Resurrection Empire

"Okay, that's it for now, you go and do your work first. Xiao Xingyue, you stay."

After waiting for a few more minutes, only Ren Zhong and Xiao Xingyue were left in the hall.

Ren Zhong: "You have something to say."

Xiao Xingyue: "You have never sat on the stage and talked to your brothers and sisters like an emperor before."

Ren Zhong: "Yeah."

"Many people died in this attack on the Tracer spacecraft, many, many. Although it seems to be Li Yang's conspiracy, I always feel that with your ability... you cannot be controlled by him. This kind of thing should not happen. "

Ren Zhong raised his eyebrows: "You have quite a lot of confidence in me. But you must speak with evidence."

Xiao Xingyue: "There is no evidence, only intuition. The intuition of telekinesis masters is stronger than that of mecha warriors. I believe in myself... In addition, based on my understanding of you, I originally thought that all telekinesis masters would be unemployed. You don't need it at all." What secret censorship department to maintain your rule."

Ren Zhong leaned back and said, "Maybe."

After five seconds of silence, he said slowly: "If nothing happens, you can go down. The Net will cooperate with you to set up a department as quickly as possible. Your former leaders in the telekinesis organization will become yours." Direct reports.”

Xiao Xingyue slowly left the hall with her head lowered.

When she reached the entrance of the passage, she suddenly turned back.

Ren Zhong over there propped his chin with the back of his hand, leaning on the chair, not knowing what he was thinking.

Vaguely, Xiao Xingyue seemed to have an illusion, as if he saw a dark sky falling from the sky and slowly engulfing him.

She actually felt that the heavy responsibility at this time seemed very lonely.

Suddenly, her pupils shrank, and when she realized something, great fear surged in her heart.

Xiao Xingyue left the Tracer on the No. 009 water droplet spacecraft as quickly as possible and went into space.

She was seeing one small transport ship after another moving away from the battleships and transport ships. Most of them were going to the Source Star, while a small number were scattered to various space stations, Source Mars colonies and other areas.

Xiao Xingyue looked at the large boxes dragged behind these small transport ships, then entered the management system and clicked on the control interface of the galaxy-level main gun. She found that the galaxy-level main gun with the slowest acceleration had not warmed up its engine in advance and started moving. Instead, it stayed in place and quietly moved the muzzle slowly, aiming it at Yuan Xing.

She then used her secret review department authority to check the weapons inventory on the Source Star, and was horrified to find that Ren Zhong had not taken away all the weapons of mass destruction, and left about one percent of them in each base. of inventory.

Xiao Xingyue suddenly covered her mouth as thunder exploded in her mind.

This man is crazy!

He wants to destroy the Source Star!

Not only that, he wants to wipe out the Yuanxing Galaxy!

But Yu Jin and Chen Hanyu will stay!

"What exactly are you trying to do?"

Xiao Xingyue finally couldn't help but contact Ren Zhong privately and asked.

Ren Zhong replied quietly: "According to imperial law, in order to prevent the leakage of imperial technology, every tracer colony must be cleared after the great migration."

"But……"

"No buts."

"I can't figure it out. There must be other ways to avoid this rule. You are betraying your original promise."

Ren Zhong on the other side sneered, "I don't need to make a promise to anyone. I am the law, and my words are the final decision."

"You..." Xiao Xingyue felt an unknown anger welling up in her heart, almost roaring: "I have known you for so many years, I once trusted you so much, and I took the initiative to convince myself to become a part of your career. I even betrayed the president and became your spy in the Promotion Association and Yuanxing Military Industry. I have done psychological examinations for so many people, and I pride myself on knowing enough about human nature. I thought I did the right thing, I thought I understood you The difference with the president is that now I realize that this is all a disguise! You are more vicious than him!"

Through the vision of the "net" provided by Sun Ai, Ren Zhong looked at the woman standing in the cockpit of the water droplet spacecraft No. 009, trembling with anger. His eyes were calm, and he finally gave some explanation, "People in different positions will gain different benefits." There will be information that is not enough for others to understand. I can only tell you that this is the only optimal solution I can find. I do not expect to be understood by everyone, because I have to be responsible for more people. . Xiao Xingyue, you just discovered this first, and there will be more people who can't accept this reality. That's it, I'm tired."

After saying that, Ren Zhong cut off the communication, returned to the posture of holding his chin, turned his face away, and only stared at the projection of the Yuanxing galaxy diagonally above him.

