Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 192

192. Chapter 192, Special Forces

“What’s its name?”

After watching the function demonstration of the Purple Fire Thrower, Gu Hang asked this question to its developer, Mr. Hu Ke.

Hu Ke was quite modest: “It doesn’t have a name, it’s just a little gadget I’ve thought about before. It compresses high energy and releases high-energy particles and special chemicals. It’s some targeted little gadgets I developed in the past six months in the south. It’s great that it can be used and help the Governor.”

Gu Hang shook his head and praised: “This is not a little thing, it’s simply landform transformation!”

Hu Ke waved his hands repeatedly: “Governor, don’t say that, I’m still far from landform reshaping and landform transformation. That kind of equipment and technology is far from being achieved by such a small thing. In fact, it can be built in batches thanks to the production capacity of concentrated energy crystals you have created. Without this outstanding energy support, it is impossible for it to function or even be mass-produced. Even so, it can only deal with the jungle…”

“Indeed, compared with those legendary landform reshaping technologies, it is not worth mentioning.” Gu Hang said, “But it is indeed the best way for us to solve the Qinggu problem now.”

At this point, Hu Ke sighed: “Are you…really determined to do this? Completely eradicate every inch of jungle in the Qinggu area?”

“Why not?”

“That would require huge manpower and material resources, and would also destroy the environment of the Qinggu area…”

“Yes.” Gu Hang did not deny these two points, “However, we have enough ability and enough time to do this. Moreover, this is not a purely invested job. Look at the reports sent back from the front, this business has already generated positive benefits. It has solved the unemployment problem of a large number of refugees in the Qinggu area. Although the wood produced is of poor quality, it is also valuable. The production department has already transported the latest batch of synthetic starch production lines to the Qinggu area, and factories will be built there. When the scale reaches a certain level, these refugees may not require us to pay extra costs to support them. Their own output is enough to support themselves, and even reverse output to generate surpluses…”

After a pause, Gu Hang said the second point: “As for the problem of the natural environment, it accounts for too small a proportion in my decision-making process. Compared with the threats posed by those monsters and the cult organization established by your students, the problems caused by environmental deterioration are really too small. Moreover, if there really are problems, we will have the opportunity to make up for and solve them in the future.”

Hu Ke nodded frequently after listening.

He is a researcher and an engine prophet. Although he once held a high position in the Mechanicus, he was not involved in actual management work at all. He just did his own job. He was not perfect in industry and some political considerations. Regarding the remarks on the environment, it was because he had seen many planets where the environment was destroyed due to human over-exploitation, and the quality of life of the people there was not good.

However, what Governor Gu said seemed reasonable to him.

He realized that the per capita resource consumption enjoyed by the residents of the Wrathful Owl Star now was not over-exploitation or not. To be honest, they were not qualified to care about those for the development of the planet.

Not to mention, there was also the threat of cults and mutant monsters.

Let’s develop first and then govern.

But Hu Ke still had doubts: “But even if that’s the case, it will take too long. I understand that you have enough time to develop that land, and you can even use years or even ten years as the time unit. And this is indeed a radical solution. After the jungle is eradicated, the mutants will no longer have an environment to breed, and the Natural Salvation Society will no longer have a place to hide. No matter what they plan, it will be meaningless. But that’s too slow. Do you want to use ten years to eliminate the Natural Salvation Society?”

“I can see that you are very worried.”

“Yes.” Hu Ke has been in Shuangcheng for a while, and during these days, he has seen the state of the city.

Other things can be disguised, but the living conditions and psychological state of the most numerous lower-class people cannot be disguised.

He has been to many different worlds, and the living conditions of these people on the Angry Owl Star are certainly not good, and they are even in the worst category.

But that is not the fault of the rulers-at least not the fault of the current rulers. The conditions of the Angry Owl Star itself are too poor. Let alone civilians, even the governor Gu Hang and many senior officials of the alliance he has met live a simple life.

Compared with the not-so-good living environment, the mental outlook of ordinary people in the Twin Cities is very good. Something called “hope” is brewing in their hearts and overflowing on their faces.

They have a vision for the future, and they truly recognize that under the rule of the alliance, they can make their lives better and better through their own hands and efforts.

It sounds common, but in the entire universe, only a few places can have such vitality.

Hu Ke was not infected by this, he just relied on his experience to be sure that the alliance that can make the people under its rule have such a psychological state will not be a garbage regime.

Flying to the starry sky and finding a new home is not very reliable. On the contrary, staying in the alliance and living a stable life is a good choice.

In this case, he still has to contribute to the entire alliance.

In his opinion, the Natural Salvation Society is one of the important threats to this world.

He spoke carefully: “I have thought carefully recently about what Gawaga wants to do. When I was in the south, after he thawed and released me, he did not have enough trust in me at first, and I did not get access to too many secrets of the organization established by my student. However, since he rescued me, he naturally would not give up the knowledge I have. Some marginal research projects were placed with me. I am trying to piece together his goals for those projects.”

“Tell me about your guess?”

“Let me make it clear that I am not completely sure. It’s just my guess, and there is insufficient evidence. That’s why I didn’t tell you at the beginning…”

“It doesn’t matter, I will make a judgment.”

“Okay… I think Gawaga and the others are trying to summon the devil again…”

“Oh, that’s a really bad guess.”

“You don’t look surprised? Did you guess it a long time ago?”

