Resurrection Empire

In addition to the above-mentioned legal operations, Liu An of course has another preparation.

So far, he has never had direct contact with Ren Zhong, and he has even reached some kind of tacit compromise with Ren Zhong, the newly promoted earl, over the burst of dark energy in the black mist area.

But in fact, with the dignity of the Imperial Earl, he could apply for a more serious comprehensive investigation into this accident that may endanger his life through the royal Viscount Wen Yuanbo.

The reason why Liu An decided to bury the entire special service fleet and deal with a large number of related personnel of the Fang Pirate Group was to put an end to this matter.

In the end, Ren Zhong didn't mention it at all, as if he really regarded the matter as a pure coincidence.

On the surface, it seems that Ren Zhong made an active concession and did not take the initiative to pursue the matter, which seemed very sensible.

But Liu An knew very well that after being attacked by the god-level psychic demons, intercepted by the fourth-level mother queen on the way, and then avoiding his eyes and ears in the broken star ring all the way, he could quietly arrive at the South Nine Star, and as soon as he appeared, Ren Zhong, who immediately got on the line and obtained the talisman of an official earl, was by no means an ordinary person.

You must know that when the Source Star Fleet passed through the Black Mist Area, some professional agents from Nanxiang Earl's Mansion never stopped using the Imperial Supernet to track and monitor the fleet, but no clues were found, so much so that the military and political center Intelligence personnel have always firmly believed that the Source Star Fleet is in the Black Mist Zone.

The answer is obvious. Before deciding to take a detour, Ren Zhong and the Yuanxing Fleet had made careful arrangements, completely deceiving the Nanxiang Military and Political Council's intelligence system.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to say that Ren Zhong does not know about Liu An's conspiracy.

After arranging the legal operation on the surface through his adjutant, Liu An called a close confidant from the Earl's Palace and gave detailed instructions, emphasizing that this matter must be done orally, in a top-secret environment. Face-to-face communication with Southgate Augustus, Ninth Viscount Xiangnan, must not be monitored by the Imperial Supernet's information.

"Even if I don't worry about being seriously affected by the incident due to my power, there is still Wen Yuanbo, a restless royal viscount in the Nanxiang Star Cluster. If I can't leave him with any evidence, it will more or less become a stain and affect me. Promoted to Marquis."

Liu An ordered so carefully before letting his cronies leave.

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96 days later, a non-powered meteorite followed a winding, multi-loop figure-eight shape, spanning a distance of nearly 2 billion kilometers, silently broke through the atmosphere of Nanjiu C, and then brought sparks and flames with it. It flows quickly in the thick atmosphere of Nanjiu C.

As heat continues to accumulate, the temperature on the meteorite's surface continues to rise, finally reaching a critical point.

Suddenly, with an explosion like a bomb exploding, the meteorite, which was originally only the size of a fist, exploded like a fragmentation grenade. It exploded completely and turned into countless micron-level dust that flew completely in all directions high in the air. Diffuse.

This meteorite was completely shattered.

But the too-light particles also brought benefits. These dust finally gained the buoyancy and resistance effects of the atmosphere, and their speed suddenly dropped, allowing this ultra-small meteorite to avoid the fate of burning up in the atmosphere on the way down.

Strong winds exceeding magnitude 14 swept across the sky, and the chaotic and violent airflow tore apart these lightweight nanoparticles, spreading them laterally at an extremely fast speed, heading straight for the low-temperature focus on the backside of Nanjiu C.

During this process, the exploration spacecraft dispatched by the Yuanxing commercial ship that arrived near Nanjiu C early was currently using different satellite orbits to circle Nanjiu C for scanning and analysis with the support of active power.

The people in the Source Star business movement have been waiting for the Source Star humans to come to the empire hundreds of years ago and prepare to return.

Although it has gone through many twists and turns, and this ill-fated company has changed owners several times, it has only gone through several generations of iterations. These outstanding crew members who think they are rooted in the Source Star already have a certain understanding of the Source Star. A sense of belonging.

Now that everything has finally settled down, they have heard that the leader of the Source Star Civilization has been elevated to the Imperial Earl, which can be regarded as finding a little new light in the gloomy life of forced labor.

