Resurrection Empire

Fourteen months later, the two fleets completed their rendezvous and entered the warp subspace passage from another star region, bypassing Liu An's territory.

Not only that, after hearing that Ren Zhong had achieved his goal and there were additional gains, the royal viscount Wen Yuanbo added a new bet, revealing a hidden line he had run, which was the viscount lord Ren Zhong selected to return to the entry system.

This lord concealed the whereabouts of the Zhongzhong Fleet and did not report the matter to the Earl's Palace of Nanxiang and the Military and Political Council.

Thirteen years and two months later, counting from the day when the Source Star Fleet arrived at Nanjiu C, 1,906 armed warships finally jumped out of the jump channel outside Nanjiu Star and returned to the base.

At this time, about eight years had passed since the fleet set off from Nanjiu C, and many changes had taken place.

A large number of Source Star humans left Nanjiu C through the manpower dispatch trade export promoted by Ju Qingmeng, and entered hundreds of different forces for many years.

That is to say, the Earl's Mansion of Nanxiang has not yet been able to produce evidence to prove that Ren Zhong is dead, otherwise Nanjiu C would have changed hands long ago.

Viscount Southgate Augustus, who has tasted a lot of sweetness, was originally trying to push the last step, trying to take advantage of the advantage of being near the water, first come first, and eat the four billion people of Nanjiu in one bite. He suddenly After receiving the report from the inspector of the Military and Political Department, I was dumbfounded on the spot.

Since the Nanxiang Earl's Mansion verified the death of Ren Zhong through special channels a few years ago, the various supports originally promised to Viscount Nanjiu have been gradually put in place.

In just a few years, Nanjiu Viscount Mansion has climbed step by step towards another peak. Southgate knew that as long as he stabilized this good situation and allowed the family to develop step by step, then after Liu An was promoted to marquis, the next earl in the Nanxiang Star Cluster would definitely come from the Augustus family.

For this dream, and in order to live up to his role as the head of the Augustus family renaissance, Southgate has rarely refused cryogenic sleep in the past few years. He is on duty day and night, guarding every night, paying attention to every detail. For important matters, he attended every commendation given by his subordinates, traveled here and there to visit surrounding star systems, and worked hard to manage the officials in charge of personnel and economics and trade at the Nanxiang Military and Political Center. He quickly burned up his precious physiological lifespan at any cost, just to let him go. The family's heritage has kept pace with its rapid explosive growth in strength, hoping to acquire more surrounding fiefdoms as soon as possible.

But suddenly, his sweet dream was shattered with a stick.

While walking, I got hit with a sap inexplicably and was knocked unconscious to the ground.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Southgate sat on his chair and muttered to himself.

He had just watched the video clip provided by the monitor over and over again, making sure that it was not dazzled, and that it was indeed the fleet that set off from Nanjiu C eight years ago.

Although the number is slightly smaller, the outdated olive-shaped battleships and orderly military formations cannot be faked.

Back then, Southgate had secretly laughed at Yuan Xingbo for his rigidity and bluffing. It was obviously just a fleet transporting goods, but it still had to use warships, and it also deliberately arranged such a marching formation. It was clearly bluffing. .

Now Southgate vaguely understands. Ren Zhong was not deliberately showing off his teeth and claws, but this army was really well-trained and strictly enforced.

The Imperial regular army is nothing more than that. Perhaps only the Royal Guards, whom Southgate had only heard about but never seen with his own eyes, could be better.

After a long time, Southgate tentatively sent a message to Ren Zhong to congratulate Ren Zhong on his return.

Almost as soon as his message was sent, he received a reply.

"Thank you for your concern. Nanjiu C is currently soliciting investment from Nanxiang Star Cluster. Welcome to call us for negotiation. The communication code is X54IU334..."

"Damn, automatic reply." Southgate tried to call Ren Zhong's private number directly, but no one answered.

He changed several more contact details. In these years, due to dealings with Ju Qingmeng's human resources and foreign trade department, the Nanjiu Viscount Mansion has established some personal relationships within the Source Star humans.

But strangely, all these private communications were interrupted, and Southgate had no choice but to type through the public communication code.

Although he had already identified himself, the customer service staff on the opposite side still used official clichés to deal with him. He only thanked the Viscount for his concern and said that the Count had successfully completed the commercial shipping order and would take a rest for a while. When accepting external orders, we will focus on the construction of Nanjiu C. As for the specific connotation of attracting investment, it does not mean hiring outsiders or borrowing external funds for planet construction, but that the Origin Star humans have established a new human resources trading company.

