Chapter 68: Something Happened
The arrival of the Star Warriors didn’t have a significant impact on the Governor’s camp.
Even the people of the wasteland had heard of the Emperor’s Angels.
Before the planet was ravaged, these stories were popular subjects in text and visual media.
In the post-war era, these things are gone, but stories themselves still exist.
The older generation tells stories to the next, and then to the next…
This made the Governor’s people curious when they saw the Star Warriors, unable to resist looking at them repeatedly.
However, as wasteland people, they are sensitive and timid towards danger.
They only dared to watch from afar, not even daring to gaze too boldly or directly, to avoid angering these giants who could kill them with a single slap.
As for the Star Warriors… to be honest, they were already extremely accustomed to such gazes.
Regarding the impact on the camp’s development…
Honestly, there was a bit.
Gu Hang’s place had always had a significant manpower shortage for production development.
Now, aside from other supply needs, they had to allocate a construction team to build houses for the Star Warriors.
The key point is that these Star Warriors were extremely serious about it; they simply lived nearby to directly supervise the construction, ensuring not a single bit of corner-cutting.
Large quantities of Alloy and Plastic Steel, cement, and bricks had to be transported for their use.
Even though the materials were the best available, the Star Warriors were still not very satisfied until they were convinced that these were indeed the best materials the Governor’s camp could provide.
Overall, this level of impact was still within Gu Hang’s acceptable range.
Just consider it as hiring seven strong men, with the payment being the cost of their housing.
Aside from attracting attention, slightly slowing the camp’s development, and occupying some manpower and resources, their presence was otherwise minimal.
Each day, apart from watching the construction, they prayed and trained, living like ascetic monks.
Later, it seemed they felt a bit embarrassed for being idle despite the supposed role in assisting combat.
They began entering the mutant forests in batches to fight the mutated monsters.
This was absolutely to protect the Governor’s cause, not because they were bored from not seeing blood for a long time!
However, the monsters in the forest couldn’t satisfy the Star Warriors.
Previously, although there were no high-level monsters in the mutant forest, their numbers were still considerable. But after the Original Owl Beast Sect’s ambush plan on Gu Hang, which activated a certain catalytic method, causing a large number of hatching nests to prematurely spawn and release numerous monsters that were then eliminated, the monster population in the mutant forest became very sparse, with few hatching nests remaining.
This made the Star Warriors crave some practice and a renewed sense of slaughter, but it was somewhat unsatisfying.
However, their opportunity soon arrived.
…
While the Phoenix Battalion was idle, Gu Hang returned to focusing on developing the camp.
The total population of the camp officially surpassed ten thousand in these days.
Various production plans and population allocations were managed by Osena.
Although not particularly perfect, they were at least well-organized, leaving Gu Hang with little to directly intervene in.
With a political score of 9, the administrative officer managed the camp of ten thousand people quite well.
A little attention was enough; there wasn’t much to worry about, and Gu Hang saw his monthly income steadily rising, currently reaching 61 points.
He aimed to break 100 points next month when issuing ‘salaries’!
During this time, he also selected and recruited more than a hundred soldiers from the newly arrived refugees.
Together with the five hundred troops Lambert previously brought, originally belonging to the Hodgson family, whose command and ownership had been fully transferred to the Governor, they formed two new infantry battalions.
Namely, the 5th and 6th Battalions.
These six hundred soldiers had also undergone training and enhancement using the system’s functions, costing Gu Hang 6 Grace Points, but also increasing his troops to over 1700 men.
To be cautious, Gu Hang replaced and reassigned most of the officers in these two battalions.
A significant portion of the soldiers was also restructured with the troops from the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Battalions.
The mixed units were gradually breaking away from the influence of their original command systems.
After the reorganization, even if Lambert had any ulterior motives, it would be of little use and unlikely to rally the troops to defect.
Of course, from the current interactions, Gu Hang preliminarily believed that the two members of the Hodgson family, old and young, were sincerely cooperating. But even so, it is prudent to be cautious, and Gu Hang’s preventive measures were justified.
Lambert had no objections to this.
He even had no issues with losing his military command and being assigned to work under the young Osena, diligently performing his duties, earning Osena’s praise.
He understood that his background could cause the Governor to misunderstand and be wary. But he was determined to prove his loyalty with his attitude and every action over the long term.
Gu Hang was satisfied with this.
The young man was quite sensible.
His grandfather was also sensible.
The population growth in the camp would be very hard to achieve without cooperation from Revival City.
Additionally, most of the Governor’s camp’s goods, aside from internal consumption, sold quite well in Revival City.
Purchases of food, minerals, and other consumables were also proceeding smoothly.
Lately, Denison Henry felt that business was going too easily.
But today, Lambert came with some anxiety to see Gu Hang, bringing some troubling news.
“I can’t contact my grandfather.”
Gu Hang frowned. “Be specific.”
“This morning, I had a routine communication with Revival City, but there was no connection. It’s not that no one answered; the line was completely dead. I realized something was wrong and tried connecting with other family communication lines, but it was the same; I then contacted some people who have good relations with our family. They didn’t know what was happening but told me that Revival City is under lockdown, and the outer city’s poor are forbidden from entering the city…”
Gu Hang narrowed his eyes.
“This is indeed bad news… It sounds like old Mr. Hodgson might be in trouble.”
“I beg you to save him!”