Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 10 Developing the Centauri Galaxy (Additional Updates)

"The 56th meeting of Bill 137 on Extraterrestrial Things, regarding whether aliens in this country have full citizenship rights, ended. The final result of the meeting was 2300 votes in favor and 7700 votes against. The voting results are valid."

With the final speech of 550A at the United Nations, the ideological trend of the Earth United Nations has officially changed from extreme egalitarianism and xenophobia to extreme egalitarianism and xenophobia.

A large number of United Nations Army troops entered the colonial city that had almost been turned into ruins to eliminate the Alpha Stars who were still stubbornly resisting.

Soon, the final verdict of the Alpha Planet came down from the conference and was broadcast around the world through television and radio media.

"The latest news is that the United Nations General Assembly has passed the legality of slavery in extraterrestrial things. Alpha aliens are now deprived of political power, and their civil rights are changed from the right of residence to slaves. Social welfare is downgraded from decent standards to basic guarantees."

Qin Xu was talking on the phone with his mother in the bathroom of the research ship. He was usually very carefree, but he was surprisingly quiet this time. He only occasionally said "um, it's okay" and so on.

After hanging up the interstellar long-distance call from his mother, Qin Xu looked at the scarred version of himself in the mirror and reached out to touch the bullet scratches on his face.

Liu Wenhan stood at the door of the men's room and wanted to speak, but he swallowed the words when they reached his lips.

He walked quietly to Qin Xu's side and washed his face as well.

The two were silent, and finally Liu Wenhan broke the silence.

"Well, thank you, I was already dizzy at that time..."

"fine."

Qin Xu simply replied with two words.

Liu Wenhan's gratitude could be Qin Xu's help in escaping from the underground, or Qin Xu's thanks for bringing Liu Shaomei's body out.

Qin Xu could have put down this burden, but he didn't. He carried the body and led the whole team to kill him alone.

"Can she still be saved..."

Qin Xu himself felt that it was foolish of him to ask such a question. Judging from the amount of bleeding at that time, his heart was directly punctured, and it was basically impossible to survive.

"I don't know... There is a very powerful biologist on board. I asked him, but he just kept silent and didn't answer me."

"That's it."

Qin Xu said firmly.

Liu Wenhan knew what was going on, so he just sighed. In order to prevent tears from falling, he slightly raised his head and looked at the ceiling, and said absently: "Maybe."

The condition of other people on the ship was not good either. 20 people were completely killed, but more than 100 were injured.Fortunately, the Earth United Nations has a high scientific level and has many top medical experts on board. All the injured were properly treated.

"Guess who I am?"

Qin Xu was eating in the cafeteria when he was suddenly blindfolded from behind.

"Chen Xiaomeng."

Qin Xu said his name without emotion, and then continued eating.

"cut."

Chen Xiaomeng sighed, let go and sat next to Qin Xu.

"It's boring. Can't you hesitate more?"

Seeing that Qin Xu ignored her, Chen Xiaomeng bit her lips and said, "I know Liu Shaomei died and everyone was very sad. But it must pass. You have been depressed for two months..."

Qin Xu stopped eating and was silent for a long time.

"what happened?"

Chen Xiaomeng suddenly felt that something was wrong with Qin Xu's appearance.

"I heard."

Qin Xu stopped eating completely and said.

"What did you hear?"

Chen Xiaomeng asked doubtfully.

"I heard about Liu Shaomei's death."

Chen Xiaomeng was stunned, "What do you mean? When did you hear it?"

"10 seconds before Liu Shaomei died."

"what?"

"I could have saved her, but I didn't."

Listening to Qin Xu's words, Chen Xiaomeng was stunned for a long time, and finally said: "So this is why you have been blaming yourself so much?"

"Um……"

"Then why didn't you go..."

"Because I also heard a voice and heard the message that you will die too."

Qin Xu said incomprehensible things as if there was no one around.

At the same time, the red light flashed on the camera in the cafeteria, adjusting the focus to completely record Qin Xu's mouth shape.

"So, so, it's because you chose to save me that..."

Chen Xiaomeng bit her lip, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"No. Actually, I could save both of them, but after I heard the news that you might die, I lost my mind at that moment. After beating the person who killed you to death, I could have run over to save her. , but I didn’t dare to let you get too far away from me, so I pulled you and ran to Liu Shaomei’s side. And when I raised the muzzle of the gun over there, Liu Shaomei’s chest had just been pierced... As long as, again One second faster, half a second faster, and I can save her."

Chen Xiaomeng bit her lip tightly as she listened to Qin Xu telling what happened. After a while, she said, "Don't be like this... You're making me blame myself..." "No, this is mine. question."

"No, it's not you..."

"If I had more strength and could pull you out of that bunker just one second faster, I could have saved her."

Looking at Qin Xu, who looked serious at this moment, Chen Xiaomeng felt strange for the first time.

In the past, in her mind, Qin Xu had always been clueless, with poor intelligence and poor emotional intelligence. He had the impression that he could not do anything well and was No. 1 in eating.

At this moment, Chen Xiaomeng changed a little...

until--

"Cough, cough, cough, help me, Xiaomeng, my throat is stuck..."

