Become a legend in the interstellar

Chapter 381 The Price of Freedom

"They're here!"

Andrew looked flustered and shouted such words in his mouth.

Who are they?

Su Xia guessed that it probably belonged to the left-eyed group, but he didn't have the time to go into it now.

Now is the moment of tension in the whole city. Such a sudden explosion will definitely attract the attention of the machine clan.

"go!"

Su Xia grabbed Andrew, turned into an afterimage, and disappeared into the ruins of the garage.

There is no time to care about other things now, it is best to go!
The 155mm guided shell that hit the villa just now is a special self-propelled artillery with extremely high accuracy and an effective range of more than forty kilometers.

Su Xia is not in the mood to search for enemies within a radius of tens of kilometers. Maybe the machine clan will come to the door before the enemy is found.

Although he already had an anti-stance device, he really didn't want to go through another bloody battle.

In the process of running, Su Xia carefully sensed Andrew's whole body.

"Idiot, there is a positioning device installed by others in the leg, can't you feel it?" Su Xia cursed.

"what?"

Andrew's face turned pale, and he subconsciously wanted to see his legs.

But now he is being carried by Su Xia, the speed is also extremely fast, the spine is under a lot of pressure, as if there is a huge boulder pressing in front of him, and he can't bow his head at all.

At the next moment, Su Xia raised her hand, and with a bang, a ring-shaped tracking device broke Andrew's calf, with fresh blood stains on it.

"That's it!"

Su Xia pinched it hard, and was about to burst it, but after thinking about it, she didn't do that, and just threw it on the side of the road.

Throw it here to attract the opponent's artillery fire.

Speaking of which, this was also his mistake.

He had sensed that there was metal in the fat man's leg before, but he found that it was cylindrical and thought it was an alloy leg bone, so he didn't care.

It was indeed an alloy leg bone. Andrew was seriously injured in an explosion in the early years. His leg bone was shattered and had to be replaced with a metal bone. However, an additional ring-shaped tracking device was installed on the top of this metal bone.

This thing is well-made and integrated with the bones, even Su Xia was almost deceived.

"hiss……"

Andrew was trembling with pain. After all, it was equivalent to a bone being removed alive, and a large piece of flesh and skin were torn open.

Su Xia didn't bother to listen to his wailing, so she directly injected him with a healing potion to help his wound recover.

At this moment, not far behind them, another explosion occurred.

"Boom—"

The coordinates of the explosion are exactly where Su Xia dropped the positioning device just now.

Obviously, the other party has been monitoring Andrew's location in real time through the equipment, and found that he moved, so he knew that he was not killed, so he fired a second shell.

This time, Su Xia seriously sensed the direction of the shells.

It's from the suburbs to the northwest!
The other party did not dare to set up the self-propelled artillery in the urban area. After all, there are too many people and they only dare to put it in an unoccupied area in the suburbs.

This highly accurate and long-range artillery is the perfect tool for decapitation operations.

"The situation is highly tense now, and you dare to use this thing, which means that the other party really wants to kill you."

Su Xia sensed that the explosion of the shell just now successfully shattered the positioning device.

In the other party's device display, the signal belonging to Andrew probably disappeared like this.

Next, they may send people to check, or they may flee directly. After all, the machine clan will soon be attracted by the sound of gunfire and block the entire area.

"Remember, you owe me your life."

Su Xia exploded in speed, took Andrew to move quickly, and entered the suburbs with few people. After staying away from the area of ​​the previous explosion, he found an old house with no one at random, and entered through the window.

He left Andrew in the house, then stood by the window, waiting quietly.

"vomit……"

In the room, Andrew's face was pale, he clutched his stomach, lying on the corner of the wall retching, feeling nauseated and feeling unwell all over.

This is the negative impact of high-speed movement, Ding Can and Tie Zi also reacted in this way last time.

After a while, he stopped retching and sat on the ground, barely comfortable.

"Have you finished vomiting?"

Su Xia casually summoned a piece of iron, twisted it into the shape of a chair, and sat on the chair.

He crossed his legs and said to Andrew like interrogating a prisoner, "I have a few questions next, and you answer them seriously."

"Yes, my lord, you ask."

Andrew nodded again and again, not daring to object.

His life is in Su Xia's hands now, and he owes Su Xia a life.

"The first question is about the two shells just now." Su Xia said unhurriedly, "Can you confirm who the other party is?"

"Yes, yes."

Andrew replied: "It must be the group I belong to, you should know, the left eye group."

