"Then why has it turned into this ghost color now?"

"Pollution, obvious. Master, you may not be clear about our company's development strategy in recent times. We now tend to develop mineral resources in a simple and low-cost way. For resources on solid planets, we generally adopt the mining method of blowing up the entire planet and dragging away the mineral-rich debris and directly refining them. So we are generally not interested in Aurora, a terrestrial planet that will obviously develop into large human-inhabited planets. What we are interested in is those planets with harsh natural environments. Although they can barely live in people after transformation, they are obviously impossible to attract too many human immigrants. For example, Mars in the pre-space era was very typical. But this planet is different from other planets. This planet is rich in element Zero."

Element zero is the key to giving the "life" of nanomechanicals in humans, and it is also the main medium for the use of psychic energy. It is extremely important for all races in the Milky Way.

"The mining of element zero has always been accompanied by terrible pollution. Aurora's zero mining volume is very huge, and it has polluted most of the sea water in just over ten years." The supervisor said lightly.

"Have you ever thought about installing purification equipment?" Xia Yongzhi couldn't help asking.

"Of course we also have a plan to control pollution, but this plan requires a lot of funds and equipment, and our funds are limited, so we need to first improve the transportation and refining system of this planet."

"But there are also many mineral resources in the pollutants emitted. Is it not good to collect them?"

"This colony has only one orbital elevator, and its limited capacity is all used to transport element Zero, Miss," the supervisor paused, and then added, "In addition, the money spent on collecting these by-products is enough for us to blow up a planet. You must know that blowing a planet is not simple now, and a planet killer is enough. Compared with the minerals obtained by blowing up a planet, the yield of collecting by-products is too low."

Xia Yongzhi was speechless for a moment.

The supervisor was still talking: "The process of mined unmanned planets is usually like this: it blows up and blows it up, and after the blow is over, the advanced refining ship will enter the debris area at a speed. After that, all we need to pay continuously is the wages of the miners. To collect these by-products, we need to build a complete set of refineries on the ground, and then pay the miners' wages. When the zero element resource is mined here, we have to tear down the refinery and transport it away. In comparison, the advanced refining ship that can leave at a speed is obviously much easier."

"Even if that..."

As soon as Xia Yongzhi spoke, she was interrupted by the supervisor: "Even if we really deal with pollution, the protest will not stop. Do you think they only want the environment? No, in fact, most people come out to protest because they think we have made a lot of money in mining and asked us to half the profits of mining. As long as we don't agree to this, they will definitely find other reasons to protest, such as mining farms destroying local creatures' habitats, noise from transport ships affecting their rest, and so on."

At this time, the elevator began to enter the long barrel-shaped "unloading area" of the ground base station. The supervisor seemed to be planning to take this opportunity to end the conversation. As soon as he stood up, Xia Yongzhi asked: "Since Aurora has so many elements of zero, there is no reason for the Universe Army not to come here to garrison, right? If you are so dissatisfied with you, why don't the local residents take back your mining rights and sell it to the United Nations?"

"After the Universe Army came here to garrison, we are also responsible for the development of Huanyu Mining." The supervisor smiled, "So from the perspective of the military, it would be easier to throw the security guards to us. In addition, the military, like Huanyu Mining, knowing as much as the consequences of mining the No. 0 element on a human-like earth-like planet, of course they are happy to throw the blame to us."

Indeed, if the military controls Aurora and throws the mining rights to Huanyu Mining through tender, the one who is scolded on the placard will be the Universe Army.

"The glorious and upright universe army cannot have any stains, so we are left to dirty and profit-oriented capitalists. Taking the blame for the universe army is also the price we pay to obtain benefits."

The supervisor's words made Xia Yongzhi stop talking. In the end, the girl didn't say much, but took Lin Youde's hand and stood up.

**

When leaving the passenger compartment of the track elevator, Freya whispered to Lin Youde: "Listen to your conversation just now, I feel that your society is so complicated again."

“Will the Elalays encounter such problems?”

"No, because our planets are all private lands, and most planets are lords who say they will do whatever they want. The main planets with plural people live basically have no industry, because all our industries moved to the new land hundreds of years ago."

Lin Youde couldn't help but smack his lips. From a certain perspective, the Elalai society really has such a utopian flavor.

[But based on your human works I read, utopia will eventually collapse.]

[That's because most of the things you see are so-called dystopian works. For a while, human science fiction works were very keen to create a "utopia" and then describe its collapse. Starting from the earliest "When the Big Machine Stops", more than half of the dystopian works were this tone, and the remaining half achieved the same goal by depicting utopias established on the basis of absurdity.]

