Chapter 224: Message from the Hive World
Ms. Wang Qi came and went in a hurry.
After one night that day, she left on a spaceship.
To get from Angry Owl Star to Black Arrow Star, one only needs to travel through the Star Realm Tunnel once. Adding the time required for normal navigation in the starry sky, it takes about six or seven days in total.
There was still some time before the family meeting. However, she had to arrive earlier. She needed to eliminate some uncertainties before the meeting started to make things more certain.
After bidding farewell to his mother and three divisions, Gu Hang returned to his normal working state.
He was waiting for the outcome of the family meeting, waiting for his crown as the head of the family, and waiting for the five million tax coins that his biological mother was going to give him.
With so much money, you can buy a lot of good things.
For example, Space Marine power armor; Terminator armor; key components for building starports - they can be produced, but too slowly. If you have money, you can import them to speed up the process.
He even thought about saving more money or asking his mother for more sponsorship, or even doing something bigger.
For example, transformation of the planet's surface environment.
The three central provinces and the three eastern provinces, this vast land is mainly wasteland, it is difficult to grow crops, the environment is harsh, and waste energy storms are raging... The empire must have special technology that can change the planet's environment.
This is the prerequisite technology for large-scale interstellar colonization. His ultimate goal is to sink the waste energy storm.
The greatest value of the Angry Owl Star before the war was the energy extraction from the spiritual gas fields.
Nowadays, the waste energy storms that are raging in many places on the planet are essentially the spiritual energy that has penetrated through the crystal walls of the spiritual world. It has lost the environment where it was bound and settled in a certain place, and can no longer form a spiritual gas field; but this energy still exists, so it has become an uncontrollable storm.
And if we can correct the wasteland environment of the Angry Owl Star, find a way to restrain and sink the spiritual energy, and form a spiritual gas field, then the value of the entire planet will suddenly soar to an extremely high level.
Of course, this price is very high. If you want to complete the transformation of the climate and environment of the entire planet, it will cost tens or even hundreds of billions of tax coins.
The Empire is generally not willing to invest huge resources to change the environment of a planet and carry out interstellar colonization. With that money, it is better to build a fleet, and perhaps in a certain war, it can take back more than one planet from the hands of the Empire's enemies.
Of course, if something of particular value were to come across one - whether it was the value of the planet itself or the strategic value of its location, the empire would still invest in this area.
Because of this, the relevant technical capabilities still exist.
Gu Hang can't afford this money.
If he could gather tens or hundreds of billions of tax coins to transform the planet's environment, then at that time he would probably have no shortage of income from immersing the waste energy storm into a spiritualized gas field.
After all, no matter how mouth-watering the output of the spiritual gas field is, the huge initial investment is required, and it will take many years to recover the investment cost.
However, just because Gu Hang cannot afford the money at the moment does not mean he cannot look for it from other sources.
For example, Gu's.
With such a good investment project, wouldn’t the Gu family be tempted?
Even I, the head of the family, am moved!
…
Before the results of the family meeting held on Black Arrow Star came out, Gu Hang received another piece of news.
This news comes from the planet Koroja 3.
There are two planets in the Koroja system. Koroja 1 is a mineral resource planet, but its habitability is very poor. The permanent population may be only in the millions, mainly miners and some industries serving the miners.
Koroja 3, located in the same star system next to it, is the largest and most populous hive world in the Pegasus region.
There, there live 41.8 billion people!
To be honest, it was really hard for Gu Hang to imagine how more than 40 billion people could be crammed onto one planet.
He had never been to Koroja 3 in person, but he had heard that the wild environment of that world had basically ceased to exist, and it was all desolate land. The huge population lived in about twenty "nests".
The so-called 'Nest City', as the name suggests, is a huge 'nest'.
Human nest.
Essentially, this is a city. However, compared to the city in Gu Hang's concept, it is very different. It often hollows out the underground part of an entire area. As the bottom layer of the nest city, a large number of lower-class people live here; the middle layer of the nest city may have some industrial output value; the upper layer is mainly administrative, commercial, residence of dignitaries, and key industrial areas.
The majority of the population, who live in the middle and lower classes, may never see the sun in their entire lives.
Chaos, death, disease, poverty... these things plague the people of the hive city.
Their average life expectancy is probably around 40 years.
Disease, death from overwork, malnutrition, vendettas... these are the main causes of their death.
In addition to these, the main population loss of Koroga 3 comes from... Imperial taxes.
If Koroja No. 3 has to talk about its specialty, it would be its population.
The Empire defines the annual standard gross product value of an imperial citizen as 1 tax coin. A young and middle-aged living person, when paid as tax, is worth 5 tax coins.
Obviously, in the Empire's value system, human life has a price: just the value of his five years' output.
Korojia has a population of over 40 billion, and the taxes they have to pay each year amount to 4.2 billion tax coins. More than half of the taxes are paid by population.
Every year, they pay 2.5 billion tax coins for a population of 500 million, and then pay more than a billion for industrial products, processed foods, and the like. This is the source of their tax structure.
Koroja 3 is very poor and miserable, and the people there are in dire straits. But in fact, from an overall perspective, this is a powerful and wealthy planet.
A population of 40 billion is the biggest source of wealth.
In the entire Tianma Star Region, only Korojia 3 and the capital Feiyi Star can reach 4 billion in tax revenue per year. Feiyi Star is because of its development, and Korojia 3 is because of its large population.
At this moment, there really was a group of guests from Koroga 3 on Gu Hang's planet - the combat nuns of Holy Mercy Lily.
This interstellar phone call was also directed at them.
The caller was a bishop of the Imperial Church on Koroja 3, named Zhao Qinghong, who was the head of the Imperial Church in Koroja. He asked Gu Hang about the whereabouts of Sister Grit, and after learning that he could not contact her for the time being, he left a message:
"Please ask Sister Grit to reply to my message as soon as possible. I have something urgent to tell her."
