Chapter 88 The First Step to Making Trouble 1
Ye Heng took away all of his parents' belongings and the things he had used. After doing this, Ye Heng nodded gently.
The two balls of fog drifted to the corner of the wall in tacit understanding, hiding several small cameras in a hidden place.
"This way we can see their expressions when they come back." Ye Heng's voice came through the mist, with a hint of joy at having succeeded in a prank.
After doing all this, the two clouds of fog did not stay any longer. They floated out of the Ye family's old house like two wisps of smoke and headed towards the hiding place.
Back in the lounge of the hiding place, it was time to eat the fruit, and Lin Yao returned to his body.
Ye Heng opened his eyes and reached out to take the terminal provided by the pirates on the bedside table.
He slid his fingertips across it, brought up the communication interface, and entered a number he knew by heart.
Lin Yao specifically told him this before he went back, saying it would make it easier to contact him.
"Where are you?" Ye Heng edited the message and sent it out.
The terminal screen dimmed and then brightened, and soon a reply was received:
"We've walked one-third of the way. We should be in the Blackfish Galaxy."
Ye Heng stared at the words on the screen, frowned slightly, thought for a while, and then typed:
"There should be space pirates in that place."
"Yeah, there are quite a few pirates here. I heard from the little lamb who came with us that the pirates here are not under the jurisdiction of their boss."
Lin Yao's news came soon.
"But it should be fine. The ship is about to pass through this system. Just wait for me!"
Ye Heng's fingertips hovered over the input key, thought for a moment, and typed:
[Don't go to the Central Star. Wait for me there. I'm leaving now to find you. We'll meet in the Blackfish Galaxy.]
[Leaving now?] Lin Yao sent a message immediately afterwards.
[Do you have any plans for coming to the Blackfish Galaxy? ]
He stared at the screen waiting for a reply. Ye Heng was never an impulsive person. He must have his reasons for suddenly changing his mind and leaving immediately, but Lin Yao couldn't figure it out for a while.
The terminal quickly vibrated: [Of course it's to cause trouble! ]
Lin Yao suddenly paused. He stared at the line of words for two seconds, his fingertips tapping rapidly on the screen:
[Making trouble? What do you want to do?]
Lin Yao's heart was pounding. Was it what he thought?
The next second, Ye Heng's message came:
【Let's do something big. 】
[During the time I lay in the White Tower, I thought a lot.
Tell me, why can families monopolize top resources while those common people can only survive?
Why can the nobles of Central Star decide other people's life and death just by opening their mouths?
They have blocked all the ways to go up.]
Lin Yao's fingertips hovered over the screen and he stopped typing. He thought of Yu Ze, the guide whose job he had given up.
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Yu Ze is a commoner from Dongji. He doesn't have a big background, but he works very hard.
At Dongji Baita Guiding College, his theoretical scores always ranked first.
His notes were neatly written and filled with annotations. Even his tutor often used his notes as a model.
During the actual combat assessment, they lived in a dormitory.
Lin Yao once asked Yu Ze what his plans were after receiving the results of the assessment.
Yu Ze was wiping his laptop with his head down at the time. He smiled when he heard this, but his eyes were dull.
"What else can I plan? I'll go back to Dongji and serve in the military regiment over there."
Lin Yao remembered that he frowned at that time. He knew Yu Ze's abilities and thought that he should be more than qualified to work in the White Tower on the Central Star.
Yu Ze seemed to see through his thoughts and picked up a piece of cloth, repeatedly wiping the scratches on the drainage device:
"Those guides in the family have connections, so they can stay in the rear and don't have to suffer on the front lines.
But we are different. As civilian guides with no background, we can only go to the front lines."
He paused and lowered his voice:
“It’s said to be a three-year service period, but what happens after it expires?
It’s just three years after that and then another three years, endlessly.
If you go to the legion and take a look, you will find that most of the guides are from civilian backgrounds like us, and there are very few guides who come from families.
Even if some do come, there are suitable and comfortable jobs waiting for them.”
