Somewhere between the outer eight rings of the Great River System, the thirty-second and twenty-first layers of the Thirty-second Fan, there is a thick nebula that is pregnant with stars, which is constantly undulating;

On the surface, it looks like the rest of the stars in the river system were born, with large swaths of material obscuring the line of sight from almost all directions, and the harsh environment inside shields the shield and the location away from legal wormholes, making ordinary starships have to stay away from this place.

However, hundreds of years ago, a special 'constellation' happened to move here, and then took advantage of the nebula's cover and material supply to temporarily settle in the central area hundreds of light-years away from the edge.

Therefore, at this moment, if you can go deep into the nebula and cross the layers of unknown barriers in the karmic meeting, you can see an unexpected encounter in the area with a diameter of about ten light-years (elven years) in the center.

The vast nebulae that once existed have all disappeared, replaced by 23 large metallic polymers with a dull fortress-like hue, and seven matte-colored metallic aggregates that appear to be one size smaller in the center;

In the surroundings and between these two, there are streamers-like rings of dense material from a distance, which are not only large and small rock-based stars, gaseous polymers, polymers composed of pure ice structures or pure metals, but also giant functional institutions such as factories, cities, schools, military garrisons, etc.;

In fact, these creation aggregates are even more majestic than the 30 matte stars, and the mass alone may easily ignite into a regular-class star, but at this time, they are very well-behaved and orderly distributed in the interstitial regions, and they are in the distant envelopment of those peripheral aggregates, and form a visual feedback that seems to be like a halo.

If you can fool the untold area and continue to explore the belonging of this 'constellation', you will find out whether it is lucky or unfortunate that this is actually the main base of the Tuomato Legion.

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Ranked 113th in the Dark World, the Tromato Legion falls under the category of 'large criminal organizations' (10-100 mega-sized and 1-10 top-tier criminal organizations) in the 100-500 range, and is the most notorious and relatively top-notch of them.

Its active time has lasted for hundreds of thousands of years, and the spread of evil has spread almost all over the known areas of the Great River System, and the forces that have been invaded by the legions over the years include regular business groups, criminal gangs that also belong to the shadows, and even different levels of civilization;

In its long history, it has committed dozens of murderous acts in the capital of civilization and plunder, and there are countless examples of plundering of prosperous star fields, control of trade routes and collection of tolls, and robbery of commercial and even military fleets

Based on records and confessions, the Council has speculated that the legion has caused considerable losses to the river system in the last Thousand Stars alone, with direct losses amounting to hundreds of billions of universal coins, indirect losses in the trillion scale, and tens of billions of casualties caused by criminal acts, which is equivalent to the population of several surface civilizations combined.

A few years ago, the Legion victim group also anonymously established a Pan-River organization called the 'Tuomato Recovery Alliance', in which participants not only contributed to assist the Council's Department of Public Security in pursuing the Legion, but also set up additional high bounties for different targets that could be stacked with the Council's regular bounties.

Combined with the regular bounty of the Council, the specific content and amount are:

First, the war bounty

1. Destroy the entire legion to pay 50 billion at once, and recover the 40 billion belonging to the alliance can be exchanged for high-level resources of the same scale;

The League's requirements are that more than 50% of junior cadres are killed or captured, more than 70% of mid-level cadres are killed or captured, more than 90% of supervisor-level cadres are killed or captured, and senior commanders and corps leaders must be completely destroyed or captured.

2. Destroy a large branch and reward 10 billion annihilation coins, and the 8 billion belonging to the 'Recovery Alliance' can be repeatedly claimed with item 1 and exchanged for the same amount of resources;

Certification Requirements

3. For the destruction of medium-sized, small and micro branches, 3 billion (100 million rewards from the Council), 500 million (50 million rewards from the Council), and 10 million to 50 million (1 million to 10 million from the Council) will be given respectively;

Certification Requirements

2. Single bounty (can be repeated with war bounty):

1. The Grand Army Commander bounty of 10 billion (15% of the corpse and council expenditure, the same below), 20 billion (15% of the prisoner and the council, the same below);

