Resurrection Empire

Five days passed, and more and more work ships came closer to the 997 data link. After the data links in other areas were rebuilt one by one, it was officially announced that the Source Star Fleet had overcome this crisis.

Ren Zhong is deeply grateful.

Fortunately, I followed Hua Yuelan's advice.

If there were only 10,000 work ships and 200 vertical data links, it would be completely ruined by now.

This can be attributed to luck, but it should be attributed more to the persistence of Hua Yuelan, a non-military personnel. It can also be attributed to his own advice. It should also be attributed to the bravery of the work ship crew members who used their lives to create miracles. Fearless and professional.

When everything returned to stability, Ren Zhong lay down in the freezer again.

He knew that the next time he was awakened would be when the entire black mist area erupted.

Before he injected the medicine, Sun Ai's voice sounded in his mind, as if he wanted to continue the topic that he had not finished five days ago.

"Uncle, I have consulted a lot of imperial historical materials and made some wonderful discoveries. I always feel that our luck was really good a few days ago, so good that it is not normal. It really seems like someone is blessing us. Same."

I feel very speechless.

A little girl who has been transformed into an artificial intelligence program actually tries to promote feudal superstition and strange powers to herself, which is really nonsense.

But once a stubborn existing concept is formed in something like metaphysics, it is difficult to change.

Ren Zhong didn't know how to convince a half-human, half-super artificial intelligence that was nearly omniscient and omnipotent, so he could only say perfunctorily: "Maybe you are right, there is indeed some luck. But luck does not come from the blessing of some god, but from us. Through hard work, people have magnified the help that a little bit of luck can bring to a level that is enough to change the situation. Okay, I have to go to bed, and I can wait until I wake up next time to talk about anything."

After saying that, Ren Zhong started the cryo-sleep process on his own, without giving Sun Ai another chance to express his superstitious opinions.

He really didn't know how to talk about this, so it was better not to talk about it.

…

A year and a half later, within the Nanxiang Star Cluster's special service fleet, alarms blared and chaos reigned.

In this well-trained special service fleet, there were actually deserters who defected from the establishment.

The deserters took control of a special service ship and rushed into the black fog area crazily.

This group of deserters came from the notorious Fang Pirates in the Broken Star Ring. By chance, they discovered a small-scale Ascendant patrol and helped Liu An gain a small amount of military exploits. They were recruited into the regular army and became popular. .

However, those who were born in the Fang Pirates had serious congenital genetic defects, were rebellious, greedy and undisciplined, and even received higher military pay than other soldiers.

The strange thing is that the senior officials in the Star Group's military and political center particularly favor and tolerate this group of people, probably because they are particularly easy to be incited, and once they take action, they do not regard their own lives as fate at all.

I don’t know what happened this time. Without any explanation, this group of people suddenly went crazy. No matter how the fleet commander tried to recall the other party, they ignored it. They even cut off the information flow communication incredibly, completely preventing the Imperial Supernet from remotely taking over the ship. possible.

This made the commander of the special service fleet very distressed and puzzled.

…

A month later, a super explosion of dark energy in the black mist area, which would only occur once every 100 million years, appeared without warning.

An explosion of this magnitude would require a head-on collision of at least two dark energy clusters with a mass comparable to the source Jupiter.

This is originally the exclusive power of nature, but with the technological level of the Machinery Empire and enough time to prepare, this "natural disaster" can be artificially guided.

The violent gravitational field and the tearing dark energy mass like a hail of bullets turned into a terrifying meat grinder, seeming to crush everything in this area into powder.

If you speed up time a million times, you can find that the olive-shaped dark energy mass first expanded briefly, then collapsed, and then expanded again, like a balloon that is continuously inflated and deflated.

The turbulent and chaotic gravitational field boiled, and it was once very close to the Source Star fleet flying close to the outer edge of the black mist area.

Fortunately, Ren Zhong considered enough margin when planning the route. The distance from the edge of the black fog area was more than 0.01 light years. The fleet did not suffer any losses due to this abnormal dark energy explosion. Instead, it has been waiting in the black fog area. Near the edge of the other side, the special service fleet that was also preparing to meet the Origin Star Colonial Fleet was destroyed because it got too close, and no one was spared.

In the Nanxiang Star Cluster, the report of this unexpected and reasonable disaster was sent to the military and political center on time. Nanxiang Bo Liu An, who was awakened from his frozen slumber again, seemed furious.

He first expressed his deep condolences for the empire's loss of a rising new earl, and was deeply disappointed that the short-lived earl failed to deliver the new fourth-class mother emperor's megablast cells. Ordered the execution of tens of thousands of people with blood ties to the rebel Fang pirates to bring justice to the slain earl.

