Fourteen months later, the two fleets completed their rendezvous and entered the warp subspace passage from another star region, bypassing Liu An's territory.
Not only that, after hearing that Ren Zhong had achieved his goal and there were additional gains, the royal viscount Wen Yuanbo added a new bet, revealing a hidden line he had run, which was the viscount lord Ren Zhong selected to return to the entrance system.
This lord concealed the whereabouts of the Zhongzhong Fleet and did not report the matter to the Nanxiang Earl's Palace and the Military and Political Council.
Thirteen years and two months later, counting from the day the Source Star Fleet arrived at Nanjiu C, 1,906 armed warships finally jumped out of the jump channel outside Nanjiu Star and returned to their base.
At this time, about eight years had passed since the fleet set off from Nanjiu C, and many changes had taken place.
A large number of Source Star humans left Nanjiuc through the manpower dispatch trade export promoted by Ju Qingmeng, and entered hundreds of different forces for many years.
That is to say, the Earl's Mansion of Nanxiang has not yet been able to produce evidence proving that Ren Zhong is dead, otherwise Nanjiu C would have changed hands long ago.
Viscount Southgate Augustus, who had tasted a lot of sweetness, was trying to push the last step, trying to take advantage of the advantage of being near the water, first come first, and eat up the four billion people in Nanjiu c. Suddenly, he When I received the report from the inspector of the Military and Political Department, I was dumbfounded on the spot.
Since the Nanxiang Earl's Palace verified the news of Ren Zhong's death through special channels a few years ago, the various supports originally promised to Viscount Nanjiu have been gradually put in place.
Just a few years have passed, and Nanjiu Viscount Mansion has climbed step by step towards another peak. Southgate knows that as long as he stabilizes this good situation and allows the family to develop step by step, then wait for Liu An After being promoted to marquis, the next earl in the Nanxiang cluster must come from the Augustus family.
For this dream, and in order to live up to his role as the head of the Augustus family renaissance, Southgate has rarely refused cryo-sleep in the past few years. He is on duty day and night, guarding every night, paying attention to every detail. For important matters, attend every commendation given by your subordinates, travel here and there to visit surrounding star systems, and even sharpen your head to work hard to manage the officials in charge of personnel and economics and trade at the Nanxiang Military and Political Center. You will burn your precious physiological lifespan quickly at any cost, just to let him go. This family's heritage has kept pace with its rapid explosive growth in strength, hoping to acquire more surrounding fiefdoms as soon as possible.
But suddenly, his sweet dream was shattered with a stick.
While walking, I got hit with a sap for no apparent reason and was knocked unconscious to the ground.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Southgate sat on his chair and muttered to himself.
He had just watched the video clip provided by the inspector over and over again, making sure that it was not dazzled and that it was indeed the fleet that set off from Nanjiu C eight years ago.
Although the number is slightly smaller, the outdated olive-shaped battleships and orderly military formations cannot be faked.
At that time, Southgate had secretly laughed at Yuan Xingbo for his rigidity and bluffing. It was obviously just a fleet transporting goods, but it still had to use warships, and it also deliberately arranged such a marching formation. It was clearly a bluff. .
Now Southgate vaguely understands that Ren Zhong is not deliberately showing off his teeth and claws, but that this army is really well-trained and has strict laws.
The Empire's regular army is nothing more than this. Perhaps only the Royal Guards, whom Southgate has only heard about but has never seen with his own eyes, can be even better.
After a long time, Southgate tentatively sent a message to Ren Zhong to congratulate Ren Zhong on his return.
Almost as soon as his message was sent, he received a reply.
"Thank you for your concern. Nanjiu C is currently soliciting investment from Nanxiang Star Cluster. Welcome to call us for negotiation. The communication code is X54IU334..."
"Damn, automatic reply." Southgate tried to call Ren Zhong's private number directly, but no one answered.
He changed several more contact information. In these years, because of dealing with Ju Qingmeng's human resources and foreign trade department, Nanjiu Viscount Mansion also established some personal relationships within the Source Star humans.
But strangely, all these private communications were interrupted, and Southgate had no choice but to type through the public communication code.
Although he had already identified himself, the customer service staff on the other side still used official clichés to deal with him. He only thanked the Viscount for his concern and said that the Count had successfully completed the commercial shipping order and would take a rest for a while. When accepting external orders, we will focus on building Nanjiu C with all our strength. As for the specific connotation of attracting investment, it does not mean hiring outside people or borrowing external funds for planet construction, but that Yuanxing Humanity has newly established A human resources trading company.
