Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 39

Chapter 39, The Fire Bearer

In fact, Gu Hang has not been able to determine whether Yan Fangxu’s entrapment is part of Hodgson’s warning.

If so, then the original Angry Owl Sect is quite powerful. They not only master the storm magic bestowed by the evil god they believe in, but also have the means to control those mutant monsters to some extent?

But to say it is not, it would be too coincidental.

He also thought, could this be a way to lure the tiger away from the mountain?

Besiege Yan Fangxu, transfer the main force in the camp to rescue, and then attack the camp?

But soon, Gu Hang ruled out this idea.

It is unlikely.

If his enemies are simply those mutant monsters, then these monsters don’t have the brains.

If his enemies are cults, or worse, some people in the Union Government, then it is not worth it for them to destroy Gu Hang’s camp. After all, whether Gu Hang is causing trouble for the cult members or the Union Government, his main reliance is still his power as the governor.

As long as he is still alive, what does it matter if his camp is destroyed? Those people will have a lot of trouble.

Of course, it is not impossible. If the rescue team sent by Gu Hang is not led by him personally, the enemy will probably attack the camp in order to seize this opportunity to kill him.

And if he leads the team to rescue in person, he must be prepared to be ambushed.

In any case, this matter is not easy to deal with.

But Gu Hang is not a tangled character.

Since the challenge has come, then face it head-on.

…

In Fuxing City, Hodgson sat in a wheelchair, looking at the entire city through the huge glass window of his office.

In fact, Fuxing City is not particularly large, and there are not many high-rise buildings. The interior of the entire city, the planning of buildings and roads is in order, which is a good foundation laid by the first generation of governors when building the alliance.

However, after so many years, although the inner city looks okay, the larger outer city attached to the outer wall is in chaos. Hundreds of thousands, nearly a million people, who depend on the city for survival, have no chance to live in the inner city, forming a large area of slums outside the city wall.

There is no planning, no order, everything is a mess. Sewage is flowing everywhere, supplies are in short supply, and life is difficult. These problems shroud that place. It should not be the appearance of a planetary capital city.

Many Alliance members and inner city residents do not like those refugees. They think that these people bring chaos, and the slums are even more filthy.

But smarter people actually clearly understand that Renaissance City cannot do without those people.

The refugees living in the outer city eat the worst and least food, have no clothes to cover their bodies, and their homes are built randomly. The inner city people do not pay them any public services and welfare guarantees, but let them do the hardest work, and only give them a little insignificant compensation, which can only ensure their survival.

Without them, how can the residents of the inner city live a good life? How can those members earn wealth far beyond their contributions?

Therefore, these smart people will occasionally show their compassion generously. They will provide more jobs and give alms to the refugees, as if they are really saving them.

But they never think of seeking welfare for those who are not residents.

Let those nearly one million refugees live a good life? This is simply unimaginable. The people in the inner city are still dissatisfied with their own lives, how can they have the energy to take care of the refugees outside? Less death is their only mercy.

Smarter people may be able to see the crisis hidden in the low and dilapidated houses outside the city wall.

Under those humble and taciturn looks, is there no anger?

In fact, the fire has burned countless times. It’s just that the sparks are too weak. Some resistance is either suppressed by the huge inertia of this deformed system, or dispersed when facing the armed police unarmed.

In short, these sparks failed to become a big fire that burned everything.

But that day will come sooner or later. What is missing is a fuse and a fireman.

Hodgson clearly realized that he was a “smarter person”. He could see all this, but his wisdom was limited to this. He could not find a solution, and he did not have the ability to integrate and unite everyone. He could not even control the Alliance Parliament.

He did not know that someone in the parliament secretly supported the cult;

someone dared to attack the supplies delivered to the Governor, and he was powerless to stop it;

the layers of resistance when mobilizing military and police forces to investigate the cult, and the endless debates and doubts in the parliament, made him exhausted.

He felt more than once that he was really old.

But he did not dare to retreat.

The investigation of the cult was originally an order issued by the Governor, which was tossing the political situation in Fuxing City. However, when he really investigated, he felt that something was wrong: the fuse and the fireman he feared in the past seemed to have appeared.

“Grandpa.”

Lambert Hodgson pushed open the door of the office.

Old Hodgson didn’t look back, but just asked, “Any results?”

“We still haven’t found out the whereabouts of that batch of supplies. Councillor Marion denied that the supplies passed through her hands. Two agents in charge of this line are missing. We searched many angry owl statues in the outer city. According to the confession, they came from a relief center. A team of police officers tried to search there but triggered a small-scale riot among the refugees. They returned empty-handed. After mobilizing more people, the place had been burned down…”

Old Hodgson sighed heavily: “This time, we are in big trouble.”

Lambert agreed with his grandfather’s judgment, and because of this, he felt a little overwhelmed.

He asked, “I originally thought that it was just the governor who was causing trouble for us, but I didn’t expect that the investigation would really make me break out in a cold sweat. Those cultists are going to do something big in Renaissance City, but we don’t have any clear intelligence yet… What should we do next? The governor is likely to be attacked, do we really not need to go to support him?”

“Who should we send? I’m not even sure if the people we send might be the ones who will attack the governor in the future. The governor may think so too, and he won’t trust us easily.”

“Then we must also make our attitude clear.” Lambert insisted at this time, “I’ll go, with a team that is absolutely trustworthy.”

“Do you know what this means?”

“I know, it means that we will have to bear the governor’s suspicion, and we will be considered by those congressmen to have completely surrendered to the governor, becoming a sandwich in the middle.”

Although he was talking about very tragic consequences, the more he spoke, the more determined Lambert’s tone became:

“But I understand what you said last time, ‘Only the Governor can save the world.’ We are not sure if it is this Governor, but at least now it seems that this Governor is a little different from the previous ones. He chose a path that the previous Governors did not dare to take, and he has a starship support that the previous Governors did not have. I want to give it a try. If he is not the Governor we expect, then I will do my best to help him become that Governor.”

“We don’t have that much time to wait for more Governors. The whole planet is looking forward to revival, the sooner the better. I am willing to contribute to this first, rather than continue to wait silently. Being a promoter of the times is far more meaningful than waiting for the times to change and then rushing to get on the bus.”

The young man expressed his lofty ideals in front of his elders, and his elders just looked at him quietly.

After a long while, Hodgson let out a long sigh: “I am already very old. At my age in this wasteland, I have lived enough and can’t make more courageous decisions. You have always been better than your father. If you want to do this, then do it.”

(End of this chapter)