"Let's go find Zhou Shaohang first and see if they are still in the Ember Guild and how they are developing."
It has been more than a year and almost two years since I left this star field to go to the wild star field for archeology to avoid the limelight, and I spent almost a year in the real mode copy before.
Two years is a long time. The wanted person may still be on the list, but it is unlikely that he will be kept on guard forever. Fang Chen feels that as long as he keeps a low profile when he goes out now, nothing will happen.
In order to keep a low profile, he only pulled out one destroyer and ten frigates and headed straight for the Holy Judgment Galaxy.
At this stage, the center of player activities in this star field is still the Sacred Judgment Galaxy. Although the transaction channels of Hanhai Universal Enterprise are larger, the prerequisite is that the reputation is high enough, which stumps most ordinary players and teams.
A group of ten expelled guards appeared quietly in the Holy Judgment Galaxy, and there was nothing unusual until they docked at the space station.
Fang Chen first found the intelligence organization and purchased some information on the Ember Guild and several surrounding guilds, as well as some famous caravans and studios nearby, including Zhou Shaohang's information.
After getting the information, Fang Chen sat on the bridge and crossed his legs to check it out.
After watching it for a while, Fang Chen suddenly sat up with a soft sigh.
According to the data, the Ember Guild has suddenly become powerful in the past two years. A year ago, it got an elite fleet including more than 40 battleships from nowhere, and defeated the Scarlet Vanguard in one fell swoop before other teams could react. Yes, seizing their territory.
Information shows that this newly arrived fleet is commanded by a young man named Zhao Ruifei. After defeating the Scarlet Pioneer Association, the former military chief of the Ember Guild, Zhao Xiaohui, abdicated and he took over as military chief, becoming one of the three new giants of the guild.
Outsiders speculate that this newcomer named Zhao Ruifei is probably the son of former military chief Zhao Xiaohui.
With the support of this new fleet that is not inferior to all the forces of the Ember Guild, Zhao Ruifei surpasses the other two general leaders in the guild in terms of force, power and support rate. Coupled with the huge achievement of defeating the old enemy of the Scarlet Pioneer Guild, Zhao Ruifei has become The actual words of the Guild matter to everyone.
After becoming the guild president, Zhao Ruifei carried out drastic reforms within the guild, eliminated corruption, and vigorously promoted new members. The current Ember Guild seems to have been completely reborn.
The external behavior style is mainly domineering, flamboyant but not arrogant. It has won the admiration of many young and ambitious players and recruited many new people. In just two years, the Ember Guild has greatly increased both its power and external reputation.
"It's actually like this!"
Fang Chen was speechless. If he had come two years earlier, what happened two years ago probably wouldn't have happened.
However, one thing Fang Chen noticed was that the Ember Guild's wanted order against him had not been cancelled, or that the original wanted order against the guild had not been cancelled. Instead, it had intensified its crackdown.
This is the domineering aspect of the New Ember Guild, which is extremely ferocious towards its enemies.
So Fang Chen checked the Ember Guild's wanted list for him. It turned out that the bounty was between 1 billion and 10 billion star dollars. It had doubled several times a year ago and became a bounty between 5 billion and 50 billion star dollars.
Therefore, his feud with the Ember Guild cannot be resolved.
Similarly, Zhou Shaohang is not having a good time now.
Although he left the guild peacefully, because he recruited a group of people to quit the guild and build a small team, he was considered a traitor to the guild and has been suppressed.
It is worth mentioning that Lu Guangren, who cheated Fang Chen at the beginning, has also come into his own in the past two years.
He is the son of Lu Shiyu, the guild's top business executive. After Zhao Ruifei came back a year ago, he decisively joined his staff. With his contribution to defeating the Scarlet Pioneer, he is now the captain of the guild's newly formed third independent brigade, ranking second only to the two guilds. Under the commander of the fleet, he is not inferior to his father, Lu Shiyu.
It is also worth mentioning that Lu Shiyu and his son had changed their families at this time, from Chief Executive Li Yuan to Zhao Ruifei.
Zhou Shaohang's current location is further south of the Ember Guild, nearly 1,500 light-years away from the Ember Guild. It has reached the extreme south of the Exploration Star Territory, close to the Wild Star Territory.
However, it was not in the same direction as Fang Chen's previous excavation, and the distance between them was more than two thousand light years.
This area is located at the very edge of the pioneering star field of human civilization. Further south, across a distance of two to three thousand light years, there is an alien civilization called the Shapa Complex.
