Resurrection Empire

"Once this colonist is granted a title, according to the laws of the empire, his birthplace will be within our Nanxiang star cluster, and his fiefdom will also be in the Nanxiang star cluster. He will become the second earl in the Nanxiang star cluster, which will be very important to me. It’s not a good thing, we have to find a way.”

How could he allow someone else to sleep soundly beside the couch? How could Liu An, who was eager to become a marquis, be willing to do so. While talking to himself, his eyes flashed with coldness and fierceness.

Liu An did not expect that this returning fleet from the colony, which he had completely abandoned, would give him such a big surprise.

He recalled ten years ago.

At that time, this fleet once asked him for help. He refused.

"If I agree to send out the escort fleet at that time... forget it, the Tenglong Nebula and the end of the South Nine Star Passage are three light years apart. It will take fifteen years at the earliest to arrive, and I can't make it in time anyway. This military exploit will not be my turn after all. .”

Thinking this way, he felt a little better.

If the current result was not caused by my fault, it would not be so uncomfortable.

"How could this Imperial Mothership be so stupid that she would leave behind giant cells? Forget it. Even if this colonist becomes an earl, I can beat him. After all, I am Uncle Nanxiang. There are still some zeros in the Nanxiang Star Cluster. Bits and pieces of remote places can be used to kill him. Of course, I can also get there before he is sealed..."

Even if Ren Zhong became a hereditary earl, he would not be able to obtain a fief immediately.

He still needs to take the civilians from the Source Star to stay in the Southern Nine Galaxy for a period of time, and accept the observation and review of the empire to determine whether he, the earl, came to him purely by luck, and whether he is worth focusing on training.

Those who have meritorious service must be rewarded, but these rewards are also divided into three, six or nine levels.

Only promising and potential earls are eligible to acquire fertile galaxies with more easily exploitable resource planets.

After all, every galaxy that has not been enfeoffed is the private property of the royal family. If you want to take a piece of the royal family's job, you must show value.

If Ren Zhong is suppressed during the inspection period, makes no achievements, and is ultimately judged as a mediocre person with no prospects for training, then even the earl can only be a high-level happy man, and there is nothing to be afraid of.

"I am Uncle Nanxiang, and the assessment report of this colonist must be in my hands. I can let Southgate, the ninth Viscount of Nanxi, press him first. The matter is not that bad."

After a while, the military and political deputy director of the Nanxiang Star Group, who was well aware of Liu An's temperament, took the initiative to call the communication and reported an important piece of information.

It turned out that not long ago, my predecessor Zhong had used the Source Star Supernet node to initiate an active query to the Imperial Supernet. The query target was the speed of information flow transmission, which was very abnormal. Later, the Imperial Supernet tried to take over the Source Star Supernet node to verify the information, but the link was cut off.

This is a doubtful point.

This may seem innocuous, but the problem with Source Star node query is too strange, and the disconnection behavior is unreasonable. This seems to be something that can be used to make a fuss, at least to pour some dirty water on this colonist who is so popular.

Liu An was very satisfied with the deputy minister's proposal and was about to take action when he immediately received an unsolicited explanation from the Source Star Supernet node.

According to Ren Zhong himself, the Source Star fleet had already been lightly interfered by the Ascendant patrol at that time, and the stability of information flow and communication had slightly declined.

Ren Zhong personally misjudged the constants in the external environment. Because he was too nervous, he entrusted the Yuanxing node to conduct a query to verify whether there was any abnormality in the information flow communication.

As for the disconnection, it was interfered by the "disorder" of the fourth-level Mother Queen's ambush combat unit.

After reading these reports, Liu An pondered for a moment, "That's all, let's deploy a hundred spiral-class fast shuttle ships to form a special service fleet, pass through the Broken Star Ring, go to the outer boundary of the Black Mist Zone, and prepare to meet the return fleet of the Origin Star. Escort the new earl."

When he said the last word "escort", he subconsciously emphasized his tone, and the fierce light in his eyes disappeared in a flash, and returned to calm.

…

At the same time, Sun Ai completed the preparations in advance, carried out a thorough cleaning of the dragged Source Mercury, and then temporarily transferred his main core program to the Source Star pseudo-net, only communicating with Ren Zhong through a hidden and separate line. Single line link.

Since then, the original Mercury structure has become a real "net". But the powerful Viscount Ren Zhong gave the Source Star supernet node a rather humane name out of his own bad taste, and of course it was also called "Xiao Ai".

Sun Ai said in Ren Zhong's heart: "Uncle, I have completed the disguise and can let the Imperial Supernet scan and audit the nodes at the takeover level."

Ren Zhong hummed, and asked a little more uneasily, "The secret will not be exposed on the source star, right? There will be no problems with this emergency research and development, right? Is there no problem with your existence? After the review of the Imperial Supernet is completed, , can you successfully take over the 'Net'?"

