Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 750

Chapter 746, It turns out that he is not a human

the People’s Congress who left.

Gu Hang was still lost in thought.

He hadn’t agreed to Kaul’s offer, but it wasn’t like he was

refusing either. What was there to refuse? The first thing they had done was give him a piece of information, believe it or not.

The second was simply a trade agreement. Right now, it was just an intention at best. Even if it were to be signed, it would require many rounds of negotiations, involving tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in trade, and there were countless details to discuss.

It wasn’t a matter of rejection. Business, why not?

The third thing was even more obvious.

They offered you a High Lordship, and you don’t want it, right?

Gu Hang found he had no room to refuse.

And if he accepted, the relationship between the Alliance and the Martian Cult would inevitably become closer.

By then, Mars might become the Alliance’s largest trading partner, and politically, they had strongly expressed their support for Gu Hang’s High Lordship. In that situation, how could the Alliance refuse to come?

Politically, it wouldn’t be acceptable.

Of course, even if they were truly shameless, that was fine. After all, Gu Hang hadn’t agreed to anything.

But he suspected there would be a compelling reason to go when the time came.

The prophecy delivered by Grand Magus Cawl revealed something terrifying. If that ever came to pass, he might not be able to decide for himself.

…

Things had to be handled step by step.

The Grand Magus’s mention of something else could be put aside for now. The news that Asday had originally assigned the assassination mission to the Assassin’s Court needed to be addressed.

Gu Hang didn’t believe Cawl outright.

Perhaps the Mechanicus had simply fabricated this story to deceive him?

He needed to verify it.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Affairs Bureau was keeping a close eye on Yu Jinwen.

He was Asday’s representative on Holy Terra.

As the President of the Cosmic Domain, Asday was indeed a High Lord, but he couldn’t be constantly present on Holy Terra. The affairs of the Cosmic Domain government were the foundation of his affairs. This was

n’t just true for Cosmic Domain Presidents serving as High Lords; it was also true for Space Marine representatives.

It was quite common for High Lords to be unable to reside permanently on Holy Terra due to their responsibilities. Typically, such a High Lord would appoint a trusted confidant to permanently reside in their place.

The High Lord would maintain constant communication with this trusted confidant to ensure that this representative would fully implement their will.

This position was in fact quite crucial.

When contact was unavailable, the representative would be required to make independent decisions based on the High Lord’s instructions and a well-established route, even casting crucial votes.

In a sense, this representative could even be considered a half-High Lord. If he became irritated, he could even exploit time and information gaps to temporarily exercise the full authority of a High Lord—as long as he disregarded the consequences.

For this reason, the High Lords’ chosen representatives must be highly trusted and guaranteed not to cause trouble.

Yu Jinwen was such a figure to Yasdai.

The Chairman of the Devouring Star Universe had served as High Lord for twenty-three years. By comparison, his tenure was quite long for a Universe Chairman serving as High Lord. And for the past fifteen years, Yu Jinwen had been Yasdai’s representative.

If Yasdai was going to do anything, it would be wise to keep a close eye on Yu Jinwen.

Besides mobilizing his own forces to keep an eye on the man, Gu Hang also tried to contact the Assassin’s Court to confirm the news.

Naturally, there was no response.

Gu Hang didn’t get angry.

He turned around and went to find Gallardo to discuss the matter.

Gallardo was surprised to hear that Asdai was responsible.

He raised a rather ominous hypothesis: Could Asdai have been acting on the Prime Minister’s orders?

Everyone knew that Asdai had held the position of High Lord for so many years because he had been promoted to that position by Zibodu.

Given that the conflict between Gu Hang and Asdai wasn’t enough to warrant such a drastic measure as assassination, if this were true, then this could have been orchestrated. The only person who

could have orchestrated Asdai was Zibodu.

It wasn’t impossible.

After all, Gu Hang’s relationship with the Prime Minister had only recently improved. The Battle of Rhaetochas had just concluded when Gu Hang received the Assassin’s Court’s warning. It wasn’t impossible that Prime Minister Zibodu had considered dealing with him at that time. However,

Gu Hang considered this possibility relatively low.

If Zibodu truly harbored such thoughts, why would he have insisted on Asdai giving the Assassin’s Court the task?

It’s understandable that the matter wasn’t brought before the Supreme Council; after all, if it were discussed in the Council, it would have become public knowledge. However, Qi Bodu himself had far greater authority than Yasdai, commanding the Assassin’s Court. If Qi Bodu had personally given the order, Gu Hang would have faced far more than a simple letter. He might have faced a full-scale assassination attempt by the Assassin’s Court.

As the two discussed this, the situation only grew more thorny.

“I’ll go see the Prime Minister,” Gallardo said. “Give him some feedback.”

“Okay,” Gu Hang agreed. “But I may not get the information we want. I’ll try harder with Yu Jinwen.”

“You…you have to be careful.”

“Don’t worry, I know what to do.”

…

Yu Jinwen was tied to a chair, his eyes blank.

Before him, several key members of his office lay on the ground.

Gu Hang’s foot rested on one of them, a playful smile on his face.

“So…you’re not human.”

The figure squirmed beneath Gu Hang’s feet, its outer skin rubbing against it as if rubbed vigorously, gradually peeling away, revealing the dermis beneath.

Grayish-black in color, with long ears.

This was a Dark Eldar.

This was Gu Hang’s first time dealing with the Dark Eldar in person.

He had to admit that these alien creatures, with their ancient heritage, possessed a unique and highly advanced level of technology.

To prevent risks, they did not replace Yu Jinwen himself, but used some means that were similar to psychic power but not psychic power, so that his mental state was not quite normal and controlled, and it was difficult to detect; at the same time, they used disguise technology to replace some core members around Yu Jinwen and monitor them closely.

The Foreign Affairs Bureau watched for a while but found nothing, and instead lost several of their personnel.

Gu Hang simply came in person.

He did not have any special agent skills, but he did not need them.

He just followed, then quietly released his psychic power and carefully examined it.

To be honest, at a glance, even his psychic power did not find any special abnormalities. Especially in Yu Jinwen’s body, everything was fine.

It was not until Gu Hang was very close to a person who had been replaced by the Dark Eldar that he realized that this was not a human.

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(End of this chapter)