As Qin Xu spoke, he unconsciously started eating again, stuffing a whole hard-boiled egg into his mouth and trying to swallow it directly.

Chen Xiaomeng was startled. Seeing that Qin Xu was about to choke to death, he stood up and kicked him.

Qin Xu, who knelt on the ground and vomited for a while, vomited out the whole egg stuck in his throat.

"You..."

Chen Xiaomeng, who had been so well-prepared that her feelings were gone, was both angry and funny when she saw Qin Xu looking so embarrassed even after eating.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

In the gymnasium of the scientific research ship, thick iron blocks were pulled up and lowered rhythmically, and each rise and fall was accompanied by a dull metal collision sound.

Chen Xiaomeng passed by the entrance of the gym where almost no one usually went. Unsurprisingly, Qin Xu reserved the gym alone today.

While he was hesitating, the voice of the communicator suddenly sounded.

Chen Xiaomeng connected to the communication, "Come on Xiaomeng, you are the only one who is missing among the top engineers on the scientific research ship."

"Okay, I'll go over now. You're in a hurry. It's still early for the meeting to start, right?"

"Haha, what are the three things that a new official should do when he takes office? Come on, come on."

"Oh, I really can't help you."

He hung up the communication, looked at Qin Xu again before leaving, and set off for the Alpha Star Temporary Governor's Mansion.

The landing craft landed in front of the Governor's Mansion. Chen Xiaomeng pushed the door open and entered. He pulled a sign at the door that read "Seminar on the First Five-Year Plan of the Centaur Galaxy."

Alas, Chen Xiaomeng sighed inwardly. She felt a little embarrassed for her college classmate.

"Xiaomeng, you're here! Look, this is the engineering boss I brought from the research ship Mozi. He is the top candidate in the astronaut test of engineering in the 55th year of Star Calendar. He has been ranked first in Huaqing University's beauty list..."

"Boom!"

He was used to kicking Qin Xu before, so he couldn't hold back and kicked Hu Yiyi, the female governor of Alpha Star and college roommate, who was introducing herself and said everything that should be said and shouldn't be said, to the ground.

"puff……"

Hu Yiyi's last words were stuck in his throat, and he was retching while leaning on the table.

"Xiaomeng, I haven't seen you for so long, and you have become violent... You were not like this before..."

Hu Yiyi held the table and retched for a while, her legs were weak and she looked at Chen Xiaomeng pitifully.

Chen Xiaomeng was a little embarrassed. She had forgotten what she was like before. She could only apologize to the other big guys present before taking a seat.

Hu Yiyi calmed down for a moment, wiped his mouth, then went to the rostrum and gave a brief opening speech, and then announced the start of the meeting.

Star Alpha has a total of 20 sectors, and the number of usable sectors is more than that of the Earth's parent star. It is only one hyperspace jump away from the capital star field, which can be said to be very close.

The United Nations General Assembly has decided to make Alpha Star a key planet for construction, with a status almost equal to that of the parent star.

Hu Yiyi spoke passionately on the stage about the ultimate vision of this planet in his mind, which is to cultivate vast hectares of fertile land, spread cities and factories all over the planet, build land on the ocean, build cities in the deep sea, build water conservancy projects on the desert...

The record-keeper in the audience nodded repeatedly, and finally recorded the word "mining".

If there is no mine, and there is no mining in the first step, how about transporting the mine from the home planet to build it?A city district only costs 400 mines, 270 farmland, and 270 electricity. Do you need to build landmarks?Why don't you go to heaven?

The superior appointed Hu Yiyi as the governor purely because of her governor's characteristics of having an environmental engineer. The cost of clearing obstacles on the planet is -25%, and the speed of clearing obstacles on the land is +25%.

If there is no accident, Hu Yiyi will be very busy in the future. Every time a new planet is opened up, she will be the governor...but it won't last long.

As for how long she can stay in this position now, it depends on when the planet block obstacles here will be cleared...

As a result, Hu Yiyi talked about it for a long time, and finally everyone unanimously decided on the plan... The first five-year plan is to clear all land obstacles and build a large underground mining area and mine rare natural crystal mines.

Although the rare crystals are not currently used by the United Nations on Earth, if they are stored up, they can still be exchanged for many good things from other civilizations.

After the general direction was determined, Hu Yiyi was useless. In the end, it was Chen Xiaomeng who led the team to guide the specific mining area construction and clearance of land obstacles.

These land obstacles include active volcanoes, city ruins, toxic swamps, and mountains, which are expensive to deal with.

Hu Yiyi, who had been excluded from the meeting, was bored as she watched Chen Xiaomeng leading a group of experts to discuss specific implementation plans.

Lying on the table and looking in Chen Xiaomeng's direction, I was planning to just sleep.

But after looking at the messy conference table, she glanced furtively left and right, and found that no one was paying attention to her. She stood up and walked around the conference table, placing everyone's mineral water and all the information on the table. tidy.

Finally, I sat back in my seat and breathed out comfortably. It was really an advanced stage of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

(End of this chapter)