"He is a killer who walks in the shadows and lives with death."
"But he was never a bully in his life. He just took the fight and pulled the trigger on what he saw as injustice."
"He was wanted, arrested, imprisoned. The length of his life was forced to be measured in dollars."
"But in the end he chose to die for two billion people."
"This is not a forced responsibility, but a proactive responsibility."
"He is Wang Qiao, the number one killer of Source Star."
This was the epitaph he personally wrote for Wang Qiao when Ren Zhong met Wang Qiao's widow and descendants nearly two months later when he met with the fleet headquarters for the martyr award ceremony.
There are no graves in space, but you can leave a nameplate representing glory.
This ritual did not exist in the past Source Star society, and sacrifice was never respected, but Ren Zhong changed the rules.
Ritual is not a showmanship. During the ceremony, the survivors can understand and perceive the victim's state of mind, and understand why the victim died and in what mood he died.
Then, the ignorant survivors and successors will slowly learn how to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors and continue to move forward.
The so-called accumulation of civilization lies in this inheritance time and time again.
What the members of the fleet headquarters don’t know is that in the Source Star Galaxy one light-year away, nearly 20 billion people are crying and gnashing their teeth because of the more than 2.23 million names that have been fully disclosed. And I feel ashamed that I slept in for an extra five minutes today.
The people who were left on the Source Star did not feel sad about being abandoned.
Rather, these are the people in the know.
They know what Ren Zhong is pursuing, and they also know how lonely Ren Zhong is on the fleet at this time. They also know that those pioneers are the real ones who leave their homes and go to the unknown and dangerous empire, just to give to those who stay here. Create some breathing space in advance.
After the award ceremony ended, the people on the Source Star quietly returned to their respective posts, studying, studying, and working to create.
The fleet headquarters had to take away a large amount of metal resources, so we developed metal recycling technology; we took away a large amount of high-energy batteries, but we still had the source of the sun; we took away a large amount of stock of Ruin beast chips and products, then we counterattacked into the wild Then raise the beasts in captivity.
As long as the sun is still high, our future will always be bright.
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"Sir, according to your instructions, the trophy collection work is about to come to an end. The engineering staff collected a large number of samples of sublimated child bodies. All personnel of the Academy of Life Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, and Academy of Biological Sciences have all been unfrozen and entered a state of working and reproduction. They I am overjoyed with these achievements. I have to admit that the Ascendants have gone very far in biotechnology. They have pushed genetic technology to unimaginable heights. Even if they just decipher a small fragment, it will be of great benefit to us all. Significant."
"In addition, the Department of Mineral Exploration and the Department of Energy also made major discoveries. Although the explosion of the C1915 star was very complete, with less than 1% of the heavy hydrogen elements remaining, its reserve energy has tripled our inventory. According to' Following Wang's suggestion, five hundred annual ships have been transformed into energy output ships. In terms of metal minerals, we have also made a new round of reserves, which is enough to make up for the losses caused by the battle of the Mother Emperor Ship, and there is even a surplus. "
Zhuo Yihang took a tablet and reported the work item by item in front of Ren Zhong.
Ren nodded and said, "Good job."
In fact, these things can be reported directly by Sun Ai, which is faster and the data is more comprehensive and accurate.
But Ren Zhong thought about it and decided to let Zhuo Yihang communicate in person.
Next, he, Ju Qingmeng, Zheng Tian, Ma Xiaoling, Huo Donghua and other core personnel will still enter cryogenic slumber, but the vast majority of people in the fleet, including the scientific research department, will remain active for a long time, absorbing results while sailing, advancing technology, and multiplying.
So in terms of administrative functions, someone must be kept active for a long time and connect with Sun Ai at high frequency to maintain order, supervise work, and prevent psychological problems and social problems.
Then Ren Zhong needs to personally give more instructions to the temporary successor, and the candidate for this successor is Zhuo Yihang.
He has gained the trust of Ren Zhong.
This once marginalized person who was brought back to Spark Town by Ren Zhong from the Source Star Enumerator Academy has gained his due status with his own efforts and abilities.
At this moment, Sun Ai's exclamation sounded in Ren Zhong's ears, "Uncle, come to the biochemical laboratory quickly, we have made a major discovery. The engineers responsible for cleaning the battlefield picked up a good thing!"
