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Capter 297, Koruga No. 3

There are still 70 Astra Militarum troops 'shipping' in the Fachus system, and the expected arrival time is two weeks later.

And the 30 Star Empire troops who had arrived were disembarking one after another at the Angry Owl Star Port.

The star port of Angry Owl is still small in scale, and the overall personnel throughput is not very good.

In addition, the journey from Skaro City on the ground level of the Star Port to the Western Desert Frontline is thousands of kilometers long.

Even though there are paved roads built along the way when the alliance was engaged in large-scale infrastructure construction, and there are sufficient logistics supplies along the way, the speed is not slow, but in front of 30 troops, it still takes a relatively long time to arrive at the deployment location. .

Two weeks passed and they were just in place.

While waiting for them to take their positions, it was time for the seven divisions of the Angry Bear Legion to leave.

According to the orders from Dragon Eagle Command, they had to leave at this time.

The several transport ships of Gu's Trading Company that transported the 3rd Dragon Eagle Legion to Nu Xiao Star are still in the port of Nu Xiao Star System.

In fact, on the way here, they received a new order: to transport 7 divisions of the Raging Bear Legion, totaling 7.7 people, to leave the Raging Owl Star and go to Koroga 3.

That's just the way to go.

Gu Hang will also go.

The transfer order from the Astra Militarum Headquarters had nothing to do with him, so of course he didn't have to go.However, after he had a phone call with his mother, he realized that the opportunity he wanted came sooner than expected.

After leaving the Raging Owl Star, Gallardo will stop briefly at the Winged Star to meet some people, and then head to Koruga 3 under the name of 'inspecting the spread of the Chaos Plague'.

Of course, he is not so kind. In fact, it is not the responsibility of him, the War Apostle, to solve the Chaos Plague and quell the Chaos Rebellion.

If he goes, he still makes money.

Koroga 3 is suffering. Judging from the current situation, in a hive city covering a billion people on Koroga, the plague is already unstoppable.It has almost become an occupied area, and a large number of planetary defense forces are fighting in it.Rebels and plague zombies emerge in endlessly there.

It would be impossible to suppress it with all the power of the entire planet.Koroga is a huge planet with a population of 400 billion.

However, they did not dare to allocate too many manpower from other hives to support the places infected by the Chaos Plague.

What if other hives also have problems?

In fact, there are already sporadic reports of infection in other hive cities.And with the mobility of Koroga 3, a report appeared on the surface, but secretly, at the bottom of the hive city, the number of infected people was probably a hundred times more than the number of people reported.

In fact, the planetary government of Koroga 3 is already considering launching an extermination attack on the infected city.

This is just a proposal for now, still in the discussion stage, and there are many opponents.

With a population of one billion, can we just give up?What a joke!

Even if he is not a human being and is calculated purely based on profit, this is still 50 billion tax coins!

From these perspectives, it can be seen that the current predicament that Koroga 3 is encountering is really not small.

For others, some are laughing, some are pitiful, and some are worried that the situation there will deteriorate and cause greater trouble...

But there are also people who will use disaster as a bargaining chip. Instead of providing help, they will actually gain benefits.

Just like Gallardo.

This guy came right after smelling the fishy smell.

In the name of 'inspecting the spread of the Chaos Plague', in essence, he planned to ask the sector leaders and Governor Koroga to pay a large sum of 'money'.

This money is used to buy 'peace'.

If he doesn't buy it, he will cause trouble for these two people by allowing chaos to spread and doing things poorly.

Chaos corruption is a big deal in the empire.Generally speaking, if the Planetary Governor can suppress the situation on his own and does not cause trouble at the top, then everything will be fine; if the matter is raised by the top and attention is drawn to it, the Planetary Governor may be removed from his post - especially after senior officials come.

Gallardo has no power to remove a planetary governor, but he can use leverage to make matters worse.

Especially after Gallardo heard the proposal that the Koroga government was determined to exterminate the hive city at the expense of a billion people, he felt like a treasure. He regarded this as a key handle and stood on the high moral ground. on the throne, angrily denounced the Koroga government for not taking the lives of the empire's people seriously.

Ms. Wang Qi also repeated Gallardo's original words to Gu Hang:

"That's a billion people! I don't know how you can say such things!"

Gu Hang didn't believe that Gallardo really cared about human life that much, but there was no doubt that this became his most advantageous weapon of attack.

