Chapter 158: Large-scale smuggling
From the time when the fleet left the signal coverage of the previous beacon station and was completely lost from the outside world.
In terms of time, there were no more than twenty-four hours in total.
However, it has been a long time since the last time I got in touch with Chen Yu.
Meng Lei is used to reporting his safety to his hometown every day, although he will not be on time and on time, and there is no strong regularity, but he still maintains a certain frequency.
While reassuring Chen Yu, he also needed to know about the development of the fleet.
Therefore, when this fixed frequency changes.
Out of worry, Chen Yu will definitely send a lot of information to inquire about the situation, which is also reasonable.
But looking at the dozens of unread text messages on the handheld tablet, Meng Lei suddenly felt a little nervous.
He faintly had a bad feeling germinating in his heart, for fear that something had happened to his hometown.
Otherwise, the amount of unread information is a bit too much.
"Is there something wrong with the family? Or has there been a new change in the situation with the alliance and the separatist groups? ”
With a strong doubt, Meng Lei didn't care about eating, and hurriedly clicked on the unread information entry on the screen.
To his surprise and peace of mind,
This information is not as he thinks, it is all from Chen Yu.
Among them, Ning Wen's kid alone accounted for more than twenty!
In addition, Roger, Jiang Song, Disslav, Enron, and even Julie, who doesn't usually have much contact.
But everyone who had friends in the address book sent him messages.
The green dialog cascaded down like a waterfall, paddling for several seconds before reaching the end.
It was as if something great had happened in the outside world during the period when the voyage fleet had lost contact.
"This is strange, it's only a day, what happened to make such a big fuss?"
Meng Lei muttered to himself, and took the lead in clicking on Chen Yu's information column.
Suddenly, a large amount of text information unfolded in front of my eyes.
Lines of concerned greetings, as well as current affairs news that shocked Meng Lei, came into view.
"Blue Star players smuggled en masse?!"
"The first confrontation between the alliance and the separatist group has been dealt a heavy blow?!"
"What's going on, how can so many things happen in one day?!"
After roughly skimming through the news reports sent by Chen Yu, Meng Lei's eyes immediately widened.
He hurriedly looked through the content of other text messages, and found that the topics of everyone's text messages were almost all centered around a series of important events that happened yesterday, and he wanted to ask his opinion.
After a long time, Meng Lei took a deep breath and silently put the tablet down.
At this moment, his head was like a pulp lake, and his heart couldn't be calm for a long time.
He never imagined that during the time when the expedition fleet encountered the thalamus, such a major change would happen in the outside world!
And the cause of the incident is more or less inextricably linked to him.
At the beginning, in order to help Huo Ye find his daughter, Meng Lei had a divergent suggestion to Sil Weekly.
I hope that the other party can open a separate section for publishing the missing person notices of Blue Star players to help more people find their lost relatives.
This proposal was quickly implemented with the deliberate promotion of the officials of the city of Sill.
The missing person notice column, which was exclusively opened by Sil Weekly, quickly spread around the world with the simultaneous release of the latest issue of the magazine.
Except for those special areas that are remote and have no access to communications, they may not have access to this information at present.
The main city gathering places of the major waterways have all set off a wave of missing person notices.
In a way, this incident did have a certain positive effect on easing the tension between the Tia and the Blue Star people, at least rekindling the hope of many people.
However, there are pros and cons to everything.
It cannot be denied that with the publication of the missing person notice, many people have indeed found news about their lost relatives through this route.
The branches of the Sil Weekly are set up in major gathering places, and they can receive a large number of reports from the masses every day, and then make announcements in the city.
But that's where the problem arises.
After the Blue Star players are forced to cross, all the locations are randomly assigned, and there are no regional rules.
As a result, many people are separated from their loved ones.
Even if you know each other's information, you won't be able to see each other for a while.
In response to this situation, although the alliance has also introduced corresponding measures, it has set up special passenger stations in major cities to provide services for people looking for relatives and travel between major gathering places.
However, there is a fee to pay.