"What?"
"A fragment of the Imperial Ship's ovary that is more than 80% preserved!" Sun Ai's tone was full of excitement.
Ren Zhong was a little confused.
In his opinion, although the explosive power of C1915 is very amazing, there are always exceptions in everything. No matter how completely the mother ship is shattered, it is reasonable to have one or two good pieces of meat.
What's more, the ovaries of the Imperial Mother Ship are originally the core organs used to produce proliferating offspring. They deserve an extra layer of protective care and should be kept relatively intact.
So Ren Zhong didn't quite understand why Sun Ai was so excited.
But after Sun Ai explained, he understood.
It turns out that although the Imperial Mother Ship is called a ship, it is essentially a giant single creature.
It does not have a centralized brain like humans. The core cells of the network neurons that carry memory are distributed throughout the body, especially in the ovaries.
The cells in the ovary are mainly divided into two types, one is the core cells of network neurons used to carry memory and thinking, and the other is megablast cells used to carry complete genetic information.
Megablast cells are huge and contain 46 extremely long chromosome chains.
These chromosomal strands contain huge amounts of genetic information.
During the culture of proliferative progeny, different fragments of the chromosome chain of the megablast cell are intercepted to generate smaller embryonic cells. After these embryonic cells mature, they grow into specific creatures including "disorder", "latent", "stinger", "giant elephant", "sandworm" and so on.
"We have a chance to get the memory of the Imperial Mothership from this fragment, and we can also get a glimpse of the secrets of the Ascendants through the analysis of the megablast nuclei. When the Empire was at war with the Ascended, the chance of getting a complete megablast was very rare. Once When it is determined that the decline is irreversible, the Imperial Mother Ship will often destroy the ovaries on its own, leaving not even a single intact megablast cell. The Megablast cells of the Imperial Mother Ship are simply a huge treasure trove. In the history of millions of years of war, , the number of times the empire has obtained complete megablast cells does not exceed 500 times. On average, it takes about once every 10,000 years. Every similar harvest can help the empire update the database of Ascended Persons and greatly promote the development of the empire's biotechnology. Development can also bring huge help to the empire on the frontal battlefield."
Sun Ai concluded this.
Ren Zhong raised his eyebrows, "Then I have achieved military exploits?"
Sun Ai snorted, "Of course! Alas, it's a pity that what you got was the fourth-level mother queen's megablast cell. If it were the first-level mother queen's, this single battle achievement would be enough to make you the first in half a million years." A new Duke."
Ren Zhong: "What about the fourth-level empress? Viscount?"
"Yes, Viscount." Sun Ai responded: "Your current title of Viscount is a temporary additional position to meet the power structure needs of the colonial fleet when it returns. You only have the name of Viscount, but not the actual status of Viscount. Although you took over Nine administrator positions have completed the second half of the return journey, but they are still the ones who established the Source Star colony after all. Your contribution will probably only get you the title of lifelong baron. If you try hard to get a hereditary baron, you can be in a You get a food fiefdom on the planet with an area of no more than 10 million square kilometers. But the ovary fragments of the fourth-level queen can make you a hereditary viscount, and it is also the upper-middle rank among viscounts. In addition, you manage the escort colonial team After completing the return voyage and defeating the Mother Queen's parade, you have a great chance to become a lifelong earl, and your descendants can also obtain the title of hereditary viscount. Of course, the rest are all additions, and the core is this piece of ovary fragment .So lucky."
Ren Zhong was satisfied when he heard the words, "I understand, it is indeed a good thing."
"Then do I have to declare my military exploits to the empire now?" Sun Ai asked.
Ren Zhong shook his head, "Wait a minute, let's analyze the neuron core cells first and take a look at the memory of the Mother Emperor Ship. I always feel that the Mother Emperor Ship knows our whereabouts too well. Things may not be that simple."
Sun Ai responded.
Not long after, Ren Zhong learned the bad news, "The radiation dose of the microparticles generated by the fusion nuclear explosion was too high, and the irradiation intensity was too high. The information in most of the core cells of the neurons in this fragment has been washed away. It’s impossible to identify. Only a small number of cells have relatively complete information, but it’s not the complete memory of the Imperial Ship. It’s all quite fragmented. I have to reorder and splice it before I can identify it, and they’re all recent.”
