Boundary Shattered [Interstellar]

Lian Ting and Tang Tao had also arrived at the assembly meeting, and those who had received the gene soothing potion also came to the assembly meeting venue, and some people took out some things to buy and sell. .Most of them are sand ant tentacles. If you sell the tentacles at the exchange office, you get star coins or sand essence. Here, you can simply exchange them for things or sand essence.

So star coins are useless here.

Not everyone has a terminal, either.

This kind of market and trading market only has a gathering meeting once a month.Other times it is difficult to conditionally buy anything.

The infrastructure of this fringe town is extremely simple. Even a small healing device is a very sought-after commodity, and it is not easy to get it. It takes eight sand ant tentacles to exchange for it.Eight sand ant tentacles can already maintain a person's drinking water for ten days. If an adult and healthy person is injured, he can kill three sand ants and get six tentacles in one day.And the therapeutic instrument that was exchanged only had the ability to heal several times.

In addition, some daily necessities are being exchanged. Lian Ting bought a parasol made of fabric and handed it to Tang Tao behind him. The seller directly took the sand essence, put it in his mouth and bit it with difficulty. stand up.

Tang Tao saw the other party chewing the "rock" directly, and his eyes widened in surprise.

He bit off a piece with a "click" and chewed vigorously with his lips pursed. From the corner of his eye, he saw that Lian Ting and Tang Chu hadn't left yet, and his expression was a little vigilant.

Lian Ting asked, "Look, my brother's teeth are fine, I smashed the sand essence with a stone before eating."

The seller licked his mouth around and swallowed all the sand essence in his mouth with difficulty.His eyes were much less vigilant, but he still gathered the things on the booth towards him to prevent these two people from trying to snatch things.

"It's almost the same, and it's not the sand particles that you have to swallow. But it's all for living, so it's not so particular. Eating it improves physical fitness, and it's a fart if it's unpalatable."

Lian Ting secretly remembered that the sand essence actually has the effect of improving the body's physical strength?

Just as the crowd was hustling, a short but strong middle-aged man with a beard and a beard ran over from the street in a panic.Lian Ting had met him before, he was the mayor of this remote town.

He stopped at the end of the street, took a breath, and went to a higher place where the exchange meeting was going to be held over there.Without using the loudspeaker equipment, he shouted directly:

"Our town has been searched, all residents should pay attention! Those who can go home should go back and stay there. Those who don't have an identity terminal, it's best not to meet the adults above!"

It turned out to be—this time has come.

When the people at the assembly meeting heard the mayor say these words, they immediately became much quieter.No one is a purebred person. The physical fitness improved by the genetic modification of the ancestors makes it easy for the people on the street to hear the words of the mayor.

So the crowd became a little nervous, and the stall owner next to Lianting immediately packed up his things and made a gesture to leave.On the one hand, he hastily explained to Lian Ting:

"I don't have a legal identity. I heard that in the capital city that was first regulated, all those without citizenship, whether poor, unregistered, or even slaves, were all arrested. Now there are only 100 left in the main city of 68 million. People, aren't we going to catch no one here..."

Lian Ting nodded, expressing his understanding, and watched the stall owner leave.Others have also heard the news from the outside, and left a lot, and half of them are left. Of course, there are also people without legal status, but maybe they feel that the assembly meeting held by the respected adults of Wasteland City is more likely to "get caught." "Be important, so stay on this street.

But they came very quickly.Before everyone could leave completely, they saw more than a dozen spaceships flying in the sky, and a few of them passed low over the heads of the crowd.With the sound of bullets hitting the ground, they formed a circle and stopped everyone, including those who had started to leave but hadn't gone far.

The laser bullets scorched the dry and hard ground, and the fleeing people were terrified, fearing that the next bullet would fall on themselves instead of the ground.

As the lead aircraft stopped at low altitude, a mechanical sound sounded inside, shouting a word:

"All town residents are gathering at the assembly site."

Driven by the surrounding small spaceships equipped with weapons, those who left came back again.Everyone gathered at this gathering place. The distribution of the genetic soothing potion at the exchange office had not yet been completed, but it had already ended before these spaceships arrived with great foresight.

People from the whole town gathered here, and the crowd, exposed to the strong sun, seemed to exude an impetuous atmosphere.

The people in the spaceship might also be afraid of the hot environment here, so they didn't get out of the spaceship, and just looked down at the crowd below coldly.

Other spaceships around hold everyone together to prevent anyone from leaving.

