Resurrection Empire

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Not long after, Ren Zhong got a bad news, "The radiation dose of the microparticles generated by the fusion nuclear explosion is too high, and the irradiation intensity is too high. Most of the information in the core cells of the neurons in this fragment has been washed away. Unrecognizable. Only a small amount of information in the cells is relatively complete, but it is not the complete memory of the mother ship, it is quite fragmented, and I have to rearrange and splice it before I can identify it, and they are all recent."

Ren Zhong raised his eyebrows, "How recently?"

"Within 20 years."

"That's okay. Go ahead."

A moment later, Sun Ai finally completed the splicing of memory fragments and transformed them into a combination of video and text that humans can recognize.

Ren Zhong was amused when he saw it, and said in amazement: "Hey, this mother imperial ship is actually a scientific worker."

It is also amazing to say that the real mission of this Royal Ship parade team active in the fringe area of ​​​​the Nanxiang star cluster is not to snipe and trace the colonial team, but to participate in the development of information interference methods for the empire's information flow and communication technology by the sublimators.

Fifty years ago, the Queen Mother had already noticed the existence of the Yuan Xing colony, and quietly lurked outside the Yuan Xing, secretly monitoring, stealing information, and analyzing intelligence.In view of the fact that the source star colony had already begun to migrate at that time, and there were no annual ring transport ships returning from Nanjiuxing to engage in business exchanges, the mother imperial ship was not in a hurry to attack, but planned to wait for the source star fleet to migrate, so that it could be used Get the most core resources with less cost and shorter time.

By the way, the Queen Mother Ship can simply use Yuan Xing as a guinea pig to complete scientific research projects.

Thirty years ago, the Queen Mother discovered the "Wonder of the Universe".

Without warning, some changes occurred in the area near the source star, and the speed of information flow slowed down by a full hundred times.

The Queen Mother provided this information to the power holders of the Ascendant civilization, trying to analyze this phenomenon.

However, the difficulty of this matter surpassed the technological level and comprehension ability of the Ascendant, so he could only settle for the next best thing, and just took 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 Queen Mother Ship has quietly stationed outside the asteroid belt in the outer ring of the source galaxy, secretly observing, reporting regularly, and returning information from time to time.

Everything works perfectly except the timeline occasionally "skips frames" for no reason.

The sublimators also tried to analyze the reason for the "frame skipping" of the timeline, but of course they also failed.

When the "net" was still in good condition, because the "net" built a comprehensive information flow monitoring and scanning system near the source star system, approaching rashly would easily cause vigilance and expose its existence, so the mother royal ship properly distanced itself, and did not startle the snake .

Nearly a year after the change in the transmission speed of the information flow, the "Net" malfunctioned. The Queen Mothership recognized the change, and dispatched the newly bred "Disorder" to approach the source star system, and then surrounded it, forming a huge barrier. Fault.

Then, the Queen Mother Ship began to send information flow signals pretending to be Imperial communications to the Seeker spacecraft hiding near the source of Venus, but did not receive any feedback.

Since then, the Mother Royal Ship has confirmed that the interference technology has been successfully developed, and dispatched a small fast mobile team with this set of genes to return to the high-level sublimator.

A few years have passed, and more than [-] years ago, the development of this technology was completed, which can effectively interfere with the communication of the previous generation of imperial communication technology.

After completing the first task, the mother imperial ship did not leave in a hurry, but continued to research on the spot, and developed a skin gene that could deceive the empire's information flow scanning technology, which was widely used in many arms. The critical stinger and "Latent" is one of the best.

About 15 years ago, that is, five years before the Origin Star Fleet carried out the Great Migration, the Ascendants took advantage of this technological gap to severely damage the Machine Empire on the frontal battlefield and achieved outstanding results.

The empire retreated steadily, not only losing its territory, but also being forced to hand over nearly 2% of Quasar's computing power quota.

When Ren Zhong saw the information, he counted the time silently in his heart, and was amazed.

The time period when the mother ship conducted key experiments and tried to block the source star information flow was 15 years before the Great Migration, and the blockade lasted for nearly a year.

It was also in that year that he completed the torture and killing of Elder Frozen for the first time.

He didn't know the existence of "The Last Wave" at the time.

Obviously, the "last radio wave" that time was intercepted by the huge shield formed by "disorder".