Ren Zhong raised his eyebrows, "How recently?"
"Within twenty years."
"That's okay. Keep going."
A moment later, Sun Ai finally completed splicing the memory fragments and transformed them into a combination of video and text that humans can recognize.
Ren Zhong was happy when he saw it, and said in surprise: "Oh, this mother-in-law is actually a scientific worker."
It is miraculous to say that the real mission of this Royal Mother Ship patrol active in the edge area of the Nanxiang Star Cluster is not to snipe the trace-seeking colonial team, but to participate in the development of the Ascended Information Interference Method against the Empire's information flow communication technology.
Fifty years ago, the Mother Imperial Ship had noticed the existence of the Source Star colony and quietly lurked outside the Source Star, secretly monitoring, stealing information, and analyzing intelligence. In view of the fact that the internal migration of the Source Star colony had already begun at that time, and there were no annual transport ships returning from the Southern Nine Stars to engage in trade, the Mother Imperial Ship was not in a hurry to attack, but planned to wait until the Source Star fleet migrated before taking action, so that it could be used easily. Get the most core resources at a lower cost and in a shorter time.
By the way, the Mother Imperial Ship can simply use Yuan Xing as a guinea pig to complete scientific research projects.
Thirty years ago, the Imperial Ship discovered the "wonders of the universe."
Without warning, some changes occurred in the area near the Source Star, and the speed of information flow slowed down a hundred times.
The Imperial Mother Ship provided this information to the leaders of the Ascended Civilization in an attempt to analyze this phenomenon.
However, the difficulty of this matter exceeds the technological level and understanding ability of the Ascendants, so they can only settle for the next best thing and take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to test the reliability of the new information flow blocking technology.
This is the perfect experimental area.
Since then, the Imperial Mother Ship has quietly been stationed outside the asteroid belt in the outer ring of the source system, observing in secret, reporting regularly, and returning information from time to time.
Everything is perfect except for the occasional "skipping" of the timeline for no apparent reason.
The Ascendant also tried to analyze the reasons for the "frame skipping" of the timeline, but of course it failed.
When the "Net" was still intact, since the "Net" had built a comprehensive information flow monitoring and scanning system near the source star system, approaching rashly could easily arouse vigilance and expose its existence, so the Queen Mother Ship appropriately distanced itself and did not alert the snake. .
Nearly a year after the information flow transmission speed changed, the "Net" malfunctioned. The Mother Emperor Ship recognized this change and dispatched the newly bred "Disorder" to approach the source star system and then surrounded it, forming a huge obstacle. fault.
Then, the Imperial Mother Ship began to use common sense to send information flow signals disguised as imperial communications to the Seeker spacecraft hidden near the source Venus, but received no feedback.
Since then, the Imperial Mothership has confirmed that the interference technology has been successfully developed, and dispatched a small fast mobile team to bring this set of genes back to the top of the Ascendants.
Several years later, more than 20 years ago, the development of this technology was completed, which can effectively interfere with the previous generation of imperial communication technology.
After completing the first task, the Imperial Mothership did not rush to leave. Instead, it continued its research on the spot and developed a skin gene that could deceive the empire's information flow scanning technology. It was widely used in many military units. Critical stingers and "Latent" is one of the best.
About fifteen years ago, five years before the Origin Star Fleet carried out the Great Migration, the Ascendants took advantage of this technological generation gap to severely damage the Machinery Empire on the frontal battlefield and achieved outstanding results.
The empire was retreating steadily. Not only did it lose territory, it was also forced to hand over nearly 2% of Quasar's computing power.
When Ren Zhong saw this information, he calculated the time in his mind and was amazed.
The time when the Imperial Mothership conducted key experiments and attempted to block the source star's information flow was fifteen years before the Great Migration, and the blockade lasted for nearly a year.
It was that year that he completed the torture and killing of Elder Frozen for the first time.
At the time he didn't know the existence of "The Last Wave".
Obviously, the "last radio wave" that time was intercepted by the huge shielding layer formed by "Disorder".
