Resurrection Empire

Chapter 802 305: Cellmates

When Ren Zhong appeared in front of the clubhouse stepping on the land cruiser, the first thing he saw was a huge banner.

"Warmly welcome the new neighbor Ren Zhong!"

Below the banner, two rows of beautiful women and handsome men in formal attire stood shoulder to shoulder.

Behind the gates of the clubhouse, a large crowd stood there, craning their necks to look.

Hua Yuelan and two other men stood side by side at the forefront of the crowd, each dressed in splendid attire, full of spirit.

Such a scene was not imprisonment; it was like a leader visiting the grassroots to inspect work.

Ren Zhong laughed at the whole situation.

This S-Class imprisonment truly felt like a vacation.

Once Ren Zhong got closer and jumped down from the land cruiser, Hua Yuelan approached, "Mr. Ren, let me introduce you. This is Huo Donghua, the former president of the Third Continent region of the Bas Group."

Ren Zhong extended his hand: "Nice to meet you."

Huo Donghua, with a full beard and a broad figure exuding presence, also extended his hand, "Pleasure to meet you."

Hua Yuelan: "This is Qian Wangshen, a Level Nine War Artist."

This Qian Wangshen was a slender young man, seemingly ordinary, yet unexpectedly a Level Nine Professional.

Ren Zhong lightly shook hands with him.

This welcome ceremony wasn't particularly profound, mainly serving for the new S-Class prisoner Ren Zhong to get to know the other neighbors in the villa area, communicate a bit, and exchange reasons for their arrests.

The handsome and beautiful people previously responsible for welcoming guests were the service staff of the welcome event. Nearly half were high-value individuals from around the globe, and the rest were restricted citizens from the nearby satellite city of the villas.

These restricted citizens were descendants of former citizens sentenced to life imprisonment.

And then there were those who, due to bankruptcy or legal issues in recent years, became slaves to the Association, these are also prisoners, but because of poverty could not afford the hefty accommodation fees of the Second Prison, nor dared to go to the high mortality Hard Labor Prison, they were selected for their beauty to stay here as service staff.

From the point of being sentenced and unable to pay the astronomical accommodation fees, these people had no right to choose their destiny.

Ren Zhong felt a bit creepy.

He thought to himself that if Ju Qingmeng hadn't paid for the S-Class villa, with his face, influencer fame, and warrior-level standard physique, he might have ended up as a service staff, and that would have been quite amusing.

The eating, drinking, and entertainment need not be elaborated. Ren Zhong met many people at the welcome event.

Besides him and Hua Yuelan, there were two other S-Class prisoners present, namely Huo Donghua and Qian Wangshen.

This Huo Donghua was very competent, held in high regard within the Bas Group, climbing swiftly from a position akin to a branch manager like Yu Junren at the Chenhui Mine to become a continent-level regional president in just a few years.

Huo Donghua had a promising future, just one step away from entering the highest decision-making level of the Bas Group but was arrested for allowing certain subordinates to quietly destroy raw materials for Biochemical Reagent that the Bas Group was contractually obligated to provide to the Mengdu Group.

This action by Huo Donghua caused significant losses to both the Bas Group and the Mengdu Group.

The Mengdu Group appealed to the highest level of the Association's Supreme Elder Council. Eventually, Huo Donghua was sentenced to a five-year prison term without parole.

He didn't have his assets confiscated, the accommodation cost was self-paid, and he could be released in about a year and a half.

Ren Zhong asked Huo Donghua what he was thinking at the time.

The imposing middle-aged man smiled and said, "The Mengdu Group was trying to implement a universal implantation plan at the time. If they got this batch of raw materials, they could turn a billion wilderness people into implant users. I wasn't particularly concerned, but some of my subordinates thought it was unreasonable and of no value, so they took it upon themselves to dump everything into a gas giant planet. What could I do? I took the fall, but it's only imprisonment. If these subordinates took it on themselves, they would all be executed. So, here I am."

Ren Zhong: "Were you sympathetic to them?"

"Not really sympathetic. But this way, when I finish my sentence, the entire Bas Group's staff will know that I, Huo Donghua, can risk it all for my subordinates. Whether I return to the Bas Group or start my own subsidiary, I can establish a new empire. Reputation, sometimes, is more important than money."

"An impressive concept."

As for Qian Wangshen, his situation was also quite delicate.

He was half an enemy of Ying Hao.