This new company changed the traditional human resources dispatch trade model and began to accept external orders, or target-oriented piece-rate orders. Such orders are usually based on scientific research projects, and Yuanxing Human Resources will focus on helping all parties solve technical problems. These services are based on the concept of speed and convenience, with no political strings attached at all. The only drawback is that they are expensive.

Over the years, the Yuanxing scientific research team and graduates who came out of the human resources trade have built a good reputation in the Nanxiang Star Cluster. With the return of the fleet led by Ren Zhong, it is destined to change the situation. Many forces will have to watch these extremely useful scientific researchers return to the source star human base with sadness. Now this new project can be regarded as reopening a gap.

If external forces choose to invest, that is, participate in investment promotion activities and become shareholders of Yuanxing Human Resources Trading Company, they will be able to negotiate cooperation at a more favorable price and with a higher priority.

Corresponding to the open attitude shown by the establishment of a human resources trading company, Nan Jiu C Star suddenly announced the closure of its borders, prohibiting any external forces from approaching within tens of millions of kilometers of Nan Jiu C. At the same time, the top leaders of the Source Star humans will no longer be involved in any external affairs.

Not only that, the Yuanxing fleet adjusted its formation. Some of the annual ships appeared above the high-temperature focus on the sunny side, and began to spray some strange dust substances on the surface of Nanjiu C.

The density of these materials is extremely small. After being ejected, they spread out and turned into a thin covering of mist surrounding Nanjiu C. Then, blown by the stellar wind of Nanjiu Star, they spread from the closest distance to the surface of Nanjiu C. At an altitude of one million kilometers, they circle around Nanjiu C and reunite into one stream above the low-temperature focus on the far side of the planet, shaped like a giant garlic head.

At the sharp tip of the garlic, there are hundreds of annual ship formations forming a formation, opening a huge gravitational capture net, collecting the flying dust, and transporting it to the sunny side in front, spraying it again, and repeating the cycle. .

Whether it is visible light, radiation waves, or scanning information flow, after being blocked by this layer of clouds and fog, severe diffuse reflection will occur, making it unrecognizable and hazy, like seeing flowers in the fog.

The planet suddenly became mysterious.

Outside, no one knows what is happening in the ships orbiting Nanjiu C.

Inside the fleet, Ren Zhong was amazed by the genius of the scientists.

His previous plan had only gone as far as using the termite colony to properly change the planet's landscape, and then using a large number of hydrogen bombs to detonate in a chain to finalize the plan.

But he ignored two things. First, synchronized chain explosions in the atmosphere that are enough to cause changes in the planet's landscape will release a huge amount of heat energy in a very short time.

This heat energy will set off a storm on the planet, causing the planet's atmosphere to quickly turn into boiling water, causing a large amount of atmospheric escape. After analysis, a scientific team from the Fleet Academy of Sciences believed that the explosion would reduce the total atmospheric mass of Nanjiu C by at least 20%, which was an unacceptable and significant loss. Since then, scientists have begun to think about how to prevent the atmosphere from escaping.

The same scientific issue was also synchronized to the Yuanxing Academy of Sciences.

Ever since, after Sun Ai secretly pulled the strings, a large number of scientists living in two places began to contribute their wisdom to the same major issue.

During this period, instead of trying their best to solve the problem, the previous scientific team raised a second question. That is the problem of re-release of atmospheric heat energy. Although the soil and oceans on the planet can absorb heat energy, it would take at least hundreds of years to use conventional heat exchange to reduce the surface temperature after the Big Bang to below 50 degrees.

High temperatures would make landings and subsequent rapid population growth extremely difficult.

At this time, the results produced by the Yuanxing Academy of Science solved two problems at once, and also solved the third problem caused by the need for confidentiality.

They developed a polymer organic synthetic material. The repulsion between its molecules can even expand the distance between the molecules to a greater extent than that of gas molecules, making its density much lower than that of ordinary gases, and it can float above the atmosphere of Nanjiu C.

However, the larger molecular weight brought by the macromolecular structure allows these molecules to have good adsorption properties for escaping air molecules.

By spraying mist, these molecules are dispersed to form a thick net that wraps around the planet, which can capture the escaping atmospheric molecules after the big explosion and turn them into larger high-temperature particles one after another.

These high-temperature particles can be collected and exploited to release heat energy and generate steam to generate electricity.