It was an alien civilization with a technological level of T4. According to current data, the territory of this civilization spans about 3,000 light-years from north to south and nearly 4,000 light-years from east to west. There are seven major star sectors inside and a total of 8 life forms. planet, and dozens of modified planets.
It is said that the Shapa Federation was established by several vassals of the former great Star Sea Empire of Rexola. Although its technology level is only T4, it has inherited a lot of the legacy of Rexola's great Star Sea Empire. It has Combat effectiveness must not be viewed in terms of T4 level civilization.
As the target of human development, the starry sky between the Shapa Alliance and the Starfield has gathered a large number of guilds interested in seizing the life planet, including some very powerful guilds.
Small teams like Zhou Shaohang with only a dozen people are very numerous here and are inconspicuous.
Fang Chen's fleet passed through the galaxies controlled by various forces and came to an unknown galaxy. After passing through the fixed wormhole, a triggered communication was sent to his battleship:
"This is a galaxy controlled by the Free Brotherhood, please explain your purpose!"
Fang Chen connected the communication, the light curtain popped open, and a somewhat familiar face appeared in front of him.
"Li Bin?"
The man was stunned, looked at Fang Chen carefully, and said in surprise:
"Fang Chen?"
Immediately he said in surprise:
"How did you find it?"
"I came here specifically to find you."
"Welcome to the outpost in the center of the galaxy."
"Is this galaxy controlled by your team?"
"Yes, this galaxy and the four surrounding galaxies are all under our control."
"Four is not bad. The Ember Guild only has dozens of directly affiliated galaxies now."
"It's far from that. We just don't have many teams nearby, and each team has a larger area to move around. If the Ember Guild were here, it would easily occupy more than a hundred star systems."
"Oh, where's the captain?"
"The captain and his brothers are in the southern galaxy, six hops away from here."
"Activity?"
"No, competing with a nearby team for a small mineral deposit."
"Small mine? What mine?"
"iron ore."
"Good stuff!"
Li Bin nodded and said:
"The stuff is good, but there is no way to get it. The strength of the other team is not much different from ours. No one is willing to give up. No one can do anything to the other. We are now in a stalemate."
"This is a bit troublesome."
Fang Chen nodded, but he planned to wait and see and help them by the way.
After all, Zhou Shaohang and the others are not very strong at this time. The information he purchased previously shows how many people and ships their team currently has. He knows exactly how many people there are in their team.
When Zhou Shaohang left a year ago, he only took twelve people with him. Half of them left one after another for various reasons. Now, only half of the dozen or so people in the team are old people, and the other half were slowly recruited later.
More than a dozen people have mixed up until now, and there are a total of 6 cruisers, 27 destroyers, and 147 frigates.
To be honest, this strength was no longer a match for Fang Chen. Before he knew it, his strength alone was comparable to that of their entire team.
This is the difference between cheaters and ordinary people. In two years, the development speed will not be much faster.
Not to mention accumulating capital, just building battleships is very time-consuming.
Under normal circumstances, it takes nine months to build a cruiser and two years to build a battleship. It has only been about a year since they became independent, and they cannot improve their strength even if they want to.
Two hours later, Fang Chen found Li Bin at an outpost-level space station in the center of the galaxy.
There are two destroyers and ten frigates parked next to the outpost. In addition to guarding the galaxy, their daily tasks are to patrol at fixed points.
The acquaintances were quite happy to meet each other, and the two chatted for a long time.
When he came out of the space station, he had a general understanding of their experiences and encounters in the past two years.
The situation was worse than he imagined. Not only did they have to face local competitors, but they were also suppressed by Lu Guangren from time to time.
Lu Guangren was even more stingy than he thought. After they quit the Ember Guild, he began to suppress them openly, and from time to time sent fleets disguised as their opponents to rob and destroy them.
He obviously had enough strength to completely eliminate them, but Lu Guangren didn't do so, so he wanted to use this humiliating method.
Many old people who followed Zhou Shaohang at the beginning just couldn't stand being suppressed all the time and couldn't fight back. In the end, they couldn't hold on and left. The only ones who are still persisting now are holding on in their hearts and persisting.
In the chat with Li Bin just now, he was filled with anger when he mentioned Lu Guangren.
Fang Chen was also speechless at Lu Guangren's pettiness. Some people were just like that, extremely stingy and vindictive. If they encountered such people, they could only be beaten to death.
