Chapter 148: Pirate Censorship
This was really a golden time, since the beginning of the recruitment of agents, the establishment of a pirate governance system on the ground, pirates every day can receive a large amount of various precious metals, as well as a variety of other precious materials to give, it is really a soft hand.
Precious metals such as gold and platinum are not only scarce on the earth, but are relatively scarce everywhere, and their generation mechanism determines that their reserves are much less than those of some ordinary elements, and because of their unique stable physical and chemical properties, as well as their natural characteristics that can be used as jewelry, they are very valuable.
In the civilization on the other side of the wormhole, precious metals like this are all well-known, universally controlled strategic reserves, which can be widely used in many high-tech industrial fields, and pirates sometimes take huge risks to rob the next cargo spaceship, and the profit they can make is only a few dozen catties of gold.
Now it's good, almost no risk has to be taken, just relying on sitting on the ground to collect stolen goods, every day to make money, business is booming is incredible, you can imagine how happy the pirates are living this life.
Except for this first city, where the pirates' butcher's knives were raised high and gently lowered for the sake of being widely advertised and set an example, other individuals or organizations who wanted to serve as pirate agents were unceremoniously slaughtered by pirates, and they ate so much that they were full of oil.
Not to mention the various names that account for the majority of the qualifications in the back, in fact, it is a series of problems and difficulties for extravagance, waste, extortion, and the most headache of the monthly "franchise fee", that is, if you want to register for a name, the "gifts" and "stepping stones" that must be paid are all rolling up, and the asking price is getting higher and higher day by day.
The asking price of the first one was only a few dozen catties of gold. To the second one it rose to nearly 100 catties, and the third one rose to 150 catties, if it weren't for the fact that the cities behind really didn't have so many gold reserves, even if they beat people to death, they couldn't get more hard resources, considering that they couldn't really not recruit agents because of this, otherwise the pirates would be greedy. The murderous means are really the intention to attack another city to shock people's hearts.
However, the registration fee is not over, after all, it is not over, if you want to select a group of qualified agents, some necessary review conditions are still there after all, and the pirates do not want the agents they choose to be useless, and it is very troublesome for the agents of a city to always be replaced, and it is also not good for the pirates to expand their power, so some pirate censors must also be sent to the ground in person. Check the qualifications and strength of those agents one by one.
But as a censor, it's a bit sinister to be honest.
Even if the pirates think about it for themselves, they feel that in the face of their own alien pirates, who have caused huge casualties, those natives of the earth may not be honest.
After all, even if the superior can see the situation well, he knows that the pirates are not easy to mess with, and he can't be messed with. However, there is no guarantee that those in power and civilians whose relatives have been slaughtered will not harbor hatred and seek revenge.
Star pirates are human too. At most, some of them have been injected with some high-tech genetic drugs, and their physical fitness is stronger than ordinary people, and some pirates have undergone slight technological transformations, and their bodies have been implanted with high-tech limb parts, becoming semi-mechanized modified people, but no matter how many bits and pieces they have made. No matter how much transformation has been made, after all, he is still a person, he eats too much, he vomits when he drinks too much, if he is not careful, he will still be a person. Damn it, I'm still going to die.
No matter how angry the pirates are afterwards and how much they retaliate, they will not be able to bring the dead back to life, and they will have to bear a huge risk after all.
If that weren't the case, the pirates wouldn't have to demand that the guys who were running for proxies have to take care of the lives of the pirate members who descended to the ground.
After all, the pirates are too few in number, and the total number is only about 3,000 people, although they rely on sharp weapons to kill people very quickly, but if they really fall to the ground and face countless earthlings face to face, they will still be frightened.
Moreover, for the sake of risk management and control, and in order to avoid the possibility that the earthlings deliberately want to consume the viable power of the pirate members, try to have as few people as possible each time they go down to the ground, or even preferably only one, so that even if there is some damage to the personnel, it will not hinder the overall situation and will not affect the combat power of the pirate team.