The more than two million people in the Merchant Fleet have been working in the Mechanical Empire for hundreds of years. Most of the crew members have been inherited from generation to generation. They have a deep understanding of the political structure of the Empire and know very well what the title of earl means.

Even though they did not receive instructions from the fleet headquarters, they started to explore the planet proactively, which was considered as making some technical reserves for the fleet headquarters before landing.

It is a pity that the commercial fleet has always been crazily squeezed for profits and has never received technological innovation. As a result, the small exploration spacecraft has a fragile structure and cannot land in advance. The performance of its exploration equipment is also low, and it can only be carried out remotely using remote sensing technology. Let’s talk about terrain modeling and the most basic element analysis.

No one among the thousands of exploration spacecraft and more than a hundred annual merchant ships noticed the inconspicuous meteorite.

It is possible that some scanning devices captured it briefly, but considered it a secondary target and removed it from the reporting list.

Countless micron-sized meteorite dust finally reached the sky above the low-temperature focus, and then followed the waterfall-like air flow toward the giant glacier below in the eternal darkness, and landed lightly on the glacier, on the extremely hard glacier. Cut out tiny pits one after another.

If you have a microscope to look closer at this time, you can see that these micron-sized meteorite dust is not black as it appears under the light of stars, but has turned into milky white.

Subsequently, cracks quickly appeared on the surface of these milky white particles, like hatching eggshells.

A small black dot emerged from the eggshell. It first devoured the eggshell at an extremely fast speed, and then began to turn its head and gnaw at the ice around it.

After just a few minutes, the tiny black spot grew slightly larger.

If Ren Zhong is next to him at this time, he will exclaim.

This thing looks like an ant, but it has a pair of crystal wings. It looks almost exactly like termites on earth.

A few more minutes passed, and the termite, whose body length had expanded to more than 20 microns, suddenly began to tremble violently, and its left and right bodies were torn apart.

It split into two and completed its proliferation through self-mutilation.

The body length of the magical termite that tore itself in half began to shrink again. First it curled up, and its surface began to secrete a transparent structure similar to the cuticle, and finally turned into two milky white particles.

A few minutes later, cracks appeared on the surface of the milky white particles again, and two termites with identical appearances and seemingly identical genetic information appeared.

Immediately afterwards, the two termites began to quickly gnaw and absorb the eggshell, repeating the process over and over again, and continued to multiply.

A few hours later, starting from one insect egg, a complete population has been reproduced here.

They gnaw out a fist-sized hole in the surrounding ice, but the excretion substances secreted from their tails plus their own volume are not enough to fill the hole created after the ice disappears, as if they were stolen out of thin air. some space.

Later, as the population grew larger, the appearance of the termites began to differentiate.

The strongest one among them was the first to swell, and its abdomen continued to lengthen and enlarge, like an inflated balloon.

Some termites began to grow larger tusks.

Some termites are starting to move faster.

Just a few hours later, this population derived from a milky white insect egg differentiated into more than ten different individuals with clear division of labor. It started like a sophisticated machine, digging through the ice with higher efficiency. , and keep going down.

This entire process takes place below minus two hundred degrees Celsius.

The same thing happens everywhere on the huge South Jiu C Pole Glacier.

This planet, which originally had only low-level microorganisms with the most basic structure, finally ushered in the first wave of complex alien species that were not human beings.

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There was total silence in the fleet headquarters.

Nearly four billion people have just watched the same documentary called "The Long Journey" through different media carriers.

They had no idea that their journey would be recorded in a three-dimensional film.

Some people are "actors" in this documentary, and some people's parents and friends also got roles.

Just as Ren Zhong requested, Xiao Xingyue did not use any unnecessary additional artistic processing, nor did he use any exaggeration techniques. He only used the most realistic techniques to represent the most representative people and events in the journey. , recorded from the perspective of a bystander, only slightly changing the lighting environment in some of the most necessary links to facilitate seeing the characters' expressions and other details.

This production method makes the audience feel as if they are themselves involved in the film.

