Chapter 312, I am an Alliance member!
In Qinggu area, a group of investigators just went hunting... oh, they returned with some investigation clues.
They also heard the Governor's speech on the radio.
A young judge hesitated and said, "Did our 'team leader' really come back to investigate? Why did he just leave us here and go off to make a global speech? I don't think he takes the work of the investigation team seriously. He just wants to come back to be his governor!"
His question caused a chuckle from the other members of the investigation team nearby.
He was confused and didn't know what was so funny about what he said.
The others were too lazy to explain to him. They didn't know each other well. There were people from the Ecclesiarchy, from the Mechanicus, from the Order of Psionics, from the Ministry of Justice... They formed a temporary team and didn't want to say anything that shouldn't be said to this young man.
The only one who was a senior judge from the same court of inquiry as him helplessly stopped the young man who wanted to speak again, pulled him aside, and muttered to himself.
"What nonsense are you talking about? If you can see it, don't talk nonsense, otherwise everyone will laugh at you."
"Why? You're not allowed to talk about it?"
"Then Team Leader Gu came back to be the Governor General. Why are we here at Angry Owl Star?"
"Investigate the clues!"
"What have you investigated these days?"
"Uh..." He recalled that he ate delicious food in different ways every day. The grains, meats and other products produced by the agricultural center were all natural.
This is very rare in the Empire, especially in some hive cities and planets with large populations.
How can naturally raised livestock, vegetables and fruits be as cost-effective as large quantities of synthetic meat, artificial fibers and vitamins?
Of course, there is no need to mention the high-ranking dignitaries and the rich who have money but nowhere to spend it. But these investigators are not the top bosses in their respective forces. They are more than enough to be middle class, not rich.
Then you really can't eat such pure natural food.
As for the so-called investigation activity… he really thought it was an investigation before, but now thinking back, it was just going hunting to kill time.
"Come here and enjoy the food and drinks. You can just enjoy your vacation. What else is there to investigate? The demonic disaster here was brought under control as soon as it showed signs. A year and a half has passed. What else is there to investigate?"
"This..." The young man found it a little hard to accept.
"If you don't like it, you can investigate it yourself, or report it yourself when you go back. But I'm telling you, don't make trouble for yourself. Even if you report it, things won't change. This is what the higher-ups have tacitly agreed to, and it may even be the result of some exchange of interests."
Having said this, the old judge said no more.
After returning, an acquaintance smiled and said, "Why do you care so much? Young people, you will know how to do things after hitting the wall a few times."
"Isn't that to avoid spoiling everyone's fun?"
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On Angry Owl Star, there were more people than just the investigation team who listened to Governor Gu’s entire speech.
There are also more than 250,000 interstellar immigrants.
Among them, 210,000 were brought back from Koroja 3 when Governor Gu returned this time; the other 40,000 were brought back from Black Arrow Star when the Alliance hired Gu's Trading Company's ships to transport supplies to the Alliance troops stationed on Black Arrow Star.
Governor Gu's speech was all about the alliance and the development of the Angry Owl Star, and he hardly mentioned the affairs of these immigrants.
However, after hearing the Governor's speech, the immigrants were still very excited and full of anticipation.
From the past achievements described by Governor Gu, they realized that the Alliance, as the ruling body of this planet, possessed great power and firm will.
And in the future picture painted by the Governor, they saw a better life beckoning them.
The alliance did not specifically mention what would happen to these people, but there was no need to mention it.
After arriving at the Wrathful Owl Star, each of them was assigned a corresponding rank. Most of them were at the E4 level, which was not up to the level of the Alliance's E5-level official citizens, meaning that their citizenship rights were not complete and their welfare benefits were not good.
But...whether it was the people from Koroja 3 or the people from Black Arrow Star, they generally had no dissatisfaction with this.
E4 is enough. The benefits and allowances per person amount to 0.3 tax coins per year.
Isn’t that enough?
When Koroga 3 treated people like livestock, if the per capita consumption was 0.1, it was considered as not skimping on the money.
The consumption of food and industrial products has increased threefold. What is there for them to be dissatisfied about?
Moreover, a bright road lay before them. Obtaining the rank of E4 was a start. The Alliance assigned them corresponding jobs or learning opportunities with relatively relaxed conditions. As long as they worked hard for a year, it would be easy to raise their rank to E5, obtain full citizenship, and improve their own treatment.
Every word the Governor said was about the Alliance, but every word he said was also about them.
Most of them have already abandoned the fear of being far away from home when they migrated on the starship.
To hell with the lousy lower levels of the hive! We're all Alliance now!
Mandoya Lucas is one of those people who has quickly transformed this identity.
Moreover, unlike most of her compatriots, although she was born in the lower class, she was able to make it through many opportunities and encounters. At the age of forty, she made it to the upper class and relied on what she had learned to become a nest city construction planner.
It sounds good, but in reality he is just a wage earner.
Due to her poor background, her career ceiling was limited, and many of her ideas and designs were not taken seriously.
There are obviously many plans which, if implemented, will be able to greatly improve the living conditions and quality of life of residents in the lower urban areas, but these designs have always been kept at the bottom of the box.
If she could completely abandon her past, she might be able to live a good life.
But she just couldn't forget the lower city area of Fino City.
The environment there is dangerous, there are many bad people, gangs are rampant, cults are thriving, and honest people live in poverty, but will immediately become people who oppress others if they have the chance...
It was pretty much as bad as it got there.
But she never felt that the people there were at fault.
A desperate environment is the root cause of everything.
When the plague broke out, she was investigating in her "hometown" and working on a new round of designs.
During the disaster, like many other refugees, she was rescued by the army from the Angry Owl Star, saved her life, and then was sent to the starship to the Angry Owl Star in a daze.
After listening to Governor Gu's radio speech, she was deeply shocked.
This was a speech she had never heard before on Koroja 3 - the powerful people there were too lazy to even pretend to care for their people.
She felt some hope.
Perhaps, my abilities can be demonstrated on another planet.
With trepidation, she found the team leader of the textile factory job she was assigned to, explained her abilities, and hoped to meet the "person above".
She thought she would be harassed a lot, which was common on Koroja 3. She even prepared a lot of excuses to increase her credibility.
But no.
She went all the way up and met the mayor of Weixing City, Mr. Part.
(End of this chapter)
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