NFBE Chapter 360 The Cruelty of the Garbage Planet
Chapter 360 The Cruelty of the Garbage Planet
"What's the matter? Tell me now!"
Meng Ke was impatient with Yao Li's sudden out-of-control behavior. He asked his subordinates to serve her tea and water instead of setting the dishes himself, making it seem like an important leader was inspecting her.
"Eat! These are the cakes I specially prepared to entertain distinguished guests. Isn't that generous?"
Meng Ke looked at the exquisite but not very fresh pastries and couldn't help but complain, "How many VIPs have you served this pastry to?"
"Look at what you said. Am I such a perfunctory person?"
Meng didn't want to talk nonsense with him: "If you have something to say, then tell me. If not, I'm leaving."
After saying that, he pretended to stand up, but Yao Li quickly reached out to stop him: "Hey! No, no! You finally came here, how can you not have some refreshments and chat?"
Meng Ke said with a forced smile: "Let's skip the snacks. Let's chat quickly. We'll leave later. We can put these snacks away and use them to entertain the next VIP."
"You look down on me, don't you?!"
Yao Li's face turned cold, not to mention a bit intimidating.
But Meng Ke said: "Sure! These cakes look good. I'll pack them up when I leave."
Yao Li's eyes flashed. He couldn't pack up all of them and take them away. These were all his private collections, and he was not rich.
So he stopped playing around and with an unintentional gesture, the assistant went out, the smart door closed, and the camera in his office was blocked. Meng Ke sensed this with his mental power, but pretended not to know.
"I heard you were coming over, so I waited for you downstairs."
Meng Ke's eyes were a little gloomy. She came to the parliament building on a whim. She didn't expect Yao Li to be so well-informed that he knew it first and then waited for her downstairs. If he was an enemy, she didn't know what would happen to her.
"Don't worry! I have no ill will towards you. I just want to talk to you about some common people's matters."
"What about common people's affairs?"
Meng Ke knew that Yao Li was known as a civilian councilor, and that he would often disregard his own interests and speak up for the common people. He was a councilor who seemed to be very versatile but was actually very principled.
"Have you heard about the Flying Snow Star?"
Feixuexing? The Feixuexing that exploits women? Of course she knows!
"I've heard of it! Why? Are there still problems left on that planet?"
"The incident on Feixue Star was too serious. The Alliance has completely taken over. Naturally, there will be no more cases of women being oppressed."
Meng Ke was puzzled. Since the matter had been resolved, why was this person still talking to him?
I heard that most of the residents of Feixue Star have already immigrated. Is their life difficult? If they want me to donate money and vegetables, that’s not impossible!
She can talk to He Facai and discuss providing special vegetables and fruits to the residents of Feixue Star at cost price for a long time.
As for money, developing the planet is too expensive, and she still owes a huge debt, so there is not much she can help with.
Just as she was arranging her words and preparing to speak, she heard Yao Li say, "Many remote planets and resource-scarce planets will breed countless dark forces if the Alliance fails to provide comprehensive supervision."
When talking about this, Yao Li no longer had the teasing and unsteadiness he had before, and he was as sharp as a sword drawn from its sheath.
Meng Ke was shocked by Yao Li's aura. This is the style of an alliance member!
Meng Ke also became serious and straightened his back: "What do you want me to do?"
"Use your influence to help those who are crushed by darkness."
"Can you be more specific?"
Yao Li had a blank expression on his face, but Meng Ke could see a thin layer of frost on his face.
"Take a look at these videos first."
First, a huge hole opened at the bottom of the large transport spacecraft that blocked out the sky, and countless garbage poured out.
Meng Ke knew that some of the alliance’s special garbage was just like the building materials garbage in his previous life. It could not be processed on the planet and could only be transported to the garbage planet and then destroyed in a unified manner.
Compared with the garbage truck in her previous life, this scene was much more spectacular, but it was nothing special. Meng Ke didn't understand why Yao Li wanted to show her this, but she was not in a hurry, because Yao Li would explain it later.