Ren Zhong wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, and finally the big stone in his heart fell to the ground, with a feeling of remaining life after a catastrophe appeared on his face.

After a long time, he choked out a sentence, "Beautiful! Just a little bit, I capsized. This queen mother ship is really interesting. Not only does it give me military exploits, but it also helps me cover it up."

It stands to reason that after the Ascendant has won the frontal battlefield, the Queen Mother Ship can retire and return to the territory of the Ascendant to enjoy glory and advancement, and be promoted to at least the second-class Queen Mother.

But for the mother ship with a long and long lifespan, 15 years is just a flick of a finger.

It is not satisfied with these credits, but continues to focus on the resources on the source star.

Because it found that the development level of the Origin Star colony was beyond imagination.

This small colony produced a lot of restricted-level imperial technology, especially controllable nuclear fusion.

It decided to wait.

The reason why it didn't choose to attack directly was because if the humans of Origin Star relied on the ground to defend against danger, and retracted the main battlefield back into the atmosphere, it would be more difficult to attack.Humans on Yuanxing can hold out for many years, and may even attract reinforcements from the empire.

Furthermore, under the close-range illumination of the stars, units that focus on stealth abilities, such as critical stingers, will not have so much advantage.

On the whole, it is not cost-effective to attack in advance.

Rather than a thankless attack, it is better to wait to ambush the returning fleet. Anyway, according to the practice of the Imperial Seeker colony, the real essence is on the fleet, and everything else is trivial.

The best ambush point is the Tenglong Nebula.

As a result, the mother emperor ship stopped monitoring the source star, quietly retreated into the Tenglong Nebula to hide, and gradually dispatched small scout life, such as space tardigrades as spies, to explore the space in the Tenglong Nebula. Airlines and commercial routes are included in the field of vision.

Ten years ago, when the source star's civil strife broke out, it also received the "last radio wave" from the Seeker.

In this piece of information, it was pleasantly surprised to find that the colonial fleet had lost [-] frozen warriors and nearly [-] starship larvae.

It thinks that the difficulty of this battle is beyond imagination, and it is ready to easily grab a ticket and leave. After making another contribution, it may be able to challenge the status of the first-class empress and become one of the highest ancestors of the sublimation.

Its plan was flawless and beautiful, but in the end it turned over.

Ren Zhong thought for 2 minutes, and said: "Put all the neuron core cells near the nuclear fusion reactor and take a photo for a while to destroy the memory of the mother ship."

Sun Ai asked doubtfully: "Why? It took me a lot of effort to sort out this stuff, and it's more or less a credit."

Ren Zhong shook his head with a smile, "Since the Machine Empire has already suffered a great loss in the frontal battlefield, it will always gain wisdom from the pitfalls, and will take the initiative to catch up with these technological gaps, or find ways to avoid interference. The new technology of the sublimator How it was developed is no longer important, and it’s not good for us to keep it. There can’t be anything surprising about Yuanxing, once the empire’s interest is aroused, then this so-called credit will become my death door.”

Sun Ai sighed: "Well, you have the final say."

"After destroying the completed information, you can send the battle report of the Battle of the Mother Royal Ship to the Empire and ask for credit for me. Remember to focus on the fact that I used my genius mind to develop the unstable leap. This is also a credit. If I can get The Earl title is of great benefit to us."

……

Uncle Nanxiang Liu An, who was accidentally awakened from his comfortable frozen slumber once again, stared blankly at the battle report in front of him and a call-up order from the top of the empire, dumbfounded.

What the hell are these?

The return fleet of the C-level tracing colony wiped out a fourth-class empress!

The low-level colonist named Ren Zhong who served as the commander of the return fleet continued to advance technology on the way back, and developed a warp technology that does not require a stable subspace orbit, and relied on this technology to break into the mother emperor's body. Then use the three-phase bomb to inflict heavy damage on it, and then detonate the star to directly kill the fourth queen mother!

It also summed up a large number of combat ideas to deal with stealth units and information flow interference!

He even got a bunch of complete giant colony cells of the mother ship, and is trying to analyze this genetic treasure house?

"My combat achievements... oh, I should have known... a headache..."

Liu An let out a long sigh, regretting his mistakes.