Lian Ting sensed the atmosphere around him. From the corner of his eye, he saw a few mutants wearing masks and cloaks among the crowd, and felt a little worried.Seeing such driving, Tang Tao was so nervous that his body became stiff.It's not that he has never seen big scenes, but he has always ordered the forces to encircle and suppress others, and he has never been surrounded by more than a dozen spaceships in the middle, and he has never been treated in a serious manner.

After a while, a spaceship that had been patrolling over the town before flew over, as if to report something to the people in the spaceship in the middle.Lian Ting could probably guess that it was something like "No one else was found, everyone is already here".

The people in the spaceship never explained their mission here, as if they were dismissive, they just frightened everyone with the majesty without extra words.Then everyone saw a blue light in a place under the spaceship light up, and a screen-like thing scanned everyone, flickered, and disappeared.

An electronic reporting voice sounded:

"...The town covers an area of ​​730 square meters and is 360 meters long. It surrounds the central sandy land. There are [-] people living in it, and [-] of them have legal citizenship."

Lian Ting was sure, and looked down at the terminal on his wrist.

Although his and Tang Tao's identities cannot be known to these visitors from the imperial capital now, having citizenship can at least avoid their scanning.

But... Lian Ting's eyes were heavy.

He had contacted Monley before, and his city had experienced such a thorough "censorship" earlier than here, so he now clearly knows that after such a general "censorship", anyone without imperial citizenship will be arrested snatch away.Now, among the more than 300 people in this entire town, nearly 2000 people have no legal status... Will they arrest all of these people?

The next movement of the spaceship told Lian Ting, yes.

I saw the hatch at the bottom of the spaceship open, and countless filaments glowing with cold light flew down.Its speed was extremely fast, and one of them bound the nearest person in one fell swoop.The rest of the people were shocked, and reflexively resisted to let the filament get close.However, a few filaments of resistance passed, and with a few gunshots of "Puff", several people who resisted were pierced through their foreheads by a laser and fell to the ground.

The gun barrels on both sides of the surrounding small spaceships are still bright with laser lights, ready to go.

Everyone immediately felt less struggling.

This is just a remote and impoverished planet. Because of their affiliation, these inhabitants are bound to this planet and have no qualifications or opportunities to leave.Even though they have been trained to be vigorous and strong by the harsh environment here, human bodies are still no match for machine guns.

All the residents present, I am afraid that even the advanced spaceship driven by the other party can only be seen on the star network.The empire will not provide advanced weapons to ordinary people other than soldiers. Even the most common laser guns can be sold for almost the price of a year's sand ant tentacles, and they are rare.

All the people who were tied up looked at the spaceship above in some horror.

They were terrified, they couldn't imagine what weapons could be used against them in such an advanced spaceship.

Tang Tao was a little scared, but he couldn't express it directly.He tried his best to make himself more calm, but he still panicked in such an atmosphere, and couldn't help but get closer to Lian Ting, his voice lowered until there was only one breath left.

Lian Ting heard him say: "Will we... be arrested too? What are they arresting people for? Aren't they officials from the Imperial Capital?"

Lian Ting only answered his first two questions, speaking succinctly and completely without thinking of comforting his nominal brother-in-law who is now very scared.

"Those who are trapped are all without identity terminals."

Tang Tao said "oh", still a little worried, but this time he didn't show his emotions, and covered them with the ability to control his expressions that he had learned as a nobleman long ago, so he appeared very calm instead.Lian Ting looked back at him inadvertently, and there was some appreciation in his eyes.

Tang Tao: "..."

Lian Ting whispered again: "Time is running out. Let's see what they will do first."

At such a time of panic, the end of the filament protruding from the bottom of the spaceship and binding more than 900 people lighted up, and then retracted upwards.All of a sudden, more than 900 people were pulled into the air, halfway up, and the filaments intertwined with each other to form a big net, encircling these people all at once.The big net tightened, and the people trapped inside were more and more crowded, and finally stopped in such a state of being hung under the spaceship.

Outside the big net, four small spaceships pointed their guns at it.

This time, the streets were withered, and there were only about [-] people who had the legal citizenship of the empire standing here and there.

The spaceship scanned all the people below once again, and confirmed that the rest are legal citizens with identity terminals.They still don't know who is inside, they can't see his face, and even the voice is just a mechanical electronic sound:

"All legal citizens of the empire, go back to their respective residences—"

"and many more."

Suddenly a human voice.