"The rise and fall of the people are suffering, and the ancients are truly honest!"

The passenger with messy hair sighed, "No wonder there is a mess outside. Star pirates and bandit suppression fleets appear on all the waterways. There are still so many civilian merchant ships who want to take risks to trade - Dong Ling, you know a lot."

Huo Dongling blushed and said, "What do I know? These words are all complained by my father all day long. When we went to trade for a long time, every port we went to was sold out. No one wanted the unrefined raw ore. Most of the food and fuel were consumed. I don't know what happened after arriving at the Qihai Market. My father was so worried that his hair was almost gone. He hid in the corner and sighed all day long. No matter how I didn't want to hear it, I remember his complaints!"

"So……"

The passenger with messy hair pondered, "Dong Ling, if you have to choose one, do you think it is better to be the Wanjie Business Alliance, or the 'author' behind the four electoral families? Do you prefer to live under the Wanjie Business Alliance or under the 'author's rule?"

"Of course it's the Wanjie Business Alliance. The Wanjie Business Alliance is a hundred times better than the four major families!"

Huo Dongling blurted out, "Yes, the Wanjie Business Alliance is a businessman, and they make money from us in different ways, but they have some bottom line, and they talk about some business rules and occasionally help us."

"Although they were said to be very cunningly, they finally managed the asteroids in advance and sold half and half for us. Otherwise, we, a minority like us, would never dream of having their own home.

"After selling the asteroid half and giving it to us, the Wanjie Merchant Alliance will also sell us a large amount of pioneering and mining materials for credit, teach us necessary technology, and even provide us with very convenient micro-loans - of course, these things must be paid back, and the interest rate is not low, but at least we can survive!

"After that, although the merchant fleet of Wanjie Business Alliance monopolized the import and export channels on the asteroid, it often brought us strange magic weapons and new businesses in the outside world. If the young people in our asteroid settlements have a promising prospect and may become employees of Wanjie Business Alliance, their families can enjoy more favorable loan interest rates and technical support, and their lives will be better!

"Anyway, my father told me that for the Wanjie Shangmeng, the residents of us asteroid settlements, are like old hens who can lay eggs. The Wanjie Shangmeng will raise the old hens first and then slowly take out our eggs to eat. This is called... putting a long line and fishing for big fish!"

The passenger with messy hair nodded and thoughtfully said, "Feature the hen first, then slowly take out the eggs to eat. This is good. So what about the four major families?"

"The four major families are the extremely vicious jackals. They just want to kill chickens and get eggs. How can they care about our lives or death?"

Huo Dongling's eyes emitted a light of hatred and gritted his teeth, "No matter how cunning the methods of the Wanjie Business Alliance are, at least they provide us with loans, technology, education and markets. What did the four major families and the so-called "authors" give us? Nothing, except for tax collection and fines!

"The cultivators who belong to the four major families will not appear several times a year. No matter we encounter famine, plague, mining disaster, or the radiation value caused by the raging storm in the star sea is too high... we never see people from the authorities coming out to rescue disasters, but every time we have a little savings on hand, these wolves from the authorities will appear swaying.

"Port construction tax, environmental protection tax, waterway safety tax, special national defense tax, imperial rejuvenation tax, human evolution tax, imperial tax, ten thousand tax!

"These taxes were collected seriously by the authorities. As for the fees and fines collected by the local cultivators in private, there are countless! Don't pay them? They have knives and guns in their hands, and they really dare to kill them, and their heads are rolling and blood flowing all over the ground! Even if they don't kill them in person, they will put on the skin of a star pirate and rob them again, how can we, the poor asteroid settlements, resist?

"If you want to steal our money, you can leave us a breath like the Wanjie Merchant Alliance, and then feed us, it is also good. But the men of the four major families never care about our lives. Anyway, we are ants, weeds, and original people, and we deserve to die for themselves!"

The passenger with messy hair, his eyebrows became tighter and tighter.

As Huo Dongling spoke, his eyes turned red again, and crystal clear tears turned for a long time, and continued: "The Wanjie Business Alliance has a large-scale construction plan. According to the plan, in fact, our Nanling Star settlements should have exceeded ten a few decades earlier, completely connected together, and have its own stable atmosphere. In this way, the Wanjie Business Alliance has a larger business that can be handed over to us and sell more goods to us. Everyone has benefits. In the words of the Business Alliance, it is... a win-win situation!