2. The chief of the legion with an internal rating of 16 will have a reward of 3 billion for corpses and 5 billion for prisoners;

3. The internal rating of 15 is for the cadres in charge of affairs, with a reward of 500 million for corpses and 1 billion for prisoners;

4. The senior cadres of 13-14 will be rewarded with 100 million dead bodies and 500 million living bodies;

5. Middle-level cadres at levels 10-12, 5 million dead and 50 million alive;

6. Elementary cadres at levels 7-9, 500,000 dead and 5 million alive;

7. Grassroots cadres at levels 2-6, 50,000 dead and 500,000 alive;

8. For regular members who are calibrated as Level 1, 10,000 are dead and 50,000 are alive;

9. Level 0 informal members, 1,000 dead (150 Galaxy coins of the Council), 10,000 alive;

10. 10,000 yuan for each illegal slave soldier rescued (it must be proved that he belongs to the legion)

3. Information reward

1. 100 million annihilation coins will be given for finding out the location of the main station, 300 million for the action trajectory information of the commander of the army, and 100 million for the action trajectory of the big supervisor.

2. The value of large-scale sub-stations is 50 million coins, medium-sized stations are worth 10 million coins, small stations are worth 5 million coins, and micro bases are worth 100,000-3 million coins;

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This is undoubtedly a very substantial bounty, and the Alliance declares that any organization, whether in light or dark, is entitled to receive it in any way it desires if it proves that it has fulfilled what the bounty indicates;

This is especially insufficient, and they even secretly released further information through covert channels, saying that they will help groups that are unable to show up to receive the part of the bounty on behalf of the council, and can also transfer it to the recipients in a designated way without loss;

The Galaxy Bounty Division also chose to acquiesce to this in subsequent examples, and it really allowed several dark forces to successfully receive double bounties

Therefore, in this case, the Tromato Legion has a high bounty far beyond its own power status, and its attraction to the light and dark parties does put the Legion under extremely high pressure, and for a period of time it suffers from it;

But fortunately, the top forces in the League of Criminals also understand the dangers of 'dog eat dog' to all forces in the dark world.

All the arrogant gangs have more or less similar 'unconventional bounties' on the top of their heads, and if everyone attacks each other for this, sooner or later they will be destroyed;

As a result, most of the attacks from the dark world were suppressed by the consensus and rules of the criminals, otherwise the legion might have been forced to shrink infinitely by such a bounty.

All in all, whether it is due to its own strength or the protection of the rules of the dark world, the Tromato Legion has indeed survived in such a situation;

But in the past few hundred years, the performance has also been significantly more low-key, and even when looting, they often choose to cover up with a layer of camouflaged identity, which has led to many unsolved cases in the river system.

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Inside the spaceship was a sea of hissing sounds, and more than thirty long-headed carapace people were gathering in the activity module to communicate with each other, they had just finished their vacation and had not yet fully woken up from the relaxed atmosphere, still discussing what they had seen and heard excitedly in the noise.

"This time, the Yinba Group seems to have a headache, I heard that there have been many suspected intrusions in a short period of time, and it seems that they are ready to close the market and conduct a thorough self-examination~"

Holding the arm of an unknown creature with six fingers, the strongest team leader stretched out his breath and sucked into it, while smiling at the team members on the side,

"I don't know which one is so powerful, this is to make the black market unable to operate? He actually came up with such a means to harm others and himself. ”

The arm in his hand visibly shriveled, and the team leader tore with his mouth to peel off the remaining dead skin on it, and then the slender breath that shimmered with cold light pierced directly into the bone;

Then I heard a 'zig' sound, and saliva or something else was injected from the joint, and the silvery bones quickly became clear;

In the crystal clear, the substance inside the bone quickly turned into jelly-like gelatin, and then was sucked into the team leader's mouth along the piercing mouthparts, causing the latter to involuntarily let out a hiss expressing comfort and deliciousness;

After only a rough translation, it can be seen that he was sighing and saying,

"Although the style of the Yinba Group is a little stingy and cautious, their business is really good. Ah~ This is definitely the most delicious and fresh Aruga arm I've eaten recently; ”

He added,

"I hope they can survive this crisis, no matter how bad they are, they must first hand over the farm coordinates and feeding recipes to the legion before dying."

