Chapter 486 The Fate of the Drifter

The dormitory was not big. The woman standing opposite Tilan had black and brown hair, yellow skin, and some wrinkles on her fingers, probably because she was often soaked in water.

When Tilan asked, she responded with a slurred voice.

"Yes."

Seeing that the other party was still a little nervous, Tilan shook her head, looked at the open door on the side, and simply raised her hand to let the maid on the side of the door close the door. At this time, the room became quiet, and there was only the breathing of the two people in the room.

"You can sit by the bed, it will be a lot easier." Tilan told the other party not to be so nervous, and then she sat down on the chair next to the small table in the room.

"Yes, yes." The other party held the bed a little nervously and sat down slowly, her body was still a little stiff.

Knowing that it would not change for a while, Tilan no longer asked the other party to relax.

"I came to you just to understand your situation, not to punish you."

"Can you tell me where you are from first?"

With Tilan's gentle words, the other party finally calmed down a little. She barely raised her head, glanced at the extremely elegant singing girl in front of her, and quickly lowered her head.

In the glimpse just now, the other party's appearance and temperament that were not like the human world lingered in her mind for a long time, making her thoughts confused. After a few seconds, she came back to her senses and thought about how to answer the question.

"I, I am from the Ten Vertical Star Region. I grew up on the Xilun Star. After graduating from high school, I came to the Central Star Region to work. At first, I worked as a helper in a tea shop, but the salary was not high. Later, I went to a high-end restaurant and finally came here." After she began to answer, her articulation gradually became fluent.

"How many years have you been?" Tilan asked.

"I was 19 when I came here, and now I am 28 years old, almost nine years."

"How did you come to the Central Star Region at that time? The travel expenses should not be cheap." The location of the Ten Vertical Star Region is very remote, in the northeast corner of the Federation.

"It's my uncle, my mother's brother. He works in the Central Star Region. When he knew I had graduated, he bought me a boat ticket and asked me to come here." Speaking of her uncle, her voice was more dependent and relieved.

"Was the process difficult?"

"Not difficult, but it was a bit uncomfortable on the road, because I only have the strength of Sequence 3, and it would be uncomfortable to ride on a superluminal starship for interstellar travel, but I heard that some high-end starships would be much better."

"After I came here, my uncle helped me find a place to live, and then accompanied me to find a job. He guided me a lot, so I didn't take any detours." Speaking of her first job, her emotions were obviously much more excited, and it seemed that she was really happy at the time.

"The people in the tea shop are very nice, and sometimes you can drink free drinks, which are better than the fine wines collected by my grandfather in my hometown. This is the first time I heard that some drinks can help practice the extraordinary sequence."

Hearing this, Tilan became a little curious.

"Are there no such drinks with extraordinary effects in the Ten Vertical Star Region?"

"I don't know, maybe the big guys have them, but I haven't seen them." Madsang shook his head.

"It's said that it's good to have clean water there that can be drunk."

"Every day, my family has to go to the water tower in the town to fetch water. Usually, my mother drives to haul it. During holidays, my brother and I will help drive and transport water."

"Is there no pipeline that goes directly to my home?" Tilan thought for a while.

"No, I didn't know until I came to the Central Star Region that everyone can drink clean water without so much trouble."

"Later, I checked the information and realized that the pollution in the Ten Vertical Star Region was very serious. If a pipeline that could resist the erosion of extraordinary toxins was laid, the cost would be too high, so a water purification tower was usually built in the town."

"Wait a minute, I remember that the device that can purify extraordinary toxins is not cheap either." After all, it was for this reason that Jade Skirt gave up the prosperous area in the north.

"It seems so, but that water purification tower is indeed useful." Madsang said that he didn't know either.

"If what you said is true, I suddenly remembered that many people in my hometown do not live very long. My grandfather is the oldest person in the town at the age of 70." After all, she had received formal education in the Federation and had spent many years in the Central Star Region. She was not stupid and soon figured out the reason.

“Maybe the effect is limited, but it’s good to be alive in such an environment.”

“Are there many people like you from the Ten Vertical Star Regions who come to work in the Central Star Region?”

“Very few. If it weren’t for my uncle, I probably wouldn’t be able to come.”

“Why?”

“To come to the Central Star Region, you must at least have received formal high school education, and to travel across star regions, you must also have the strength of Sequence 3 to board a superluminal starship.”

“Many people can’t achieve this, and even if they can, many can’t afford the ticket.”

“The local people work for a month, and their salary is mostly around 1,000 federal coins, and the cheapest ticket to the Central Star Region costs 180,000 federal coins.”

“Among my high school classmates, I was the only one who came to the Central Star Region. The best of the others went to the neighboring Dark Port Star Region, and the ticket there only costs 50,000 federal coins.”