Meng Ke soon knew what Yao Li wanted her to see. As the camera moved downward, she could vaguely see a lot of black spots moving. Those black spots that were unlucky would be covered by unstable garbage.
As the camera zoomed in closer, Meng Ke stood up in shock.
Those...those are actually people, living people, not robots, but people!
What's going on?! Even if they wanted to pick up the trash, why didn't they wait until the mountain of garbage stopped rolling?
Meng Ke soon found out the answer. She saw many garbage trucks appearing around the garbage mountain. The giant garbage truck had a huge claw on each side, and the claws were in the shape of shovels. With the claws on both sides, the huge garbage truck was quickly filled up.
However, what terrified Meng Ke was that many people who were afraid of being buried in the garbage mountain were accidentally shoveled into the garbage truck by the shovel.
Meng Ke held onto her last hope and asked, "What about those people who were shoveled into the car?"
Yao Li's eyes were dark: "What do you think?"
Meng Ke gritted her teeth and said word by word: "I want to hear you say it!"
Yao Li looked Meng Ke straight in the eye. "I proposed rescuing the trapped people, and the motion was passed. However, after the people there saw that their lives were not in danger, they recklessly tried to retrieve the garbage, seriously hindering the normal operation of the garbage truck. As a result, the motion was invalidated."
Meng Ke took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down: "Is it appropriate for you to tell me this?"
"Of course it's suitable! Both you and I have enough ability to save them, but unfortunately, my method doesn't work. I want to see if you have any other ideas?"
If it were just this one planet, Meng Ke would certainly have a way. She not only owns planting stars, but also mining stars and barren stars.
Even though the planting planet is under multiple supervisions of the alliance and cannot accommodate so many people at once, the mining planet and the barren planet are still possible.
Over the years, her greatest achievement has been the development of the barren planets. Now, the grass coverage rate of the best developed barren planet has reached 60%. If she hadn't been suppressing this matter, it would have exploded long ago, and more than a dozen of her barren planets could have been rated as cultivation planets.
“How many junk stars are there in the remote galaxies of the Alliance?”
Anything worth Yao Li talking about would not just be about one planet, Meng Ke wanted to know clearly.
As a council member, Yao Li was extremely sensitive to data. "The Alliance has a total of 3827 junk planets, and almost every one of them has people living on them. The situations are pretty much the same, the only difference being the number of people."
"With so many planets in the Alliance, can't we accommodate these people on the garbage planet?"
Even though there are more than 3,000 garbage planets, Meng Ke can settle them with a determined heart. She doesn't believe that the alliance cannot solve the problem.
"Most people on the garbage planet make a living by picking up garbage, and they don't want to move."
The alliance only restricts the personnel entering the main planet and the flow of personnel between star regions. As for the people on the garbage planet migrating to other planets to live, it does not prevent them.
Meng Ke didn't ask why not change your livelihood. This is no different from why not eat meat porridge. If there are good choices, who would be willing to live on a garbage planet with a dirty and messy environment?
The first criterion for the Alliance to select a garbage planet is high radiation and no vegetation cover. Everyone who works there wears an isolation shield. The garbage planet does not have a planetary protection shield installed. All people living there who cannot afford an isolation shield will be directly exposed to a high-radiation environment. It can be said that they experience death every day.
“Is garbage collection very profitable?”
Meng Ke had calmed down and was no longer overwhelmed by the death in the video. She asked a more realistic question.
Yao Li didn't deny it. "For ordinary people, there are indeed opportunities to get rich quick. For example, if you pick up a large part made of rare materials, it would be enough for them to eat and sleep for a year."
Seeing Meng Ke remain silent, Yao Li's eyes flickered: "Why? Do you think they deserve it and don't want to care?"
Meng Ke looked at the footage that was automatically looping and bit her lower lip.
"No, I'm thinking about how I can help them."
Through the camera, Meng Ke saw haggard and sickly old people, as well as adults with deformed bodies dragging their half-grown children searching through the garbage mountain. Their movements were numb, and there was no light in their eyes. These were people who had lost hope in life. They had difficulty even surviving, no matter how rich they became.