On the planet

The environment on this planet is extremely harsh; almost everything in sight is a desert-like landscape.

The sky was filled with yellow sand.

And it is in this environment that industrial zones have been built.

Because this planet could meet the basic survival needs of living organisms, it was designated as a slave-producing industrial planet.

As for their living environment, the Qian family naturally didn't care.

"These are the latest batch of captured slaves."

"The demand for slaves has been too high lately. We had to travel all the way to the Chuhe Starfield of the Star Glory Empire to capture these few ships. We almost got discovered by the Chu family fleet." A crew member on a slave transport ship, wearing a breathing mask, was handing over the slaves to the local official.

They wore breathing masks, but the slaves who were brought down were not so lucky. They were chained and walked down in a line, and those who walked slowly were shocked with electric batons by the overseers.

In their eyes, these people were no people at all, just pieces of cargo.

"Yes, especially now that the higher-ups are demanding that that batch of 'goods' be shipped out, we don't even have enough slaves on duty."

Previously, the only requirements were for the corpses of the deceased, as well as the seriously ill, disabled, elderly, women, and children.

"Now the requirements have been relaxed. Anyone under fifteen or over fifty years old, with an improper work attitude, or who doesn't meet the workload standards will be taken away as 'goods'." The local factory manager sighed.

The factory manager hesitated for a moment, then asked the other party in a low voice, "I'm wondering, with so many slaves, where exactly are we sending them?"

I don't know about other places, but in my factory alone, the number of dead and living people transported away one after another exceeds one billion.

In the past, slaves in our factory could work for an average of about thirty years.

These days, even working for twenty years is difficult.

Upon hearing the question, the crew member of the slave transport ship glared at the other person and said, "Don't forget the rules. Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask, especially about this."

"It was my fault for being so talkative, it was my fault for being so talkative." The other party hurriedly apologized and handed him a box as an apology: "This time the goods are quite good, they can make you feel like you're in heaven."

The crew member of the slave transport ship glanced at it and smiled with satisfaction: "I've put what you wanted in container number 077."

These people in the transportation business often carry some personal goods and trade items they need.

For example, the box the other side gave to the crew of the slave transport ship was a kind of psychotropic drug that could satisfy the crew's mental needs during their long life on the starship.

It is a prohibited item.

"Actually, we don't know the answer to the question you asked."

During the transportation process, all external networks were shut down, and even the internal network was not allowed to be used.

I spend half a month at a time, just within my own department's small territory.

Even during unloading, we all had to stay in the dormitory and were not allowed to leave.

"...However...I think I heard some strange noises, anyway...not human sounds." The slave transport ship crew muttered with lingering fear.

Although he didn't witness it firsthand, his intuition told him that he was very close to death at that time.

At that moment, a girl covered in dirt staggered and fell to the ground.

This directly resulted in her group of slaves being unable to continue moving forward.

The foreman in charge of escorting them immediately rushed over with a stun gun.

A boy behind the girl immediately rushed forward to protect her, but he was also attacked with a stun gun, and his whole body was trembling.

"No...no more electric shocks, brother...I...I can walk..." The girl looked at her brother, who was trembling on the ground, and cried and pleaded.

The foreman went up and kicked the boy who had been electrocuted: "Stop pretending to be dead, get up and keep walking!"

At that moment, he noticed something sticking out of the boy's pocket.

The foreman immediately revealed a greedy expression and reached out to take it.

"You little bastard, you dare to hide things!"

When the boy saw that his precious possession had been taken away, he immediately struggled to stand up and tried to snatch it back.

But the foreman ruthlessly trampled it under his feet.

"What a piece of junk! It's just a soldier's name tag, a waste of my time." The overseer looked at the small tag, which had a person's name and the army he served in written on it.

The Ninth Fleet of the Chu Family Army... Song Dashu...

“Give it back to me...that’s my father’s! My father was a space warrior of the Chu family! Let the Chu family know...that you dared to attack our planet...and plunder us.”

The Chu family will not let you get away with this.

"The Chu family fleet will come and wipe you out!" The little boy glared angrily at the bandits who had destroyed his home!

"The Chu family? Hahahaha."

You little rascal, you probably don't know this.

This is the Star Alliance, quite far from your Chu family's Chu River Star Region.

The Chu family would never come all this way for a bunch of lowly commoners like you.

"So you'll just have to work here until you die, and we'll squeeze every last drop of your surplus value out of you," the foreman sneered.

He then leered at the girl and said, "She's a little too young now, but when she grows up, we can have some fun with her. I just hope you live to see that day."

The girl trembled with fear.

Just then, a sandstorm broke out outside.

"What's going on? The weather forecast didn't say there would be such a big sandstorm today!" The overseer looked at the slaves being blown about, which made their work much more difficult.

"Damn it... what is that... what is that?!" The crew member of the slave transport ship looked at the sky in horror.

Only then did everyone want to look at the sky.

They saw a colossal creature slowly descending from the swirling yellow sand.

Although it was still some distance from the ground, its enormous body resembled a fortress suspended in the air.

"An interstellar warship? That's an interstellar warship! Could it be that the Qian family has sent an interstellar warship?"

"But such a big ship... doesn't seem like a T3-class starship..." the supervisors muttered, though they couldn't see the whole picture due to the sandstorm.

But the ship's hull has spread for at least several kilometers!

It hovered above everyone's heads, giving people a sense of oppression.

"Look, it looks like they're deploying drones?"

At this moment, some sharp-eyed people noticed that a number of drones were being launched from the belly of the starship.

They scattered in all directions.

Just then, alarms sounded throughout the entire factory base.

"Why is the alarm going off?" someone asked in surprise. This is an alarm that only goes off when there is an emergency.

At that moment, a drone hovered above their location.

Then a woman's voice came out.

"I am Chu Xuan, the granddaughter of Marshal Chu Changhe, the governor of the Chu family!"

"I've been ordered to bring the people of the Chuhe Star Region home!"