After all, there is no answer for a heavy task.
He can leave some aspects of scientific research work to other smart people in the fleet and Source Star.
But when it comes to the level of time and space, as well as the matter of his biggest resurrection secret, after Sun Miao's death, he has no one to talk to, so he can only do it himself.
It's not just that he can't trust others, it's that this matter involves too much. Both the Empire and the Psychic Demons have telekinesis masters who can spy on people's memories. If one more person knows about it, the risk of exposure will increase.
As long as he himself is immune to psychological scrutiny, the risk of exposure will always be 0, but even if there is one more person, the risk of exposure, even if it is only one in a billion, is a qualitative change from scratch.
He still hasn't completely shared memories with Sun Ai, which is why he confessed the truth.
Sometimes he would regret it. If he had known earlier, he would have woken up halfway and talked to Brother Sun in person before he died, and talked about everything.
Maybe Sun Miao couldn't give any effective advice, but at least it would be helpful for him to talk about it.
It's a pity that time passes and we can never go back to the past.
The two never had a grand farewell, only a letter spanning several years.
Although this kind of farewell is free and heroic, it always makes people feel regretful.
It can only be said that no one's life can be perfect.
It wasn't until he lost the ability to resurrect that Ren Zhong began to feel more clearly that the passage of time could not be traced back.
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After returning to the Tracer spacecraft, the important generals Isu Locke, Liang Qifa, Zheng Dafa, Gao Ya, Tang Youyun, Donald Yalson, Vincent Van Hoy and Xiao Xing, who was regularly awakened to supervise the work of the Legal Department, Yue summoned his office.
Including himself, these nine people are currently the nine most powerful people in the fleet.
He has a new decision that needs to be discussed with everyone.
As usual, he would first express his opinion, then let the people below discuss it individually, and then he himself would make the final decision.
In non-wartime management, Ren Zhong is willing to use such democratic centralism, which can not only ensure execution, but also avoid heavy losses due to his own misjudgments as much as possible.
Of course, once wartime management enters, Ren Zhong will not hesitate to switch from democratic centralism to Yiyantang. It can be said that he is headstrong, or he chooses to shoulder all the responsibilities alone. Anyway, so far, he has never missed it.
"There are still four years and eleven months until we reach the edge of the Black Mist Zone. The current situation is as follows..."
"Nanxiang Bo Liu An has dispatched a special service fleet and promised to perform escort work for us."
"The following is the relevant information about Nanxiang Bo Liu An that I found on the public network in accordance with the permission and authorization of the imperial decree."
Liu An, recognized as one of the strongest counts in the empire, has great military exploits and is cold-blooded and ruthless.
Some earls are good at business and have the ability to know people well.
Some counts are good at production. In order to improve the production efficiency of their companies, these counts even purchased gene editing technology from the Royal Academy of Sciences to compile the talents of their populations according to production needs.
There are also earls who are good at scientific research, very good at overall planning, and have a deep cooperative relationship with the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Of course, most earls follow the middle path and mainly live their lives.
As for Liu An, he is quite ambitious, killing with iron blood and resorting to military force.
He decided that he had no other talents, so he went all the way to the dark side in pursuit of military exploits, using all possible means.
In addition to his strong military command abilities, Liu An also purchased targeted gene compilation services from the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Under the subtle guidance of thousands of years, human beings in the entire Nanxiang star cluster have branched off to the side on the evolutionary branch.
In Liu An's fiefdom, except for the nobles and a few civilians with special talent reserves, most civilians have a violent and irritable gene mixed into their innate genes.
The people of the Nanxiang Star Cluster can be said to be tough and chivalrous in their folk customs. Most of them will draw their guns at each other if they disagree, and they will fight to the death. They are martial to the extreme.
As for other areas that are not Liu An's fiefdoms, things are slightly better, but they are still obviously affected by thousands of years of personnel exchanges and genetic exchanges, and they are also quite martial and useless.
The benefits that such a social atmosphere brings to Liu An are obvious. He can always obtain high-quality soldiers and is particularly enthusiastic on the battlefield.
Of course, there are disadvantages, that is, there will always be some extremists in the Nanxiang Star Cluster who would rather die than be restrained, becoming space pirates, disturbing the planet, plundering resources, and blocking and robbing business roads.
Liu An has the troops to quickly wipe out the space pirates. With the help of the Imperial Super Network, this is not difficult.
