Resurrection Empire

Before the "network" failure, in fact, Source Star and the mainland of the Mechanical Empire were basically able to communicate barely enough.

With the blessing of the ghost particle communication technology of "Net", data packets are exchanged between Source Star and the Empire once a day on average.

The content of the data package mainly includes the calculation results of the universe hash value packaged by "Net", as well as the Source Star development report regularly compiled by "Net".

The content of the report is all-encompassing, covering many aspects such as economy, military, science and technology, humanities and so on.

Relying on the ubiquitous surveillance and observation of the "Net", the Machinery Empire has a thorough knowledge of all production colonies, including Source Star.

But later, the "network" unexpectedly failed, and the communication between Yuanxing and the Machinery Empire was interrupted.

In fact, restoring electromagnetic wave communication was originally part of the recovery plan.

Unfortunately, the real person in charge of the recovery plan also happens to have a heavy responsibility.

Ren Zhong knew this very well.

A year or two after the network was disconnected, about halfway through Ren Zhong's career as a trainee census officer, Ma Xiacheng used the electromagnetic communication principles that Ren Zhong had figured out during the recovery plan to expand it into a large space radio transmitter and receiver. At the request of Elder Frozen, he tried to make contact with the outside world.

In a sense, contact was restored, but in fact it failed again.

The reason is simple: electromagnetic waves travel at the same speed as light.

It would take seven years for the information to reach the star gate center at the edge of the empire.

It would have to wait another seven years before receiving another message from the Empire.

This time back and forth, the time interval between each communication was extended to fourteen years.

Another implication of the above information is that the frozen elders are temporarily unable to use communications to verify the identity of the imperial apostle Ren Zhong.

About five minutes ago, Ren Zhong followed the method provided by Ying Feng and asked the drop-shaped shuttle to send a message to Bai Qiu.

This information is not an apostle's code, but a pre-verification method.

According to the laws of the Mechanical Empire, when receiving this code, both parties are obliged to avoid direct exchange of fire in order to further confirm the identity of the other party.

With a halo of light flashing, the huge white ball appeared out of thin air again in front of Ren Zhong, but the hole of the plasma beam cannon did not appear. An entrance and exit with a diameter of about fifty meters was directly opened on the surface of the white ball.

A liquid metal faceless man slowly floated out from inside and hovered directly in front of Ren Zhong's water drop shuttle. It can be judged from the flight trajectory of the faceless man that the white ball has not opened the membrane force field.

The war machine that had killed Ren Zhong countless times actually made an invitation to come in like a human being.

Through the transparent cover of the shuttle, Ren Zhong nodded to the robot, and then controlled the shuttle to follow the faceless man and fly into the white ball.

An electronic sound sounded from the communicator.

"Hello, I am the Artificial Intelligence Assistant No. 154332 of Tracer. The staff is unfreezing. I will receive you."

The expressionless Ren Zhong only nodded slightly and did not answer, looking very cold.

"Please show me your identification code."

The electronic voice asked again.

Ren Zhong nodded again, closed his eyes, turned on the brainwave synchronization system, and repeated a long list of apostle codes in his mind, which was then converted into electromagnetic wave signals by the shuttle's communicator and sent out.

"Okay, the code has been received, please wait. The staff will reply to you in ten minutes."

As soon as the electronic sound prompt fell, the heavy-duty shuttle had already docked at a delicate dock following the liquid metal faceless man.

The hatch of the shuttle was opened, and Ren Zhong activated the gravitational traction device hidden in the shoulder locks, slowly floated out, and landed on the ground.

The next second, the floor in front of him opened, and a luxurious sofa rose from beneath the ground.

In front of the sofa is a tea table made of unknown wood.

Behind the tea table stood a beautiful woman with oriental features, brewing Kung Fu tea with exquisite skills.

Although the woman looked lifelike and looked real, Ren Zhong could still tell at a glance that she was a cyborg android.

Behind the bionic man, there are four more freezing warehouses.

At this time, the emergency defrost countdown is displayed on the CNC panels of these four freezing warehouses.

There was a white mist rising from the inside of the freezer, covering the four naked women with oriental faces inside.

Although it was obscured by white mist and couldn't see clearly, Ren Zhong could still tell at a glance through the general outline that the people in the freezer were all beautiful women.

