Resurrection Empire

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Wen Lei asked again: "I tried to send a message to Zheng Tian and Ou Youning just now, but I didn't receive a reply. Is the communication system malfunctioning?"

Ren Zhong shook his head on the screen and said: "There is no fault. For the sake of confidentiality, I can only contact Yuan Xing through a single line for the time being."

"That's it. Brother Ren, what's the matter with you?" Wen Lei knew that Ren Zhong seldom talked nonsense, let alone chatting with others, so he must have something to do when he knocked on the communication.

Ren Zhong cut to the chase and said, "I remember Wen Lei that your pocket watch is an ancient clockwork mechanism, right?"

"Yes, Brother Ren." Wen Lei responded, while holding up his watch and shaking it at the camera with emotion.He didn't expect that after so many years, Ren Zhong still remembered the pocket watch that contained the childhood photos of him and Ai Jiashan.

Ren Zhong: "Did you forget to wind the clock?"

Wen Lei immediately patted his chest, "No, how can I forget this. Even when I was in a frozen sleep, I asked my colleagues to help me screw it once a week. It has never stopped moving for 20 years."

At this time, Sun Ai gave an analysis report, "Uncle, I just calculated the accuracy of Wen Lei's pocket watch through the comparison in the video camera. The average slowness is one second per year. For a clockwork mechanical watch, The accuracy is pretty good."

Ren Zhong nodded slightly, and asked again: "Wen Lei, have you adjusted its time in the past 20 years?"

Wen Lei shook his head slightly in surprise, "I just happened to get the time right once when I first met you, and I was able to get it right even when I adjusted the second hand, but I haven't moved it since then, what's wrong?"

Ren Zhong hummed, "It's okay, I'll think about it first."

Twenty years have passed, and Wen Lei's pocket watch has a total error of 20 seconds.

In these 31 seconds, the mechanical error value of 20 seconds has to be subtracted.

So, in fact, Wen Lei's pocket watch is only 11 seconds behind Yuanxing's standard time, and 7638 seconds behind Imperial standard time.

In the sleeping space, Ren Zhong manipulated the external machinery, grabbed out the notebook in the desk drawer, and turned to the ninth page. In the virtual projection, Ren Zhong saw a whole page of numbers on the ninth page of the notebook. , starting from 6781, then 6782, 6783 and continuing until 7638.

He has an unknown habit of always carrying a paper notebook with him, and writing numbers on it from time to time.

Unknowingly, after so many years, he has written the number from 1 to 7638.

Only he himself knows what this number represents.

It is the number of times he has experienced all the deaths and resets he has experienced so far since his resurrection in the ancient freezer.

The error time calculated by Sun Ai just now is 7627, and the difference between the two numbers is 11, so that he has all the speculations in his mind, but he is not sure.

Now through Wen Lei's pocket watch, Ren Zhong got the answer.

Recalling that year, it only took him 11 resurrections to successfully destroy the "net" of the previous generation with the help of Sun Ai.

In fact, there was already a problem with the time axis at that time, and it would be a second slower from time to time, but it was corrected by the previous generation of "net".

After the "net" of the previous generation lost control and cut off the connection, the connection between the source star and the mechanical empire was interrupted, and the time could no longer be corrected.

The standard timing device on the source star was replaced by the brain of the seeker and some standard atomic clocks, which began to gradually stagger with the imperial standard time.

Now that Sun Ai has become the new "net", the first time correction was naturally carried out along the source star standard time at the beginning. The error between this number and the imperial standard time is 7627 seconds.

"Wen Lei, I have nothing else to do. Go and do your own business."

"Oh well."

"and many more."

"Wen Lei, you are quite talented in the field of mechanical structures. Your genes should not be wasted. Life must go on, and you should not stand still. You should come out and find someone you like to marry. Just like As I said to others before, I am on the side of the empire, and I am also looking forward to receiving help from Origin Star someday in the future."

Wen Lei thought for a long time, then nodded heavily, "Okay Brother Ren."

Just as Ren Zhong hung up the communication, Sun Ai asked anxiously: "How is it? Do you have any new ideas?"

Ren Zhong shook his head, "There are some guesses, but they have no practical significance. I won't talk about it first, so as not to mislead you. Forget it, don't continue to pursue this matter, and use the method I mentioned earlier to slowly correct the time. .”

Seeing that he didn't want to say more, Sun Ai didn't ask any more questions, but was busy with correcting the time and strengthening the disguise.

In fact, Sun Ai is now considered to be a half-artificial intelligence, fully able to run multi-threaded, communicating with Ren Zhong while doing other things, the two have nothing to do with each other.

But now the heavy responsibility probably needs a person to be quiet.

