Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 183

183. Chapter 183, The Technical Expert You Want

, can’t let Wu Jiarong give up her work.

Without her, we can’t expect the remaining people who are at most junior technicians to solve those scientific research problems.

Wu Jiarong went to teach students, and all scientific research work would have to stop at half the efficiency.

But if he doesn’t teach students and run a school, the dilemma that Gu Hang faces will always be there.

If it were someone else, there might really be no solution.

But Gu Hang still has one.

“You hold on for a while.” Gu Hang said, “The construction of the school will start soon. When the time comes, you can sacrifice half of the time, but I believe that this half of the time will be made up soon.”

Wu Jiarong said: “It is very difficult to teach a qualified technical specialist or even a mechanic. It takes many years of study.”

“I know, but maybe there are geniuses among us in the Angry Owl Star?”

“I hope so.”

Gu Hang’s solution is to build a technical college first, and then use the [Architecture] interface to assign the [Architecture College I] template to it, which is consistent with the operation plan of Zhongsi College.

The exchange value of [Technical College I] only needs 500 points of grace.

And this building actually has two uses:

1. Improve students’ learning efficiency.

2. Increase the probability of the emergence of technical talents that can be activated.

The former is of course useful, but it is the latter that can quickly solve Gu Hang’s current dilemma.

Once there is such a technical talent that can be activated, the grace points will be activated. Even if it is an N card, the attribute points that will be immediately given when it is activated will allow its technical level to be rapidly improved.

It is definitely not up to Wu Jiarong’s current level, but at least she can become a qualified assistant, or independently do some research work that has been determined in the direction and even the plan.

It is also good to relieve Wu Jiarong’s work pressure a little more.

And this college, Gu Hang plans to build in Weixing City.

After all, compared with Fuxing City, which has heavier administrative, commercial, and light industrial attributes, Weixing City is the production center that needs more technical talents. Wu Jiarong doesn’t need to run dozens of kilometers to Fuxing City to work when she comes to class.

Reducing the time this valuable technical talent spends on the road is to save the time needed for the development of the planet.

The rapid development of the entire alliance requires too much foundation to be supplemented in order to be healthier.

Sometimes, Gu Hang still thinks that it would be great if he could pick up another expert in science and technology for free.

…

Sometimes, Hu Ke still thinks that it would be great if he could have a stable life and let his children grow up healthy and happy.

At this moment, he was among a group of refugees, holding a pot of porridge in his hand.

This was the food quota for their family of four.

A bowl of porridge lasts a day.

Back to the residence – this is a simple and broken tent, built with rags and construction waste, which is at most three or four square meters. He and his wife, his six-year-old son and four-year-old daughter are all living here temporarily.

The conditions are undoubtedly bad, not only the living conditions are not good, but the sanitary environment is also terrible.

But in fact, Hu Ke was relieved.

At least, it is better than when he fled before.

The experience of fleeing all the way north from the southern end of the Qinggu area reminded him of his experience when he fled from his hometown to the Angry Owl Star more than two hundred years ago.

Of course, the so-called two hundred years ago was the real time, but in fact, he didn’t feel that long.

He came from the ‘Forge World of Heavy Forge’. When he left there, he was already an ‘Engine Prophet’ – a ‘job title’ in the Mechanicum that was higher than the Mechanical Priest.

He was a technical expert.

As for why he left Heavy Forge…

because of the war.

Today’s Heavy Forge should have been dragged into hell and is no longer in the real universe.

In that war, he fled all the way, and at the last moment, he escaped into a spaceship in shock and left his hometown.

After boarding the spaceship, he drifted in the starry sky for a few years and spent a few years in the Star Army. He really couldn’t accept the war.

He knew that in this unpeaceful universe, war always existed. But as long as it didn’t happen in front of him, it would be fine.

He admitted that he was a coward, but he would never want to go to the battlefield again and see the fighting in person.