It is precisely for this reason that for the task of going to various cities on the ground to conduct qualification examinations, because of these uncertain factors, and even the possibility of encountering life-threatening reasons, no qualified pirate leader was willing to show his face and deliver goods to his door at the beginning.
So with your humility and me, the pirates finally elected an old pirate with super old qualifications but a very low status to serve as the first pirate censor.
The old pirate was originally a slave captured by the pirates from the transport ship, but later because of his good cooking skills, the pirate leaders favored him to stay on the pirate ship as a gangman.
Among the more than 3,000 pirate members in the entire pirate group, this old pirate is considered to be the lowest level, in short, good things can't be turned, bad things can't be avoided, if it weren't for the fact that he can still cook a good dish is a bit useful, and there are still people covering him, I'm afraid he would have died so much that his bones could play the drum.
This old pirate is not a cook, he has a lot of knowledge in the pirate's den, and he is also quite wolfish, knowing that he can't hide from this mission, he simply doesn't hide, and makes up his mind that he would rather die than eat a mouthful of oil and water.
After figuring out the specific content of the mission, the old pirate looked gloomy and cold, and the strong man was gone and tragic, and took the air and space transport plane to the bombed miserable little ruined city.
Although it had been two or three days since the bombing stopped, and the pirates had given the city plenty of time to clean up the city, the old pirates still felt the terrible smell of war mixed with the heavy smell of gunsmoke, blood, and the rancid smell of corpses.
The city, already under the control of the authorities, was arranged, as far as the pirates had requested. A grand, orderly, and intense welcoming and entering ceremony was presented to the old pirate, and countless citizens in ragged clothes, haggard, and even with old blood stains on their bodies, as if welcoming the return of the hero, welcomed the arrival of the old pirate with a seemingly warm, excited, and excited expression.
But the old pirate still couldn't help but feel it. There was still too much hatred, fear, and curiosity in the eyes of those white-skinned, dark-skinned, seemingly enthusiastic welcoming people, and exaggerated but stiff expressions.
To be honest, being stared at by such a group of people with such eyes is really not a comfortable thing.
The old pirate rode in a high-end car that had been carefully selected by the rulers of the city, and slowly passed through the welcoming crowd in the middle of the road, and he felt a cold sweat break out.
If it weren't for the fact that the air and space fighters with a team of pirates in the sky were patrolling demonstratively, while intimidating the natives of the earth, they were also looking at their own performance, the old pirate really wanted to sit down in his seat and sweat coldly. But the reality is that he has to straighten his waist and maintain the majesty of the pirate team with a seemingly cold expression.
Otherwise, if he makes a fool of himself, even if he can get through here and return to the pirate ship, this old pirate will definitely not be able to eat and walk around, and will be ruthlessly cleaned up.
The uncomfortable thing was not only that, after receiving the onlookers and welcome of the welcoming crowd, the old pirate also inspected the armed men of the city in the car.
They were all bloodied on their hands. Even elite armed members who once escaped death, although their character flow is very complicated. There are soldiers, there are policemen, there are retired members of the special forces, but they are all the mainstays of the city at this time.
Before coming here to line up, some of them had just carried the corpses of their comrades from the ruins of the war, and some had just suppressed some of the people who did not obey the command. Some even shot and killed a large number of armed opposition fighters, even though they had already cleaned up by this time, and most of their clothes were still clean.
However, the murderous aura of their bodies, the whites of their bloodshot eyes. The murderous eyes, and even the subtle action of subconsciously wanting to pull out the gun, made the old pirate have a strong urge to pee out as the vehicle slowly drove through the ranks of these armed men, which was really terrifying.
