"Once this colonist is granted the title, according to the laws of the empire, his birthplace will be within our Nanxiang star cluster. He will be the second count in the Nanxiang star cluster, which is not a good thing for me. I have to find a way. "
Liu An, who was talking to himself, had a cold light in his eyes.
Liu An did not expect that this returning fleet from the colony, which he had completely abandoned, would give him such a big surprise.
He recalled ten years ago.
At that time, the fleet asked him for help. He refused.
"If I agree to send out the escort fleet at that time... forget it, the Tenglong Nebula and the end of the South Nine Star Passage are three light years apart, and it will take fifteen years at the earliest to arrive. Anyway, I can't make it in time. This battle merit is not my turn. "
Thinking this way, he felt a little better.
If the current result was not caused by my fault, it would not be so uncomfortable.
"How could this Imperial Mothership be so stupid that she would leave behind giant cells? Forget it. Even if this colonist becomes an earl, I can beat him. After all, I am Uncle Nanxiang. There are still some zeros in the Nanxiang Star Cluster. Bits and pieces of remote places can be used to kill him. Of course, I can also get there before he is sealed..."
Even if Ren Zhong became a hereditary earl, he would not be able to obtain a fief immediately.
Ren Zhong still needs to take the civilians from the Source Star to stay in the Southern Nine Galaxy for a period of time, and accept the observation and review of the empire to determine whether he, the earl, came to him purely by luck, and whether he is worth focusing on training.
Those who have meritorious service must be rewarded, but these rewards are also divided into three, six or nine levels.
Only promising and potential earls are eligible to acquire galaxies with more easily exploitable resource planets.
After all, every galaxy that has not been enfeoffed is the private property of the royal family. If you want to take a piece of the royal family's rice bowl, you have to show your worth.
If Ren Zhong is suppressed during the inspection period and is judged as a mediocre person with no training prospects, he can only be a high-level happy man, which is nothing to be afraid of.
"I am Uncle Nanxiang, and the assessment report of this colonist must be in my hands. I can let Southgate, the ninth Viscount of Nanxi, press him first. The matter is not that bad."
After a while, the military and political deputy director of the Nanxiang Star Group, who was well aware of Liu An's temperament, took the initiative to call the communication and reported an important piece of information.
It turned out that not long ago, my predecessor Zhong had used the Source Star Supernet node to initiate a proactive query to the Imperial Supernet. The query target was the speed of information flow transmission. Later, the Imperial Supernet case tried to take over the Source Star Supernet node to verify the information, but was cut off from the link.
This is a doubtful point.
It seems like this is innocuous, but the problem with the Source Star node query is too strange, and the behavior of disconnecting the link is also slightly abnormal. It seems that it can be used to make a fuss, at least to pour some dirty water on this colonizer who is in the limelight.
Liu An was very satisfied with the deputy minister's proposal and was about to take action when he immediately received an unsolicited explanation from the Source Star Supernet node.
According to Ren Zhong, the Source Star Fleet had already been lightly interfered by the Ascendant patrol at that time, and the stability of information flow and communication had declined slightly.
Ren Zhong personally misjudged the constants in the external environment. Because he was too nervous, he entrusted the Yuanxing node to conduct a query to verify whether there was any abnormality in the information flow communication.
As for the disconnection, it was also interfered by the "disorder" of the fourth-level Queen Mother's ambush combat unit.
After reading these reports, Liu An pondered for a moment, "That's all, let's organize a hundred spiral-class fast shuttle ships to form a special service fleet, pass through the Broken Star Ring, go to the outer boundary of the Black Mist Zone, and prepare to meet the Origin Star's return fleet. Escort the new earl."
When he said the last word "escort", he subconsciously emphasized his tone, and the fierce light in his eyes disappeared in a flash, and he became calm again.
…
At the same time, preparations were completed in advance, the dragged Source Mercury was cleaned up, and its main core program was temporarily transferred to the Source Star pseudo-net, with only a single hidden line connected to Ren Zhong.
Since then, the original Mercury structure has become a real "net". But the powerful Viscount Ren Zhong gave the Source Star supernet node a rather humane name out of his own bad taste, and of course it was also called "Xiao Ai".
Sun Ai said in his heart: "Uncle, I have completed the disguise work and can let the Imperial Supernet conduct a takeover-level scan and audit of the nodes."
Ren Zhong hummed, and asked a little more uneasily, "The secret will not be exposed on the source star, right? There will be no problems with this emergency research and development, right? Is there no problem with your existence? Wait until the review of the Imperial Supernet is completed. , can you successfully take over the 'Net'?"
