Chapter 29 Chapter 29

Noah, who usually talks a lot, fell silent now.

After a long pause, she said, "Your Excellency Si Yan has always been very concerned about your status, but this is a fact that cannot be changed, and Your Majesty has never minded this either."

But sometimes people's joys and sorrows are not the same. Just like the queen is determined to change the empire, Si Yan has been committed to getting rid of the weakness of ancient humans.

Their marriage lasted nearly thirteen years, but eventually they went their separate ways.

Rong Heng let out a sigh, "Forget it, there's no point in saying this now. Send a text message to Dares, and ask him to come to B3024 in seven days to pick me up when I leave."

It was the final time of the high-speed shuttle race at that time, so I could take this opportunity to quietly leave without attracting attention.

Noah was quieter than usual today. He stopped making jokes and just responded calmly.

After Rong Heng finished explaining his business, he instructed Noah to erase the surveillance in the protection system and then went offline.

In the bedroom, Ruan Shiqing and the kids were sleeping soundly.

The artificial mermaid put her hands on her abdomen, covered her chest with the quilt, and slept upright on the left side of Ruan Shiqing. The other two cubs were much more restless in their sleeping positions. The nine-tailed fox cub turned its head and arched from the head of the bed to the foot of the bed; the dragon cub had already rolled to the edge of the bed, pressed its body against the quilt, and snored with its belly spread out.

Rong Heng carefully put the computer back in place, jumped onto the bed, and lay down on the soft and fluffy pillow. Sniffing the light fragrance floating in the bedroom, the restlessness in his heart slowly calmed down.

In fact, life on B3024 is much more pleasant than that on Sikkim.

At least you don't have to deal with all that dirty intrigue.

It’s a pity that I really have to leave this time.

Early in the morning, before Ruan Shiqing had time to eat breakfast, he received a video call from Marin.

The video was connected, and Marin's virtual image appeared, smiling and greeting him: "Good morning, Mr. Ruan, I have confirmed the information about the matter you asked me to investigate. The buyer happens to be someone I know, and we have had many dealings before. I will help you settle this matter. The buyer and the auction association have promised not to cause trouble for the nine-tailed fox cub again."

After saying that, he clapped his hands again and ordered his subordinates to bring the three evolved people up: "The three people from yesterday have also been found. I have heard everything about what happened. Do you need me to help you deal with these three people?"

I didn't expect him to be so efficient. Ruan Shiqing was surprised for a moment, but he still thanked him sincerely.

"Let me take care of these three people, but I'd like you to personally deliver them to me."

How could it have any shocking effect if Marin handled it quietly?

Mo Li was worried that he had no way to please him, so he quickly agreed after hearing this.

Ruan Shiqing had just finished his breakfast when Mo Li arrived with a group of subordinates and three evolved people.

The three evolved humans had obviously been taught a lesson, and their faces were bruised and swollen.

Before yesterday, they were still rubbing their hands and planning to find a way to steal a few cubs and sell them for a good price. They were originally only going for the baby dragon, and they deliberately chose a time when Ruan Shiqing was not around to scout the place. Unexpectedly, they hit the jackpot and found that this repair shop not only hid a baby dragon, but also the nine-tailed fox cub that was sold at a high price at the auction and disappeared, and a mermaid cub.

The price of these three precious cubs must be at least a million star coins.

The huge profits made them suppress their fear and choose to take the risk.

However, they did not expect that before the plan was implemented, Marin's men found their hiding place and wiped them out.

At this time, three timid evolved people were pushed in front of Ruan Shiqing, and Mori asked: "How do you want to deal with them?"

Ruan Shiqing looked at the three people coldly and said, "First, hang them outside for three days as an example to others. Isn't the production line about to start? Then separate a separate production line and send them to work, eighteen hours a day, all year round. After they have worked for a year, we'll see how they perform."

In the interstellar age, where robot technology has matured, the production lines of many prosperous planets have been fully mechanized. Except for a few special positions that require manual processing, most jobs have been replaced by robots.

Because in this era of low population, labor is very expensive.

But the situation on B3024 obviously does not apply to the rules outside, and there is no such advanced production line here for the time being - currently the only fully automatic mechanical production line in the entire B3024 planet is the energy center in the inner city, which is transported from Sikkim by transport ships.

Therefore, the production lines currently being built in the outer city still need to rely on manual labor.

Fortunately, there are many unemployed vagrants in the outer city, and the labor price is not high, so recruiting a group of them is enough to meet the initial production needs.

The recruited workers are paid according to standard working hours, but these three evolved people are free laborers, which is called "labor transformation" in Ruan Shiqing's world.

The physique of evolved humans is good to begin with, and eighteen hours a day is almost exactly at their limit.

