Chapter 648 - Chapter 648: 645, Favorable Treatment of Prisoners_1
Chapter 648: 645, Favorable Treatment of Prisoners_1
Seeing Su Yu about to leave, Langqi suddenly thought of something and reached out to stop him: “Wait!”
“What else is there?” Su Yu turned around.
“The thing is, about our fellow countrymen you have taken as prisoners, as the general commander, it is my duty to redeem them. Would you be willing to release them?” Langqi asked.
He remembered his brother Lan Bo who was captured by Su Yu seven days ago. Lan Bo was seriously injured before being taken prisoner, and he did not know how miserable his life was now.
What Langqi didn’t know was that his brother’s injuries had already fully healed, and he was now playing 5v5 basketball with his fellow inmates in the prisoner-of-war camp, almost forgetting about Skru Star in his joy.
Hearing Langqi’s words, Su Yu frowned slightly. It was not a good time to release these POWs.
At present, more than 70,000 Skru aliens were detained in the prisoner-of-war camp, and the number was still increasing.
For such a large number of POWs, the United Government didn’t abuse or enslave them, but treated them very generously.
In the camp, Blue Star soldiers who understood the Skru universal language tried hard to communicate with the Skru people, showing them Blue Star and its friendly citizens through video telecasts.
The camp instructors also took the Skru people to major cities, rural areas, and famous mountains and rivers on numerous occasions, allowing them to experience the beauty of Blue Star and the human beings’ goodwill.
At first, these Skru aliens looked down upon human beings, believing that humans were just like ants, only to be crushed to death.
But after learning about the culture and lifestyle of Blue Star humans, they discovered that Blue Star humans are indeed living beings, not very different from them centuries ago.
In addition, the instructors also held music festivals for the prisoners, taught them to play basketball, and even organized sports events for them.
The winners of the sports events could receive a delicate crystal medal, which could be used to exchange the most top-level cultivation technique on Skru Star!
These top-level cultivation techniques were brought back by Su Yu. For Su Yu, it was easy to obtain these, but for most Skru soldiers in the prisoner of war camp, they would never be able to get such high-grade techniques even if they served for a lifetime!
So the Skru soldiers who got the techniques were very happy and held favorable impressions toward Blue Star humans.
Moreover, in a subtle way, the instructors also instilled some ideas into the Skru people: “Blue Star humans are kind, ordinary Skru people are also kind.”
“But the high-ranking nobles of Skru, for their own selfish desires, forced the ordinary Skru people to fight on the battlefield and bleed.”
“The benefits of winning the war all belong to the nobles, while ordinary Skru soldiers bleed and sweat on the front lines, and get no benefits no matter how hard they fight.”
“Therefore, they should realize the cliff’s edge, stop fighting for the aggressive wars waged by the upper class nobles! And they should call for an end to the war!”
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The reason why the United Government did this was obviously to stir up anti-war sentiments among the prisoners.
These prisoners can bring anti-war thoughts home after they return, which would be definitely beneficial for Blue Star.
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But the most crucial issue was – many prisoners have been in the camp for a short time, and they haven’t had the chance to experience the friendliness of Blue Star people or receive anti-war ideological education yet.
If they were sent back now, many prisoners might not be influenced as expected.
Seeing Su Yu frowning in contemplation, Langqi didn’t disturb him, just quietly waiting.
Right at this moment, he suddenly received a call invitation from His Majesty the Emperor.
He apologized briefly, quickly went to a quiet place in the base to answer the call.
After three minutes, Langqi returned to the side of Spring Eye.
He looked at Su Yu, and asked seriously: “Your Excellency Su Yu, are you willing to let us redeem the prisoners or not?”
“Of course, as long as there is enough gold.”
“The thing is, there was a sudden situation just now, can the matter of redeeming the prisoners be postponed for a month?”
“Postpone?” Su Yu frowned and looked displeased.
“Yes, to redeem so many prisoners, our government’s gold is not enough, we need a month’s time to transfer funds.” Langqi patiently explained.
The real situation was – the postponement for a month was not due to fund transfers, but the Emperor had just told him through the communication device that he wanted to save some money while redeeming the prisoners.
To redeem the prisoners now was undoubtedly at a high price.
But a month later, after the successful implementation of the “explosive mining” plan, the winning rate of Blue Star humans would greatly reduce, and they could redeem the prisoners at a lower price.
Su Yu thoroughly approved of delaying the redemption of prisoners, so they could have more time to do ideological work with the prisoners.
However, he didn’t show this on the surface, and instead sternly said: “Then how do you calculate the expenses for the prisoners’ accommodation, meals, entertainment facilities, etc. during this month? We can’t feed tens of thousands of mouths for free, right?”
“You can rest assured about that, these costs can be added to the total cost.” Langqi assured.
“Alright then, we’ll discuss the matter of the prisoners again in a month.”
Su Yu turned around and left without looking back.
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Seeing that Su Yu finally finished the negotiation with the Skru people, the bullet screen started to discuss:
“The Skru people actually want to postpone the redemption of prisoners for a month? What are they thinking?”
“I don’t know; I always feel there’s a conspiracy in this.”
“Could it be that the Skru people want the prisoners to freeload meals on our Blue Star and bankrupt us?”
“Who knows?”
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Now Su Yu had come to Fujiwara Chika’s side and said goodbye: “Prime Minister Fujiwara, I should go now. I am very sorry that I didn’t inform you of the reason for my coming in advance, making you wait here for so long.”
“Oh, it’s okay.” Fujiwara Chika gently shook her head.
But at this moment, she suddenly looked up at Su Yu and said determinedly, “Su Yu, I have something to tell you.”
“Hmm? What is it?” Su Yu was slightly surprised.
Fujiwara Chika turned her eyes to the phone behind Su Yu; “Can you turn off the live broadcast? I want to talk to you alone about this matter, I don’t want others to know.”
“Of course.” Su Yu didn’t think twice, just directly put the phone into his necklace.
Of course, the phone signal couldn’t penetrate the necklace, and Su Yu’s live broadcast stopped instantly.
However, what he didn’t know was that at the moment he turned off the live broadcast, the bullet screen of the live broadcast skyrocketed several times!
Some of the bullet screen comments were asking “???”, “Why is it suddenly off?”, “Open the door!”
Some bullet screen comments were also excessively excited:
“What does Prime Minister Fujiwara want to say to Boss Ke?”
“Is it a confession of love?”
“Can’t rule it out, is there any woman in the world who can resist Boss Ke’s charm? Even in the game world, he hooked out two.”
“Confession? Pleading with her body to ask Boss Ke to save her country? Is this the plot of ‘selling the body for a burial’ in ancient times?”
“Alyssa, Tina: Don’t even think about it!”
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Su Yu naturally did not know the bizarre theories of the netizens.
He casually set up a “Soundproof Barrier” to cover them, then turned to Fujiwara Chika: “Prime Minister Fujiwara, now no one is eavesdropping, you can speak now, right?”