Resurrection Empire

Sun Ai sighed and said sadly: "Oh, I almost forgot. I am just a program without a body. To describe it in the silicon chip language you created, uncle, I am just a bunch of numbers 0 and 1. A collection of people. I...why am I so pitiful!"

As she talked about it, her voice became choked with sobs.

Although Sun Ai is just a projection at this time, the precise three-dimensional projection is lifelike. If you don't touch it with your hands, just from a visual perspective, it can be completely fake.

Ren Zhong was dumbfounded by her appearance.

"What are you talking about? I understand you, not the program!"

The next second, Sun Ai returned to normal, and the projected tears falling from her face disappeared instantly, "Then let's continue talking about business. Let me tell you the good news first. The development progress of telomere directional extension and controllable unlimited splitting technology is almost complete. Ninety percent, and it should be able to enter the clinical stage in three to five years at the latest. This technology has a different principle from the anti-aging drugs from the Mengdu Group and the Empire. Anti-aging drugs treat the symptoms, not the root cause. Ours is based on the form of life and fine-tuning, which is a lower-level qualitative change. This is just a first-stage result, and it is initially estimated that it can double your normal life span, uncle."

Ren Zhong opened his mouth slightly, feeling surprised.

Sun Ai also added, "It is not based on the normal life span of ordinary people, but calculated based on your normal aging rate of ninety-six years, multiplied by two, a total of one hundred and ninety-two years. This is good news, below I have bad news..."

"Well, you say."

Sun Ai sighed: "The core gene source used in the experiment is still the cancer cells that my father got from you. That kind of cells has both your genetic characteristics and the ability to proliferate indefinitely, so it is suitable for you. I once I have thought about whether I can popularize this experience so that more people can gain the ability to live longer.”

"In the past ten years, I have found many cancer patients in the fleet and on the source star, and obtained samples from them. But after a long period of research, I found that this life-extending method is only effective for you, uncle. . Maybe it’s because you won’t be squeezed by brain power, or maybe it’s because there’s something different in the makeup of your genetic information.”

"I don't understand the reason either. The atoms that make up your body are obviously the same as everyone else's. They have what you call the icosahedral electron cloud. The resulting DNA chain structure is also the same, but it cannot be copied. It must be It is the expression of information at a certain stage that something wonderful happens, causing changes that make you unique. The reason why I can exist in the form I am now is probably for the same reason."

Ren Zhong was a little disappointed when he heard the words, but he roughly guessed some reasons in his heart, but they had no reference value at all.

"It's okay. Take the first step with me, and you can always find a way to deal with things in the future. Human lifespan should not be so short."

Sun Ai hummed, "But I have new worries. Uncle, you do age more slowly than ordinary people. Now this phenomenon is not obvious and no one will notice. But as time goes by, It takes longer and longer for you to wake up, and we don’t rule out the possibility that one day others will notice this strange thing and become dangerously curious about you. Our power is still very weak, which will put you in a dangerous situation."

"Yes. It is indeed possible." Ren Zhong responded, "But it is not impossible to avoid it. When you can help me cover it up, Xiao Ai, cover it up appropriately. After I go to the empire, I can try to change Identities, rotating through time with different identities. I can also disguise myself by pretending to be in cryogenic slumber, or I can arrange for top dismantlers to learn Chen Hanyu’s disguise techniques and put on some old age makeup to disguise my age. Finally, the empire’s per capita The lifespan is still over sixty years, and it would not be surprising to live to eighty. It is estimated that until I am exposed, at least I will have to wait until my biological age crosses ninety years. If it is interspersed with cryo-sleep, the time span will be very long. It may have reached a thousand years. A thousand years is enough time for a lot of things to happen. Maybe by then we will be so powerful that others can’t touch me even if they know there is something fishy about me?”

Sun Ai agreed with Ren Zhong’s judgment.

Now that I have decided not to use cryo-sleep this month, I still have a heavy responsibility but will not waste my time.

He chose to continue training and broadcast his training process publicly to the entire fleet.

Before the official start of training, he was going to give a brief speech.

More than 30,000 frozen warriors who were lifted out have begun urgent pre-war training.

One after another, the reconnaissance ships set off towards the point of no return.

