After exiting the airport building and walking south for about ten kilometers, you will find yourself in pure ice and snow. After all, it is out of the control of the Green Arrow Base. There is no corresponding thermal energy system. The temperature of minus ten degrees makes the earth permanently frozen.
The boots of Sliman and Ding Meng made a crunching sound on the snow, which sounded particularly crisp in the snow and ice of the silent night.
The night was always dark. Ding Meng looked around and saw that there was nothing in front of him except small mountain fortresses shrouded in ice and snow: "Can people live in this kind of place?"
In his concept, this place and the Black Gold Base are two completely opposite extremes. The Black Gold Base is too stuffy and hot, so forget about the heat, but it is bearable after all, but here it is extremely cold without sunshine all year round.
It's life-threatening. I've heard of death by cold, but I've never heard of death by heat.
Slimane said: "No one can live on the ground. People are all underground."
Ding Meng was stunned: "Basement?"
Slimane nodded: "You are right to understand that."
The interior of the small mountain fort is a cave. After the stone slab on the ground in the center of the cave was opened, there was a long step leading diagonally underground. Ding Meng quickly saw that it was indeed a basement. Strictly speaking, it was an enhanced version of the basement.
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This basement is like the command hall on a star battleship, covering an area of at least several thousand square meters. It not only has lights and heating, but also houses many people, just like the loading cabin on a transport ship.
But what is loaded here is not a sleeping cabin, but neat rows of bunk beds and various simple living facilities. It looks like a shelter.
Sliman suddenly said: "I heard from Brother Xinjie that you are an interstellar refugee. You should be familiar with this place."
Ding Meng nodded: "The refugee camp on Thorn Star is almost like this."
Slimane slowly walked down the steps: "No refugee camp is better than here."
Ding Meng couldn't help but said: "Why?"
Slyman murmured and sighed: "Thankfully the deputy commander obtained an artificial broken silver core stone many years ago, so we have a base on the ground. Otherwise, there would not even be a crystal lighting system and a heating supply system down here.
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Ding Meng was stunned again: "This is not a refugee camp or an exile planet. Why is this happening?"
Slyman had no time to answer him now, because as soon as he walked down the steps, people came from all directions and surrounded him in the center, men and women, old and young, and everyone had a warm smile on their face.
There is no trace of source energy fluctuation in the basement, which shows that these people are ordinary people, and it also shows Slyman's status in the minds of these ordinary people. Everyone is greeting each other, and Slyman also looks happy.
He smiled and chatted with everyone.
Ding Meng quickly figured out that this place was mostly populated by old, weak, women and children. The young men probably all joined the Green Arrow Corps on the ground, taking on missions all over the world to collect bounties to support their relatives underground.
"Captain, you're back, but why hasn't my Xiaoyu come back yet?" The question came from a woman in shabby clothes. She looked about twenty-one or twelve years old, but her hair was yellow and her eyes were too thin.
The face looks big, which is caused by typical malnutrition.
Ding Meng suddenly remembered what Lan Bing had threatened Sliman and Yu Liang:
"Captain Slyman, I also know that your shabby place has had no supplies entering the port in the past month. Without this money, many people may not be able to survive..."
This place is deep in the KV3545 nebula. It couldn't be further away. Coupled with the extremely cold weather of the planet, it is estimated that few fleets pass by, and it is very difficult to transport supplies. Therefore, these people are all sallow, thin, and malnourished. No wonder Si Slyman insisted on accepting the bounty mission released by Lan Bing. It was not that Slyman and the others could not afford to wait, but that these people could not afford to wait. Now Ding Meng finally understood their predicament.
Unexpectedly, Sliman was smiling at this moment: "Ah Qiao, don't worry, Xiaoyu and I successfully completed the mission this time, and got the bounty. Xiaoyu and the others have now taken it again." I have gone on a mission and will not be back for a while, so don’t worry..."
This was obviously a lie, because Ding Meng also saw at this moment that this woman named Aqiao was probably a family member of that Xiaoyu, and was very worried about Xiaoyu's safety outside.
There was a five or six-year-old child next to Aqiao. He held Aqiao's hand and kept shouting: "Mom, Mom, I'm so hungry..."
The child had no clothes to wear, and was so thin that he didn't look like a normal child at all, because the outline of the child's ribs was clearly visible. It was obvious that he had been hungry for a long time, and he was worse than the child laborers in the Black Gold Base.
At least the child laborers in the black gold base still have a way to go to the tiankeng to pan for gold. At least the base can exchange for nutrient solution, but ordinary people in this place have nowhere to go and no livelihood. To put it mildly, it is true. Waiting to die.
Ding Meng somewhat understood why Sliman was so uncomfortable just now. Xiaoyu is already dead, which means that sooner or later the people involved here will also die.
