Chapter 224, Message from Hive World
Ms. Wang Qi came and went in a hurry.
After one night that day, she left in a spaceship.
From Fury Owl Star to Black Arrow Star, there is only one interstellar tunnel shuttle in the middle.Including the time required for normal navigation in the starry sky, it will be about six or seven days in total.
There is still some time before the family meeting is held.However, she must arrive earlier, and she needs to erase some uncertain factors before the conference starts to make things more certain.
After bidding farewell to his mother and the three divisions, Gu Hang returned to his normal working state.
He was waiting for the results of the family meeting, for the crown of his Patriarch, and for the 500 million tax coins that his mother planned to give him.
With so much money, you can buy many good things.
For example, Star Warrior Power Armor; Terminator Armor; the key components for building Starport—it can be produced, but it is too slow. If you have money, you can import it to speed up the progress.
He even wanted to make some bigger moves by saving more, or asking his mother for more sponsorship.
For example, the transformation of the surface environment of the planet.
The three central provinces and the three eastern provinces, this vast land is dominated by waste soil, it is difficult to grow, the environment is harsh, and waste energy storms are raging... The empire must have special technology that can change the planetary environment.
This itself is the pre-technology for large-scale interstellar colonization.His ultimate goal is to subside the waste energy storm.
The greatest value of Fu Xiaoxing before the war was the energy extraction of Linghua Gas Field.
Today, the waste energy storms raging in many places on the planet are essentially the spiritual energy that penetrates from the crystal wall of the spiritual world, which has lost the environment of being restrained and settled in a certain place, and can no longer form a spiritual gas field; but this The energy is there again, so it becomes an uncontrollable storm form.
And if the wasteland environment of Furious Owl Star can be re-corrected, and the method of restraining and sinking psychic energy to form a spiritual gas field can be rediscovered, then the value of the entire planet will suddenly rise to an extremely high level.
Of course, this price is very expensive.To complete the major transformation of the climate and environment of the entire planet, it will cost tens or even tens of billions of tax dollars.
The empire is generally not willing to invest huge resources to change the environment of a certain planet and carry out interstellar colonization.With that money, it is better to build a fleet, and maybe in a certain war, more than one planet can be snatched back from the enemies of the empire.
Of course, if there is something particularly valuable—whether it is the value of the planet itself, or the strategic value of its location, then the empire will still invest in this aspect.
Because of this, the relevant technical capabilities still exist.
Gu Hang couldn't afford this money anymore.
If he could scrape together tens of billions of tax coins to do planetary environment transformation, then he probably wouldn't be short of income from waste energy storms re-immersed into spiritual gas fields.
After all, no matter how coveted the output of Linghua gas field is, the huge investment in the early stage is here, and it will take many years to recover the investment cost.
However, the fact that Gu Hang can't afford the money at the moment doesn't mean that he can't find it from other sources.
Such as Gu's.
With such a good investment project, wouldn't the Gu family be tempted?
My patriarch is heartbroken!
...
Before the results of the family meeting held on Black Arrow, Gu Hang received another piece of news.
This news comes from the Kologa 3 planet.
There are two planets in the Kologa Galaxy. Among them, Kologa 1 is a planet with mineral resources, but its livability is very poor. The resident population may be only a million, mainly miners, and some industries that serve the miners.
And the Kologa 3 in the same galaxy next to it is the largest and most populous hive world in the Tianma star area.
There, there are 418 billion people living there!
To be honest, it is really hard for Gu Hang to imagine how a planet with more than 400 billion people can be crammed into it.
He has never been to Kologa 3 in person, but he heard that the wild environment of that world basically no longer exists, and it is all desolate land.Huge population, living in about twenty 'hive capitals'.
The so-called 'hest capital', as the name suggests, is a huge 'nest'.
Human lair.