The person in charge of the city, who had spent a lot of money to put on such a scene according to the requirements of the pirates, and even accompanied the old pirate to observe and inspect it, secretly looked at the old pirate's expression, and saw that his expression seemed to be a little displeased, and couldn't help but ask the old pirate in fear, "Does this meeting still meet the requirements, does it meet the standards of the pirate masters?"
As he spoke, a huge and beautiful sapphire ring was stuffed into the old pirate's hand.
The old pirate wrote in his hand as if nothing had happened, carefully playing with this precious gift of natural gems set in precious metals and unique characteristics of civilization, and inadvertently looked at the color a few times, and his heart was almost jumping with excitement for a while.
He had never even seen such a valuable item before, and he had not even seen it a few times before, and he had the impression that only Captain York had a few similar collections, and the naturally formed sapphire crystal was far from being as huge and beautiful as the one in his hand.
On the silver-white platinum sapphire ring, there is even a faint trace of blood!
This is probably a treasure that has just been deprived from a certain nobleman, and now it has been sent to this old pirate who is not a scholar and has been temporarily sent out to fill the number!
The old pirate was refreshed and full of emotion for a moment, and the faint trembling and trembling completely disappeared from him, replaced by a touch of greedy excitement.
What is a jewel with blood? The life of a pirate, even a bowl of gruel, contains endless blood, tears and sweat, and even entangled in the curse of the soul, but the old pirate has no taboo about this at all, and even has a faint pleasure.
I don't want my old fellow to have such a day!
The ring had disappeared in his pocket unconsciously, and the old pirate said lightly in a reserved tone, this scene was so-so, it barely reached the standard of pirate masters, and he had to make persistent efforts!
But during this period of time, some of the mainstream languages on the earth have been deciphered and recorded by the pirates, and the old pirates are equipped with a universal translator, which contains most of the earth's languages, which can be translated and conveyed at any time, and face-to-face conversations with earthlings are no longer a problem.
As soon as the mentality changes, the perspective of looking at everything will naturally change dramatically.
This ruined and smoky city suddenly changed from full of hatred and hostility to a dragon's lair, containing endless treasures and temptations, which made the old pirate suddenly look forward to it.
And what happened next did not disappoint the old pirate's expectations at all.
The grand dinner, the compliments and pursuits of the stars holding the moon, and the gifts of various precious treasures, made the old pirate's pockets soon bulge.
The food was also very rich, and the difference was huge, and the old pirate enjoyed some of the precious goods that others could not reach, and the old pirate slowly adapted to it, and even took it for granted, feeling that life had never been better.
Stayed here for a night at night, even the bed to sleep in, it was extravagant beyond imagination, it was a spacious and soft bed, exquisite like a work of art, and what was even more gratifying was that there were two blonde and blue-eyed young women to spend the Spring Festival together, perfect like a dream.
Even the old pirate hadn't been so extravagant for many years, even in his dreams, and it felt like he had gone to heaven.
When he woke up early the next morning, the old pirate had a terrible back pain, and he felt as if all his energy had been emptied, and he felt fluttering when he walked.
After receiving the predetermined tribute, negotiating the franchise fee and other details, the old pirate left the city full of melancholy.
Back on the pirate ship, the old pirate became the humble subordinate again, still living in a small cabin, on the iron frame bed, tossing and turning overnight, the old pirate took out all his private collections, and bought off several big people along the way, expressing his willingness to risk his life and continue to act as the pirate censor.
Only the sapphire ring was left by him, it was perfect like a dream, and it filled him with reluctance and nostalgia.
However, as the pirates recruited more and more agents, and learned how amazing and beautiful this position was, there were still a few high-powered pirate backbones, who forcibly topped the old pirate, and he became the cook again, and even became more and more sinister, just because some people suspected that he had hidden a large amount of treasures, and from time to time came to abuse and interrogate.
But the old pirate felt that it was all worth it, and sometimes he secretly took out the ring, and his heart was still full of melancholy and reluctance.
(Sorry, that's all for today, I'm very sorry.) (To be continued.) )