Starting from the Planetary Governor

In various situations, discrepancies between the numbers and the system's outputs are normal.

The profit from this wave of bounty was quite good, but comparatively speaking, Gu Hang cared more about the green skin orcs mentioned in the intelligence.

If he allowed this 'cancer of the universe' to develop on Rage Owl Star, then they'd truly be doomed. This race is legitimately capable of sparking wars sweeping across multiple star systems.

In fact, when Gu Hang encountered a human outside the Abandoned Cave Society who could turn into a green skin after taking some medicine, he already became vigilant. However, given the mere few hundred guns and the not-so-strong base he had at that time, he really didn't have the strength to tackle that problem first.

But now, he felt that this issue couldn't be delayed any longer.

Moreover, according to recent developments, it seemed that the green skins might be on the path to further strengthening their presence.

This was corroborated by two pieces of intelligence.

First, was the incident encountered by Perbov.

Second, came from Rubbish Town.

Gu Hang had long made arrangements in Rubbish Town, an important source of raw materials. Dennison Henry continued to import large quantities of decent-quality munitions and bulletproof vests from the Abandoned Cave District to Rubbish Town, as well as managing the trade route of alloy plastic steel to Revival City and then buying food from Revival City back to Rubbish Town.

This trade had made a lot of money in recent months.

Although that trade route stopped for a few days due to war and disasters, it was quickly restored after the war. He even took up a consultant position in the New Alliance Ministry of Commerce, specifically responsible for raw material imports and finished goods sales.

And he was recently stepping up the purchase of munitions. The weapons to be phased out left by the Old Alliance Legion hadn't been shipped to Green Valley based on Osenia's military aid plan too much before a lot were already sold to Rubbish Town.

Why did Rubbish Town suddenly need so many weapons and excellent bulletproof vests?

They even wanted the originally very sturdy plastic steel bulletproof plates, which normal bullets could hardly penetrate after many shots, to be further strengthened and thickened!

It was to combat the green skins.

The number of green skins in the high tower ruins had increased significantly this year, seriously threatening the survival of Rubbish Town, which collected scrap materials from the ruins.

This matter could not be ignored anymore.

Tomorrow, Henry Dennison would come to Revival City, and Gu Hang would meet with him in person to decide what to do about Rubbish Town's affairs.

It was actually the largest settlement in the direction that Perbov's camp had raided.

There are three continents on Rage Owl Star, not to mention the other two that once had psychic energy fields abundant with spiritual energy; those were the main battlegrounds of the apocalyptic war a hundred years ago and were the most thoroughly destroyed. They can essentially be regarded as desolate wastelands with low energy storms enveloping them daily.

The main continent they were currently on could roughly be divided into six regions.

With Revival City at the center, the region within a thousand kilometers to the south, north, east, and west is conventionally considered the Central Region, which used to be directly governed by the Alliance Government at its height.

About five million people live here, with one million in Revival City alone.

Nearly two thousand kilometers east from the eastern border of the Central Region lies the Tower Cluster Region. This was where the most prosperous metropolitan areas were located before the war, with a multitude of super-cities densely packed together, connected by a developed network of highways.

Of course, now the Tower Cluster Region is nothing but super-large urban ruins.

The population eking out a living in these urban ruins is estimated to be around five million—only a ballpark figure.

Five to six hundred kilometers south of the Central Region, or one thousand kilometers south along the eastern coastline from the Tower Cluster Region, is a noticeably converging peninsula, surrounded by sea on three sides, known as the Green Valley Region. This name has been passed down from before the war and is the area on the entire continent that was least ravaged by the war.

It used to be an agricultural area, home to about fifteen million people.

Going six hundred kilometers north from the Central Region and entering the cold region, that area was once an industrial hub, now a mix of ruins and wilderness with the least population, about three million.

Five to six hundred kilometers west from the Central Region lies the two-thousand-kilometer stretch of the West Desert Region. The people there survive on sparse oases and the vertical agricultural bases underneath them from before the war, with a population of around five million, yet the food production is considerable and the export voluminous.

Past the West Desert Region to the west is the heavy industry area that was also an industrial center in the past, or it could be simply said that the heavy industry of the cold region spread from there.

There is a significant force—the Blackbird Heavy Industries—that wholeheartedly supported the rise of the first generation governor but quickly turned against the Alliance during the second generation, even reaching the point of waging a battle across the West Desert Region.

Most of the grain exported from the West Desert Region is sent westward to the heavy industry area.

This is the overall layout of the main continent of Rage Owl Star.

Gu Hang's current plan is to take control of the entire Central Region of the main continent with Revival City at its core, sort out these five million people, and then opportunistically expand eastward and southward, especially focusing on Green Valley Region with its large population, which is of paramount importance.

He set a half-year target to control the Central Region; seizing Green Valley Region and Tower Cluster Region needed to be completed within half a year.

In doing so, he would command a population exceeding twenty million and control crucial food production bases and industrial raw material bases. Coupled with the black box technology from the system in Revival City and Weixing City, after a year's development, taxation would now become tangible.

After all, the privilege he'd been granted was that for the first tax collection, he needed to pay only a quarter of the standard amount.

Of course, that was the minimum guarantee. In actuality, historically, people from the West Desert Region, heavy industry area, and cold region would also bring their due taxes during the collection period—though far from the full amount.

But if they paid something, it meant less production pressure for Gu Hang's region, allowing retention of a bit more in hand.

And once past the first tax collection hurdle, with two more years' time, he could further plan for two years to gain global control, so as to face the first full tax collection four years later.

According to this timeline, his expansion plan could not stop. Rubbish Town was a place that needed to be taken over soon without delay.

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