"Isn't this punishment too light?" Mori kicked the secretly delighted Evolved Man and said, "Isn't this too easy for them?"

"I don't like killing people." Ruan Shiqing said, "And this method can not only create benefits for us, but also punish them and serve as a warning." He showed a meaningful smile: "You will know after a long time."

For these hooligans who like to get something for nothing, making them work eighteen hours a day, all year round, would be more painful than killing them directly.

Hearing him say this, Morrie was skeptical, but he still ordered his men to drag the man out and hang him up as an example to others.

After giving the order, he couldn't help but poke his head into the house and said, "Why don't I see the cub you raised?"

Ruan Shiqing was originally reluctant to let Marin get in touch with the kids, but thinking that the kids would have to go out sooner or later, and Marin also knew people in the inner city and could help get a legal identity for the kids, he let 09 bring the kids down.

Mermaid, dragon, nine-tailed fox.

Adding their Crown Prince to the mix, aren’t the four ancient clans of the Galaxy Empire complete?

Mori took one look at the cubs and exclaimed in his heart, “Wow!”

When he looked at Ruan Shiqing again, he couldn't help but reveal a look of admiration.

They are indeed gods, the cubs they raised are different from mortals like them.

Mo Li praised him a few times, looking around, but he didn't see the Crown Prince. He couldn't ask, so he could only point at Rong Heng and say, "Mr. Ruan actually has a puppy. What breed is it?"

Rong Heng: ???

Are you freaking blind?

He slowly raised his head and stared at Morrie.

But this is not Morrie's fault, after all, everyone has only seen the adult Judea.

Tall, mighty, and intimidating.

Who would have known that the tall and mighty Crown Prince would look like a puppy when he was a cub?

"I'm not sure. I picked up the snowball by accident," said Ruan Shiqing.

Mori, who knew nothing about it, patted the puppy on the head and praised it, "How cute."

“…”

Rong Heng: You are dead, right now.

He looked at Morrie expressionlessly, but unfortunately Morrie noticed nothing.

He hesitated for a long time but could not find any clues about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so he overturned his previous speculation that "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince might be living in Ruan Shiqing's house."

Before leaving, he happily took away the design drawings of the blaster.

As an extra reward, he agreed to help Ruan Shiqing get identity cards for the three kids.

Of course, the race of the kids on their ID cards will definitely not be the precious and ancient four races, but other races to conceal their identities.

With legal identity cards and the protection of Marin, the local tyrant in the outer city, the kids are no longer illegal residents and don't have to hide anymore. They can go out openly, even to the inner city.

And the three evolved humans really followed Ruan Shiqing's instructions and stayed outside for three days.

At first they thought they were lucky to have met a soft-hearted and easy-to-talk-to person, but three days later they realized what it meant to be in excruciating pain.

Marin's men took them to the factory where the production line was located.

Of course, the production line has not started operating so soon, but the transportation and assembly of the production line requires manpower, so how can there be a shortage of work?

According to Ruan Shiqing's requirements, they had to work for 18 hours without stopping for a moment before they were allowed to rest. And for such high-intensity labor, they were only given two tubes of nutritional supplements a day.

Three days later, the Evolved Man tried to escape, but was caught as soon as he stepped out of the factory. To prevent him from escaping again, he was given a special electronic ring on his foot that would explode if he left the factory 300 meters away.

Their lives were threatened, and the three evolved humans who didn't want to die completely gave up and had to stay and work obediently.

A worker who knew these three people saw their appearance and reported it back, which immediately caused panic.

They said: The three evolved people who tried to steal things from the repair shop were locked up in the factory by Marin and forced to work day and night. They only had one tube of nutrition every day and could sleep for three hours after working for two days. In just one week, the evolved people who were originally very strong had become skinny and looked like human beings.

I heard that they have to keep doing this until they die, otherwise they will never be released.

This is simply shocking!

It would have been better to have died quickly at that time, so that everything would be over. Now I am still alive, but I am suffering.

The rumor spread from one person to ten, and then to a hundred, becoming more and more outrageous and shocking. But at the same time, Ruan Shiqing had achieved the shocking effect he wanted, so he simply did not refute it.

In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the high-speed shuttle car finals. Ruan Shiqing, the Xiong brothers, and 09 each took their four cubs to the shuttle car competition site.

The kids were very excited as it was their first time going out to watch a game.

They changed into their most beautiful clothes before going out.

The little dragon cub and the little fox cub occupied Ruan Shiqing's left and right shoulders, and the puppy was nestled in his arms.

Because of the little mermaid's size, Ruan Shiqing made a special cart for the mermaid baby in advance.

The cart is egg-shaped, about 80 cm high and 50 cm wide, and is a light sky blue. The upper part is sealed metal, the lower part is transparent tempered glass, and the bottom is equipped with a pulley device that can be intelligently controlled. A seat is thoughtfully set at one-fifth of the height of the cart for the little mermaid to sit on.

