Chapter 1574: Chapter 589: Battle Preparations Complete_3

Below Ren Zhong, on the elevated platform, stood a group of people.

Some were newly risen high-ranking members of the Red Blade Clan over the past few years, while others were elders who had been awakened from frozen hibernation chambers due to necessity.

The crowd below was divided into four clusters, representing military, administration, research, and production.

The structure of the Earl Mansion of Red Blade was originally much more complex than this, but over the past six months, it has been continuously streamlined; many branch departments have had their importance reduced, and the highest level core institutions only retained these four components.

This is already the highest state of combat readiness for the Red Blade Clan.

Starting six months ago, the entire civilization has quietly shifted from a rapidly explosive production-oriented civilization to a fully militarized war civilization.

Ying Zhenshan, successor of Zheng Tian’s legacy, has returned from the Shattered Star Ring and stands at the forefront of the military management.

According to Ren Zhong’s orders, Ying Zhenshan will serve as the highest commander in the imminent full-scale war, reporting only to him, understanding his intentions, and implementing his will.

Ren Zhong first had Sun Ai announce many data through holographic projection.

These data showed that in just two years, the Red Blade Clan had completed a full relocation.

It’s somewhat exaggerated, that the Red Blade Clan, which had always implemented a military-focused and extreme resource-exhausting policy, truly spent forty-three years to completely drain the resource potential of thousands of planets and hundreds of thousands of space meteorites in the Shattered Star Ring.

Now, thousands of planets among the thousands of planetary systems under Red Blade Clan’s control have become completely depleted dead lands. Aside from non-metallic materials like carbon and silicon, there’s hardly any metal resource left, and even the plants on these planets have completely withered due to lack of trace elements, presenting irreversible severe desertification.

A total of 7.7 trillion members of the Red Blade Clan have all been transferred to mobile spacecraft, and have gradually gathered near the Liao Yuan Star System.

In this small realm of the Liao Yuan Star System, the density of spacecraft, such as ships and flying devices, has become astonishingly high.

Life on space ships is definitely not as convenient as on the planetary surface, but the mobility is an advantage, providing some ability to resist during full-scale war instead of being powerless.

Ultimately, all the planets held by the Red Blade Clan have become utter dead zones.

Even the rented planets have changed.

After all, it’s someone else’s territory, so Ren Zhong couldn’t be too greedy; he only took away the entire production line and inventory of his own industries, then withdrew all dispatched personnel, effectively returning the rented planets to their original owners before the contract expired.

The unusual activity within the Red Blade Clan also stirred waves in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, even prompting multiple inquiries from Wen Zaiyin about what exactly was happening.

Ren Zhong didn’t hide anything; he personally stepped forward to provide an explanation.

He clearly told Wen Zaiyin that he judged the Sublimers would launch a full-scale war soon, and he was preparing in advance to prevent unexpected events.

Wen Zaiyin asked him about the basis of his judgment.

Ren Zhong was quite "honest," responding truthfully again: "Instinct."

Upon hearing this, Wen Zaiyin felt somewhat distressed.

As the Chief Officer of the Nanxiang Military and Political Center, he has the authority to access the data compiled by the Empire’s Intelligence Directorate.

Wen Zaiyin thought, although the clouds of war are indeed becoming thicker, no one else has such an extreme approach to war preparation as Ren Zhong.

Sacrificing all resource planets and transferring everything to the fleet would inevitably lead to decreased productivity, a significant decline in population growth rates, and the costs would be too high.

If it were only short-term, it might be bearable, but over time, it would definitely cause trouble and severely impact the development of civilization.

In fact, not just Wen Zaiyin, even the Marquis Zhenjiang Mansion which had originally agreed with Ren Zhong to advance and retreat together was somewhat confused.

The Marquis Zhenjiang Mansion was also preparing for war, but not as extremely as Ren Zhong.

In many places, rumors began to rise, and many people felt that Ren Zhong might have gone mad.

There were even many waiting to see the Red Blade Clan become a laughingstock.

Liu An’s Nanxiang Earldom didn’t "kick them when they’re down," instead seizing the opportunity as the Red Blade Clan entirely contracted, quickly and happily began to expand again, trying to rebuild its influence.

However, quietly and unnoticed, the massive army accumulated by the Sublimers with astonishing "Bursting Soldiers" capacity over a mere two hundred years is indeed slowly crossing the cosmic vacuum, inching closer.

The Mechanical Empire’s numerous instruments laid in the cosmic vacuum belt, various reconnaissance-type spacecraft on long-distance cruises, and numerous information flow-capturing telescopes and large optical, radio telescopes equipped with reconnaissance functions showed no response whatsoever.

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