Resurrection Empire

Liu An finally received assistance from the Duke of Wenle's Palace.

Although the Chifeng tribe has almost bought up all the material inventory in the area near the Nanxiang Star Cluster and Star Gate, Duke Wenle is a duke after all. He has a profound background and overwhelming power, and he will not be able to save even a mere earl.

The Duke of Wenle's Palace is large in scale, with a wide variety of inventory resources and ample portions.

In addition, Nanxiang Military and Political Council also has some reserve resources that cannot be easily used at ordinary times.

In the past, these resources were equivalent to Liu An's private inventory.

But after he lost his position as the chief military officer of Nanxiang, Wen Zaiyin refused to accept his blame, so Liu An could only watch.

In the current predicament of Nanxiang Earl's Mansion, Wen Zaiyin is also an accomplice who adds fuel to the flames to Ren Zhong.

However, with the power of Duke Wenle's Palace, they were able to force Wen Zaiyin to let go and mobilize the military and political resources of Nanxiang to help Liu An overcome the current difficulties. At the same time, Senna will transport supplies from Duke Wenle's Mansion to the Nanxiang Star Cluster, which will not only make up for the inventory deficit of the Nanxiang Military and Political Center, but also provide continuous blood transfusions for Liu An.

In the future, Liu An can also use the Duke's Palace of Wenle to relay transactions and reopen the purchase channel.

In this way, Liu An can overcome the current difficulties and avoid a terrible stagnation due to energy shortage.

The price of the materials provided by Duke Wenle's Mansion will definitely be slightly higher than the market price, but it is better than having no goods available or the cannibalistic quotation from the Chifeng Department of Commerce.

After finalizing many matters, Senna Romanov said before seeing off the guests: "Although Wen Zaiyin is only the chief executive of the cluster, he belongs to the regular imperial administrative system after all. If the Duke wants to put pressure on him, he will have to pay a lot of effort. It's a small price. Therefore, Liu An, you must understand that you have no room for wavering anymore."

Liu An: "I understand. I understand everything."

While Liu An was mentally calculating how much financial losses he would suffer due to the rescue of Duke Wenle's Mansion, he lowered his head and left Senna's manor in his one-man spaceship.

Due to the shortage of energy, it was necessary to control the distribution. At this time, the radiation protection layer of his planet's atmosphere was operating at low power, so that the star's light was still slightly hot and dazzling after penetrating the cover of his spacecraft.

Liu An covered his eyes, but felt a little reluctant and raised his head to peek at the stars above his head.

He thought to himself that the Chifeng clan really repaid others in their own way.

The scene when he and the Duke of Wenle's Palace joined forces to try to create an energy crisis for the Chifeng tribe was still vivid in his mind, but he didn't expect that the knife would come back and hit him on the head.

Liu An thought again, could this be just the beginning?

He guessed correctly.

Han Zhixin, who received clearer instructions, showed a more ruthless and cruel side.

Han Zhixin rose from the bottom, held numerous positions from bottom to top, and has a deep understanding of many industries.

At the same time, the Chifeng Academy of Sciences also has a specially established low-intensity warfare research institute, which is involved in various fields such as economic warfare, cultural warfare, transportation warfare, public opinion warfare, resource warfare, and technological warfare.

These people can always make various sinister and sinister proposals to Han Zhixin.

Han Zhixin was always able to quickly pick out the sharpest knife from the vast and complex library of proposals, and then quietly stabbed the Nanxiang Earl's Mansion.

Like the means of controlling energy battery materials, these knives are not very sharp and are not directly fatal. They can always leave Liu An a glimmer of life, but they will continue to bleed out the Earl's Mansion of Nanxiang.

The beneficiary may not be the Earl of Chifeng, but that is not important. What is important is that it is impossible for Liu An to let go of his hatred and remain rational.

In the mechanical empire, the scale of space is very large, but time passes quickly.

It seems like ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

But the speed and slowness of time are relative.

The smaller the scale that time covers, the slower it goes; the larger the scale that time covers, the faster it goes.

For a specific individual, ten years is a long time. It is enough for a person to go from childhood to youth, and it is also enough for a person who has just left school to start a family and start a business, from an ignorant fresh graduate to an important screw in society. .

But for a country, a planet, or even a huge civilization composed of thousands of planets and trillions of people, ten years is just a blink of an eye, just a small fragment in the long history. In a blink of an eye, it disappeared without a trace.