At this time, the little mermaid was wearing a retro-style shirt with a black bow tie tied at the collar. Her hair was neatly tied behind her head, and her blue ear fins were constantly opening and closing due to her excitement. She had a golden round clip in her hair and a necklace of the same color around her neck, which just covered the scar on her neck.

He sat upright in the stroller like an elegant little prince, looking around curiously, his fish tail swaying gently. The bright sunlight passed through the tempered glass, casting a faint golden glow on the blue scales.

The little robot 09 connected to the cart's network, followed him, and was responsible for steering the cart forward.

Along the way, the kids looked around curiously.

Nota had been wandering outside before, so he was relatively calm about going out; the little mermaid, on the other hand, couldn't speak, so she just looked a few more times out of curiosity.

But it was the first time for the little dragon to go out after breaking out of the shell.

No matter what I see, I ask questions out of curiosity, and ask a hundred thousand whys.

Ruan Shiqing was very patient and answered his questions one by one.

Instead, Rong Heng, who was held in his arms, became extremely annoyed and angrily stretched out his claws to pull the little dragon's drooping tail.

But the little dragon cub was completely immersed in excitement. His tail instinctively curled up, but after two seconds, it dropped down again, swaying happily.

He had no idea that he was being pulled by the tail.

Rong Heng: ...

As expected, the dragon race has thick skin and tough flesh.

The kids were still observing their surroundings excitedly, and the people around them were also observing them secretly.

In order to let the cubs understand the outside world, Ruan Shiqing specifically rejected Marin's suggestion to send a car to pick them up, and instead chose to walk slowly over.

There were many people going to the finals with them.

Therefore, the family walking leisurely in the crowd was very conspicuous.

When have you ever seen so many precious cubs? In the past, we didn't even have the chance to see a cub of one species, but now we saw three at once.

Everyone slowed down their pace at the same time, and quietly looked at the three kids out of the corner of their eyes, but because of Ruan Shiqing's intimidation, they didn't dare to look too obviously.

They were either amazed or curious, and some couldn't help but estimate how much the cubs of these three ancient races were worth, but these evil thoughts were quickly suppressed because of fear.

Ever since the tragic deeds of the three evolved humans spread, everyone was so scared that they dared not have any bad thoughts anymore. Even if they had some thoughts, they quickly suppressed them in order to save their lives.

After all, it was already difficult to offend Ruan Shiqing alone, and now there was also Marin.

So everyone looked on, but did not dare to do anything rashly. Instead, they kept their distance carefully.

The cubs noticed the gazes coming from all directions and their reactions were different.

The little mermaid quietly straightened her back and her tail swayed more gracefully; while the little fox and the little dragon both bared their teeth and looked ferocious.

It's just a matter of carving "not to be trifled with" on his forehead.

The little dragon cub couldn't help but emit a few sparks from his nose because he held his abdomen in for too long.

Rong Heng felt it was embarrassing, so he simply turned his head and dived into Ruan Shiqing's arm.

Really unworldly.

Shameful.

The group walked around outside for more than an hour and finally arrived at the competition venue.

After checking the ticket and entering the backstage, Ruan Shiqing realized that the shuttle race finals were very different from what he had imagined.

The entire competition venue is set up in a garbage dump, and the spectator seats are suspended in the air using anti-gravity technology, surrounding the competition venue, arranged from low to high, with circles of seats forming a ring that spreads outward like concentric circles.

Looking up, the sky was filled with seats for the audience.

The scene was so lively that it was estimated that □□10% of the people on the entire B3024 planet participated in this event.

The anti-gravity seats can be combined and separated by pressing buttons on the seats. Ruan Shiqing connected the seats of the cubs together, and Cai and 09 sat on both sides of the cubs. The Xiong brothers chose to sit next to Ruan Shiqing.

At this time, the race has not officially started yet. A huge virtual screen suspended in the air is playing the engine gg, and the players on the field are debugging their cars at the starting point to warm up for the race.

Some of the famous racers already had fans cheering for them. Ruan Shiqing looked out for a while, and when he saw no one was trying to stop him, he released his homemade mini flying robot.

Although these little things are called robots, their operating principle is very simple. They are spherical in shape, the size of a fist, with a pair of thin translucent wings on each side, and they float in the air by flapping their wings.

The spherical robots were painted black, but the flashing light was blue. After Ruan Shiqing released them, they lined up on their own, and the projection cabin at the bottom opened, and a striking virtual image was projected in the air.

First, a blue star appeared and slowly rotated; then, golden words appeared on the blue star's circular track. Everyone looked carefully and saw the words "Blue Star will not die, Luther will win."