Sun Ai smiled and said: "Okay, it's okay."

"That's good."

Since Ren Zhong had given a reasonable explanation for the abnormal behavior in advance and had just made military exploits, the empire was also looking forward to obtaining the latest megablast cell sample of the fourth-class empress in modern times. The review did not take too long and lasted only half an hour. .

During this period, the Imperial Supernet relied on the computing power and communication mechanism of the Source Star node to conduct comprehensive monitoring and monitoring of the more than two billion people in the Source Star fleet, material reserves, human brain inventory, technology accumulation, and the current social atmosphere. analyze.

The Imperial Supernet discovered something unusual.

Within the Source Star Fleet, there is a strong personality cult for the leader's responsibility, but at the same time, many people are quite dissatisfied with his responsibility. The social atmosphere is slightly distorted, but it operates smoothly. The root of the dissatisfaction was that Ren Zhong had promised to leave the seeds of civilization on the Source Star, but before leaving, he strictly implemented the empire's cleaning order. After the Battle of the Imperial Ship, the dissatisfaction basically disappeared, leaving only fanatical admiration.

Unlike other returning fleets, the people in the Source Star Fleet did not seem to have a particularly strong desire to use freezing to cross time and space to enjoy life in the empire.

Although the Source Star Fleet encountered drastic changes before setting off, resulting in a low number of super warriors with starry combat capabilities and the loss of almost all starship larvae, the fleet members did not just lie down and ignore their shortcomings of low combat capabilities. Instead, they strictly followed the intensive training plan planned by the mission, and in just ten years, more than 30,000 super-level warriors were produced. Many military personnel have not slept for ten years and are already old, but they still stick to their training posts.

Similar phenomena exist among others such as scientific researchers and production personnel. It seemed that the crew on the ship did not regard the voyage as a moving process, but rather regarded the fleet as a new home.

These people learned and grew up on 8,000 transport ships and nearly 4,000 armed ships, married wives and had children, reproduced, and worked creatively. They transformed from an earthly people into a nomadic people.

It is not that there is no such civilization model in the Mechanical Empire. For example, some earls or even marquises formed a similar nomadic fleet to wander around because of their personal preferences, collecting rare resources and searching for the beautiful landscapes in the universe as hobbies.

The size of some nomadic fleets even far exceeds that of the Source Star fleet.

However, the Trace Colony does not have as many resources as the high-ranking noble fleets, nor does it have such a high level of technology. After all, life in the fleet is very difficult, the resource quota is also limited, the quality of life is very low, and civilians may not be willing to endure hardship. Few of the returning fleets from the Tracer Colony could do this.

Years of claustrophobic conditions can easily create complex social problems. On the long journey back, the best option has always been to simply let most people fall asleep. They are all frozen, and there is no time to think about things, so there is no chance for psychological disorders, so there is no need for turmoil.

In short, although there are many anomalies, these anomalies are within the tolerance limit of the imperial system. The responsibilities are heavy and there are military achievements to protect the body, so the review has been smoothly implemented.

After the virtual tentacles of the Imperial Supernet were retracted, Sun Ai immediately packed himself up, moved back from the Source Star pseudonet, and continued to serve as the important secretary.

"Uncle, I just received a notice from the military and political deputy director of the Nanxiang Star Group. They have organized a special service fleet composed of one hundred spiral-class fast shuttle ships. They have set off from Nanxiang Star and transited through the jump channel network. It is expected that It will be able to leave the Nanjiu Star Outer Channel Relay Station in more than one year and one month. The shuttle ship array can maintain a long-distance cruise of 0.2 times the speed of light in the universe. It will arrive in the black fog area in about 8 to 9 years, and will be in the black fog. They are waiting for us outside the inner edge of the area. When we pass through the black fog area, we can join them."

Ren nodded, indicating that he understood.

Now that the Ascendant patrol has been eliminated, the fleet can turn back and return to the Tamron Nebula trade route to save time and reduce navigation risks.

Due to the need to re-accelerate the return journey and major changes in direction, the estimated time required to cross the trade route is 3 years.

After leaving the Tenglong Nebula, there will be a large desolate area, waiting for a flat river, and you can accelerate in a straight line.

The straight-line distance from the edge of the Tamron Nebula to the outer edge of the Black Mist is 1.2 light-years, and it takes 12 years to reach it.

Then, the total length of the path inside the black fog area is 0.25 light-years, and the estimated travel time is 5 years.

All in all, it would take the Source Star Fleet 20 years to reach the inner boundary of the Black Mist Zone and then join the special service fleet.

He silently muttered to himself: "This Nanxiang uncle Liu An is not very kind. Since we are going to pick up the escort, naturally they should go through the black fog area to pick us up. Then wait for us on the other side. Year’s truth. Something is wrong.”

