Chapter 594: Chapter 345, Turns Out My House Caught Fire
“Mr. Gu, the meeting is about to start,”
a servant reminded from behind.
Gu Hang nodded slightly, turned around, and left for the starship’s battle conference room.
As a special envoy of the Star Domain, Lois’s first task in resolving the Korolya issue was to gather the heads of all influential factions within the Star Sector.
Then watch them quarrel.
At present, the Tianma Star Sector had gradually formed a triangular political pattern, which was much more stable than the tumultuous two years following Pei Desi’s death. Although the two Ivans, the Parliamentary Faction and Fatches, never ceased their strife, the emergence of a third neutral faction led by Fufana and the Gu Clan played mediator.
…
Fighting was permissible, but should anyone go too far, the third party would intervene.
In such a scenario, although it didn’t stop the two sides from sabotaging each other, the situation had somewhat improved.
However, the problem with Korolya was a core conflict; the neutral faction could at best only maintain the status quo.
And now, a major incident had occurred.
Fatches and the Parliamentary Faction had resumed their fierce, non-solution-focused conflict.
At one moment, Fatches would demand an immediate movement towards declaring Korolya a Battle Zone, halt the payment of Imperial Tax, and call for increased commitment from the Star Realm Army inside the Star Domain, insisting at least another Army Group be transferred here. They also needed substantial military aid to arm Korolya’s local Defense Forces. They claimed that if their needs had been met earlier by amassing fifty million Star Realm soldiers and one billion Planetary Defense Force troops, the issue would have been resolved long ago, without dragging on to this extent.
On the other side, the Star Sector’s leadership would curse Ivan Fatches, calling him incompetent and foolish, claiming that Korolya’s corruption and inefficiency were the real culprits behind the worsening situation. In recent years, through population exports and accepted aid, Korolya had already acquired plenty of resources. Coupled with its production capabilities and large populous base, it had every capacity to arm itself. However, the abysmal performance of the Korolya government turned everything to ashes, leading to the current deplorable state.
Fatches promptly retorted with similar scathing remarks, accusing the Star Sector Government of being utterly useless and only capable of hindrance, claiming that Flying Wing Star, as the capital planet, had provided less support than Fatches single-handedly. The Parliamentary Faction immediately retorted by insinuating that the Fatchess Tri-Star hadn’t taken the crisis seriously at all, only focusing on their own power struggles while completely disregarding the lives of Korolya’s people…
They blamed each other, attacked each other, but none could offer a solution.
Lois, sitting to the side with an ashen face, couldn’t help but speak up.
Originally, she wanted to put an end to this meaningless squabble and refocus on resolving the real issues. But in the end, she, too, was dragged into the argument.
‘Resolving the real issues,’ sounds nice.
But how?
It was precisely because there was no solution that they could only resort to hurling accusations.
Gu Hang attended this meeting, watching and listening intently, but in reality, his mind had gone blank.
The meeting had gone on for a whole day yesterday without producing any results.
Serious discussions were indistinguishable from blame-shifting arguments in essence. Without viable solutions, no outcome would emerge.
And what Gu Hang was doing now was searching for a real solution.
His blank mind allowed his spirit to enter his Divine Realm.
He was observing the changes in the Subspace from an entirely different perspective.
The root of the problem stemmed from the so-called ‘Benevolent Father,’ the Evil God. To resolve the issue, one had to start with the Subspace.
Subspace did not correlate directly with the real world. In fact, in Subspace, notions like ‘position,’ ‘time,’ and ‘distance’ were extremely weak.
Yet within Korolya, cult followers’ chants and the countless souls tormented by the plague had mapped a portion of the Eternal Kingdom of the Benevolent Father onto Korolya itself.
In Gu Hang’s vision, he could see the yellow-green and rotting Subspace clinging tightly to the entire world of Korolya. Legions of demons raged in the Subspace, salivating at the brink of reality, only to be pushed back time and again. Swirling winds of yellow-green plague battered and corroded reality’s veil, trying to break through.
The veil of reality, though still present, was riddled with holes. The weakest point, the location of Fino City, was practically overlapped.
Gu Hang’s gaze swept through this portion of Subspace. He was cautious, consolidating his storm vision extended from his Divine Realm. He could not be discovered, as that would mean exposing the Storm God Kingdom to these Plague Demons’ sight—an extremely dangerous situation.
Even this brief observation allowed Gu Hang to catch a significant piece of information.
Or rather, he saw a familiar ‘face.’
It was the Great Unclean One—Ge Wajia.
The name originally came from Rage Owl Star, where the leader of the ‘Nature Salvation Society,’ now deemed a Cult, resided. According to Hu Ke, who had traveled through the long years from the pre-war era of Rage Owl Star to the present via hibernation pods, Ge Wajia was a former student of his. Somehow, the man survived into the post-war period, established such an organization, and was corrupted by the Evil God at an unknown time, sparking unrest.
Worse yet, Ge Wajia himself had nearly caused significant trouble when a Great Unclean One used his body and soul to cast its avatar onto him.