Kingdom government was able to obtain some special resources from the black market, and the black market needed to provide a part of the power to assist the royal government in governing the underground world, and the price paid was to legalize the black market within the United Kingdom, and also let the black market go from the underground to the surface, forming a semi-open underground force.
For example, the black market in Kabu City is the largest department store in the city, this department store is ten stories high, the bottom five floors are daily necessities stores for ordinary people in the city, and the top five floors are black markets, it is only open at night, and can only be accessed through another hidden staircase.
Just like this department store, the boundaries between the underground world and the normal world have become more and more blurred as mutants around the world continue to use wires, and the two are no longer completely different worlds as they were at the beginning, but have become you and me, and I and you.
In the supermarket stores that sell normal daily necessities during the day, you can also see people with mutated bodies shopping, and in the black market late at night, you can also see many ordinary people with a curious heart shopping here.
Judging from this scene, the United Kingdom's policy of recruiting and absorbing mutants has been implemented very thoroughly, and the churches of the Orthodox Church are also helping to absorb some of the family mutants who were once the gods of the Orthodox Church, so that the mutants within the United Kingdom can integrate into the kingdom more quickly, and the damage caused by the world mutation to the United Kingdom is far lower than that of the Empire.
Although this forced integration of the administration creates some contradictions and creates a gap between the two sides, it does not last long over time, especially after the emergence of some special examples.
After arriving on the black market, Leo saw that the church had also set up an office or something like that in the black market, and the people in charge of these institutions were mutants wearing clerical clothing, and some of them were completely inhuman.
However, these mutants are not discriminated against by normal people like other non-human mutants, and many normal people, or normal church believers, will talk to those church mutants in a very reverent and respectful manner.
These mutants are special church deities, they are different from other mutants, they are all clearly recorded in the Orthodox Church churches, and the mutation of the body is the blessing of the gods, which makes them have almost the same status as senior clergy in the church, and the more complete the mutation, the higher the status.
Basically, if there is such a divine dependent in a family, then this family will be recognized as a divine family, not only will the church regularly distribute some supplies every month, but the kingdom will also provide some low-paying jobs for these divine families, as long as they do not violate the kingdom's criminal law and church canons, such a divine family is basically considered to have no worries about food and clothing.
When Leo looked at the information that Sylvia got in the hotel, he really thought that these so-called gods who were recognized by the church were really gods, but after checking them through the spiritual network on the black market, he found that these so-called gods were just some mutants, not to mention the divine power given by the gods, even the extraordinary power generated through their own mutation was very small, and the only thing worth paying attention to was the mutated physical strength on their bodies.
The reason why these mutants, especially those who are completely mutated, are still able to maintain normal human thinking and not become completely beastly as Leo sees elsewhere, is not only because of the political methods within the United Kingdom that these mutants are not always in the harsh environment of life or death, but more importantly, there are two things in these co-opted mutants that suppress the mutant forces in their bodies that are easy to cause madness.
One of these two things is the Divine Seal, and these co-opted mutants have a Orthodox Church Divine Seal, which strengthens the power of their own Divine Seal by absorbing the power of the mutation, reducing the chance of mental madness when mutating.
The other thing is the hexagonal suppressor embedded in the skulls of these mutants.
When checking the situation in the black market with the spirit net, Leo immediately noticed the hexagonal suppressors on the skulls of these mutants, although he didn't know much about the actual situation of this thing, but from this special shape, surface decoration and the suppression of the chaotic spirit of the mutants, he couldn't help but associate it with the special technological items in another cosmic civilization.
In the universe, after the spacecraft enters the subspace, there are two ways to find the correct course for the spacecraft to avoid getting lost in the subspace, one is the navigation brain from the advanced cosmic civilization, and the other is the subspace navigator.
Navigation brain is a very high-tech device, in the entire universe of the higher civilizations, only three advanced civilizations know how to manufacture this kind of navigation brain, and because of the limitations of manufacturing conditions, the output of this device is very small, most of these advanced civilizations are for their own use, only a very small part of them will be sold to other advanced civilizations, as for the middle and low cosmic civilizations are almost impossible to contact the navigation brain.
Therefore, those middle-class cosmic civilizations can only navigate the spacecraft through the traditional method, which is to train psykers to train urban subspace navigators through special methods.
This kind of training method of subspace navigators is in the hands of the governments of various civilizations, and basically there is no outflow to the people, but from all indications, this training method is extremely cruel, and the chance of casualties among the psionic people involved is very high, and even if the cultivation is finally completed, it will become a psionic monster without any feelings.
The reason why the subspace navigator will clear all his emotions through various methods is mainly because the subspace navigator needs to observe the subspace with spiritual energy for a long time, and the subspace is full of various taboo knowledge and phenomena.
