Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Whether compared to the fierce mercenaries or the apathetic black leopard next to them, the passenger with the fluttering hair looked like an ordinary person everywhere. He could neither tell his age nor how ugly he was. Mixed miracles definitely did not show his appearance in the crowd and would be forgotten in a flash.

But he had always had laughing eyes. His eyes were like the sunshine and warmth of winter. Instead of smelling a little evil, Huo Dongling was just a little soothed by his frightened heart.

The little girl looked back and all the mercenaries curled up to the other corner of the cabin, all buried their heads in the lunch box and didn't even dare look up here.

Turning back, the passenger with the beautiful eyes raised his hands and made a very funny appearance. “It's okay, sit down. My name is Li. Just call me ‘Mr. Li'. ”

“Mr. Li…. ”

Perhaps his eyes were too gentle and harmless. Perhaps it was such a small cabin. He really meant nothing. Ho Dongling had nowhere to run. The little girl lost her mind for a while and sat down.

Think about it, and move your ass to that cold black leopard - after all, you know people don't know, most bad people these days are laughing, at least this black leopard just saved her!

The black leopard swept at her, didn't speak, skipped his mouth and took care of himself to eat.

“Your name is Winter Ring, right? I heard the crew call your name this morning. You're the owner's daughter. ”

The passenger with the messy hair grinned and suddenly remembered something. He grabbed a simple sterling silver bracelet from his arms and handed it over. “Winter Spirit, I'll give you something, even if it's a... consultancy fee! ”

“This is--”

Huo Dongling became more and more scared. His heart was confused. Isn't he a fairy practitioner? She has never seen a fairy fixer so gentle with ordinary people and give ordinary people things.

In the past, the limit of seeing a fairy fixer is, at best, like this black leopard next to him, frozen on ordinary people and blind to them.

Thinking about it, Huo Dongling waved desperately and dared not accept each other's things.

“Here you go. This bracelet is a little protection. ”

The passenger with messy hair said, "Those hyenas were right. Now the stars are so messy, it's really not easy for a little girl like you to come out and break into the world and run into all kinds of dangers.

“Seeing this spiral array inside the bracelet doesn't, come, puncture your right thumb, make sure blood infiltrates the fingerprints, then print the fingerprints on this spiral array to confirm, you can activate the bracelet, in the future bad people want to violate you, the bracelet will automatically detect the temperature, heart beat and adrenaline secretion level of the bad people, beyond the alert range, will automatically fire a strong arc, and will release a unique spiritual brand, which can release a total of ten times.

“As long as those evil men are immortals, they will be able to recognize the owner of this divine soul brand. What is it that is practiced?

“Well, then you tell the bad guys that this bracelet is your dad, no, it's a good friend of your grandfather's, a gift from you at birth, to keep you safe, not to mention too much else, and I think 99% of the bad guys are going to fall back on it.

“But if you want to get along with your lover, remember to take the bracelet off, hahahaha, otherwise it would be bad to electrify your lover! ”

Huo Dongling lowered her head shamelessly. What kind of lover is she? This Mr. Li is funny to talk to.

“Is this your own meal? ”

Passengers with messy hair lifted their food boxes and took a deep breath, praising them, "Smells good, Winter Spirit, you're doing great! ”

Huo Dongling stunned for a moment, embarrassed: “No, Mr. Li, this is very common self-heating fast food, the bulk produced kind, um, it's all printed on the box. ”

Passengers with messy hair: "… let's get right to the point, where does your boat start? ”

Huo Dongling honestly said: “We are from the Southern Lingxing Star of the Red Star. Mr. Li should not have heard that it is an asteroid that has just been developed for more than a hundred years and has not yet formed a solid atmosphere. There are only four settlements of no small size, and I was born in one of them. ”

“I have never heard of Southern Lingxing, but I know that the Red Star Realm is not close to our destination, Seven Seas Market. For civilian merchant ships like you, it will probably take dozens of jumps in the stars and months to reach them, and the journey is so dangerous. ”

The passenger with messy hair said, "It's a war outside, and there's fighting everywhere. I heard the authorities have declared the World Alliance of Commerce to be an insurgent organization. It's about to siege the Seven Seas Market. Why would you risk going there to do business? Even if your dad really wants the money, at least he shouldn't have taken you with him? ”

“We have no choice. ”

Ho Dong Ling suddenly said, “How can we understand the life of the uppermost cultivators? We in Southern Lingxing have only just been developing for a hundred years, there is no strong mountain dependence behind us, and there are not too few rare specialties of our own. Until now, all kinds of necessities cannot be self-sufficient. Without food from outside, we will starve to death; without water circulation chips from outside, we will die of thirst; without atmospheric stabilization systems and compressed oxygen from outside, we will live and suffocate!

