Chapter 1620: Chapter 609: War Profiteering

The most dangerous place is the safest place.

What seems like an escape actually breaks the shackles.

Everything has two sides.

The Prophet knows which side of the coin will face up, and in the coin guessing game, will never lose.

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The entire Mechanical Empire, including Marquis Zhenjiang Jin Shi who urgently awoke from frozen hibernation, believes the Red Blade Army’s situation is extremely perilous.

The intelligence from the Red Blade Army’s "Net" also proves this.

After a sudden attack, although the Red Blade Army managed to neutralize the threat with its astonishingly high military skills and timely decisions, it could only stabilize temporarily. The upcoming situation remains very dire.

Due to the Fold Jump Subspace Channel being in disrepair, lacking maintenance, the channel’s interior is unstable, leading to high navigation risks.

Moreover, due to the nature of subspace, ships find it extremely difficult to receive energy supplies and production, so the Red Blade Army will eventually have to emerge from the subspace channel and face risks.

The strategists who adjusted their direction are clearly intending to blockade the entire Jade Plate Star Domain, leaving no way out.

Originally meant for conquering the Three Major Star Regions and continuously bleeding the Empire, the concentrated forces focus only on the Jade Plate Star Domain; its redundant forces are self-evident.

In a sense, the Red Blade Army seems to have successfully escaped, but actually it has only barely earned a reprieve from death.

In such circumstances, it’s surprising the Red Blade Clan is not panicking.

According to feedback from the "Net," the clan members of the Red Blade are indeed panicked and helpless.

To maintain order and eliminate turmoil, Ren Zhong even had to order the execution of a large number of incapacitated individuals who lost their ability to work due to panic, just to stabilize the situation.

Of course, all mentioned above is just Sun Ai’s personal show.

Life is like a play, it’s all about acting.

Sun Ai is definitely a seasoned veteran actor.

But as for the truth, it’s completely another matter.

Ren Zhong was rather leisurely conducting military training with Ma Xiaoling inside the Starry Sky Red Blade Armor’s training field.

Several days ago, Ma Xiaoling had awoken from frozen hibernation to discover she missed the battle against the second-class Mother Empress, instantly infuriating her. She sought Ren Zhong, demanding an explanation. Ren Zhong provided her one.

Ren Zhong first let her train against the newly emerged elite warriors within the Red Blade Clan.

Consistently prideful, Ma Xiaoling considered herself second to none, a top-tier force within the Red Blade Clan. She learned the lesson of the Yangtze River’s waves pushing forward. Yet, she was not convinced, insisting Ren Zhong give her special training.

Ordinarily, one would hardly be eligible to have the Red Blade Marquis as a special training instructor, but Ma Xiaoling is different.

Ren Zhong thought he was idle anyway, so simply trained her while hosting an army meeting in the Virtual Space.

During the meeting, both the Academy of Sciences and the combat command submitted numerous reports.

The Mechanical Empire finally granted Ren Zhong formal Chosen One status, willing to fully open the scientific knowledge reserve to the Red Blade Clan, and transferred all administrative and military data from the Far Border Star Domain, Long River Star Domain, and Jade Plate Star Domain, further promoting Ren Zhong’s authority to the same level as Marquis Zhenjiang Jin Shi, meaning Ren Zhong also held supreme command authority over the remaining Imperial Alliance Army in the front-line Jade Plate Star Domain.

Ren Zhong instructed Han Zhixin to lead the military management department to develop a detailed Plan, pinpointing the location to exit the Fold Jump Subspace Channel, then formed a combat plan, requiring cooperation from the Imperial Fleet in the Jade Plate Star Domain to confuse the strategists’ judgment, reducing pressure on our side.

At that time, the fleet in Jade Plate Star Domain will slightly concentrate to guard another exit of Fold Jump Subspace, attracting the regional main forces of the strategists.

The Red Blade Army will return to three-dimensional space from another channel exit.

Subsequently, the Red Blade Army will immediately resume production and utilize the Jade Plate Star Domain’s characteristics, rapidly restoring energy reserves using new antimatter capture and development technology.

During this period, the strategists will certainly abandon the previously baited Imperial Fleet in the Jade Plate Star Domain, instead converging toward the Red Blade Clan’s location.

Yet the Red Blade Army will not immediately escape, but will hold its ground to engage with the approaching strategists’ troops.

Approximately four or five decades later, when the nearby first-class Mother Empress approaches, they’ll withdraw.

Ren Zhong set a clear requirement for Han Zhixin.

By withdrawal time, the ship and personnel scale of the Red Blade Army must double from its current basis, and the average combat ability improvement rate must reach over 30%.

To achieve this, the Red Blade Army must receive some materials transported from the Jade Plate Star Domain, absorbing part of the Jade Plate Star Domain’s wrecked ships from the Alliance Army, as well as remnants of strategists’ space organisms.

In short, he can accept battle losses, but newly produced ships must exceed those lost in battle.

He can also accept casualties, but the rate of training new warriors must exceed the rate of casualties.

Moreover, during this ship breakdown and reconstruction cycle, the Red Blade Science Academy will quickly absorb and digest part of the Mechanical Empire’s shared foundational scientific knowledge, further updating the technology level of the Red Blade Army’s equipment.

This remains a very traditional method of war profiteering.

But as long as Ren Zhong can always see through the strategists’ ambushes and timely lead the fleet to evacuate, he remains invincible, even if defeated, they won’t be annihilated.

Ren Zhong also told Han Zhixin, since we attracted most of the strategists’ troops from the Three Major Star Regions, the production reconstruction in the Far Border Star Domain and Long River Star Domain can accelerate, the star gates in those two domains can be gradually repaired.

At that time, reinforcements and supplies will be continuously transported through the star gates in those two domains.

All of these will be nutrients for the Red Blade Army.

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"Now we are undoubtedly in a state of escape, but this is actually an excellent opportunity to break free from the Mechanical Empire’s rigid rules and rapidly expand our own strength. The strategists and other three branches originally tried to weaken the Mechanical Empire via the Three Domain War. We will help them achieve their goals. But ultimately, it will be us driving them out of the Mechanical Empire. When the war ends, although other regions and centers of the Mechanical Empire will indeed be weakened, we will possess vast productivity, military strength, and technological prowess equivalent to three star domains combined."

After once again defeating Ma Xiaoling, facing her confusion, Ren Zhong explained with a smile.

Ma Xiaoling suddenly understood and sharply remarked, "Are you going to profit from the war?"

Ren Zhong laughed heartily, "How can you call it profiting from the war? As long as I remain loyal to the Empire, the overall power of the Mechanical Empire continues to grow."

Ma Xiaoling did not continue but exchanged a knowing glance with Ren Zhong.

After the clouds dispersed, Ma Xiaoling returned to the frozen hibernation chamber, before falling asleep, she instructed Ren Zhong again, "Next time there’s a battle, you must wake me up."

Ren Zhong smiled and nodded, "No problem."

"I don’t believe you!"

Ren Zhong was, of course, lying.

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