Chapter 23: The Captain's Thoughts
The battle at the river bend is over.
The shivering serfs who were staying in the simple bunks next door were driven out. The junior non-commissioned officers of the Feidong Company announced to them that they had been liberated by the governor and were free.
The serfs who heard this did not move at all. They never thought freedom was a good thing, and they did not even understand what freedom meant.
Does freedom refer to the precarious life when wandering in the wasteland in the past? Does it refer to the hunger and cold when trying to make a living at the foot of Renaissance City?
We were quite free at that time and could do whatever we wanted. But we had no food to eat and no clothes to wear. We saw dead bodies every day, some starved to death, some died of disease, some were killed in robbery... all kinds of things.
Winter is especially the most difficult.
Compared to those times, they were relatively satisfied with their current lives. Although they didn't eat well and worked very hard, they were the laborers in the fields and their masters would not let them starve to death—at least until they lost their ability to work.
As a result, a group of subordinates claiming to be the governor's came and beat them up. It seemed that their master was finished, and they were liberated and regained their freedom.
But they were at a loss.
Ah? I'm free?
I almost cried.
However, what followed made them feel much more at ease.
They don't know what's good about freedom, but at least they know that bread is a good thing.
A sufficient amount of food was distributed, and the serfs who had always only eaten half full every day—oh, now they were free people—wolfed down the food.
While they were eating, someone announced the next arrangements to them.
They are no longer serfs, but freemen under the governor's rule. Next, the governor will personally govern the entire Manor of the Floodplain Valley, and will need a large number of agricultural workers. Food and accommodation are provided, plus a small bonus that will increase with production. They are free to come and go without restrictions, and those who are willing to stay can be hired.
Only a fool wouldn't stay.
All of a sudden, the panic, confusion, and helplessness in the serfs' hearts almost disappeared.
They don't need to know anything more, just know that they won't be hungry or blown by the cold wind anymore, that's enough.
After eating, they should go out to work. The bodies should be collected and burned, the walls destroyed in the war should be repaired, and the fields that were trampled and bombed should be cleaned up, trying to save as much of the harvest as possible.
The entire manor has become busy.
After Yan Fangxu had roughly arranged everything, there was not much else to do.
He stared at the rolling hills across the river bend in a daze.
Through the psychic, or cultist, he had just met, he was thinking about his future.
When he was sent to the surface to serve as the governor's guard, he originally felt that his future was bleak.
He still remembered that day, before the Governor left the starship and landed on the surface, he went to Captain Ye Lixia for armed protection. The Commodore originally only planned to send 300 servitors to the Governor, and that was it.
But who could have blamed him for being bored that day and chatting with his colleagues about the joke about an inexperienced woman who was promoted to captain and brigadier general at the speed of light?
More importantly, the captain heard it.
The Emperor of God can tell you that he actually didn't have any big objections to the female captain. It was just that his colleagues were joking around like that, so he just joined in the fun.
But why did the captain hear it when he opened his mouth to speak?
Shit!
It just so happened that the governor named Gu Hang was complaining that three hundred mechanical servants were too few, so Ye Licia waved her hand and asked him to join the governor with thirty marines.
Amid the great celebration and gloating laughter of his colleagues, he, a young Marine captain, could only take thirty men to the surface.
He was heartbroken and felt that life was bleak.
Who doesn't know that the Governor of Angry Owl is a consumable once every two years? He is just a small captain. If he offends the captain, being thrown to the surface is equivalent to exile. Even if he protects the Governor, he will eventually be executed for not being able to pay taxes. He will also waste two years on Angry Owl without making any progress.
But he still had to fulfill his duties. On the one hand, it was his sense of responsibility as a soldier, and on the other hand, it would be one thing if the governor was executed by the Ministry of Revenue, but if he died under his protection, then he would be held responsible.
As for the Governor, he finally dealt with the taxes, then secured his position as the Governor of the planet, led the entire planet to revive, and finally, out of gratitude for his help when he was in humble circumstances, became his backer, allowing him to rise to prominence?
He had thought about this in his dreams, but he didn't dare think about it when he was awake.
Of course he hoped that the future would be like that, but that was too impossible. Especially since the Governor General was still daydreaming and did not intend to start by quickly taking over the Alliance regime and finding ways to collect taxes, but was thinking about developing the territory from scratch... God Emperor, where do you have the time for that?
But then he thought, what does this have to do with him? Anyway, it won't be him who will be executed.
Then, as time went by, his mind gradually became active again. Some thoughts that he only thought of in his dreams when he first landed on the surface would occasionally come to his mind when he was awake.
Is it really possible for Gu Hang to succeed?
The reason why he thought so was, of course, not just because Governor Gu Hang always looked like he had everything under control. He had seen many people who pretended to be so, and he didn't know and didn't want to confirm whether the Governor was also that kind of person.
He doesn't want to look at attitudes, he only believes in facts.
The fact is that the Governor is a rare psychic, and he will accompany these soldiers to participate in the battle. They won two battles and occupied two camps. This achievement is not big enough to save lives, but the Governor is indeed advancing his plan.
Moreover, the Governor General had obtained two black box manufacturing machines from nowhere. The Imperial Mechanicus would probably be willing to pay a high price for such a magical gadget.
These performances gave him more confidence in the Governor beyond his sense of responsibility, especially the two black boxes.
It seems like there is no way out of this matter?
Today, he and the Governor met a psychic. At first, he thought that the man named Wohan was just an ordinary psychic, but according to the Governor's judgment, he was a cult member.
Cult, heresy... this is a very good enemy. If the so-called "Original Owlbeast Sect" is truly identified as a heretical cult, then destroying them will be a great achievement.
But he still had doubts in his mind, was it really a 'cult'?
Is this a fabricated excuse made up by the Governor-General to ask for more aid, or is it true?
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I've been tricked. Chapters 22 and 23 should be for tomorrow, but the timer was wrong...
Just consider it an extra update today, brothers! There will be two updates tomorrow as usual.
The manuscripts were hit hard...
If you haven’t watched 22, you can go back and watch it, it’s already there.
(End of this chapter)
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