Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 209

209. Chapter 209, Am I the head of a province now?

Feiyi Star, Gu’s mansion.

A middle-aged woman, wearing a bathrobe, curled up on the sofa, looking at a stack of letters and newspapers.

She frowned at the content of the first half.

But when she saw the second half, her brows relaxed again.

Seeing the great change in the expression on the hostess’s face, the housekeeper standing next to her couldn’t help but ask: “Is it the news of Master Hang?”

“Yes.” The middle-aged woman, Wang Qi, Gu Hang’s biological mother, handed the letter to her confidant, “You can take a look too.”

The housekeeper took the letter, read it carefully, and couldn’t help showing shock on her face.

The appearance of a great demon on the Angry Owl Star, the opening of the Demon Rift… These news, of course, made her worried.

But it was successfully resolved, that’s good.

She stroked her chest to calm down her fear, and returned the letter to the mistress, saying, “What Master Hang did was too thrilling… Let’s find a way to get him back, so we don’t have to worry all day long.”

“It’s not that easy. It’s not easy to remove the governor of a planet. But it’s good. That brat has really become smart and promising after going to the remote countryside. It’s better to go out and gain experience and change a lot than to stay on Feiyi Star as a useless waste for all those years.”

At this point, she couldn’t help but feel melancholy.

Why not earlier?

If her son could have become smarter earlier and showed his mature, responsible and capable side earlier, she wouldn’t have to be so tired all these years. Many things could have been handed over to him step by step.

The housekeeper has been with Wang Qi for many years, and she can probably guess what the mistress is worried about.

She thought for a moment and carefully proposed an idea: “How about… we help Master Hang?”

Wang Qi looked up at the subordinate who had been with her for many years and asked: “Help? How do you want to help?”

“Uh…” She was really thinking, “We can help Master Hang build some factories on his planet through aid construction? If the ownership is difficult to deal with, we can hang it in a new Gu’s caravan, and this new caravan will serve Master Hang exclusively…”

“Building factories, if there are too few, it’s useless. If there are too many, how can the family pass this investment plan? Avoiding heavy asset investment other than the fleet is the principle of the Gu family.”

When she said this, Wang Qi sneered, as if she didn’t care about it, with a hint of sarcasm.

However, she finally sighed: “This won’t work, at least not now.”

She looked out the window: “Wait until I solve this problem now… As long as it goes well, ours will be ours in the future, and we don’t have to listen to those old guys’ instructions anymore.”

Hearing this, the housekeeper became a little worried.

She hesitated for a moment, and then said, “Should we talk to Master Hang about this? He is now a governor, maybe he can provide some help?”

“No.” Wang Qi said decisively, “Don’t tell me.”

“Are you worried that he will still be influenced by his uncles and cousins? But I think Master Hang seems to have grown up a lot now, and he shouldn’t…”

“Be safe, be safe. When I finish my work, he may hate me, but in any case, the entire Gu family will be his.”

The housekeeper wanted to persuade him again, but looking at Wang Qi’s look, she finally didn’t say the words of persuasion, and could only sigh, “I hope Master Hang can understand your intentions in the future.”

Wang Qi snorted coldly, “He doesn’t need to understand. I just want to give his son what originally belonged to my husband. That stinky boy, just don’t cause me trouble.”

The housekeeper lowered her head, but couldn’t help rolling her eyes.

This mother and son… are really more awkward than each other.

“Okay, you go first, I’ll take a rest for a while.”

“Okay.”

The hostess spoke, and the housekeeper turned around and left without staying any longer.

Wang Qi, who was alone, couldn’t help but took out the letter she had just read and read it again from beginning to end.

Then, she stood up, took out a wooden box from the bookcase next to her, opened it and put the letter in.

There was already a thick stack of things in the wooden box.

…

Gu Hang, who was far away on the Angry Owl Star, didn’t know what his mother was thinking, let alone that his mother was going to give him a big job.

At this moment, he was having multiple rounds of discussions with his bureaucratic team about the affairs of the Qinggu area.

