Resurrection Empire

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In fact, Yuanxing has not dispatched a New Year ship for nearly 80 years.

Over the years, all newly built annual ships are here.

As for the inventory of human brains, it is increasing at an average rate of nearly 400 million per year, and now it is about [-] billion, which are evenly dispersed inside each annual ship.

Ren Zhong's breathing gradually became heavy.

He lifted off his armor mask, allowing the cold air to flow into his nostrils and into his lungs.

After a long time, the blood on his body cooled down slightly, then he turned around abruptly and left.

……

Two days have passed.

A mighty fleet consisting of 860 eight ships formed a huge formation and quickly passed the far-earth orbit of the source Pluto.

The fleet will be slightly accelerated by the traction of the source Pluto, and then correct its direction and rush to the star closest to the source sun-Nan Jiuxing.

Next, the fleet will continue to accelerate for five days to gradually reach one tenth of the speed of light.

Right in front of the formation, the first nine armed warships have been separated from the main force for nearly 30 billion kilometers.

These nine armed ships are the advance team, and additional scanners modified from ghost particle communicators are installed, with a scanning range of tens of billions of kilometers.

In addition, there are also a large number of small scout ships operated by a team of ten in the front.These small reconnaissance ships do not have such a large scanning range, but they can get close to observe unknown targets and analyze more information that cannot be recognized by large scanners.

The maximum combat radius of these small reconnaissance ships exceeds 500 billion kilometers, and they are rotated every half a month on average, using the armed ships in the advance team as supply stations.

Reconnaissance ships take on the most difficult and dangerous tasks.

Although this is the frontier of the empire's territory, it is still the empire's territory and star field after all. Those who dare to be active here must be the best in their respective civilizations.Yuanxing is just a C-class colony, and the scout ships from Yuanxing have no possibility of defeating any enemies.

If you are really unfortunate enough to encounter an enemy, there is absolutely no possibility of surviving.

They don't need to send back an alarm when they encounter an enemy. The nine advance ships will judge that there is an enemy that can harm the scout ship based on the disappearance of their signals.

In a sense, the squad on the scout ship is a death squad.

Moreover, according to the voyage plan provided by the Arson Group, the crew members on these reconnaissance ships will be passed on from generation to generation, and they are not eligible for cryogenic slumber.

These team members are basically composed of low-level citizens, but have certain talents in various fields. Their sacrifices will be exchanged for their descendants to be promoted to the seventh-level Origin Star citizens when they arrive in the empire, that is, the common people in the empire. Chance.

The annual ring-class transport ships in the past have always operated like this.

The Tracker spacecraft turned on the stealth mode, hanging far behind the fleet, even further back than the rear team responsible for the delay.

At this time, Ren Zhong was sitting on the Iron Throne, and the audience was full of people.

Standing on the left are cronies from Ren's Group, and those on the right are senior officials from the Nine Groups and the original association.

The people on both sides are about the same, there are more than [-] people on each side, and the two sides coincidentally left a large gap in the middle, with a clear distinction, like the Chu River and the Han border.

Only two distant relatives, Ma Xiaoling and Ma Xiacheng, were standing in front of their respective camps, and they were quite close, chatting.

At this time, Ren Zhong did not announce the start of the meeting, but just quietly looked at the three-dimensional star map of the source star hanging above everyone's heads, wandering into the sky, wondering what he was thinking.

Everyone in the audience gathered together in twos and threes, met their eyes, and sometimes whispered and chatted. The content of the chat was probably related to work, and they seemed extremely diligent.

Xiao Xingyue, who was supposed to be a confidant with heavy responsibilities, and had many acquaintances in Yuanxing Military Industry and the now-disbanded Promotion Association, was supposed to serve as a bridge to promote exchanges between the two parties, hiding far away in the shadow behind the crowd.She seemed to be deliberately trying not to be noticed.

"The nine chairs used to commemorate the ancestors are missing. I always feel weird."

Ma Xiacheng had some opinions on Ren Zhong's execution of most of the core members of the Augustus family, but he couldn't speak directly, so he made indirect remarks to Ma Xiaoling, a distant relative.

Ma Xiaoling curled her lips, "What's so strange. You don't know him, and you don't know how much he hates the Nine Groups. He wished that all these people were dead... Uh... not including you, and not including me. In short, I believe What he said, now we have to be united and make decisions efficiently, so he can only have his voice. Keeping those chairs will make ambitious people have illusions, and this is just right now."

"But I'm not used to seeing him condescending." Ma Xiacheng shrugged, "When he was working in Shenxun Group, even if he was the project team leader, he never used power to overwhelm others, and he was always happy when dealing with people. His crew say he's very approachable, um, like me."

