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43. Departure

The Imperial Capital Airport is located at a height of 30,000 meters above the Imperial Capital Star. From here, you can clearly see countless ships traveling between the port. The light left by the engines in the deep space of the universe is like meteors with tails, dazzling and dazzling.

"There are more than 20,000 spacecraft entering and leaving here every day. Although the imperial capital star only has 60 million permanent residents, the number of migrant population is hundreds of times more." Flan chuckled, "There are tens of millions of people who come to sightsee and travel from all over the empire alone."

This was the first time Lu Hailan was in such a terrifying crowd. He and Flan took a civil transport ladder and rose from the ground to the port platform. They stood in the huge port hall. Looking up, there were people everywhere, and they could not see the end at first sight... He pressed the brim of his hat uneasily, and put his hands into his pockets as he imitated Flan, and followed the other party awkwardly and shuttled through the crowd.

This afternoon on April 18, 801, the imperial calendar, Lu Hailan and Flan set off for Wei'an. They will take a regular civil aviation boat between the imperial capital and Wei'an. Lu Hailan, disguised as ordinary people, wore a very common outfit among teenagers outside: jeans, sneakers, T-shirts, sports jackets, baseball caps... His conspicuous black hair was cut short and dyed into silver gray similar to the flange, and his pupils were also disguised. He looked like a pair of brothers with the flange.

"The ship is at the dock of Maoqi30." Flan looked at the message on Guangming as he walked, "There are still 45 minutes left to drive the ship, so he should be able to board the ship."

While speaking, the two finally squeezed out from the entrance and exit of the hall with the most crowded flow of people and came to the automatic transmission belt leading to the designated dock. The crowd was split into strips by the transmission belt and sent to different destinations. Several guards disguised themselves in the crowd, protecting Lu Hailan and the flange in the center from front and back to left and right. People kept going up and down from the conveyor belt, and new people came up. As the guards deliberately shrank, there was finally a small quiet place beside Lu Hailan. He raised his hand and touched his forehead, his fingertips were filled with sweat.

When we arrived at the Maoqi30 Wharf, it was another scene. At the dock was a small civil passenger ship commonly known as the "Dolphin". It belongs to the high-speed civil shipping group. The group's largest shareholder is the Ministry of Transport, which is a semi-state-owned nature. The number of this ship is Wei Anling43, which is a regular ship between the imperial capital Daxing and Wei An. It left the factory six years ago and was still a new ship in great condition.

"Wei'an is one of the main agricultural stars in the east, and the tourism industry is also very developed." Flan casually introduced, "Look at the advertisement painted on the boat, this Xin'an Food is Wei'an's largest farmer and an enterprise under the name of the Xin'an family."

"I remember that the administrative capital of the Lev galaxy was Yunzhou." Lu Hailan intersected, avoiding a woman holding a child, following the end of the crowd boarding the ship, and slowly moving forward with Flan.

"Yunzhou is also the largest underground trading market in the east." Flan smiled and said, "This is why we didn't choose to party there. The place was very messy and there were all kinds of people. Those who passed you on the street might be a wanted criminal with a reward of over 100 million yuan."

Lu Hailan frowned slightly, but the noise here is noisy, so it is not suitable to continue talking about this topic. Not far ahead is the boarding passage opened separately for VIP cabin passengers. Flan opened the light brain while getting on the boat and sent a hull structure diagram to Lu Hailan. Lu Hailan took a rough look, then realized something was wrong, and turned off the light screen without saying a word.

He looked at Flan silently, and the latter smiled purely at him.

——I have never seen anyone's hull structure diagram with real-time situation monitoring. This is clearly a real-time monitoring diagram that was retrieved from the surveillance system in the ship... It is undoubtedly a crime.

The VIP cabin is located in the middle and upper part of the entire ship, with three floors. The rooms booked by Lu Hailan and others are on the third floor. It is the peak season for traveling to Wei'an. All the guest rooms in the VIP cabin are fully booked, and the information of these passengers is all mastered by Flan in advance and stored in a bracelet he gave Lu Hailan. In addition to identifying his identity, this bracelet can also monitor the space within a certain range of space around Lu Hailan in real time and warn of danger.

They will spend the next eight days on this ship.

In the viewing hall outside the third floor guest room area, the flange and Lu Hailan who had settled their luggage came to the teahouse next to the viewing perspective wall for dinner. Outside the viewing wall is a dark and deep universe. The automatically set viewing telemeter occasionally projectes the scene of amplification. Flan leans casually on the back of the sofa with his hands in his pockets, tilting his head to look at the outer world, with a usual relaxed smile on his lips, and said to Lu Hailan: "What does it feel like to see the universe with your own eyes for the first time?"

