Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 224

Chapter 224: Message from the Hive World

Ms. Wang Qi came and went in a hurry.

After a night that day, she left on a spaceship.

From the Angry Owl Star to the Black Arrow Star, only one interstellar tunnel shuttle is needed. Adding the time required for normal navigation in the starry sky, it takes about six or seven days in total.

There is still some time before the family meeting. However, she must arrive earlier. She needs to eliminate some uncertain factors before the meeting starts to make things more certain.

After bidding farewell to his mother and the three divisions, Gu Hang returned to his normal working state.

He was waiting for the result of the family meeting, waiting for his crown as the head of the family, and waiting for the five million tax coins that his mother was going to give him.

With so much money, you can buy a lot of good things.

For example, space warrior power armor; terminator armor; key components for building star ports – they can be produced, but too slowly. If you have money, you can import them to speed up the progress.

Even, if you save more, or ask your mother for more sponsorship, he even wants to make some bigger moves.

For example, the transformation of the planet’s surface environment.

The three central provinces and the three eastern provinces are mainly wastelands, which are difficult to grow crops. The environment is harsh and waste energy storms are raging… The empire must have special technology that can change the planet’s environment.

This is itself a prerequisite for large-scale interstellar colonization. His ultimate goal is to hope that the waste energy storm can be settled.

The greatest value of the Angry Owl Star before the war was the energy mining of the spiritual gas field.

Nowadays, the waste energy storms that ravage many parts of the planet are essentially the spiritual energy that penetrates through the crystal wall of the spiritual world. They have lost the environment of being bound and settled in a certain place, and can no longer form a spiritual gas field; but this energy exists again, so it becomes an uncontrollable storm form.

And if the wasteland environment of the Angry Owl Star can be corrected again, and the method of binding and settling spiritual energy to form a spiritual gas field can be found again, then the value of the entire planet will soar to an extremely high level.

Of course, this price is very expensive. To complete the major transformation of the climate and environment of the entire planet, it will cost tens or even hundreds of billions of tax coins.

The empire is generally not willing to invest huge resources to change the environment of a planet and conduct interstellar colonization. With that money, it is better to build a fleet, and perhaps in a certain war, it can snatch more than one planet from the hands of the empire’s enemies.

Of course, if it really comes across something of great value – whether it is the value of the planet itself or the strategic value of its location, the empire will still invest in this aspect.

Because of this, the relevant technical capabilities still exist.

Gu Hang can’t afford this money.

If he can get together tens of billions of tax coins to do things like planetary environmental transformation, then he probably won’t lack the income from the waste energy storm to be immersed in the spiritual gas field again.

After all, no matter how mouth-watering the output of the spiritual gas field is, the huge initial investment is here, and it will take many years to recover the investment cost.

However, just because Gu Hang can’t afford this money at the moment doesn’t mean that he can’t find it from other aspects.

For example, the Gu family.

Such a good investment project, wouldn’t the Gu family be tempted?

Even the head of the family is tempted!

…

Before the result of the family meeting held on the Black Arrow Star came out, Gu Hang received another message.

This message came from the planet Korojia 3.

There are two planets in the Korojia star system. Korojia 1 is a mineral resource planet, but its habitability is very poor. The permanent population may be only in the millions, mainly miners and some industries serving miners.

Korojia 3 in the same star system next to it is the largest and most populous nest world in the Pegasus star region.

There are 41.8 billion people living there!

To be honest, it is really hard for Gu Hang to imagine how more than 40 billion people can be stuffed into a planet.

He has not been to Korojia 3 in person, but he has heard that the wild environment of that world basically no longer exists, and it is all desolate land. The huge population lives in about twenty “nests”.

The so-called “nest”, as the name suggests, is a huge “nest”.

A human nest.

In essence, it is a city. But compared with the city in Gu Hang’s concept, there is a huge difference. It often hollows out the underground part of an entire area. As the bottom layer of the hive city, a large number of lower-class people live here; the middle layer of the hive city may have some industrial output value; the upper layer is mainly administrative, commercial, residence of dignitaries, and key industrial areas.

The majority of people living in the middle and lower layers may never see the sun in their entire lives.

Chaos, death, disease, poverty… these things entangle the people of the hive city.

Their average life expectancy may be around 40 years old.

Disease, death from overwork, malnutrition, vendetta… these are their main causes of death.

In addition to these, the main population loss of Koroga 3 comes from… Imperial taxes.

If Koroga 3 has a specialty, it is population.

The Empire defines the standard annual gross domestic product of an Imperial as 1 tax coin. And a young and middle-aged living person, when handed in as a tax, is worth 5 tax coins.

Obviously, under the value system of the Empire, human life is valuable: his 5-year output value.

Korojia has a population of more than 40 billion, and the taxes they have to pay every year have reached 4.2 billion tax coins. Among them, more than half of the taxes are satisfied by paying population.

They pay 500 million people every year to offset 2.5 billion tax coins; and pay more than 10 billion industrial products, processed foods and other things, which is the source of their tax structure.

Korojia No. 3 is very poor and miserable, and the people on it are in dire straits. But in fact, from the overall point of view, this is a powerful and wealthy planet.

40 billion people are the biggest source of wealth.

In the entire Tianma star region, Korojia No. 3 and the capital Feiyi Star can reach 4 billion taxes a year. Feiyi Star is because of its development, and Korojia No. 3 has a large population.

At this moment, on Gu Hang’s planet, there are really a group of guests from Korojia No. 3-the fighting nuns of the Holy Mercy Lily.

This interstellar call is also for them.

The caller was a bishop of the Imperial Church on Koroja 3, named Zhao Qinghong, who was the head of the Imperial Church in Koroja. He asked Gu Hang about the whereabouts of Sister Grit, and after learning that he could not contact her for the time being, he left a message:

“Please ask Sister Grit to reply to my message as soon as possible. I have an urgent matter to inform her.”