Sun Ai smiled and said: "Okay, it's okay."
"That's good."
Since Ren Zhong had given a reasonable explanation for the abnormal behavior in advance and had just made military exploits, the empire was also looking forward to obtaining the latest megablast cell sample of the fourth-class empress in modern times. The review did not take too long and only lasted half a year. Hour.
During this period, the Imperial Supernet relied on the computing power and communication mechanism of the Source Star node to conduct comprehensive monitoring and monitoring of the more than two billion people in the Source Star fleet, material reserves, human brain inventory, technology accumulation, and the current social atmosphere. analyze.
The Imperial Supernet discovered something unusual.
Within the Source Star Fleet, there is a strong personality cult for the leader's responsibility, but at the same time, many people are quite dissatisfied with his responsibility. The social atmosphere is slightly distorted, but it operates smoothly. The root of the dissatisfaction was that Ren Zhong had promised to leave the seeds of civilization on the Source Star, but before leaving, he strictly implemented the empire's cleaning order. After the Battle of the Royal Mothership, the dissatisfaction basically disappeared, leaving only fanatical worship.
Unlike other return fleets, the people in the Source Star Fleet do not seem to have a particularly strong desire to use freezing to travel to the Empire across time and space.
Although the Source Star Fleet encountered drastic changes before setting off, resulting in a low number of super warriors capable of star combat and the loss of almost all starship larvae, the fleet members did not just lie down and instead strictly followed the intensive training planned for the mission. The plan resulted in the creation of more than 30,000 super warriors in just ten years. Many military personnel have not slept for ten years and are already old, but they still stick to their training posts.
Similar phenomena exist among others such as scientific researchers and production personnel. It seemed that the crew on the ship did not regard the voyage as a moving process, but rather regarded the fleet as a new home.
These people learned and grew up on 8,000 transport ships and nearly 4,000 armed ships, married wives and had children, reproduced, and worked creatively. From a nation on earth, we became a nomadic nation.
It is not that there is no such civilization model in the Mechanical Empire. For example, some earls or even marquises formed a similar nomadic fleet to wander around because of their personal preferences, collecting rare resources and searching for the beautiful landscapes in the universe as hobbies.
The size of some nomadic fleets even far exceeds that of the Source Star fleet.
However, the Tracking Colony does not have as many resources as the high-ranking noble fleets, nor does it have such a high level of technology. After all, life in the fleet is very difficult, and the resource quota is also limited. Very few of the Returning Fleets of the Tracking Colony can do this. this point.
Years of claustrophobic conditions can easily create complex social problems. During the long journey back, the best option is to simply let most people fall asleep. They are all frozen, there is no time to think about things, and there is no chance for psychological disorders, so why is there any turmoil?
In short, although there were many abnormalities, these abnormalities were within the tolerance limits of the imperial system. He also had military exploits to protect himself, so the review was smoothly implemented.
After the virtual tentacles of the Imperial Supernet were retracted, Sun Ai immediately packed himself up, moved back from the Source Star pseudonet, and continued to serve as the important secretary.
"Uncle, I just received a notice from the military and political deputy director of the Nanxiang Star Group. They have organized a special service fleet composed of one hundred spiral-class fast shuttle ships. They have set off from Nanxiang Star and transited through the jump channel network. It is expected that It will be able to leave the Nanjiu Star Outer Channel Relay Station in more than one year and one month. The shuttle ship array maintains a long-distance cruise at 0.2 times the speed of light in the universe. It will arrive in the black fog area in about 8 to 9 years, and will be in the black fog area. Waiting for us outside the edge. When we pass through the black fog area, we can meet them."
Ren nodded, indicating that he understood.
Now that the Ascendant patrol has been eliminated, the fleet can turn back and return to the trade route of the Tamron Nebula.
Due to the need to re-accelerate the return journey and major changes in direction, the estimated time required to cross the trade route is 3 years.
After leaving the Tenglong Nebula, there will be a large desolate area, waiting for a flat river, and you can accelerate in a straight line.
The straight-line distance from the edge of the Tamron Nebula to the outer edge of the Black Mist is 1.2 light-years, and it takes 12 years to reach it.
Then, the total length of the path inside the black fog area is 0.25 light-years, and the estimated travel time is 5 years.
All in all, it would take the Source Star Fleet 20 years to reach the inner boundary of the Black Mist Zone and join the special service fleet.
He silently muttered to himself: "This Nanxiang uncle Liu An is not very kind. Since we are going to pick up the escort, naturally they should go through the black fog area to pick us up. Then why not wait for us on the other side for ten years? Year’s truth. Something is wrong.”