The so-called emergency thawing is somewhat different from the normal cryonics release. In order to shorten the thawing time, the power of far-infrared microwave irradiation was deliberately increased.

Usually emergency thawing is an emergency strategy adopted to deal with sudden wars. It will leave considerable sequelae and cause great pain to the thawing personnel. They may even need the help of nerve blockers to move normally.

Obviously, in order to receive the distinguished guest Ren Zhong, the tracer's intelligent assistant urgently activated these women.

In this white ball, in the eyes of the intelligent assistant, the role of these women is very clear, that is, they are playthings and tools used to relieve human instinctive needs.

The intelligent assistant added: "Sir, please take a seat. The attendants will be unfrozen in five minutes. They have all received professional training and understand imperial etiquette, and will provide you with the most comfortable service."

Ren Zhong slowly raised his right hand and pushed his palm forward.

According to the information obtained by Ren Zhong in the previous timeline, this is a common gesture used by high-ranking nobles in the Mechanical Empire before expressing their attitude.

Sure enough, the smart assistant immediately said: "Sir, please speak."

Ren Zhong waved his hand, "I have an important mission. I don't need any companions now. Terminate the thawing process and freeze all these people back to me."

"Yes sir."

The next second, the emergency thawing procedures of the four freezers were terminated and they were retracted under the floor.

When Ren Zhong drank his second cup of tea, in the core cabin deep inside the white ball, with the sound of chi chi, the freezer lids slowly opened one after another, and Ying Feng and others sat up straight one after another.

Without much greeting, the old popsicles figured out the situation in a very short time and figured out why they were temporarily awakened.

Nine people invariably connected to the smart assistant.

At the beginning, the nine people saw the first verification code passed by Ren Zhong first, and they all exclaimed in unison.

The nine people looked at each other, all looking at each other with joy and surprise in their eyes.

They were happy that a thousand years had passed since they left the mainland of the empire and came to this remote place. They thought it was just an inconspicuous "business trip", but they didn't expect that when they were about to return, there would be people from the empire. High nobles appear.

They were surprised that this high-ranking nobleman was unusual. He did not communicate in advance, but arrived directly. He arrived at the scene within just less than four years after the "network" failed.

What does this mean?

Has the empire's technology advanced and created a small jump airship that does not need to be towed by a star gate? Then they discovered an anomaly in the "net" and sent technicians? Is that why we could arrive in such a short time?

Or is it that this person actually set out early, but just happened to arrive at this time?

So if this person is really an apostle of the empire, if he discovers the good deeds we have done and destroys the "network", will our achievements be greatly reduced? Will he be taken to trial?

With such doubts in mind, the old popsicles started looking up the next piece of information almost at the same time.

This information is not an apostle's code, but a video image provided by the liquid metal faceless man's eye camera, as well as basic identification information.

The next second, Ying Feng and others felt confused again.

They knew who was coming, and it was the heavy responsibility.

In fact, they already knew about the existence of Ren Zhong as early as when the "network" just broke down and they woke up urgently.

Not only did they conduct a thorough investigation and study of Ren Zhong, but Ma Zhongfei even personally ordered and approved Ma Xiacheng's appointment of Ren Zhong as the person in charge of the recovery plan project.

Barton Augustus raised objections at the time.

Because Barton also gathered some information about Li Zhong from his descendant Hewitt Augustus.

Hewitt said he had made a request to the Net. "Net" conducted a comprehensive investigation and analysis of Ren Zhong.

The result is very interesting. This man's past is completely blank.

Before he first appeared under the eyes of a hunter's camera near Starfire Town, this man's past was pure nothingness.

He is like a person who jumped out of the stone out of thin air, with no past on the Source Star.

You must know that the "Net" has a deep grasp of information about Yuanxing society, and it is pervasive and ubiquitous.

Although Ren Zhong claims to be from a wilderness tribe, it is theoretically possible to escape the supervision of the "net", but this is only a possibility, and the probability is extremely low.

After all, even a tribe of wild people in the wilderness actually needs some electronic products.

In addition, this person's language and behavior also appear to be very abnormal.

In order to find out what happened to this person who interfered with the census in Spark Town and caused the progress of the Mengdu Group's sample collection plan to be frustrated, Hewitt even secretly used his private power as the leader of the nine major groups to request the network to Increase surveillance.