I thought that after he overturned the base camp of the Natural Salvation Society and expelled all the unclean ones who stood out back to the Chaos Abyss, the situation in the south should be settled, right?

But in fact, it wasn’t.

In that land, there is still a very fundamental problem: the deformed monster.

After Hu Ke’s narration, Gu Hang roughly understood that the distorted monsters on the Angry Owl Star were not created by the Natural Salvation Society or the devil. These things are essentially the “climate disasters” that appeared after the ecological collapse of the Angry Owl Star.

The Angry Owl Star was once a developed energy mining world, and the spiritual gas field was the main output. The barrier between the Angry Owl Star and the dark side of the universe and the spiritual world seems to be particularly weak. At the weakest point, the energy of the spiritual world penetrated the barrier between the two worlds and condensed somewhere. Over the years, a spiritual gas field was formed.

But after the last disaster, most of the spiritual gas fields on the Angry Owl Star collapsed. The whistling and unrestrained spiritual energy formed all kinds of strange disasters.

The waste energy storm is the most typical. Now the tower ruins outside the garbage town are still blowing. The energy collection equipment and energy compression equipment placed there can stably produce energy crystals equivalent to 80,000 tax coins every month.

This is hard currency.

And the distorted monsters that are very common in the entire wasteland and especially in the Qinggu area are actually the same. They are plants that are animated by psychic energy.

Govaga used these things, and through his former technical knowledge and the so-called “fatherly grace”, he spread a virus that can control these plants into the vast forests of Qinggu.

Now, Govaga is dead, the summoned demon has been expelled, and the influence of the chaotic abyss that erodes reality in the Qinggu area no longer exists.

This caused the supernatural virus that spread everywhere and infected almost most of the aberrations to lose its foundation and disappear.

However, the central nervous system of those aberrations that has been transformed will not be restored.

The aberrations with a piece missing in the central nervous system have all gone crazy.

They rushed out of the woods frantically, attacking all living things.

There was no order or plan.

To be honest, these monsters were not difficult to deal with. Although there were a large number of special species among them that had been transformed by the Natural Salvation Society in recent years, they were quite powerful. However, no matter how powerful a brainless thing was, there were ways to deal with it.

Not to mention, they were even more brainless than before.

After all, although these aberrations did not have the ability to think independently before, they still had their controllers.

Before this, almost every large-scale action of the aberrations had traces of the father believers. With the help of the control virus, they could roughly control the actions of the entire group of monsters.

It was also because of this that they could more or less send out cannon fodder in front to cover the approach of shooting infantry such as abscess sprayers; biochemical artillery bombarded from a distance; zombie dogs waited for an opportunity to launch a fatal raid when the enemy’s formation was in chaos, causing a large number of casualties…

However, without the control of the cultists, these brainless monsters did not even have this little bit of the most basic tactical coordination ability.

In front of the army, weren’t they just beasts to be slaughtered?

However, their number is too much.

According to Hu Ke’s calculations and estimates, there may be between 150 million and 300 million various types of deformed monsters in the entire Qinggu area, living in the vast jungle of the Qinggu area.

This is a terrifying number, many times more than the population of the entire planet; it is thirty times the total population of the Qinggu area.

Even if it is the Natural Salvation Society, they can only infect most of the deformed monsters, and they have no ability to command so many monsters at the same time.

But now, when all these monsters are out of control and rush out crazily, the trouble is huge.

No matter how stupid they are, with a number of 150 million to 300 million, it will take a long time to produce enough artillery shells and bullets to destroy them.

However, fortunately, when these monsters are violent, they do not recognize their relatives. They do not simply regard humans and other creatures as targets of attack. They will also attack their own kind.

It is precisely because of this that the pressure faced by the Central Army Group in the Qinggu area is relatively not that strong.

Fortunately, the Beiqing Valley area carried out a large-scale landform transformation of the extinction jungle, and the number of deformed monsters here was also reduced.

Settlements and towns everywhere began to tighten their defenses, and there was no need to stay out. The army defended each node and requested firepower strikes at any time when they were hit by a wave of monsters.

