Chapter 92
The two Military Factories that were successfully traded were both carefully located by Qin Su. They were each on a different planet, Hover in abandoned airspace far from human habitation.
Even during transactions, weapons are transported away by internal Spaceships, and other people are generally not allowed to approach.
The Military Factory where he is now located, along with the surrounding area, is shaped like two concentric rings. The central solid circle gradually narrows and rises towards the center, with a pointed top that bulges upwards. The inner and outer rings are connected by sixteen aerial corridors.
The previous owner used the inner circle of this entire building complex as Military Factory and the outer circle as living quarters for the staff.
Each Passageway entrance from the outer ring to the inner ring has a strict scanning and inspection checkpoint. Without permission, no item can be taken out, nor can any unauthorized items be brought in.
The outermost layer of the inner circle was constructed with an invisible protective layer that appeared to be three meters high on the surface, but in reality, it could form a structure with the central spire of the inner circle.
If Spaceships Warships get too close, they will be interfered with and risk crashing.
With the successful sale of the Military Factory, all personnel had long been laid off, the outer area was completely relocated, and the inner area was left with only various materials awaiting manufacturing and processing within the scope of the transaction, as well as finished products that had been processed but had not yet been sold, or semi-finished products that had not yet been processed.
This place is equivalent to the desolate wilderness of the Real World; you might not see a single outsider for ten days or half a month.
And yet, this very place has now been bombed.
It was no secret that Abraham was selling his Military Factory, and it was not surprising that the successful sale and relocation attracted attention.
Perhaps someone had been observing and scouting the area for a long time, and only made the move when they found it deserted.
To come to a place like this, and instead of taking the proper path, resorting to thieving and violent tactics to sabotage the defenses of Military Factory...
It's definitely a thief.
Or, to put it another way, Space Pirates.
Besides profiting from doing favors for others, Space Pirates mostly rely on burning, killing, and looting.
Judging from their clothing and disorganized, undisciplined behavior as observed by Electronic Eye, Qin Su deduced that these pirates were not professional in plundering weapons, and that their usual targets were mostly citizens with some wealth.
"Indeed, there was no one there. It wasn't for nothing that we kept an eye on them for a while; they finally emptied the place."
"Hiss... why do I feel a little chilly?"
"It's a temperature control device."
"Who would be so kind as to set their thermostat to 10 degrees Celsius? Were the people who lived here before crazy?" The masked pirate rolled his eyes, glancing at the real-time temperature display on his helmet. "But seriously, boss, our equipment needs an upgrade. The protective suits are leaky and don't even keep us warm. How are we supposed to withstand a hail of bullets?"
"Alright, enough with the nonsense, get the hell in here!"
"Klov, you're hilarious! Where would those lowly bastards get weapons to attack us? We could just blast them with a few rounds of ordinary clubs and Daggers, their brains would be splattered out, they wouldn't even have a chance to fight back."
"Now we have a chance to upgrade our equipment."
Before even starting work, they were attacked by pirates. Qin Su: "..."
It's nominally Jiang Cheng's Military Factory, but he's the actual controller. Is that why he suffered the same misfortune as Jiang Cheng?
From their conversation, they still appeared to be a group of vicious and ruthless bandits who committed murder and robbery.
But you wouldn't believe it, Qin Su has recovered and is no longer alone in this other world. He's got something fishy going on!
Qin Su's Optical Brain switched to internal communication.
There weren't many Ghosts involved in weapon manufacturing to begin with, and even though Qin Su was wearing the ring, he couldn't find a single ghost in this world, so he had to search for them in the Real World.
Following his sister's Ghost World recruitment ad, Ghosts from Real World the world and from different eras gathered together to translate for each other using the translator his sister had burned for them, and to study and familiarize themselves with the equipment.
Some of them are professional ghosts hired to handle security.
Before the factory officially started operating, they were recruited as security guards and were skilled in using various firearms, including some who had a penchant for collecting different weapons.
The weapons of this world filled them with curiosity, and for the time being, no one was left to guard them. They gathered in small groups to listen to the professionals explain the structure of the various weapons.
During the broadcast, Qin Su's voice was transmitted via Optical Brain link and translated into different languages for broadcast.
Since people didn't have Optical Brain when they died, nor after they died, he could only use traditional methods like broadcasting to issue unified notifications.