He opened the information again and focused on the information about the Black Mist Area.
Intelligence provided by surveyors from the Royal Academy of Sciences shows that the black mist area is filled with a large number of discrete dark energy clusters, ranging from satellites as small as the moon to far larger than the most massive stars.
These dark energy clusters follow their own orbits for a huge part of the time, revolving in a stable pattern around the large black hole in the center of the black fog area.
However, once two dark energy clusters whose volume and mass exceed the limit collide and trigger a violent explosion, releasing unstable energy tides and gravitational shocks, it may trigger a chaotic explosion that sweeps through the entire dark energy cluster.
A chaotic explosion of this intensity can strangle and destroy everything that breaks into it.
According to the explorer's tips, the Black Mist Area erupts once every 100 million years on average.
The last outbreak occurred more than six million years ago, when the Machine Empire was confronting the Ascended Army nearby.
The Mechanical Empire deployed a small fleet on the frontal battlefield. The total force size was about half of the Ascended Army. It was quite disadvantageous in the frontal battlefield and was besieged.
But at the same time, the Mechanical Empire dispatched the real main force from the other side, quietly entered from the other side of the black mist area, and quickly approached the battlefield, preparing to attack from both inside and outside to completely annihilate this army of Ascended Ones.
At that time, the Mechanical Empire had just completed the development of a new invisible coating, and a large number of fleets quietly approached the main battlefield. As long as they were eliminated, they would definitely catch the Ascendant army by surprise.
The empire's plan is flawless, and if everything goes well, it will surely achieve a great victory.
Unfortunately, with only two months to fly out of the black fog zone, the big explosion happened without warning.
In the end, only a few lucky fleets escaped, but by this time the frontal battlefield outside had already been completely defeated, and the few ships that escaped were also pursued and intercepted by the Ascendants.
Not only did the empire lose troops and generals, but it also exposed a new invisible coating, and the data was burned by the Ascendants, who quickly evolved targeted detection methods. Billions of Imperial scientists spent thousands of years in research and development, all in vain.
The impact of this incident spread, causing the Mechanical Empire to lose the territory of the Nanxiang Star Cluster for a time. The Empire later recaptured it at great cost. However, due to the heavy investment in Nanxiang Star Cluster, other war zones suffered repeated setbacks.
The dominoes caused by this event continued to affect the Empire for nearly a million years, before it was finally replaced by another great rout.
After reading this information, Ren Zhong thought in his mind: "Since it just happened once six million years ago, the dark energy group in the black fog area reorganized its structure and reached a new space gravity balance, then it will not happen in the short term. There is the possibility of another major outbreak. The small number of reconnaissance satellites installed by the empire inside the black fog area did not issue early warning, proving that the black fog area is still in a stable silent period. So, Nan Xiangbo’s behavior of not allowing the special service fleet to pass through the black fog area , it’s worth debating.”
Ren Zhong's eyes fell on the star map again, looking at the olive-shaped black fog area with an angle of thirty degrees to the ecliptic plane of the Gupan Galaxy, and he fell into deep thought.
After a moment, a sneer sounded in his office.
"boring."
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Time flies, eleven years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Ren Zhong wakes up from the freeze again.
But this time no alarm went off in his personal freezer.
He had preset the wake-up routine eleven years in advance.
After walking out of the freezing warehouse and returning to the office, ten minutes later, the newly appointed Acting Administrative Officer of the Source Star Fleet, Isu Locke, appeared in the responsible office.
At this time, Ren Zhong had just quickly read through the personnel changes in the fleet over the past eleven years.
Six years ago, Zhuo Yihang fell at his post.
Subsequently, according to the rules set by Ren Zhong, several people participated in the competition, including Liang Qifa, the general manager of Chromium Carbon Resources of the former Chromium Carbon Town, Zheng Dafa, the subordinate of the Wang family in the original Chongyi, Tang Youyun, the helmsman of Tanggu Group, Gao Ya, the helmsman of Amethyst Mining, The newly appointed head of Locke Group, Isu Locke.
In the end, after layers of screening and comparison, as well as fair assessment consultation and nominations from representatives of various industries and fields, it turned out to be Ys Locke, a middle-aged man who was only eight years old when he boarded the fleet and is now only thirty years old. He stood out and became the new acting administrative officer.
Isu Locke is one of the vested interests of the former business association, but that does not mean that the important power has been left aside.
At that time, Ys Locke also passed the assessment of the upright political officer Ju Qingmeng, and the legal officer Xiao Xingyue also deployed dozens of telekinesis masters to conduct a comprehensive psychological examination on him.
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