Zheng Tian strictly carried out her orders. When these scouts set off, she had clearly told them that there was no option to return for this mission. The investigators have only one goal. The farther they go, the better. The more areas and stars they explore, the better. The more detailed the intelligence, the better.

No one is not afraid of death, and indeed many people are dissatisfied.

This is not surprising or harmful.

In the previous Origin Star era, few people were willing to surrender to the association's system, but they were unable to resist, so they simply managed to survive like a walking zombie, living day by day.

Now on the fleet, the association has become ineffective, but everyone knows that the leader of the fleet has become a more powerful and domineering Imperial Viscount.

In a sense, this viscount is even more ruthless and cruel than the past associations. Even ninth-level citizens do not have any privileges in front of him.

The "tragedy" of the Augustus family not only shocked the other eight families, but also made other people uneasy.

Onlookers would not care, and would have no way of knowing what the Augustus family had done. They were not sure why Ren Zhong wanted to massacre members of that family.

They only knew that it was a huge and powerful family that controlled nearly one-ninth of social resources. Even that kind of person can be killed at will, let alone us? This is the most common thought in the minds of most people who follow the herd.

Sun Ai was aware of the changes in thoughts among the crowd, and the secret review department controlled by Xiao Xingyue also gave sufficiently accurate feedback.

But Ren Zhong never punished anyone for whispering.

His iron fist only targets some people, not everyone.

He was even happy to hear all kinds of different voices in the crowd.

Because he believes that people should be diverse.

He doesn't want to control anything mentally.

Furthermore, everyone who is still awake now can be regarded as a devotee, and has sacrificed a good life in the vision of becoming an empire citizen and living a good life. Others have paid so much, so what is the point of complaining?

Moreover, as long as he thinks about it again, he can regain people's hearts in an instant, just like now.

"Everyone, we have entered the crisis-ridden Tamron Nebula for a month. There is definite intelligence that the lurking enemies of the empire are quietly approaching us. A war across races and civilizations may start at any time. There will be no surrenders in this war, There will be no prisoners. The Empire has been fighting its enemies for millions of years and has been defeated many times. There has never been any talk of prisoners being given preferential treatment. If we are defeated, what awaits everyone will be a misery worse than death. destiny."

"Starting from today, I will no longer sleep. I will maintain high-intensity training for a long time and will be on standby at any time until I defeat the enemy. I will personally lead the charge on the battlefield. Next, I will announce the ranking of the highest power of the fleet. Below me are Zheng Tian, ​​Ju Qingmeng, Huo Donghua, Ma Xiacheng, Ou Youning, Xiao Xingyue, Hua Yuelan... Including myself, if the top leader dies in battle, the people behind will take the place in turn and win the highest Power. I am not a person who can sit at ease and watch others charge for me and sit on a high platform. I will always be with you, life and death."

After finishing speaking, he immediately began to live broadcast the training silently.

Shock, surprise, doubt, confusion and other emotions are intertwined in everyone's heart across tens of millions of kilometers.

The words blurted out by an unknown grassroots investigator summed up the matter best.

"He is a noble Viscount of the Empire. He could have used the Seeker spaceship to leave on his own. As long as the others were thrown away like bait, he would be out of danger. But now he is spending his precious life on his career In training, he is ready to fight for ordinary people like us."

Zheng Tian also stared blankly at the live video.

She still couldn't figure it out.

The boss has definitely not changed, but why did he do that in the first place?

…

Ding Canghai was lying on his back on the command chair, and the images generated by the interweaving of reality and virtual imaging were surrounding him.

In the virtual imaging, large and small space meteorites on both sides are receding rapidly.

A winding simulated route guides the way forward.

The simulated route was exactly the result of Sun Ai's auxiliary calculation.

The ghost particle communicator on the reconnaissance ship maintains real-time communication with the Source Mercury located in the center of the fleet, so that Sun Ai can update the route in real time.

Under the auxiliary guidance of accurate simulated routes, the reconnaissance ship where Ding Canghai was currently shuttled flexibly among the meteorites at a slow speed, gradually approaching a huge solid spherical star with a dark red surface.

The small reconnaissance ship went up and down, left and right, constantly dodging meteorites blocking the way, as nimble as a fish swimming through the coral reef.

