From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 378 Legal and illegal in the river system

Author: Dong Ali

Chapter 378 Legal and illegal in the river system

Out of curiosity about the abilities of amoebas and their current situation, Nesta invaded the club network through the other party's translator when transferring hosts, and secretly obtained information about this club and the metamorphosis.

I have a general understanding of insects.

To be precise, the operator of the club is the group's sales department itself, and the amoeba noted in the information is not a civilized species, nor is it a slave concept derived from it.

Nesta was very surprised to find that this kind of flesh-and-blood life that clearly showed a clear sense of intelligence during his investigation seemed to be in a status similar to a 'tool' even in the bright world outside the base, and Dahe

The Slavery Acts of the Council would never be applied to them.

This gave him a stronger sense of curiosity, and he once again gained some results in subsequent information exploration.

Strictly speaking, the amoeba owned by the base sales department is still an illegal unit, but the reason for being "illegal" is not to enslave intelligent races, but to infringe on the rights and interests of property owners.

Yes, these amoebas are contraband obtained through the black market. Their property rights belong to a private business group affiliated with the Kuran Star Cluster-level civilization in the Great River System, and the original property owner is affiliated to the Kuran Civilization Military Department.

research institute;

In other words, amoeba may have been initially developed as a biological weapon for military purposes such as espionage infiltration, but later it may have been discovered that the anti-osmosis technology of various civilizations was in a state of 'shields are stronger than spears', and then they were sold.

For business groups within civilization, the conversion of military use into civilian use has been turned into a means of profit-making.

To this day, commercial groups that own the property rights of this type of amoeba are operating businesses throughout the entire river system that are actually similar to the base business offices. Moreover, they are legal business projects directly located in the world of light. Every year

All can generate huge profits to feed back to their own civilization.

Such profits have also attracted the attention of all parties. Therefore, even if the council's commercial supervision department has a high level of enforcement of civilized property rights protection, it cannot really completely suppress the rampant smuggling gangs;

Although it is difficult to buy amoebas in various hidden black markets, it is easy to find clubs that operate such businesses, and because you can have more fun, more novelty, and more blood here, these pirated copies will

In fact, it is more popular with the 'faceless ones' who come here.

No matter how curious you are in the black market, it is normal, because this is a city of desire that hides evil and evil, so Nesta's focus is more on the difference between 'tools' and 'slaves', and based on the group's understanding of

The emphasis on the value of human commodities and the preparation for the implementation of relevant development plans can roughly analyze some of the differences.

Judging from his own speculation, the difference between 'intelligent tools' and 'intelligent slaves' should have several influencing factors at the same time, and from this, there are two types of light and dark ways of selling intelligent life in the current large river system.

model.

Among them, the dark ones are illegal, and the sources of goods are usually independently evolved and self-reproducing civilized and intelligent species. Regardless of whether they are in a primitive state of civilization or in different stages of the galactic era, at least on the surface, they are all treated equally by the law.

are designated as prohibited items;

But because this kind of trade has no real technical barriers, its output can satisfy the balance between price and practical needs of those who purchase related services, and it can also satisfy some dark and unattractive people who cannot be vented in a bright society.

Psychology, so even though it can only appear in the shadows due to illegality, it still has real and huge profits, as well as a huge supply and demand market, and thus supports countless related groups up and down the entire industry chain.

The luckiest ones among them may have encountered an unregistered primitive planet just out of good luck, and it happened to have that kind of potential and easy-to-exploit species;

For example, races with strong fertility, short growth cycles, and the ability to quickly master specific skills through cramming education can use extremely low prices and certain thinking characteristics unique to intelligent life to be competent in many tasks, such as those that are very easy to use intelligent machines to act as.

Tasks that are easily targeted by the opponent's camp and therefore have chaotic and unexpected requirements for the executor, such as senior cannon fodder on the battlefield and certain key operating positions, etc.

And if this primitive unregistered race has other characteristics, such as wide environmental adaptability, strong sense of shame, high IQ, high combat effectiveness, even delicious food and other excellent qualities worth experiencing

So congratulations, as long as you can keep the secret, find a suitable product positioning, set a competitive price, and then find a suitable channel to sell the stolen goods or find a reliable dealer partner, it will be equivalent to a steady stream of wealth flowing towards you.

