"There was a fierce shootout today in the area of Sahato Center Square, which spread to fourteen streets and broke out massively on Nuhar Boulevard. Eighty-six people were killed and more than 200 wounded, making it the largest street shootout in Saharto in the last decade. It is not yet possible to confirm the identities of the two sides of the shootout, and it is initially expected that it is likely that the gangs are fighting for turf and causing the ......"

Syllable.

Renault turned off the TV.

Ten people sit together in a small hotel on the outskirts of Saharto.

"Hey, don't look at me like that. I only killed more than twenty people, all of them were the ones who hunted down Carmela, and the others were killed by those people. Tycos spread his hands and said, "I am doing harm to the people." ”

"That's not the problem, Tycos. This time the movement is so big that we have already attracted the attention of the police, which will be very troublesome for our next action. Modi said.

"It's not my fault." Tycos pointed at Carmela: "She's the one who got into trouble." ”

Carmella also knew that she had made a mistake, lowered her head and said: "I just want to make more money for everyone, four conventional engines are not cheap, even if I can bargain, I have to have enough capital." ”

"Forget it, Carmela just wants to get things done." At this time, Renault did not teach Carmela a lesson, but comforted her, which made Carmela feel much better.

"Now the key is the girl, what do we do with her?" Claire asked, gesturing to the next room.

Renault scratched his scalp with a headache.

There are all kinds of people who have a free heart, but there is nothing that can make people lose their memory.

"I think it's easier to kill her." Tycos said with a big grin.

Renaud shook his head: "We kill, but we don't lose our hearts, that girl is innocent, we can't do that." ”

"I know you won't agree, so what do we do? Let her go? Tycos asked, "The question is, who can guarantee that she won't tell us about it?" ”

"How about Martha listen to her?" Nava asked.

Renault shook his head: "It's useless. People's psychology changes with the changes in the surrounding environment. Even if we use all kinds of methods to get her to agree not to betray us, once we set her free, in the new environment, under the temptation of some people, she will probably change her mind. It has nothing to do with whether she lies or not, and even the most sincere person does not prevent him from contradicting himself. ”

Viral agreed: "Every time Tycos says quit smoking, he is sincere, but he is also sincere when he gives up. ”

"Hey, boy, if you dare to talk about me again, I'll beat you up!" Tycos said viciously.

"So what do we do? Can't you keep her locked up like this? Wang Yile exclaimed.

"To be honest, I'm afraid this is the only way, and after we take the institute and take the holy relics, it doesn't matter what she says." Nora said.

"Oh!" Everyone groaned together.

With such a burden, everyone's actions will be troublesome.

As the only beneficiary of this matter, Tycos may not mind the most: "I think it's quite appropriate for a person to change a gun." ”

His shameless smile drew the eyes of everyone.

"Martha, go find out where the girl came from. Since we're going to live together for a while, we have to understand it anyway. ”

Martha grinned and pushed open the door next door.

The brown-haired girl was sitting on the bed, holding her knees and not knowing what she was thinking.

When she saw Martha come in, she jumped up like a frightened rabbit and shrank into the corner.

Then I probably realized that it was a little girl who was younger than her, and looked thinner than her, and the girl's waist was straighter.

She glared at Martha, as if to say I'm not afraid of you.

Martha closed the door and sat down in front of the maiden.

She said, "Your name." ”

The girl hesitated for a moment and said, "Laura Clear." ”

"Elizabeth Lauer. Your father's name? ”

The girl's eyes straightened: "I said my name is Laura Clear." ”

"I hear you, Elizabeth Lauer!" Martha replied indifferently, "Your father's name is Bert Lauer?" What does he do...... The executive officer of the Tianhe branch of Jindun Group? Still a big shot. From that car and bodyguard, what are you doing at the hotel? ”

The girl's face turned pale with fright, and her whole body trembled.

She had never experienced such a scene at all, and she couldn't figure out how such a thing could happen, the little girl in front of her was like a demon, and she could know what she was thinking.

Martha said impatiently: "Please don't waste your time and energy on cranky thoughts, let alone think that you can stun me with the pillow you have at hand, damn I'm not the devil!" ”

Mind reading is not invincible.

Thoughtlessness is the best way to resist.

In addition, in most cases, what is in mind is not concretely written.

It's like when you think about someone, you usually think of someone's face directly, and that person's name doesn't appear every time. Listening to the mind can read people's inner thoughts, but when people's thinking itself is too fragmented, visualized, concise, or even abstract, even if it is read out, it is useless.

This makes Martha's use of mind reading still extremely limited, and the reason why her performance just now is so magical is largely because she is deliberately inducing the girl to give answers in her heart.

However, this set is not very effective for the free-minded warriors who have already undergone countless "eavesdropping" tests, and Martha can only occasionally eavesdrop on everyone's hearts, but people are gradually learning not to use inner monologue thinking activities in front of Martha.

Finally, mind reading is very energy-intensive.

Delaying time is the best way to deal with Martha, as she doesn't know when the other person will think of what she needs, so once the mind listening technique is activated, it will not stop until the energy is exhausted.

