Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 319 Sky-high Price Ticket
This black slime is proof of everything that ever existed on the surface of this planet.

And now there is nothing.

All plants and animals seemed to be pressed into the ground and turned into oil after millions of years. Dust returned to dust and soil returned to soil.

Galaxy space stations controlled by humans were destroyed one after another.

The human territories represented on the map fell one after another under the watchful eyes of everyone.

It can be said that if those two ideal balls were not transferred away in advance.

All the efforts of mankind over the years have been in vain, and not a single bit will be left.

Unlike humans who have a way out, this insect plague actually occurred within Portman's sphere of influence.

Although before the disaster occurred, Qin Xu had already told them about the upcoming insect plague.

But Portman's inefficient organizational skills were not enough for them to organize any decent retreat.

The air defense sirens on the Portman colony planet close to the edge of human territory have been ringing from the beginning.

Since the alarm about the insect infestation sounded, many Portman companies have taken a fancy to the business opportunities here.

Some of them built ships on site, while others transferred spaceships from other places and sailed to these border planets.

Densely packed spaceships sailed towards these border planets, but many of them were not fully loaded with only half of the people, or simply loaded with only a few people and left here.

There is an endless stream of boats, but there is no endless stream of people.

The sky-high ticket prices make it impossible for ordinary people to afford this high price.

Generally, when countries set prices, they will set prices according to local wage levels. Even if they set prices high, they will not be too high.

But Portman is different.

You don't have so much money, so you can borrow money from us.

You deserve the credit of Rockfield Bank.

It’s okay to borrow 100 years’ salary in one go and pay it back over time.

For this reason, Rockeffield Bank also launched something called Ark Loan specifically for this business.

Now these spaceships are Noah's Ark. If you want to board the ship, you have to borrow money from them to buy a ticket.

At this time, people in Portman had no way of knowing how terrifying the insect plague was.

It's just that the state asked them to flee for their lives, so they just ran away.

But for this kind of thing, it is a bit too much to make them bear debts that they will not pay off in several lifetimes.

Because of this, seeing that ferry tickets have been sold at sky-high prices, many people simply choose not to leave.

Those companies that came to organize retreats also acted like if you want to buy, you can buy it or leave if you don't. It is impossible to reduce prices anyway.

This is the money to buy your life, not the money to fly on a spaceship. If the price is too low, you will feel that we are looking down on you.

The two sides were in a stalemate, causing some of the spacecraft to return empty.

But even if it was empty, enough money was made from other passengers that this trip was a huge profit among huge profits.

As the tragic picture of the human planet being destroyed by the Zerg reached Portman, Portman's company and the people on the planet were boiling.

Major companies are frantically using these images to publicize how miserable the planet will be if it is overrun by a plague of insects.

Afraid that the people trust Portman's army and feel that Portman's army can help them resist the Zerg attack.

The major companies also sent them the combat records of Field and the Zerg Swarm some time ago to let them understand how dangerous their current situation is.

With this set of combinations in place, people on Portman, no matter how slow they were, realized the seriousness of the problem.This is no longer a question of money, but a matter of leaving. Leave this planet immediately. Staying will only lead to a dead end.

However, when people who originally disdain to buy these sky-high price tickets force their minds and want to buy them again.

Major companies saw the opportunity and more than doubled or tripled the price of ferry tickets.

This time the doubling has basically reached the top.

Because these ordinary people can only borrow so much money from banks, and they will not be able to borrow more money.

Everyone who wants to board the ship needs to pay tribute with all their net worth plus the entire amount you can borrow from the bank in order to get a ticket to board the ship.

The Portman outposts on the front line fell one after another.

The pest plague is approaching, but there are still many ordinary people who cannot afford the boat ticket.

Even if they borrow money from the bank, they can't afford it because their income is too low and the bank is not taking advantage of them.

Knowing that no matter how hard you squeeze them in the future, you won't be able to repay the money, you won't borrow it again.

And until the spacecraft parked above the planet cannot pick up the next passenger for a long, long time.

Major companies have finally remembered that they need to assume certain social responsibilities.

One after another, the sky-high prices have been adjusted to dynamically changing sky-high prices.

As long as you sell all your assets and borrow all the money you can borrow from the bank, your ticket will be at this price.

The price is different for everyone. Tickets are more expensive for rich people and cheaper for people without money.

As long as you want to get on board, major companies will definitely take you away.

Even if you are a beggar and can't get even a penny out, the company is willing to take you away.

As soon as the news came out, people on the planet immediately sold off all their assets with gratitude, borrowed the maximum amount from the bank, and rushed onto the spaceship.

After two or three batches of large-scale evacuations, the Portmans on the border planet were finally evacuated.

Planet after planet was devoured by the Zerg and transformed into the Zerg home planet.

And these planets that have been transformed into the Zerg home planets, no matter whether they can take them back in the future, it is no longer possible to go back.

It can be said that the greater the scope of influence of the Zerg, the smaller the total living space of intelligent creatures will be.

And it is permanent and irreparable.

This is the terrible thing about Zerg.

After the Zerg continues to expand its occupation range and turn more habitable planets into its Zerg home planet.

It was gradually discovered that the density of the insect swarms was reduced.

The insect swarm covers the entire universe and every galaxy, which directly leads to the small number of them in every galaxy.

From time to time, there are sounds of battleships and insect swarms fighting in the universe.

This time, not only Field and Portman's fleets attacked.

The human fleet also launched a counterattack against the captured human galaxy under the command of Qin Xu.

In this major counterattack, the continuous dispersion of the insect swarm eventually reduced the number to a level that could be eliminated.
Another reason is that they want to take back this planet that has been occupied by the insect swarm and is about to be transformed into a mother nest.

Once the planet is reorganized and completely occupied, there will be no possibility of the planet's ecology changing back, and it can only be taken away by the colossus.

The insect swarm has just landed and has not yet established a firm foothold. It is the weakest time. If you don't grab it back at this time, you will really have no chance.

(End of this chapter)