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Chapter 23 "22"

The scenery on the hazy horizon in the distance is constantly moving and changing, while the ground effect vehicle flying close to the ground at high speed is so stable that there is not even a slight sense of shaking.

The ground effect mode means to us that we don’t need to take extra long detours, and we don’t have to worry about the impact of the extremely cold environment after nightfall. We just need to follow the car navigation and drive straight to the central city.

I don't have to be tossed back and forth anymore. In fact, sitting so comfortably in this way makes me secretly relieved.

The state of ground effect flight has no disadvantages except that it consumes a lot of energy and requires a lot of load on the vehicle.

Of course, the car is our ability to grab...

Keke, borrowed it.

To put it bluntly, do we care about the rate at which energy is consumed?
"This kind of vehicle that can provide ground effect flight mode, I'm afraid it will cost several hundred Reichsmarks?"

While lying on the window sill, Moral leisurely played with the tranquilizer syringe in his hand.

Although there is no way to open the window in this case, if there is a chance, I even doubt that Moral will open it without hesitation.

"If you only want a vehicle with this function, it doesn't cost much to buy a second-hand Gaia 300."

"You should be able to get it for around 200 Reichsmarks, right?"

Nalia, who had been sitting quietly in front of the vehicle, heard Moral suddenly mentioning this question, and she also joined the conversation.

"Are you good at this?"

"No, the people around me before..."

As if thinking of something, Nalia's voice was suddenly lowered, and then fell into silence.

"Moral!"

In fact, it can be guessed that, as a member of a group of men like the Marine Corps, Nalia will naturally have people who like this kind of thing around her.

"Sorry, he didn't mean to."

And when talking about these things, she would naturally think of the sad past of being betrayed by her colleagues that day.

A nervous guy like Moral naturally wouldn't think of the relationship.

"It's okay, it's nothing."

Although Nalia's tone became flat, it seemed as if she had really seen it.

But I am really familiar with the trembling feeling of my voice caused by trying to suppress my emotions...

"Sorry, I didn't think that much..."

Moral looked at me with his mouth slightly open and puzzled, and seemed to realize that he had done something bad again, so he immediately sat upright, restrained his smile and apologized.

"Haha, look at the two of you, one is more serious than the other."

After a brief silence, Nalia still smiled. The rearview mirror is electronic, so I can't see Nalia's face through it, so I'm not sure if it's a forced smile.

"Lin Man, do you have such serious moments?"

What?
Turning around and looking at me all of a sudden, it was quite scary not to react all at once.

"Ah, drive well!"

"cut!"

It seems that this guy adjusts his mentality quite quickly.

That's right, after all, they are also people who have received professional training in this area.

"Lin Man, what do you see over there?"

"Hey, don't pull my right hand, it will hurt the wound!"

After some tugging, he looked in the direction Moral pointed, and saw crowds of people on the desert hills in the distance.

"It should be, who is it, I can't see clearly."

In the ground effect mode, the speed of this car has exceeded 300km/h, and the distant scenery will only continue to fly backwards.

In fact, apart from being able to see that those things are living things, it is not even possible to distinguish whether they are human beings or not.

But soon, Nalia reduced the speed of the car, giving us a slightly more stable vision.

"It's too far away, but it looks like a sheepfold, right?"

It can be seen that it should be vaguely similar to a fence.

The living creatures inside also appear to be chained to some posts.

"Um……"

After looking at it twice, I probably had a calculation in my heart, so I stopped paying attention.

Compared to his strange curiosity, I might as well think about how to leave safely when I think about it.

It is not impossible to buy so-called black tickets that do not require additional verification of identity in the black market, but it will definitely not be easy in the warehouse.

If it doesn't work, just buy a second-hand shuttle from the black market, but can it really take off in the air?

Speaking of...

"But why do I feel that the thing tied inside looks like a human being?"

"Hey, Lin Man!"

There are people inside?

Although I don't doubt that Moral would say anything to shock me, there must be at least an exaggeration in it.

"Is it wrong? I can't even see clearly, can you still see it?"

Although he did such inhuman things, the empire still forbids the training of human beings as slaves...

Nalia was obviously also interested in the things in the distance, and then turned around and drove towards that side.