After making sure that he would not encounter any danger, Ding Canghai stood up and stretched. At the same time, the virtual reality projection sensed his status change and automatically rolled back to the transparent cover of the reconnaissance ship, streamlining a lot of information.

Ding Canghai looked at the standard time on his watch and told the adjutant beside him: "Xiao Wang, ask Xiao Wu to prepare to detect the engineering mecha. He has to go out in person and detect the star as quickly as possible. Complete analysis. Star C1915 is very important."

The star temporarily named C1915 by the Source Star Fleet is very large and has the largest mass in the vicinity. Its surface gravity is nine times that of the Source Star.

At the same time, C1915 is also the end point of Ding Canghai’s scout ship.

He has led the team away from the Source Star Fleet for thirty days.

During these thirty days, Ding Canghai's special reconnaissance ship maintained a cruise at one-eighth the speed of light for a long time, and gradually slowed down until the energy reserve dropped to 30%.

According to the scheduled plan, Ding Canghai and others will spend a full fifteen days on the C1915 star and thoroughly study the planet from the inside out.

Then, the energy contained in the scout ship will be exhausted.

If they can't find a way to replenish energy on board C1915, this team will be buried here. The probability of this happening is extremely high, close to 100%.

Xiao Wang: "Commander Ding, Xiao Wu has completed a comprehensive self-examination and is ready to go at any time."

"Yes." Ding Canghai nodded slightly, "Xiao Wang, first open the third army network relay node and gradually charge it to increase its power. After landing, we must make this the frontline information center as soon as possible. "

Xiao Wang nodded heavily, "Yes."

Then Ding Canghai turned on the communication system of the whole ship and said to everyone: "Send out all the light dust detectors along the way, turn on the intermittent active detection radar mode, and set all the detectors to cruise in a straight line without returning, and they can go Go as far as you can. We are too far away from the fleet headquarters now and it is impossible to get any support. The enemy the leader mentioned should arrive within the next few days, or may have already arrived at our side, but we don't know yet. In short Our comrades are too far away and the enemy is too close. We may die at any time, but before that, every little bit more information we find out can be considered a victory."

What he said was basically like a death sentence.

However, the atmosphere in the reconnaissance ship did not become desperate and sad because of this. After hearing this, the subordinates just gritted their teeth, and their eyes showed the determination to risk life and death.

Occasionally, they would think of the Viscount who had been training intensively for a whole month and simultaneously reported the increase in his four major parameters to the entire army.

The Viscount is so diligent and his talent is so amazing.

He is obviously so young, yet so powerful. He has already surpassed the upper limit of level nine by an unknown amount, but the improvement of various parameters still seems to have no upper limit and no bottleneck, and it keeps rising.

Of course, the biggest encouragement to these people is not Ren Zhong, but Ding Canghai beside them.

As the commander of the Third Army of the Fleet Reconnaissance Corps, Ding Canghai is also a veteran confidant who has been with Lord Viscount for many years. He can obviously sit in the rear with peace of mind, but he has embarked on this path of no return with the grassroots soldiers like himself.

"Commander Ding, actually I still don't understand why you came?"

Adjutant Xiao Wang summoned up the courage to ask.

Hearing this, Ding Canghai sighed, "You only know that I am an old minister of Lord Viscount and have been with him for a long time. Then do you know how I joined Lord Viscount?"

Seeing that he seemed interested in telling gossip about the past, Xiao Wang and others pricked up their ears.

Xiao Wu, who was sitting in the engineering mecha, couldn't help but interrupt, "Commander Ding, tell me, I want to know."

"I was an assassin once. I received an order that I could not refuse. The target of the assassination was the Viscount. The assassination operation failed of course. With my limited means, I was not even qualified to carry his shoes. But he not only left He spared my life, took me in, trusted me unconditionally every day from now on, and never hesitated to promote me."

"Some things happened at the top before. This is top secret. I won't tell you. But I want you to know that I still believe in him and sit in this position. Many years ago, when I was still working for a citizen When I was struggling for my quota and worrying about gains and losses, I never thought that one day I would become the commander of an army commanding 400,000 reconnaissance ships and 4 million people."