Ding Meng suddenly took off the curved collar backpack on his back and shouted loudly: "The captain is right, Xiaoyu just bought a batch of supplies before setting off and asked me to deliver them here to everyone. Come on, come on, everyone." Come to me, everyone has a share..."
The backpack contains the super-polymerized nutrient mixture produced by Anweier Company with a capacity of 5,000 Dika. Ding Meng's strength is now many times stronger than before, so he almost didn't use it along the way, and 50 bottles of nutrient solution are enough. Ordinary people maintain it for a long time.
Seeing Ding Meng distributing nutritional mixture to everyone, Slimane couldn't help but give him a grateful look.
Ding Meng smiled, he was always serious about words, but this time it was not because of Sliman's look, but because of the child - Aqiao only fed two drops of nutrient solution into the child's mouth, and it didn't take half a minute for the child to come. He was full of energy, jumping up and down happily on the ground, looking endlessly energetic.
After running for a while, the child jumped over with a small, wide and flat metal box, and said seriously: "Uncle, mom asked me to give this to you."
Ding Meng took the box over. The label on the box was a bit worn, but Ding Meng could tell what it was. It was clearly wine.
Ding Meng looked up and found Aqiao standing in the distance, nodding and smiling at him.
"Why don't you keep this thing for yourself?" Ding Meng lowered his head and asked the child.
The child seemed very happy: "Mom said, it's useless for us to keep it. It must be hard for you to come so far to deliver supplies to us. This is a small gift, you must accept it."
Ding Meng smiled again and said nothing more. He just gently touched the child's head, and the child ran away happily.
Looking at everyone's joyful appearance, Ding Meng simply sat down on the edge of the steps, and Slyman also sat down next to him, but now there was no longer a smile on Slyman's face.
Ding Meng couldn't help but said: "I often hear people say that Green Arrow's hunters are very good and often help those refugees. I didn't believe it before, but now I believe it."
A wry smile appeared on Slyman's face: "You are wrong again. This place was not like this before. There is a crystal mine to the north of the base. The reserves are still very rich. Everyone can still survive. As a result, the star thieves often start wars here.
Later it gradually became what it is now.”
Ding Meng turned to look at him and said seriously: "But you stayed."
Sliman was silent, then pointed to his eyes: "I had just sensed the source energy at that time, and I was not yet a source force warrior. My eyes were shot twice by the pirate leader, and I basically couldn't save them.
Xiaoyu’s parents fought tooth and nail to save me.”
Ding Meng also remained silent and said, "So you have stayed here?"
Sliman shook his head and said: "No, after saving these eyes, I went back later. At that time, I had been admitted to a very good school in the Federation. My family had high expectations for me, not to mention that my hometown was not here.
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Ding Meng said: "But you still came back here later."
Slyman nodded with a heavy face: "It was a few years later. I was already an intermediate source energy user. I originally wanted to come back to visit the two elderly people, but unfortunately they died in the war long ago, and the people here also died.
It’s almost there.”
Ding Meng sighed and said: "I can imagine that you must have given up your great future and stayed to help these people?"
Slimane smiled bitterly and said: "I am nothing. The deputy commander stayed here a few years before me. He could have returned to the main base for promotion, but he gave up many opportunities over the years. If
Without him, the sub-base on the ground would not have been built, and the tens of thousands of ordinary people underground would have been frozen to death. Although life is not easy now, at least the pirates would not dare to come..."
Ding Meng nodded, with admiration in his eyes: "There are many things you do that I can't do."
Slyman smiled bitterly and said: "How can I be as great as you think? Anyway, the junior source warrior is already the limit of my life, so why not do something you like."
Ding Meng looked at him: "Do you like this kind of life?"
Slimane sighed: "If I say I like it, it would be an absolute lie, but no matter where I go, I can never let go of it. When I was still practicing in the academy, my teacher often taught me a lesson."
Ding Meng said: "What are you talking about?"
Sleiman said word for word: "The mission of our energizers is not to pursue fame and fortune, but to fight for those who cannot fight."
Ding Meng silently savored these words, his eyes already looking a little lost. After a long time, he raised his head and said, "Both you and the officer deserve my admiration."
Slyman smiled softly: "You're flattering us, we are nothing. In fact, there are many great energy users in the Federation, and they are also silently guarding more people. Not every energy user is
Like Lan Bing and others, they don’t treat others as human beings. Forget it, don’t talk about these unhappy things. At least you helped me a lot this time. Look at those people in the distance. How happy they are now. Without you, they would be
It’s really hard to get through it.”
Ding Meng smiled: "At least you have passed this level, right?"
Slimane smiled and said: "Of course, although Xiaoyu and the others were unfortunately killed, their family members were saved, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune."
Ding Meng threw up the metal wine box in his hand: "Do you want to drink? I'll treat you. I don't have anything else. This is the only one I can treat you to."
Slyman's eyes suddenly lit up: "Speaking of this, I really can't refuse you. I haven't tasted wine in almost a year."
