Tie Dan furrowed his brows into a tight knot.
"What do you want from me??"
"Money, currency, you’re a Child of the Stars, you have lawful citizenship and a bank account. You can be gene-authenticated and recognized by the tyranny as a pure human citizen, allowing you to conduct legal transactions with companies."
The Jizhou waved its hand, summoning a barrage of pop-ups, projecting Titan holographic images and production line data from the ship.
"Titan itself was designed as a pioneering flagship for frontier expansion. Indeed, I can utilize energy and resources acquired in the universe for production, ensuring campaign-level endurance, and even build an entirely new colonial world from scratch.
However, the human tyranny’s fleet has been besieging me, with numerous legion space stations destroyed. I haven’t had proper maintenance for ten series now, and resources like chip weapons, alloy Qi bodies, and stardust are critically scarce.
Thus, I need money. I need to purchase resources and equipment directly from local company warehouses to escape through the gate before the human fleet arrives and the encirclement tightens.
Therefore, you cannot join the legion. Once you join, the bank will blacklist you, and you’ll become a fugitive wanted by the tyranny, unable to conduct transactions. I need to bind with your lawful identity and become your asset to purchase various local company services."
Alright, is money really everything these days? Without money, how can you even start a revolution...
Tie Dan basically understood, but the key issue remained unresolved.
Why does he have an ID card? No, why does he still have a bank account? Isn’t he a wild animal? How did he become a lawful citizen? Is it truly Chen Xuantian’s? But didn’t Chen Xuantian already...
Tie Dan indeed fell into confusion. Since Mars went into seclusion, he hadn’t ’woken up’ in five hundred years. He thought Chen Xuantian’s world had been swallowed by the abyssal maw and vanished into darkness, just like that dream of old. But now, these seemingly discarded settings suddenly jumped back in front of him.
What’s going on here? Is it really reality? Or is it a dream? Are those Aquarium guys still plotting against him from behind? Or is everything before him still just another illusion fabricated by the legion, another dream in the garden...
"Why not try it and see?"
The Jizhou, noticing Tie Dan’s continued skepticism, perhaps overhearing it, straightforwardly opened the Star Map, selecting a nearby asteroid,
"This was originally a company drone mining site, extracting and refining high-quality tri-titanium alloy—the most commonly used metal material, essential for everything from bullets to Titan battleships.
However, the company has now shut down the drone systems and metallurgical production lines. Although we can crack basic firewalls, we can’t bypass identity authentication and completely rewrite the operating system, so we can only use mecha to manually take over some basic equipment for operations, with very low efficiency.
Even though communication links with All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds are severed, the company still supports credit card pre-consumption. With your lawful citizenship, you can directly transfer money upon verification and make transactions.
This way, we can restart the entire production line, fully automate the extraction of tri-titanium alloy, and even smelt and synthesize more advanced rare metals, unlocking advanced equipment."
Thus, Tie Dan saw in the live broadcast, Yazi with its four-slit face, already dragging a nematode into the bored-out asteroid mine under the control of the witches.
Meanwhile, the legion rank miners, catching sight of them, vomited profusely inside their spacesuits, dying instantly, lives hanging by a thread. It’s unclear if the so-called Primordial Spirit noise was too ear-splitting or if the nematode was just too disgusting.
Fortunately, it didn’t delay much time or cause extensive collateral damage as Yazi reached the deepest part of the asteroid.
Then the witches punched a hole in the rock wall, shoved in the Xianwei they held, and as the parasite slipped inside, the earth shook momentarily, with sand and rocks flying, as if something was initiating.
"Gak!"
The witches then let out a shriek, collapsed their walnut-like heads, and disconnected the link.
Therefore, Tie Dan blinked and returned to his own body, seeing a gigantic turtle before him.
Yes, a turtle as large as an asteroid, its body wedged in the rock crevice, with a head protruding out like mighty peaks, staring eye-to-eye with Tie Dan like a turtle glaring at green beans.
Then Tie Dan heard Spider Xi faintly whisper in his ear,
"Brother Xuantian, you just give the order. Some things people can’t accomplish despite trying their best, while others just have to ask for them."
Tie Dan thought for a moment,
"Start?"
The turtle looked at him, nodded slightly,
"I obey the decree."