As for those wars that are still happening, let it happen. Speaking of it, the status of an engine prophet is not low, but if it is magnified to the vast universe, what can he decide?

Tired of everything, Hu Ke just wanted to find a stable, peaceful, and beautiful planet to spend the rest of his life.

Indeed, the entire universe is in war all the time. But that is when the entire empire is viewed from a larger perspective. Zooming in and focusing on each planet will give you a different view.

Among many choices, he chose the Angry Owl Star.

The scenery here is beautiful, the productivity is relatively developed, the energy industry relying on the spiritual gas field is not particularly competitive, the social atmosphere is stable, and more importantly, there has been no war for thousands of years. Whether it is invaders or civil unrest on the planet, there are very few, or at least the impact is very small.

This is a place that meets his requirements.

So he came.

With his own abilities, he applied to join a genetic research institute on the Angry Owl Star.

This is not difficult. He is an engine prophet from the Mechanicus, and has made outstanding achievements in genetic engineering – he is not ignorant of other aspects, but he is slightly weak.

After being hired, his life began to become comfortable. He felt that this place was simply heaven. The hard conditions such as climate and environment were countless times better than his hometown, which was actually a deserted place and the entire planet was a huge factory.

Moreover, the working conditions had also greatly improved compared to the past. He was almost the best genetic engineer here. Some projects were normal and not difficult. He just had to do his own thing step by step. Unlike in the past, he had to intrigue, compete for resources, and engage in political struggles within the Mechanicus.

He lived a peaceful life on the Angry Owl Star, found a woman who could soothe his soul, and gave birth to a pair of children together.

So far, he has experienced things that he has never experienced in his past life. He feels that this may be what happiness looks like.

However, the good times did not last long, and “happiness” might be the most luxurious thing in the entire universe.

When his daughter was only three years old and his son was only two years old, the war on Angry Owl Star broke out.

The war did not affect him at first, but he was still keenly aware of the danger.

He was experienced in this regard.

Hu Ke immediately accompanied the evacuation team, took his wife and children to the place he felt was the safest.

It was a shelter built to the highest level. In theory, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the location is hidden, and it can be evacuated from the planet at the first time. In fact, as far as he knows, the spacecraft that evacuates these high-value talents should be on the way.

However, there is no limit to how unlucky people are.

First, the evacuation spacecraft was shot down halfway, and then the shelter where he was was discovered by the enemy, and a large number of demons rushed here.

At the critical moment, before the shelter was breached and before the commander of the shelter issued a desperate self-destruction order, he used the facilities at the bottom of the shelter to freeze his wife and children, and then collected as much backup power as possible, and when he rushed to self-destruct, he froze himself in the hibernation chamber.

He didn’t know if he could escape the disaster in this way, but as a husband and father, this was the last thing he could do.

And the facts proved that he succeeded.

When he was dug out by his former colleague and student, a native of the Angry Owl Star named Govaga, he saw his wife and children again, and the whole family was still alive.

He cried with joy and couldn’t help praying to the Emperor, thanking the Emperor for leaving his most precious things in the world.

At the same time, he also learned that it was almost two hundred years after the end of the war. His former student Govaga survived until now through life extension surgery. Now, he has established an organization called “Natural Salvation Society”, striving to build a paradise on the already ruined Angry Owl Star, and then expand outward from here, and finally restore the natural ecology of Angry Owl Star and save the whole world.

To be honest, Hu Ke has no interest in this matter. He has long passed the age of wanting to save the world.

There are too many worlds in the empire, and it doesn’t matter if a few are destroyed.

He just wants to live his own life.

However, in this regard, they do have common interests.

Gowajia needs the technical ability of his teacher, and Hu Ke needs the stable order that his students have established at the southern end of the Qinggu area.

This is a scenic seaside town with no worries about food and drink. It is still suitable for his family to settle down for the time being. He is also willing to use his knowledge and labor to exchange the right to live for his family.

But he gradually discovered some problems in his work.