After all, the alliance is not a charity, especially now that it has to wage war with the separatist groups on the one hand, and increase the supply of food resources on the other hand, the financial department is already stretched.
Not to mention making money, at least the cost of maintenance and energy consumption of passenger submarines, the alliance will definitely not pay for it out of its own pocket.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with this approach, and most Blue Star people can understand it.
But just as airplanes and flights generally do not fly empty, when the passenger capacity does not meet the starting standard, the alliance will not waste a lot of resources on an empty trip for the sake of just one or two people.
When the number of personnel who meet the sailing criteria is enough, the passenger ship will start.
However, there is no clear regulation and standard for this waiting time.
As a result, many Blue Star players who are eager to reunite with their loved ones are very dissatisfied.
In addition, there are many people who are far apart from each other and the locations are too scattered.
Some people, even one in the eastern hemisphere and the other in the western hemisphere, are separated by no less than a million kilometers in between!
Even if they board the ship and set sail immediately, there will be no accidents throughout the whole process, and the two will never want to meet without a few years and tens of thousands of transfers!
There are many such cases, and the consequences of this are.
In order to reunite with their families, many Blue Star players quietly evaded the monitoring and blockade of the alliance, and drove the initial wasteland opening boat directly into the depths of the channel located behind the main city, and personally embarked on the road to find their relatives.
I have to say that under the huge population base, all kinds of talented people are simply endless.
The wisdom of the Blue Star people is not inferior to that of the Tia people, and the internal problems of the alliance have always been extremely serious hidden dangers.
A large number of Blue Star players brainstormed in the channel communication channel and came up with many tricks to exploit the loopholes of the alliance.
In addition, the radicals of the separatist group also took this opportunity to try to muddy the pool and further cause unrest in the alien society, so as to gain a greater advantage in this war.
As a result, members of the separatist organization lurking within the alliance also went out one after another to facilitate the smuggling of Blue Star players.
So, in a short period of time.
The blockade lines of the major main cities were infiltrated in an instant, and it was simply miserable.
By the time the Alliance reacted and tried to stop it, the situation had become completely out of control.
The smuggling of dozens or even hundreds of people may be able to stabilize the situation if the control is strengthened at the first time of the incident.
But now, as more and more people succeed in smuggling, the ban issued by the alliance is almost useless.
The small-scale smuggling incident gradually evolved into a large-scale smuggling of hundreds or thousands of people, and later it can no longer be regarded as smuggling, and it is simply an undisguised forcible entry card.
At this juncture, the alliance does not dare to really use force to suppress it.
Once the conflict with the Blue Star players escalates again, the alliance can be described as a back-to-back enemy, and there is no play at all.
Therefore, the alliance can only carry out verbal education, repeatedly emphasized, and constantly issued statements, saying that the initial wasteland boat sailing in deeper sea areas, due to the problem of space technology, there will be huge security risks, and I hope that the majority of Blue Star players will not risk their lives.
In the end, the alliance was forced to even announce the news that the space tide was about to erupt in the near future, and clearly informed them of a series of disasters that might be triggered.
Trying to arouse the vigilance of Blue Star players and stabilize the situation.
But by this time, the situation was completely out of control.
The Blue Star player, who was already holding his stomach, was fueled by the separation organization, where would he care about this?
As a result, the situation gradually became out of control.
One after another, the initial reclamation boats, which were only rated only H-class, constantly crossed the blockade of the alliance and frequently appeared in the depths of the waterway.
This is not an isolated case of a single shipping lane, as similar things have happened in tens of thousands of shipping lanes around the world.
The stability and solidity that the alliance had tried to create began to show signs of total collapse.
All of a sudden, the global situation became tense.
That is to say, the monetary system and social structure have not been affected for the time being, and the situation is not too bad, and it is still under control.
However, the impact of this incident is very far-reaching, and it has already laid a deep hidden danger for the possibility of major turmoil in the future.
If it is not stopped soon, the future of the alliance is in jeopardy.