At the same time, in the command room of the Tracker spacecraft, Ren Zhong woke up again and held a brief online meeting. He announced the new situation to all subordinates on duty and told them that from now on, the Source Star Fleet will Entering the silent navigation state, it will make a large circle from the bottom of the Broken Star Ring and take an unconventional navigation route to the Southern Nine Stars.

In the meeting, whether it was Xiao Xingyue, Isu Locke or others, almost everyone looked at him with a look of reverence like a god.

When Ren Zhong first formulated the disguise plan, not everyone was completely on board.

Although no one objected after he made his decision, some people still had some doubts.

The current objective facts prove his wisdom and wisdom, and also teach everyone another lesson.

The darkness of the empire is indeed beyond imagination.

"As I said, this is inevitable." There was not much complacency on Ren Zhong's face, and he just described the objective fact calmly as if he were a bystander, "But it doesn't matter, as long as we arrive at Nanjiuxing smoothly, when I succeed Entering the empire's order of power, our safety is still guaranteed."

…

After the meeting, others dispersed one after another, while Ren Zhong sat in his office and fell into new thoughts.

He still had some doubts in his heart.

Judging from the performance of Nanxiang Bo Liu An, the mechanical empire is indeed decadent and outdated. Although it has a very high level of technology, it implements backward imperial rule.

And it seems to be the worst kind of imperial power, full of low-level human governance, and even internal friction of intrigues and intrigues, and the efficiency is also very low.

The emperor of the empire does not seem to be very wise and mighty, otherwise there would not have been a mere earl assassinating another would-be earl so unscrupulously in order to maintain his own status, and by the way, he would have also given away important strategic information such as the mother imperial ship's giant reproductive cells. All were buried.

There are various signs that the emperor's control over the aristocracy is not strong. This does not match the technological level of information flow communication and star gate channels. At least it shows that the current emperor is not a sage monarch, and the royal family is not a great one with many heroes. family.

Even compared to the Ascended One, who had only dealt with Ren Zhong once, the management system of the Machinery Empire seemed childish and stupid. What's more, the information provided by Sun Ai showed that the current control areas and comprehensive areas of the Pilgrims and Psychic Demons The combat power is even stronger than that of the sublimated ones.

But even so, the Machinery Empire has been surviving for millions of years and has only fallen into a disadvantage, but it has not been completely defeated. It is really puzzling.

"Xiao Ai, there are some things I can't understand..."

Ren Zhong explained his confusion to Sun Ai.

He remembered that Sun Ai had read the complete history of the empire, so he could ask.

Sun Ai finally caught the opportunity and used projection to create a three-dimensional image that appeared in front of him.

Now she has changed herself into the appearance of a little girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, with her hands on her waist, her neck tilted, her nostrils pointed towards Ren Zhong, and she said arrogantly: "You know you are looking for me now? I wanted to give it to you at that time. Tell me, it’s because you don’t want to hear it, huh!”

Ren Zhong was stunned, "What do you mean?"

Sun Ai curled his lips: "It's lucky. I told you before, but you don't like to hear it. It's true."

After listening to Sun Ai sort it out again, Ren Zhong gradually came to his senses, and the feeling in his heart was indescribably strange.

He knew before that the four major human branches in the Gupan Galaxy went in different directions, each with its own merits and great differences.

The Machine Empire, which retains the most authentic human characteristics, is characterized by the development of extremely large machines, including starship larvae. Through multi-player control, the Empire can create and control spinning super-large machines the size of stars.

These machines are powerful, but also clumsy. The Mechanical Empire does not place much emphasis on personal power. The professional system is basically at its peak when it reaches the super level. It pays more attention to the power of the team, with a large group of people controlling infinitely large machines.

Among the four countries, although the humans of the empire appear unworthy in the eyes of Ren Zhong, they actually have the best diversity of thinking and the best creativity. Of course, this is only relative. The empire's strict hierarchical system is self-castrating creativity, which seems to be self-contradictory.

Among the four major branches, the Empire has the second largest population.

The Pilgrim is a transcendent version of the War Artist, able to form an army by himself.

The thinking ability of an individual pilgrim determines the size and total energy level of the matter that an individual can control.

The Pilgrims are obsessed with developing their individual strength, and can catalyze the creation of planet-level powerhouses who can control a huge amount of energy like a planet, and even top star-level powerhouses.

"Net" is an invention of the Pilgrims, and its main function is to assist calculations. Pilgrims can also "network" themselves to infinitely expand their control, but they will lose the diversity of human thinking and become rigid and lack flexibility. However, Pilgrims can achieve refined control on the battlefield, global deployment, virtual invasion, etc. level, with amazing abilities.

The pursuit of the Ascendant is somewhat similar to that of the Pilgrim, except that they use biological scientific methods to achieve larger body size and more energy control.

A core matrix contains all gene pools, and the gene pool contains countless species of organisms. In a sense, it is the ultimate version of Bai Feng's mistletoe ability.