"No problem." Gu Hang agreed first, and then couldn't help asking: "But...can I ask, what exactly is it?"
Bishop Zhao Qinghong hesitated for a moment, but finally gave an answer: "On Koroga, several nests have experienced uncontrollable cult incidents. We need the strength of Sister Grit, and she must return as soon as possible."
This statement surprised Gu Hang.
What kind of emergency requires the head nun from another planet to come back for help?
That looks pretty serious.
But if the situation is really serious, how much help can it be if Grit returns with twenty or thirty combat nuns?
No matter how I think about it, it feels weird.
As if sensing Gu Hang's doubts, Bishop Zhao Qinghong on the other side gave an answer: "We need a head nun who can control the Valkyrie armor to solve some problems that cannot be solved under normal circumstances."
Valkyrie Armor...
This was the first time Gu Hang had heard of it.
But he didn't dare to ask any more questions, as the other person obviously had something else to do.
After the call was disconnected, Gu Hang sent a message to Grit.
Speaking of this group of combat nuns, they once provided a great help to Gu Hang.
When taking back Renaissance City, the nuns of Holy Lily and the space warriors of Phoenix used their high-end combat power to help him hold up the situation.
Afterwards, this group of restless combat nuns, who had lost another sister, directly confronted the cult members of the original Cult of the Angry Owl.
Even more, Grit had brought another group of people from her hometown. Now, there were more than thirty combat nuns active on the Angry Owl Star.
They have been investigating the situation of the cult members in depth, following clues all the way north, and it has been a year now.
Of course, they didn't stay in the north all the time. They would come back from time to time to rest, replenish ammunition, heal wounds, and summarize intelligence.
At the same time, the alliance has always maintained a military force in the central and northern provinces.
The 9th Alliance Garrison Division has been there all along. In addition to suppressing the local situation, they also have an important task, which is to cooperate with the actions of the battle sisters.
Further north from the Central North Province is the so-called Northland region. According to the clues obtained by the Sisters of Battle, the original nest of the Wrathful Owl Sect and the place where they have the greatest influence are there.
The 9th Guards Division always provided support for their operations in the north.
The alliance is not without benefits.
The most direct manifestation is that although the Ninth Division of the North Central Province has never carried out any major military operations, the area of the province has expanded a lot in this year.
This is thanks to these combat nuns.
During this year, they conquered many settlements - not necessarily by force, but sometimes by preaching.
Often, once they find clues or traces of a cult somewhere, they will rush over, eliminate the influence of the local cult members, and then quickly leave for the next target.
The alliance's army happily followed behind and took over the settlement.
Of course, the 9th Division is not just sitting there doing nothing and taking advantage.
In fact, the Sisters of Battle sometimes still encounter some troubles that they find difficult to deal with.
In a few small-scale confrontations, the battle sisters with nun power armor and the blessing of the cult were not afraid of the indigenous cult members. However, after all, the original wrathful owl sect was deeply rooted in many places in the north. Sometimes they would mobilize the masses, use the power of the settlements, and gather a large number of manpower and armed forces to encircle and suppress them.
And often at this time, the Ninth Division would take action.
Although it was a garrison division, the second-line force of the alliance, it was still a regular army. More than 6,000 soldiers, 60 artillery pieces, and more than 300 trucks. Every time the nuns took action, there would always be soldiers from the 9th Division waiting outside.
When they were in big trouble, with a shout, 155mm howitzers would drop from the sky and bombard their enemies, clearing a bloody path for them.
If necessary, the troop transport trucks would rush over with at least one battalion of soldiers, or several battalions if more.
So far, this combination seems to be invincible.
In the northern region, the several encirclement and suppression operations launched by the original Angry Owl Sect so far have not been able to do anything to the combat nuns.
Just like when they were in Fuxing City, the reason they were able to create such a big scene was that they had prepared for it several years in advance, built a windmill array, and summoned the evil god to come.
Otherwise, under normal circumstances, they would be no match for the Battle Sisters.
To be honest, Gu Hang was reluctant to see the combat nuns leave.
Who doesn’t like working for free?
The original Angry Owl sect had never caused any trouble in the south in the past year or so. That was because the battle sisters in the north put a lot of pressure on them. They were busy with their own affairs, so how could they have the time to go to the south to cause trouble?
And now, they are leaving, and they have to bear the pressure from the north by themselves.
However, Gu Hang couldn't do anything to keep the news secret.
That's so shameless.
The key is that it will be easy for a harmonious relationship to turn into hostility in the future.
no need.
If it were in the past, he would still worry whether the original Angry Owl Sect would cause a relatively large negative impact.
But now, the alliance has long left its fragile infancy. The alliance, which has a population of 22 million, has become a behemoth that the original Angry Owl Sect can only look up to. Even if they want to cause trouble, they can only hide in the dark and act like rats.
What's more, he now has other options to deal with these guys.
He planned to recruit another group of heretic demon hunters, train them, and send them to the north to take over the unfinished work of the battle sisters.
…
Three days later, Gu Hang met Grit in Fuxing City.
Through the smooth communication that the Central and Northern Province had maintained with Grit, Gu Hang had already told her about the letter from her hometown.
In fact, they had met more than once in the past year.
When people work for free and come back to rest, Gu Hang, as the boss, must go and express his condolences.
And this time, just like in the past, Grit looked exhausted.
"Bishop Zhao asked me to go back now, but this is really not the right time." Sister Grit seemed helpless. "We have obtained key clues. The sisters have found the core base of the original Angry Owl Sect. We even know what they are going to do next... but it has to be this time!"
She was very unwilling.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