Upon hearing that living people had intruded, the security personnel immediately grabbed their weapons. With the help of his sister, they were all excited and eager to try, having restored themselves to their most satisfying state of being alive.
Everyone has different preferences, and the level of understanding they receive from professional explanations will vary, naturally leading to different choices of tools or techniques.
In the Electronic Eye, Qin Su put on the specially made frameless glasses given to him by his sister.
Behind the thin lenses, the Ghosts that he had clearly seen after applying special eye drops had lost their form.
Only different weapons remained, floating in the air in various postures, drifting away in piles.
Qin Su: "..."
Good luck to the pirates.
He wasn't good at management, but his sister was exceptionally skilled in it, demonstrating outstanding management abilities from a young age. With Assistant Jiang assisting them, each soul that came here had a clear role to play.
Although... this entire enterprise operation system is managed by artificial intelligence, he is the only living person.
"Wait, what are those things?"
This group of 127 Space Pirates had stolen an outdated small Spaceship that didn't even have a chance to get close to the inner circle. They had to park it in a residential area and walk there carrying bombs and weapons.
The opening blasted open by force wasn't large enough for many people to enter at once. They also assumed the place was deserted, and given their lack of discipline, they moved slowly and deliberately.
Seeing countless objects seemingly appearing out of nowhere and heading their way, so far apart and without access to professional military Combat Suit, they couldn't see them clearly with their rudimentary equipment.
Even if they can't see clearly, their guilty conscience will subconsciously lead them to believe it's a person.
"Holy crap, what are you asking? Let's go!" With that kind of density, there must be a lot of people behind us.
"Wasn't it already emptied out and there's no one left?!"
After this exclamation, the leader, who was originally over two meters tall and strong, feared that others would compete with him for the 'escape Passageway ', so he used Alph to paralyze his subordinates, and took the opportunity to rush to the blasted hole.
Those outside heard no sound from inside and saw no movement. Although they didn't understand why their leader was suddenly emitting Pheromones, their legs went weak and they wanted to crawl inside, but they were startled when their leader suddenly appeared at the entrance of the cave, and their bodies were pushed away.
The beta, who was lying on the ground as thin as a bamboo pole, saw his boss come out and, as if he had seen something terrifying, his blue eyes bulged out.
The bamboo-pole-like beta man turned his head.
Two meters behind them, countless long guns and short cannons were aimed at them.
Has this planet developed to this extent without anyone knowing? Even the most basic weapons can be operated unmanned, without humans serving as supports?
"!!!"
Beta's eyes widened, and a dampness appeared in his tattered Combat Suit.
A foul, fishy odor immediately filled the air.
There were more than one person who was terrified into submission like a bamboo beta; with this level of intensity, they... would die without a burial place.
In the past, this situation only existed on their side, and every person they scouted was powerless to resist. Now the situation has reversed, and they have become fish on the chopping block, at the mercy of the enemy.
The soul moves at great speed, floating directly, capable of blocking Spaceships, Warships, and human defenses as if they were nothing to them. In the blink of an eye, it easily surrounded more than a hundred pirates who had come to invade and plunder.
"These are the kinds of robbers who kill and plunder in this world, as explained by President Qin?"
"The weapons and equipment aren't very good."
"Judging from their appearance, they belong to the type that rob ordinary citizens from their homes." Anyone who dares to rob big wouldn't have such shabby equipment.
"They came here to steal the big one, but they were unlucky enough to run into us."
"Yeah, hahaha."
The pirates, fleeing in terror, couldn't hear the spirits' conversation at all; all they sensed was the freezing temperature that followed the dense barrage of weapons that flashed towards them, making them feel as if they had fallen into an ice cave.
With no target to attack, their weapons became useless at this moment.
In a one-sided standoff, the security captain gave an order, and the sounds of different weapons rang out.
Bang bang--
A fierce sound erupted instantly.
After three seconds of continuous sound, only a pool of blood remained where the pirates had been standing.
The speed was so fast that the pirates didn't even have time to resist before they perished, faster than any of their previous acts of burning, killing, and looting.
Qin Su used his mind to control the equipment in the Military Factory, instructing the cleaning robots to perform human cleaning commands. Without appearing in person, he ordered the security personnel via loudspeaker, "Go back."