This new company changed the traditional human resources dispatch trade model and began to accept external orders, or target-oriented piece-rate orders. Such orders are usually based on scientific research projects, and Yuanxing Human Resources will focus on helping various parties. They use local forces to solve technical problems. These services are based on the concept of speed and convenience, with no political conditions attached at all. The only drawback is that they are expensive.
Over the years, the Yuanxing scientific research team and graduates who came out of the human resources trade have built a good reputation in the Nanxiang star cluster. With the return of the fleet led by Ren Zhong, the situation is destined to change, and many forces will have to watch with sadness. With these extremely useful scientific researchers returning to the human base of Origin Star, this new project has opened up a new gap.
If external forces choose to invest, that is, participate in investment promotion activities and become shareholders of Yuanxing Human Resources Trading Company, they will be able to negotiate cooperation at a more favorable price and with a higher priority.
Corresponding to the open attitude shown by the establishment of a human resources trading company, Nan Jiu C suddenly announced the closure of its borders, prohibiting any external forces from approaching within tens of millions of kilometers of Nan Jiu C. At the same time, the top brass among the humans of Source Star also did not before contacting any external matters.
Not only that, the Yuanxing fleet adjusted its formation, and some of the annual ships appeared above the high-temperature focus on the sunny side, and began to spray some strange dust substances on the surface of Nanjiu C.
The density of these substances is extremely small. After being ejected, they spread out and turned into a thin covering of mist surrounding Nanjiu C. Then, blown by the stellar wind of Nanjiu Star, they spread from the closest distance to the surface of Nanjiu C. At an altitude of one million kilometers, they circle around the southern 9c and reunite into one stream above the low-temperature focus on the far side of the planet, shaped like a giant garlic head.
At the sharp tip of the garlic, there are hundreds of annual ship formations forming a formation, opening a huge gravitational capture net, collecting the flying dust, and transporting it to the sunny side in front, spraying and releasing it again, and the cycle starts again. .
Whether it is visible light, radiation waves, or scanning information flow, after being blocked by this layer of clouds and fog, severe diffuse reflection will occur and become unrecognizable, making it hazy and hazy, just like seeing flowers in the fog.
The planet suddenly became mysterious.
Outside, no one knows what is happening in the ships orbiting Nanjiu C.
Inside the fleet, Ren Zhongren is amazed by the genius of the scientists.
His previous plan had only gone as far as using the termite colony to properly change the planet's landscape, and then using a large number of hydrogen bombs to detonate in a chain to finalize the plan.
But he ignored two things. First, synchronized chain explosions in the atmosphere that are enough to cause changes in the planet's landscape will release a huge amount of heat energy in a very short time.
This heat energy will set off a storm on the planet, causing the planet's atmosphere to quickly turn into boiling water, thereby causing a large amount of atmospheric escape. After analysis, a scientific team in the Fleet Academy of Sciences believes that this explosion will cause Nanjiu C's
The total mass of the atmosphere is reduced by at least 20%, which is an unacceptable and significant loss. Therefore, scientists began to think about how to prevent the atmosphere from escaping.
The same scientific issues were also synchronized to the Yuanxing Academy of Sciences.
Ever since, after Sun Ai secretly pulled the strings, a large number of scientists living in two places began to contribute their wisdom to the same major issue.
During this period, instead of trying their best to solve the problem, the previous scientific team raised a second problem. That is the problem of re-release of atmospheric heat energy. Although the soil and oceans on the planet can absorb heat energy, they want to use conventional
It would take at least hundreds of years for heat exchange to allow the surface temperature after the Big Bang to drop below 50 degrees.
High temperatures will cause huge difficulties for landing operations and subsequent rapid population growth.
At this time, the results produced by the Yuanxing Academy of Science solved two problems at once, and also solved the third problem caused by the need for confidentiality.
They developed a polymer organic synthetic material. The repulsion between its molecules can even expand the distance between molecules to be larger than that of gas molecules, making its density much lower than that of ordinary gases, and it can float above the atmosphere of Nanjiu C
.
However, the larger molecular weight brought by the macromolecular structure allows these molecules to have good adsorption properties for escaping air molecules.
By spraying mist, these molecules are dispersed to form a thick net that wraps around the planet, which can capture the escaping atmospheric molecules after the big explosion and turn them into larger high-temperature particles one after another.
These high-temperature particles can be collected and exploited to release heat energy and generate steam to generate electricity.