Today's Chifeng tribe is such a huge civilization.

As for Ren Zhong himself, his situation is more complicated.

He is the spiritual sustenance and backbone of Chifeng civilization, and his mind carries a lot of memories, from the source star to the journey, to the difficulties and hardships of the whole group when he first came to the Nanxiang star cluster, and to every subsequent battle. From big or small battles to a major scientific advancement in which he participated. Finally, he personally participated in and witnessed the rapid rise of the Red Feng clan.

In a sense, he not only lives with the country and is a spiritual totem of civilization, but his memory is also a history book belonging to the Chifeng people.

Time cannot leave marks on his face or scars on his body. He can live forever.

Therefore, he is civilization.

Civilization is him.

But aside from all the auras and identities, he is actually still a human being in essence, a living, emotional, flesh and blood person with joy, anger, sorrow and joy.

He will also be irritated, feel sad, and want to joke with people from time to time. He will also fall into memories in his spare time, missing the journeys he has taken, missing those who have lost, and even missing himself. The parents who live in the 21st century and the younger brother who has never met, those classmates, mentors, those so-called "enemies" who once questioned his academic fraud because of his excellence but were finally convinced by him, and the road back home. Ginkgo trees with golden leaves hanging on the roadside...

Therefore, these ten years of responsibility passed both quickly and slowly.

It was because he had not been born for almost ten years, and everyone thought he was comfortably enjoying a frozen sleep, waiting to receive the fruits of development created for him by countless subordinates.

Slow because he has never been lazy for a day.

From time to time, he transforms into the "big villain" in the new virtual reality training system produced by Sun Ai, plays the brain-enhanced commander of the Ascendant fleet, and from time to time becomes the "virtual commander-in-chief" who assists the trainees, and Or Sun Ai was labeled as the most powerful simulated individual soldier training program, killing everyone in the virtual reality system, ruthlessly ravaging the new recruits of the Red Feng tribe.

From time to time, he used a pseudonym to enter the scientific research system of Chifeng Academy of Sciences and Yuanxing. He not only served as a bridge, but also always worked hard to find breakthroughs for every project that was in trouble.

He is always busy, working whenever he opens his eyes, with almost no rest.

Time flies when he is focused on something.

In fact, all this is because he dare not rest.

Once he has a little leisure time, he will subconsciously fall into memories, and subconsciously want to predict the future, to "watch" the inevitable star field level war, and to experience the life and death and countless life and death that will inevitably occur in this war. Tragedy, or just memories of the past.

Memories make people lonely. The more he recalled, the more lonely he felt.

Sometimes he really wanted to wake Ju Qingmeng and Ma Xiaoling out of the freezer and have a casual chat with them, even if it was just about what they had eaten yesterday.

Sometimes, he also wants to go find Xiao Xingyue and ask her to come out of the freezer, and recall with her every detail of how they met and got along on the Origin Star.

But he didn't dare after all.

He can live forever, but others cannot.

Every time he wakes everyone up one more time, it means he will lose someone one day earlier. He cannot waste other people's lives meaninglessly.

Therefore, it is clear that there are countless people working for him now, and the size of the Chifeng clan has already been extremely large, but as a leader of civilization, he is still lonely.

Not only that, he felt deeply that the stronger the Chifeng clan became, the lonelier he became.

On this day, Ren Zhong was standing on the bridge of a brand new medium-sized ship with his hands behind his back.

This medium-sized ship is not that big, with a diameter of "only" five kilometers, and its shape is also very simple and unpretentious. It is just a flat, heterogeneous flying disc with a matte surface and is painted with dull black paint. There are no conspicuous high-end instruments, only some bumps and bumps.

If observed with the naked eye in space, this spacecraft is just an ordinary space meteorite.

But in fact, it is the most powerful spaceship built by the Chifeng tribe so far. It can increase speed extremely quickly. It also uses a new type of deep-sea buffer device, which takes effect very quickly. If the driver is responsible, it can even use it with extreme speed. The jump frequency is high, and the upper limit of the jump distance is much further than that of the first generation version of the jump battleship.

Under the high platform where Ren Zhong was standing, a group of people were standing.

Some are the newly promoted senior leaders of the Chifeng tribe in recent years, and some are old people who came out of the frozen sleep chamber because of necessity.

The people below are divided into four groups, representing military, administrative, scientific research and production respectively.

