Chapter 224, Message From the Hive World

Ms. Wang Qi came and went in a hurry.

After a night that day, she left on a spaceship.

From the Angry Owl Star to the Black Arrow Star, only one interstellar tunnel shuttle is needed. Adding the time required for normal navigation in the starry sky, it takes about six or seven days in total.

There is still some time before the family meeting. However, she must arrive earlier. She needs to eliminate some uncertain factors before the meeting 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 result of the family meeting, waiting for his crown as the head of the family, and waiting for the five million tax coins that his mother was going to give him.

With so much money, you can buy a lot of good things.

For example, space warrior power armor; terminator armor; key components for building star ports - they can be produced, but too slowly, and if you have money, you can import them to speed up the progress.

Even, if he saves more, or asks his mother for more sponsorship, he even wants to make some bigger moves.

For example, the transformation of the planet's surface environment.

The three central provinces and the three eastern provinces are mainly wastelands, which are 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 itself a pre-condition 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 mining of the spiritual gas field.

Nowadays, the waste energy storms that ravage many parts of the planet are essentially the spiritual energy that penetrates through the crystal wall of the spiritual world. They have lost the environment of being bound and settled in a certain place, and can no longer form a spiritual gas field; but this energy exists again, so it becomes an uncontrollable storm form.

And if the wasteland environment of the Angry Owl Star can be corrected again, and the method of binding and sinking spiritual energy to form a spiritual gas field can be found again, then the value of the entire planet will soar to an extremely high level.

Of course, this price is very expensive. If you want to complete the major 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 conduct interstellar colonization. With that money, it is better to build a fleet, and perhaps in a certain war, it can snatch more than one planet from the hands of the empire's enemies.

Of course, if it really comes across something of great value - whether it is the value of the planet itself or the strategic value of its location, the empire will still invest in this aspect.

Because of this, the relevant technical capabilities still exist.

Gu Hang can't afford this money.

If he can get together tens of billions of tax coins to do planetary environmental transformation, then he probably won't lack the income from the waste energy storm to be immersed in the spiritual gas field again.

After all, no matter how mouth-watering the output of the spiritual gas field is, the huge initial investment is here, and it will take many years to recover the investment cost.

However, the fact that Gu Hang can't afford this money at the moment doesn't mean that he can't find it from other aspects.

For example, Gu's family.

Such a good investment project, wouldn't the Gu family be tempted?

Even the head of the family is tempted!

...

Before the result of the family meeting held on the Black Arrow Star came, Gu Hang received another message.

This message came from the planet Korojia 3.

There are two planets in the Korojia star system. Korojia 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 miners.

And Korojia 3 in the same star system next to it is the largest and most populous nest world in the Pegasus star region.

There are 41.8 billion people living there!

To be honest, it is really hard for Gu Hang to imagine how more than 40 billion people can be stuffed into a planet.

He has not been to Korojia 3 in person, but he has heard that the wild environment of that world basically no longer exists, and it is all desolate land. The huge population lives in about twenty "nests".

The so-called "nest", as the name suggests, is a huge "nest".

The nest of humans.

In essence, this is a city. It's just that there is a huge difference compared to the city in Gu Hang's concept. 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 people living in the middle and lower classes may never see the sun in their entire lives.

Chaos, death, disease, poverty... these things entangle the people of the nest city.

Their average life expectancy may be around 40 years old.

Disease, death from overwork, malnutrition, vendetta... these are their main causes of death.

In addition to these, the main population loss of Koroga 3 comes from... Imperial taxes.

If Koroga 3 has a specialty, it is population.

The Empire defines the standard annual gross domestic product of an imperial person as 1 tax coin. And a young and middle-aged living person, when handed in as a tax, is worth 5 tax coins.

Obviously, under the empire's value system, human life has a price: his 5-year output value.

Korojia has a population of more than 40 billion, and the taxes they have to pay each year have reached 4.2 billion tax coins. Among them, more than half of the taxes are satisfied by paying population.

They pay 500 million people every year to offset 2.5 billion tax coins; and pay more than 10 billion industrial products, processed foods and other things, which is the source of their tax structure.

Korojia No. 3 is very poor and miserable, and the people on it are in dire straits. But in fact, from the overall point of view, this is a powerful and rich planet.

40 billion people are the biggest source of wealth.

In the entire Tianma star region, only Korojia No. 3 and the capital Feiyi Star can reach 4 billion taxes a year. Feiyi Star is because of its development, and Korojia No. 3 has a large population.

At this moment, on Gu Hang's planet, there are really a group of guests from Korojia No. 3-the fighting nuns of the Holy Mercy Lily.

This interstellar call is also for them.

The caller was a bishop of the Imperial Church on Koroga 3, named Zhao Qinghong, who was the head of the Church in the Koroga Diocese. 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 an urgent matter to inform her."