In the past, in the Real World, they had to deal with things themselves afterward, but now they don't, and the spirits just feel relieved.
They didn't want to waste any more time here. After they died, they couldn't touch the weapons they were obsessed with in life for a long time, until they encountered a recruitment offer from the Qin Family.
They knew the Qin Family was powerful, but they didn't expect them to be so powerful that they could even see ghosts, and not only that, they could even hire them.
At first, they thought it was a trick to fool ghosts.
It wasn't until they arrived that they discovered the other party could not only provide them with a livelihood in the ghost realm and meet their reasonable needs, but also transfer Real World money to designated recipients or welfare organizations.
Most importantly, although humans cannot see them, they can touch anything that humans can touch, including all kinds of weapons.
The weapons they had just used were new and exciting to them, and they couldn't wait to see how to use more weapons.
Even weapons obsolete in this world were extremely attractive to them in the Military Factory. Like rats falling into a granary, the spirits, upon hearing Qin Su's order, did not hesitate for a moment and floated back into the factory at their fastest speed.
On their way back, they inevitably gossiped about the sounds they had just heard.
"How old do you think that child is? He looks very young, but he has a very calm and experienced demeanor."
"To be able to bring us to this strange world, and being the devil's own brother, how could the experience be simple?"
"Both old and young?"
"... Have you ever seen someone so handsome who's both old and young?"
I'm talking about temperament!
"Stop arguing. I've seen him before. He's definitely not very old, because when I saw him, he was a child sitting alone in the desert, with a poisonous snake roasting over a fire in front of him."
"I figured he couldn't see me, so I sat down opposite him. But as soon as I sat down, he, who had been looking down at his prey with his Military Saber, suddenly looked up at where I was sitting. His cold, piercing gaze in the firelight startled me. I thought he could see me..."
At this point, the spirit who had spoken paused, then, connecting the dots with the present, seemed to suddenly understand.
"Damn, so he saw me back then, but just didn't chase me away! If I had known he could see me then, I would have offered myself up for recruitment long ago. Why wait until now? What a waste of so much time that could have earned me two jobs!"
Qin Su: "..."
This description... he remembered.
The desert has a large temperature difference between day and night. Fortunately, he couldn't see the ghost at that time. He only felt that the surrounding air suddenly condensed. The coldest place was right in front of him, so he looked up and glanced at it.
If he had seen a ghost sitting across from him back then... ouch, Qin Su shuddered.
The image was too terrifying for him to imagine.
Qin Su felt embarrassed to be strong in front of a group of seniors. He watched them return to their original positions through the electronic auxiliary sound, then continued to gather around the weapons manufacturing experts who were floating and discussing everywhere to listen to their explanations. Only after confirming that there were no more spirits at the blast site did he get up and use his mind to control the opening of the pitch-black metal wall.
A Warship was brought to a standstill outside. Qin Su boarded the Warship and soon appeared in front of the hole that had been blown open by the pirates.
The Military Factory will still be a long time before it actually starts operations.
Normal manufacturing involves some losses, let alone a group of souls that did not originally belong to this world.
Just like when they first came into this world, they know very little about it. Qin Su wants to minimize losses, so he needs to give them enough time to analyze the existing equipment and weapon styles.
A total of thirty humanoid cleaning robots were cleaning the site. They worked very quickly, cleaning up everything from the worn-out floor to the walls splattered with blood and human tissue.
Qin Su's gaze shifted from the surroundings to the pirate corpses being carried away by robots into the carriages, and his eyes lit up.
The pirates robbed him... Why can't he take it back? They can cheat him out of nothing, so why can't he cheat them out of nothing?
Going to find Space Pirates in person would be a waste of time; he could use a sting operation.
"!"
Qin Su's lips curled up slightly. You know, young people are quick-witted. At his age, he's the fastest at picking up trash, and his mind works the fastest when he's up to no good.
Qin Su boarded the Warship and piloted it alone to the outer circle where the Space Pirates Spaceship had landed.
The outer ring was deserted, and the small Spaceship that had stopped was clearly visible.
The pirates were dead, Spaceship was in an unattended state. Qin Su didn't need to hack into it or forcibly take over; he simply connected to the Spaceship, opened the hatch, and easily entered Spaceship interior.
