Chapter 452 The Predator Trapping Plan (51)
Chapter 452 The Predator Trapping Plan (51)
Yan Zhen asked, "Will this matter also involve the Qin family?"
“That depends on whether they’re willing to get involved,” Qin Shao said. “The Qin family moved out of Eastfin overnight.”
Yan Zhen paused slightly upon hearing this: "They contacted you?"
Qin Shao didn't hide anything and nodded: "My mother wants me to go with them."
"You're not going?"
Qin Shao truthfully replied, "I still have lingering resentment about what happened before. I don't know how to get along with them when I go back, and besides, there are still people at home..."
He did not continue.
The younger brother is also a high-level spiritual power user; his existence is to replace Qin Shao, who has been abandoned.
The child is already nine years old, not at an age where he can't remember things. If Qin Shao returns to the Qin family at this time, the two brothers will inevitably have a question about who should inherit the family property.
He was unwilling to face that situation, and even less did he want to be in a position of being "chosen".
“Go back if you want, don’t go back if you don’t want to,” Yan Zhen said. “Of course, if you feel really uncomfortable, you have a third option.”
Qin Shao asked, puzzled, "What?"
Yan Zhen looked at the live news about Eastfin on the floating screen of the quantum computer and said, "Take down the Qin family and drive them out."
Qin Shao was taken aback.
The three stayed in the small city for seven days. On the eve of the war reaching the city, they left in their aircraft and headed to the next city.
The battle between the two families continues, and more and more nobles are being drawn into it.
Because of the war, countless people began to flee to other planets, and prices on A001 skyrocketed to dozens of times their previous levels.
More than two months have passed in the blink of an eye.
After moving six times intermittently, and with prices rising more than a hundredfold, Qin Shao, who had been observing the battle situation, made a decision: "Let's go back to C032."
Haier had wanted to go back for a long time, but since Qin Shao and Yan Zhen hadn't shown any intention of leaving, he hadn't dared to bring it up.
Hearing Qin Shao say this, he was both curious and excited: "Are you going back to call in people to deal with the Winston family?"
More than a dozen planets of varying sizes in the vicinity have been drawn into this war, and the flames of war seem poised to spread throughout the entire galaxy, escalating into an interstellar war.
Has Qin Shao finally decided to make his move after observing for so long?
Qin Shao said, "The Qin family has made their move; it's not appropriate for us to stay here any longer."
Yan Zhen immediately understood Qin Shao's meaning.
The three packed their things and left A001 that day.
Back in C032, Qin Shao and Yan Zhen got busy.
The Winston family has been expanding its influence over the years, launching wars of aggression against small planets in the galaxy.
After conquering those weaker planets, they developed industries such as agriculture, weaponry, metal and energy mining, red-light districts, and drugs, taking advantage of the climate, environment, and the racial advantages of the native inhabitants.
Qin Shao convened a meeting with his subordinates, listing the Winston family's businesses on other planets, intending to take them down one by one.
"The first team is responsible for securing the armaments produced in Winston; this is of paramount importance."
"The second tier is responsible for agriculture, mining planets, and energy planets."
"The third team is responsible for red-light districts and drugs. These two types don't need to be moved back; they can be destroyed on the spot."
The saying goes, "An army is raised for a thousand days to be used for one." Qin Shao's men, including notorious criminals, desperate aliens, and ruthless interstellar pirates, each took on their missions and left in batches with high-tech weapons.
After waking up from a nap, Haier looked at the spaceships, warships, and fighter jets taking off in the distance and asked Yan Zhen, "Brother-in-law, are you planning to join the war?"
Yan Zhen said, "I guess so."
"What does it mean?"
“He doesn’t intend to go head-to-head with any of the A001 families. Right now, he’s just taking advantage of the chaos…” Yan Zhen carefully considered his words before saying, “…profiteering from the chaos.”
Haier initially did not understand the meaning of "profiting from someone's misfortune".
He only went to see Shen Rong off when he heard that Shen Rong was also going to war.
Upon learning that Shen Rong's destination and mission were to seize a planet 1,300 light-years away, belonging to the Winston family, which specialized in the mass production of military equipment, Haier realized that "profiting from someone's misfortune" truly meant what it said.
While Winston and Thorne were locked in a life-or-death struggle, with the Qin family getting involved and fanning the flames, Qin Shao, who didn't want to stand on the same side as the Qin family, simply withdrew from C032 and sent his men to plunder the properties under the two families' names, thus cutting off their lifeline.
Yan Zhen was tasked with destroying a planet that had been turned into a place for planting and manufacturing drugs, and Haier volunteered to accompany him.
After more than thirty hours of sailing, the fleet of hundreds of thousands of people arrived at the planet three thousand light-years away.
This is a planet designated M3056, with a low level of civilization. Before being colonized by the Winston family using high-tech weapons, the planet's original inhabitants had just entered the industrialization stage.
Winston's army first released a virus onto the planet that would cause mass deaths among the elderly, children, and people with underlying health conditions who have weakened immune systems.
The virus ravaged the world in just one month, and in less than six months, only young adults survived on this planet.
Then the army invaded this dry and warm planet and enslaved the native inhabitants.
Slaves were divided into two main categories: one group was responsible for planting and manufacturing drugs, while the other group was responsible for bearing children, providing a sustainable workforce for the planet.
This low-cost enslavement created enormous wealth for Winston, enabling them to roam freely across the stars.
For decades, 15 percent of the Winston family’s income came from drugs.
To create such a highly profitable industry, the Winston family has very tight defenses. Yan Zhen is not good at commanding interstellar battles, so the commander of this war is someone else.
It took nearly two months from the fleet entering the gravitational field to capturing the planet.
Once C032's fleet had captured the planet, Yan Zhen looked out the warship's porthole at the war-ravaged, scarred land and issued the final order to destroy all the drugs.
Although the alien invasion war set back the civilization of this planet by decades or even centuries, as long as there are no more drugs and no more bloodsucking slave owners, time will heal the scars and the planet will slowly recover.
Haier stood next to Yan Zhen, arms crossed, and said, "We've already taken this place, why aren't we sending anyone to guard it?"
Yan Zhen countered, "What are we doing guarding this place?"
Haier said, "We can use them to our advantage, and we can also prevent other planets with advanced civilizations from becoming their new slave owners."
"If we let them work for us, then what's the difference between us and the Winston family?"
Yan Zhen said, "As for whether other civilizations will invade this place, that is not within our scope of concern. We are here for only one purpose, which is to cut off the blood vessels that supply the Winston family."
As for what happens to this planet after the mission is completed, that's none of her business.
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