The structure of Earl of Chifeng's Mansion was originally much more complicated than this, but in the past six months, it has been continuously streamlined. Many branches have had their weights reduced, and only these four items have been retained for the highest-level core institutions.

This is actually the highest combat state of the Chifeng clan.

Since half a year ago, the entire civilization has quietly changed, from a production-oriented civilization with a rapid explosion of productivity to a war civilization with comprehensive militarized operations.

Ying Zhenshan, who inherited Zheng Tian's mantle, has returned from Broken Star Ring and stands at the forefront of the military management.

According to Ren Zhong's orders, Ying Zhenshan will serve as the supreme commander in the upcoming all-out war. He will report to him alone and be responsible for understanding his own intentions and implementing his will.

Ren Zhong first asked Sun Ai to publish a lot of data through stereoscopic projection.

These data show that in just two years, the Chifeng people have completed a comprehensive relocation.

It is a bit exaggerated to say that the Chifeng tribe, which has always implemented the policy of using military force to exhaust the land and catch fish, actually spent forty-three years completely draining all the resources of thousands of planets and hundreds of thousands of space meteorites in the broken star rings. potential.

Nowadays, thousands of planets in the thousands of planetary systems under the Chifeng tribe have long become completely exhausted. Apart from non-metallic materials such as carbon and silicon, there are almost no metal resources in the stars. Even the plants on the surfaces of these planets have been destroyed due to the Lack of trace elements and complete depletion, showing irreversible severe desertification.

A total of 7.7 trillion Chifeng tribe members have all been transferred to movable ships, and they have gradually gathered near the Liaoyuan Galaxy.

In the small world of the Liaoyuan Galaxy, the density of ships and other aircraft has reached an outrageous level.

Today, the Chifeng clan has a total of tens of thousands of asteroid-class ships, as well as countless other motherships, large, medium and small ships.

Life on a space ship is definitely not as convenient as on the surface of the planet, but it is better than having mobility, so that you will not be unable to fight back in an all-out war.

In short, these planets held by the Chifeng tribe have become complete dead places.

There are also changes on those rented planets.

After all, it is someone else's territory, and the responsibilities are too heavy to be fully occupied, so it is not that ugly. I only took away all the production lines and inventories of my own industry, and then took away all the expatriates, which is equivalent to taking away all the expatriates. Before the contract ended, the leased planet was returned to the original owner in advance.

The unusual movements among the Chifeng tribe also caused an uproar in the Nanxiang star cluster. Even Wen Zaiyin sent letters many times asking what happened.

Ren Zhong did not hide it, but came forward personally to answer the question.

He clearly told Wen Zaiyin that he judged that the Ascended Ones would launch a full-scale war in the near future, and he wanted to prepare in advance to prevent any eventuality.

Wen Zaiyin asked him what the basis for his judgment was.

Ren Zhong was also very "honest" and he answered truthfully again: "Intuition."

When Wen Zaiyin heard this, he felt a little bad.

As the chief military officer of Nanxiang, he has the right to access the information compiled by the Imperial Intelligence Agency.

Wen Zaiyin felt that although the clouds of war were indeed getting thicker and thicker, there was no such extreme way of preparing for war.

You have given up all the resource planets and transferred them all to the fleet, which will inevitably lead to a decrease in productivity, a serious decline in the population reproduction rate, and the price paid is too heavy.

If this is only the case in the short term, that's fine, but over time, trouble will inevitably occur, and it will seriously affect the development of civilization.

In fact, let alone Wen Zaiyin, even the Marquis of Zhenjiang, who had originally agreed with Ren Zhong to advance and retreat together, was a little confused.

The Marquis Mansion of Zhenjiang was also making preparations before the war, but they did not play such an extreme game as Ren Zhong.

Rumors have spread in many places, and many people think Ren Zhong is crazy.

There are still many people waiting to see the Chifeng tribe’s jokes.

Liu An's Nanxiang Earl's Mansion did not follow suit and "add insult to injury". Instead, taking advantage of the overall shrinkage of the Chifeng clan, they quickly started to expand again in an attempt to rebuild their influence.

However, quietly, the huge legion that the Ascended Ones had amassed in just over two hundred years using their astonishing ability to explode troops was indeed slowly crossing the vacuum of space and slowly approaching.

The large number of detection instruments installed by the Mechanical Empire in the vacuum zone of the universe, the many reconnaissance ships on long voyages, and even the large number of information flow capturing reconnaissance telescopes and the giant optical and radio telescopes with reconnaissance functions did not respond at all.