You beckon, it may be just around the corner to make a fortune and then go ashore with a clear conscience.

In Nesta's view, those 'tools' that are legal transactions and will not be targeted by the Council's anti-slavery bill are equivalent to wealth-making products developed by higher civilizations for themselves;

Such products often have the characteristics of being artificial, incapable of self-reproduction, and lacking civilizational attributes. It is precisely because of this that advanced civilizations bypass the various restrictions of the Council.

In other words, this kind of 'restrictions' may also be the product of shooting an arrow first and then drawing a target. Their purpose of existence is to actively distinguish the boundaries between legal and illegal according to the actual needs of advanced civilization, so as to make this area

Can the big head of the children’s trade cake be taken away naturally by the powerful forces at the head of the council?

If it weren't for such a purpose, Nesta really couldn't figure out why man-made highly intelligent creatures would be included in the category of legal trade. Obviously they also have feelings of joy, anger, sorrow, shame, etc. that are no lower than those of native intelligent creatures.

Even some of these specific 'tools' made for specific purposes have extremely powerful abilities and characteristics, but they can be put on the shelves openly as tools, participate in various galactic expositions, and create civilizations for them.

Or the power has earned correspondingly huge profits.

But Nesta is not an overly emotional elf. It can even be said that the entire elf society is not very empathetic to foreigners. Therefore, when the existing rules are indeed beneficial to his own purposes, he did not adopt this method at this time.

As a result, I felt too much melancholy and failed to take the initiative to change all of this;

On the contrary, he has to thank the civilization at the head of the Council for being greedy in this regard, otherwise the humans created by the Republic would not be so valued by this group.

The reason

The trafficking of native intelligent species is indeed rampant, but these illegal trades that are expressly prohibited are ultimately out of the question, and the real legal high-end market is occupied by companies belonging to leading civilizations;

The rest of the forces can only eat scraps secretly in the stinking ditch at the expense of the ever-increasing bounty above their heads, risking being harvested by law enforcers and being exploited by other rats, and hide in fear and fear.

growing up;

And among these groups of rats that live in smelly ditches, those who can truly grow into rats that occupy a ditch are even rarer. Most of them died in the crack between the attack of light and the competition of darkness;

For example, the group that the Republic is infiltrating is a rat that has initially gained a foothold through some unidentified background, those unregistered wormholes from unknown sources, black hole camouflage technology from unknown sources, and

Several powerful leaders at the top with unknown backgrounds, as well as a strict and well-organized internal system, are the secret to their ability to control a large black market.

But even though it is already a rat, even though it has been established in the darkness for a long time, for the group, human business is still a rare legal trade that can be put on the bright side;

Moreover, you have to operate under layers of disguise, and you have to proactively distribute high profits after finding suitable channels, so that you can really enter the bright market and find opportunities to wash your hands and land ashore;

And if they don't want to do this and don't want to divide their interests, then the council can find any excuse to make human trade illegal. The consequence will naturally be that the group loses most of the formal market and can only continue to fight in the dark.

A little fuss.

In this regard, Nesta could only pray silently in his heart for the time being. He hoped that the group would have a better understanding of its status, so that it would not end up losing all its personal wealth, and it would also affect the plans of the Republic;

The current action is to avoid this possibility, so Nesta's group of lurkers need to find out the group's power level, technical level, and leadership ability, and use this as a standard to formulate a Turtle Dove plan that is more conducive to their own initiative;

Of course, these are all future considerations, and they are only in the conceptual stage for the time being.

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While Nesta was groping for all kinds of information, his old and new hosts had already completed the transaction, and he took the opportunity to return to the body of the 'old host' again.

After all, the Amoeba Club is the seat of the base, and it is subject to far stricter "mental surveillance" than outsiders with restricted movement. Nesta, who has seen the base's previous screen-like methods, hopes to use spiritual surveillance to be more strict.

Weak outsiders can start to understand the base from the side. If they are lucky, they may even be able to follow it through the wormhole to see the outside world?

