Chapter 212 Meeting Ms. Gina Again
The cities on the ten planets in the fourth galaxy look even more dilapidated than the cities on the planets in Zhuyun Frontier.
After a three-hour voyage, Xu Lingqu brought Liu Ming from Zhuyun Border Pass to here.
This is the slum of the interstellar empire, which is of the same scale and level of construction as the small cities in the human world during the Earth period.
There is a big pit in the center of the city of Ten Stars. It looks like a mine, but there is nothing inside. I don’t know what was mined there before.
Fourteen years ago, this place was bought by the founder of the Flame Church, who said that the holy fire of some church was discovered here.
Xu Lingqu took Liu Ming inside. There were only two clergymen who were fast asleep and church totem paintings covering the walls. There was nothing special about it, just a bluff.
Lingqu lived on this planet with Liu Zhi until he was two years old. The planet's government system can check that Liu Zhi has indeed lived on this planet for decades, but there is still no information about Lingqu.
The two-year-old child was not feeling well, but there was no record of him having been to any doctor.
This trip still yielded nothing. Xu Lingqu lowered his head to look at Liuming. Liuming had closed his little mouth that usually chattered. He didn't know what he was thinking, but he probably felt hit again.
A man and a dog were walking on the road when suddenly a familiar figure appeared in front of them.
Ms. Gina was carrying a basket and looking at Xu Lingqu with her eyes slightly widened.
"Miss Lingqu, no, His Highness Lingqu, why are you here?"
Xu Lingqu followed Gina back to her residence. On this planet, Ms. Gina had her own small house. It was obvious that the whole family lived there before, but from the traces of life, it was clear that she lived there alone now.
Gina poured a cup of hot black tea and placed it in front of Xu Lingqu. She lowered her eyes and said, "Thanks to you, I was not tortured by Ares, but I reported everything I knew about Xu Chengbi."
"I am the person in this world who wants him to go to hell the most." Gina gave a wry smile.
Xu Lingqu blew on the steam rising from the cup and asked, "Why were you so willing to help him back then?"
It can be seen that Ms. Gina is a person with conscience and sense of justice. She took the initiative to help Xu Lingqu conceal the SS-level report at that time, and later told Xu Lingqu two key pieces of information. She and Xu Chengbi are obviously two different people.
"He needs my hacking skills, and I..." Ms. Gina's eyes showed sadness, and she was shaking while holding the cup of tea, and the tea spilled onto the plate.
"In the 79th year of the Empire, a group of interstellar pirates came here, burning, killing, and looting. I was only a teenager at the time. My family had been living a peaceful life here, but disaster struck. They bombarded the city with highly lethal weapons, and I was the only one who survived."
Xu Lingqu had an impression of this number. It was also the same year. Because of this incident, Liu Zhi took the two-year-old Lingqu to move to Zhuyun Frontier. (The previous article wrote 1973, now corrected to 1979)
"That time, it was Xu Chengbi who led his men to wipe out the pirates, so I've always had a good impression of him. Two years later, my hacking talent was discovered and I was specially recruited into the military. I chose to become Xu Chengbi's subordinate, and later I directly quit the military and became his subordinate, all because he promised me to help me complete a task."
"Build more space fortress defenses on the flanks of the Fourth System, and have the troops stationed at the Cloud-Chasing Frontier Fortress pay attention to the safety of the residents of the Fourth System..."
There is a huge gap in the military strength between Zhuyun Frontier Fort and Mulan Frontier Fort. Behind Mulan Frontier Fort is the developing third galaxy, so naturally they will be given priority protection.
The governor of the third galaxy also uses the money from the government of the third galaxy to subsidize military expenses every year. Therefore, the military has always been very active in protecting the third galaxy, and interstellar pirates are not very willing to visit the other side of the empire.
The fourth galaxy is different. The resources here are scarce and the people are poor. Most people do not regard them as human beings. The purpose of their existence is to serve as a human barrier to protect the second galaxy and the capital star when the Empire and the Federation go to war.
The troops stationed at Zhuyun Frontier are few in number and poorly equipped. They cannot even guard four planets, so how can they possibly focus on protecting the people of the fourth galaxy? Every time, they arrive late to deal with the aftermath after the interstellar pirates have killed everyone.
No one cares about the blood and tears of the people of the Fourth Galaxy.
The captain of the fourth galaxy also went to the capital star to argue for this, but in the end it was the finance minister who asked him to look at the financial report. The cost of protecting the fourth galaxy was huge, but the profit was almost zero. In fact, a lot of money was even spent on the maintenance of the facilities of the fourth galaxy every year.
Such a bleak reality left the leader of the fourth galaxy speechless.
On the day he left the capital star, he burst into tears on the star track train.
"Are the lives of the people in my galaxy inherently less valuable than those in other galaxies?"
"As an admiral of the empire, Xu Chengbi often came to the Zhuyun border to suppress pirates. I thought he cared about the lives of the people in the fourth galaxy. I thought he..." Ms. Gina collapsed and lost her voice when she said this. She was completely different from the calm and capable look she had when Xu Lingqu first met her.
She thought she had found a conscientious admiral who cared about the lives of the people of the Fourth Star, but the bloody facts proved that Xu Chengbi's elimination of pirates was just a business deal with the Federation.
Even the pensions he swallowed up over the years were enough to cover the Fourth Galaxy's financial expenses for a year. Gina was completely stunned the day she learned the truth.
She has been an accomplice to the evil for so many years and has helped Xu Chengbi do so many evil things. However, Xu Chengbi sees through her and never lets her access the core. He also pretends in front of her that he will mention these things about protecting the people of the fourth galaxy to His Majesty.
Gina only realized much later that something was wrong with Xu Chengbi. She was very glad that she finally woke up. Looking at Xu Lingqu in front of her, if that SS-level test report had fallen into Xu Chengbi's hands, Xu Lingqu would probably be...
"It's not your fault." Xu Lingqu looked at Gina, who was completely broken, and said, "It's not your fault."
What's wrong with someone wanting to protect their homeland? The Fourth People live in poverty and suffering, their lives threatened at any time. But because it's a human barrier, people here can hardly move, and the conditions for removal are very harsh.
At that time, Liu Zhi relied on his status as a martyr's family member to bring Lingqu to the Zhuyun border-X.
"Fortunately, I still have you. Thank goodness, thank goodness." Gina once thought about ending her life, but after hearing that Xu Lingqu became the heir to the empire, she chose to return here.
She looked at Xu Lingqu with anticipation and hope in her eyes.
Xu Lingqu knew what it was, but he didn't know what to say to Gina. After all—
In fact, she refused to inherit the empire.
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