After a long time, Ren Zhong let out a long sigh, "Alas."

"Why did you lie to her? Why did you lie to other people?" Sun Ai's voice rang in his mind, "Is it because you don't trust them?"

Ren Zhong shook his head in the air, "Of course not."

"Then you can actually do it more covertly. Anyway, you just want to lie. You can wait until everyone else is asleep before completing this step. After I restore the connection with the Imperial Supernet, can I just send the video?"

Ren Zhong shook his head, "There is no excuse for lies. I must let everyone see it so that they can cooperate with my lies. I must keep the secret only in your and my hearts. I once learned a saying, called There is no airtight wall in the world. This secret is related to the lives of at least 18 billion people, or even 20 billion people, and it is also related to every step I will take in the empire. It is too important to tolerate any risk. There are no mistakes at all. I must act strictly in accordance with the rules of the empire. There are two billion people here, and it is impossible to stop the mouths of two billion people. Even if I only explain the truth on a small scale, I will make things that do not exist originally The risks are infinitely magnified. Since there are professions like telekinesis on the Source Star, I believe that the empire must have more ways to dig into everyone's mouth and find the secrets that everyone originally swore to keep in their hearts. Even if we can't do it when we arrive in the empire I narrowly escaped scrutiny, but in the long run of time in the future, anything can happen. As long as it is a secret, it will eventually be leaked, whether actively or passively. So I have no choice. If I don’t have to get your cooperation, I will even Even you want to hide it. Alas."

After saying that, Ren Zhong stood up from the throne, looked back at the other nine empty chairs, and waved his hand, "Xiao Ai, put away these nine chairs. From now on, there will only be My voice alone.”

After leaving the hall, he put on an ordinary coat and an ordinary ninth-level battle armor. Ren Zhong temporarily left the tracer and boarded a high-performance small aircraft disguised as an ordinary transport ship. The location of Benyuan Star.

About three hours later, Ren Zhong arrived above a transport ship hovering in the far-Earth orbit of the Source Star.

He did not notify anyone, but used the highest authority provided by Sun Ai to directly enter the core refrigerated cargo warehouse inside the transport ship through a secret passage.

The alloy door at the entrance of the circular passage slowly opened, and a wisp of white mist puffed out.

Ren Zhong stepped inside, and the alloy door behind him slowly closed.

He glanced at the external environment detection on the upper right side of the armor's helmet.

The temperature here is minus sixty degrees.

Walk a little further in and cross a corridor about thirty meters long.

What appeared in front of him was a tall shelf.

There are densely packed goods neatly placed on the shelves.

These goods are small in size, hemispherical in shape, with wrinkles and groove structures on the surface, which are exactly human brains.

Ren Zhong knows without counting that this is close to five million human brains.

In fact, Yuanxing has not dispatched annual ships to foreign countries for nearly eighty years.

All the new annual ships built over the years have been here.

As for the inventory of human brains, it is increasing at an average rate of nearly 500 million per year, and now it is about 40 billion, evenly distributed inside each annual ship.

Ren Zhong's breathing gradually became heavier.

He opened his armored mask and let the icy cold air fill his nose and enter his lungs.

After a long time, the blood in his body cooled slightly, then he suddenly turned around and left.

…

Two days have passed.

The mighty fleet composed of 11,868 ships formed a huge formation and quickly passed through the far Earth orbit of Source Pluto.

The fleet will be slightly accelerated by the pull of the source Pluto, and then correct its direction to rush towards the star closest to the source sun - Nanjiu.

Next, the fleet will continue to accelerate for five days to gradually reach one-tenth the speed of light.

Directly in front of the formation, the nine armed warships that set out first were already nearly 3 billion kilometers away from the main force.

These nine armed ships are the advance team, and are additionally equipped with scanners modified from ghost particle communicators, with a scanning range of tens of billions of kilometers.

In addition, there are a large number of small reconnaissance ships operated by a team of ten people further ahead. These small reconnaissance ships do not have such a large scanning range, but they can observe unknown targets at close range and analyze more information that cannot be identified by large scanners.

The maximum combat radius of these small reconnaissance ships exceeds 50 billion kilometers. They rotate every half a month on average, using the armed ships in the advance team as supply stations.

The reconnaissance ship is responsible for the most difficult and dangerous tasks.