"But those cultivators from the four major families come to exploit bones and marrow every year, and quarrel from the Wanjie Merchant Alliance and our colonial planets, and have raised a large group of star thieves to seize the robbers. The little savings we have accumulated with great effort are swept away by them. This happens again and again, how can our hometown be built?

"Just say this time, the four major families declared that the Wanjie Shang Alliance was a rebel, and we were strictly prohibited from doing business with the Wanjie Shang Alliance. Whoever dared to have an affair with the Wanjie Shang Alliance was a rebel who was a rebel.

"We are all good people, and we have always been loyal to the Marquis and His Majesty. Of course, we don't want to "resist in the guild", but the masters don't let us do business with the traitors, so please take out enough food, purified water and compressed air to help us overcome the difficulties!

"At the beginning, we were all staying at home honestly, and no one dared to trade with the Wanjie Business Alliance. We just hoped that the fleets of the four major families could send rescue supplies and guide us in the future development direction. At least we could not starve or suffocate us to death, right?

"Haha, we were looking forward to a 'official army' and a damn 'king army'. As a result, these high-ranking officials and army not only did not bring half a piece of food or half a water purification chip, but instead ruined a lot of our supplies. We were among the few supplies that we depended on for survival! Then we patted our butt and left, leaving nothing for us, and not leaving any hope!

"In this way, our Nanling Star is pretty good. I heard that many asteroid settlements were slaughtered by the Elector's fleet and completely razed to the ground. It seemed that their attack on the Wanjie Merchant Alliance was not good, so we used the heads of our ordinary people as credit. Dad said that this was called "promising merit, what..."

"Kill the good and take credit for it." said the passenger with messy hair.

"Yes, kill good and take credit!"

Huo Dongling trembled slightly, "We really want to be loyal to His Majesty, the electorate, and those noble and cultivating masters. However, they don't want our loyalty at all. As long as we live, we can't wait to die. If you are attached to the rebels, just follow the rebels. At least you can take a risk to the Seven Seas Market and maybe you can even find a way out!"

These words were also felt aggrieved in the little girl's heart for a long time, and they fermented with fear along the way, almost making her crazy. Today, she finally vented her pain quickly. She felt that every pore in her body was relaxed and she felt sweating profusely.

After talking nonstop, I realized that the passenger with good eyes in front of me might also be the "master of immortal cultivation" she denounced. I couldn't help but shudder, shrank my neck, and looked at the other person's expression timidly.

The passenger did not have too many expressions on his face, but his beautiful eyes became particularly deep. A cold murderous intent appeared in the warm light, which scared Huo Dongling so much that he was out of his mind.

"Don't be afraid, Xiao Dongling."

The passenger said word by word, his voice was not loud, but it was filled with a scent of the stars and shocking the sea of ​​stars. "Believe me, the war will end soon, you will definitely have the opportunity to return to your hometown and build your hometown well...Believe me!"

"Yes, Mr. Li."

For some reason, although the other party's arrogant words sounded too ridiculous, Huo Dongling still couldn't help but want to believe in him, believe in a better future and a better hometown.

At this moment, the Bear shook slightly, and an orange-red light lit up in the cabin.

They are about to cross the last gravel star belt.

After passing through this gravel star belt, there is the planet with the largest size and mass in this star field, as well as its two extremely large satellites.

This planet and its satellites form a very unique and extremely unstable Samsung system, tearing each other apart, pulling and exchanging matter, and the nearby three-dimensional space is also extremely unstable, and natural wormholes often appear.

The star sea jumping here can maximize fuel saving and maintain the integrity of the starship structure, so it is the most favored jumping point for civil fleets.

This is the last jump point before arriving at the Seven Seas Market. Once you successfully jump, you can appear inside the Seven Seas Star Domain. There, the Wanjie Business Alliance still has a powerful escort fleet and a deep defense system spread throughout the star domain, which can ensure the safety of caravans from south to north.

But before the jumping was unfolding, it was still a "gate of hell" that was terrifying. In the overwhelming and radiation-filled gravel star belt, it is very likely that the hunting ships of the four major families were hidden, guarding the waterway, and ambushing civilian merchant ships who wanted to go to the Seven Seas Market.

Even the most experienced old captain must be energetic when crossing this dangerous gravel star belt.

Otherwise, the wreckage of the starship spinning at high speed in the gravel star belt may become their next second.

More than a dozen cargo ships forming a caravan entered the gravel star belt with caution and fear. Everyone was praying to the gods and Buddhas of the heavens to avoid encountering vicious hunting ships.
Chapter completed!