“How much did you earn after coming to the Central Star Region?”

“At the beginning, I only had 3,000 federal coins. After a year, I had 5,000 federal coins. Later, I worked in a high-end restaurant, and I could probably reach the threshold of 8,000 federal coins per month.”

"Now this hotel is around 9,000 Federation Coins."

The salary in the Central Star Region is much higher than that in Four Leaf Crystal, Tilan compared it in her mind.

A well-educated Sequence 3 engineer in Four Leaf Crystal only earns 6,000-7,000 Federation Coins per month, while in the Central Star Region, the salary of a waiter can easily exceed that. If the same Sequence 3 engineer is in the Central Star Region, he can probably get a salary of around 12,000 Federation Coins, which is twice that of Four Leaf Crystal.

Of course, this is just a comparison of income, and the expenses for various services in the Central Star Region will also be much higher.

"How do you feel after coming to the Central Star Region?" At this point, the other party has slowly entered the state and completely relaxed.

"I like it here very much, it's much better than my hometown." She really likes it here.

"The living environment, public security, treatment, and all kinds of new and advanced things are completely incomparable to my hometown."

After talking about the real treatment, Tilan turned the topic to spiritual aspects.

"Have you ever thought about your hometown?"

"I used to think about it, but later it felt more and more unfamiliar." Madsang's words were quite true.

"My family didn't quite understand my life here, and they often asked me to send money back. Later, apart from asking for money, we had nothing to talk about."

"They don't understand the world I came into contact with in the Central Star Region, and their lives are not attractive to me." She bit her lip.

"Have you ever thought about letting your brother come?" Tilan remembered that she had a brother.

"His grades are not very good, and he is also quite lazy." The other party shook his head. Without Sequence 3, he couldn't even ride a superluminal starship.

"What about other classmates?"

"Some of them envy me, but it takes too long to save up enough money for the ticket to the Central Star Region. Some of them got married, or bought houses and other vehicles, so they were delayed. Then they gradually got used to the local life and stopped thinking about it."

"Is that so." Tilan sighed silently after listening.

When it comes to talent, Madsang and her classmates may not be much different, but because of a ticket, there will be a gap of decades or even a lifetime in the future.

"Tell me about the history of the Ten Vertical Star Region. I want to know how you discovered the abnormality and assisted the 'Coolant Agency'." Tilan changed her tone and talked about the reason why Madsang was imprisoned here. The other party's originally excited mood instantly cooled down.

She once again felt the terrifying pressure brought by the singer in front of her. The other party was a super figure standing at the top of the federation. This singer might only need one word to make those giant companies that she couldn't even look up to bow their heads and change the fate of millions of people.

"I, I..." Her voice trembled a little, because she once again remembered the girl she offended, who was also a singer, and her fame and influence were no less than that of the girl in front of her

. "I really just didn't mean it at the time. I was just greedy for the rewards and benefits promised by the agency, and I accidentally offended Lord Shui Yanqing." She was sitting very uneasy, and even hesitated whether to kneel down and plead with the singer.

"Since I said I won't pursue it, you can rest assured. Even if it's Shui Yanqing, I will explain the situation to her, and she won't ask about it again." When saying this, Tilan's voice was as decisive as a decisive, both stern and caring, which frightened the woman opposite and then made her feel at ease.

"Yes, Lord Tilan." She reorganized her thoughts and then carefully recalled her childhood experience.

"In the Ten Vertical Star Region, also known as the Tin Wheel Star, there is a legend about the 'Red God'. This is an ancient mythological belief, and it was also the hope of our ancestors when they lived underground." "

In the Fifth Era, the Dark Suns clashed in the Ten Vertical Star Region. It was originally an area with relatively good economic development in the early Fourth Era, with a large number of inhabited planets and a large population."

"The rising sun crowns collided with each other in the galaxy. They controlled the stellar tides and used the huge energy generated by the burning of stars to launch attacks. During the war, the surfaces of many inhabited planets would be washed by fierce high-energy solar particle flows. This attack was enough to destroy most of the life on the surface."

"So at this stage, many people turned to live underground, and then slowly adapted."

"Later, the situation on the ground stabilized, and the subordinate ethnic groups of the Dark Sun descended on the planet to settle and spread. These new races completely believed in the will of the Dark Sun, and they also launched an elimination plan for the underground adaptors."

"In order to avoid being hunted down by these new races, the underground people have to learn a special secret method before they reach adulthood. This secret method can sense the blood characteristics of those new races, so as to alert and avoid them."

"Later, our ancestors created the belief in the 'Red God' to inspire everyone and make everyone believe that as long as they persist, when the 'Red God' descends, all the 'new races' will be burned and disappear in the wrath of the 'Red God'."