Pirates also have their own 'circles of friends,' and sting operations require bait that is enticing enough to entice them.
Qin Su took over the Spaceship and, using the login traces on the Spaceship's Optical Brain, posted fishing information about the location on the platform used by the pirates, posing as the pirate leader of this Spaceship.
There were no words, only two photos.
The first photo shows the hole blasted open in the inner protective layer, and the second photo shows a wide array of weapons that he had previously photographed.
After successfully sending the message, Qin Su stopped paying attention to the likes and inquiries that appeared instantly. He left the Spaceship and activated the inner protective netting in his mind, controlling the Spaceship to enter the inner circle.
The image contained traces of an address he had deliberately left. Without him needing to reply, given the scarcity of available resources, the starving interstellar islanders would do everything in their power to find the place.
If he were to reply, it would seem like he was deliberately setting a trap.
Five minutes later, Qin Su logged back into the pirate account he had acquired, and only then did he seem to realize that he had been exposed. He quickly deleted the photos.
Less than a second after the photo was deleted, Qin Su's pirate account received even more private messages, Qin Su still ignored.
A five-minute sting operation turned into a scene of pirates' frustration.
In order to make it easier to lure the pirates in, Qin Su, before leaving, instructed the security guards to do as he said and forbade them from repairing the damaged protective wall.
Upon receiving Qin Su's new orders, the spirits responsible for security observed a three-second silence for the approaching pirates, their minds filled with thoughts of Qin Su: 'This little guy looks cold-faced but has a terrible temper.'
Initially, it was just a group of pirates trying to steal Qin Su's belongings. Qin Su ordered them to be killed immediately. In less than three minutes, Qin Su decided to use a sting operation to exterminate the pirates and their families, catching them all in one fell swoop.
How ruthless! Birds of a feather flock together; the Qin Family is a whole bunch of devils.
Abraham also traded with the pirates and occasionally kept in touch. When he saw that a pirate had sent him pictures of the Military Factories he had traded, his pupils dilated in shock, and he immediately sent a voice message.
"Who's so bold as to dare touch Jiang Cheng's things? Aren't they afraid of losing everything? The other party has even dirt on him, let alone those pirates who are hated by everyone."
Abraham was highly suspicious that the name 'Jiang Cheng' might be real, but it was merely a superficial 'representative'.
The mastermind behind it all is unknown, perhaps one of the many powerful and intertwined families.
The pirate opposite him, however, mistook Abraham's shock at being provoked and asked suspiciously, "Didn't you already trade it away? Is it fake?"
Abraham then came to his senses, as if he had just remembered. "Oh right, it's already been sold, why am I angry?"
He still had something on Jiang Cheng. Although he didn't understand why Jiang Cheng allowed the pirates to bomb his Military Factory, having dealt with Jiang Cheng before, he would never think it was a simple matter; there was something fishy going on.
Abraham did not reveal anything unusual to the pirate.
"When you left, did you really put so many good things in there?" the pirate on the other side inquired.
Abraham deliberately said, "Of course, all the goods that didn't have time to be sold are inside; even dozens of pirate groups couldn't finish processing them all."
He also wanted to know what tricks 'Jiang Cheng' was playing, and what the outcome would be with so many pirates going in.
Wait... Abraham thought of something else.
If it really was as he suspected, a trap deliberately set by 'Jiang Cheng' that would leave them with no way out, then the pirates who flocked there would face two possibilities.
One option was to be incorporated into the pirates, since many families were associated with pirates and cooperation between them was commonplace.
Another option is to clean it thoroughly.
If it's the second possibility... is 'Jiang Cheng' conducting an indiscriminate purge, or is he deliberately targeting pirates with ties to certain families?
The elimination of the pirates means that "Jiang Cheng" will cut off some people's "performance" in the second half of the year?
Abraham: "..."
This Jiang Cheng is really bold.
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On the eighth day after the second meeting ended, the Class Monitor of 118 classes were notified to gather separately.
He Muzhi is not the Class Monitor, but Lailisi is Class Monitor. Qin Su continued his stingy nature and did not expend any Life Points to activate the Comic Capture Camera.
[No Mu Bao's perspective today, just Lailisi's perspective.]
[Mu Bao was sitting in the classroom, Raymond was applying medicine to him. I seriously suspect that Halton's actions were unskilled and entirely driven by personal feelings.]