It's just that the emotions of any creature can't be cut off simply through some special means, and some taboos in the subspace will prompt these emotions that have not been completely cut off to be infinitely amplified, so this kind of subspace navigator cultivated by psionic people will also install a special item to suppress emotions after being cultivated, and this item is an emotional suppressor.
Leo used to be a cyborg, and he was born without any emotions, so he naturally didn't need to know anything like emotional suppressors, but Leo had served as the bodyguard of subspace navigators many times, so he was no stranger to the appearance and function of emotional suppressors.
In his eyes, the hexagonal suppressors on the skulls of those who belong to the mutants, both in appearance and function, are very similar to the emotional suppressors produced by the Earth Federation.
The only difference is that the manufacturing process of these hexagonal suppressors is very rough, and their shells are actually made of ordinary steel, instead of corrosion-resistant biological alloys used by the Earth Federation, and the materials of the internal components are also some mineral materials that can be found in the Vinylon world now, not other high-grade materials.
According to Leo's estimates, this hexagonal suppressor will gradually lose its effect within twenty years due to the material, and the material will also corrode for various reasons, and even cause some damage to the person being installed, but judging from the physical condition of the mutants, this damage should not be fatal to them.
"It looks like they should have found a manufacturing module for the Earth Federation, otherwise, it would be impossible to build a high-tech device with this process at the level of technology here. Leo immediately made a judgment in his mind after analyzing the suppressor, and he was also curious about what type of module the United Kingdom had in its possession.
Manufacturing modularity is a key project in the Earth Federation's colonization star transformation plan, before Leo was born, all the manufacturing module process technology was just completed, at that time, the Earth Federation's colonial explorers only need to carry a set of basic manufacturing modules, find an uninhabited planet, and expand the corresponding manufacturing modules, they can manufacture various high-tech items through local resources, and it is precisely because of the emergence of manufacturing modules that individual colonial explorers have become a new thing in the Earth Federation.
It is no exaggeration to say that if the manufacturing module obtained by the United Kingdom is a complete set of colonial basic manufacturing modules, then as long as the method of using this set of manufacturing modules is mastered, at most, the scientific and technological level of the United Kingdom can be forcibly upgraded to the level of the lower civilization of the universe, and even spaceships can be built.
It's just that this speculation is just thinking about it, and Leo thinks it's impossible, because in his memory, there can be no suppressor manufacturing module for subspace navigators in the basic manufacturing module, and only some official expedition ships with special subspace exploration missions will have this kind of function-specific manufacturing module.
After learning about the situation in the black market, Leo quickly found the secret room of the black market's archives that specializes in handling all kinds of intelligence materials through the spirit network, and he was not going to use normal business methods to buy information from the black market, but planned to test the psionic skills he had learned, and sneak in to find the information he wanted directly.
I saw that after he entered the black market, he controlled the psionic energy to resist all kinds of interference energy everywhere in the black market, and at the same time formed a thin but strong psionic layer around his body, and then made the psionic energy vibrate at different frequencies according to the skills he learned.
This kind of psionic vibration did not produce any dazzling effect, or caused any noise, as if it did not exist at all, and did not bring any abnormal situation to the surroundings, but if someone carefully observed, they would find that when Leo showed that psionic skill, his whole person became very inconspicuous, this inconspicuousness is not inconspicuous in appearance and temperament, but all people who see or come into contact with Leo will subconsciously ignore Leo, but they are not completely unaware of Leo's existence.
For example, when someone walks past Leo, his body will subconsciously make avoidance actions to avoid Leo blocking his way, but subjectively ignore Leo completely, as if he is a street lamp on the side of the road, which is common but will not be noticed.
Leo also sensed the situation around him, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face, this psionic skill is one of the few basic skills that can be used in battle, usually psionic people will use this skill to infiltrate some places silently, or engage in intelligence theft, or assassinate targets.
Under the effect of this psionic skill, all the defenses of the black market have become decorations, and Leo blatantly follows the staff of the black market, enters the internal department of the black market, and comes to the intelligence file room blocked by a secret door.
The man who led Leo into the intelligence file closed the door of the file and filed the intelligence file he had just taken out, and then sat at his desk, recording and sorting through the intelligence files that had been recently sent, not realizing that there was one more person in the room, and even Leo opened the drawer with a loud noise, which still did not attract any attention from him.
In this somewhat strange situation, Leo quickly flipped through the materials in the black market archives, and even the materials that the staff member had just sorted out were also looked through by him, and the staff member never realized that there was a big living person standing next to him.
After going through these materials, Leo has a more detailed understanding of the current situation in the underground world of the United Kingdom of France, and the situation of the port of Venaya and the city of Lanxi cage can be regarded as two surprises from these materials.