The mother queen can be re-differentiated and directed to breed different types of troops. Both the mother body and the breeding units are both humans and not humans. Queen Mothers of different levels contain different amounts of gene pools, and can catalyze different numbers and varieties of troops.

The Mother Queen can also be upgraded to continuously open more gene locks and accommodate more genes, but the upgrade process is slow.

The reproductive ability of sublimated people is extremely terrifying. For example, some modified gene pools can produce tens of millions of eggs in one birth like fish, instantly bursting out a large number of troops, and they can also consume a lot of energy to slowly breed extremely large guards. Arms.

There are also planetary and stellar level experts within the Ascended Ones. The special queen mother is equivalent to the stellar level. The first-level Queen Mother is equivalent to the planet level. The queens of the second, third and fourth grades are reduced in proportion. For example, the fourth-level queen that Ren Zhong and others encountered before had controllable energy equivalent to 10% of the source star.

Among the four major branches, the Ascendants have the largest population. After all, they explode very quickly.

The psychic demons have a similar body shape to the humans of the Empire, and there is no reproductive isolation between them.

However, the psychic demons need offspring of the same kind to maintain the abilities of the psychic demons, and the two usually do not mate and reproduce.

This weird race focuses on developing brain power, and there are also planet-level powerhouses, roughly equivalent to Li Yang who carries a super assistant brain, who can control all other intelligent life within a range of 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

There are even star-level powerhouses whose influence range can even be enlarged to a radius of tens of billions of kilometers.

Li Yang was originally mistaken by the old popsicles for being a god-level demon, and was regarded as a planet-level opponent. But in fact, there are super-god demon descendants (stellar level) even higher up.

Among the four major branches, the psychic demons have the smallest population, but are the most difficult to deal with. The combat power they control also includes a hodgepodge of the other three races.

Basically, once an individual of the Psychic Demon General is secretly targeted and secretly infiltrated and controlled, it will be difficult for him to escape and resist unless he is a pilgrim wise man who has completely digitized his thinking.

No matter how you look at it, the Mechanical Empire is the weakest among the four major branches. It is completely vulnerable and should have been completely eliminated long ago.

In the past tens of millions of years, the Mechanical Empire has indeed encountered crises of national subjugation many times.

The strange thing is that whenever the mechanical empire is about to perish, some incredible people will stand up to turn the tide.

For example, the young nobleman who single-handedly snatched the technology of "Net" from the hands of the pilgrims.

This ordinary nobleman who was originally an ordinary man was just an inconspicuous scout who went deep into the enemy's territory to carry out a death mission, but he suddenly exploded and showed incredible talents.

Perhaps due to luck, or perhaps because of his outstanding talent, he actually drove a reconnaissance ship with average performance through the defense lines of many copper walls and quietly approached the pilgrim's omnium center, and was extremely lucky to be in the omnium center. A data interface was found on the surface of the planet that can go straight to the core of the intelligent brain. Normally, the omnic planet would never put such an important interface on the surface of the planet, but at that time, I didn’t know what the top sage had in his head, so he did so.

Immediately afterwards, this person really used his own wisdom to challenge the terrifying Omnic super-brain computing power, and won. He hacked into the data core of the Omnic center and swept away the source code inside. Finally, he quietly He retreated without a sound.

This man was once chased to the sky with no way out, but he got lucky and was sucked into a strange alien black hole. Instead of being broken down into elementary particles, he was completely killed by a white hole that suddenly appeared from within the empire. The tail was thrown out.

After that, the young nobleman began to decipher the source code himself. In just a few decades of life, he went through extensive research and development, established a semi-artificial intelligence system that combined the conventional human brain with the pilgrim's virtual consciousness, and created the first An original model of "Net".

After that, the Mechanical Empire, which had been retreating steadily, immediately ushered in a short-term technological explosion after acquiring the technology of the "Net", but it managed to withstand it again.

This young nobleman's original name was Tokamak Martis, but he was later recognized as the Chosen One and given the name Saint Tokamak Martis.

Since then, the Maltese family has become the permanent princely family of the empire, and has enjoyed glory to this day.

In addition to this Saint Tokamak Marsti, there are dozens of other similar chosen princes with different surnames in the history of the empire.

Each of them changed history and brought about major turning points.

It is precisely with the support of these chosen ones that the empire has repeatedly turned danger into danger and has been able to survive until now.

"Uncle, I think your current performance is somewhat similar to these people. So I want to ask, are you the latest chosen one of the Mechanical Empire?"

Sun Ai said carelessly.

Ren Zhong's mouth twitched sharply, wanting to refute, but he felt that no matter how he refuted, it would be too weak.

I have to admit, he does look like the Chosen One.

