Chapter 876: Longyou Shuangzixing (10)

Longyou Shuangzixing, Kafu-Long Planet, Diqishisihao Kuangqu Jiluo, Shenceng Kuangmai.

Ever since that Special Envoy from the Fengqi Star Alliance raised the quota limit and cut the miners' daily rations, every day someone reaches their limit and collapses at their workstation.

Axing swings the vibrating pickaxe in his hand, his stomach letting out a "rumble" from time to time.

"Cough, cough, cough... cough, cough, cough... Damn it... this is impossible to finish!"

Buen, standing beside Axing, suddenly coughs, then complains.

"Don't... don't complain. If we don't finish the quota... our entire sector's rations will be cut... that would truly be... the end of the road."

Laoka passes by pushing an empty mine cart, speaking while gasping for breath.

"The end of the road? We... we are already in this state, it's not much better."

Aier, who is usually quite Silence, cannot help but retort after hearing Laoka's words.

"Laoka, look at our companions, how many have already fallen? Hasi, Laoan, Xiaoke... by the time they were dragged away, they had long since stopped breathing!"

Aier's words cause the nearby miners to pause; everyone knows that the current days are nothing but a slow death.

"Enough! Aier!"

Seeing the atmosphere turn sour, Laoka quickly tells Aier to shut up.

"Enough of what!"

Aier shakes off the hand Laoka reached out, looks at the surrounding fellow workers, and continues.

"We are all going to die! Worked to death or starved to death just like those who fell! Then our corpses will be taken away by those mechanical overseers! This is our fate as Assets of the Fengqi Star Alliance!"

A young miner speaks up with some hesitation.

"Then... then what should we do? We have no choice at all!"

"Who says there's no choice? Wait for death, or..."

Aier pauses here, then lowers his voice and continues.

"Or learn from the people in other settlements, those rumored 'Survivors', I hear they are also finding a way..."

Hearing Aier's words, Laoka immediately interrupts him.

"Shut up! Aier! Do you want to die? Those are all rumors! They are messages released by the Liquidators to fish for targets! You know the methods of the Liquidators."

Buen's coughing eases slightly, and he asks.

"Liquidators, have they... really come to a place like ours?"

"They have! Of course they have! When I went up to deliver ore, I heard some wind; those Liquidators are in Liuli City, and they could come here at any time! As long as they think you have no value, they will directly 'liqui..."

Just then, a faint sound of footsteps comes from afar.

Under the dim light, two Liquidators wearing black armor and mirrored helmets are walking this way.

The Liquidator walking in front looks at Aier and says in a cold tone.

"Miner Aier, ID 74-G-67. Spreading unstable remarks, questioning Star Alliance policy, inciting confrontational sentiment. Confirmed as a high-risk unstable factor, authorized for liquidation."

The Liquidator behind, upon hearing this order, draws the Energy Pistol carried on his person and walks toward Aier.

Upon hearing the Liquidator's words, Aier is so terrified he collapses to the ground, hurriedly begging for mercy.

"No... no. I didn't... spare me... please spare me!"

The other miners quickly speed up the swinging of their vibrating pickaxes to avoid being branded with a "liquidation" charge by the Liquidators.

Just as the Liquidators pass behind Axing, Buen, who is swinging a vibrating pickaxe beside Axing, turns around and smashes the raised vibrating pickaxe toward this Liquidator.

"Clang!"

The vibrating pickaxe strikes the Liquidator's armor without causing effective damage, but Buen, relying on his relatively large frame, tackles that Liquidator to the ground in one go.

"Damn it! I'm not going to live anyway! It's death either way! I'll fight you to the end!"

This sentence from Buen wakes up the other miners nearby.

Continuing to labor is death, and resisting is also death; since it's death regardless, one might as well make some noise while dying!

"Fight them!"

"Do it!"

"Kill them!"

The miners who have reacted immediately turn around, raise their vibrating pickaxes, and pounce on these two Liquidators.

"Bzz, bzz."

Two energy beams fly out, killing the two miners who charged at the front.

Seeing that the situation is irreversible, Laoka pushes the empty mine cart to ram into the other Liquidator and shouts loudly.

"Hit their joints, the helmet visors!"

Hearing the command, the miners change the direction of their vibrating pickaxes, smashing them toward the helmet visors and joints of these Liquidators.

Seeing that Buen is about to lose control of the tackled Liquidator, Axing raises his vibrating pickaxe and smashes it toward that Liquidator's helmet visor.

"Clang!"

Axing sees the vibrating pickaxe crack the Liquidator's visor and just as he is about to remind the nearby miners, he sees this Liquidator raise the Energy Pistol and aim it at him.

The next second, Buen reaches out to deflect the muzzle of the Energy Pistol, and the energy beam flies over Axing's head.

"Thanks! Buen!"

Axing says thanks while raising his vibrating pickaxe again.

"Less talk! Kill them!"

"Ah! I've already smashed a crack in his helmet!"

Hearing Axing's words, a few more hesitant miners finally grit their teeth and rush up to help Axing; as several vibrating pickaxes swing down in turns, the helmet visor is smashed, revealing the three eyes and purple skin of the Fengqi inside.

This Fengqi Liquidator never expected these mine dregs to dare kill him, and before he can make any other reaction, the vibrating pickaxe smashes into his head.

The other Liquidator is pinned against the rock wall by Laoka with a mine cart; although the arm holding the Energy Pistol is still outside, these miners no longer fear the weapon in his hand.

No matter how many miners he killed, he could not intimidate these miners.

"Back off! You pieces of mining slag! Back off! Urgh..."

A miner smashed a Vibrating Pickaxe onto the arm he was using to hold his Energy Pistol, and then this miner grabbed the Liquidator's arm and shouted to the other companions.

"Guys! Attack! Kill this bastard!"

Having lost the threat of his weapon, the Liquidator was attacked repeatedly by several Vibrating Pickaxes on his helmet visor, and the moment the helmet visor was smashed, this Liquidator was still shouting incessantly.

"Get away! You damn pieces of mining slag! Get away! Get..."

As a Vibrating Pickaxe smashed into the Liquidator's skull, the battle in the tunnel finally came to an end.

More than a dozen miner corpses and two Liquidator corpses lay on the ground; the surviving miners were panting heavily in the tunnel, their already meager energy reserves having been completely exhausted in the battle just now.

Laoka looked at the scene before him, collapsed onto the ground, and said while panting heavily.

"It's over, we are all finished."