A strange situation appeared again. Ren Zhong had been judged as a potential high-risk element by the "net" many times, but whenever he would be sentenced to death for just one more small mistake, he would always grasp the scale exquisitely. , withdrawing it, tempting "Net" to lower his threat index.

Similar patterns of action ran through every day Ren Zhong was active on the Source Star. Whether he first arrived in Spark Town or entered Ying Hao's vision and became a member of the Promotion Association, he had similar situations.

Hewitt said to Barton Augustus: "This person is very suspicious. I recognize his talent and know that he has been trusted by companies including Source Star Military Industry and Amethyst Mining, but I think he still should not be allowed to He holds such an important position.”

"Fortunately", Patton's objection did not take effect at that time, and Ying Feng and others made the decision through the Presbyterian voting system.

Time passed, and when Ren Zhong appeared outside the white ball wearing the special attire of a high-ranking noble of the empire and riding a drop-shaped high-end single-person space shuttle with the characteristics of the empire, the answers to many doubts in the past gradually emerged.

Yes, this teardrop-shaped shuttle seems simple, but it is actually very sophisticated. It is the most perfect spaceship shape that the current technological level of the Mechanical Empire can design and manufacture.

Even the Tracer spacecraft is the same. The tracker usually shrinks into a white ball, but once it starts moving at high speed and accelerates to nearly one-fifth of the speed of light, it will also elongate into a long water drop shape.

This shape of solid material has the best stability when flying at ultra-high speeds in space. The energy distribution of the circular force field shield on the front is also the most uniform. The energy transfer after the force field shield violently collides with space dust. The efficiency of impact force absorption is the highest, and the space dust thrust medium adsorption collector on the waist is also the most effective.

Ren Zhong did not contact them, but used limited resources on the source star to create such a ship, which is enough to explain part of the problem.

Next, the nine people began to verify the apostle code provided by Ren Zhong.

The nine apostle codes mastered by nine people are independent of each other but can be integrated into a whole.

It is not difficult to verify. It only requires the nine frozen elders to compare the numbers, letters and Chinese characters carved in their hearts according to special rules.

This process took a total of three minutes.

All nine people completed the apostle code verification in their own minds.

The case was solved.

The case was completely solved.

Now when they looked at Ren Zhong who was drinking tea comfortably in the surveillance screen, their mentality completely changed, and they were even frightened to the point of being horrified.

Because the nine-stage apostle code verification is the highest level of all verification schemes, it represents a major change within the empire, and is the last trump card for all tracer colonial teams to maintain contact with the empire!

They recalled all the past events from a few years ago when they "appeared out of thin air" to the present.

There must be something serious happening within the empire to send out apostles with the highest level of authority.

Moreover, this apostle also lost the ability to scientifically equip and identify himself due to various reasons, and was forced to start from the lowest level of desolate people on the Source Star.

In fact, he could have submitted the apostle code directly to the Net from the beginning, but he did not do so.

Everyone had their own thoughts and thoughts.

"Why did he come here quietly so many years before our return? There are no Imperial ships accompanying him yet?"

"How did he escape our space information monitoring network and appear directly on the Source Star?"

"Is this a mass-energy conversion transmission technology that people in the Imperial Academy of Sciences once proposed. Although it exists in theory, it is completely unachievable?"

"Also, what happened so big that he can't even trust the 'Net'? Obviously there were no problems when we communicated with the Empire through the 'Net' a few years ago. Could it be that the 'Net' itself is malfunctioning? ?Pilgrims did it?”

"We made him suffer so much inside Yuanxing, and he is probably already burning with anger at this moment."

"After we return to the empire, will we be ruthlessly copied by him?"

At this time, Ying Feng reacted fastest.

He stood up suddenly, "Don't be stunned, go see him quickly."

"Yes!"

How could a group of old popsicles dare to stay in their lair like an old god? They stepped on the floating shuttle platform one after another, rushed out of the room as quickly as possible, and went straight to the dock where Ren Zhong was at this time.

From a long distance away, Ren Zhong had already heard the whirring sound of the wind in the corridor ahead by relying on the powerful hearing brought by the super physical fitness of the eighth-level mecha warrior.

He slowly put down the teacup. There was no smile on his face, only indifference and arrogance.

Next, it’s time for the actor’s performance.

This is not just a performance. He has to perform his own performance while simultaneously observing the other person's changes in order to accurately grasp everyone's mentality.