Interstellar Number One Farmer: I Only Want To Farm!-Chapter 163 - 55: Anomalous Circumstances

Chapter 163: Chapter 55: Anomalous Circumstances
"It’s all their choice. Too afraid to die, yet not daring to break out; there’s little others can do." Once, Fan Li had felt sorry for them just like Wu Qingqing, but later realized it was just a waste of effort.
All they want is money.
The residents who remain are rarely kind.
At each intersection, residents with breathing filters come out to see who has arrived.
Old hover cars emit a low engine roar.
The unusual sound might signify that the boss is here to select workers for the mining zone, and the residents eagerly await new job announcements.
Seeing it was a military vehicle, they all showed disappointed expressions.
Su Xiaocai noticed, "There are no children among them."
"Most children have been sent away." The adults are reluctant to leave their homeland, but the children have no such concerns.
Most of Huangyang Star’s children are abandoned orphans, while a small number are ruthlessly sent away by their parents.
Wu Qingqing felt uncomfortable. A perfectly good planet is now reduced to a small survival zone.
"If only we could find the queen’s nest."
"We’ll find it eventually," Li Leilei reassured.
The group entered the government building, taking off their helmets and breathing in the fresh air inside, feeling completely refreshed.
The outside air was so polluted that when they opened their helmets and took a couple of breaths, they nearly suffocated.
It was 2 AM, yet outside, it was as bright as day. "If you’re not tired, go eat something and follow us out. Insect Slayer, adjust to the time difference," an instructor said.
It was the first time they had heard of adjusting to a time difference like this.
Wu Qingqing asked, "Instructor Fan, is this how you all adjust to the time difference?"
Fan Li replied softly, "Your stationing time is short; having two days of rest to adjust the time difference doesn’t align with the training goals for you."
"What training goals do you have for us?" The seven inquisitive trainees perked up.
"If you can’t train to death, then train to near death. Didn’t you already know?"
Alright, alright, Instructor Fan has learned to crack jokes.
But he wasn’t joking.
Because this group of outstanding students couldn’t progress with regular training, the only way to hone them was on the battlefield.
Su Xiaocai was the first to express no problem.
She wasn’t tired; to be precise, these days, she was only mentally exhausted, her body had never signaled any tiredness.
This was quite unusual.
Su Xiaocai wanted to know what exactly caused her change.
Insect Slayer is the best way to observe.
She brought many nutrition pills, each tube capable of keeping her full for more than ten hours.
On the first day of arriving at Huangyang Star, they immediately engaged in Insect Slayer, something the students were eager for.
They were eager to roll up their sleeves and dive into action.
Fan Li needed to attend to other matters, so Su Xiaocai and the others were assigned to other instructors.
They had just been allocated rooms and put down their luggage.
The students gathered again, first taking a car out of the city, and once out, switched to maneuvering the Mecha.
Outside Huangyang City, the land was hard, cracking into pieces, resembling dried-up paddy fields.
But when the Mecha stepped on it, they found it extremely hard.
Upon closer inspection, they realized it was man-made, probably in search of Star Gold Mine.
Most Star Gold Mines are hidden within hard rock layers, not too deep but requiring the rock to be cut open to be found.
The area around Huangyang City just so happened to match the characteristics of Star Gold Mines.
"The people of Huangyang Star are truly obsessed with Star Gold and persevering, not even sparing their doorsteps."
"For so many years, no one has found Star Gold here, which is quite amusing." The local legend of Huangyang City was interesting, and the leading instructor began telling the story of Huangyang City. "When Huangyang Star was just reformed, mining wasn’t allowed initially. You know how difficult it was for businessmen to stand by and do nothing as they watched potential underneath this land. That’s when a mine owner had a brilliant idea. He became the developer who contracted the land to build buildings..."
Building buildings could mean digging deeper for foundations or creating an underground city.
If Star Gold was found, it meant hitting the jackpot.
Even if they found something of value, they wouldn’t lose much.
Unfortunately, the developer dug hundreds of meters, but found nothing; no Star Gold, no underground city, couldn’t recoup costs, and declared bankruptcy.
"Is he still alive?" Su Xiaocai asked.
The instructor replied, "Oh, he’s alive, just doesn’t dare dabble in real estate anymore. Now he’s just an ordinary little businessman."
Real estate is a bottomless pit; without some foresight and skill, best not to touch it.
"Haha, maybe we’ll discover what he couldn’t," Wu Qingqing joked.
"The first discoverer has priority rights to development; may wealth not make us forget each other," the teammates laughed. If that really happened, the developer might have a fit.