—"The Last Human in the Universe" Chapter 197: Making Big Money
At this moment, Li Heng suddenly remembered the history books he had read about some things that happened during a certain war in the era of Earth's nations.
A certain country invaded another country and built a large number of strongholds in the invaded country.
When the invaders had the upper hand, these strongholds could control large areas around the strongholds. However, as the invaded countries resisted to the death, the invaders gradually no longer had the upper hand. However, the superiors were still frantic and ordered to hold on to the strongholds.
If the soldiers in the stronghold abandon the stronghold and flee, they will die. If they continue to hold on to the stronghold, they will not be able to resist the resistance at all. Besides, our own logistics has already collapsed and we will lack food and clothing, and they will die sooner or later.
In this case, an incredible thing happened.
The soldiers in the stronghold began to trade with the resistance forces, trading their own arms for the resistance's food in order to survive. What's more, the invaders in the stronghold even began to pay "protection fees" to the invaded. ", in order to allow ourselves to continue to stay here.
The most incredible thing is that some invader soldiers actually went to work as tenant farmers in the homes of landlords in the invaded country, working desperately for nothing more than a bite to eat.
It was as if the identities of the intruder and the invaded were reversed, it was strange and incredible.
Now, Li Heng certainly knows that this is because the wills of the upper and lower levels of a force are no longer unified, so such strange things happen.
So...now, is the will of the upper echelons of the expeditionary force no longer unified with the will of the lower echelons fighting on the front line?
Are these big metal boxes they threw out... money to buy your life?
At this moment, after throwing out those big metal boxes, the enemy ship started maneuvering again, trying to escape. However, due to the damage to the engine, the speed was extremely slow.
Weisang gritted his teeth and looked at the external observation screen, but he was praying eagerly in his heart.
"I just want to live, I just want to live! I know that your logistics supplies have been very tight, especially water - I know that your intelligent life also needs water. These metal boxes are full of pure water ice, and I will give it to you!" It’s all for you! As long as you let me go!”
In this long-term battle, it is not that the expeditionary force has never obtained the enemy's corpse. Through dissection, etc., it has also roughly understood the enemy's physical structure.
He did not dare to send what he really thought through communication equipment because it would leave traces. The only thing he could pray for was that the enemy would understand what he meant and agree to "use these materials to buy his own life." transaction request.
This is the only way he can think of to survive!
As if there was some kind of spiritual tacit understanding, after seeing these metal boxes, the other two friendly warships also stopped attacking the enemy ship.
Li Heng had countless thoughts running through his mind like lightning, and finally gritted his teeth: "Salvage these metal boxes and see what's inside!"
Vice Captain Zhang Ruofei said solemnly: "It may be a conspiracy."
Li Heng said decisively: "Salvage it first! Before confirming what it is, we just don't let it get close to us!"
In order to cope with the ever-changing battlefield situation, each combat spacecraft is equipped with small space vehicles and robots. They can come in handy now.
As a result, an "escape boat" was released, carrying a multi-functional robot and rushed towards those metal boxes. However, these boxes seemed to be designed for easy access, and the robot did not waste much effort.
He had already opened the three metal boxes flying towards him.
Three metal boxes, all filled with water ice!
Extremely pure water ice! Spectral analysis shows that it contains almost no impurities!
"bring back!"
Li Heng issued the order. The escape boat and robot returned immediately.
At this moment, Li Heng was extremely sure that this must be the enemy's life-paying money!
You know, for two strange civilizations, in this place far away from any stars, if they want to give each other a gift, then there is nothing wrong with giving them water ice.
Weapons and anti-matter energy are too dangerous and too easy to cheat. The other party will definitely worry about whether there is any conspiracy and will most likely not dare to accept them. The rest of the parts and so on, because of different specifications, will most likely not be accepted.
General purpose, not to mention cultural items and the like.
Only water is both safe and highly likely to be needed by any civilization. Moreover, water can be decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, and hydrogen can be directly used as energy. Although the efficiency is not as good as antimatter, it is better than safety.
Now, the enemy has sent three boxes of about 25 tons of water to him! In fact, the spacecraft Li Heng is on is indeed short of water, and the soldiers have not even washed themselves happily for a long time!
Li Heng knew that not only himself, but also the other friendly spaceships had a high probability of being like this.