The alliance’s air force formation was too busy to attack everywhere; even the sharp blade tiger in the sky would occasionally help, firing a few scalpels down, and clearing out a large area of some places where the enemy gathered particularly…

The unrest in the Qinggu area lasted for three months before it gradually subsided.

After these three months, the various settlements rarely reported that monsters had emerged.

In this case, Gu Hang could be assured to transfer the Central Army Group back.

But despite this, people still had to stay in the Qinggu area.

Hu Ke was on a business trip in the Qinggu area. Under the protection of the special operations brigade, he conducted field investigations in some jungles and found that some deformed monsters were still alive.

Although the number has been greatly reduced, they may reproduce again.

However, without the influence of the power of the abyss, the reproduction speed should not be particularly fast, and it will not be easy to restore the original population.

Moreover, the central nervous system of these deformed monsters has gradually gotten rid of the influence of the central nervous system after the chaos virus disappeared out of thin air, and has become much calmer.

If nothing unexpected happens, they should return to their traditional appearance decades ago: normal reproduction in the jungle, until the population reaches the upper limit of the environment, and begins to overflow, forming a wave of deformed monsters; when the number is greatly reduced to normal, they will continue to reproduce in the jungle.

Their reproduction and growth rate are related to the season and light. This is why the traditional wave of deformed monsters is seasonal.

If that were the case, these deformed monsters would no longer be a big threat.

After this wave of disasters in the South Qing Valley area, there are probably no living people, and those who are there have fled to the north; the North Qing Valley area now has a population of about 8 million. After clearing the jungle and the deformed monsters, they only need to deal with problems from the south.

In the past, the Qinggu region had almost no industrial production capacity, and it was normal that each manor could not handle it by its own armed forces. Now, with the alliance’s regular army, the conventional and traditional waves of deformed monsters will be wiped out when they leave the jungle.

For this reason, Gu Hang still had to leave a force in the Qinggu region.

He kept the 15th to 25th divisions established in the Qinggu region and established the Qinggu Garrison Army.

These 11 divisions are all garrison divisions, which are cheap but sufficient.

They will be responsible for the long-term defense of the northern Qinggu region.

In fact, the best way to deal with those deformed monsters is to go deep into the jungle and eradicate them.

But that is obviously unlikely.

The Qinggu region is too large, and Gu Hang’s army, which currently has a total number of less than 200,000, cannot do this. Moreover, according to Hu Ke’s assessment, the deformed monsters are a manifestation of psychic disasters. As long as the jungle is still there, they will regenerate if they are killed.

If the jungle is cleared, the deformed monsters will not be regenerated, but the psychic disaster will not subside, and it will most likely turn into a waste energy storm.

It would be better to clear the deformed monsters regularly every year.

After all, the deformed monsters can be recycled and turned into synthetic starch, and the land will be fertile.

If it becomes a waste energy storm, there will be no way to farm.

Gu Hang’s positioning of the entire Beiqing Valley area is the “Alliance Granary”.

After the alliance solved the annual disaster of the deformed monster wave, united the entire region, and established a unified regime, the agricultural productivity can be greatly increased if it is optimistically estimated.

If the entire Beiqing Valley area is turned into an agricultural production area, a large number of farms are built, and some hub cities are built, mainly engaged in transportation, commerce, primary processing of agricultural products, service industries, etc., that will be fine.

Crocker Manor was also renamed “Beigu City” as the capital of Beiqing Valley Province.

Jason Morgan, who played a very important role in the recovery and quelling of disasters in the Beiqing Valley area, was transferred out of the Civil Affairs Bureau. He was commissioned to establish the Beiqing Valley Provincial Government and served as the first senior official.

His rank also soared directly to C1 level.

Jason Morgan felt that this appointment was reasonable, but after it actually happened, it felt like a dream.

“I used to be an employee of a small company in Fuxing City. It’s only been a few months, and I’ve become the head of a province?”

(End of this chapter)