Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 34

Chapter 34, A Beam of Light

Ossena looked around and saw a large construction site.

The Governor’s territory, the ‘land of salvation’ claimed by the good man, seemed to be different from what she imagined.

After the end of last winter, Ossena’s hometown, which was called the ‘Southern Provinces’ by the people of Renaissance City, broke out with a large-scale wave of mutant monsters.

It was a huge disaster, and many gathering places were completely destroyed.

It was not easy to survive until the wave of mutant monsters passed, but it did not mean that the disaster was over.

There was no time to sow in the spring, and because of a winter, and because of fighting against alien monsters… Various factors made people lose a lot of food reserves. The problems of hunger and shortage of supplies flooded the southern provinces.

What would people who couldn’t survive do?

They would become evil spirits.

Ossena and her brother used to live a good life. The land in the southern provinces is relatively fertile, and the erosion by the waste energy storm is relatively mild, so many gathering places here can make a living through agriculture. In fact, the southern provinces were originally very important grain producing areas. Fuxing City, including the inner and outer cities, with hundreds of thousands of people, mainly relied on grain imported from the south.

Ossena’s father was a plantation owner. Before everything collapsed, their family’s plantation had a population of tens of thousands. When the harvest was good, it could not only feed everyone, but also have a lot of surplus to sell in exchange for industrial products.

It is conceivable that Ossena’s living standard was like that of a little princess, far exceeding that of most people in this wasteland

. But all this collapsed at the turn of spring and summer.

A large number of looters from outside besieged the plantation; then a riot broke out inside.

Under the protection of the guards, their family tried to break through and escape from the plantation at the last moment. There were also many people who did not participate in the riot who tried to escape together.

But in the chaos, she and her father were separated. She

hid her name, smeared dust on her face, cut her hair…

She took her brother and followed the team of refugees, and arrived in Fuxing City in a daze.

In the middle, she suffered too much.

For a bite of food, she was willing to do anything, even a little bit of work, to get a little food. What’s worse, begging, fighting, stealing, cheating…

Before everything collapsed, she was taught to be a good lady, and she never thought she would be like this.

But she persisted.

In the past few months, she was starving, and her brother, who was just over ten years old, was malnourished.

But at least, they were all alive.

However, she often fell into confusion.

If she had never seen beauty, she might have been sinking in the darkness. But a few months ago, she was still a little princess, the apple of her father’s eye. Every day, she worried about the appraisal and restoration of the pre-war artworks purchased at a high price, helping her father manage the manor and calculating the accounts.

Now she has to hesitate about what to eat tomorrow.

More importantly, there is no end to this kind of life, no hope, no light.

She feels that she can’t hold on any longer.

She had thought more than once that living in such a terrible world, would it be easier to die?

But every time she saw her brother’s eyes, she would put the thought back and grit her teeth to continue to suffer.

It was strange to say, in the past, she was not very close to her brother who was seven years younger than her, and she even often felt that this naughty kid was really annoying.

However, in the past few months, she would rather die than take her brother with her. Once when her brother was kidnapped, she bit him like crazy and didn’t let go even after being beaten to a bloody mess.

She herself didn’t know why, she only knew that she would fight with anyone who dared to harm her only remaining relative.

But she still sadly understood that they were about to die.

The chaos in the southern provinces had a huge impact. The shortage of food imports caused the food prices in Fuxing City to continue to rise. She relied on odd jobs to feed herself and her brother.

Recently, there was even worse news: it was said that the largest food merchant in Fuxing City had disappeared. Then, the food prices in the city became more volatile.

At this time, a merchant opened a free porridge shop in the slums outside Fuxing City.

Anyone can get a bowl of hot porridge in the porridge shop, provided that they need to listen to the declaration made by the planetary governor, Mr. Gu Hang, on the first day of coming to the wasteland.

She had a fight with someone and grabbed a seat with her brother. The so-

called governor’s declaration was very long. She just wanted to read a few words less and eat quickly. She couldn’t remember much about what the governor’s declaration said.

There was only one sentence that she remembered clearly: the governor would let everyone who surrendered to him live a good life.

The next day, the porridge shop was still open, and she came again. But this time, she was told that those who had eaten once would not be allowed to eat again, unless they were willing to follow the caravan to the governor’s camp and become the governor’s subjects.

She did not hesitate and pressed her handprint on the paper.

After waiting for a few days, when the caravan set off, she came here with her brother.

Although following the caravan to the governor’s camp was forced by life, there was also a desire to change the status quo and seek some light and hope.

She thought she would see a well-developed city, but she saw large areas of dust. There are many simple cement buildings that have been built here, but more are still under construction.

However, looking at the large-scale construction in the entire camp, there should be no shortage of job opportunities at least.

But can she be a construction worker with her small body?

With a confused mind and no idea about the future, Ossena took her brother’s hand and followed the team’s arrangement to the registration place.

When it was her turn, the person who registered asked some basic information.

Name, age, what she is good at, what she wants to do…

She answered according to the actual situation.

“Huh?” The person registering opposite suddenly said, “Can you read?”

“Uh… yes.”

“That’s great!” The man was overjoyed, “Go to that table and fill out another form. Congratulations, you will get good treatment.”

Ossena went over confused.

There were not many people at that table.

After she filled out a form, she was assigned two jobs: during the day, she worked as a clerk in the textile factory that was about to be established, arranging and executing production plans, counting production results, managing production processes…

The second job was to be a teacher in the night school literacy class.

The content of the work made her feel a lot more at ease. This was what she was really good at. When she was in the manor, she would assist her father in some management work. Although it was agricultural production management at that time, and now she has to be a clerk in a textile factory, it is better than doing physical work with her own hands.

Especially after hearing about the treatment, she was more tempted.

According to the calculation of work points, the material rations she could get every day were more than enough to support herself and her brother, and she could save a lot.

Although everything was nothing like when she was a little princess, it was the only ray of light she saw during her months of wandering.

(End of this chapter)