Although this is the border of the empire's territory, it is still the empire's territorial star domain after all. The rangers who dare to be active here must be the best in their respective civilizations. Source Star is just a C-level colony, and the reconnaissance ship from Source Star has no possibility of defeating any enemy.

If you are really unfortunate enough to encounter an enemy, there will be no chance of survival.

They do not need to send back an alarm when encountering an enemy. The nine advance ships will use the annihilation of signals on their behalf to determine where there are enemies who can harm the scout ship.

In a sense, the squad on the reconnaissance ship is a death squad.

Moreover, according to the voyage plan provided by the Yersun Group, the team members on these reconnaissance ships will be passed down from generation to generation and are not eligible to enjoy cryogenic slumber.

These team members are basically composed of people with lower citizen levels but with certain talents in various fields. Their efforts will be exchanged for their descendants to be promoted to seventh-level Source Star citizens when they arrive in the empire, that is, civilians within the empire. Chance.

The annual ring-class transport ships in the past have always operated like this.

The Tracer spacecraft turned on the stealth mode and hung far behind the fleet, even further back than the rear team responsible for the escort.

At this time, Ren Zhong was sitting on the Iron Throne, and the audience was full of people.

Standing on the left are cronies from the Ren Group, and those on the right are from the nine major groups and the original association's senior officials.

The people on both sides were almost the same, with more than 200 people on each side. Both sides coincidentally left a large blank space in the middle, with clear lines, like the boundary between Chu and Han.

Only two distant relatives, Ma Xiaoling and Ma Xiacheng, were standing in front of their respective camps, and they were quite close, chatting.

At this time, Ren Zhong did not announce the start of the meeting. He only quietly watched the three-dimensional star chart of the Source Star hanging above everyone's heads wandering around in the sky, not knowing what he was thinking.

Everyone in the audience gathered together in twos and threes, making eye contact, and sometimes whispered and chatted. The content of the chat was mostly related to work, and they seemed to be extremely diligent.

Xiao Xingyue, who was supposed to be a trusted confidant and had many acquaintances in Yuanxing Military Industry and the now-defunct Promotion Association, who was supposed to act as a bridge to facilitate communication between the two parties, hid far away in the shadows behind the crowd. She seemed to be deliberately trying not to be noticed.

"The nine chairs used to commemorate our ancestors are missing. I always feel something is strange."

Ma Xiacheng had some opinions about Ren Zhong's previous execution of most of the core members of the Augustus family, but he couldn't say it directly, so he made insinuations to Ma Xiaoling, a distant relative.

Ma Xiaoling pouted, "What's wrong? You don't know him. You don't know how much he hates the Nine Groups. He wishes all these people would die... uh... not including you, nor me. In short, I believe What he said is that now we have to be united and make decisions efficiently, so he can only have one voice. Keeping those chairs will allow careerists to have illusions, and it is just right now."

"But I'm not used to seeing him being condescending." Ma Xiacheng shrugged, "When he used to work at Shenzhen News Group, even when he was the leader of the project team, he never used his power to overwhelm others, and he was always cheerful when dealing with others. His team members say he is very approachable, well, like me.”

Ma Xiaoling patted Ma Xiacheng on the shoulder and said, "People will always grow."

"You can think about it."

At this moment, Ren Zhong on the stage finally retracted his gaze from the star map projection.

There was no need for him to remind him aloud, and silence returned to the background in three seconds.

"In one hour, the fleet will pass over the asteroid belt and officially leave the star boundary of the source star system. Next, I will announce my fourth order. I officially inform you that in accordance with the Imperial Colonization Law, the tracers As required by the second supplementary clause of Project Decree No. 1, I will complete the cleaning of the Source Star colony when Pathfinder 154332 flies over asteroid 73259."

"Cleaning work? What do you mean?" Ma Xiaoling turned to look at Ma Xiacheng beside him. She knew that her distant relative, who was the chairman of Shenxun Group, must have more information.

However, at this time, Ma Xiacheng's pupils widened and he was very shocked.

As early as fifteen years ago, he received overt and covert instructions from his ancestor Ma Zhongfei, asking him to leave such and such technology and infrastructure on the Source Star. Although Ma Xiacheng never cared about the lives of the poor people at the bottom, his nature was not bad. He understood that the ancestors had changed their minds and wanted to leave the seeds of civilization on the Source Star, and he felt doubly relieved.

Also confused with him were Gao Ya, Tang Youyun and others.