No, the protagonists of the documentary were originally all members of the fleet.

The audience is the starring role.

Most people's eyes were filled with tears, and their hands trembled and they clenched their fists.

Many people who have never participated in a battle, or even awakened from cryogenic slumber during the whole process, finally understand in a more intuitive way what price others paid to keep themselves safe while they were sleeping with peace of mind. Arrive at your destination.

They knew that they owed a favor that they could not repay.

Mavian's mother, an old woman with white hair now, lowered her head silently. In her heart, she forgave the ruthless Chen Qiao and the imperial earl. It was not until many years after losing her son that this woman understood what kind of life her son wanted most. She finally understood why her husband, Ma Xiayun, refused to stay in cryogenic sleep with her again and again until he died of old age.

The two Sammy brothers, who are already in their thirties, are sitting in the family's exclusive large communal cabin with a large group of little Sammys.

Sammy, an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, clenched his fists and muttered to himself.

Not once did he hear his elders say how great his uncle was, but he also felt honored countless times to have such an uncle. But this sense of glory has never been as strong as it is now. Ahmed Sami's figure sitting in the driver's seat of the work ship is as bright as the sun.

The young man thought to himself, now my classmates will no longer say that I am bragging. You all saw it. Everyone in the fleet saw it.

Of course, not everyone will have positive feedback.

Ren Zhong once clearly told director Xiao Xingyue about the complexity and diversity of human nature.

In this huge fleet, there is indeed a very small number of people who are thinking secretly. This is just boring sensationalism, but the fundamental purpose is still the unsteady empire count who is trying to control people's thoughts and make others more willing to work for him, becoming stepping stones and bricks for his rapid rise.

But these people did not dare to show their disdain on their faces, they just kept it deep in their hearts.

There are even some people who behave more violently than others, crying, beating their chests and feet, and swearing repeatedly.

Of course, when they were performing to their heart's content, their pupils scanned the other people around them, but they only secretly looked down upon these idiots coldly. They had the feeling that everyone was drunk but I was alone, as if everyone in the fleet except themselves were stupid fools.

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A full 108 days passed, and one ship after another seemed to emerge from the water, emerging from a round plane, and soaring into the sky at an angle perpendicular to the ecliptic plane of the Southern Nine Stars.

This border galaxy belonging to the Augustus family of Nanjiu Viscount finally welcomed a new group of settlers.

It is less than one billion kilometers away from the outer asteroid belt of the Nanjiu Galaxy, and 3.5 billion kilometers away from Nanjiu c.

Next, after only thirty-five hours of regular navigation, the fleet can reach the far earth orbit of Nanjiu C.

There are countless pairs of eyes staring at this place at this time.

Most of the powerful people in the Nanxiang Star Cluster are curious about what kind of changes Ren Zhong, the new Earl, will bring to the Star Cluster.

At present, most of the viscounts in the entire star cluster have inextricable relationships with the barons and the Nanxiang Earl's Palace.

But where there are people, there will be estrangement and conflicts of interest. Some people are full of fat, but there are also people who are in great hardship.

In order to gain military exploits, Liu An has been engaged in military warfare for thousands of years. He has used the power of the military and political officials of the Star Cluster to implement a crazy and bottomless policy of suppression and plunder against many nobles who are inferior to him in the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

In addition to the normal tax collection and military management fees that are in compliance with the imperial laws, many industries in the Earl's Palace often forcibly buy shares in other people's industries, which is miserable.

This just can't be refused.

Because secretly, the many space pirates based in the Broken Star Ring are inextricably linked to Liu An, and they often burn, kill, and plunder the low-power Viscount galaxy in the star cluster or the planets co-managed by the Baron, and do all kinds of evil.

From time to time, these vicious pirates would cut off trade routes, seize goods, and kidnap crew members.

If these victims are willing to use a certain percentage of their assets to become shares and invite the Nanxiang Earl's Mansion to station a nominal security officer, the frequency of being ambushed by space pirates will be much reduced, as if those corpses will only eat what they want. The Security Officer really has some kind of intimidating aura that can scare away cruel and violent space pirates.