In the eyes of others, from the moment he appeared in the dense forest on the outskirts of Spark Town, he seemed to be accompanied by indescribable good luck. He could always seek good luck and avoid disaster, and predict the enemy's plans first, especially the details shown in many battles. The ability to control is simply irrational.

It seemed as if what he was fighting was not a war, but a military exercise in which both parties had already agreed on all the details. It was also like two actors playing against each other, and others would always act out the script he wrote.

It's like there is an invisible mysterious force that controls the thinking of all enemies, turning these people into puppets with heavy responsibility. No matter how much advantage they have, as long as they are against him, the end will be very miserable.

But Ren Zhong knows that the image is just an image after all, but it is not real.

His method to convince Sun Ai was also very simple. He only needed to clearly tell her the truth about resurrection and precognition.

You think it's the blessing of the gods, but in fact it's all the information I paid for with my life.

But maybe it's useless to say it. Maybe Sun Ai will express it in a clear and logical manner. Maybe other chosen ones are like him, possessing certain abilities that cannot be measured by common sense.

In the end, it's still the same, no one can convince anyone.

"Although I still don't think I will be the chosen one, and I don't like the inexplicable addition of the word "sacred" in front of my name, turning it into some weird "Saint Ren Zhong", but I can't deny this phenomenon in the Machinery Empire. It's really strange. It's as if there is a force beyond human understanding that is secretly controlling everything and holding the balance, so that the four major forces, including the empire, are constantly fighting each other, but they can never tell the real winner. .”

Ren Zhong murmured to himself.

Sun Ai shrugged, "Who knows, maybe it is really the will of the universe, or maybe it is the instinct in human genes that requires war to continuously stimulate potential and advance technology. Human instinct controls these and does not want a one-sided situation. So whenever the empire fails, there will be some chosen ones who are powerful in everything they do, just like you."

Ren Zhong shook his head slightly in disbelief.

He doesn't want to become the so-called Chosen One who only makes a name for the empire. He just wants to destroy the empire.

But at the same time, he seemed to have to consider the threats of the other three branches of humanity to prevent the complete destruction of the most authentic humans in the empire.

Therefore, it might seem that he has to help the empire win first, or at least gain an advantage, and then try to overthrow the empire.

If his life is really going to be like this, then at least in the first half of it, he seems to be the chosen one.

…

In the blink of an eye, another thirty-five years have passed. After making a large circle to avoid the space pirates in the Broken Star Ring and Liu An's eyes and ears, the Source Star Fleet finally gradually approached the gravitational edge of the Southern Nine Stars.

Since then, the Source Star Fleet has finally gotten closer to the core system of the empire.

In fact, it is still nearly three light-years away from the outer asteroid belt of Nanjiu Star, almost out of the maximum gravitational radiation range of Nanjiu Star.

This place was originally a pure wasteland of space, but after a natural jump channel was discovered, it was immediately included in the empire's territory.

There is a huge discrete structure space station here, a spinning barrel-shaped structure composed of hundreds of spheres.

Each sphere is approximately the size of the moon and has different functions.

Including small information flow repeaters with automatic independent response capabilities, connected to the Nanxiang cluster supernet nodes.

It was this repeater that was used to correct the time with Sun Ai.

On one side of the space station, 10 million kilometers away, is the pure natural subspace passage. In this passage, the ship can move forward at ten times the speed of light with extremely low energy consumption, and can reach the edge of the asteroid belt of the Nanjiu system in just 108 days.

The ownership of this space station does not belong to the Nanxiang Star Cluster, but is directly under the royal family. Once you arrive here and complete the identity verification, you have officially entered the empire's order.

In addition, because radio communications are not taken seriously, the space station does not have equipment that can support ultra-long-distance radio communications. Only super radio telescopes are located near the asteroid belt of the Nanjiu Galaxy. They usually focus on cosmic observation and rarely perform communication functions.

It took more than 14 years for the weak radio signals to be transmitted from the source star, reach the super radio telescope, and then return the information to the source star. This is why the nine old popsicles did not try to use radio signals to verify the identity of the apostle. . The time it takes for the messages to come back and forth is too long, and there is no value in trying.

"We have a heavy task. We are about to enter the warning range of the Lookout Border Space Station. Should we turn on the transponder in advance?"

Ju Qingmeng asked Ren Zhong, who had just woken up.

About two years ago, Ys Locke passed away. Due to the delay in selecting a new manager whose work ability was close to that of Ys Locke, the administrative system within the fleet went through a small shock. Finally, Ju Qingmeng woke up early. , I became familiar with the new working environment in a very short period of time and quickly took over the situation.

Ren Zhong thought for a while, "Turn on the response, reveal your identity, and apply for direct communication with the governor of the Lookout. I am a quasi-count and have this authority."

After speaking, he took a deep breath.

It’s time to turn raw rice into cooked rice.

As long as the governor of the Lookout is connected to the communication line, it will be done.