"Boss, is the problem so serious, is it a civilized law enforcer? Or is there some hellish 'recovery alliance' to be had? ”

The younger brother, who was also eating something on the side, asked in a muffled voice.

"It's just a casual remark, but it doesn't feel like it's the handiwork of law enforcers, and the style of the Yin Tyrant Group is much more low-key than ours before, there shouldn't be a recovery alliance against them, I feel bad luck when I talk about this!"

The team leader pinched a bite of the bone to suppress the anger caused by the 'pursuit of the alliance', and then roughly speculated and said,

"It's more like a competitor's spoiler, or a temptation, there are quite a few guys in the dark world who covet the wormhole of the Yin Ba Group. It's a bunch of damn lucky people, and I don't know where they came from, but our big army leader has been greedy for a long time, but it's a pity that they hide the location of the base too well. ”

"That's not it~ But anyway, it has nothing to do with us little reptiles."

"Hehe, if you can talk, you can say a little more?" The team leader turned his head when he heard this, and tepidly replied to the other team member.

"Hey~"

While they were talking to each other, the prompt of the ship's central control system sounded at the right time, and the 'hiss' sound unique to the team group announced,

[It has entered the stable transition stage, and it is expected to exit the state and reorganize the course after 26280 galaxy hours, the automatic sailing mode has been turned on, the hibernation module has been pre-started, whether to perform the hibernation program. 】

"Let's hypnotize the war slaves first and let them sleep quickly, otherwise it is equivalent to wasting their 3-year life money, and these lives have to be used for business~"

[Understood.] 】

When the central control system finished answering, although no movement could be heard due to the sound insulation effect, the real-time screen projected showed the changes that had taken place in the slave cabin on the upper floor of the cargo hold.

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The number of slaves was significantly larger than the full members of the squad, but they occupied less than 30% of the total vacant area of the ship, and nearly a thousand slaves were relatively densely distributed in the few compartments.

These slave soldiers of different races and sizes belong to various races, some of them are from the civilization of the seat that has been properly registered in the council, but for various reasons, they eventually become slaves of the dark and gray world;

At the same time, there are also so-called 'unknown races' that do not exist in the river system on the surface, and they are usually from the primitive planets raised by criminal groups.

However, regardless of their origins, the slaves all have a common identity as 'slave soldiers', and because of the considerable amount of loss that occurred in the last raid, nearly 70% of them are newly purchased this time.

Among this group of slave soldiers, some showed the attributes of strength and stupidity visible to the naked eye, while others were the opposite of weak and intelligent, and some of them had the dual characteristics of strength and intelligence;

The price to pay for them is also closely related to the characteristics they have.

Guys with strong traits alone are actually the cheapest, just because most of the so-called 'strong' in the galaxy are not enough to replace the role of external weapons, so the 'smart' attribute will be more prominent than their mental power and learning ability. It is a relatively more popular choice for slaves at this stage;

Of course, if you can do both, it will be a better choice

The nearly 700 'unsystematically submitted' new war slaves in the spaceship have undergone obedience training in the breeding base under the command of the Yinba Group before shipment, and have different ranks and types of skills according to the price code level, both the natural ability of the body and the technical ability that can be mastered through acquired learning;

But as the saying goes, you get what you pay for, and in fact there is no such physical talent that can be useful even on the interstellar battlefield, so most of their added value only depends on acquired skill training.

In this regard, although the thinking transmission technology of the Yin Ba Group is not as top in the river system, it does enjoy a high reputation in the dark world, and the slaves it sells generally have relatively more reliable technical abilities, and can be qualified for many positions including piloting large and small spaceships and simple mechanical maintenance.

Of course, these jobs in the relative security positions in the rear can also be done by the vast majority of black, white and gray river citizens, and can do better, so most of the tasks of the slave soldiers in this team are still on the surface and spaceships to seize the battlefield, and they are used to pilot mechs and miniature spaceships to carry out 'beach landing' vanguard roles.