“In a sense, it is true.” Gu Hang spread his hands and said, “I have no evidence, and it’s not like you have pieced together some fragments of the truth through some experiments you have done with them. I am just guessing. After all, those so-called cult members, the guys who have been contaminated by the abyss demons, are thinking about this all the time. You can know their goal with just a random guess.”

Hu Ke smiled bitterly and said, “What you said… is indeed correct.”

“But just knowing the goal is not enough. I would like to know what means they have to achieve it and how we can stop them.”

“That’s exactly what I want to say.” Hu Ke sighed, “We can’t destroy the Natural Salvation Society by destroying the jungle. I’m not against your strategy, but that is used to destroy the deformed monsters, and to destroy Govaga and the others by destroying the jungle is too slow. Perhaps, before we succeed, those guys succeeded first.”

After a pause, Hu Ke continued, “I guess they may have mastered a complete, undestroyed psychic energy field. If you know the history of the Angry Owl Star, you will understand that it was because of the existence of enriched psychic energy fields in the past that an extremely sufficient source of energy was formed, which was used as a means to open the curtain between reality and the abyss of hell.”

“In the past, the main psychic energy fields of the Angry Owl Star were on the other two continents. Those two continents should have been completely destroyed. There are also gas fields on the main continent, but they are very few, and most of them should also be in a destroyed state. The one that Gowaga found should not be large in scale. But we can’t take it lightly because of this. Once he really tears open the curtain of the real world, even if it is just a small gap, we will be in big trouble.”

Gu Hang pondered: “Then do you have any guesses about the location of the possible psychic energy field?”

“No, not at all.” Hu Ke smiled bitterly, “It’s not even certain whether it really exists. I said that all this is my guess…”

“But your guess is always more reliable than mine.” Gu Hang said comfortingly, “Thank you very much for your notice. I originally planned to send a special operations team to the southern end of Qinggu to find out the situation there and guide bombings. Now, they may have one more task.”

…

Aiaro Lakrosa felt as if he had been deceived.

He said he didn’t want to be an officer, he just wanted to be a soldier. His wish had been approved by the Governor, and now he was no longer an officer, but more than 30 soldiers were still stuffed into his subordinates.

Doesn’t this still make me a squad leader?

Earlier, he was transferred from the Beast Slaughter Brigade and entered the 10th Special Brigade as a squad leader. He and his 30 new subordinates took a full set of individual equipment that they had never seen before.

Each person had a set of individual exoskeleton, inlaid with armor plates mainly made of plastic steel and equipped with ceramic steel coating, protecting the torso and limbs. It was far less majestic than the Space Marine power armor, but it had a slender beauty.

The full-coverage helmet was equipped with different visual modes such as night vision, anti-glare, color temperature, and a shooting assistance system.

This so-called shooting assistance system was provided by a servo skull that accompanied the operation. The servo skull that belonged to him could also help control the two drones in the backpack to perform reconnaissance, auxiliary firepower strikes, suicide attacks and other tasks.

And the weapons in their hands were all replaced with LR5 laser rifles. Each person has ten high-energy batteries, which can support 15 rounds of shooting before the batteries need to be replaced. The firepower sustainability is not good, but the power is much stronger than the regular G9 rifle. In order to make up for the firepower, they also carry a short-barreled bullpup tactical rifle, which is a special variant of the G9.

Among them, Lacroxia himself is equipped with better equipment than his team members. The most important manifestation is that he does not use high-energy batteries, but energy crystal blocks like crystals. This thing is said to be much more expensive than the laser rifle in his hand. Such a large wind falcon flies in the sky, and this crystal block is enough.

As a result, this thing only powers the rifle and exoskeleton in his hand…

The powerful energy can allow his exoskeleton, which is defined as the “Ranger 1 Generation”, to maintain the overload mode throughout the whole process until it breaks down; the laser rifle in his hand can also be overloaded and fired throughout the whole process.

Other people’s LR5s can destroy a high-energy battery with one full overload. According to their training ethics, they are strictly prohibited from doing so when it is not necessary.

But the energy crystal in his hand can allow him to overload shooting almost infinitely without having to replace it. He only needs to consider the gun in his hand and make sure it doesn’t fail.

All this makes him feel like he is in a dream.

He always feels a little unreal when others call him the King of Soldiers, and he doesn’t like being called that in person. But now… he seems to be treated as the King of Soldiers.

And in the so-called special operations brigade, he has to perform special tasks.

After the formation of three wind falcons completed the bombing mission at Crocker Manor, they made corresponding preparations for the return trip, and then took Lakrosa and his formation and headed straight to the southernmost part of the world.

Their goal is to investigate a place called “Singer Town”. According to intelligence, it is the headquarters of the so-called Natural Salvation Society.

There is no specific location, only a vague description.

After the Wind Falcon came down, they searched on the ground while keeping in touch with the three speedboats that were temporarily assigned to them to cooperate with the operation.

Under the joint air-ground reconnaissance, they found many suspected targets, but they were eventually confirmed to be not. They were just the ruins of some villages, which had long been deserted. The jungle was slowly extending and reoccupying those places.

On the third day of the operation, they finally made a major discovery.

According to the description of the intelligence and the hand-drawn map, they were almost certain that this was the town of the Singers.

But it also looked abandoned.

The team discussed it internally and still planned to go in and explore.

To be cautious, they also called Lieutenant Kuchi, and the three Wind Falcons would provide them with air support.

Lakrosa was still quite nervous about this.

It was the same war and fighting, but the way of fighting was completely different from his past experience.

He was not sure if he could do it well enough, so he could only be cautious in everything.

And his caution saved many lives.

(End of this chapter)