Luther on the field looked up and saw the eye-catching blue star in the sky. He raised his arms and shouted, then waved vigorously in the direction of Ruan Shiqing.

Parked next to him was the favorite to win the championship, Larkin, who had already won three championships.

Glancing at the blue planet with disdain, he said disdainfully: "The louder you shout slogans now, the harder the slap in the face will be when you lose in the end." He made a mocking gesture towards Luther: "Do you know how high your odds are?"

"It's as high as 20.8. Among the top 50 finalists, your odds are ranked fifth from the bottom."

Larkin folded his arms and chuckled, "No matter how popular you were before, your true colors will be exposed once the betting begins. The audience's real money can verify the strength of the players. There has never been a dark horse in this arena. I am the eternal king."

I don't know when the GG on the virtual screen stopped, and the flight video robot broadcast this conversation to the virtual screen in the center.

The three-time undefeated champion faced off against the dark horse, the atmosphere was tense and sparks flew, which immediately excited the audience.

Countless people began to chant Larkin's name.

“Larkin!”, “Larkin!”

"Defeat him!"

"Long live the Bis people!"

"Defeat the ancient humans!"

The audience was in an uproar. The boys were surrounded by voices cheering for Larkin, and they felt angry and anxious.

They are here to cheer for Luther!

Can't lose!

The little dragon and the little fox took out the mini loudspeakers that Ruan Shiqing had made for them and shouted at the top of their lungs: "Come on, Luther!", "Beat Larkin!", "Take first place!"

Although the little mermaid cannot speak, he has already recorded the cheering audio in his loudspeaker. When he presses the switch, it will play automatically.

The mini speaker is made into a beautiful trumpet shape, and its sound is twenty times louder than that of an ordinary speaker.

As soon as the kids opened their mouths, they sounded like an army of thousands.

Even the noise in the audience paused, and those who supported Larkin searched for the source of the sound, and finally discovered that Luther's supporters were Ruan Shiqing's family.

On the field, adrenaline is constantly secreted and emotions are infinitely amplified.

Not to be outdone, Larkin's supporters shouted back even louder.

The kids immediately turned up the volume of the loudspeakers to the maximum and shouted at them. Even the little robot 09 and the Bear brothers joined in.

"Larkin must win!"

"Luther first!"

“…”

The boys were shouting slogans excitedly, while Ruan Shiqing checked the odds online and found that Luther's odds were indeed fifth from the bottom.

Drivers with better odds than him are either new faces with mediocre performance or old hands who have failed to win the championship for several years in a row.

After all, Luther is a newcomer and an ancient human who is physically inferior. Although he had performed well before and received a lot of attention, when it came to the real money, everyone still chose Larkin.

This competition is not only a thrilling visual feast, but also a matter of whether countless spectators will become rich overnight or lose everything.

Larkin, who had the lowest odds, was tied up with the interests of countless spectators, stirring up a hurricane of wild emotions.

Ruan Shiqing was not swept away by this passionate emotion, but after thinking for a while, he still bet 100,000 star coins.

This was his trust in Luther.

The competition kicked off in such a passionate atmosphere.

The representative of the organizer came on stage to give a speech and announced the start of the competition.

At the starting point, all maintenance and testing personnel evacuated, and the racers entered the shuttle cabin, put on windproof goggles, and took their positions.

The host stood on the podium and pressed the starting gun to start the competition.

Fifty podracing cars of various sizes and shapes roared their engines, then sped off into the distance like a gust of wind.

The cheers from the audience were deafening, like a tsunami.

Larkin's red car led the way, followed closely by Luther's "Gaia", and the competition started in the first lap.

Behind them, there were shuttle racing cars in parallel colliding with each other. Those who couldn't dodge in time were immediately knocked away; there were also some that were going too fast, and there were too many high and high metal garbage on the road ahead, so they couldn't react in time and crashed into them directly...

Inside the stadium, metal debris and dust flew everywhere, and the roar of engines and cheers and applause were heard simultaneously.

Eight of the fifty high-speed shuttle racing cars were destroyed in just the first lap.

The audience was immersed in the frenzy and kept roaring heartbreakingly, but no one cared about the accidents, the crashed shuttles, and the lives of the racers.

Everyone was cheering for the players they supported.

The entire garbage dump is extremely large, and only the runner who completes ten laps and reaches the finish line first will be considered the winner.

However, the landfill is complex, with metal waste of strange shapes piled up crookedly, forming a series of natural obstacles. If you are not careful, you will crash into them, causing car damage and death.

However, players must not only pay attention to the dangerous environment in the stadium at all times, but also be careful of malicious collisions from other players.

Only then did Ruan Shiqing understand why the imperial law expressly prohibited high-speed shuttle racing.

This is a competition that highly stimulates adrenal secretion and is also an extremely dangerous competition.