Chapter 199: Free customs and island chain defense line
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On the morning before departure, the butler Ah Fu specially came to ask Yang Xi if he had any special needs, such as personal medicine, clothes, and so on.
Yang Xi casually said a few things and dealt with it.
With the speed of the six-star alchemical boat, it would take about a week to reach the free customs. The premise was that there were no accidents at sea, so it would not be wrong to prepare more in advance.
Relatively speaking, the continental route was still relatively safe. Only after passing through the free customs would the probability of high-level exotic beasts appearing increase, or they might even encounter the pirate organizations of Espers.
This wasn’t because humans had such a powerful ability to control the probability of high-level exotic beasts appearing in the sea area inside the customs.
On the contrary, humans had chosen the customs location based on the area where high-level exotic beasts would descend.
There were many reasons for the existence of the free customs. Apart from protecting the inland, it was also a gateway to prevent the residents of the four seas from returning to the inland.
Other than the privileged people who had the passes of the major factions, the ordinary residents of the Four Seas who wanted to return to the mainland needed to go through complicated procedures, such as a visa, a non-confidential guarantee, and so on. They also had to pay an additional high fee before they could return to the mainland.
It was not so troublesome to travel from the inland to the four seas.
The reasons were complicated. The simplest one was that the three major forces and the federal government did not want the inland areas to know about the existence of the four seas.
Once the existence of the four seas was exposed, ordinary people would know the fact that humans were at war with the other world. Then, panic would arise, and the economic operation of the inland areas, which were the rear of humans, would become unstable.
The four seas were able to maintain the situation on the frontline because of the prosperous economy developed by the compatriots in the inland areas who were kept in the dark.
There was a lot of medicine, food, clothing, and other daily supplies. If not for the stable blood transfusion from the human rear, the supply of supplies at the front line would have collapsed long ago.
Therefore, under the control of the three forces, the four seas followed a policy of leniency.
In order to achieve this goal, the federal government even revised the textbooks.
All of this was for the sake of humanity’s survival on Planet Azure.
In fact, compared to their compatriots who were enslaved by the colonial continent and the ordinary people who lived in fear in the four seas, the inland people were already very happy to live in a relatively peaceful life.
Occasionally, there would be exotic beasts attacking. Other than the unlucky ones at the scene, more people were watching the hero’s live broadcast online, shouting and scolding in the bullet screen, enjoying themselves.
Moreover, in the mainland, ability organizations could not be seen in the light. What they did was illegal and had to be cleaned up by the Hero Association regularly.
In the Four Seas region, ability users ‘organizations could exist openly. They could apply to the offices of the three major forces and obtain the qualifications to establish an organization.
The observers of the three forces would also go to inspect and evaluate them regularly.
There was nothing they could do about it. Although the three major forces had their own core armies, the number of troops was not large. The minimum requirement to join the core army was a D-class or F-class ability user. They could not even be cannon fodder.
Moreover, every superpowered soldier had to provide a lot of standard mutated beast equipment. Therefore, in terms of the number of soldiers, there was no way to compare with the previous human army.
They could only hold off the exotic beast army on the battlefield. It was really impossible for them to deal with the attacks of the other exotic beasts.
This gave birth to a large number of Esper Ability organizations. In fact, it was similar to a mercenary system. The three major forces would post some exotic beast disasters that they couldn’t take care of in the form of missions at the offices on the nearby islands. After the Esper Ability users completed the missions, they would receive rewards and ratings.
How should he put it? The direct forces of the three major forces were like civil servants with high salaries and benefits, while the small ability users ‘organizations were more like an outsource company. They spoke based on performance and earned money from each job they did.
What he did was a job of licking blood on the edge of a knife.
Therefore, the average life expectancy of the residents of the four seas was much lower than that of the inland areas.
The situation in the Freedom Alliance’s Sea Area was a little more special than the Hero’s Sea Area and the Iron-Blooded Sea Area.
Although the Chamber of Commerce Alliance was more regulated and orderly than the large and small organizations of ability users in the Chaotic Seas, it was essentially a collection of the private armies of several large chambers of commerce.
The military uniforms were uniform, but each commander was the head of their respective merchant association or family leader. As the commander of their immediate superior, each family took turns to do so.
When there were benefits, they would rush together, and when there were difficulties, they would drag each other down.
From the Qian family’s incident, it could be seen that if the other Chamber of
Commerce families had gone all out to help, the number of experts from the Qian family would not have been so exaggerated. Even the current family head, Qian Youque, who was one of the top ten Sequence experts, was seriously injured and unconscious. He was sent to the Iron Blood Army headquarters for treatment.
These were the contents of the information sent by Liu Yuan. Yang Xi had been studying them carefully.
All in all, the four seas were the last line of defense for humans and also the paradise for adventurers.
As long as you were strong enough, you could even find an island and occupy a mountain.
In addition, the island chains of the four sea areas were not formed naturally. With the cooperation of the three forces, they slowly formed the form of nine island chain defense lines in each sea area.
Of course, after so many years, the island chain has always been lost.
The current situation was that there were six island chains in the Chaotic Sea Area, six in the Hero Sea Area, seven in the Freedom Alliance Sea Area, and eight in the Iron Blood Sea Area.
In fact, among the four seas, due to its geographical location, the Chaotic Sea Area suffered the least number of attacks from mutated beasts. However, due to historical reasons, there was no unified large faction to control it. Therefore, the situation in the Chaotic Sea Area was the same as the most dangerous Hero Sea Area.
The Hero’s Sea Area had taken on half of the attacks of the exotic beast army, and it was already very difficult for them to hold the defense line of the six island chains.
The next day, Yang Xi, who was wearing a high-end suit sent by the butler Ah Fu, a tie, a brooch, and leather shoes made of cowhide, arrived at Lukang Port with a group of gorgeously dressed girls.
The reason why they had only set off now was to wait for the other passengers on the six-star alchemical boat.
It wasn’t easy for the six-star alchemical boat of the Brahma Sea Chamber of Commerce to make a round trip. They needed to sell a large number of tickets to avoid a loss.
Of course, if not for Elder Qian, this six-star alchemical boat would not have entered the inland sea.
As an alchemical boat that was heading to the four seas, the Dolphin was naturally not comparable to a cruise ship that could only sail around the land.
Just its sturdy appearance and huge body made the other inland residents, who did not know the inside story, envious. There was actually such a beautiful ship.
As the owner of the alchemical boat, Yang Xi and the others naturally had a VIP passage on the gangway.
However, when they were about to board the ship, they found a group of people causing trouble. The six-star alchemical boat, the Dolphin, was bustling with activity.
Elder Qian frowned and ordered, “Ah Fu, go and see what’s going on. ”
Steward Fu straightened his hunched body and slowly walked towards the crowd..