Start with Planetary Governor

Chapter 34, A Beam of Light
Ossina looked around and saw a large construction site.

The Governor's territory, the 'Land of Salvation' claimed by the good man, seems to be different from what she imagined.

After the end of last winter, in Osena's hometown, which was called the "Southern Provinces" by the people of Fuxing City, a large-scale wave of mutated monsters broke out.

It was a huge disaster, and many gathering places were completely destroyed.

It was not easy to survive the wave of mutant monsters, but it did not mean that the disaster had subsided.

It was too late to plant seeds in the spring, and because of a winter, and because of fighting against alien monsters... Various factors caused people to lose a lot of food stocks.The problems of hunger and shortage of supplies flooded the southern provinces.

What do people who can't survive?
will become a demon.

Ossina and her younger brother had a good life.The land in the southern provinces is relatively fertile, and the erosion by waste energy storms is relatively slight, so many of the gathering places here can make a living through agriculture.In fact, the southern provinces were already very important food producing areas. The 10 people in Fuxing City, including the inner city and the outer city, mainly relied on food imported from the south.

Ossina's father was a plantation owner.Before everything collapsed, their family's plantation had a population of tens of thousands. When it was rich, it could not only feed everyone, but also have a lot of wealth that could be sold for industrial products.

It is conceivable that Ossina's living standard is like a little princess, far surpassing the vast majority of people in this wasteland.
But all this collapsed at the turn of spring and summer.

Marauders, outnumbered, laid siege to the plantations; riots ensued inside.

Under the protection of the guards, the family tried to break out and escape the plantation at the last moment.Those who tried to escape together were many people who did not participate in the riot.

But in the midst of the chaos, she was separated from her father.

Incognito, face plastered, hair cut...

She took her younger brother and followed the team of refugees, and arrived at Fuxing City in a daze.

In the middle, she suffered too much.

For a bite to eat, she is willing to do anything, even a little bit of work can be exchanged for a little food.What's more, go begging, fight with people, steal things, cheat people...

Before everything collapsed, she was taught to be a lady, and she never thought she would look like this.

But she persisted.

In the past few months, she has been dizzy with hunger, and her younger brother, who is just in his early teens, is malnourished.

But at least they are still alive.

However, she also often falls into confusion.

If you have never seen beauty, you may be able to sink in the dark forever.But a few months ago, she was still a little princess, the jewel in her father's palm. Her daily worries were about appraising and restoring the high-priced pre-war artworks, helping her father manage the estate and calculating accounts.

Now she has to hesitate about what to eat tomorrow.

More importantly, this kind of life has no end in sight, no hope, and no light at all.

She felt like she couldn't hold on any longer.

She thought more than once, living in such a bad world, is it easier to die?
But every time she saw her younger brother's eyes, she would put this thought back again, and then gritted her teeth and continued to suffer.

Strange to say, in the past, she was not very close to her younger brother who was seven years younger than herself, and often even felt that this mischievous brat was really annoying.

However, during the past few months, she would rather die than take her younger brother with her. Once when his younger brother was abducted, she bit on him like crazy, and she didn't let go until her head was bleeding from the beating.

She herself doesn't know why, she only knows that whoever dares to harm her only remaining family member, she will fight with him.

But she still understands sadly that they will soon die.

The chaos in the southern provinces had a huge impact.Insufficient food imports have caused food prices in Fuxing City to continue to rise.Relying on odd jobs, she found it increasingly difficult to feed herself and her younger brother.

Recently, another worse news came: it was said that the largest grain merchant in Fuxing City had disappeared.Immediately afterwards, urban food prices became more volatile.

And at this moment, a merchant opened a free porridge shop in a slum outside Fuxing City.

Anyone can get a piece of hot porridge in the porridge shop, provided that they listen to the statement made by Mr. Gu Hang, the governor of the planet, on the first day he came to the wasteland in the porridge shop.

She got into a fight with someone before she took her younger brother to grab a seat.

The so-called governor's declaration was very long. At that time, she just wanted to read a few sentences and eat quickly. She couldn't remember too much about what the governor's declaration said.

There was only one sentence, which she remembered clearly: The governor will let everyone who submits to him live a good life.

The next day, the porridge shop was still open, and she came again.But this time, I was told that those who have eaten once are not allowed to eat another meal, unless they are willing to follow the caravan to the governor's camp and become the governor's subjects.

Without much hesitation, she pressed her handprint on the paper.

After waiting for a few days, when the caravan set off, she came here with her younger brother.

Following the caravan to the governor's camp, although life is forced to do so, why not change the status quo and seek some ideas of light and hope?

She thought that she would see a well-developed city, but instead she saw a large area of ​​dust.There are many simple concrete buildings that have been built here, but more are still under construction.

However, looking at the large-scale construction in the entire camp, at least there should be no shortage of job opportunities.

But with my small body, can I work as a construction worker?
Ossina, who was in a mess and didn't know what the future would hold, took her younger brother's hand and followed the arrangement of the team to the registration place.

When it was her turn, the person who registered asked for some basic information.

Name, age, what you are good at, what you want to do...

She answered as it happened.

"Huh?" The person registered opposite suddenly said, "Are you literate?"

"Uh... yes."

"That's great!" The man was overjoyed, "Hurry up and fill out another form at that table, congratulations, you will get good treatment."

Ossina passed in a daze.

There was no one at that table.

After she finished filling out a form, she was assigned two jobs: working as a clerk in the textile factory to be established during the day, arranging and executing the production plan, counting the production results, and managing the production process...

The second job is to be a teacher in an evening school literacy class.

The content of the work made her feel relieved a lot.This is what she is really good at. When she was in the manor, she would assist her father in some management work.Although it was agricultural production management at that time, and now I want to be a clerk in a textile factory, but it is better than doing manual labor with my own hands.

Especially after hearing about the treatment, she was even more moved.

According to the calculation of work points, the material ration she can get every day is more than enough to support herself and her younger brother, and she can save a lot.

Although everything was incomparable to when she was a little princess in the past, it was the only ray of light she saw in the months of ups and downs.

(End of this chapter)