Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1138 439: Fifteen Years, Time Flows Like a Song (Part 3)

The earliest concept of Barton Augustus was to use the free cloned population on Source Star to develop a cheap and efficient new method of creating a "net" for the Empire. If successful, it would give the Mechanical Empire an advantage in negotiations and confrontations with the Pilgrims.

This was unimaginably great merit.

Projects including Legion Beast, regularly induced Demon Infant, and the Brain Tree plan all advanced around this core purpose.

This was, of course, extremely difficult and was only successful during Hugh Augustus's generation.

Mengdu Group simultaneously acquired Sun Miao and another person.

Sun Miao completed the "Tree Plan," helping Mengdu Group produce a large number of human brains at low costs, and sharply raised Mengdu Group's status within the Nine Major Groups.

As for the other person, they discovered a precise mechanism for directed attraction of human cells, which can use brainless bodies for directed reverse transcription, then further differentiate and proliferate human brain cells.

Thus, according to Hugh's concept, if Mengdu Group could obtain twenty billion brainless bodies upon departure, combined with the results from studying Demon Infant and Legion Beast, they would have the opportunity to create a massive super armored Ruined Beast, with computing power equal to or even surpassing the "net."

Upon returning to the Empire, this would instantly elevate the Augustus family from middle to high nobility.

However, the aggregator within Mengdu Group, Hugh, has little reverence for his ancestor. He believes his talent far surpasses Barton Augustus and desires to replace the nine old ice blocks as the controller of Source Star civilization.

Of course, Hugh kept this idea hidden deep in his heart until the "net" collapsed, when he thought his chance had arrived and secretly sought ways, only to soon encounter Li Yang.

He became Li Yang's puppet.

Li Yang continued the schemes of Hugh and Mengdu Group.

Ren Zhong isn't exactly sure what Li Yang desires, but it's undoubtedly not good.

In any case, Ren Zhong changed the strategy of the old ice blocks, causing the two hundred billion useful brainless bodies to go to waste, which greatly troubled Li Yang and Hugh.

Moreover, Ren Zhong returned the Ice Sealing Army early to the Tracker Spaceship without letting this overwhelming force fully reveal itself, retaining a prerequisite for Li Yang and Hugh Augustus to summon the courage of slaying gods.

Yet Li Yang imposed a brutal servitude system on the wild people outside of the First Continent through Ying Hao and Hugh, arranging numerous meaningless labor work.

For example, moving ore manually from here to there daily, only to move it back the next day.

The wild people know such actions are pointless but are powerless to resist.

Even if someone occasionally steps forward to protest, it ironically gives Mengdu Group and Source Star Military Industry justification to raise the butcher's knife.

Li Yang's fundamental goal is very simple, he wants the wild people to die in batches untimely.

Ren Zhong did not partake in these matters, but he foresaw them.

Under his instructions, the Moral Committee launched successive assaults, both sweeping away the population and continuously expanding its influence outward, establishing Ren Group's bases in the Second Continent, Third Continent, and other places, then expanding like cultured organisms in a Petri dish.

Hugh and Ying Hao's human-gathering actions were somewhat impacted, as they could no longer harvest towns absorbed by Ren Group.

Hugh and Ying Hao were somewhat troubled, but Li Yang and Ren Zhong, the two pillars, have already entered slumber, leaving them to muddle along as it is.

In the eyes of Hugh and Ying Hao, two puppets, Ren Zhong is also a friend of Li Yang, so they all see each other as insiders.

The current trivial contradiction is merely a small episode in internal coordination.

Indeed, soon after, Ren Group began to provide Hugh with batch upon batch of headless bodies, alleviating his urgent need.

Hugh thought, Ren Zhong is indeed a good friend, cooperating like this, quite well.

Hence, in the years following Ren Zhong's slumber, Ren Group maintained high-speed expansion, capturing nearly 90% of county and towns on Source Star.

But within Mengdu City, over three billion headless corpses appeared. More than 80% of these headless corpses were provided by Ren Zhong, identical to real humans, derived from the directed human cloning technology developed by Sun Miao.

In Starfire Town meanwhile, close to three hundred million "wicked souls" were included in the pseudo-net plan.

During this period, the configuration of Source Star also underwent considerable changes.

In November of New Origin Calendar 700, Ying Hao "died peacefully," and before his death, brought his son Ying Ye to the temporarily awakened Li Yang, where Ying Ye became "new friends" with Li Yang.

Ying Hao schemed for two hundred years, yet upon encountering Li Yang, became part of Li Yang's machinations.

The once golden-haired, magnificently spirited Hugh Augustus was now also old beyond recognition, close to dying.

This is the change in external environment; within Ren Group, besides the continuous expansion of dominion territory, occasionally awakened Huo Donghua and Qian Wangshen, along with others steadfastly maintained, crazily advancing numerous research projects.

Researchers changed twice in core projects including biotechnology, internal combustion engine, silicon chip, nuclear fusion, and despite fervent anticipation and forward rushing of staff, monumental results were achieved.

Especially in combat armor, based on the Water Drop Shuttle and the Viper Fighter previously vigorously promoted by Ren Zhong, Starfire Military Industry Research Institute developed a type of space combat mecha named Viper X Fighter.

This mecha perfectly combines characteristics of biology and machinery, allowing the wearer to briefly unleash offensive power comparable to advanced Professionals in space combat.

Of course, there's a cost to this.

Below Level Nine, Mechanical Warriors must use drugs to operate Viper X Fighter at full power, meaning their bodies will disintegrate into dust once the drug's efficacy fades.

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Mengdu City.

In Li Yang's office.

Ren Zhong and Li Yang stood shoulder to shoulder at the window, gazing into the sky together.

Li Yang: "My Super Assistant Brain and Mengdu Group's High Rank Armored Legion have fully formed, ready to take action. You will command this operation."

Ren Zhong lowered his head to view the projection before him, dense with the names of Level Nine and even advanced armored warriors, nodding, "Okay."

Ren Zhong responded decisively, as this was his very own strategem of driving tigers to swallow wolves.