He opened the information again and focused on the information about the Black Mist Area.

Intelligence provided by surveyors from the Royal Academy of Sciences shows that the black fog area is filled with large amounts of discrete dark energy clusters. Dark energy clusters are huge in number and vary in size, from as small as moon-like satellites to as large as far larger than the most massive stars.

Dark energy clusters follow their own orbits most of the time, revolving in a stable pattern around the large black hole in the center of the black fog area.

However, once two dark energy clusters whose volume and mass exceed the limit collide and trigger a violent explosion, releasing unstable energy tides and gravitational shocks, it may trigger a chaotic explosion of dark energy clusters that sweeps through the entire black fog area.

A chaotic explosion of this intensity can strangle and destroy everything that breaks into it.

According to the explorer's tips, the Black Mist Area erupts once every 100 million years on average.

The last outbreak occurred more than six million years ago, when the Machine Empire was confronting the Ascended Army nearby.

The Mechanical Empire deployed a small fleet on the frontal battlefield. The total force size was about half of the Ascended Army. It was quite disadvantageous in the frontal battlefield and was besieged.

But at the same time, the Mechanical Empire sent out the real main force from the other side, quietly entered from the other side of the black mist area, and quickly approached the battlefield, preparing for an unexpected attack from both inside and outside to completely annihilate this army of Ascended Ones. .

At that time, the Mechanical Empire had just completed the development of a new stealth coating, and a large number of fleets could quietly approach the main battlefield. As long as they were eliminated, they would definitely catch the Ascendant army by surprise.

The empire's plan is flawless, and if everything goes well, it will surely achieve a great victory.

Unfortunately, when the main fleet was only two months away from flying out of the black fog zone, the big explosion happened without warning.

In the end, only a few lucky fleets escaped, but by this time the frontal battlefield outside had already been completely defeated, and the few ships that escaped were also pursued and intercepted by the Ascendants.

Not only did the empire lose troops and generals, but it also exposed a new invisible coating, and the data was burned by the Ascendants, who quickly evolved targeted detection methods. Billions of Imperial scientists spent thousands of years in research and development, all in vain.

The impact of this incident spread, causing the Mechanical Empire to lose the territory of the Nanxiang Star Cluster for a time. The Empire later recaptured it at great cost. However, due to the large number of heavy troops invested in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, other theaters suffered repeated setbacks.

The domino effect this caused affected the Empire for nearly a million years before it was finally replaced by another great rout.

After reading this information, Ren Zhong thought in his mind: "Since it just happened once six million years ago, the dark energy group in the black fog area reorganized its structure and reached a new space gravity balance, then it will not happen in the short term. There is the possibility of another major outbreak. The small number of reconnaissance satellites installed by the empire inside the black fog area did not issue early warning, proving that the black fog area is still in a stable silent period. So, Nan Xiangbo’s behavior of not allowing the special service fleet to pass through the black fog area , it’s worth debating.”

Ren Zhong's eyes fell on the star map again, looking at the olive-shaped black fog area with an angle of thirty degrees to the ecliptic plane of the Gupan Galaxy, and he fell into deep thought.

After a moment, a sneer sounded in his office.

"boring."

…

Time flies, eleven years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Ren Zhong wakes up from the freeze again.

But this time no alarm went off in his personal freezer.

He had preset the wake-up routine eleven years in advance.

After walking out of the freezing warehouse and returning to the office, ten minutes later, the newly appointed Acting Administrative Officer of the Source Star Fleet, Isu Locke, appeared in the responsible office.

At this time, Ren Zhong had just quickly read through the personnel changes in the fleet over the past eleven years.

He saw that six years ago, Zhuo Yihang fell at his post and died.

Subsequently, according to the rules set by Ren Zhong, several people participated in the competition, including Liang Qifa, the general manager of Chromium Carbon Resources of the former Chromium Carbon Town, Zheng Dafa, the slave of the former Wang family in Chongyi, Tang Youyun, the helmsman of Tanggu Group, and Gao Ya, the helmsman of Amethyst Mining. , the newly appointed head of Locke Group, Issu Locke.

In the end, after layers of screening and comparison, as well as fair assessment consultation and nominations from representatives of various industries and fields, it turned out to be Ys Locke, who was only eight years old when he boarded the fleet and is now in his thirties. He stood out and became the new acting administrative officer.

Isu Locke is one of the vested interests of the former business association, but that does not mean that the important power has been left aside.

At that time, Ys Locke also passed the assessment of the upright political officer Ju Qingmeng, and the legal officer Xiao Xingyue also deployed dozens of telekinesis masters to conduct a comprehensive psychological examination on him.

When this person was still underage, he had already received a new type of education created by Ren Zhong, and he had a brand-new outlook on life, which was different from the traditional heirs of the nine major companies.