“No problem.” Gu Hang agreed first, and then couldn’t help asking: “But… can I ask what the specific matter is?”

Bishop Zhao Qinghong hesitated for a moment, and finally gave an answer: “On Korojia, several nests have erupted in uncontrollable cult incidents. We need the power of Sister Grit, and she must come back as soon as possible.”

This statement surprised Gu Hang.

What kind of emergency situation requires the Sister Grit who is far away on another planet to go back to help?

It seems to be quite serious.

But if the situation is really serious, how much can Grit bring back 20 or 30 combat nuns?

No matter how I think about it, it feels strange.

As if sensing Gu Hang’s doubts, Bishop Zhao Qinghong on the opposite side gave an answer: “We need a head nun who can control the ‘Valkyrie’ armor to solve some problems that cannot be solved under normal circumstances.”

Valkyrie armor…

This is really the first time Gu Hang has heard of it.

But he couldn’t ask more details, because she obviously had something else to do.

After the communication was hung up, Gu Hang sent a message to Grit.

Speaking of this group of combat nuns, they once helped Gu Hang a lot.

When taking back Renaissance City, the nuns of the Holy Lily and the space warriors of the Phoenix helped him to hold up the situation with high-end combat power.

Then, this group of combat nuns who couldn’t sit still and had another sister died, directly confronted the cult members of the original Angry Owl Sect.

Even Grit has brought another group of people from her hometown. Now, there are more than 30 combat sisters active on the Wrathful Owl Star.

They have been investigating the situation of the evil cult members in depth, following the clues and heading north for a year.

Of course, they don’t stay in the north all the time. They often come back for a while to rest, replenish ammunition, heal wounds, and summarize intelligence.

At the same time, the Alliance has always maintained a military force in the Central North Province.

The 9th Garrison Division of the Alliance has always been there. In addition to suppressing the local area, they also have an important task, which is to cooperate with the actions of the combat sisters.

From the Central North Province to the north is the so-called Northland area. According to the clues obtained by the combat sisters, the original nest of the Wrathful Owl Sect and the place where they have the greatest influence are there.

The 9th Garrison Division has always supported their actions in the north.

The Alliance is not without benefits.

The most direct manifestation is that the 9th Division of the Central North Province has never had any major military operations, but the area of the province has expanded a lot in this year.

This is all thanks to these fighting sisters.

They have conquered many settlements this year – not necessarily by force, but sometimes by preaching.

Often, they find clues and traces of cults somewhere, and they rush over to remove the influence of the local cult members, and then leave in a hurry to go to the next target.

The army of the alliance happily took over the settlements behind.

Of course, the 9th Division is not just playing soy sauce and picking up bargains.

In fact, the fighting sisters sometimes still encounter some troubles that they can’t deal with.

In a small number of small-scale confrontations, the fighting sisters with sister power armor and the blessing of the religion are not afraid of those indigenous cult members. However, after all, the original wrathful owl sect is deeply rooted in many places in the north. Sometimes they mobilize the masses, use the power of the settlements, and gather a large number of manpower and armed forces to encircle and suppress them.

And often at this time, it is the time for the 9th Division to take action.

Although it is a garrison division and the second-line force of the alliance, it is still a regular army. There are more than 6,000 soldiers, 60 artillery pieces, and more than 300 trucks. Every time the nuns take action, there will always be soldiers from the 9th Division on standby outside.

When they encounter big trouble, a call will be made, and 155 howitzers will fall from the sky and bombard their enemies, clearing a bloody path for them.

When necessary, the troop transport trucks will rush over with at least one battalion, or several battalions of soldiers.

At present, this combination seems to be invincible.

In the northern region, the original Angry Owl Sect has not been able to do anything to the combat nuns in the several encirclement and suppression operations it has carried out so far.

For example, in the city of Renaissance, the reason why they were able to make such a big scene was that they had prepared for several years in advance, established a windmill formation, and called on the evil god to come.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, they would not be the opponents of the combat nuns.

To be honest, Gu Hang was still reluctant to let the combat nuns go.

Who doesn’t like working for free?

The Original Angry Owl Sect has never caused any trouble in the south for more than a year. That’s because the battle sisters in the north put a lot of pressure on them. They can’t take care of themselves, so how can they have time to go to the south to cause trouble?

And now that they are leaving, they have to bear the pressure from the north.

However, Gu Hang can’t do the thing of suppressing the news.

That’s too shameless.

The key is that it will be easy for the originally harmonious relationship to become hostile in the future.

There is no need.

If it were before, he would still worry about whether the Original Angry Owl Sect would cause a relatively large negative impact.

But now, the alliance has long been out of its fragile period of birth. The alliance with a population of 22 million is already a behemoth that the Original Angry Owl Sect can only look up to. Even if they want to cause trouble, they can only hide in the dark and be mice at most.

What’s more, he now has other options to deal with these guys.

He planned to recruit another group of heretic demon hunters, and after training them, send them to the north to take over the unfinished work of the combat nuns.

…

Three days later, Gu Hang met Grit in Fuxing City.

Through the smooth communication between the Central and Northern Provinces and Grit, Gu Hang had told her about the letter from her hometown.

In the past year, they had actually met more than once.

When they came back to rest after working for free, Gu Hang, as the boss, had to go and express his condolences.

And this time when they met, Grit seemed exhausted, just like in the past.

“Bishop Zhao asked me to go back now, but it’s really not the time.” Sister Grit seemed helpless, “We have obtained key clues, and the sisters have found the most core stronghold of the original Angry Owl Sect. We even have a grasp of the desperate thing they are going to do next… but it has to be at this time!”

She was very unwilling.

(End of this chapter)