Su Xia asked, "100% sure?"

Andrew replied: "Since I have a positioning device on my leg, it must be. They know that I am running away, and they are worried that I will reveal the secret, so they want to destroy me."

"Destroy? That's an interesting word." Su Xia said.

"Yes, I am also one of the products of the Left Eye Group, so it is very appropriate to use the word 'destroy'. We are used to it internally, and we are used to it."

"What product?"

"Cyborg."

"Um……"

Su Xia looked at Andrew, observed carefully, and saw part of Andrew's life experience from the character description that popped up in front of him.

As an artificial human, Andrew has very few genetic defects, and has shown excellent IQ and physical fitness since he was a child.

In the end, with such a good body, he turned into the present appearance of a vain and fat middle-aged man.

"Where did you grow up?" Su Xia asked him.

"Over the sea, on another continent, in the underground living area of ​​a group branch." Andrew explained truthfully.

"Trained by the group since childhood?"

"Yes, yes, the group will educate us." Andrew said, "When I was a child, I didn't know what it was like outside. I was with many cloned children of the same age. We wore white clothes of the same color and were managed centrally. , eat together, do activities together, receive education together..."

Andrew described a strange place.

In his words, it is probably a "cultivation factory", and the top management needs to let the children in the factory become what they want.

In the process of growing up, the little friends around him will disappear one after another, as if they have gone to other places.

When he was 13 years old, he was lucky to be selected and left the underground factory.

"After that, they began to train me in another direction, and gradually let me take over some low-level things." Andrew slowly narrated, "That was also the first time I saw the outside world, which was a little different from what I imagined."

The education in childhood made a child like him form complex emotions such as curiosity, dependence, and awe towards the group itself.

Many people have even become almost like machines, they only follow the orders given to them by the group, and don't care whether the orders are good or bad.

Because, in their world view—except for the group of people, other human beings in the whole world are not of the same race as them, and have nothing to do with them.

The outside world is a different world to them.

Even if the world is destroyed, as long as the group is still there.

Many people have become different kinds of dead men, just like the security guards Su Xia saw in the landfill.

Their thinking is bound in the cage created for them by the group. Without the group, they don't know what they want to do, or... what kind of person do they want to be?

In their minds, they don't have their own outlook on life and values ​​at all.

Andrew was lucky.

His intelligence made him stand out, and he was gradually assigned to do more business that required flexible handling.

"I was sent here when I was 25 years old. Since then, I have been going back and forth between the two continents for more than ten years, and I have gradually become what I am now." Andrew said by himself.

"It seems that you are doing well." Su Xia said.

"Well, it may be that I have been more tactful since I was a child, so I am suitable for doing this kind of external work. I always thought that the loyalty of so many years has made the group headquarters feel at ease with me, but I didn't expect..."

Andrew glanced at his calf, the wound on his leg hadn't healed yet.

Before today, he would never have imagined that there was actually a tracking device on him.

His injury was seven years ago, that is to say, during the past seven years, his movements have been under the surveillance of the headquarters.

Fortunately, he has been careful in the past seven years and has not done anything out of line.

Until today, when he planned to get away and run away, he was targeted by the headquarters and became a substandard product that needed to be destroyed.

"Hey, people like me, who look glamorous on the outside, are not free for life. They are always an additional product tied to the group."

After experiencing life and death at that moment just now, Andrew seemed to see a lot, and knew everything about Su Xia.

Anyway, he can't go back now, and his future life and death will depend on Su Xia.

He continued: "I have been doing subtraction for myself all my life, and I dare not even have family members, so that one day I can be free, leave the group, and then change my appearance, truly integrate into this world, and get rid of all burdens."

Su Xia said: "Freedom has a price."

"Yes, Mr. Mask, you see it very clearly."

"Tell me about the main business of your group."

"it is good……"

Andrew paused, hugged his calf, his eyes were blank for a moment, as if he was remembering something.

After a while, he said: "Master Mask, you must also know a kind of business, which is to extract things that can make people live longer from living people."

"Can you really live longer?" Su Xia asked.

This is a question he has always wanted to know, after all, even the system that comes with the game cannot give an accurate description.

This world follows many basic laws of life. If the elderly here can prolong their life by absorbing the life substances of the young, can the elderly on the other side of the earth do it?

Andrew shook his head and said, "Of course not, it's just to deceive those fools and rich people."

Su Xia froze for a moment, then asked, "No effect?"

"No."

