Debt Collector

An hour later, Luo Tan put down the book in his hand, stretched his waist and rubbed his eyes.

She was more interested in the history of mankind entering the interstellar age, so she focused on that part. It turned out that it was five hundred years ago from her time.

Generally speaking, the history of mankind entering the interstellar age can be divided into three stages.

First, with the development of more and more new technologies, human beings' ability and desire to explore space have become stronger and stronger. Due to the population explosion, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the earth to support too many humans. Therefore, in 2100, with the discovery of a habitable planet, humans began to try to migrate between planets.

And this is just the beginning.

As humans further expanded their exploration of the banking system, their living area gradually expanded to seven planets, including Fengming Star and Huanghai Star. The one in the center was renamed the Capital Star and became the new home for all mankind. The Earth Star was gradually neglected because of its outdated facilities and increasingly severe environmental damage.

Next is the second stage. Human ambitions are not limited to exploring the Milky Way. With the further development of star-hopping transportation vehicles, scientists have begun to try to explore the secrets of other star galaxies, but this time...

Luo Tan flipped the pages of the book in his hand suspiciously.

But no matter what, all she could see was how much manpower, material resources, and financial resources the government had invested in this unprecedented extragalactic development. But what was the most important result?

The journey to explore the outer space ended in vain due to reasons unknown to her.

In the end, even the spacecraft dedicated to exploring the space outside the banking system were dismantled into scrap metal, or transformed into ordinary spacecraft for leaping within the seven planets.

The last stage is the era she lives in now. The government and scientists seem to have forgotten their ambition to explore the secrets of outer space. They focus their technological development on internal construction, which has become the current prosperous interstellar era.

Luo Tan bit her lip. She intuitively felt that something was wrong.

Something must be missing from the history books.

“Boom boom boom!”

At this moment, there was a knock on her door.

She opened the door and saw Wang Chu Andrei standing at the door.

Luo Tan was surprised: "Why are you here?"

Andrei was worthy of being known as the prince with the best temper. Luo Chen had hardly ever seen him lose his temper. At this moment, he leaned against the door and window without any airs, and said with a gentle smile, "Will you please invite me in for a cup of tea?"

Luo Chen quickly made way for him, and then heard him say with a smile behind him: "The furnishings here are really good. I specifically told them to arrange for you to stay here, which is closer to the palace."

[So, he came here specifically to chat with me? ]

Looking at Luo Tan's puzzled face, Andre couldn't help laughing. He said softly, "Tomorrow is the National Day."

"Ah." Luo Tan suddenly remembered that she was tricked and brought to the capital planet because of this National Day! She thought it would be a happy vacation full of high-tech and delicious food, but so many things happened later!

Andre hinted: "Tomorrow night, the palace will hold a grand party with dancing, fireworks, performances and delicious food."

Luo Chen nodded: "That scene will definitely be very exciting!"

One second... Two seconds...

The peaceful atmosphere spreads inch by inch.

Luo Tan:?

Doesn't he want me to agree?

Wang Chu on the other side smiled and bent his waist: "I want to invite you to be my dance partner tomorrow and dance the first dance with me."

Luo Tan's mouth gradually opened into an "O" shape.

"Why, I don't have this honor?"

"No, no!" Luo Tan blurted out when he saw Andre's face change.

"It's settled then!"

"I..."

Andre turned away from Luo Chen, who was still bewildered, and cast his eyes on the half-opened book on her desk. He asked in surprise, "A history book?"

Before Luo Chen could say anything, he said thoughtfully: "It is indeed a good idea to dig out clues of the truth from history."

Luo Tan: ...Actually I don’t think about it that much. I just don’t want to be a moron.

Andre changed the subject and his expression became serious: "According to what Inspector Xu and his team found in the basement of the parachute company, several previous animal injuries were also related to the parachute company. Do you remember the spider we saw in the train tunnel in Luochuan City? The number marked on it is Zone C 008, which is the number in the parachute laboratory."

"But why would they do this?"

To Luo Tan, what the Parachute Company did was simply incomprehensible. They could make a lot of money by breeding artificial intelligence pets, but they had to set up a mysterious laboratory to breed the world's most ferocious animals together. Are they raising pigs? It would be fine if they liked to raise pigs, but they had to let the pigs out and make trouble all over the world!

Listen, is this something a human would do?

Andre: "The reason is still under investigation, but I can guess a little."

His smile was cold: "It's just an organization that advocates extreme evolution."

Andre's eyes fell back on the history book spread out on the table, and he said calmly: "You also know that when humans first entered the interstellar age, there was a long period of time when humans tried to conduct further interstellar exploration. However, this plan ended before any real results were achieved."

Luo Tan's eyes lit up. Just when she was about to fall asleep, someone handed her a pillow. Wasn't this exactly what she had been puzzled about?

"I wasn't born at that time, so I don't know many of the reasons, but there is a rumor that our predecessors encountered aliens who were hundreds or thousands of times more advanced than us during their interstellar exploration. In order to prevent invasion, they gave up the interstellar exploration plan."

