Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 401

Chapter 400, An Ordinary Journey

Shang Yanwen finally set out on the journey back to Korojia alone.

Of course he would not let Lu Shaoyu follow him.

As he said before leaving, they were not from the same world.

He had decided to devote his life to a great cause. Lu Shaoyu didn’t have to do this. Her life would be more exciting and leisurely. She shouldn’t go to that dark and backward place with him.

He knew Lu Shaoyu’s feelings, but love might just be a momentary impulse. How long could it last?

It was his responsibility to change his hometown. He knew that the road ahead was long and full of difficulties. He didn’t even know how many years he would spend for this. He shouldn’t drag a beautiful girl along.

His difficult journey was even directly reflected on his way back home.

It took him two days to take public transportation to the ground part of the star port of Feiyi Star; then it took another three days to queue up to the star port and wait for the ship.

The alliance has now established interstellar transportation exclusive to its own alliance system, and the main force among them is the two ships “Traveler Second Generation” and “Flying Pig”. The former can carry 2,000 people at a time, while the latter can carry about 80,000 people.

The Angry Owl Star Shipyard and the Flying Wing Star Shipyard have received a large number of orders from the Alliance Public Transportation Department to produce these two types of spacecraft for the construction of public flights within the star zone.

In the past, normal people – even many wealthy people, wealthy people, and high-ranking officials – did not have the opportunity to travel between star zones.

Government affairs rely on the ships of the star zone government; business exchanges depend on whether each company can find a relationship and contact forces like Gu’s Trading Company that are capable of interstellar navigation, and they have to have a ship passing by the destination and take a ride.

A year and a half ago, the Alliance’s interstellar flights around the star zone were officially opened. Although the ticket price is still very expensive and not affordable for ordinary people, this way is a big step forward. If there is really something that must go to another planet, at least there is a way to go now.

Not to mention, if it is a business trip, it is the government or the company that will pay for the budget.

Shang Yanwen himself certainly didn’t have the money to take a boat to and from Korojia and Feiyixing. In fact, he had never been back during the past three or four years of study.

This time, he went back and got a free ticket with the government’s approval.

Recently, there were quite a lot of people returning to Korojia. He waited for three days before he got on flight B-1733, a flying dolphin transport ship.

The conditions on the ship were not very good. A compartment of about six square meters had two rows of four-layer bunks, separated by a corridor in the middle, and each bunk could sleep one person.

There were countless such compartments, stacked up in the cabin.

Shang Yanwen was quite used to it. Although his accommodation conditions during college were not bad, the days he spent in Korojia for most of his life were not better than this.

He put his luggage in one of the four separate public compartments under the bed and lay down on the second layer from the top.

It was very crowded here, and Shang Yanwen could barely sit up. If he sat any higher, he would hit his head.

He took out the book he brought with him and began to read.

He prepared several books to spend the long journey from Feiyi Star to Korojia.

The total journey, at the speed of Feitun, would take six days, and he planned to spend the time reading books.

It was just a pity that there were strict restrictions on the carrying of various items on interstellar spacecraft, and books were on the restricted list. It was not allowed to bring too many, and before the interstellar tunnel jump, all books had to be placed in a designated place for special preservation, which was very troublesome.

But Shang Yanwen still brought the most books within the prescribed scope so as not to waste every bit of time.

The ship left the star port and floated in the void for two days.

Shang Yanwen estimated in his mind that it should be close to the interstellar tunnel node.

Although it is a “point”, it is indeed a point in the scale of the entire universe, but in fact, the jump point is a very large area. As the starship gradually approaches this area, the signal received by the jump identification system will gradually increase until the signal strength exceeds the critical point, which means that the current position of the starship has reached the jump standard. As long as the jump engine is started, the entire starship will jump into the star tunnel. From the outside, it will be as if the spaceship disappeared from the real universe in an instant.

These are the knowledge that Shang Yanwen learned from the book, including the fact that the ship is now almost at the jump point, which he also judged based on his knowledge. He stayed in this box-like compartment every day, unable to see or hear anything, and could only guess.

However, the starship’s jump engine never started.

He was quite confused. Did he guess wrong?

But he soon realized that it was not.

In the cabin, an alarm sounded:

“I’m sorry to inform all passengers that our journey may be delayed. Recently, there have been traces of pirates around the route. The Alliance Navy tracked down a group of pirates two hours ago. There is a battle around the jump point of the Korojia galaxy. We may have to wait here for two hours for this. I’m sorry to delay the itinerary of all passengers…”

Oh, it turned out to be pirates.

Shang Yanwen had seen some news reports about this matter before.

In an editorial, Shang Yanwen also saw a point of view that he quite agreed with, that the arrival of pirates is inevitable.

In the past, there were no pirates in the Tianma Star Region. On the one hand, the powerful Tianma Fleet was stationed in the star region. Any blind pirate group that dared to come here to commit crimes would be really desperate.

On the other hand, there was no particularly big profit in the Tianma Star Region. The Imperial Tax Fleet did not dare to plunder. The Imperial Caravan did have a Gu’s Business, but it was difficult to capture the route and the flights were not frequent. The Tianma Star Region itself was not a particularly important transportation hub, and the benefits of long-term pirate activities in the Tianma Star Region were not high.

However, in the past one or two years, the situation has changed.

The main force of the Tianma Fleet was gone, and although the remaining ships could still form a crushing military advantage over ordinary pirates, the space was so vast that pirates could hide in an asteroid belt or even leave the Tianma Star Region to hide in other places. No one could find them unless they showed up.

Moreover, due to the interconnection of the nine stars within the alliance, a large number of fixed flights began to travel very frequently, and most of them were single ships running directly in the star sea. If they were targeted by pirate ships, they would be doomed.