Lu Hailan did not answer.

"I didn't think it was a big deal for the first time when I was on a spaceship, but when I really got to the universe, I cried." Flan seemed to be saying to Lu Hailan, and seemed to be talking to himself, "Everything we have is limited, time, life, money, power... But this universe and this world are infinite, so we ourselves are also infinite."

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Life on the spaceship is very leisurely and quiet, almost no different from other palaces. The VIP cabin is not very active, and Lu Hailan is not interested in visiting other places on the ship. After getting up every day, he plays a set of punches in the room, then eats breakfast, and then returns to the room to continue to study the renovation plan of the King Kong City. In the afternoon, he occasionally sits with Flan on the tea seat in the viewing hall for a while to talk about the situation in the east.

"It has entered the Lev galaxy."

On the afternoon of the sixth day after departure, Flan held a coffee cup and chatted with Lu Hailan at the teahouse in the viewing hall. So far, their journey was going well.

"If nothing unexpected happens, we will arrive in Wei'an the morning after tomorrow." Lu Hailan said, "When you finish your work in Wei'an, I want to go to Yunzhou."

Flan was a little surprised and said, "Yunzhou?...what to do?"

"There is an auction in Yunzhou on April 6th, and I fell in love with this." Lu Hailan projected his light screen in front of the flange, which showed an enlightenment-class light brain. Although the seller carefully renovated its appearance, experts only need to look at the performance parameters to know that this must be a second-hand product that has been used for a long time, and they don't know where it was removed. In short, it is a black product.

When Flan saw the starting price below this item, he knew why Lu Hailan was tempted. The lowest-grade enlightenment-level light brain on the market also started with a total of 1 billion. Lu Hailan couldn't afford it, but this would inevitably call on most of his savings to disrupt his future investment plan. The starting price of this enlightenment-level light brain with unknown origin is only 100 million, and there are probably not many buyers who will be interested in it. Lu Hailan is likely to be able to win it at a price far lower than expected.

"That, it's not me..." Flan hesitated, "This kind of auction is available every year. If you want to buy anything, you can find a professional intermediary. You only need to pay a small commission. There is no need to go there in person..."

"Even if you say that, it seems to be really dangerous?"

"I think you should know what the biggest threat in the East is."

"Borbos?"

"That's right." Flan explored his body, held his hands together and supported it on the table, looking directly at Lu Hailan's eyes and said, "The Borbos clan has the ability to freely jump in the universe, and in the areas where they were once active, a large number of cosmic strings will be left behind. The Lev galaxy was once occupied by the Borbos clan for a long time. The entire galaxy was filled with such unstable jump points, which is also the fundamental reason why smuggling merchants and criminals are active here."

Lu Hailan frowned and said, "So is the empire helpless with these outlaws?"

"My Your Highness." Flan smiled and lowered his voice, "How could Yunzhou become an underground trading center in the east without the acquiescence of the military? The Southeast Guard Army has a division of troops stationed in Yunzhou for a long time, and the entire Lev galaxy. Who doesn't know that the military is the real behind the scenes of Yunzhou's underground market?"

"Southeast Guard Army." Lu Hailan narrowed his eyes and said, "I have heard a little that the high-level positions inside were almost controlled by nobles, so they are also called noble army or master army. The outside world's reputation... is very bad."

"Fifty years ago, the Empire and the Borbos re-signed a peace agreement, but after the last lesson, no one dared to say whether they would unilaterally tear the agreement and make a comeback." Flan picked up the coffee and took a sip, and said indifferently, "But no matter what, as long as the glory of the Tower of Light is still there, the Borbos will not pose too much threat to the empire. Fifty years of peace are not short, and it is inevitable that the military will relax... After all, the most urgent thing at the moment is the problem of the Bai family in the northern border."

Lu Hailan lowered his eyes, Northern Xinjiang, Bai family, Bai imperial concubine, Lu Zhuoen... and his father, the unfathomable vortex of struggle, once he was in it, no one could escape. He raised his head slightly and looked at the viewing wall beside him. The enlarged asteroid projected the bare rock surface, desolate and small in the dark universe.

"Flange."

"Um?"

Lu Hailan pointed to a small dot that was rapidly growing bigger on the projection, and a strange expression appeared on his face. Not only him, but many people in the viewing hall also noticed this situation. At the same time, the portable light brain on the flange's wrist also vibrated, and a warning window automatically popped up.

[Warning, public communication channels on the ship were invaded, warning, unknown signal source access, warning...]

The next second, a hoarse and old voice suddenly rang out from the various public broadcasts in the ship—
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