If this trend continues, everyone from Chief Peders to Governor Koroga will be left in a miserable state if they don't give a satisfactory answer.

The 'discussion' that Gallardo will hold on Koruga 3 is a stage.He sent out invitations, and all the prominent figures in the Pegasus region were invited. They would be the audience to watch a scene in which Gallardo played the leading role.

If Peddes and Governor Kroga submit, then this will be a serious meeting for superiors to inspect and guide work; if they do not, then it will become a trial in which the war apostles criticize local officials for negligence and malfeasance.

Of course, the Gu family also received the invitation letter, and sincerely invited Gu Hang and Wang Qi, mother and son, to attend.

Based on what happened before, Gu Hang would interpret this as Gallardo was demonstrating to them.

"I can handle the leader and the governor of the largest planet at will, but I haven't been cruel to you, the Gu family, so don't be disrespectful."

Originally, Wang Qi advised her son not to come and just let her handle it.

But Gu Hang decided to go.

Don't rely on me to seek death.

...

Before leaving, there are things that need to be explained on the Raging Owl Star.

In terms of government affairs, he chatted with Oceana for a long time; in terms of public security and stability, Lambert will lead the Public Security Police Department; in terms of military matters, Yan Fangxu and Thaddeus will be in charge.

After talking to each other separately, Gu Hang left.

He estimated that it would take him a month to go there.

He still relatively trusts the alliance government system he established.After leaving him, it was no problem for the few of them to maintain it for several months without any problems.

The only thing I'm a little worried about is the war on the Western Front.

Although there will be a large number of Astra Militarum support coming, it may not all be a good thing.

He already knew that the commander of the Astral Army who came here was an imperial major general.

With a high military rank and being in the Astra Militarum, he has a natural status advantage over the planetary defense forces.

If the major general does his job well, there will be no problem, but what I am afraid of is that he will cause trouble.

However, Gu Hang was also prepared for this matter.

He just hoped that his preparations would not be used.

After all, the other party was here to help, and it was not Gu Hang's original intention to cause any conflicts.It would be the best to be able to smoothly bulldoze Blackbird Heavy Industries in the west of the continent with superior force.

For this reason, he even contacted Ye Lixia once.

It stands to reason that after Raging Owl completes the first installment of the imperial tax, Yelicia and her ship should leave.

The order she originally accepted was to stay in the orbit of Raging Owl for two years.

The two-year period was up and it was time for her to leave.

However, due to Gu Hang's request and the fact that the new order from the Pegasus Fleet Headquarters had not yet been issued, Yelicia thought about it and finally agreed to Gu Hang's request.

...Nine days later, Koruga No. 3 was named Yancheng.

This is the largest hive city on Koroga, with 30 billion people living in it.

It is a huge, honeycomb-like structure.The lower part almost hollows out the earth; the upper part is a huge multi-story structure that reaches into the sky.

Before seeing it with his own eyes, Gu Hang had always found it hard to believe how a city could accommodate 30 billion people.

He knows now.

That's really like bees and ants.

People are crowded among them, and most of the hive residents have probably never seen sunlight in their lives.They live in beehives and work hard in exchange for a little bit of corpse starch and water to survive;

Some of them don't even have jobs. Koroga's local demand and local productivity cannot provide that many jobs.It is better for such people to join gangs, join gangs to keep warm, and make a living by doing dirty work or exploiting other people; some people have become unemployed, relying on a little government relief, doing odd jobs, and barely surviving hunger. Die, live hard, and hope that one day you will be selected to become an imperial tax and be handed over.

This is the original intention of the Koroga government to provide relief.

It's 5 tax coins per person.

Based on the pure standard of not starving to death, 5 tax coins can support a person for 50 years - of course, if the consumption is 0.1 tax coins per year, then in most cases humans will not live that long. .Long-term malnutrition, disease, poor social environment, accidents... can easily kill a person.

But what does it matter?Just stop the poorest people from starving to death for a while and then use them to pay taxes.

One of Koroga's largest outputs and main tax-paying industries is population.

They can really raise people like pigs - even easier to raise than pigs.

After all, pigs can't be used to produce meat, and people, let alone adults, can be thrown into factories and squeezed into child labor after a few years of birth.

Mingyan City is such a place.

But the city is not without its good points.