"This kind of secret method has also become a religious existence similar to the rite of passage, that is, every member of the tribe must learn this kind of secret method before he can be regarded as an adult and qualified to act independently."

"Although the Fifth Era has ended for a long time, this kind of custom is still passed down in many places in Tin Wheel, and the teachings of the 'Red God' contain many doctrines that are hostile to 'aliens'."

"If a tribe member can kill an 'alien', it will be the best pleasure for the 'Red God', and he will be qualified to have a fire mark on his back with a red iron. When he kills enough 'new races', the fire marks on his back will accumulate, and finally, like burning wings, he will become a great saint in the tribe, and his name will be remembered."

"So, you happen to know this kind of secret method, right?" Tilan said.

"Yes, Master Tilan." She supported herself on the bed with both hands and lowered her head, as if to express respect.

"Are there still many believers in the Red God on Xilun Star?"

"It depends on the region. If it is an economically prosperous region, there will be fewer believers, but if it is a remote area, there are still many believers of this kind. Even if they do not believe in the Red God, local children will learn this kind of secret method. This has been integrated into the cultural customs. Every teacher will teach it, and parents and teachers will make sure that their children must learn it."

"Do you hate the 'aliens'?"

"This... you don't like it. Before the Fifth Era, there were nearly 20 inhabited planets with tens of billions of residents in the Ten Vertical Star Region, but at the end of the Fifth Era, only less than 10 million of the tens of billions of natives survived. In many places, archaeological excavations can even find debris and corpses drifting in space to this day." Madsang explained.

"I know." Tilan stopped asking this question.

"How do you feel about the Federation as a whole now?"

"It's pretty good. Although my hometown is very poor, it gets some subsidies and improvements every year because of the Federation's acceptance. Compared to the tragic situation at the end of the fifth season, it's much better." Madsang said that most of the residents of the Ten Vertical Star Regions have a good impression of the Federation. It can be said that if the Federation had not been established and accepted, these places would have been buried in the polluted ruins.

"But it's basically the poorest place in the Federation. Will the locals feel dissatisfied?" Tilan asked again.

"The poorest? I don't know. When I was a child, I knew very little about the situation in other star fields in the Federation. Most people just think that being alive is good." "

In the teachings of the 'Red God', the elderly and life are respected. As long as you live long enough, you will be respected by everyone. If you unfortunately die young or die young, people will think that this person is irresponsible for his own life, immoral, stupid, and without strength and courage."

"The longer you live, the more powerful you are. If you still carry many 'fire marks', you will often become leaders of the tribe. The saints in the doctrinal texts are all people who have lived for a long time and possess 'Wings of Fire Marks.'"

After listening to the other party's story, Tilan nodded, and then asked many questions about the situation of the Ten Vertical Star Fields, as well as the worldview and values ​​of the local people. Later, he asked the other party what impression he had of people from other star fields he met while working in the Central Star Field.

"It's hard to judge. I only know that most of the orcs come from the northern star regions. The economy in the eastern star region is not bad, and there are many traditional oriental people. The southern star regions are uneven, and people from the western star region are very rare."

"Is that so? I see." At this point, the conversation gradually ended.

Then, Tilan stood up and left slowly, and the footsteps outside the door gradually faded away. The woman in the room breathed a sigh of relief after a long time. She supported the head of the bed and slowly stood up, only to find that her back was completely wet with sweat.

She felt fear, gratitude, and admiration for Tilan. It was difficult to describe her feelings at the moment.

However, the singer was really scary. She remembered that Tilan only spoke a little harshly once in the middle, and she almost knelt down in fear. After that, she was even more focused on the questions and answers, and she didn't dare to make any mistakes.

Now, the conversation is over, making her feel like she has survived a disaster, as if the pressure has disappeared, and it is a bit unbelievable.

Although she didn't know how the hotel would deal with it in the end, since Lord Tilan said that she would not pursue the matter, she fully believed that with the majesty of that lord, the hotel would not dare to do anything excessive. This feeling of relief, like a huge happiness, enveloped her.

She really didn't dare to do it again. She found that she was just an ordinary person. If someone from the agency asked her to do something in the gray area again, she would never dare to do it again. Maybe Lord Tilan forgave her, and Lord Shui Yanqing would not pursue her for Lord Tilan's sake.

But!

As long as the singer Shui Yanqing is alive, her followers will spontaneously protect everything about the singer. In this way, once the forces and many chaebol groups find that she has any problems involving the gray area in the future, they will take action against her, and it is justified.

This is not because she has a paranoid delusion, but the number of fans of the singer is often in the hundreds of millions. As long as one in ten thousand of them cares, she can't resist it.

In the eyes of Tilan and others, it may be just a small conflict between a few friends, but in the eyes of ordinary people at the bottom of the federation, it is no different from a collision between giants.

(End of this chapter)