"No problem." Gu Hang agreed first, and then couldn't help asking: "But... can I ask what the specific matter is?"

Bishop Zhao Qinghong hesitated for a moment, and finally gave an answer: "On Koroga, several nests have erupted in uncontrollable cult incidents. We need Sister Grit's power, and she has to come back as soon as possible."

This statement surprised Gu Hang.

What kind of emergency situation requires the Sister Grit from other planets to go back to help?

It seems to be quite serious.

But if it is really serious, how much effect can Grit bring back 20 or 30 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 is really the first time Gu Hang has heard of it.

But he couldn't ask more details, because she obviously had something else to do.

After the communication was hung up, Gu Hang sent a message to Grit.

Speaking of this group of combat nuns, they once helped Gu Hang a lot.

When taking back Renaissance City, the nuns of the Holy Lily and the space warriors of the Phoenix helped him to hold up the situation with high-end combat power.

Then, this group of combat nuns who couldn't sit still and lost another sister directly confronted the cult members of the original Angry Owl Sect.

Grit even shook a group of people from her hometown. Now, there are more than 30 combat nuns active on the Angry Owl Star.

They have been investigating the situation of the cult members in depth, following the clues and going north all the way. It has been a year now.

Of course, they didn't stay in the north all the time. They often came back for a while to rest, replenish ammunition, heal wounds, and summarize intelligence.

At the same time, the alliance has always maintained a military force in the Central North Province.

The 9th Garrison Division of the Alliance has always been there. In addition to suppressing the local area, they also have an important task, which is to cooperate with the actions of the fighting sisters.

Further north from the Central North Province is the so-called Northland area. According to the clues obtained by the fighting sisters, the original nest of the Wrath Owl Sect and the place where they have the greatest influence are there.

The 9th Garrison Division has always supported their actions in the north.

The alliance is not without benefits.

The most direct manifestation is that the 9th Division of the Central North Province has never had any major military operations, but the area of ​​the province has expanded a lot in this year.

This is thanks to these fighting sisters.

They have conquered many settlements in this year - not necessarily all by force, but sometimes by preaching.

Often, they would rush over to remove the influence of the local cultists after finding clues or traces of the cultists somewhere, and then hurriedly leave to the next target.

The Alliance's army happily took over the settlement behind them.

Of course, the 9th Division was not just playing soy sauce and taking advantage.

In fact, the combat sisters sometimes encountered some troubles that they could not deal with.

In a small number of small-scale confrontations, the combat sisters with the nun power armor and the blessing of the religion were not afraid of the indigenous cultists. 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 settlement, and gather a large number of manpower and armed forces to encircle and suppress them.

And often at this time, it was the time for the 9th Division to take action.

Although it was a garrison division and 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 were equipped. Every time the nuns took action, there would always be soldiers from the Ninth Division waiting outside.

When they were in big trouble, with a call, 155mm howitzers would drop from the sky and bombard their enemies, clearing a bloody path for them.

When necessary, the troop transport truck will rush over with at least one battalion of soldiers, or several battalions if there are more.

At present, this combination seems to be invincible.

In the northern region, the original Angry Owl Sect has not been able to do anything to the fighting nuns in the several encirclement and suppression operations so far.

For example, the reason why they were able to make such a big scene in Renaissance City was that they had prepared for it several years in advance, built a windmill array, and called on the evil god to come.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, they would not be the opponent of the fighting nuns.

To be honest, Gu Hang was still reluctant to let the fighting nuns leave.

Who doesn't like working for free?

The original Angry Owl Sect has never done anything in the south for more than a year. That's because the fighting nuns in the north put a lot of pressure on them. They can't take care of themselves, so how can they have time to go to the south to do something?

And now that they are leaving, they have to bear the pressure in the north.

However, Gu Hang can't do the thing of suppressing the news and not saying anything.

That's too shameless.

The key is that it is easy for the originally harmonious relationship to turn into hostility in the future.

There is no need.

If it were in the past, he would still worry about whether the original Angry Owl Sect would have a relatively large negative impact.

But now, the alliance has long been out of its fragile period. The alliance with 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 make trouble, they can only hide in the dark and be mice.

What's more, he now has other options to deal with these guys.

He plans to recruit another group of heretic demon hunters, train them, and send them to the north to take over the unfinished business of the combat nuns.

...

Three days later, Gu Hang met Grit in Fuxing City.

Through the smooth communication between Zhongbei Province and Grit, Gu Hang has told her about the letter from her hometown.

In the past year, they have actually met more than once.

When people come back to rest after working for free, Gu Hang, as a boss, must go to comfort them.

This time, just like in the past, Grit looked exhausted.

"Bishop Zhao asked me to go back now, but it's 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, and we even know what they are going to do next... but it has to be this time!"

She was very unwilling.