Mercury led Xia Lian inside the pirate ship based on the map scanned by the wide-area radar. They took the elevator to the bottom of the ship.

This place should have been the cargo hold of this spaceship in the past, but now part of it has been transformed and turned into an underground cage. The cells are surrounded by iron railings on both sides, and there is a corridor in the middle.

The environment here is dim and there is no light, but you can vaguely see some people imprisoned in this cage. They are wearing various luxury goods, but they are stained with a lot of dust and filth.

These dignitaries who used to be glamorous in the past are now in an extremely miserable state.

They also noticed the arrival of Xia Lian and others. They stood up, leaned against the iron fence and looked at Wang Zhen longingly.

"Mr. Wang Chen, please believe us. We are really legal citizens of the New Federation! We have nothing to do with those pirates."

"We have celebrities, scientists and rich people here. If you save us, we will definitely give you generous rewards."

"Is there going to be a party?"

These people were stunned for a moment, but then they looked at the young man behind Wang Zhen who spoke out. He was wearing a black formal suit, short black hair, a handsome face, and looked very young.

"Yes, if you save us, we will definitely hold a grand party for you!" people responded.

Xia Lian looked at Wang Zhen.

"Although the lines are very similar, they probably aren't." Wang Zhen raised his eyebrows and said.

Xia Lian walked up to the group of people.

Across the fence, Xia Lian pointed at the neutron-like star cannon held in Mercury's hand.

"Do any of you recognize this weapon? It contains a neutron star-like cannonball."

They looked at each other, and then slowly pushed to both sides, revealing a group of people sitting in the corner.

They were also looking at Xia Lian. After a while, a woman in the crowd slowly got up from the ground, and then tried hard to identify the gun in Mercury's hand in the darkness.

Then, she nodded.

"It's my thing. This is a weapon that is still being tested."

Xia Lian looked up and down at the woman in front of him. She was very beautiful, but compared to Mercury, she was a little ordinary.

The most unique thing is her eyes. The pupils are very high and it looks like they have a lot of whites on three sides. These are the three white eyes. NBA's Tracy McGrady has this kind of eyes.

The upper eyelids are a little weak and cover the pupils, giving me a sense of alienation and world-weariness.

"Who are you...."

"My name is Mo Li, and I work at the New Federal Academy of Sciences." Mo Li said.

"Did you make the neutron-like star here?" Xia Lian said with interest.

Li Qiye was silent for a moment, "Sorry, this is a federal secret..."

"You seem to have not understood the current situation." Xia Lian looked at Mo Li and scanned everyone present, "This is an unknown star system that no one knows about, outside the star map. If you die in

No one will find you here.

Now, your destiny is in my hands.

Of course, I am not one of those pirates. Compared to them, I will be gentler, as long as you can cooperate with me.

But...if you don't cooperate, it will be different..."

Xia Lian showed a friendly smile to Li Qiye.

"So...can you answer me?"

Seeing Xia Lian's smile, people were enveloped by an inexplicable chill and swallowed subconsciously. Then, people focused their attention on Mo Li.

Li Qiye was silent for a moment and said, "Can you let me know who you are first?"

"Of course." Xia Lian smiled, "I am Hain Bahram, the second son of Duke Bahram."

"That second prince who is said to have autism?" One of the people in the crowd seemed to know more about this, "It is said that no one has ever seen him."

"It's true that I don't like meeting people, but it's not to the point of autism." Xia Lian glanced at the person and said.

The man smiled and then hid in the crowd.

"The second son of Lord Bahram!?"

Among the crowd, one person's voice sounded slightly excited.

He tried his best to push through the crowd and leaned against the guardrail of the cell to look at Xia Lian.

"I am the son of the Governor of Thangka, Jackman! I order you to let me go!"

Xia Lian raised his eyebrows and looked at the person who made the sound with some surprise.

He was wearing a pure white luxurious double-breasted tuxedo, but it was covered in dust and didn't look very decent.

He has blond, wavy, semi-long hair, a high nose, is white, his eyes are slightly upward, his chin is slightly raised, and he looks very proud.

The governor of the new federation is not a hereditary system, so their sons are not surrounded by qualified reformers as personal guards like Xia Lian.

The cooperation reached between the Thangka Governor and Lord Bahram should be a secret that not many people know.

The person who could tell the pirate captain that information was obviously no small person, so it was reasonable that his son was on this ship.

Xia Lian has heard of the name Thangka, but he has at least twenty children, including illegitimate children, so he is not familiar with the name Jackman.

At first glance, it may not seem surprising that a dignified district governor has more than twenty children, but the new federation is not a dictatorship like the empire, but a voting democracy. It talks about democracy and claims to be zero-corruption.

In fact, judging from superficial data, the official corruption rate of their new federation in the first two years was indeed zero.

But this is impossible.

Human greed can never be satisfied. Once you have a small goal, you will think about the next small goal.

Corrupt officials have existed since ancient times. No matter how high the salary is, no matter how strict the picket mechanism is, as long as human nature still exists, it cannot be completely banned.

The official corruption rate is zero, which seems to be a good thing, but to people like Xia Lian, this only shows that the new federation has lost the ability to self-police.

Although rotten meat will continue to grow, there is a possibility that new meat will grow after digging out the rotten meat. This is different from covering the rotten meat with gauze so that it cannot be seen. They are two different concepts.

Xialian's impression of the Thangka Governor came from the autobiography he published two years ago called "My Struggle."

Once it was released, it sold out soon after. It was said that it had achieved sales of 8 billion before it was discontinued.

Of course, no one would want to read this kind of autobiography written by a politician.

If you carefully investigate the people who buy these books, you will find that these books are actually bought by an organization.

Obviously, this is a transaction of power and money, but in the political system of the new federation, this kind of transaction is legal.

The clothes Jackman is wearing are custom-made and cost around 600,000 yuan, which is almost the cost of living for a family of three for more than ten years.

These are the blessings of the people.

Thanks to the interstellar age, productivity has increased, and those who can afford to feed these moths would have been the ones who had to use street lights in the past.


Chapter completed!