In the subsequent evolution of the planet, due to the adsorption of more and more gas molecules, these particles will slowly get closer and closer to the atmospheric surface of Nanjiu C, until they are in contact with the particles rising due to the high temperature on Nanjiu C. With the high-temperature plasma atmosphere close to it, the efficiency of heat exchange will become higher and higher, and the power generation efficiency of high-temperature particles will also become higher and higher, which can charge more high-energy batteries.

The cooling time that originally took hundreds of years will be quickly reduced to less than ten years.

Killing two birds with one stone is no longer enough to describe it. This is clearly a huge benefit.

It can not only prevent the atmosphere from escaping, but also quickly cool down. It can also convert the energy released by nuclear fusion, which would have caused harm, into easily usable electrical energy, and it can also block the prying eyes of others.

"Absolutely amazing."

This was Ren Zhong's evaluation when he saw the complete plan for the first time.

A year and a half later, in a devastating instant chain explosion, the sky on Nanjiu C collapsed, the mountains roared and the tsunami roared, and everything was born.

Violent shock waves fell from the sky, bombarding the surface one after another.

The high temperature of tens of millions of degrees melted the earth, dried up the sea, and swallowed up the ant colonies.

One day later, a kinetic energy missile dropped from the sky and slammed into the still boiling magma surface, breaking the precarious balance of forces.

The planet finally broke free from its tidal locking and began to rumble.

In the ancient times of the earth, human beings made up countless imaginative myths and stories to describe the rising and setting sun and the evolution of the starry sky, depicting the mountains, rivers, sun, moon and stars on the surface of the planet as the bodies of ancient gods.

In the era of ignorance, these seemingly ridiculous myths were actually the scientific spirit that met the needs of civilization at that time.

But on Nanjiu C, Ren Zhong, a "hillbilly" named Earl, who was actually an ancient man, was quietly observing through the compound scanner that the planet below was out of balance and was gradually accelerating under the influence of gravity. appearance.

He was very emotional and thought silently, according to the standards of earth mythology, his fleet can now be regarded as the creation god.

On the other side, Viscount Nan Jiu's intelligence department also noticed the terrible heat radiation that Nan Jiu C had released previously.

Southgate began to become nervous, but no matter what means his subordinates used to remotely sense the situation in Nanjiu C, they could only see the thick rolling fog and nothing else.

Southgate also tried to launch a small reconnaissance instrument to get a closer look, but he never came back.

In the blink of an eye, five years later, Ren Zhong personally led a team to throw the Tracer spacecraft into the orbit of Nanjiu b.

"Viscount Nanjiu, in accordance with the original agreement, I will return the Tracer to you."

In the space station, Ren Zhong said lightly.

Southgate once tried to take away the spacecraft as a means to cause trouble for Ren Zhong.

But when this happened, he couldn't find even the slightest sense of accomplishment from Ren Zhong's calm attitude.

Especially when he discovered that after all these years, he had aged terribly, but still looked like a young man despite having heavy responsibilities, he felt even more hurt.

"Uncle Yuan Xing, you are a person who keeps your promises. Thank you." Augustus Southgate cupped his hands and said respectfully, and then he coughed violently.

Seeing this, Ren Zhong had a faint smile on his face, but he said: "Back then, Viscount Nan Jiu, you hired 12,366 of my people as your employees. According to the contract, I will They took him back. Please let him go immediately."

Southgate was stunned for a moment, then shook his head repeatedly, "It's impossible. The contract originally signed was for ten years of biological life, and now at least half of it has not been used. The contract has not been completed yet."

Ren Zhong shrugged, "People don't speak secretly. Since you don't intend to use them, why bother to use these tricks to detain people. There is a clear provision in the human resources dispatch trade terms. If we find that the employer does not perform the contract, , if our dispatched employees are not allowed to participate in the work, and if they are idle for more than five years, they have the right to terminate the contract early."

"This..." Southgate couldn't argue. Ever since Ren Zhong suddenly returned to the Southern Nine System with the fleet, the Augustus family did not dare to use the hired people of the Origin Star anymore, but they did not know how to deal with them, so they could only find any reason to freeze them. .

In the blink of an eye, it has been more than seven years.

Southgate himself had almost forgotten about it, but he never thought that Ren Zhong would always remember it.

"What? You want to break the contract?"

Ren Zhong's expression suddenly turned cold.

"Oh, okay. Please wait for a long time. I will make arrangements right away."

Viscount Nan Jiu felt endless frustration and anger.

The first level of officialdom crushes people to death.