Ma Xiaoling patted Ma Xiacheng's shoulder carelessly, "People will always grow."

"You can think about it."

At this moment, Ren Zhong on the stage finally withdrew his gaze from star map projection.

There was no need for him to make a sound to remind, and the background returned to silence in three seconds.

"In one hour, the fleet will pass above the asteroid belt and officially leave the star boundary of the source star system. Next, I will announce my order No. 154332. I officially inform you that according to the imperial colonization law, the tracers According to the requirements of the second supplementary article of the Project No. 73259 Act, I will complete the cleanup of the source star colony when the tracker [-] flies over the asteroid [-]."

"Cleaning work? What do you mean?" Ma Xiaoling turned to look at Ma Xiacheng beside him.She knew that her distant relative who was the chairman of Shenxun Group must have more information.

However, Ma Xiacheng's pupils widened at this time, very shocked.

As early as 15 years ago, he received instructions from his ancestor Ma Zhongfei, asking him to leave such technologies and infrastructure on Yuan Xing.Although Ma Xiacheng never cared about the life of the poor people at the bottom, his nature is not bad.He understood that the ancestors had changed their minds and wanted to leave the seeds of civilization on the source star, so he felt relieved.

Like him, Gao Ya, Tang Youyun and others were also puzzled.

Ma Xiaoling shook Ma Xiacheng's shoulder, "What's going on?"

Ma Xiacheng said softly with a sullen face: "The so-called cleaning is to kill everyone and destroy all things with the characteristics of the empire's technology. This is indeed a requirement in the imperial decree for the colony of the tracers. The purpose is to prevent the leakage of the empire's unique technology. .But I thought it was cancelled. Even the Autonomy War was aborted due to the rapid rise of the Ren Group, the ancestors did not interfere, and did not perform human brain harvesting on barbarians and low-level citizens. So I don’t understand What the hell happened. How did he change his mind?"

"Master Viscount, this violates the will of the administrators! You must be joking, right?"

Just when Ma Xiacheng was about to ask, a crisp female voice rang out from the crowd.

Everyone looked back, but they saw that Gao Ya, who had just come out of the frozen slumber and took over the helm of Amethyst Mining, raised his hand.

At this time, Gao Ya pursed her lips tightly, stared at Ren Zhong with wide eyes, her face was full of unwillingness and incomprehension.

Some sharp-eyed people even noticed some crystals in the corners of her eyes.

Before Ren Zhong went to Xiayuanjing City to study at the Census Officer Academy, Gao Ya spent a short time with him under the pseudonym Zhou Ya.

Later, after Gao Ya's identity was found out, the two parties did not cut off contact.

She saw with her own eyes that Ren Zhong pulled Hu Yang out of the pile of dead people out of sympathy, even at the expense of offending Tang Xiangyun.

Afterwards, as an assistant, she accompanied Ren Zhong to spend three years studying as a census officer, helping to take care of many things, and saw with her own eyes how Ren Zhong kept saving from the vicious census officer Brown Jonathan. Many people who died unjustly were returned.

She claims to understand Ren Zhong very well, but now she is even more shocked than Ma Xiacheng, and still doesn't understand.

Ren Zhong turned to look at her.

The crowd was suddenly silent.

Many people who were standing beside Gao Ya quietly moved away from her.

Many people remember that less than a day ago, Ren Zhong said that as a dictator, he would not explain everything to others.

The last person who questioned him was from the Augustus family, and now the direct line of the Augustus family is almost dead.

The heavy gaze put a lot of pressure on Gao Ya.

The uncles and brothers and sisters around Gao Ya are giving her winks at Crazy.

Her raised hand retracted slightly.

But she gritted her teeth fiercely, but held it up again.

Ren Zhong narrowed his eyes, and finally spoke, "I don't know where the former administrators got the wrong information, and changed the rules on their own initiative after 'Net' fell asleep. But now 'Net' is awake,' Net' told me that there is no such precedent in the Empire, which is not true."

Sun Ai roared in Ren Zhong's heart, "You are framing me!"

Ren Zhong ignored her.

Here, Gao Ya clenched her teeth, not knowing what to do.

At this moment, Zheng Tian finally stood up at the forefront of the Ren Group camp.

She looked straight into Ren Zhong's eyes, "But the family members of Chen Hanyu, Hu Yang, Yu Jin, Wen Lei, and Uncle Wang are still on Yuanxing! If you want to..."

Zheng Tian was even more confused.

She believed that if Ren Zhong had decided to destroy the Origin Star civilization from the very beginning, then of course he should take away all his closest relatives.

Beside Zheng Tian, ​​Ju Qingmeng was hesitant to speak several times, staring at Ren Zhong with inquiring eyes.