"Whether this rumor is true or not is unknown, but many civil organizations have sprung up since then, all with a common purpose."

"What?"

"To push humanity to evolve endlessly in all directions to cope with alien invasions."

The first thing that Rochen felt was absurd: "Evolution should not be driven by external forces, but should come from natural selection and environmental changes."

Andre looked at her. “Yes. But if you put this purpose into the behavior of the parachute company, you will find that the logic of their behavior is obvious.”

"They believe that the human body is too weak, so they try to fuse ferocious animals with human thinking, from zone D to zone A. This is their gradual and advanced artificial selection."

"And as for your suggestion of natural selection and environmental change—"

"What do you think would have happened if we hadn't succeeded in stopping the subjects from starting a riot?"

Luo Chen realized something: "They will start a massacre in human society. At this time, the parachute company can introduce their technology, so that humans can actively integrate with animals with hunting advantages. Because... by that time, human society will return to the nature of survival of the fittest in ancient times, and only those with strong bodies and highly evolved people can survive. This is... they want to create artificial natural selection."

She shuddered.

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It was not until Luo Tan arrived at the funeral that she came out of her conversation with Andre.

The funeral commemorates the police officers killed by the vine subjects during the laboratory exploration operation.

When they parted last time, Xu Cheng casually mentioned the time of the farewell ceremony, but Luo Tan kept it in mind.

In the black-and-white photo, the young police officer, wearing a neat uniform, gave a shy smile to the camera, as if he had just discovered that someone was taking a secret photo of him.

His tombstone has his date of birth and death concisely engraved on it, as well as some of the good deeds he had done and the honors and awards he had received. All of this proves that he was a very good person.

Xu Cheng was a little surprised when he saw her, and greeted her: "You're here."

"Yeah." Luo Tan stood beside him and followed the steps of others, bowing and presenting flowers.

She looked at the young face of the policeman and suddenly felt bad. She thought: If only I could have predicted earlier that he would get into trouble, then I could have stopped him before he left.

Xiao Ai, who had not appeared for a long time, was clamoring in her mind: "This is not your fault, host! The time before departure was too early, even the prediction system could not calculate the number of victims of this trip, let alone who they were."

Two middle-aged men who looked very haggard walked to the tombstone with the help of Xu Cheng. There was sadness and anger on their faces. One of the men shook off Xu Cheng's hand and said, "Get out of here! It's all because of you executioners that my son was killed! You said you were on a mission, but I think you are in cahoots with the criminals!"

The middle-aged woman also sat down on the ground and burst into tears.

Xu Cheng felt guilty: "I'm sorry, there was a problem with our previous plan. As the commander, I should be responsible for his death. If you two have any needs, please feel free to ask..."

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up: "I don't want these grandiose ceremonies! What about the compensation? Shouldn't the government provide compensation?"

Xu Cheng: "The government will provide compensation. After the farewell ceremony, I will discuss the corresponding amount with you. The government will also try its best to meet your subsequent living needs..."

Luo Tan saw a picture in the system information at a glance, and thought to himself in surprise:

[Hey, but if we give them compensation, they will go out and gamble away all their money, then go to the government and say they were robbed, and then keep asking for more money! ]

The expressions of the middle-aged couple, who had just looked relieved, changed instantly.

Where does the sound come from?

They looked around but couldn't see the person who was speaking.

But they dared not to shout, after all, that voice expressed their true thoughts. Since the government promised to take care of them for the rest of their lives, wouldn't the government's money become a constant source of income for them?

Facing Xu Cheng's suspicious eyes, their attitudes instantly weakened. Their previous arrogance was wiped out, and they could only make excuses in vain: "We just want to move to a bigger house." "No, no, no, what house? We just want to buy some food..." "We also want to share the government's worries. If this money can't make money, then we can't stop spending, and we still have to ask the government for money. How embarrassing."

Xu Cheng's expression turned cold: "The government will set up compensation subsidies according to your living conditions, and will not give you money continuously. You should not use the money that cost your own son's life to eat, drink, gamble and whore."

The woman quickly responded, "Yes, yes, the officer is right! We will definitely listen to you!"

The man smiled flatteringly: "We agree with what you said, then we..." He couldn't hide the greed on his face: "When can we get the compensation?"

Xu Cheng's grief over the loss of his comrades was almost extinguished by the shameless words and actions of the couple. He saw the true faces of the two people in front of him, and knew clearly that although there was a nominal supervision system, it was impossible for the government to keep an eye on the specific use of the compensation money at all times, so a warning could only be a warning.

But what can he do?

Even though I know that the money will not go to the right place, even though I can see that they don't care about their son at all, but...

Just think of it as taking care of the parents who gave birth to him and raised him.

Xu Cheng comforted himself in his heart, and then he was about to ask the person in charge to bring the middle-aged couple over to sign the agreement, but he heard——

[But the deceased police officer has severed ties with his parents! ]