But so far, the space pirates are still active, and will only be surrounded by Liu An's bandit-suppressing fleet regularly, and they will be forced into battlefield death squads, and they are promised that if these pirates can establish military exploits, they will be pardoned and even appointed as commanders. A special warfare fleet with extremely high autonomy.
This is the current situation of Nanxiang Star Cluster.
After the general introduction was completed, Ren Zhong couldn't help but think that for the sake of one person's military exploits, he had to shape the personalities of tens of millions of people on thousands of planets into what he wanted, so that it changed the atmosphere of the entire star cluster civilization. Praise Liu An for his generous words.
Ren Zhong tapped the table lightly, "You can see the relevant information about the Nanxiang Star Cluster here. I will state my position first, and then you will analyze it individually."
After a pause, Ren Zhong said again: "Before, we only had indirect contact with Liu An through Nanjiu Viscount Southgate Augustus. He once gave us a sentence, and I still remember it very clearly.' They Not worthy,' these were Liu An's exact words. Now, he has dispatched a convoy. Facts have proved that we are worthy after all."
"But maybe we are too good for each other. There are a lot of fragmented space pirates in the Nanxiang star cluster. I think this is Uncle Nanxiang's strategy to raise worms. He doesn't care about the civilians who are burned, killed and robbed, and he covets being in space. Bloodthirsty soldiers who fought with their swords to lick their blood during the life of a pirate. This is his strategy for cultivating poison."
"Liu An's temperament can be seen clearly. Now, I hope you will each take a stand, analyze and speculate on what mission Liu An's special service fleet comes with, what identity it is, how we should respond, and whether we should trust them. It's better to make your own plan. Think for ten minutes first, then enter the document, and then raise your hands to speak from front to back, starting with Ys Locke. During the process of individual analysis, exchange of opinions is prohibited. I want to hear each of you's own thoughts. What you say must be fully consistent with your document, and your opinions must not change because of what others have said.”
After finishing speaking, Ren Zhong stopped talking and just closed his eyes to rest.
Others lowered their heads and wrote quickly.
Half an hour later, everyone finished their presentation.
Ys Locke, Vincent Van Hoy and Xiao Xingyue believe that Liu An is very dangerous and must be carefully guarded. It is not an exaggeration to even directly regard him as a hostile relationship. The fleet should not enter the black fog area as Liu An ordered, but should even take a detour around the olive-shaped black fog area. Even if it only takes five years to cross the black fog area directly, it will take 0.25 light years, and a detour will take It takes eighteen years to cross 1.8 light years, and it is worth it. Ys Locke even more clearly stated that after collecting a large amount of the explosion remnants of the C1915 star, the fleet's reserve nuclear fusion energy is enough to support such a detour.
Liang Qifa, Gao Ya and Tang Youyun believed that Liu An should be treated conservatively. The black fog area can be entered, but a high degree of vigilance must be maintained throughout the process.
Zheng Dafa and Donald Yalson felt that no matter what Liu An's character was, Ren Zhong was now the associate count and full viscount of the empire and was protected by the laws of the empire, so there was no need to worry.
Ren Zhong smiled and said: "Very good, my original intention is to let you use your brains. At the same time, I also hope that you will think about it for yourself first. When I announce my decision later, you will be able to roughly understand my true feelings. Intention. It doesn't matter if you say something wrong, the important thing is that this thinking process can make you grow."
"I will announce my decision first and take a detour. First, you can take a look at the star map of the Nanxiang star cluster again. Although there are more than 3,400 stars and more than 16,000 planets in this star cluster, the distribution of the stars It is irregular, with more inside and less outside. Among them, 2,800 stars are close to the central area, and the other 600 or so are outside."
"Look at the idle planets that have not yet been developed. In fact, there are not many. Counting them, there are nearly a thousand stars. More than 500 of them are Liu An's fiefdom. The rest of the planets belong to many viscounts and barons. There are also many An imperial land that belongs directly to the royal family. A relatively large proportion of the stars distributed in the outer layer are idle, and only some stars with a transportation network of jump channels have prosperous civilization."
"This shows that the resources in the Nanxiang star cluster are actually limited. The core limited resource is not the radiation energy of the stars, but the transportation capacity represented by the jump channel. The difference between having a channel and not having a channel brings about convenient transportation The sexes are worlds apart.”