In the subsequent evolution of the planet, due to the adsorption of more and more gas molecules, these particles will slowly get closer and closer to the atmospheric surface of Nanjiu C, until they are connected with the particles rising due to the high temperature on Nanjiu C.
With the high-temperature plasma atmosphere close to it, the efficiency of heat exchange will become higher and higher, and the power generation efficiency of high-temperature particles will also become higher and higher, which can charge more high-energy batteries.
The cooling time that originally took hundreds of years will be quickly reduced to less than ten years.
Killing two birds with one stone is no longer enough to describe it. This is clearly a huge benefit.
It can not only prevent the atmosphere from escaping, but also quickly cool down. It can also convert the energy released by nuclear fusion, which would have caused harm, into easily usable electrical energy, and it can also block the prying eyes of others.
“Absolutely stunning.”
This was Ren Zhong's evaluation when he saw the complete plan for the first time.
A year and a half later, in a devastating instant chain explosion, the sky on Nanjiu C collapsed, the mountains roared and tsunamis were heard, and all things were born.
Violent shock waves fell from the sky and bombarded the surface one after another.
The high temperature of tens of millions of degrees melted the earth, dried up the sea, and swallowed up the ant colonies.
One day later, a kinetic energy missile dropped from the sky and slammed into the still boiling magma surface, breaking the precarious balance of forces.
The planet finally broke free from the shackles of tidal locking and began to rumble.
In the ancient times of the earth, human beings made up countless imaginative myths and stories to describe the rising and setting sun and the evolution of the starry sky, depicting the mountains, rivers, sun, moon and stars on the surface of the planet as the bodies of ancient gods.
In the era of ignorance, these seemingly ridiculous myths were actually the scientific spirit that met the needs of civilization at that time.
But on Nanjiu C, Ren Zhong, a "hillbilly" named Earl, who was actually an ancient man, was quietly observing through the composite scanner that the planet below was out of balance and gradually accelerating under the influence of gravity.
appearance.
He was very emotional and thought silently, according to the standards of earth mythology, his fleet can now be regarded as the creation god.
On the other side, Viscount Nan Jiu's intelligence department also noticed the terrible heat radiation that Nan Jiu C released earlier.
Southgate began to become nervous, but no matter what means his subordinates used to remotely sense the situation in Nanjiu C, they could only see the thick rolling fog and nothing else.
Southgate also tried to launch a small reconnaissance instrument to get a closer look, but he never came back.
Five years later, Ren Zhong personally led a team to throw the Tracker spacecraft into the orbit of Nanjiu b.
"Viscount Nanjiu, in accordance with the original agreement, I will return the Tracer to you."
In the space station, Ren Zhong said in an understatement.
Southgate once tried to seize the spacecraft as a means to cause trouble for Ren Zhong.
But when this happened, he couldn't find even the slightest sense of accomplishment from Ren Zhong's calm attitude.
Especially when he found that after all these years, he had aged terribly, but still looked like a young man despite having heavy responsibilities, he felt even more hurt.
"Uncle Yuan Xing, you are a person who keeps your promises. Thank you very much." Augustus Southgate cupped his hands and said respectfully, and then he coughed violently.
Seeing this, Ren Zhong had a faint smile on his face, but then said: "Back then, Viscount Nan Jiu, you hired 12,366 of my people as your employees. According to the contract, I will
They took him back. Please let him go immediately."
Southgate was stunned for a moment, then shook his head repeatedly, "It's impossible. The contract originally signed was for ten years of biological life, and now at least half of it is unused. The contract has not been completed yet."
Ren Zhong shrugged, "People don't speak secretly. Since you don't intend to use them, why bother to use these tricks to detain people. There is a clear provision in the human resources dispatch trade terms. If we find that the employer does not perform the contract,
, do not allow our dispatched employees to participate in the work, and if they are idle for more than five years, they have the right to terminate the contract early."
"This..." Southgate couldn't argue. Ever since Ren Zhong suddenly returned to the Southern Nine Stars with his fleet, the Augustus family didn't dare to use the hired people of the Origin Star anymore, but they didn't know how.
To deal with it, we can only find any reason to freeze people.
In the blink of an eye, it has been more than seven years now.
Southgate himself had almost forgotten about it, but he never thought that Ren Zhong would always remember it.
"What? You want to break the contract?"
Ren Zhong's expression suddenly turned cold.
"Oh, okay. Please wait for a long time. I will make arrangements right away."
Viscount Nan Jiu felt endless frustration and anger.
The first level of officialdom crushes people to death.