"I don't care what others think of the Viscount, I only know that he treats me with great kindness. Then I can't live up to his trust. But I always feel ashamed, because whenever I look back on the past, I feel that I have never done anything It is enough to repay Lord Viscount for his achievements.”

"This is why I come here. I, Ding Canghai, must make a real career here, because I am fed up with myself always being purely attached to him like an incompetent parasite. I long for something in the future. One day, when he recalls me, he can praise me in his heart, Ding Canghai is... not bad."

"Do you understand?"

…

Another hour and a half passed, and the gradually decelerating reconnaissance ship finally passed through the ring-shaped meteorite group, and then quietly attached to the dark side of a very large meteorite that was comparable to the moon of the source star.

Xiao Wu, who was sitting in the armor, was making final preparations before the mecha was launched.

Considering the super gravity and relatively thin atmosphere on the C1915, even if it slows down in advance, the engineering mecha will inevitably encounter a strong impact when landing. Xiao Wu has already started the injection of deep-sea buffer fluid in advance.

With a slight vibration inside the reconnaissance ship, the engineering mecha ejected and flew towards the huge C1915.

Subsequently, the reconnaissance ship began to change its shape, and after a series of structural changes, it became a small base station.

The high-power array ghost particle communicator was fully activated, and a large network of information flow spread quickly.

Nearly 400,000 reconnaissance ships cruising within a range of 8.3 billion kilometers were simultaneously connected to this local area network and intertwined into a huge network structure.

A large amount of information began to be fed back to the base station from various reconnaissance ships, and then the base station performed fixed-point encryption and sent it to distant places by vertically converging the information flow.

Six hours later, Xiao Wu successfully established a small base station on C1915, which swayed slowly with the slow surge of magma, just like a small boat on the lake.

One after another, octopus-like automated machines with independent computing capabilities slipped from the channels inside the support legs of this engineering mecha, first falling to the ground, and then using specially debugged anti-gravity engines to gently float up and dive in. In the sky full of yellow sand swirling crazily in the thin atmosphere.

Next, these machines, nicknamed octopuses by the scouts, will be like tireless ants, constantly sending samples from the surface of the star to small ground base stations with engineering mechas as the main body.

At the same time, Ding Canghai had already walked to the small processing warehouse at the rear of the scout ship.

He has received a new design drawing from Sun Ai, and he will lead a few others to assemble a geothermal radiation self-powered screw boring machine using existing machinery and parts in the shortest possible time.

Star C1915 is too huge, with a radius of 11,000 kilometers. It is the largest star that a total of 2 million reconnaissance ships of the Fifth Route Army of the Reconnaissance Corps have encountered so far in the Tenglong Nebula. Besides some cracks under the magma layer on its surface, Most of them are high-temperature-resistant mixed alloy rocks with very hard structures.

The performance of the original boring machine is no longer enough to cope with this situation, not even the snail boring machine from the Empire. The snail boring machine must be dismantled and improved, and a geothermal radiation energy supply device can be added to keep drilling in. Go and drill through the star core.

After two days of hard work, the improved rock boring machine finally passed the theoretical verification.

Xiao Wang, the adjutant with the best driving skills, sat in the cockpit and controlled the machine to eject towards the surface of C1915.

The external media engine sprayed intermittently, guiding the tunnel boring machine along the surface of C1915's thin atmosphere like a drifting stone across a distance of more than 20,000 kilometers, towards a deep valley.

At this time, Xiao Wu had used the resonance scanning of the base station to construct the approximate structure of the 2,000-kilometer underground area of ​​C1915, and made theoretical calculations on the more internal structure.

The location where Xiao Wang's boring machine went is exactly where the large crack that may lead directly to the core of the star is located.

After hearing the successful landing text message sent back by Xiao Wang, Ding Canghai breathed a sigh of relief and turned his eyes to the large space network composed of the Third Army's reconnaissance ships.

He breathed a sigh of relief and was secretly glad that the past two days had been relatively smooth and nothing happened.

Suddenly, his pupils shrank sharply.

A shrill alarm sounded in the Third Army's chain of command.

His eyes suddenly turned to the upper left corner of the star map.

Two seconds ago, a reconnaissance ship over there lost contact without warning.

The scout ship did not give any warning before losing contact.