Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1253 - 478: The Fifth Race (Part 3)

"You might not believe it, but besides managing our project, he is also overseeing the improvements of the Water Drop Ship and the Range Extender."

"Oh my! How can one person be this smart, as if there’s a universe inside his head."

Saying this, a group of people turned their heads, looking with eyes filled with awe and admiration at the upper part of the space station hall.

Over there, Ren Zhong, also dressed in a lab coat, was slightly furrowing his brows, seemingly deep in thought.

He wasn’t overwhelmed with joy by the success of the experiment; instead, he merely felt it was the natural course of events.

Ten minutes ago, massive electric power was injected into a device composed of countless parts dismantled from Empire products, showcasing a distinct post-modern aesthetic. After a series of conversions, it generated a peculiar oscillating energy, which was then infused into a hydrogen atom in absolute vacuum, accelerating it in an instant.

Yet, that hydrogen atom didn’t accelerate in a straight line and collide with anything. Instead, it flew and then suddenly vanished.

At the instant of disappearance, the hydrogen atom almost simultaneously reappeared kilometers away in space, where it exploded drastically.

The explosion of this single hydrogen atom released massive energy.

The energy released from the explosion was twice the energy infused.

When converted, the electric current infused into the hydrogen atom equaled the mass of this hydrogen atom when figured as countless electrons.

But after the explosion, both electrons and the hydrogen atom vanished into the universe as pure light waves.

This is Fold Jump, albeit a half-successful one.

Ren Zhong stood up slowly, looking at his project team members, who were gazing at him with fervent eyes. He felt slightly ashamed.

You thought I created all this, but you’re all part of it too.

You are even unaware that my mind is connected to a striving civilization behind me.

I’m merely standing on the shoulders of countless people.

"Thank you all for your hard work. We have made a crucial step from nothing to something. We must continue to make atoms more stable. I believe, one day, we can achieve a whole Water Drop Ship Fold Jump without it exploding. Or rather, it’s okay if it explodes. In any case, that day isn’t far away."

When Ren Zhong said "won’t be too far," he did not mean it absolutely, but a concept of relative time jumping. At least on this timeline, it wasn’t achieved before the next extinction, and even severe accidents occurred, where the entire space station was shattered by the explosion of a methane molecule. Luckily, Ren Zhong was already heading to C1915 in a Water Drop Ship during this experimental accident, thus escaping death.

Throughout several attempts, Ren Zhong continually upgraded equipment, optimized the Water Drop Ship’s performance, provided targeted training for each advanced Professional, and progressively refined and improved the battle plans, including more precise preset programs in each Water Drop Ship and Battle Armor.

Until now, Ren Zhong himself could advance within a two-million-kilometer range of the Mother Empress Ship, even briefly track and capture Fold Jump Bombs for analysis using the Energy State Shock Interference Device.

While Ascenders bypass scientific principles to achieve Fold Jump through the "Innate Divine Power" in their genetic chain, Ren Zhong reversed engineered Fold Jump phenomenon utilizing Empire technology combined with the innate creativity of humans.

During this process, Ren Zhong’s personal combat power continued to advance.

Though his Physical Comprehensive Index, Brain Reaction Index, and Biological Electric Power showed no significant improvement, his Brain Reaction Index was ceaselessly rising.

Moreover, upon breaking through the Level Nine barrier and gaining predictive ability, his Brain Reaction Index had no limits, becoming like a unleashed tiger ascending to new heights.

Presently, Ren Zhong’s Brain Reaction Index quietly surpassed the Empire Super Professionals’ limits, reaching a new height where Empire technology couldn’t retrieve the data.

The reason is simple; humans in the Mechanical Empire still maintain their human form, and no enhancement in brain reaction can surpass the Pilgrim, who transforms their thinking into virtual data, becoming another life form.

Coincidentally, while Ren Zhong retains a human form and is a true human with creativity far surpassing Imperial humans, the quantum entanglement vortex structure within his brain has indeed begun to shift toward the Pilgrim.

Ren Zhong is not a Pilgrim but superior to one, naturally breaking the data limits of Mechanical Empire’s testing equipment.

Currently, he is strong. Perhaps only by going to the Empire can he find a reference to understand how strong he truly is. Yet, in warfare of such magnitude, pure personal power can’t decisively determine the outcome.

No matter how powerful he is, perhaps the strongest warrior the Mechanical Empire has ever seen, he couldn’t single-handedly defeat the vast army formation of Reproductive Subunits forming the Mother Empress Ship.

The Mechanical Empire was never a human faction relying solely on personal power to conquer the world.

In Ascender civilization, the Mother Empress, though fleet matriarch, essentially remains an individual entity with independent consciousness.

A top-level Mother Empress can control energy equivalent to a small star with just her colossal body.

Such a situation is absolutely impossible within the Mechanical Empire humans who maintain human form.

Hence, Ren Zhong’s true objective was never to defeat the entire battlefield with personal power but merely to explode the Mother Empress Ship near C1915.

Through several attempts, allies from Starfire Town were repeatedly inspired by him, restoring their past trust in him and fighting alongside him.

Though Ma Xiaoling’s parameters didn’t increase, she always received targeted battle tips from Ren Zhong.

Shi Lin, the Armored Soldier, finally combined Mistletoe cell genes from frozen cells originating from Bai Feng, thanks to biological technology acquired from Ascenders deconstructed by the Source Star Fleet, inheriting advanced abilities born from Source Star.

Others, such as Song Mu’en and Noel Sandro, also showed outstanding performances.

Yet, aside from Ren Zhong, Wang Qiao remains the most dazzling.

No matter how butterfly wings flap or how butterfly effects distort details on the battlefield, the top assassin Wang Qiao always finds a way to charge into battle or lurk close using equipment, maintaining pace closely with Ren Zhong’s progress in proximity and even once successfully detonating a Three-Phase Bomb aboard the Water Drop Ship when 2.4 million kilometers away from the Mother Empress Ship, though it merely exploded in vain."