After Sun Ai disappeared, Ren Zhong rubbed his face and thought to himself, it's not all fruitless, at least he knows that the slowing down of time is indeed related to his resurrection and rebirth.

Every time you die and reset, you will consume one second in a specific area.

Undoubtedly, this area definitely did not extend to Nanjiuxing.

As for the principle of death and resurrection reset?

Hehe, what is that?

farewell.

After calming down a bit, Ren Zhong called out to the air again: "Xiao Ai."

"exist."

"Help me contact the South Nine Star Consul, Mr. Augustus, we should ask the empire for help."

"okay."

……

Nanjiuxing is a standard yellow dwarf star with a mass of 1.4 times that of the sun. It has twelve planets and is located on the edge of the Nanxiang star cluster.

The Nanxiang Star Cluster is a small open star cluster consisting of 3452 stars and more than 5.7 planets.The radius of the central area is 2800 light-years, and more than 22.5 stars are evenly distributed in it with relative mass, and the remaining more than [-] stars are scattered in the outer area, and Nanjiuxing is one of them.The entire cluster has a radius of [-] light-years.

There are more than [-] stars and their planets in the Nanxiang star cluster, which are the enfeoffment of the contemporary Nanxiang Bo Liu'an.The Liu family can enjoy part of the taxes provided by these Shiyi planets, and has mastered several monopoly enterprises in the entire Nanxiang star cluster.

As the hereditary Earl of Nanxiang, Liu An did not sit on the mountain and eat nothing. Instead, he worked hard to rule. He stood out from the many nobles in the Nanxiang star field and became the military and political officer of the Nanxiang star group. The powerful army on the border of the empire has accumulated countless military exploits.

Regardless of title or position, Liu An is second to none in the Nanxiang star cluster. Even if you look at the tens of millions of earls in the Machine Empire, he is one of the strongest earls, and is even known as the earl who is most likely to be promoted to a marquis by relying on military exploits for thousands of years one.

For nearly 3000 years, unless there was a war, Liu An spent most of his time in a frozen sleep, only waking up regularly for seven days every ten years, using the imperial supernet to simply inspect the territory and the development of the ruling area, and then deal with some important military and political affairs.

Although he has cherished his life so much, he is still slowly passing the biological age of 60 years old.

The average age of the empire is only 62 years old. Even if the earl has better living conditions, better medical conditions, better health, and more medicines, he still has at most 30 to [-] years of physical life, or even shorter.

Time is running out.

But he was always short of the position of marquis, which made him feel more urgent, but he was helpless.

But this time, Liu An was woken up by an accident just after falling into a deep sleep for less than three years.

There is a tracer colony 10.5 light-years away from the main star of Nanxiang where he is located, and 4 light-years away from the South Nine Star, which declared the mission failed.

It was just a trivial matter.

Although the colony is located on the ancestral planet of human beings, the Origin Star, everyone knows that that place is already a semi-abandoned existence, and the tracers will not find any major discoveries there, it is just the lowest-level breeding farm.

What's more, as early as 80 years ago, the commercial transport ships traveling between the two sides had ceased operations.

The Origin Star Colony lost contact with the Empire nearly 20 years ago.

You don't need to inquire into it to know that the nodes of the "network" established by the nine wastes of the source star must be faulty.Maybe it was attacked by an enemy ranger, maybe the administrator of Yuanxing was too stupid to play badly, in short, this is very rare, but it is not important.

This incident didn't even wake him up at the time. He just checked the file briefly after waking up, and ordered that the viscount family where the nine wastes belonged to be punished, and the tax rate for the next 50 years was increased.

As for how the people from Yuanxing Colony came back and whether they could return to the voyage smoothly, Bo Liu An of Nanxiang didn't care.

What the Origin Star Migration Fleet carried was not his wealth, but belonged to the empire, and it wasn't too much. It was nothing more than some low-level warships, some human brains, and thousands of starship larvae.

But this time the situation is different. The "last radio wave" from the tracker announced the complete failure of this colonization mission, and a suspected god-level psychic descendant appeared.

Even if he was the leader of a star cluster-level legion, Liu An did not dare to underestimate the potential harm of the god-level psychic descendant.

What's more, the imperial colonial minister and senior officials in the intelligence agency realized this at the same time, and issued a first-level alert to him.

He must select the elite as quickly as possible, form a special attack fleet, and equip it with brand-new equipment sent by the Intelligence Agency from the Nanxiang Star Gate, and immediately dispatch to four light-years away to try to intercept and hunt them down. This god-level spiritual demon descendant.

After five days of intensive preparations, Liu An formed a special attack fleet consisting of [-] Spiral-class fast shuttle ships.

If all goes well, even if the entire Origin Star Migration Fleet is firmly controlled by Psychic Demons, this army with a cruising speed of one-fifth of the speed of light and all members equipped with brand-new psychic interference shielding combat uniforms can still Destroy the main ship of the Mind Demon with a devastating force.