Ma Xiaoling shook Ma Xiacheng's shoulders, "What's going on?"

Ma Xiacheng said quietly with a calm face: "The so-called cleaning means killing everyone and destroying everything with the characteristics of the empire's technology. This is indeed the requirement for the tracer colony in the imperial decree. The purpose is to prevent the empire's unique technology from leaking out. . But I thought this had been cancelled. Even the Autonomous Order War was abandoned halfway due to the rapid rise of the Ren Group. The ancestors did not interfere and did not carry out human brain harvesting on the desert people and low-level citizens. So I don’t understand What happened? How did he change his mind?"

"Lord Viscount, this goes against the orders of the administrators! You must be joking, right?"

Just when Ma Xiacheng wanted to ask questions, a clear female voice sounded from the crowd.

Everyone looked back and saw that Gao Ya, who had just come out of cryogenic slumber and took over the position of helmsman of Amethyst Mining, raised his hands high.

At this time, Gao Ya pursed her lips tightly and looked at Ren Zhong with wide eyes, her face full of unwillingness and incomprehension.

Some people with sharp eyes even noticed that there was something crystal clear in the corners of her eyes.

Before Ren Zhong went to Xiayuanjing City to study at the Enumerator College, Gao Ya had briefly gotten along with him under the pseudonym Zhou Ya.

Later, after Gao Ya's identity was revealed, the two parties did not lose contact.

She saw with her own eyes that Ren Zhong pulled Hu Yang out of the pile of dead people out of sympathy, even at the cost of offending Tang Xiangyun.

After that, she still served as an assistant, accompanying Ren Zhong through three years of studying as a census officer, helping to take care of many things, and saw with her own eyes how Ren Zhong kept saving lives from the vicious census officer Brown Jonathan. Many people who died unjustly were repaid.

She boasts that she understands Ren Zhong very well, but now she is even more shocked than Ma Xiacheng and still doesn't understand.

Ren Zhong turned to look at her.

The crowd fell silent.

Many people who were standing next to Gao Ya quietly moved to distance themselves from her.

Many people remember that less than a day ago, Ren Zhong just said that as a dictator, he would not explain everything to others.

The last person who questioned him came from the Augustus family, and now the direct bloodline of the Augustus family is almost extinct.

Ren Zhong's gaze put tremendous pressure on Gao Ya.

The uncles and brothers and sisters beside Gao Ya were giving her crazy winks.

Her raised hand retracted slightly.

But she gritted her teeth and raised it high again.

Ren Zhong narrowed his eyes and finally spoke, "I don't know where the previous administrators got the wrong information and changed the rules on their own initiative after the 'Net' fell asleep. But now the 'Net' is awake," Net' tells me there is no precedent for this in the Empire, which is incorrect."

Sun Ai roared in Ren Zhong's heart, "You are framing me!"

Ren Zhong ignored her.

Here, Gao Ya gritted her teeth, not knowing what to do.

At this moment, Zheng Tian, ​​who was at the forefront of the Ren Group camp, finally stepped forward.

She looked directly into Ren Zhong's eyes, "But the families of Chen Hanyu, Hu Yang, Yu Jin, Wen Lei, and Uncle Wang are still on the Origin Star! If you want..."

Zheng Tian was even more confused.

She believed that if Ren Zhong decided to destroy the Source Star civilization from the beginning, then of course he should take away those closest to him.

Next to Zheng Tian, ​​Ju Qingmeng hesitated to speak several times, staring at Ren Zhong with questioning eyes.

Ren Zhong ignored Ju Qingmeng's look, stood up slowly, and looked around, "I have already given my explanation. What you should do is to quietly witness the last step of my completion of the Tracer colonization operation."

"No..." Zheng Tian took a step forward.

Ren Zhong turned away and stared at her coldly, "Zheng Tian, ​​you are my military affairs officer, that is to say. When I am not involved in command, you are the supreme military commander of the fleet. You must maintain absolute integrity. Stay calm, and you must obey me absolutely. Because it is the duty of soldiers to obey orders. I only allow you to make this mistake, stand back! Everyone, sit down! Look at the star map, pay tribute to our hometown, and pay tribute to those who stayed behind. People on Source Star, say your final farewell!"

"The greatest significance of their sacrifice is to help us live a better life in the empire. We will take their share to re-open the empire and enter the interstellar era! I... am not ashamed. "