The pirates had a considerable expected profit.

Of course, the pirates still had no way to fight against the remaining forces of the Pegasus Fleet. If they encountered a frigate, those shabby pirate ships would not be able to withstand it. However, the high profit has made those pirates dare to take risks.

In the past year, there have been many pirate robberies, and three Alliance ships have been looted, with heavy losses.

The Alliance has undoubtedly taken severe countermeasures against this.

Du Shiliang, the current acting commander of the Pegasus Fleet, has publicly apologized to the public and promised that the Pegasus Fleet will work hard to combat pirates and ensure the safety and smoothness of interstellar flights.

At the same time, the Alliance’s Public Transportation Department has also urgently established a special group to announce the establishment of the Alliance Navy.

Of course, the word “navy” was not used in the official announcement, which was what the citizens of the Alliance thought. The public statement is that it is the Alliance Escort Fleet.

The shipyards of Feiyi Star and Angry Owl Star have also received orders from the Alliance to build warships. It is said that some escort armed ships modified by travelers and even several “Blackfish-class” fast patrol ships have been put into use.

Three months ago, the Alliance completed a heavy blow to a pirate group called “Red Eye”. Several fast-response patrol ships of the alliance bit the buttocks of those pirates, and fought for several days, chasing them without letting them go and rushing forward recklessly. Finally, a destroyer of the Pegasus fleet arrived with a squadron of several frigates, destroyed some enemies, and seized three patrol ship-level pirate ships through boarding tactics.

It was a great victory. There was no news of any pirates appearing in the next three months. Unexpectedly, there are still some now.

Shang Yanwen was a little nervous, but generally speaking, he was calm.

He believed in the ability of the alliance government. Since they did not stop the regular flights and did not arrange escorts for every flight, the problem should not be too serious.

This was indeed the case. Two hours later, a new announcement was issued, saying that the pirate problem had been solved, and the ship was about to enter the Star Tunnel. All passengers were asked not to move around in the cabin. The execution time in the Star Tunnel would last for thirteen hours.

These thirteen hours did not feel very special to Shang Yanwen. He just felt that the hull vibrated for about a few minutes, and they should have entered the Star Tunnel.

It is said that if you look out from the ship at this time, you should be able to see a large area of colorful and bizarre brilliant pictures. Unfortunately, he could not see anything in the cabin where he was.

At the same time, it is also said that even if the astral force field is turned on, when traveling through the astral tunnel, some unknown dangers may still occur in the ship, but at least he did not encounter them this time.

These thirteen hours were not much different from the other thirteen hours for him. Until the ship vibrated for another ten minutes, with the announcement he heard in his ears, he knew that they had broken away from the astral tunnel and returned to the real universe.

Then, after sailing for more than three days, the starship stopped moving.

The announcement said that they had arrived at the Korojia Star Port.

Everyone packed up their things, left the cabin door, and lined up in an orderly manner in the passage outside according to the guidance of the staff, and went to the nearest exit to prepare to leave the ship.

Flight B-1733 was a flying dolphin, and this voyage carried nearly 90,000 passengers. With so many people, it was a very troublesome thing to leave the ship with their own things.

However, when designing the ship, including the star port, there are special responses to this. Shang Yanwen queued up and left the ship after an hour and a half.

When walking on the corridor bridge, he could see through the glass that there were twenty large and small exits on the side of B-1733 close to the star port, scattered up and down, left and right, connected to the star port through the corridor bridge. People and goods were communicating through these movable corridor bridges in space.

Only here could they see part of the body of the ship they were riding on and the larger body of the star port through the glass window of the corridor bridge.

The Flying Pigeon was only a small transport ship, but it could hold 90,000 people in its belly, and carry a large amount of goods and daily necessities, so it should be a behemoth.

It was like a small town standing in space.

But even so, compared to the star port, it was too small.

The scale of Korojia’s star port was not as large as that of Feiyi Star, but it could still be ranked second in the entire Tianma Star Region.

After entering the star port, he took the tram in the star port and went to a space elevator connection, lined up and waited, and got off the star port.

After leaving the star port and reaching the ground, this is the capital of Korojia, Mingyan City.

He took another car and arrived at the northern station of Mingyan City. After waiting for half a day, he waited for a train to Nuoyan City.

Nuoyan City is not too far from Mingyan City – compared to the hive city on the other side of the planet.

But even so, the train running in the wilderness at a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour still took him seven hours to arrive at Nuoyan City.

After getting off at Nuoyan City Station, he took another car and swayed in the hive city for six hours before he finally arrived at his destination: the Green Bee Street District in the lower hive area of Nuoyan City.

This journey was really exhausting, even for Shang Yanwen, who was always calm.

Interstellar travel is really troublesome. The distance is too far. Even with the support of various technologies possessed by humans, it is still too troublesome for an ordinary person.

He didn’t remember how many times he changed trains and how much time he spent.

But anyway, he is back.

After getting off the bus, he looked around and saw some familiar scenes, but there were more things he had never seen before.

The street scene has changed a lot. The originally dirty and closed alleys have been cleared; the strange smell of metal smelting, various exhaust gases, and various domestic garbage on the street is still a little bit, but it is much lighter than he remembered.

Some of the surrounding buildings are still the same, but most of them are no longer what they used to be.

There are many people walking on the street and many cars driving. Unlike in the past, if there is nothing to do, no one will come out to walk around.

Although the clothes everyone wears are not gorgeous, they are at least neat; the expressions on their faces are smiling and flamboyant…

Is this still my hometown?

(End of this chapter)