At the top of the city, the upper classes are in a state of dissipation.The huge glass cover filter layer makes the sunlight revealed by the broken atmosphere not only not fatal, but warm and comfortable; the blazing storm sweeping the dust will also be filtered and turned into a relaxing breeze; the lit aromatherapy , with fragrance, rolled through the entire upper area.

Except for the severe lack of water resources, which makes it difficult to plant too many green plants, this place is just like a garden.

And a grand banquet was held here.

Gu Hang stood in the 'open-air' parliament hall, staring at the huge and gentle star in the sky for a long time.

Beside him, his mother was talking to Peddes.

In Gu Hang's impression, Pedesi was always well-dressed, meticulous, decent, reserved and calm, with a certain sense of grace and nobility.

But today, although he was still well-dressed, he could not hide the redness in his eyes, and it was even harder to hide the slight hoarseness in his voice.

Peters asked, "Are you really going to sell the boat?"

"Yes." Wang Qi said with a wry smile, "Otherwise, how can we feed the ridiculously large appetite of the War Apostle?"

"We shouldn't let him do whatever he wants. He treats all of us as fat sheep to be slaughtered!"

"Yeah, I think so too. Why don't you take the lead, Chief Peter?"

"...Sigh." Peddes sighed deeply.

The two chatted for a few more words, and the sector leader said goodbye and left to talk to other people.

Only then did Gu Hang come back to his senses and said, "It seems that the news that we were out to sell the boat and raise money to win over the weak should be credible enough. At least Pedes believed it."

Wang Qi took a sip of the wine in her hand and patted her son next to her: "We really wanted to sell the boat and raise money. We can't go against Gallardo. There are no advantages, only disadvantages."

Gu Hang didn't explain much.

He didn't tell his mother about his plans.

In fact, he told no one.

This matter must be kept completely confidential.It's not that I can't trust others, it's just that there are too many ways to get certain information in this universe.

He just told Wang Qi that he did not intend to surrender as Gallardo wanted. At most, he would just release some news of surrender to relieve some pressure. It would be best to drag Gallardo to other places in the Pegasus sector. Satisfy your appetite and leave.After all, this guy doesn't have time to mess around in one star sector for too long.

But obviously Wang Qi had different ideas.

She sighed and said: "Gallardo will indeed leave soon, but he is just gone, not dead. If he wants to continue to maintain a deterrent effect, he will not let anyone who disobeys him go. . As long as his power is still there, even if he leaves, he will have countless ways to target us. Even leader Peters has to give in, what can we do? Three hundred million... Just give it."

When she said the last sentence, she seemed to be gritting her teeth, and her heart was obviously bleeding.

Gu Hang nodded absently, and suddenly his eyes focused on the man who came out from the backstage with a bright smile.

Not only Gu Hang, but everyone's attention was attracted by his appearance.

Is this his charm?

This is the charm of power.

He stood at the center of the stage, picked up the microphone, coughed twice, and his smile gradually faded away, turning into a calm and serious expression.

After the crowd fell silent, he said: "We are facing a disaster."

"This disaster didn't just happen in Koroga or Raging Owl, but in every place in the empire."

"The glorious and great human beings have struggled to survive throughout the universe for countless years."

"Our species, with the blood of countless heroes and absolutely fearless great sacrifices, under the leadership of the God-Emperor, established our empire and won a place for us to survive in this dark and terrifying universe."

"But the danger is never far away. Abyss demons, chaos traitors, aliens, omnics... always threaten our survival."

"The great Sun Lord has launched the greatest crusade since the Emperor's Great Crusade to found the Empire. The stars and the sea bow before the Sun Lord's light."

"This is a great era. The empire's territory is expanding every day. Countless worlds that have sunk into darkness have returned to the embrace of the empire, bathing in the glory of the God-Emperor."

"I deeply feel the contribution of every imperial subject. It is difficult, but it is also glorious."

"Chief Peters and Governor Akuna have set an outstanding example!"

"I believe that under their leadership, Koroga will defeat those chaos traitors and let the bright sunshine shine in every corner of the world again!"

...

Listening to these, Gu Hang knew that Leader Pedsi and the Governor of Kologa, Ramiro Acuna, had really relented.Gallardo chose the praising one among the two manuscripts he had prepared.

But these don't matter to Gu Hang.

He raised his head again and looked at the sun.

An inconspicuous black shadow suddenly appeared.

A slight smile appeared on his lips.

finally come.

That is a dragon.

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(End of this chapter)