Even if you encounter elite rangers from the other three countries, you can still win.

Just now, Liu An completed the swearing-in mobilization meeting before the army dispatched, and the special attack team had just left the space station and headed straight for Yuanxing.

Liu An returned to the office with a smile of Zhizhu still on his face.

He believes that success will be reported in 100 years at the latest.

Kill a god-level psychic demon who usually only appears in super-large battles and never leaves alone, and then kill a few patrollers who also received the "last radio wave" and tried to fight the autumn wind. Refilling the number should be enough to make up for the military merits of being promoted to the Marquis.

"I'm lucky."

Yet his good mood only lasted even 5 minutes.

The Nanxiang node of the Imperial Supernet has just informed him that the source star network has completed self-repair.

The two sides are rebuilding ties.

And Nanxiang Supernet also told him a piece of "good news". The god-level psychic demons had been blown into the elementary particles of the universe due to a ridiculous accidental malfunction, and the colonists on the source star had successfully controlled the situation. The migratory fleet is dispatching according to the original plan, heading for the South Nine Stars, and preparing to return to the empire.

The smile on Liu An's face froze on the spot.

His mind is fast.

He immediately realized what this meant.

Bai Jian's military exploits are gone.

The 20-year excess taxes of the nine viscounts who had just eaten in their stomachs had to be spit out, and the lowly colonizers who killed the god-level psychic demons by luck and luck were rewarded as Nanxiang military and political officials.

More importantly, it has been five days since this unexpected awakening.

He wasted another five days of his life in vain.

"My lord, is our fleet still moving forward?"

Liu An's secretary who also received the message asked cautiously from the side.

Liu An looked at the 288 secretaries uncertainly, and it took five seconds to control his emotions, "Let me think about it first, you step down first."

After the secretary went out, Liu An slammed his fist on the desk.

"Oh shit."

Liu An stood up and checked the information from Yuan Xing repeatedly, especially the video recording and related data reports when the No. 0001 armed warship exploded, trying to see some clues and find some doubts.

He wondered if he could explain the so-called accidental explosion as a plot by the Psychic.

Then, on the grounds that the extremely sinister and cunning god-level psychic demon was not only still alive, but also trying to lurk and enter the empire in disguise, he simply and neatly destroyed all the Origin Star Migration Fleet, and fabricated military exploits out of thin air.

But after a while, he looked at the seamless data report, looked at the video data, and thought about the difficulty of lying about the military situation, and the terrible consequences of the crime of deceiving the emperor after being found out. After all, he did not have the courage .

"It's crazy to even come up with such a thing as a compressed three-phase thermonuclear bomb. I don't know how to make a safety device for such a terrible unlimited bomb, but it will accidentally detonate due to wrong parameters. Damn, how do you Such a lucky life. Oh."

Liu An thought about it in detail.

His resentment is really deep.

At this time, his subordinate, Southgate Augustus, the governor of the South Nine Stars, sent a message, "My lord, the Origin Star Colonial Fleet requests escort support."

"Support ass! As a frontier theater, the Nanxiang star field has no extra troops to escort a mere C-level tracer colonial fleet. There has never been a precedent for a C-level tracer colonial fleet to be escorted by a star group legion. .You tell them, let them fend for themselves. Their ships are full of lowly colonists! Not a single citizen of the Empire, they are not worthy!"

After Liu An scolded, he finally felt a little better.Then he hurried back and got into the freezer.

Chapter 463

The cold reception received by Uncle Nanxiang was not beyond Ren Zhong's expectations.

Ren Zhong is not sure about the value of the god-level psychic demon, and he is not sure that it is actually military exploits that can attract Uncle Nanxiang.

He instinctively thought that the fleet should get little support.

He just sent an application routinely in accordance with the regulations of the Colonial Fleet.

As Nan Xiang Bo Liu An said, no matter how pretentious Ren Zhong and other Yuan Xing people are, they cannot change the fact that the Yuan Xing fleet comes from a mere C-level tracing colony.

What's more, Yingfeng Ma Zhongfei and other low-level nobles of the empire have been wiped out, and the most valuable [-] starship larvae have also been lost.

Those in this fleet are now worthless civilians until they reach the Empire. .

As for the possibility that Southgate Augustus, the consul of the South Nine Stars, saw that the descendants of the Augustus family suffered heavy casualties in the hands of Ren Zhong, so he made a hindrance?

Ren Zhong felt that this was unlikely.

No matter what Southgate thinks, it is Liu An who holds absolute power in the Nanxiang star cluster.

This kind of matter must be decided by Liu An himself or the military-political complex of the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

Southgate has no such power.