And for the various raiding squads, these war slaves who do not take the spoils of war are even more reliable than the mech corps, at least after the systematic submission of them, they do not have to worry about their abduction and control.

In addition, this kind of slave soldier can actually be divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the grading standard is equivalent to the regular 'tool soldier' sold in the white market, although it is impossible to figure out who is copying whom, but everyone is also accustomed to sharing this set of standards.

There are no warriors above level 3 in the batch they purchased, and the slaves or 'tools' that can only be seen in the black and white markets under normal circumstances are only level 9, and they are scarce in that kind of priceless situation.

The team leader once grabbed an anonymous ticket to the auction, so he was able to participate in a high-end auction held in the gray area, and was fortunate to see the display of the combat power of the 'Seventh-level Soldier Squad'.

Even if he watched it through the screen from a long distance, the actual combat scene of the seventh-level tactical team composed of only 12 single soldiers using decapitation tactics to destroy the capital ship among dozens of tactical spaceships and tens of thousands of interstellar mechs also left an impression on him that could not be forgotten.

What shocked him even more was that such powerful warriors were nothing more than technological artifacts to sell for money, and although they were indeed expensive to sell, they were indeed circulating goods that could be bought in the market.

So it is conceivable that the higher-end eighth-level soldier squad, the ninth-level soldier squad, and even the level-12 tool soldier that I have heard of should be to what level of powerful goods?

If it weren't for the mission instilled by his family since childhood, he might have applied to take a back seat as an ordinary producer.

The weakness of oneself and the weakness of one's own civilization is a fact that has long been known to the team leader, and it is also the primary reason why he and the rest of his clan are here.

Hundreds of galactic years ago, the Raider Legion once breached the capital of the Captain Mother Civilization, and his family was also taken captive and enslaved in that battle;

The Captain never held a grudge against this, for he was not even an egg at the time of his captivity, and in fact had never actually lived in his home civilization;

Relatively speaking, the legion he is now affiliated with is more like his home.

The three generations of the family, who had matured at the time of the captivity, had succeeded in freeing the fourth generation from slavery at an early age through hundreds of years of conscientious efforts and a little bit of luck, and began to enjoy the benefits of food, clothing, housing, transportation, and education at the level of ordinary employees of the legion.

Although it is a raiding army that survives in the dark, it can provide a richer life than the mother civilization, more advanced knowledge and education, and promotion opportunities that are put on the table, and the family also seized the opportunity to fight bravely in the next two generations, and in his generation, he has the identity evaluation of 'root and seedling', and has been promoted to the grassroots cadre for merit;

And the squad leader, who has never experienced the status of a slave soldier, has also understood his mission since he matured a little, that is, to grab more money, rob more resources, tie up more scholars, and continue to accumulate meritorious deeds in the legion to climb to the top of the status he can reach Level 6 cadres, so as to open the upper limit of the 1-9 level assessment for the next three generations of the family;

It is the existence of this level of thought that allows him to continue this glorious business.

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After the slaves in the spaceship were forcibly hypnotized and sent into the hibernation pods by the ship's mechanics, the official members of the team also entered their respective hibernation pods and fell into a deep sleep.

It wasn't until three years later that they woke up again, and it wasn't until they had disguised themselves and traversed a few more legal wormholes that the team finally arrived at the lair and began planning the next phase of the project.

The ship was momentarily plunged into darkness, and a silvery white liquid slowly emerged from one of the dormant pods.

Upon landing, it took the form of a miniature eight-legged spider invisible to the naked eye, and began to wander around the chamber.

The ship was in the curvature phase, and there was almost complete silence inside, except for the occasional flickering light.

The eight-legged spider deftly kept looking around, without eyes, ears, mouth and nose, it could only rely on occasional external sensory fluctuations to explore the area around the body, and due to the size and concealment and other reasons, the exploration area that can be expanded each time is very narrow, and the overall speed will naturally be very slow.

Fortunately, there is plenty of time left for it, and even plenty of time is a bit excessive...

(End of chapter)