Resurrection Empire

"In the past eleven years, energy, materials and biotechnology have been the three most important scientific research sectors of the fleet. The three are of similar importance, but you have shown the best all-round ability, so Qingmeng promoted you. I agree with her judgment, you have done quite well over the years."

Seeing Ren Zhong, who was still young, stood up and patted Isu Locke on the shoulder.

I don’t know when he started, but Ren Zhong developed the habit of patting others on the shoulder.

Maybe he did it out of instinct, but others would always feel inspired by his small gesture of intimacy.

Ys Locke was only 24 years old when he took office, and he is now just over 30 years old. Although he has adequate nutrition and better anti-aging drugs, he does not look old at the age of 30, with only a few wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. , but Yisu still looks much older than Ren Zhong in appearance.

However, Yisu was still energetic, nodded heavily, and said loudly: "Thank you for the compliment, sir. I will continue to work hard and live up to your trust."

"Well, go ahead. I'm just waking up on a routine basis. There are no special arrangements for the time being. You can go and do your own thing."

After encouraging the other party, after they left, Ren Zhong sat back on his desk and opened the star map.

After a moment, Ren Zhong suddenly opened his mouth: "Xiao Ai."

"exist!"

Ren Zhong: "Prepare a shuttle for me."

Ren Zhong has established military exploits, and his military exploits have passed the review of the Imperial Super Network. He already has the dual titles of lifelong earl and hereditary viscount. If he can successfully reach the Southern Nine Stars with the megablast cells and enter the empire's territory, or if he can accurately interpret all the genetic treasures in the megablast cells along the way and obtain certification from the Royal Academy of Sciences, then he will receive the hereditary The title of earl.

The empire has announced more new technologies to him based on the changes in title.

In these eleven years, the Source Star Fleet has never stopped updating its equipment. That is to say, there is no space dock, otherwise the fleet would even want to update and improve the main structures, power modules, force field shields and other core components of the annual ships and armed battleships, so that the fleet as a whole can reach a cruising speed close to 0.15 times the speed of light. .

The big one cannot be moved, but the small one is easy to handle.

Now the Source Star Fleet has comprehensively improved the performance of the reconnaissance ship, and the reconnaissance ship that has completed the comprehensive transformation is named "Eye". The Eye has the function of long-distance cruising at 0.15 times the speed of light. It is far stronger than the previous generation of reconnaissance ships in many aspects such as firepower, detection methods, camouflage capabilities, and hull strength.

In addition, the Source Star Fleet also re-developed a small and medium-sized battleship with a crew of fifteen, named "Strong Bow". The Strongbow ship can carry two hundred medium-range missiles, and has two enhanced beam energy cannons on the top. There are also a total of 64 kinetic high-speed machine guns using self-propelled bullets on the outside, and 32 small beam energy cannons. There are two types of strong bow ships, one is a manned warship, and the other is an unmanned ship equipped with artificial intelligence silicon chips and certain self-learning and bionic logic.

But the real most outstanding achievement of the past eleven years is the multi-functional special ship - "Shuttle", developed in close cooperation between the ten sons of Qianmen and the military industry research institute in the Yuanxing system. The shuttle has the ability to cruise at 0.2 times the speed of light and is extremely flexible. The hull uses a large amount of dismantled materials from the proliferating daughter bodies of the mother emperor ship, and the surface is also covered with critical stinger skin composite paint, as well as information flow interference devices from "disorder". So far, only nineteen ships have been built in the entire fleet, and they will only be equipped with the most elite warriors. Eighteen of them have been dispatched to the front to perform reconnaissance and early warning missions, and one is left on standby in the tracer spacecraft.

Sun Ai did not ask Ren Zhong what he planned to use the shuttle for, but only told him that he was ready five minutes later.

An hour later, Ren Zhong got into the shuttle spacecraft he named Time.

The shuttle uses the principle of bionics and looks like a large manta ray.

This special shape greatly reduces the front projection area of ​​the spacecraft and reduces the probability of frontal collision with cosmic dust during high-speed maneuvers.

The surfaces of the wider wings are covered with structures shaped like the breathing holes of human skin, which can efficiently absorb cosmic dust inside and use it as propellant for the jet medium engine.

In addition, a large number of bionic and electronic components have been integrated into the wings, which have been rearranged and integrated to a very high degree.

It also has a long tail with nine strong magnetic field turbine acceleration structures connected in series. These turbine structures can continuously accelerate charged particles to 0.21 times the speed of light and push them out to provide reverse thrust, which can quickly increase the flight speed of the shuttle to 0.2 times the speed of light.

On the surface, the cruising speed of the shuttle seems to be different from that of the water droplet ship, but considering the shuttle's ultra-long endurance and faster acceleration performance, the technical level of the two is not at the same level.

This shuttle can be said to be the essence of industrial design that combines all the wisdom of the Origin Star Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Naval Ship Sciences. It is like a work of art.

