Chapter 8 Happy to mention a white-haired half-beast girl
"I've recruited a group of crew members. It's said above that they will be delivered within one day," Zhao Chen said.
"Crew? What crew?"
"Slave crew, didn't you say this is the cheapest?"
"How much did it cost? Didn't you spend all your college points?"
"It's not expensive, only three thousand star coins."
"If I remember correctly, the living expenses in your account are only over 3,000 star coins."
"Yes."
"………………"
Dark lines appeared on Zhao Waner's face. Why didn't she realize that her brother was so unreliable before?
"Look, this is the list." Zhao Chen also showed Zhao Waner the list of slaves he bought, with pictures on it.
Zhao Waner was even more shocked when she saw these pictures.
Because they are all half-orcs, and... they are all female half-orcs.
Zhao Waner glared at her old brother with a dark face: "Zhao Chen!"
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Zhao Waner finally scolded Zhao Chen, turned around and left angrily.
In her opinion, her brother is crazy and stubborn.
She had to prepare for the worst, that is, to clean up Zhao Chen's mess.
After Zhao Waner left, Zhao Chen washed up, had a good sleep, and put on clean clothes.
At this time, the 'slave crew' ordered by Zhao Chen also arrived.
"Hello, are you Mr. Zhao Chen? Here are the one hundred slaves you ordered. Please show your ID card." A man with a professional smile appeared at the door of Zhao Chen's workshop.
Behind the man are ten mechanical carts covered with black cloth, each of which is three meters high, four to five meters long, and two meters wide.
Other than that, no one was seen.
Zhao Chen showed his ID card and asked doubtfully: "What about the person I want?"
"It's in here." The man opened the black cloth of a mechanical cart, revealing the iron cages inside.
The cage is almost a meter high cube, and inside it is an orc sitting with his hands on his knees, his clothes are torn, and there are electronic shackles on his neck and feet. They all look haggard and scared...
"This is software that can control the electronic shackles around their necks. These electronic shackles have the functions of electric shock and self-destruction. Unless you enter a password to unlock it, any external damage will cause self-destruction," the man explained.
"I see, are these cages given to me too?" Zhao Chen pointed at the tools.
"Of course." The man smiled.
These orcs have been in their hands for a long time. It's not easy for someone to buy these orcs. It doesn't matter if they give them a few mechanical carts and cages.
"Then I'll just push it in myself." Zhao Chen pushed the dozen mechanical carts into the workshop himself.
Remove all the black cloth.
One by one, the orcs were completely displayed in front of Zhao Chen's eyes.
There are many types of these half-orcs, some are as hairy as wild beasts, and some are more like humans, but have the ears or tails of wild beasts.
Among them, dogs, pigs, and sheep have the most orc characteristics.
And one of them stands out the most.
It was a half-orc woman with white hair, her eyes were blue, her eyes were full of hostility, anger and unwillingness, and she had a pair of white severed ears on her head.
There is also a white docked tail on the buttocks.
At the same time, there are many ugly scars on his face and body. If it weren't for these scars, even an orc would probably be quite in line with the aesthetics of the human race.
Zhao Chen, this half-orc woman, is very 'familiar' because when she first purchased it, the biggest reason why she chose this batch of half-orcs was because of this half-orc woman.
"Hello, General Charlotte."
The white-haired half-beast girl was a little surprised when the person in front of her actually pronounced her name, especially the title.
"General Charlotte was born in the Black Ya Star Territory of the United Warhammer Interstellar Tribes, and belongs to the White Tiger Tribe. Because he was dissatisfied with the oppression of the orc tribes in the Star Territory by the local lord's regime, he rose up and formed an interstellar resistance army.
It lasted three years and experienced no less than fifty interstellar battles, large and small.
He once commanded a resistance star fleet of 300 ships, fought a fierce battle with a lord fleet of 500 ships, and finally won a tragic victory, even destroying one of the opponent's T3 starships.
But in the end, due to the traitor's betrayal three months ago, the operation was exposed and he was ambushed by an enemy fleet several times larger than his own. The entire interstellar fleet was destroyed, and his whereabouts are unknown thereafter.
Unexpectedly, I was reduced to a slave and sold to the Star Empire." Zhao Chen told the story of the half-orc female general in front of him in detail.
Hearing the man talk about these past events, Charlotte looked a little absent-minded.
Zhao Chen opened Charlotte's cage and sat on the ground in front of Charlotte.
"How about it, do you want to talk to me?"
Charlotte smiled self-deprecatingly: "Talk? I'm just a prisoner now, what's there to talk about?"
"For example, let's talk about your freedom, and the freedom of the orc soldiers who have fallen here like you."
Zhao Chen's words attracted Charlotte's attention, and she stared at Zhao Chen warily.
"What do you mean?"
Zhao Chen smiled and said: "To put it bluntly, I have a starship, but I don't have a crew, so I hope you and your people can serve as my crew."
"Hahaha... You just want to give us free labor. Isn't that why you bought us slaves?" Charlotte sneered.
"No, no, no. What I want are crew members, not slaves. Space warriors who are willing to fight for me sincerely!" Zhao Chen corrected.
"Orcs will never fight for others." Charlotte's eyes flashed with pride that belonged to them.
"If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about the Orc warriors who fought alongside you.
As far as I know, because of your defeat, there were nearly 30,000 orc slaves sold to our Star Empire.
I just bought a hundred of them, and the lives of the others are now uncertain.
Don’t you want to save them?” Zhao Chen stared at Charlotte.
Charlotte's expression showed hesitation.
Zhao Chen knew that he had succeeded more than half of the way.
He stood up: "You fight for me, and I promise you that I will buy back all the orc warriors who were once your subordinates scattered in the Star Glory Empire when I am able.
And, as long as you lead them to fight and work for me for three years, when those three years are up, you and they will be free!
How about it, are you willing to fight for me? Or in other words, are you willing to fight for your freedom?"
Zhao Chen stretched out his hand to Charlotte inside the cage.
Charlotte's expression was complicated, with various emotions flashing in her eyes.
In the end, she stretched out her hand and shook it with Zhao Chen.
But she still said stubbornly: "I am doing it for my people!"