Andrew was very sure, and explained: "My lord, the extracted substances, such as the so-called 'vivitoxin', 'renhemin', etc., are actually high-protein liquids, and they have no longevity effect at all."

"Those rich people won't notice?" Su Xia asked.

"My lord, do you think what they bought is really a product?" Andrew said seriously: "There are many of them, what they bought is actually just a hope. Anyway, they are going to die of old age, so it is better to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor."

"Buy a psychological comforter?"

"Yes."

"I see."

Su Xia probably understood.

It should be one of the most painful things in the world when people are alive and the money is not spent.

Many rich people are in their 90s and [-]s, and half of their feet have already entered the grave.

But they are not reconciled, they want to live forever, always stand at the top of this world, and enjoy the fun brought to them by power, status and wealth.

After all, who doesn't want to live forever in the days of being a master?
"In the first half of their lives, most of those people stepped on the heads of the bottom-level people, smashed the bones and sucked the marrow, squeezed crazily, and continuously gathered the value created by the bottom-level people into their own hands..."

Andrew said: "In the second half of their lives, when they get old, they want to 'knock the bones and suck the marrow' in a physical sense, trying to absorb the life of the bottom people to prolong their own life."

At the group headquarters, there is a special training to teach Andrew to analyze the psychology of this kind of people.

In the words of their group - those people will become vampires twice in their lifetime, once in the sense of wealth and once in the sense of flesh and blood.

And one of the businesses of their group is to suck the blood of these vampires.

Use the funds, contacts, power, etc. provided by these vampires to speed up the research of the group headquarters and the expansion of the group around the world.

"I got rid of one of your senior buyers before, a manor owner. He is in his 60s, but he looks like he is in his 40s," Su Xia said.

"My lord, the youth of the body is easy to maintain."

"How to do it?"

"In the products we sell to them, there will be some auxiliary medicinal liquids. In fact, it is those medicinal liquids that really work, which can make them look younger."

Andrew explained: "But they think that what really makes them young are the so-called 'vivigenes' and 'cerebrospinal hormones'."

Su Xia asked: "Won't they notice? The top rich people should know many high-end pharmacists."

"My lord, many rich people don't believe in medicine." Andrew continued to explain, "They think that those medicines have side effects and are three-point poisonous, so they trust our products more. After all, our products are extracted from the human body. In their view, it is 'pure natural', even if it needs to be mixed with a small amount of auxiliary medicinal liquid, it is acceptable."

"That's it."

"Yes, my lord, to do this business, you need to have a sufficient understanding of the psychology of those rich people."

"Is there any other way to stay young?"

"some."

Andrew answered earnestly: "We tell those buyers that in order to make the product function perfectly, they must quit smoking and drinking, get up early and go to bed early, keep exercising, and live a healthy life, so that the body can absorb various longevity substances more perfectly."

Su Xia said: "If you can stick to these healthy habits for a long time, you will look younger than your peers."

"Yes, it is so."

"So this is a fraudulent business?"

"My lord, you summed it up very brilliantly."

"..."

If it's just to lie to those who are rich and unkind, Su Xia would be very happy to see it.

However, in order to make the deception real, this group created kidnapping cases all over the world, and used cruel methods to treat those children and women, etc., with bloody debts and serious crimes.

"For so many years, haven't your actions been exposed?" Su Xia asked.

"My lord, of course it has been exposed, otherwise how could there be so many conspiracy theories? Almost every conspiracy theory has its source."

As we all know, most of the conspiracy theories circulating now have the following characteristics-mysterious organization, behind-the-scenes mastermind, terrifying truth, some real events, etc...

All kinds of legends are difficult to distinguish between true and false, and in the end they often become a joke in the eyes of many people.

When Su Xia came into contact with part of the truth about one of them, he found that this thing could indeed be called a joke.

It's just that too many innocent lives were lost for this joke.

There are also too many people who unite around this joke and become a huge community of interests.

According to Andrew, they have faced the risk of complete exposure several times in recent years, but with the joint efforts of various high-end customers, these risks have been suppressed.

Afterwards, they even invested in the production of many literary and artistic works to mock those who tried to reveal the truth, such as "Escape from the Cloned World", "The Shocking Inside Story", "Assassination of Leaders", etc., many of which won awards.

"My lord, to ordinary people, our group is indeed terrifying, hiding in the dark depths, like big invisible hands, but...you are different, you probably think this is ridiculous." Andrew Said so.

"how?"

"You have already stood at the pinnacle of the world. With your ability, watching us disrupt the situation is like watching children fight."

(End of this chapter)