Ren Zhong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his heart finally fell to the ground, and his face showed the feeling of surviving a disaster.
After a long time, he held back a sentence, "Beautiful! I was only a little bit overturned before I capsized. This royal ship is really interesting. Not only does it give me military exploits, it also helps me cover up."
It stands to reason that after the Ascended Ones win the frontal battlefield victory, this Queen Mother Ship can retire and return to the Ascended Ones' territory to enjoy the glory and advancement, and be promoted to at least a second-class Queen Mother Ship.
But for the mother-imperial ship with a long life span, fifteen years is just a blink of an eye.
It is not satisfied with these achievements, but continues to focus on the resources on the Source Star.
Because it found that the development level of the Source Star colony was beyond imagination.
This small colony has produced a lot of restricted-level imperial technologies, especially controllable nuclear fusion.
It decided to wait.
The reason why it did not choose to attack directly was because if the Source Star humans relied on the ground to defend themselves and retreated the main battlefield into the atmosphere, it would be more difficult for it to attack. The humans of the Source Star can resist for many years, and may even attract reinforcements from the Empire.
Furthermore, under the close illumination of stars, units with hidden abilities such as Critical Stinger will not have such an advantage.
All things considered, attacking early is not cost-effective.
Instead of a thankless attack, it would be better to wait to ambush the returning fleet. Anyway, according to the practice of the Empire's tracer colonies, the real essence is in the fleet, and everything else is just added to the details.
The best ambush point is the Tamron Nebula.
As a result, the Imperial Mothership stopped monitoring the Source Star, quietly lurked in the Tenglong Nebula, and gradually dispatched small reconnaissance life forms, such as tiny space tardigrades, as spies to explore the Tenglong Nebula. Air routes and trade routes are all included in the view.
Ten years ago, when the civil strife broke out in the Source Star, it also received the "last radio wave" from the seeker.
In this message, it was surprised to find that the colonial fleet had lost 3,000 ice warriors and nearly 6,000 starship larvae.
It believes that the difficulty of this battle is unimaginably low, and is ready to easily grab a vote and leave. After making another achievement, it may be able to challenge the status of the first-class Mother Queen and become one of the highest ancestors of the Ascendants.
Its plan was seamless and beautiful, but in the end it overturned.
Ren Zhong thought for two minutes and said: "Put all the neuron core cells near the nuclear fusion reactor and illuminate them for a while to destroy the memory of the mother imperial ship."
Sun Ai wondered: "Why? It took me a lot of effort to sort out these things. It's more or less a credit to me."
Ren Zhong shook his head with a smile, "Since the Mechanical Empire has suffered a big loss in the frontal battlefield, it will always learn from the mistakes and will take the initiative to catch up with these technological differences, or find ways to avoid interference. The new technologies of the Ascendants How it was developed is no longer important. It is of no benefit to us to keep it. There can’t be anything surprising about Source Star. Once it arouses the empire’s interest, then this so-called credit will become my death.”
Sun Ai sighed: "Okay, you have the final say."
"After destroying the completed information, you can send the battle report of the Imperial Ship battle to the empire and ask for credit for me. Remember to focus on describing the fact that I used my genius mind to develop the unstable warp. This is also credit. If I can get it The title of earl is of great benefit to us.”
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Nanxiang Bo Liu An, who was unexpectedly awakened from a comfortable cryogenic slumber once again, was dumbfounded as he looked at the battle report in front of him and a recruitment order from the top of the empire.
What the hell is all this?
The returning fleet of the C-class trace colony destroyed a fourth-class Queen Mother!
The low-level colonist named Ren Zhong, who served as the commander of the returning fleet, continued to advance technology on the way back and developed a jump technology that did not require a stable subspace orbit. He relied on this technology to rush into the vicinity of the Mother Emperor's ship. Then he used a three-phase bomb to cause serious damage to it, and then detonated the star to directly kill the fourth-level Queen Mother!
We also summarized a large number of combat ideas for dealing with invisible units and information flow interference!
We have actually obtained a bunch of complete Megablast cells from the Mother Emperor Ship, and are you trying to analyze this genetic treasure house?
"My military exploits... Well, if I had known earlier... I would have had a headache..."
Liu An sighed and regretted his mistake.