Chapter 482 Escort, Black Mist Area

"Once this colonist is granted the title, according to the laws of the empire, his birthplace is within my Nanxiang star cluster. He will be the second count in the Nanxiang star cluster, which is not good for me, so I have to find a way. "

Liu An, who was talking to himself, had a cold light in his eyes.

Liu An didn't expect that the colonial returning fleet, which he had completely abandoned, would give him such a big surprise.

He recalled ten years ago.

At that time, the fleet had asked him for help.He refused.

"If I agree at that time and send out the escort fleet... Forget it, the Tenglong Nebula and the end of the Nanjiuxing passage are three light years away, and it will take 15 years at the fastest to arrive. Anyway, I can't make it in time. This battle is not my turn."

Thinking of it this way, he felt a little better.

If the current result is not caused by his own fault, it will not be so uncomfortable.

"Why is this mothership so stupid that it leaves giant colony cells. Forget it. Even if this colonizer becomes an earl, I can overwhelm him. After all, I am the uncle of Nanxiang. There are still some zeros in the Nanxiang star cluster. Fragmentary and remote places can be used to send him away. Of course, I can also grab him before he is sealed..."

Even if Ren Zhong became a hereditary earl, he would not be able to obtain the fief right away.

Ren Zhong also needs to take the civilians from the source star to stay in the South Nine galaxy for a period of time, accept the observation and review of the empire, and determine whether he is an earl purely by luck and whether he is worthy of training.

There are rewards for meritorious service, but the rewards are also divided into grades.

Promising and potential Earls are eligible to acquire galaxies with more easily exploitable resource planets.

After all, every unenfranchised galaxy is the private property of the royal family.If you want to eat meat from the royal family's rice bowl, you have to show value.

If Ren Zhong is firmly suppressed during the probationary period, and then judged to be a mediocre person with no prospects for training, then he can only be a senior comforter, nothing to be afraid of.

"I am Uncle Nanxiang, and the assessment report for the colonization will be in my hands at that time. I can let Viscount Southgate of Nanjiu suppress him first. Things are not so bad."

After a while, the military and political deputy chief of the Nanxiang Star Group, who is well versed in 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, Ren Zhong used the source star supernet node to initiate a one-by-one active query to the imperial supernet, and the query target was the transmission speed of information flow.Subsequently, the Imperial Supernet case tried to take over the Yuanxing Supernet node to verify the information, but was cut off the link.

This is a doubt.

It seems that this is innocuous, but the problem of the source star node query is too peculiar, and the behavior of disconnecting the link is also slightly abnormal. It seems that it can be used for fuss, at least it can splash some dirty water on this showy colonizer.

Liu An was very satisfied with the deputy chief's proposal, and was about to take action, but immediately received an unsolicited explanation from the Yuanxing supernet node.

According to Ren Zhong, the Origin Star Fleet was already slightly disturbed by the sublimator parade at that time, and the stability of the information flow and communication decreased slightly.

Ren Zhong personally misjudged the constants in the external environment, and because he was too nervous, he entrusted the source star node to conduct an inquiry to verify whether there was any abnormality in the information flow communication.

As for the act of disconnecting the link, it was also disturbed by the "disorder" of the fourth-rank empress' ambush combat unit.

After reading these reports, Liu An pondered for a moment, "Forget it, let's do this first, organize a hundred Helix-class fast shuttle ships, form a special service fleet, pass through the broken star ring, go to the outer border of the black mist area, and prepare to meet the return fleet of the source star. Escort the new Earl."

When he said the word "escort" at the end, he subconsciously emphasized his tone, and the fierce light in his pupils disappeared after a flash, and he returned to calm again.

……

At the same time, he completed the preparatory work in advance, cleaned up the dragged Yuan Mercury, and then temporarily transferred his main core program to the Yuan Xing pseudo-network, and only connected with Ren Zhong through a hidden separate line.

Since then, the original Mercury structure has become a real "net".But Ren Zhong, the powerful Viscount, gave the source star supernet node a rather humane name out of personal evil taste, of course it is also called "Xiao Ai".

Sun Ai said in Ren Zhong's heart: "Uncle, I have completed the disguise work, and I can let the Imperial Supernet scan and review the nodes at the takeover level."

Ren Zhong hummed, and asked a little more worriedly, "Will Yuanxing reveal its secrets? There will be no problems with this emergency research and development, right? Is your existence okay? After the review of the Imperial Supernet is over , you can take over the 'net' smoothly, right?"