Ren Zhong ignored Ju Qingmeng's wink, stood up slowly, and looked around, "I have already given my explanation. What you should do is to quietly witness my completion of the last step of the Seeker's colonization operation."

"No..." Zheng Tian took a step forward.

Ren Zhong turned his face away and stared at her coldly, "Zheng Tian, ​​you are my military affairs officer, that is to say. When I am not in command, you are the supreme military commander of the fleet. You must maintain absolute Be calm, and you must obey me absolutely. Because soldiers take obeying orders as their bounden duty. I only allow you to make this one mistake, stand back! Everyone, sit down! Staring at the star map, to our hometown, to those who stayed The people on the source star, let's say a final farewell!"

"The greatest significance of their sacrifice is to help us live a better life in the empire. We will take their share, re-establish branches and leaves in the empire, and enter the great interstellar era! I... have no regrets in my heart. "

Chapter 460 I've Finished My Words

Until the asteroid 73259 turned into cosmic particles in a violent explosion, at least 100 people in the hall thought that Ren Zhong was just joking.

The source star has many small settlements built on planets, space and asteroids.

The settlement farthest from the source star and with the harshest conditions is on the asteroid 73259.

The length of No. 73259 is 87 kilometers. It is not a spherical shape, but a long strip structure.

The significance of this settlement is not mining, nor is it responsible for the production of resources.

The task of nearly ten thousand people living here is to act as observers on the outskirts of the galaxy, together with hundreds of other asteroid settlements located in different regions, they form the outermost "eyes" of the source star galaxy, in case of possible enemies in outer space.

They have to maintain equipment, replace faulty parts, and have to fly out in small spacecraft from time to time to repair the space exploration telescope floating in further orbit. .

Although the 1000-year source star has never been attacked by aliens, the observatory settlements on asteroids such as 73259 have never been vacant.

Due to limited conditions and high material transportation costs, no large-scale space station has been established here, resulting in a very narrow living area for people here, and an extremely limited activity area. Apart from surfing the Internet, there is almost no fun in life to speak of.

Almost no one can persist here for more than five years, especially after the "internet disconnection", only radio communication is available, which is even more inconvenient, and the living conditions here have become even more difficult.

In order to ensure work efficiency, the association has also maintained an average rotation every five years.

What's more unfortunate is that due to the heavy responsibility, the untrusted barbarians are not even qualified to come here to suffer.

This is a matter for citizens.

Among the citizens of Yuan Xing, there is also such a saying.

"Either you become a useless person, or you must never hang the tail, otherwise you have to go to 73259 and count the stars."

Parents of low-level citizens often use this sentence to persuade their children to study or dismiss, so that the small 73259 Asteroid Observatory enjoys a reputation that is completely out of proportion to its size.

But now, with a violent explosion, it's gone.

People on the Tracker, which is only 1000 million kilometers away from it, saw a close-up from a large optical telescope after more than [-] seconds.

Some who once claimed to understand the heavy responsibility fell silent.

Even Ma Xiaoling covered her mouth, choking speechlessly.

In her perception, Ren Zhong would never kill innocent people.

Ren Zhong also told her swearingly that everyone who died at his hands had their own way of death.

But now, Ren Zhong swallowed hard what he had said.

There were 1 people on it, and they all evaporated.

Since Ren Zhong can kill 1 people without blinking an eyelid, he can also kill another 180 billion people.

Once a person raises the butcher knife, he becomes non-human. There is no essential difference between killing 1 people and killing one trillion people. They are all butchers anyway.

Of all the people present, only Ren Zhong knew the truth.

When Sun Ai just recovered, an empty transport ship completely controlled by Sun Ai arrived at No. 73259.

At the same time, another transport ship that had been docked here set sail, sending nearly 1717 people who had been working here for four and a half years back to No. [-] forward transport ship.

These 1 people were fed a perception that they were just finishing their shifts ahead of schedule.

Their jobs will be taken over by another 1 people who have already arrived at the observatory.

They can even communicate with their successors through the restored "network" and hand over work.

They also saw the list of successors.

Of course, these 1 people do not actually exist, because the people on this list still live in Xinghuo Town.

They don't even know they've been sent to asteroid 73259.

Knowing the truth, Ren Zhong didn't want to justify himself, so he just waved his hand and said: "'Net' has finished cleaning, this is the information captured by 'Net' based on the optical telescopes and cameras built in various regions. The projection screen. After we leave, these related facilities will self-destruct. You can watch by yourself, and the meeting ends."

After finishing speaking, Ren Zhong got up by himself, stepped on the conveyor belt behind the throne, and quickly disappeared into the distance.

After Ren Zhong left, there was a brief silence in the hall.

Everyone paid attention to the figure that was gradually sinking into the darkness, and the invisible sense of oppression did not disappear with his departure.