Raymond is really starting to feel like a husband, bandaging everyone's wounds everywhere. Who remembers that he used to see himself as someone who just wanted to build up his resume?
Next to the area where the 118 students were seated were the 117 Class Advisor.
(Class 6 Advisor Zhang Minglang stood on the stage facing two groups of people. In fact, he was mainly facing 118 students. Zhang Minglang even suspected that the reason he was chosen to go on stage was not because he was the oldest Class Advisor among the 118 classes, but because he was the "Qin Su Class Advisor", so everyone asked him to preside over today's voting.
Thinking of this, Zhang Minglang couldn't help but glance at Qin Su.
I don't know when this group of people spontaneously developed the habit of reserving the leftmost seat in the first row for Qin Su.
Upon meeting Teacher Zhang's gaze, Qin Su Teacher Zhang his eyelids slightly and nodded in acknowledgment.
Zhang Minglang nodded, looked away from the crowd, and said, "Class Monitors, I'm sure you've all guessed it, but just to be on the safe side, I'll say a few more words."
"The reason I've gathered you all here today is for the Third Practical Exercise, which is the end-of-semester assessment: a joint class competition."
"In this practical exercise, the 118 classes are divided into two teams, and two Class Monitor leaders will be elected by vote from the 118 Class Monitor to serve as the Commanders of the two teams."
"The winning team will receive a reward in addition to the collective honor and the cash prize for kills in the final assessment. The reward amount will be calculated based on the number of kills."
"Now, look at the screen in front of you."
As Zhang Minglang finished speaking, a palm-sized display screen glowing with a faint Green √ light appeared on the table in front of the 118 Class Monitor.
Seeing the Class Monitor lower their heads, Zhang Minglang continued, "Each Class Monitor here has one opportunity to anonymously vote. Please write down the name of your chosen Commander within the next thirty seconds."
If no response is submitted by the end of the Countdown, it will be considered an automatic forfeit.
"After the vote count was completed, the two Class Monitor with the most votes would serve as Commanders for the Third Practical Exercise."
"Countdown begins."
On the large screen that Zhang Minglang unfolded, the 30-second timer kept decreasing.
Who will Qin Su write about?
[He Muzhi is absent, the text naturally focuses on Qin Su himself.]
[Even if he were here, our Baby 1 would still write about himself, okay? That's absolute confidence.]
[Forget everything else, our Boss 1's votes are absolutely far ahead and ranked number one (confident hands on hips. jpg)]
[What if it's an upset? (hehe)]
[Yo yo, I guessed the fan affiliation in just 0.1 seconds and won first place! You should try it too (eye roll)]
While Zhang Minglang was rambling on, the 118 people below already knew his name. As soon as the Countdown started, their fingers flew across the screen, writing the two characters 'Qin Su' without the slightest hesitation.
Since Lailisi's camera couldn't see him at all, Qin Su wrote his name on it without hesitation.
Even if everyone can guess that he wrote his own name, as long as he isn't embarrassed, it's others who will be.
His character design, even when he writes his own name, doesn't feel out of character at all. After all, which big shot isn't 'absolutely confident'?
Adhering to the principle that handwriting can be ugly, but signature cannot be ugly, their parents made both siblings practice their signatures.
Qin Su signed his name extremely quickly. When he stopped, he glanced around and saw his classmates still swiping on the screen with their heads down.
With nothing else to do, Qin Su watched the live stream comments and chatted about gossip. He also won first place in the autograph speed competition. He was first in both categories, so he and his fans were going in the same direction.
[So fast? The numbers on the screen only decreased by 2 seconds. Whose name has so few strokes?]
[The character 'Qin Su' has more strokes than that, so why is Qin Su so insecure? It's ruining his image.]
Why isn't it showing up?
[This is from the perspective of the White Moonlight; since Lailisi can't see it, it's not displayed.]
The thirty seconds passed quickly, and the statistical results were displayed on Zhang Minglang's screen as the number returned to zero.
The screen, which should have displayed only the names of the top two Class Monitor based on the number of votes, instead showed a dense array of 118 names.
Among them, Qin Su's name is followed by the number 118, while the names of all the other Class Monitors after Qin Su are followed by the neat number 0.