“In the past, the commercial routes of the World Alliance of Commerce have been extensive, the free market star chess cloth, the merchants regularly go through our planet every month to procure local minerals and deliver food, water and air to us. It is not possible. We can also go to the nearest free market to procure it, it only takes two short jumps to come and go for up to a week.

“But as soon as we fought outside, we suffered, so what... the four big families declared the Universal Chamber of Commerce to be an insurgent organization, shut down the business route, destroyed the free market, recruited all the stars to steal and loot, and cut off the livelihood of our people.

“After three months without merchants passing through our Southern Lingxing, we are running out of food, water and air, and no one is buying the mountainous raw minerals in the harbor, and we can only stare at the growing number of ore distressed.

“When we went to the nearby free market to trade, we were faced with a mess - where the free market was besieged by a fleet of four large families and completely destroyed, even our small merchant ship was almost sunk as a ‘renegade' mess.

“Later, when we encountered merchant ships coming close to several stars to trade, we learned that the fleet of the four large families had swept away all the free markets of the nearby thousands of worlds, and that there were countless star thieves and mercenaries who had been compiled by the four large families, like jackals, roaming in various shipping lanes, never letting go of the merchant fleet of the World Alliance of Commerce.

“Even if one or two clandestine markets have not been wiped out, the prices there are frightening, and our average ore from Southern Lingxing will not sell at all and will not buy back much of what is necessary to survive.

“We want to eat, we want to drink water, we want to keep the thin atmosphere stable, only to venture to places where the four families have not yet attacked - the Seven Seas Great Market - to trade, after all, where the goods are the most complete and the prices are lower, and where the frigate of the World Alliance of Commerce is protected, a little safer.

“Alas, we don't know how risky it is to do this, but we don't know how long the war is going to take. If we don't make a deal, we'll be trapped alive on Southern Spirit Star! My father is the most experienced captain of the Southern Star. How could he be a shrinking turtle for the survival of his hometown?

“As for me, I asked to come out with my father, anyway, if the Bear doesn't bring the necessary supplies back, within a year and a half at most, the Southern Spirit Star will definitely not last, and the end is no better! ”

Perhaps he was infected by the gentle eyes of the other party. Huo Dongling breathed out his stomach and surrendered himself. As he said, he wept silently and mumbled: “Why are you immortals fighting? War is war. Why don't we just leave our little people with a way to live? We want to make a deal, we want to eat, we want to live! ”

Passengers with messy hair were silent for a moment and sighed softly, "How much more is the world outside the Empire in such a situation as yours? ”

“More, why not more? ”

Ho Dongling bit his teeth, “There are seven or eight asteroids that cannot be self-sufficient in the red stars alone, just like Southern Ling stars, and that need to be survived by the merchants' blood transfusions. Starting a hundred years ago, the World Alliance of Commerce, under the banner of the development of asteroids, sold these planets to ordinary people at very low prices, and paid in instalments, almost zero down interest, almost half sale.

“At that time, many ordinary people didn't know what to do. They took out their coffins, bought many asteroids from the World Alliance of Commerce and migrated there. They felt free and turned their backs.

“It is not that simple to develop an asteroid and settle it for a long time. Indeed, the Universal Chamber of Commerce has fixed the price of the asteroid at very low prices. The cost of development in the previous period was a huge loss, but the following foods, water purification systems, atmospheric stabilization pharmacy units, many consumables have to be replenished once a month or every quarter. It is not enough to do so without replenishment.

“The World Alliance of Commerce (WBC) has seized the pain of increasing the price of consumables, and they have the largest fleet of merchants, completely monopolizing our export channels, keeping our production prices very low. Once and for all, our asteroid inhabitants have worked hard for 100 years for the WBC.

“In this way, the World Chambers of Commerce holds countless resources on the periphery of the Empire, planets and asteroid settlements, dragging us all onto their thief ships - to work, thief ships, thief ships, life can barely survive, but now the four families fight the World Chambers of Commerce, interrupting all our lives, tens of thousands of settlements like the Southern Springs, are all in danger, if we do not venture out to trade, we will die alive! ”