With a metallic swish, the packed landing ship opened, and the people crammed inside poured out like floodwater through an opened gate.
As soon as they emerged, they saw a mass of blue partitions forming a narrow passage ahead of them.
Fully armed Army soldiers surrounded them a short distance away, carrying heavy weapons. Farther back, a Blue Laser Emitter had even been set up, its enormous barrel aimed straight at the landing ship.
Bang, bang, bang!
An officer with a cold expression rapped his tablet against the landing ship's hull.
"All right, you little bastards, line the hell up!"
The officer switched on his tablet, displaying a long list of names.
"Come over, verify your identities one at a time, then move inside!"
The crowd slowly shuffled out, following the blue partitions to a machine that verified their biometric information.
The machine automatically scanned fingerprints, irises, and other identifying information, then found the corresponding identities on the list provided by the United Nations of Earth.
None of the people aboard this ship were harmless. They needed a heavy hand!
Faced with regular troops carrying loaded weapons, the passengers did not dare cause trouble. They silently lined up and obediently underwent identity verification.
The ship's hundreds of thousands of passengers soon finished verification and were gathered in a vast square.
The same officer then walked onto a raised platform in the square and addressed them through a loudspeaker system.
"Ahem! You can hear me, right?"
"Let me introduce myself. Hmm, who I am doesn't matter." With a cold expression and his hands behind his back, the officer said, "All you need to remember is that I'm the highest authority responsible for supervising you."
"I know you were all people of some standing in the United Nations of Earth. But here,