At the same time, the emergence of the shuttle means that the Origin Star Fleet has completely jumped out of the colonial civilization level in the design and manufacturing of spacecraft and reached a new height.

This kind of improvement speed is simply incredible.

You must know that Ren Zhong has only been a quasi-count for eleven years, and the ban on technology has only been lifted for that long. Moreover, the fleet is still advancing in the deserted area of ​​​​space, without sufficient external resources, and there is no way to build large-scale experimental equipment.

But even so, the speed at which the Source Star Fleet absorbs and transforms the Empire's technology seems not to be affected at all. This fleet has become a sponge, digesting a huge system of knowledge like a whale.

This strange evolutionary speed aroused further vigilance from Nanxiang Bo Liu An.

During these eleven years, Liu An ordered his subordinates to use the privileges of Uncle Nanxiang, the legal lord of the Nanxiang Star Cluster, to take over the Source Star Supernet nodes at a regular frequency once a year to supervise the technological progress of the Source Star Fleet and transfer these The behavior is euphemistically called guidance work, and the purpose is to help the Source Star Fleet quickly digest the wealth in the mother emperor ship's megablast cells.

Liu An also changed his recovery pattern, increasing the frequency from seven days every ten years to three days a year.

Liu An has a "surprise" every time he wakes up.

He watched these humble colonists born in the colonies grow up at an extremely fast rate.

This even caused him to hallucinate, thinking that this Source Star Fleet was too evil, and the proportion of geniuses was too high.

The ability to fully absorb the empire's technology at such a fast speed can never be attributed to one person or a small group of people. It must have exploded in batches within at least one generation, producing a large number of smart and self-disciplined technical backbones.

"The potential of the people in the Source Star Colony is too terrifying. If I really want this group of people to arrive at the Southern Nine Stars and smoothly integrate into the empire, I'm afraid there is a real chance that my boat will capsize in the gutter."

Liu An was thinking about this.

…

The Time shuttle quietly broke away from the Tracker spacecraft, with an initial velocity of 0.1 times the speed of light. After just one day of acceleration, it reached 0.2 times the speed of light, with a sustained acceleration of 35.43g.

With the help of the new deep-sea liquid buffer layer, Ren Zhong did not feel any discomfort while lying down and sitting.

"Uncle, why do you want to come out alone? Although there is no danger ahead, you should stay in the seeker spacecraft." Sun Ai finally couldn't help but ask.

Ren Zhong smiled and said: "Didn't we judge that the speed of information flow would change before? We are about to be two light years away from the source sun, so we have to find out."

Sun Ai said doubtfully: "That should be someone else's business. How can you take care of all this yourself? You are already a count after all."

Ren Zhong only smiled and shook his head, but did not answer.

He had a gut feeling in his heart. This intuition told him that he had to verify it himself.

Six days have passed, and the Time Cruiser has slowly slowed down.

According to the star map, Ren Zhong is about to reach the dividing line.

Within the distance scale of two light years, the positioning technology provided by the Royal Academy of Sciences to the Viscount has an accuracy of no more than 1 million kilometers.

The Time No. has entered this area of ​​plus or minus one million kilometers, which means that he may sense changes at any time.

The current flying speed of the Time Cruiser is one hundred kilometers per second, and it can stop at any time.

The spirit of Ren Zhong remains high.

He arrogantly believed that he would be able to detect something when the spacecraft passed the intersection of speed changes through the information flow.

One hour and forty-three minutes later, Sun Ai's exclamation suddenly sounded in the spacecraft.

"The transmission speed of information flow has become a thousand light years per second!"

Ren Zhong was surprised and asked, "How did you measure it?"

Sun Ai: "I first used the tester that came with the shuttle, but the comparison distance was too short and the error was very large. I could only confirm that the transmission speed suddenly reached more than one hundred light years per second. Then I tried again with The rear fleet conducts point-to-point communication to correct the error, and the measured value is infinitely close to one thousand light years per second."

Ren Zhong was stunned.

I don’t feel it at all!

"Turn around and go back and see the changes."

In the next six hours, Sun Ai maintained real-time communication with Yuan Mercury in the center of the fleet, and Ren Zhong also kept an eye on the information flow transmission speed calculated by simulation.

It's always been a thousand light years per second.

After a long time, Ren Zhong waved his hand and said, "Stop. Just wait here for the fleet headquarters. There is no need to go back."

"Uncle, what's wrong with you?"

Sun Ai noticed that Ren Zhong's tone was a little bleak, a little empty, and seemed a little lonely.

Ren Zhong shook his head, "Nothing."

In fact, at this time, he was certain that he had lost the ability to resurrect the moment he flew out of the boundary.

This happened very suddenly, without any warning, and there was no cosmic vision of glowing light to highlight the sense of ritual. It made him feel as if he had been punched in the cotton after having done a lot of psychological construction.