Maybe after arriving outside, we can use a wider network to learn more about the group. As a black market controller who can control several illegal wormholes and has been lurking for many years, there must be many true and false stories circulating in the shadows.

A legendary story?

After a while, the six-legged long-brained crustacean who completed the transaction reluctantly left the club. Before leaving, he took back the small box that he had handed to the front desk with great care. Nesta also opened it and checked it.

For the first time, I saw clearly what was loaded inside;

It was a green thing, and it looked a bit like flesh and blood tissue. It must be the necessary information source for the amoeba to complete its transformation?

These introductions will be discussed later, because the six-legged long-brained monster did not wind up as before on its way back, but directly came to the outer platform on a floor more than a thousand meters high, and pressed the button integrated in the translator

A button on the device starts waiting.

Only a moment later, a single aircraft with colorful paint arrived without a pilot, and the long-brained crustacean got into it after completing some kind of identification process;

So, after a "ding dong" sound and a subsequent deduction prompt, it screamed something like "blood-sucking bedbug" and finally left the place.

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The base city has very clear rules on the level of flight. On which level you can fly, how fast you can fly, and where you can turn and change lanes. The punishment for those who violate the rules seems to be very high.

They will give priority to collecting high fines based on the degree of violation. For those who do not have enough money to pay the fine, they will require their team to pay a ransom after being detained. The unlucky ones abandoned by the team will automatically be regarded as slaves and be disposed of at will.

These are rules that are directly stated on the surface. They may have immunity clauses for powerful forces, or maybe there is no conflict because of the strong latent nature of the base, but at least Nesta has not passed the crustacean's attack on this journey.

Senses detect offenders;

It is obviously a city of sin, but it maintains order despite intimidation, and has created an extremely special sense of orderly beauty, born of fear and jealousy.

After several trackless changes in the rapid flight, the six-legged long-brained spaceship finally docked at a rooftop platform in the middle circle of the city. A height of more than five thousand meters is not uncommon here, and it is not uncommon here.

Under the effect of the 'livable ecological shield' that surrounds the entire city, there is no strong wind blowing here.

After another process of hosting the aircraft and paying for it, which made the listener sad and heartbroken, it took the high-speed elevator in the building that also required money to enjoy, and after selecting the coordinates between the buildings, it

He reached the target position quickly without any feeling of falling.

After leaving the elevator, a few of them transformed into 'compatriots' in a flash of light before their appearance could be seen clearly. After seeing the six-limbed heads, they greeted them enthusiastically and neighed with words of love and solicitation.

;

But after seeing the amoeba that can truly transform inside and outside, and can make the guests' senses enjoy the ultimate beauty with its unique ability, it is only for the time being, before the money in the black bank bottoms out.

;

This interstellar bandit lives with the concept of enjoying life as long as he lives for one day. Obviously, he still looks down on such inferior practitioners who rely on electronic skin and virtual technology to complete their services.

So it raised its head proudly, put the back of its head on its back to express its refusal, and then straddled its lower limbs, which only had two fingers on the front and one on the back, and walked towards the room belonging to its team.

And in that room, where the six-limbed crustacean could not yet see or hear, one of its stronger kin had hung up the communication with a gloomy hiss earlier, apparently receiving a message from someone.

This is not good news.

This communication comes from their own headquarters, is relayed through the base, is also monitored by the base, and eliminates any possibility of exposing the coordinates of the base. At the same time, it is exactly the same as other 'public service' projects in this black market.

Nature - expensive, and ridiculously expensive;

The unhappiness of the strong crustacean comes from this, because the cost of this communication needs to be paid by its team out of their own pockets, and how can the rest of the team members, who have always been monopolized 70% of the revenue by it, have any spare money?

Therefore, this expenditure still had to be advanced by itself. Although it was agreed that it was a loan and an advance payment, for the plundering team that could die at any time, this would probably be an irrecoverable bad debt.

So of course, the anger in his heart was transferred to the source of the incident.

"Hiss!" (Pick up your weapon!)

Following its order, the team members around them who, although they had taken on huge debts, honestly didn't seem to care much, took out four of them, a total of more than a hundred shaped laser guns, and took them with them.

The bloodthirsty smiles all pointed in the direction of the door.

(End of chapter)