Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1293 - 492: When Fortune Smiles, All the Universe Lends Its Strength—The Chosen One

Five days passed, and more and more work ships approached near the 997 data chain. As data chains in other areas were rebuilt one after another, it was officially declared that the Source Star Fleet had survived this crisis.

Ren Zhong felt deeply fortunate.

Thankfully, he had listened to Hua Yuelan’s suggestion back then.

If there were truly only ten thousand work ships and two hundred vertical data chains, everything would have been doomed by now.

This can be attributed to luck, but it should also be credited to Hua Yuelan’s timely persistence as a non-military personnel. It also can be credited to Ren Zhong’s ability to follow wise advice and most importantly to the bravery and professionalism of the work ship crews who risked their lives to create miracles.

When everything returned to stability, Ren Zhong lay back into the Frozen Storage.

He knew the next time he would be awakened would be when the entire Black Mist Zone erupted.

Before he injected the medication, Sun Ai’s voice echoed in his mind, as if wanting to continue a topic left unfinished five days ago.

"Uncle, I have researched a vast array of Empire historical data and discovered something intriguing. I feel that our luck in the past few days has been unusually good, so good it’s almost abnormal, as if someone is protecting us from above."

Ren Zhong felt quite speechless.

A little girl who has transformed into an artificial intelligence program trying to preach feudal superstitions and irrational beliefs was truly absurd.

But once formed, ingrained ideas in metaphysics are difficult to change.

Ren Zhong didn’t know how to convince a nearly omniscient, semi-super artificial intelligence, so he just appeased, "Perhaps you’re right, there indeed was some element of luck. But this luck didn’t come from divine protection, rather, our people enlarged the minimal help luck provided to a degree that changed the situation. Alright, I need to sleep, let’s talk about this when I’m awake next time."

With that, Ren Zhong initiated the freezing sleep program, not giving Sun Ai another chance to express superstitious views.

He truly didn’t know how to discuss this matter, so better not to discuss it.

...

A year and a half later, within the Nanxiang Star Cluster Special Operations Fleet, alarms blared in chaos.

In this well-trained Special Operations Fleet, organized deserters began to defect.

The deserters controlled a special task ship and crazily rushed into the Black Mist Zone.

These deserters came from the notorious Fang Pirates in the Shattered Star Ring. Due to their fortuitous discovery of a small-scale Ascender’s Patrol Team that helped Liu An earn a bit of military merit, they were incorporated and began to live luxuriously as a regular army.

However, people from the Fang Pirates had serious congenital genetic defects, being rebellious, untrained, greedy, and undisciplined, even demanding higher pay than other soldiers.

Strangely, the high officials in the Star Cluster’s Military and Political Center showed an unusual fondness and tolerance towards this group, perhaps because they’re easily instigated, once they act, they fully disregard their own lives.

This time, for unknown reasons, this group, without any explanation, suddenly became frantic and ignored the Fleet Commander’s recall, inconceivably cutting off information flow communications, completely eliminating the possibility of the Empire Super Network remotely taking control of the ship.

This troubled the Special Operations Fleet Commander tremendously, puzzled beyond belief.

...

A month later, the once-in-a-hundred-million-year super eruption of dark energy in the Black Mist Zone occurred without any warning.

A super eruption of such scale required at least two dark energy masses akin to Jupiter in mass to collide directly.

This should be an exclusive power of nature, but with the Mechanical Empire’s level of technology and enough preparation time, it can be artificially guided to create this "natural disaster."

The furious gravitational field and the rain of fragmented dark energy masses turned into a terrifying meat grinder, seemingly to pulverize everything in this area to dust.

If time was accelerated a million-fold, it would be noticed that the olive-shaped dark energy mass first underwent brief expansion, then collapsed, then expanded again, like a balloon continuously cycled through inflation and deflation.

The turbulent chaotic gravitational field boiled, once extremely close to the Source Star Fleet flying tightly along the Black Mist Zone perimeter.

Thankfully, when Ren Zhong planned the route, he considered enough buffer, with a distance from the edge of the Black Mist Zone greater than 0.01 light years. The fleet wasn’t affected by this anomalous dark energy eruption in any way, while the Special Operations Fleet, which had been waiting near the edge on the opposite side of the Black Mist Zone and was prepared to support the Source Star Colonization Fleet, became too close and suffered a catastrophic disaster, with no survivors.