"This……"

As we continue to approach, the originally blurred scenery is also becoming clearer.

A large number of demihumans were shackled, some with horns on their heads, and some with wings on their backs.

They no longer have any spirituality in their eyes, some are just mechanically repeating almost unpaid work, and some are being trained to work for them.

"This should be a slave farm..."

It only existed in cognition before, but now I have seen the famous slave farm in the empire with my own eyes.

The empire clearly forbids the use of human beings as slaves, but it does not prohibit the massacre and enslavement of the so-called low-level natives produced on some planets.

The world is big, and human beings are not the masters of it.

But the human beings who mastered the technology of destruction gradually surpassed other races in the end.

They are just roughly written into the subject textbooks called taxonomy by us, and they are essentially regarded as the same things as animals by us.

Even if many of their races are highly intelligent, even if they even look a lot like us, even if we're really just a species of animal...

But in the end, just because we are humans and they are not, they are bullied and enslaved, and even served on the human table.

No one sees this kind of "animal" whose body is pierced by chains and whose feet are bound by shackles, and will not feel cold.

"Let's go..."

Even if you feel bad, say that.

what can you do

Do you want to know why it is said that the empire prohibits the use of human beings as slaves?

Because in fact, the empire has a huge number of slaves.

A province like mine can already be said to be at the bottom of the society in the imperial society, but at least five out of ten people are not as good as me.

Although they are all called hard labor or something, the actual hard labor should be like me.

Those who are worse than me, what else are they if they are not slaves?

Moral and Nalia have also been silent. Obviously, the scene here is not a small shock to them.

"So the decline of the empire is not without reason..."

The vehicle was still speeding at that high speed, looking at the distant skyline, thinking about how to proceed with the next action, my spirit also began to become a little trance.

When I inadvertently opened my eyes again, the towering Sky Tower could already be seen in the distance.

What I didn't expect was that thanks to the blessing of this vehicle, it would actually allow us to reach Central City before sunset!
Oops, I haven't thought about how to get in yet!
My ID card has expired, so naturally there is no way to log in to the access control of Central City, and it is naturally impossible for Nalia to have such a thing as an ID card. In addition to stationing fleet facilities or squatting on ships, the Marine Corps usually There is no chance to contact these useful cities, so naturally there is no need to have an identity card.

So we can only rely on Moral?
To enter the central city, you need to pay a lot of taxes. Depending on the development level of the planet, the taxes required to enter are also different.

A relatively low level of development may be able to pass through the gate with a few hundred Imperial Riggles, but it is said that at least 400 Imperial Marks are required to enter the imperial capital.

Moreover, non-local travelers need to pay an additional 100 Reichsmarks as a security fee every day, otherwise it will be difficult to move in it, and you will even encounter terrible crimes if you cannot log in to the gate.

Here, I estimate that the threshold will not exceed 50 Reichsmarks, and the daily security fee should not be higher than 10 Reichsmarks.

In layman's terms, if you have money, you have human rights, it's as simple as that.

So at present, among the three of us, maybe only Moral can have human rights.

However, he is also a true citizen of the empire, and he should naturally receive corresponding human rights after paying taxes.

Judging from the fact that we could still pay in the settlement that day, my ID card and his were not locked because of logging in from another place.

So I should also reactivate my ID card after entering Central City, at least it will be much more convenient.

"Moral, Nalia and I will log in as your slaves with your ID card later, otherwise we will have a way to get in."

In this way, we can only put aside our human rights and enter the central city through the slave channel that the empire expressly prohibits.

It's funny to say, it's already banned, and the identity card of a citizen can also log in as a human slave...

"Nalia, just looking for a way to enter the city, and Moral won't order us to do anything, is this acceptable?"

After being registered as a slave, if we have any behavior against Morar, we can be killed by Morar reasonably.

Of course, I am willing because I also trust Moral. As for whether Nalia is willing, it depends on her...

"You took the initiative to do this, what else can I say?"

While talking, we have entered the square outside the central city.

Here you can park and park other vehicles.

Of course, you can also choose to drive them in, as long as you are willing to hand over the money in your pocket for them.

However, unlike people, vehicles will take up more resources and cause danger, so they will be subject to stricter control within the city.

And you know, their taxes are much more expensive than your own...

(End of this chapter)