Sun Ai smiled and said, "Anyway, it's all right."

"That's good."

Because Ren Zhong gave a reasonable explanation for the abnormal behavior in advance, and he had just made his military exploits, the empire was still looking forward to getting the latest giant cell samples from the fourth-class empress in modern times. The review did not take too long, and it only lasted half a year. Hour.

During this period, relying on the computing power and communication mechanism of the source star nodes, the Imperial Supernet has conducted a comprehensive monitoring and monitoring of the more than two billion people in the source star fleet, material reserves, human brain stocks, technology precipitation, and the current social atmosphere. analyze.

Imperial Supernet found something unusual.

Inside the Origin Star Fleet, there is a strong personality cult towards the leader Ren Zhong, but at the same time, many people are quite dissatisfied with Ren Zhong. The social atmosphere is slightly distorted, but it operates smoothly.The root of the dissatisfaction is that Ren Zhong once promised to leave the seeds of civilization on the source star, but before leaving, he strictly implemented the empire's clean-up order.After the Battle of the Mother Royal Ship, the dissatisfaction basically disappeared, leaving only fanatical worship.

Unlike other return fleets, the people in the Origin Star Fleet don't seem to have a particularly strong desire to use freezing to travel across time and space to the empire.

Although the Yuanxing Fleet encountered drastic changes before departure, resulting in a low number of super fighters with starry space combat power, and lost almost all starship larvae, the fleet members did not rest on their laurels, but strictly followed the intensive training planned by the heavy responsibilities. According to the plan, more than [-] super fighters have been produced in just ten years.Many military personnel have not slept for ten years. They are already old, but they still stick to their training positions.

Others such as scientific research personnel and production personnel also have similar phenomena.It seems that the crew on the ship did not regard the voyage as a process of moving, but regarded the fleet as a new home.

These people learned and grew up on the [-] transport ships and nearly [-] armed ships, married wives and had children, multiplied, and created jobs.From a land nation to a nomadic people.

It is not that there is no such civilization model in the machine empire.For example, some earls and even marquises formed a similar nomadic fleet to wander around because of their personal preferences, collecting rare resources and looking for beautiful landscapes in the universe as their hobbies.

The size of some nomadic fleets even far surpasses that of the Origin Star Fleet.

But the tracing colony does not have as many resources as the high-class noble fleet, nor does it have such a high level of technology. After all, life in the fleet is very bitter, and the resource quota is limited. Few returning fleets of the tracing colony can do it this point.

The claustrophobic environment for many years can easily create complex social problems. On the long return journey, the best option has never been to simply let most people fall asleep.They are all frozen, there is no time to think about things, and there is no chance to produce psychological barriers, so how can there be turmoil.

In short, although there are many anomalies, these anomalies are all within the tolerance limit of the imperial system, and he still has military exploits to protect him, so this audit has been successfully implemented.

After the virtual tentacles of the Imperial Supernet were retracted, Sun Ai immediately packed himself up again, moved back from the Yuanxing pseudo-network, and continued to serve as a secretary with heavy responsibilities.

"Uncle, I have just received a notification from the Deputy Chief of the Nanxiang Star Group. They have organized a special service fleet consisting of 0.2 spiral-class fast shuttle ships. After one year and more than one month, I will be able to leave the South Nine Star Outer Channel Relay Station. The shuttle ship array maintains a long-distance cruise at 8 times the speed of light in the universe, and will arrive at the black mist area in about 9 to [-] years, and will be in the black mist area. Waiting for us outside the edge. When we pass through the black mist area, we can meet them."

Ren nodded, expressing his understanding.

Now that the Ascendant's parade team has been wiped out, the fleet can turn back and return to the trade route of the Tenglong Nebula.

Due to the re-acceleration required for the return flight and the large change of direction, the estimated time for the crossing of the commercial route is 3 years.

After leaving the Tenglong Nebula, there will be a large barren belt, waiting for a flat river, you can accelerate in a straight line.

The straight-line distance from the border of the Dragon Nebula to the outer border of the Black Fog is 1.2 light-years and takes 12 years to travel.

Then, the total length of the path inside the black mist area is 0.25 light-years, and the estimated travel time is 5 years.

On the whole, it will take 20 years for the Yuanxing fleet to reach the inner border of the black mist area and join the special service fleet.