Yu Ze's tone was full of helplessness, and Lin Yao also fell silent following his words.
This is actually very unfair.
If those who make the rules do not abide by them, then the rules become a tool of exploitation.
They enjoy the stability that the lower class has paid for with their lives in the rear, while these people who have made sacrifices do not even have a clear date of return.
What is even more worrying is Yu Ze’s social phobia.
His parents were so anxious about this that their mouths were covered with foam and their hair turned a lot whiter.
They knew very well what kind of situation Yu Ze, with his temperament, would face when he arrived at the front-line corps where there were all kinds of people and it was full of blood and fighting.
They might be marginalized, or they might be in danger because they cannot respond quickly to emergencies, or they might not even survive their first year of service.
But all they can do is sigh all day long.
In Dongji, there was no connection, and it was simply a fantasy to find a stable job for Yu Ze in the rear.
In desperation, they have begun to ask people to look after the sentries for Yu Zexiang, thinking that even if they let him follow the sentries, at least there will be someone to protect him in the corps in the future.
So when Lin Yao contacted him and said that he could give him a job at the Central Star White Tower.
Yu Ze kept saying thank you.
For Yu Zequan and his family, this job is more than just a position; it is a hand reaching out from despair.
It is the salvation that allows Yu Ze to avoid the fighting on the front line and live a stable life, and it is the hope that allows their whole family to finally sleep peacefully.
When Yu Ze came to Central Star, he first stayed at Lin Yao's house for one night.
He dragged a bulging old suitcase and took things out with a red face as soon as he entered the door:
A small jar of honey wine, a specialty of Dongji, brewed by his mother herself, with the mouth of the jar sealed tightly with wax;
A bag of dried herbs, said to calm the nerves, which his father had collected after traveling across many mountains;
There was also a basket of fresh berries, which his sister had picked from the orchard before dawn that morning. Each berry was plump.
"None of them are worth anything," Yu Ze stammered, not knowing where to put his hands.
"My family said they must thank you..."
Finally, he pulled out a neatly folded piece of paper from his pocket. It was a picture his sister had drawn.
"Thank you, Brother Lin" was written crookedly on it, and there was a little man with a toothy smile drawn next to it.
That night, the two of them sat on the balcony looking at the night view of the Central Star, when Yu Ze suddenly said without a word:
"Lin Yao, you have to sit at the main table when I get married."
Later, Lin Yao found out that Yu Ze had fallen in love with the sentry who had taken the actual combat assessment, but because he could not stay on the Central Star, he chose to keep this relationship secret.
Zhang Zhang's family is similar to Yu Ze's, both are ordinary families with no background. He did not go to the front line, but worked as an assistant in the assessment at the Central Star White Pagoda Academy.
The position was ordinary and the salary was barely enough to support his life on the Central Star.
That relationship had actually sprouted a long time ago, but because Yu Ze was destined to return to Dongji to serve, he secretly sealed it away.
Yu Ze knew that although Zhang Zhang's job was stable, his income was limited.
If the two really want to be together, unless he can find a job on Central Star, the burden of life will fall entirely on Zhang Zhang.
The expenses on Central Star are so huge. Rent, daily expenses, everything costs money. Relying solely on Zhang Zhang's salary, life must be tight.
It's not like he hadn't thought about working in Dongji, but if he did that, he and Zhang Zhang would be in different places.
They are separated by several galaxies, so it is difficult to meet each other, let alone cultivate a good relationship.
So he could only hide this love in his heart, thinking that maybe he would just let it go.
“It’s different now,”
"I can stay and work on Central Star. Although the salary won't be high at first, it will at least help Zhang Zhang share some of the burden. Once we are more stable, we will... apply for registration."
When Yu Ze said this to Lin Yao, he used voice, but Lin Yao could imagine that his cheeks were flushed and the light in his eyes was brighter than the stars.
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I have enjoyed those benefits.
[Living in the best house and using top-notch resources, when I was little, I thought that was what the Ye family deserved, and what I deserved.]
[It wasn't until I went to the border and saw the abandoned miners and the refugees who didn't even have identity numbers...]