【Oh, you know a lot about these things.】

After hearing Noah say this, Lin Youde was a little proud.

In junior high school, this was one of Lin Youde's few strengths. Others looked at ancient times to show off, so they glanced at it without any understanding. Then they remembered it in their minds through the super memory of modern humans. They needed to show off their literary style with girls. Lin Youde really read these works and understood the essence of them at least that's what he thought.

While Lin Youde was thinking about these things, Freya and Xia Yongzhi were talking in a low voice, and they were also the people demonstrating outside the base station.

"Do you humans always gather together like this when you want to express your opinions? Why?"

"Because humans believe that the majority means correctness, when expressing their views, they are always accustomed to gathering likes, establishing the so-called 'majority justice', and putting themselves on the commanding heights..."

[This girl is a bit good.] Noah exclaimed, [Although it is not as good as me, it makes sense after all.]

Lin Youde shook his head. At this time, he noticed that the supervisor walking in front was also listening to Freya and Xia Yongzhi's conversation. The supervisor noticed that Lin Youde was looking at him, so he smiled at Lin Youde, turned his eyes forward, and no longer focused behind him.

The group of people came out of the main entrance of the base station building.

As soon as he left, Lin Youde's ears were filled with shocking slogans, and the whispers of the two girls behind him were immediately interrupted by the slogans. Freya and Xia Yongzhi both stared at the angry crowd.

Lin Youde always feels that the appearance of the two girls seems to stimulate the crowd.

[To be precise, the appearance of your group stimulated the crowd. Judging from the communication I listened to, they seemed to believe that you and your girls were the young masters of the Lin family who came to inspect.]

Lin Youde smashed his mouth.

[I checked a little and found that since yesterday, there have been news that Lin's direct staff members were coming to inspect and vacation on the Internet.] Noah said, stuffing a large number of text posts and dynamic video posts placed in the virtual reality space into Lin Youde's mind, and marked the publication time of these posts with highlights.

It is indeed the day before Lin Youde and his friends arrived, the Internet was full of news that Lin Youde was coming. Lin Youde couldn't help but smack his lips. It was logical that the matter of coming here should be kept confidential, but someone obviously leaked the secret.

[Let's track the source of the news.]

【I'm checking without saying that.】

Just as Noah answered, a mark representing hostility appeared on Lin Youde's retina, which was his subconscious warning him. The next moment, Lin Youde found a person carrying a large rocket launcher at the position where the mark was pointed through Noah's perception.

Lin Youde was about to alert the police officers when a violent explosion occurred in the ground base station complex behind him.

Noah immediately completed the explosion position position: [The one that was blown up was the force field fence generator.]

Lin Youde thought in his heart that it was "bad".

At this time, the masses were also stunned by the explosion. Before they could react, the colonial security forces were the same, but the mercenaries were experienced and obviously realized what was going on and what was about to happen. They all took off their weapons and turned on the insurance machine.

Also knowing what is happening, there are militants hiding in the crowd.

[Noah, mark the position of the militants!]

A large number of arrows immediately appeared on Lin Youde's retina. At the same time, one of the arrows was very huge, pointing directly to the militants that Lin Youde first discovered.

The man had already carried the bazooka.

Lin Youde drew his gun and fired at the moment when the rocket flew out to shoot the target as it was a shooter with a shield at the beginning, but immediately he realized that it was time to fire the rocket warhead at this time.

In order to cope with the extraordinary response speed of humans, modern rockets have put in a arduous effort to speed up. Modern rockets have super acceleration power to accelerate to one Mach in an instant, so it only takes one or two seconds to hit. Only in this way can the rocket warhead be blocked by humans using light weapons. If it is a slow rocket of ancient times, modern humans can use the rifle in their hands as a short-range defense weapon with the help of auxiliary systems and shoot down the warhead.

Because it needs to accelerate to the speed of sound even faster in an instant, modern rockets are equipped with force field diffusers to solve the sound barrier problem, so all rockets are as bright as the big bald heads under the moonlight when flying.

Lin Youde's pistol was adjusted to the rapid-fire barrage mode, and the barrage instantly tore the force field diversion cover on the head of the rocket. The next moment, the rocket that had reached the speed of sound was like hitting an air wall, and then it exploded into a gorgeous fireworks. The scattered shrapnel swept across the colonial security forces below, triggering a flash of shields.

Someone among the crowd shouted: "There is no power field! Rush up and do these mother-in-law!"
Chapter completed!