Essentially, it's a city.It's just that compared to the city in Gu Hang's concept, there is a huge difference.It often hollows out the underground part of an entire area. As the bottom layer of the hive capital, a large number of low-level people live here; the middle layer of the hive capital may have some industrial output value; These places in key industrial areas.
The people who live in the middle and lower classes, who account for the vast majority of the population, may have never seen the sun in their entire lives.
Chaos, death, disease, poverty... These things entangle the people of the hive city.
Their average life expectancy may be around 40 years old.
Disease, karoshi, malnutrition, vendetta... These are the main causes of their death.
In addition to these, the main population loss of Kologa 3 came from... the imperial tax.
If Kologa 3 wants to talk about special products, it is population.
The empire defines the standard annual gross product of an imperial person as 1 tax currency.And a young and middle-aged living person, when handed in as tax, is worth 5 tax coins.
Obviously, under the value system of the empire, a human life is valuable: his five-year production value is nothing more than that.
Kologa has a population of more than 400 billion people, and they have to pay 42 billion tax coins every year.Among them, more than half of the taxes are paid by the population.
They pay 25 million people every year, offsetting [-] billion tax coins; and then pay more than one billion in industrial products, processed food and other things, this is the source of their tax structure.
Kologa 3 is very poor and bitter, and the people on it are in dire straits.But in reality, it's a powerful and wealthy planet as a whole.
The population of 400 billion is the largest source of wealth.
The entire Tianma star area belongs to Kologa 3 and the capital Flying Wing Star, which can reach 40 billion taxes a year.Flying Wing Star is because of its development, and Kologa 3 has a lot of people.
And at this moment, on Gu Hang's planet, there really are a group of guests from Kologa 3 - the fighting nuns of Holy Lily.
This interstellar phone call was also looking for them.
The caller was a bishop of the State Church of the Empire on Kologa 3, named Zhao Qinghong, who was the person in charge of the State Church in Kologa.He asked Gu Hang about the whereabouts of Head Sister Gerrit, and after learning that he could not be contacted for the time being, he left a message:
"Please send Sister Gerrit to reply to my message as soon as possible. I have something urgent to tell her."
"No problem." Gu Hang first agreed, and then couldn't help asking: "But... can I ask, what is it specifically?"
Bishop Zhao Qinghong hesitated for a moment, and finally gave an answer: "On Kologa, unstoppable cult incidents broke out in several hives. We need the strength of Sister Gerrit, and she has to come back as soon as possible."
This statement made Gu Hang feel a little surprised.
What is the emergency situation, and it is necessary to send the head nuns who are far away from other planets to go back to help?
That looks serious.
But if it is really serious, how much effect will Gerrit bring back twenty or thirty battle nuns?
What do you think, why do you think it's weird.
As if sensing Gu Hang's doubts, Bishop Zhao Qinghong on the opposite side gave an answer: "We need a head nun who can control the armor of the 'Valkyrie' to solve some problems that cannot be solved under normal circumstances."
Valkyrie armor...
This is really the first time Gu Hang heard of it.
But he couldn't ask any further questions, he obviously still had something to do.
After the communication was hung up, Gu Hang sent a message to Gerrit.
Speaking of these battle nuns, they have helped Gu Hang a lot.
When taking back the Fuxing City, the nuns of the Holy Lily and the space fighters of the phoenix helped him to withstand the situation with high-end combat power.
Then, this group of fighting nuns who couldn't stay idle and had another sister died directly clashed with the cult members of the original Raging Owl sect.
Even Gerrit brought a group of people from her hometown. Now, there are more than thirty combat nuns active on Star Fury.
It has been a year since they conducted an in-depth investigation of the situation of the group of cult members, followed clues, and headed north all the way.
Of course, they didn't stay in the north all the time.They often come back for a period of time to rest, replenish ammunition, heal injuries, and summarize intelligence.
At the same time, the alliance has always maintained a military force in the North Central Province.
The Union 9th Garrison Division, has been there.In addition to suppressing the local area, they also have an important task, which is to cooperate with the actions of the battle nuns.