Only then did I realize that every bite of food I eat and every piece of clothing I wear contains the blood and tears of countless people.
Lin Yao looked at the message Ye Heng sent him, and his chest felt suffocated. Although he was a loser in the De Lin family, he was still one of the people who enjoyed the benefits.
He saw Yu Ze's thankful smile before his eyes, and he felt it was quite ironic. A little "charity" from the superior was a huge benefit to the inferior.
Lin Yao thought of Lin Ruheng again, the real boss of the Star-Eating Cave pirates and also a superior who wanted to overthrow the class.
When he met the leader of the star pirates, the person he saw was Lin Ruheng.
As a person who has been in hiding for five years, Lin Ruheng's goal is very simple, to bring down the Lin family and make Lin Zhixiong, an old man who only cares about interests, die without a burial place.
When Lin Ruheng said this, there was no other emotion in her eyes except hatred.
Lin Yao accepted his invitation to cooperate. Who could have told him that this class was disgusting? The power of the royal family and the interests of the family were intertwined, trapping everyone.
Lin Yao did not ask Ye Heng why, but instead tapped the screen with his fingertips and sent a message:
What are your plans?
The terminal responded almost immediately. Ye Heng seemed to have been waiting for his question:
[I want to bring Bian Miao and the others out. Chi Ying can be left to the Empire, but my personal guards must come with me.]
Ye Heng's message continued:
[Become a space pirate! You can't just be an ordinary space pirate, and it's better to rely on yourself than on others. ]
Lin Yao looked at the screen and suddenly felt that Ye Heng was indeed a good man with a good sense of the overall situation.
They can cooperate with Lin Ruheng when their interests are the same, but once there is a conflict of interests, they may even go to war.
It’s no wonder that Ye Heng and his brains seem to be connected. He actually planned to develop his own power after rescuing Ye Heng.
Lin Yao put away the terminal and looked at the outline of the Blackfish Galaxy in the distance.
He walked towards the cockpit and said to the little lamb who was fiddling with the star map:
"Turn around and head to the Blackfish Galaxy."
The little lamb turned around suddenly, his round face full of surprise:
"Ah? Aren't you going to the Central Star to pick up Marshal Ye? Didn't we agree on that..."
"He'll come by himself." Lin Yao sat down on the metal chair next to the star map, crossed his long legs and swayed them, his tone as relaxed as if he was talking about going to the corner to buy a drink.
"Let's go to the Blackfish Galaxy and have some fun first."
The little lamb scratched his head, still not reacting: "Play? But..."
"Have you forgotten?" Lin Yao raised his finger and pointed at the Black Fish Galaxy on the star map, tapping his fingertips on the smooth screen.
"Who told me before that there's a Star Pirate Festival happening on Blackfish Star right now, where you can see meteor showers tonight and there's a lot of delicious food?"
The little lamb suddenly realized and his eyes lit up:
"Yeah! I heard from the guy who bought the parts that the festival was really lively, with lots of competitions, and you could even see the leader of the Black Fish Star Pirates!"
"So," Lin Yao said with a smile, and reached out to rub the little lamb's hair.
"Let's go get a good spot so we can catch up with him when he arrives. By the way, don't call me Marshal anymore, it's too formal."
The little lamb was stunned: "What is it called?"
"Just call me Mr. Ye." Lin Yao withdrew his hand, his fingertips unconsciously stroking the edge of the terminal.
The little lamb nodded, not quite understanding, and began to adjust the course in a hurry.
The spaceship's engine hummed softly, and it slowly turned and headed towards the Blackfish Galaxy.
The star tracks outside the window rearranged themselves, like a colorful ribbon leading to an unknown bustling place. Lin Yao leaned back in his chair.
Looking at the outline of the galaxy getting closer and closer in the distance, the corners of his lips couldn't help but rise slightly, and he felt inexplicably expectant in his heart.
They chose this path, but Lin Yao didn't know what the end of the road was.
But he knew that as long as they walked together, there was nothing to be afraid of.
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