In addition, at the same time as the smuggling incident broke out in full swing.
The war between the alliance and the separatist groups also inevitably began in earnest with the passage of time and the fermentation of events.
According to media reports controlled by the separatist group, the first friction between the two sides occurred in the Eastern Hemisphere's Channel 65076, not far from Lane 66671, where Meng Lei is located.
The waterway, which had been abandoned many years ago, is now under the control of the Secessionist Groups, where a large number of strongholds have been established.
Judging from the investment of troops on both sides, it can be regarded as a relatively important main battlefield nearby.
The exact timing of the outbreak of the battle is still unknown, including the course of the battle, and neither side has made detailed disclosures.
Even the alliance did not report or publicize the battle.
As a result of this initial confrontation, the separatist organization took the initiative to break out and reveal the truth to the people.
And this result is a big surprise to the people!
Since the alliance's high-profile declaration of war, the first head-to-head battle between the two sides actually ended in the defeat of the alliance.
The Breakaway Group used an outpost as bait to eat half of the Alliance's fleet!
Nearly a hundred E-class frigates, including ten D-class destroyers, were turned into scrap metal in this battle.
As can be seen from the video released by the separatist organization, in that dark and vast uncharted sea, there is a mess as far as the eye can see.
Dozens of flares turned into stars in the dark night, hanging high in the center of the battlefield, reflecting a devastated scene.
In the darkness, a large number of submarine debris floated out of thin air, slowly falling with the ocean current.
On the white sandy seabed, there are fragmented submarine wrecks everywhere, like a submarine graveyard.
Faintly, you can also see a corpse wearing a diving suit, wandering quietly in the cabin, silently telling the cruelty and tragedy of the time.
As soon as this video was exposed, it immediately caused an uproar among the people.
No one could have imagined that the alliance would lose so quickly and so completely, which simply subverted the public's previous perception of the authority of the alliance.
At first, there were quite a few supporters of the alliance who doubted the authenticity of the video.
It is believed that the separatist organization is playing tricks, using fake videos to confuse the public, and deliberately suppressing the prestige of the alliance.
But the surface of the wreckage of the submarine in the video is all painted with the logo of the alliance, and there is no trace of fraud at all.
In addition, the alliance has not wanted to clarify this at all, and has been silent.
There are all indications that the claims of the separatist organizations are true.
In the first confrontation between the two sides, the alliance did suffer a big loss, and the loss was quite heavy!
For a time, public opinion was everywhere.
The loss of control of the Blue Star players combined with the loss of the first battle, the two events broke out one after another, and combined, which had a great negative impact on the prestige of the alliance.
People are talking about whether the corruption of the alliance is really terminally ill.
The era of arbitrariness is over, and democracy will usher in new glories.
As of the moment when the signal of the long-distance fleet was restored, public opinion was still fermenting, and it was even intensifying.
More than three-quarters of the more than 70 unread text messages Meng Lei received were related to these two major events.
Especially Ning Wen's kid, more than 20 text messages are almost all about the latest information about these two things, and no matter whether Meng Lei replies or not, he has been conducting live text broadcasts for Meng Lei non-stop.
Meng Lei looked at it for a while, and he couldn't digest it.
In fact, these things happened so suddenly, without any warning, as if they appeared out of thin air, and they caught people off guard.
I sat in the dining room and thought for a long time, until the freshly baked breakfast became cold and completely lost its temperature.
The aroma of rice in the air was gone, and Meng Lei digested all the contents, and his heart was stunned.
As for the outcome of the war between the coalition and the separatist groups, he is not particularly concerned at the moment.
The outcome of the first battle does not determine the final success or failure, and this large-scale war is bound to be protracted and will eventually evolve into a war of attrition, which will not end in a short period of time.
And this war will not have any impact on the heavy fleet for the time being.
What he is most concerned about now is whether the full-scale outbreak of the smuggling incident will bring about changes in the fleet's recent development, and the question is quite important.
After a little hesitation, Meng Lei picked up the tablet again and clicked on Chen Yu's information column......
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