At this moment, the enemy warship was still slowly escaping. A soldier thought for a while and said to Li Heng: "Captain, do you want...?"
Li Heng knew what he meant.
No one stipulates that if you take money to buy a life, you must leave the enemy's life. Why can't you take money and kill someone at the same time?
Do we need to talk about integrity when it comes to our enemies?
Our side has not been open for more than a month. Now we have finally caught a sure-fire spaceship. If we don't kill him, what are we waiting for?
Li Heng's heart was full of contradictions at the moment. He thought for a moment and finally gritted his teeth.
"Let him go!"
"Why!"
Several soldiers exclaimed together.
"I'm not talking about integrity. There is no integrity with the enemy." Li Heng said in a deep voice: "I was thinking that if we took the money to buy his life but still killed him, then... there would be enemies in the future.
Do you want to pay us for your life?"
The soldiers were startled.
Yes...if the money to buy a life cannot buy a life, the enemy will naturally not pay any more. And if the rule of "paying the money to buy a life can save a life", among the enemy's front-line warriors
If it spreads quietly, then how much fighting spirit can the other warriors have when facing their own side?
This can not only replenish our own scarce water resources, but also greatly disrupt the enemy's will to fight! Moreover, at this moment, within the enemy system, there must have been a disunity of will between the upper and lower levels - otherwise, it will cost you your life.
How could such a thing happen? - At this time, this kind of behavior can further aggravate this phenomenon!
If you think about it carefully, the benefits are simply endless!
Under Li Heng's explanation, all the soldiers figured this out.
Now, the only thing that needs to be worried about is whether the two friendly warships hidden in the dark can understand this and whether they can also make the decision to "take the money and let the people go".
If the two spacecraft continue to attack, the enemy ship still cannot escape.
"My qualifications can only be considered average among the captains of the Space Force, not outstanding. Even I can think of this, and my comrades should also be able to think of it... Even if the captain can't think of it, there is also the deputy captain
, and the soldiers, there will always be someone who thinks of it."
At this moment, very strangely, Li Heng actually began to worry about the fate of his enemy, and began to hope that his enemy could escape smoothly.
Perhaps his expectations played a role. Sure enough, the two friendly warships hidden in the dark also made no offensive moves. So this easily accessible enemy ship escaped from under Li Heng's nose.
"call……"
He let out a long breath.
"Random maneuver, transfer, concealment!"
"yes!"
Li Heng knew that at this moment, certain changes within the enemy had reached the critical point from quantitative change to qualitative change, just like those weird and incredible things that happened in a certain invaded country in the era of the earth.
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And all of this is because of our tenacity and our will! It is all because we fought tenaciously under extremely unfavorable conditions and finally forced the enemy to this point!
At this moment, Li Heng's heart was full of pride.
At this moment, Li Heng no longer had any doubt in his heart that his side would surely win in the future.
Weisang nervously stared at the external observation equipment in the spacecraft until he confirmed that the spacecraft he was on was already millions of kilometers away from the location where he was attacked, and during this process, his own side was never attacked.
He finally let out a long breath and finally had time to relax.
This whole process was like walking on the edge of hell.
"Surprisingly, he actually survived..."
Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, and instantly became nervous again. He suddenly stood upright in the weightless cabin, staring fiercely at the sub-human warriors in front of him.
The soldiers were worried and didn't know what was happening.
"If anyone dares to tell what happened today, he or she will die! If we can keep the secret, not only will we have no fault, but we will make merit! You lowly people like insects can also get some rewards!"
Dozens of people lowered their heads together, their voices full of fear and urgency: "Commander, we will listen to you no matter what you do!"
"I will combine the records in our spaceship and write a combat report, saying that we were besieged, fought hard, and finally escaped with the battleship intact, avoiding the loss of the expeditionary force! We can all get awards!"
Dozens of people looked at each other in confusion at this moment, and then became excited the next moment.
"And...there is still such an operation?"
"Sir Commander, your wisdom is indeed indescribably high!"
"Commander, we obey you in everything. If anyone dares to leak the secret, we will kill him without you taking action!"
"Hmph, it's good to know how powerful it is."
Weisang snorted coldly and immediately began to think about how to write this combat report, which characters needed to be dealt with, what he would pay and what he would get.
But no matter what, I made a profit this time. And it was a big profit.