Resurrection Empire

Chapter 702 264: Ten Thousand Years of Pseudo-History, War Phantoms

Ren Zhong refused Ma Xiaoling's invitation to the victory banquet.

In his view, a "victory" achieved with double the troops, almost exhausting them, was not worth celebrating.

He was slightly more interested in the "History of Ten Thousand Years."

After receiving the authorization reward to unlock "History of Ten Thousand Years," he immediately exited the game and returned to the hibernation space.

Ren Zhong did not immediately open the "History of Ten Thousand Years," but instead pondered over the strategy of Hugh Augustus in his mind.

Initially, he thought this person had studied ancient and modern military tactics, judging that his approach was rigid and nothing more.

After chatting with Ma Xiaoling, he discovered that this person was likely self-taught, having devised the art of war through self-exploration.

When coupled with the person's identity, things became interesting.

Someone born with a Diamond Key in their mouth, able to inherit one of the Nine Major Groups, spent such a significant effort to explore the art of war independently and, due to the lack of real wars, chose to simulate them in a high-fidelity game; it was deeply insightful.

Ren Zhong also specifically checked the equity situation behind the development company of "Wilderness Era."

It was also a listed company, with its disclosures available online.

Deep Communication Group's shareholding proportion was actually not the first, but the second.

The highest shareholding was not a corporation but an individual, namely the current chairman of Mengdu Group, who is also Hugh's father.

Ren Zhong continued flipping through the company's yearbook and discovered that Hugh's father decided to invest in the gaming company about twenty years ago and increased his investment, leading to the development of "Wilderness Era" about fifteen years ago.

At that time, Hugh was precisely eleven years old.

This game has been running for fifteen years until now.

Hugh himself began entering the game about ten years ago when he was sixteen, creating the Golden Lion Army from scratch and establishing an absolute rule over the Second Continent Zone for several years, repeatedly ranking first server-wide.

The comprehensive combat power of the Golden Lion roughly ranks among the top three of the whole game, but Hugh's total spending is only a few billion, not even reaching the top fifty.

Over ten years, he has spent only a few billion in total, averaging only tens of millions per year.

Such strength is truly remarkable.

This time, Ma Xiaoling could compete with him in such a formidable manner mainly because Ren Zhong spent two billion on in-game purchases, leveraging the advantage brought by version update bonuses and Ren Zhong's own surprise attack strategy; otherwise, they would have been utterly defeated.

"He and I will probably have a battle sooner or later. A real war."

Ren Zhong thought to himself, then opened the pseudo-history of ten thousand years with a feeling of resigned interest.

From the first chapter of the pseudo-history of ten thousand years, Ren Zhong felt an overwhelming sense of disappointment.

Although there were many praiseworthy stories in the history spanning ten thousand years, with numerous critical turning points of civilization, its main line was no different from the brief account of Xiao Xingyue in the previous timeline.

Everything began with the Pioneer spaceship that arrived at Source Star with one million frozen embryos ten thousand years ago.

Humans fled to this place, but they became foreign invaders.

Those ruling Source Star at the time were the Ruined Beast civilization, established by the not-so-numerous Legion Beast species.

One side represented a carbon-based civilization; the other, a silicon-based one, both having only a single planet with limited resources, unable to communicate, and war broke out immediately upon their first contact.

In the early stages of the war, humans, possessing Interstellar Spaceships, had an absolute technological advantage, gradually expanded their territory, and set up bases centered around the ships, then started using frozen embryos to massively expand their population.

To breach the invaders' bases, the Ruined Beast civilization worked hard for centuries but could not overstep the firepower perimeter formed by interstellar warfare-grade weapons on the ships, helplessly watching the base and the humans within grow ever stronger.

In the blink of an eye, five hundred years passed, and humans, starting with one million frozen embryos, reproduced to over a hundred million people in the base, expanding the base into a massive super city.

On the surface, humans seemed to dominate, ruling Source Star seemed imminent.

But the energy module of the Interstellar Spaceship finally malfunctioned after sustaining several centuries of continuous consumption.

The vast store of high-tech supplies aboard the human ship was also exhausted.

During these five hundred years, humans inhabiting the super city failed to achieve any technological advancement and instead regressed somewhat.

Losing the invincible firepower net of the ship's protection, humans gradually fell into a disadvantage, with Ruined Beasts infiltrating the city and causing damage continuously.