Starting from the Planetary Governor-Chapter 1649 - 935: Not Without Solutions

Gu Hang has always been able to keep an eye on the situation of the Expeditionary Force.

He has indeed been closely observing it.

From his perspective, the Alliance is undoubtedly the core of saving the entire Human Empire. He does not believe anyone else can accomplish as much as he can.

However, if there can be a strong ally, that is also a good thing.

Gu Hang holds Robert in high regard and has high hopes for him.

Of course, according to Gu Hang’s idea, it would be best for Robert to stay put in the Infinite Starfield, using the home base of the Infinite Corps as the center to launch a military action akin to the Alliance’s Dark Side Expedition focusing on the Spiderweb Domain and the Eastern Cosmos Domain, expanding territory within the Holy Territory of the Empire.

Instead of rushing to Holy Terra, it’s better to steadily manage one world after another.

By then, even if Holy Terra is truly finished, destroyed, and the Human Empire ceases to exist, the Alliance would still have preserved half of the Empire’s Dark Side, then see how much territory Robert can secure in the Empire’s Holy Territory.

Worst case scenario, they can work together, step by step, to reclaim the Human Ancestral Star on Holy Terra.

Of course, losing Holy Terra would be particularly significant and could trigger an even greater crisis, which Gu Hang also agrees with. Therefore, when Robert decided to launch this highly risky Terra Expedition, he ultimately did not oppose too severely.

And since the expedition has already begun, it contains not only Gu Hang’s expectations for the situation in the Empire’s Holy Territory to improve, but also his own son is involved, so naturally, he cannot ignore it completely.

The Expeditionary Force departing from the Infinite Starfield managed not to get lost in Subspace, not only due to the Emperor’s blessing, but also with a little help from Gu Hang.

But overall, Gu Hang’s ability to help was not sufficient.

At least, it’s very difficult for him to directly dispatch troops or deliver supplies to the Expeditionary Force’s ships.

The costs would be too high, even Gu Hang isn’t willing to do that.

However, there is other assistance that can be provided through Gu Jing’s presence to the Expeditionary Force.

Especially in terms of information.

Robert possesses a highly intelligent mind, but he requires a lot of information as a basis for decision-making.

And Gu Hang can provide much information about Subspace, the Evil God, Demons, Spiritual Energy... these clues and knowledge. As soon as something happens, Gu Hang can usually understand what is going on by looking through Gu Jing’s perspective.

Gu Jing understands it himself, and he told Robert; but there are many things Gu Jing doesn’t comprehend, despite his years of study and practice. The ceiling of his power is there; without reaching a certain level, he’s just not aware.

Then Gu Hang would often inform him of the information, and he would convey it to Robert.

Many pieces of information provided by Gu Hang helped Robert avoid many pitfalls and indirectly saved the entire Expeditionary Force multiple times.

Including this incident with the dark elves, it was the same.

However, even Gu Hang misjudged a little this time.

Only a little.

After all, the Spirit Race’s foundation is still terrifying; they were the dominant force in the universe countless thousands of years ago. Even after their downfall, they managed to survive under Slaanesh’s pursuit until today. They truly have some cards up their sleeves.

Gu Hang did not realize the dark Spirit Race’s intentions when they first appeared. It wasn’t until after the array unfolded that he took some time to analyze the purpose of this array.

He predicted the array would take effect in eight hours, but it actually took effect after seven hours. This reduction was due to numerous array nodes being destroyed, delaying the activation time.

However, there’s one point Gu Hang had already analyzed earlier but didn’t share with Gu Jing and Robert.

To disrupt the Subspace slicing array of the dark Spirit Race, the critical point of node destruction is half.

The reason for not sharing this with the two is that after Gu Hang analyzed it, he observed the onsite situation and knew that the Human Expeditionary Army could never achieve this goal.

In other words, being drawn into the curtain was inevitable.

There was absolutely no way they could destroy half the nodes within eight hours.

Which means being dragged into the curtain was a foregone conclusion for the entire Expeditionary Force.

What’s the point of saying anything?

Do we inform the Expeditionary Force, leaving them disheartened?

It’s better to let them maintain high morale and strive to destroy those nodes.

Destroying each node means another Spirit Race army, Spirit Race ship is destroyed.

Since they must hold the nodes, delaying node destruction, they can’t leverage their best flexibility and elusive actions. So it’s best to kill as many Spirit Race individuals as possible.

Once the Spirit Race individuals are killed, although their souls will return to Comoros and be reborn, the process of growing a physical body takes time, and the newly reborn Spirit Race will endure a long period of weakness and will require significant time and effort to rediscover their peak state.

For the relatively scarce Spirit Race population, the losses are considerable.

As for the Spirit Race, despite such significant losses, pursuing their grand strategy... in Gu Hang’s view, it’s not entirely insoluble.