It can be seen from their encounter that he must have been on Lu Guangren's enemy list, and he is probably ranked high. After all, he snatched away a battleship that Lu Guangren ordered for more than 200 billion.
With the pass given by Li Bin, the fleet crossed several galaxies in succession, passing their headquarters galaxy and seeing the outpost space station in the center of the galaxy.
As a small team that has only been established for about a year, it does not yet have a starport-class space station.
The specifications of the Starport-class space station are several times larger than that of a battleship. Even if there are sufficient materials and engineers, the construction time will be at least three years. Even if they start construction from the first day, they will not be able to make it in time.
Besides, they didn't build a starport, but made do with outposts.
According to Li Bin, the main reason is that they are still unstable and cannot build under Lu Guangren's pressure.
As long as they dare to start construction, Lu Guangren is afraid that he will send a fleet to harass them every day and destroy the foundation.
Passing through several galaxies in a row, Fang Chen came to the coordinate system given by Li Bin. He first opened the universe in his palm, pulled out his fleet, and let Skynet 4 take temporary command. He took the existing fleet into the wormhole. .
After traveling through the hyperspace channel for two hours, I came out of the wormhole and discovered that the entrance to the wormhole was actually in the starry sky not far from a planet inside the galaxy, and that the mineral deposit was on the desolate planet less than 100,000 kilometers away from the entrance to the wormhole. .
At this time, there was a fleet of similar size parked at each end of the planet's orbit, with no battleships.
As soon as Fang Chen's fleet approached, he received a communication from Zhou Shaohang:
"Brother Fang Chen, long time no see!"
"haven't seen you for a long time!"
The fleets converged, and Zhou Shaohang directly pulled him into their fleet's internal channel and introduced to his teammates:
"This is Fang Chen, whom I mentioned to you before, and he is also one of our own."
The channel was full of greetings, old acquaintances asked about his recent situation, and he answered them one by one.
Without any excuses, he told them that he had spent the past two years digging graves in faraway places to avoid the limelight.
While they were chatting heatedly, a team member was silent for a while, quietly opened a communication, and silently sent a message:
"Fang Chen is back!"
The news went through many relays and finally appeared in the hands of Lu Guangren.
He jumped up suddenly, quickly opened the brigade communication and asked:
"Which squadron is free today?"
Immediately someone came back:
"The First Squadron and the Third Squadron are available, but the Third Squadron is undergoing collective routine maintenance and will not be free until a week later."
"The first squadron is in position, follow me out to perform the mission!"
Someone in the channel asked:
"Are you going to Zhou Shaohang in the south?"
"Based on time, it should be almost time."
"oh!"
No one spoke in the channel.
Not everyone is enthusiastic about this.
Although the Ember Guild has been updated very quickly in the past two years, there are still many old people. For such a long time, most of them have known about the grudge between Lu Guangren and Zhou Shaohang.
To be honest, most of them couldn't stand Lu Guangren's behavior, but there was nothing they could do about it. He was the boss and the captain, so he had to obey his orders.
Of course, they can't look at it and don't have much sympathy. Even many members who have participated in several harvests are quite willing to participate in the harvest because they get a lot of benefits from each robbery.
In the galaxy, Fang Chen's fleet mixed with Zhou Shaohang's fleet. After chatting with the team members for a while, he started chatting privately with Zhou Shaohang.
"I think your current situation is not very good. Lu Guangren has been suppressing you, and it is impossible for you to develop."
Zhou Shaohang nodded and said:
"I know it's difficult to develop, but you have to try, and it's not completely impossible."
"Oh, what do you say?"
He opened the star map of the Star Territory, pointed at their location and said to Fang Chen:
"Don't look at the miserable situation we are in now. We will be suppressed by Lu Guangren almost every few months, but this will not hurt our bones. Lu Guangren wants to play with us, and we will do what he wants."
"And this kind of behavior cannot last forever. After the Ember Guild annexed the Scarlet Vanguard Guild, it has become one of the strongest guilds in its star region. This will inevitably cause changes in the diplomatic tendencies of the surrounding guilds, especially the two strongest ones. This guild will never allow them to rise, and there will definitely be a battle between them."
"This is the opportunity I'm waiting for now. When they fight, Lu Guangren will definitely not be able to use his hands. That's when we have an opportunity."
"Well...."
Fang Chen asked curiously:
"With your current strength, even without Lu Guangren's interference, it would be difficult to develop here, right?"
"Let me show you something."
Zhou Shaohang spoke to Fang Chen mysteriously and took out something to show him.