"So, since the resources of the Nanxiang Star Cluster only appear to be unlimited, but are actually limited. Will Liu An, who has absolute power, continue to covet the slightly enfeoffed imperial planets in the central star region? What if I go and become an earl? , I will become his direct competitor and take away the part of his pocket that already belongs to him. Can he accept it?"
"Let's analyze Liu An's age and the distance between him and the Marquis, and then comprehensively analyze what Nanxiang Bo Liu An has been doing. We can conclude that we must take a detour, otherwise we will be dead!"
"Liu An sincerely despises us, thinking that we are colonists and looks down upon me. But I have become a quasi-count. Once I gain a foothold, and there is another count competing with him for battle glory, he will not be able to bear it. There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. This is inevitable."
"The meeting is over!"
Ren Zhong is in a good mood.
Three of the eight core subordinates have views that are completely consistent with mine, which shows that they have really used their brains and made reasonable judgments.
Soon after everyone dispersed, Zheng Dafa, who was now in charge of the internal resource allocation cycle of the fleet, that is, in charge of commercial work, came back anxiously. As soon as he entered the door, he knelt down on the ground with a thud, "Your Majesty the Earl! I was wrong, I... …I was so naive! That’s really what I thought at the time.”
Ren Zhong stood up, walked to his desk, pulled Zheng Dafa up, and said angrily: "Why are you nervous? I didn't say I wanted to be dismissed. The real purpose of organizing this meeting is not just to test your recognition." I know, but more importantly, I really want to train you. Although Zheng Dafa, you are not smart, but you have done your duty over the years, and I have noticed it. Your loyalty is no problem, then I will naturally treat you and your descendants with enough respect. Zhaofu. Of course, it’s okay to be a happy man, but if your heirs want to be in a high position like you, they still have to rely on their ability to speak for themselves."
"Thank you for your understanding, Lord Count." Zheng Dafa responded, bowed and walked back.
After Zheng Dafa left, Ren Zhong couldn't help but smile.
He knows that little people have their own way of survival.
This Zheng Dafa, like Ding Canghai, was once Wang Jinshou's lackey, and he was also a master dog who specialized in evil ideas. It was he who made the connection and encouraged Ding Canghai to assassinate Ren Zhong.
Ever since he abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side to rely on himself, he has been living a cautious life.
He also knew that he was stupid and could only pay more attention when encountering problems. He also took the opportunity to serve as Ju Qingmeng and Huo Donghua's deputy, as long as he could learn more.
Now Zheng Dafa has settled down on the fleet and has a family full of children and grandchildren. He is afraid that he will lose his trust because of a small mistake.
After waiting for a while, Xiao Xingyue arrived.
Having not met alone for a long time, Ren Zhong discovered that Xiao Xingyue had not aged much.
Although she has been active frequently over the years, her activity time is not very long each time, and she spends most of the time sleeping.
At this time, Xiao Xingyue was still wearing the white robe of a mentalist from the past, and she looked tall and slender.
When she looked at Ren Zhong, there was no longer as much gloom in her eyes as in the past, but instead she felt more relieved.
She sat on the chair in front of Ren Zhong's desk and sighed.
Ren Zhong looked at her hesitant expression and smiled: "Just say what you want to say, there is no need to hide it. We have known each other for more than a day or two."
Xiao Xingyue looked up at him and sighed: "Actually, before you showed me this information about Liu An, I had fantasies about the empire. I always thought that a civilization that has developed for tens of millions of years can never It won't be too backward or too barbaric, and there should always be some advanced ideas for civilized governance. Now that I think about it, I was naive. Although your decision was cruel and cold-blooded at the beginning, but now that I think about it, it is helpless. Only in this way can we at least preserve it. A little bit of the fire from the Source Star can at least prove that so many people once existed in the Source Star. Liu An... is really scary. Through genetically directed compilation, the innate personalities of tens of trillions of people are changed, creating trillions of bloodthirsty people. Warlike fanatics. Such people have no bottom line at all. No matter what they do, there is no need to be surprised."
Ren Zhong hummed and did not defend himself.
After a long time, Xiao Xingyue rubbed her temples and said, "I want to apologize to you. I'm sorry."
She spoke slowly, with sincerity written all over her face.
A smile appeared on Ren Zhong's face, "Thank you for your understanding, but the past has passed. I don't blame you. After all, according to normal thinking, who would have thought that a decadent and backward empire could survive for tens of millions of years? ?This is not common sense, but it does happen. There is always a reason for it, and I will try to find the reason."