This Qian Wangshen came from a prominent family in the county, endowed with extraordinary talent in intelligent warfare machinery. He started his career as a War Artist at six and participated in his first professional evaluation at seven, immediately achieving Fifth Level.

By the time he was sixteen, he had fully unleashed his talent, becoming the youngest Level Nine War Artist on Source Star.

At that time, Source Star Military Industry extended an olive branch to him, but he refused.

He relied solely on his professional ability to make billions, then established an independent arms company outside the Source Star Military Industry system.

The reason for his arrest was his investment of billions to create a complete set of oversized intelligent warfare force, including dozens of warships, controlled solely by him.

Originally, he avoided equipping these warships with firepower systems, barely hitting a gray area.

But later, using inappropriate personnel, a spy from Source Star Military Industry infiltrated his company's high ranks and secretly installed several interstellar-level main guns on the warships.

This broke the law on Source Star's military force control, leading to his arrest on the spot and imprisonment.

This incident occurred shortly after Ying Hao woke up from freezing.

After this event, Qian Wangshen conceded and agreed to integrate into the Source Star Military Industry system.

Currently, he serves as the head of the space intelligent fleet development project group of Source Star Military Industry.

He will work here for free for fifteen years, until the formation of a space fleet with real-time responsiveness and semi-artificial intelligence characteristics.

The "cost" Source Star Military Industry pays is to keep him alive and pay the annual accommodation fee of 3.65 billion for an S-Class villa.

Aside from these two, five more individuals entered Ren Zhong's view.

Tang Tu, Mao Jin, and Wu You, living in villas with an annual cost of 3.65 billion A-Class, original Seventh Level citizens from different families. These three are the main controllers of a huge smuggling industrial chain, jointly establishing the largest smuggling system on Source Star. Through this mechanism, they partially integrated global tribes into Source Star's productivity system. Back when Wang Zhaofu was engaged in smuggling, he utilized the management system founded by these three. They did not have their assets confiscated; they pay their fees themselves and are serving life sentences.

Wang Qiao, a resident of a B-Class villa with an annual cost of 36.5 million, a former Level Six citizen, a Seventh Level Gunsmith, was arrested for assassinating and slaughtering a County Governor's family out of personal vendetta. He is serving a life sentence. His accommodation fee is funded by his lover, which is quite similar to Ren Zhong's situation.

Duo Lei, a resident of a C-Class villa with an annual cost of "only" 3.65 million, a former Level Six citizen, and County Chief Executive Officer, was arrested for allowing subordinates to falsify during the census and over-issuance of temporary quotas, sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. His accommodation fee is funded by the subordinates of various towns in the original county.

After the dining and mingling, it unknowingly reached 9:30 PM. Ren Zhong bid farewell to everyone and, using the excuse of not trusting others and not wanting strangers sleeping next to him, politely refused the attentions of some service staff and returned to the villa.

After falling asleep and entering the hibernation space, Ren Zhong first contacted Ju Qingmeng, asking her to look into the information on these names to verify if what they said was true.

Additionally, he instructed Ju Qingmeng to enter the market with zero leverage.

Considering the time, it was the 140th day, and this generation's stock god could somewhat play casually and display his stock market operation skills in front of another group of people.

On the 141st day, early in the morning, Ren Zhong went to Hua Yuelan's villa under the guise of learning programming.

Hua Yuelan was quite surprised, thinking he was interested in pursuing her, and laughed, "Mr. Ren, don't be fooled by my youthful appearance, I'm actually in my thirties, just diligently using the Anti-aging Potion. I can't accompany a young man like you in fooling around."

Ren Zhong couldn't answer, so he smiled without saying anything.

By evening, after seeing Ren Zhong, a zero-foundation novice, write a complete simulation computing program on the brain interface, Hua Yuelan was dumbfounded.

Alright then, this gentleman truly came to learn to be a programmer.

"What's the function of your program?"

Ren Zhong: "Just a simple tool for information aggregation and self-calculation to generate data curves. By the way, Sister Hua, what percentage of contribution does the gaming sector have in Deep Communication Group's industry system?"

"Thirty-one percent, why?"

"That's so high."

Hua Yuelan shrugged: "People will always have the need to relax and unwind."

"True, what is the core project currently being developed by Deep Communication Group?"

"A gaming program that can run while the body is in cryo-sleep, in preparation for the great migration. There's a huge challenge in this. Cryo-sleep is very different from normal sleep. Why? Are you interested?"

"Consciousness Upload?"

"Probably not."