He lay back in the driver's seat, tapping his fingers on the armrest.

After a while, he opened the notebook he carried with him and turned to the last page. He looked at the number 7740 and was lost for a long time.

Then he picked up the notebook, raised his hand and threw it into the passage next to him. Then he switched the beam cannon to divergent mode and pointed it forward.

A diffuse beam blasted out from the shuttle's front muzzle, hit the notebook squarely, and decomposed it into elementary particles within 0.001 seconds.

"it's over."

He muttered something under his breath.

It took him seven thousand seven hundred and forty resurrections to complete the accumulation of original abilities, make up for the gap in knowledge between being an "ancient" in the 21st century and the Four Kingdoms era in this ancient galaxy, and change the source star civilization. structure, left a base, and gained the title of Earl of the Empire.

I can't ask for more, I've already done enough.

"Huh! That's good, it saves me from having to think about a way out. For a long time, this has created inertia in my heart. It's enough to make a small fuss in a small area, but when the power in my hand is involved, After reaching the star cluster level or even the star field level, even if the resurrection and reset can cover the entire universe, there will eventually be a situation where I am powerless."

Ren Zhong thought so in his heart.

For example, in a certain period of time in the future, if he encounters a large-scale attack covering a range of more than two light-years.

There is only one month of resurrection and reset time, and you can't fly out at all. No matter how many times you are resurrected, it will just be death over and over again, which is meaningless.

The really correct way of thinking is to act more cautiously and not let yourself fall into that situation at all.

Therefore, although the ability to predict is not as buggy as resurrection, it is more important in specific scenarios and when facing specific needs.

There was no confusion or loss in his heart.

He even began to be thankful for his fate.

Now that it has happened, just accept it silently.

Next, it’s time to meet Zhenzhang.

Ren Zhong clenched his fists.

While waiting for the fleet headquarters, Ren Zhong thought about the principle of resurrection out of personal habit.

He made many kinds of inferences, established many hypotheses, and then eliminated them one by one, and finally came up with a somewhat reliable inference.

"In the 21st century, there was a hypothesis. Some scientists believed that the universe is composed of a basic particle moving at an infinite speed. The speed of this particle is so fast that it transcends the concept of time and is a high-dimensional matter. .At the same time, it exists everywhere in the universe at the same time, and releases information and energy to the outside world by shaking."

"This information and energy make up the matter and energy in the universe, including radiation waves, neutrinos, quarks, light, and physical matter. They are all external manifestations of the energy released by these particles."

"Assuming this theory is correct. Then before I leave the boundary, the basic particles that make up the universe should be split into two. One of the larger particles generates everything in the universe outside the boundary, and the other is a smaller particle. Everything within the boundary is generated, including myself.”

"The moment I left the boundary, the smaller particle was brought out of my body and merged with the large particle that formed the universe. The two were originally one, but they were separated artificially, so the two were separated. The fusion did not cause any energy oscillations, it happened naturally, like the diffusion of different liquids when they are mixed.”

"And this fusion process should be irreversible. So even if I have returned to the inside of the boundary that once existed, the transmission speed of the information flow has not changed, and has always been constant at a thousand light years per second."

"Previously, inside this egg shell with a radius of two light years, the particle that was stripped out controlled all changes, including space, time, string waves, information flow, and so on."

"In addition, what peels off particles is a force, which has always existed. This force pulls the particles and controls their movement and vibration, as if countless threads are involved in every particle in this space. On top of the quarks. When I died, this force began to do work, dragging everything in this space back to a month ago, which completed the reset."

"In the subsequent process of time accelerating, this force drags all existence, including time, forward."

"The previous reset process is logically similar to the Poincaré regression. But the difference is that the Poincaré regression uses an infinitely long time to allow all basic particles to move according to completely random laws, and then finally The distribution and structure are exactly the same as in the past. This reset is directly pulled back, as if the server in an online game is rolled back. This is the return of pseudo-Poincaré. After my death, time did not continue to move forward. "

"As for where the small particle is hidden? It should be hidden in my mind, so other people's minds have also been reset, and only I retain all the memories. The Net's determination of contribution points is based on my memory In terms of genes, my memory genes have been lengthening with the extension of memory, so the 'net' will misjudge and allow me to fully inherit the contribution points obtained through hypnosis after death."

Thinking of this, Ren Zhong took a deep breath and felt that he had discovered an even bigger secret.

Every time everything in the area is reset, energy must be consumed.

The subsequent time acceleration will still consume energy.

This power breaks the conservation of energy within the universe, disrupts the normal operation of the universe, and can even be said to have tampered with the cosmological constants.

This energy can only come from outside the universe.

What is this mysterious force that divides everything in the universe into two?

Where did it come from?

Who is in control?

What's the intention?

Ren Zhong opened the cover of the shuttle, looked through the transparent cover into the dark universe, and murmured to himself.

"Who are you? Why do you want to help me?"