His students…seemed a little bit wrong.

Or rather, the town called “Singer” where he lived was not right at all.

His technical level was good enough. Through some of the content of the projects he participated in, he saw that Gowaga was doing something very new.

It was not just as simple as ecological restoration, but was full of a lot of genetic research and human research.

He saw some of the results of the Natural Salvation Society, which were called biological weapons and natural weapons.

If that was all, then forget it. He tried to convince himself to turn a blind eye. What was so great about making biological weapons? In this post-apocalyptic world, there must always be something to protect oneself.

Even if they broke the bottom line of skull purity, he could turn a blind eye.

The so-called “skull purity” refers to an iron rule that the Empire and the Mechanical Adeptus Mechanicus follow when conducting human body modification and genetic technology: no matter what the person is transformed into, the skull must not be moved.

The culture of the Empire is strange and different in each world. However, some things are consistent.

Among them, the Empire itself has three major symbols: skull, sky eagle, and gear.

The skull symbolizes sacrifice and also symbolizes the purity of mankind. The bodies of traitors, heretics, and aliens are often far from pure humans, and one of the most obvious mutations is their skulls. For this reason, normal skulls are used as a symbol of human purity and the sacrifices made to defend this purity.

In all parts of the Empire, from the Wall of Martyrs to the skull emblem, from the armor decoration of Space Marines to the mark of purity… the image of the skull is everywhere.

Moreover, whether it is the research of the Adeptus Mechanicus or the theological research of the Imperial Church, there is solid evidence that ensuring the purity of the skull is an important means and factor in maintaining the human soul from being eroded. Changes in the skull are a sign of degeneration, mutation, and betrayal.

The Adeptus Mechanicus makes servoskulls, makes servos, modifies the brain, and performs large-scale human body modifications… These are all very common, but they will not destroy the shape of the skull. Generally, they will only tamper with the eye sockets, mouth, auricles, etc. of the skull.

And many of Gowaga’s research has already broken this bottom line.

Even so, Hu Ke can ignore it.

However, in the end, he still can’t deceive himself.

There was something wrong with the source of Gowaga’s technology.

First of all, the life extension surgery his student mentioned was not right. This was a very advanced biotechnology, and living for two hundred years was not easy. Even he himself did not have the ability to perform such an operation, let alone his students?

Then, he found traces of certain supernatural powers in many studies.

This was not uncommon in itself. The research of the Adeptus Mechanicus would of course involve psychic power and the belief in the Emperor’s other identity as the God of All Machines. Both the former and the latter would bring extraordinary power.

However, he did not think that the transcendent part of the technology route of the Natural Salvation Society came from orthodox beliefs or normal psychic research.

As for where this technology came from, he had a guess, but he did not dare to say it.

But at this point, he still did not say anything.

Although he had made a lot of preparations in secret, he did not mention these things at all for the sake of face.

He was very hesitant in his heart.

He knew that the world now had become completely unsuitable for survival, and he was not alone. After leaving the town of the Singer, could he and his family survive in the harsh wasteland environment?

Moreover, escaping is dangerous enough.

In the midst of the struggle, a final straw helped him make a decision: Gowaga wanted him to use the technology of the Natural Salvation Society to genetically modify his family, on the grounds that they could better survive in this wasteland.

Many residents of the town have undergone relevant modifications, and Hu Ke even did it himself.

But when this kind of technology was to be applied to his family, his bottom line was finally broken.

He agreed on the surface, but secretly activated all the preparations he had made in the past six months.

A large number of biological weapons rioted, and the accumulated modified monsters protected him and his family, and they fled from the place that looked like a paradise but was actually a hell.

After reaching the outside world and initially confirming that it was safe, he let all the monsters self-destruct.

He didn’t dare to run with these things, because he knew that the technology source of these deformed monsters was abnormal and could get out of control at any time.

Then, he and his family experienced a hellish escape, all the way north, until they were taken in by the Alliance.

(End of this chapter)