After chatting with Lambert Hodgson about the recruitment and preparation of training for the Heretic Demon Hunters, Gu Hang received a special gift.
It was brought by a spaceship.
The Claw Fierce Tiger intercepted the spacecraft briefly before reporting the information to Gu Hang.
Upon learning the spacecraft came from the Gu Family, Gu Hang thought for a moment and allowed the visitor to come in.
It was a small spacecraft which barely met the standards for interstellar travel.
After allowing them in, it wasn’t long before he met the person.
It was an acquaintance.
The visitor, named Zhang Shicheng, was a ‘servant’ of the Gu Family. He had been serving the Gu Family—or rather, his sickly mother—since that big Gu Hang could remember.
In Gu Hang’s mind, Zhang Shicheng had no particular talents and struggled to handle certain matters independently, but he did have one redeeming quality: he was honest, reliable, and loyal.
It’s worth mentioning that the only attendant who had come with Gu Hang to Rage Owl Star was Zhang Shicheng’s son.
Now, the two of them were reunited.
However, before visiting his son, Zhang Shicheng took care of the formalities.
In front of Gu Hang, he respectfully said, “Hang, along with me on this ship are another hundred people. The Lady Mother worries that you’re in a desolate place with no one to use, so she sent us to help you out. They are all new recruits of the family, top graduates from the various higher education institutions on Capital Wing Star, and have all signed long-term work contracts with the family.
I’ve brought the contracts with me. In short, whatever you need us to do, just arrange it.”
In Zhang Shicheng’s presence, Gu Hang didn’t say much.
But what he was actually thinking was:
Now you’re worried about me not having people to use? Where were you earlier?
He didn’t lack people to use now.
Even if he truly needed help, he wouldn’t want to use a bunch of people from the Gu Family about whom he knew nothing.
He feared that the Rage Owl Star Alliance’s various pieces of intelligence would mysteriously get leaked to the heavens if he were to use them.
Of course, Gu Hang wasn’t so afraid that he felt the need to be overly cautious.
He merely considered briefly and decided to assign this group brought by Zhang Shicheng to Osenia.
Osenia had been extremely busy lately and genuinely needed more educated people to help.
However, it wasn’t possible for them to be involved in the important core work.
Send them off to the countryside.
Zhang Shicheng also maintained a cautious attitude and didn’t say a word to these people.
He had brought them here, and it was up to Hang to use them however he wanted; he could even send them all to the mines to labor.
After handing over this group, Zhang Shicheng brought up a second matter.
He called people to carry out several large boxes from the spacecraft.
“This is a Star Speech Communication Tower. Our people will assemble it,” Zhang Shicheng said. “With the help of a Star Speaker, it can tune to specific frequencies and communicate with other Star Language Towers. The Lady Mother says that you’re like an isolated island here, completely cut off from the outside world. This device is meant to help you.”
In contrast to the hundred young men and women, the Star Language Tower was a pure delight to Gu Hang.
To communicate at an interstellar level, conventional means won’t suffice. Rage Owl Star was physically many light-years away from the Tianma Capital Wing Star; normal communication would be impossible.
Only by sending Star Speech messages, through the Star Realm Tunnel, interstellar communication becomes feasible.
However, this device was also an unequivocal high-tech product, at least Gu Hang had not been able to get his hands on one until now.
With it, Gu Hang wouldn’t have to go through the Imperial Navy in the heavens for every message he wanted to send.
That would only compromise his secrets.
As for needing a Star Speaker to operate the Star Speech communication, that was not a major issue.
The term Star Speaker refers to psychic users with special skills in a particular ‘profession,’ rather than requiring any special abilities.
In theory, if Gu Hang didn’t have a suitable Star Speaker among his people, he could learn the relevant technology and operate it himself.
For someone of his Level 5 psychic abilities, it shouldn’t be too difficult.
However, even for this, he didn’t need to act personally; his sickly mother had already thought of it.
The ship came with a Star Speaker.
What more could Gu Hang say?
He understood the meaning behind it.
Establishing interstellar communication capabilities was certainly the official reason.
But… when a mother gives her son a mobile phone with a SIM card, what could that mean?
Gu Hang understood.
At first, he was somewhat conflicted, but then he figured it out: there was no need to worry about being recognized or anything.
First, his younger cousin hadn’t recognized him; next, since the family relations were not too good and it seemed like Gu Hang had run away from home to experience the world, his temperament had undergone a great change, so what was there not to understand?
Accept it if you want to, otherwise, forget it.
Why make the call… The Gu Family was the largest commercial organization in the Tianma Star Sector, even extending its influence to several external Star Sectors.
He was also a direct descendant of the family.
Not to take advantage of this relationship would indeed be a waste.
He had no psychological repugnance to completely severing ties with the predecessor’s family, keeping no interactions at all.
Keep it normal.
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Construction of the Star Language Tower was quick, and the tower itself was not very large—just a four-meter-high metal latticework tower. The most important part was actually the complex psychic device located underneath.