Further north from the North Central Province is the so-called Northland region.According to the clues obtained by the Battle Sisters, the lair of the original Raging Owl Sect and the place where they have the greatest influence are located there.
Their actions in the north have always been supported by the 9th Garrison Division.
Alliances aren't bad either.
The most direct manifestation is that the Ninth Division of the Central North Province has never had any major military operations, but the area of the province has expanded a lot this year.
This is because of these battle nuns.
During this year, they brought down a lot of settlements—not necessarily by force, but sometimes by preaching.
Often, when they find clues and traces of a cult somewhere, they rush over there, and after removing the influence of the local cult members, they leave in a hurry to move on to the next target.
And the army of the alliance happily followed behind and took over the settlement.
Of course, the 9th Division is not all about making soy sauce and taking advantage of it.
In fact, the Battle Sisters still sometimes encounter some troubles that they are difficult to deal with.
In a small number of small-scale confrontations, the fighting nuns with the power armor of the nuns and the blessings of the gods are not afraid of those indigenous cultists.However, after all, the original Angry Owl sect was deeply rooted in many places in the north.Sometimes they will mobilize the masses, use the strength of the settlements, and gather a large number of people and armed forces to encircle and suppress them.
And often at this time, it is the time for the Ninth Division to go out.
Although it is a garrison division and a second-line force of the alliance, it is still a regular army.There are more than [-] soldiers, [-] artillery pieces, and more than [-] trucks.Every time, when the nuns acted, there were always soldiers from the Ninth Division standing by outside.
When they were in big trouble, with a call, 155 howitzers dropped from the sky and bombarded their enemies, opening a bloody path for them.
When necessary, the troop carrier truck will rush over with at least one battalion, if there are more, several battalions.
So far, such a combination seems to be going nowhere.
In the northern region, the original Angry Owl Sect has carried out several encirclement and suppression operations so far, but they have failed to do anything to the fighting nuns.
For example, in Fuxing City, the reason why they were able to make such a big battle was that they had prepared several years in advance, established a windmill formation, and called the evil god to descend.
Otherwise, under normal circumstances, where are the opponents of the Battle Sisters.
To be honest, Gu Hang was quite reluctant to leave the Battle Sisters.
Who doesn't like working for nothing?
The original Angry Owl sect has never done anything in the south for more than a year.That's because the Battle Sisters are in the north, and the pressure on them is very great. They can't take care of themselves, so how can they have time to go to the south to do things?
But now that they were leaving, the pressure on the north side had to be borne by themselves.
However, Gu Hang couldn't do the thing of suppressing the news and keeping silent.
That's shameless.
The point is that in the future, it will be easy for the originally harmonious relationship to turn against each other.
no need.
If it was before, he would still worry about whether the original Nuoxiao sect would have a relatively large negative impact.
But now, the alliance has long since escaped from its nascent fragile period.The alliance that united two million people in 2000 was already a behemoth that the original Raging Owl sect could only look up to.Even if they want to make trouble, at most they can only hide in the dark and act like mice.
What's more, now he also has other options that can be used to deal with these guys.
He planned to recruit another group of heretic witchers, and after training, throw them to the north to take over the unfinished business of the fighting nuns.
...
Three days later, Gu Hang met Gerrit in Fuxing City.
Through the unimpeded communication between North Central Province and Gerrit, Gu Hang has already told her about the letter from her hometown.
In the past year, they actually met more than once.
They do white jobs, and when they come back to take a break, Gu Hang, the boss, has to go to express his condolences.
And this meeting, just like in the past, Gorette looked dusty.
"Bishop Zhao asked me to go back now, but it's really not the time." Senior Sister Gerrit seemed very helpless, "We have obtained key clues, and the sisters have found the core stronghold of the original Raging Owl Sect. We even have a grasp of a desperate thing they are going to do next...but this is the time!"
She is not reconciled.
(End of this chapter)