So if she pushes the free-hearted people, it won't be of much use. But when she urged Elizabeth, this simple and straightforward approach worked.

The method is still taught by the adults of the free heart.

As the thought flashed through Elizabeth's mind, Martha had already captured that trace of information, and although it was a little scattered, Martha, who also had a wealth of experience in fragment capture, quickly sorted out the content.

Then there was a great deal of surprise on her face.

She stood up and pulled the door open.

"His father is the executive officer of the Tianhe distribution of the Golden Shield Group, and he is doing business with the BaZulu people, and that gun is the sample. Because it was the first transaction, she was in charge of escorting and being a hostage by the way. ”

Hearing this, everyone jumped.

BaZulu is a highly humanoid life, they are tall, generally about three meters, covered with fine hair, walk upright, and have very thick nostrils, and can even be seen surging air between their nostrils when breathing.

The BaZulu are natural warriors, brave, aggressive, and powerful, adapting to a variety of complex and treacherous environments. However, their numbers are far less than humans, and most importantly, their technological skills are not as good as humans, and they are eventually defeated in the battle with humans.

Despite this, the BaZulu are unwilling to surrender, hiding in the shadows and still fighting for racial freedom.

No wonder the gun was that big, now the explanation is clear.

Only BaZulu would need a gun that big, and as for Tycos, he was an outlier to count.

"The Golden Shield Group dares to do business with BaZulu, it's so bold." Modi said.

BaZulu is a hostile force, in official parlance, a separatist, a terrorist, and of course, humanity automatically ignores the fact that BaZulu is indeed an independent race with its own homeland. In a sense, the nature of the collusion with BaZulu is more serious than the collusion with the Free Heart, after all, the latter has not yet raised the banner of rebellion, and his identity is still essentially a prisoner, not a hostile force.

However, little Martha threw out an even more shocking answer:

"It's not the Golden Shield Group, it's the Tianhe Fleet."

"What do you say? The Tianhe Fleet sells weapons to BaZulu? ”

The crowd couldn't believe their ears.

Renault said, "I'll ask again." ”

He entered the room.

You don't have to read a mind to get everything, especially if it's already happening.

It didn't take long for Renault to come out and say, "Bert Lauer has brought the Tianhe fleet a batch of cannons specially customized for BaZulu with their own small arms production plant. ”

"Why are they doing this?"

"What else? For money, of course. Reynaud replied: "The funds of the military are always limited, and everyone wants to use the power or resources in their hands to gain some advantage for themselves." ”

"But those BaZulu were the first ones to attack when they got their weapons!"

"That's better, you can report to the upper level that the Tianhe Star Field has been attacked by terrorists and ask for more funds."

"But that's going to kill a lot of people."

"Those who sell arms don't die." Renault perfectly depicts the faces of the moths who sell arms privately.

Tycos gritted his teeth and scolded: "These scumbags, they can do anything for money." ”

Claire shook her head and said, "This society ...... It sucks. ”

It is not surprising that a human regime that has existed for nearly 3,000 years has long since become decaying as it ages.

This is also a phenomenon common to almost every human regime: the beginning of the grass is full of vigor, the moment of success is like the sky, followed by corruption, inability to expand, and finally the subversion of the regime, and then a new cycle.

Over the past thousands of years, people have tried to find various systems to solve the problem.

But the truth is that no one ever succeeds.

Because no system can solve a fundamental problem: class solidification.

Class solidification is an inevitable phenomenon of social stability and development, and people distinguish groups of people through various methods such as education and job opportunities, so that the rich are always rich, and the poor are still poor. This kind of solidification has brought social stability to a certain extent, but it has also made the society lack vitality, and the people above will not come down, and the people below will not have the opportunity to go up, and eventually chaos will be formed.

This is largely due to the regime changes in the past few thousand years in human history.

The new federation was able to sustain its rule for 3,000 years, not because they solved the problem of class consolidation, but because they solved another fundamental problem: the underdistribution of resources due to population growth.

In the past Earth era, there was a very clear phenomenon. That is, when society is stable and life becomes better, the population will increase significantly, and the result will be a decrease in unit resources, and when this reduction breaks through to a critical point, it will be accompanied by disasters and riots/chaos.

The advent of the great cosmic era has enabled people to go out of the earth, and the abundant resources and territories in the universe have greatly alleviated the population pressure. People find that they can have as many children as they want, as they can occupy.

The universe is large enough to withstand human expansion for a long time.

It is this kind of unrestricted external expansion that relieves the pressure on resources and the phenomenon of class solidification, through continuous expansion, the new federal government can continue to create new jobs and new opportunities for everyone.

It was this expansion that allowed human society to stabilize, and even once thought that the existing new federal system was the best system.

At the same time, it conceals the corruption that characterizes the regime itself.

After nearly 3,000 years of existence, the regime has rotted to unimaginable proportions. A general like Marshall is an anomaly, and a politician like Courtman is normal.

It is precisely because of this that there will be such scum as the Tianhe Fleet and the director of the research institute.

They even dare to sell holy relics, what is it to sell a few guns?

In the New Federation, this kind of thing has long been rampant.