Capture the living, probe for clues.
Seek, discover, exterminate.
Continue this process relentlessly until every last one of those cultists is annihilated.
If the clues decoded by Hu Ke are sufficiently detailed, they could help him deliver a fatal blow, wiping out the cultists in one fell swoop; that, of course, would be ideal. If not, Gu Hang was not afraid to turn this into a long-term battle.
The only concern was the complete spiritualized gas field that the cultists had discovered.
That was an exceedingly advanced energy source, and Gu Hang wasn’t sure what they would do with it. However, considering the history of Rage Owl Star, the source of the demonic disaster here was the excessive exploitation of the spiritualized gas field, leading to the thinning of the veil between reality and the Abyss.
Add some human activity and cult infection factors to the mix, and it ultimately led to a demonic invasion.
Now that a complete spiritualized gas field was in the hands of the cultists, who were intent on summoning demons and calling upon evil gods, the situation, when combined, was deeply troubling.
However, looking on the bright side, once Wind Falcon’s patrols in the south become routine, there were certain scenarios Gu Hang would be able to scout ahead of time.
If the worst scenario unfolded and the cultists tore open a new chasm into the Abyss, the disturbance would surely not be minor. Early detection would give Gu Hang a chance to handle the situation before it became unmanageable.
Of course, it would be best if he could discover it even earlier.
For this reason, he was very much looking forward to the results of Hu Ke’s work.
However, he waited for over a month without any results.
To be honest, Gu Hang was anxious.
Because an important event would happen this month: the Beautiful Lady Convoy and the Quintet would both depart during this time.
They needed to repair their ships.
Though his cousin had left, Yelisia would remain, and an escort ship named the ‘Blade Tiger’ had arrived here.
The captain of the Blade Tiger, named Du Zhicheng, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Imperial Navy.
His rank was significantly lower than Yelisia’s.
Though, theoretically, as the captain and commander, the ship was his to command, with Yelisia present, the command would undoubtedly fall into the hands of the female Brigadier General without any surprises.
It’s likely that Du Zhicheng had anticipated this, and perhaps had even communicated early on with the Fufana Family, deeply embedded within the Tianma Star Sector naval system, fully understanding his mission for the coming year and would likely be cooperative.
But no matter what, swapping a main Strike Cruiser for an Escort Ship… was like trading a cannon for a bird gun.
Gu Hang had hoped that Hu Ke would complete the decoding and reconstruction of the trophy information within this month, locate the spiritualized gas field, and send people to scout the area immediately, so that they would be ready to call in an orbital strike if necessary—for a fierce attack.
No matter how many schemes those Chaos Cult members had, they couldn’t withstand a shot of divine justice from the ‘Wrath of Loyalty’ macro cannon.
But now… Oops, the Wrath of Loyalty was gone. How about a ‘Scalpel’ missile instead?
Yelisia had described to Gu Hang the weapons configuration on the ‘Blade Tiger,’ which was embarrassingly inferior compared to the ‘Quintet’: just thirty S-type weapons, and that’s it.
Ten ‘Reflector’ Interception Lasers, ten ‘Defender’ Rapid-Fire Cannons, and ten ‘Scalpel’ Missile launch platforms.
That’s all.
Reflectors can’t hit the ground; to attempt it, they would lose a significant amount of energy passing through the atmosphere and would not be able to carry out an orbital strike mission.
The Defender Rapid-Fire Cannons would barely be suitable; the Scalpel Missiles would work.
But obviously, compared to a full barrage from the Quintet, with two hundred Scalpel Missiles, twenty Heat Hammer Macro Cannons, and two Loyal Rage Macro Cannons, there was simply no contest.
It was just better than nothing.
If only the Allied Air Force could expand further, having a hundred planes all equipped with missiles, the power of a full air raid would be roughly comparable to ten Scalpel Missiles.
Gu Hang could only heave a sigh.
But there was no helping it.
Hu Ke had even come to offer an uneasy apology to the governor, but what could be done?
No one else on the entire planet could probably do that, so being anxious was useless.
Gu Hang had no choice but to accept the reality.
After tearfully watching Quintet depart, Gu Hang could only return to his office and figure out how to use the grace points at hand.
The fixed income for the new month had arrived.
This month’s grace points totaled 1307 points.
Compared to last month’s 1022, there was once again a significant increase.
This increase mainly came from the Beiqing Valley Region, where the Mutual Aid Society had effectively been incorporated into the rule of the Alliance, adding four million people to the population.
Although the productive capacity of the Beiqing Valley Region was currently terrible, and a considerable portion of the population consisted of ‘refugees’ and purely a burden, the sheer number of four million meant that the grace points increased by a sizeable amount.
As for other increases, they came from the Twin Cities absorbing more population and experiencing further growth in productive capacity; order in the central three provinces had been restored, with a slight increase in their monthly income as well.
After receiving this sum of grace points, Gu Hang now had 1708 points in hand.
He considered for a moment and allocated 700 grace points for soldier training.
He planned to recruit seventy thousand soldiers from the Beiqing Valley Region and establish eleven garrison divisions, numbered 15-25, all under the command of the Central Group Army.
By that time, combined with the existing militia of the Green Valley Region and the freshly reorganized 13th Mechanized Brigade and 14th Motorized Infantry Division, which had been rapidly dispatched to the south, Commander Yan Fangxu would have over two hundred thousand troops at his disposal.
With this scale, the question of military strength should largely be resolved.
The source of these seventy thousand soldiers was not a major issue, as refugees could be enlisted; the training was not a major issue, as the ‘Soldier Tag’ system could solve it; the issue of weapons and equipment was a bit more significant, as producing equipment for seventy thousand individuals, along with the corresponding artillery and trucks, might take two to three months to complete.
But Gu Hang had time to wait.
With the remaining one thousand grace points, Gu Hang thought it over and decided to build a Comprehensive Academy.
With that, of the three types of academy buildings made available to him by the Architectural System, he would have constructed them all.
The earlier one invests in education, the higher the returns.
The Comprehensive Academy would produce students specialized in trade, jurisprudence, administration, arts, and so forth. Compared to the Technical Academy, the Comprehensive Academy could be considered more of a social science institution.
Science and technology might be the primary productive force, but as the lands governed by Gu Hang became increasingly vast and the population ever more immense, with the overall scale expanding by several millions in a matter of months, he needed a sufficient number of administrative talents to manage the planet as bureaucrats on his behalf.
This was inevitable.
Especially since he adopted a highly centralized political system, this was more the case.
The Technical Academy provided technological talents, the Comprehensive Academy provided high-quality social science talents, and the Loyal Heir Academy ensured the loyalty of the former two… This was the education system Gu Hang planned for the overall Alliance.
Further down the line, establishing a complete compulsory education phase would require longer-term investment, but that was something Gu Hang would not personally handle. The Department of Culture and Education under the Alliance Government would be responsible for this task.
As a result, 1700 grace points were spent to the last penny, leaving a mere 8 points in hand.
To speak of it, receiving a fixed income of over a thousand grace points every month seemed quite plentiful, but spending them was indeed very quick.
Gu Hang was now just waiting for the Green Valley campaign to settle.
According to the system’s way of doing things, it would have to wait until the situation in the Green Valley Region was settled and stabilized before giving a settlement, but it was uncertain when this judgment would be made.
He was in urgent need of a large wave of grace points to fill his depleted pool of grace points. Stay updated through empire
However, before the big wave Gu Hang was anticipating arrived, the Phoenix Battle Group gave him a big surprise.