Chapter 1621: Chapter 610: Three Questions

Ma Xiaoling also knows he is lying, but there’s nothing she can do about it.

Birth, aging, illness, and death are natural laws of the universe.

Relying on cryogenic sleep can defy these cosmic laws, stealing time.

But as soon as you open your eyes, as soon as you move a finger, life quietly slips away.

No one knows whether the person lying in the cryogenic sleep chamber is dead or alive, but aside from this, there is no other way.

Ma Xiaoling is not greedy for life nor afraid of death, nor does she have any ambition to cheat time and see the humans tens of thousands or even millions of years in the future; however, upon waking this time and hearing of Zheng Tian and Xiao Xingyue’s deaths, she suddenly realized that the "elders" who once struggled and started businesses with Ren Zhong on the Source Star, who walked out of Source Star together, and reached the Nanxiang Star Cluster to root themselves in the Empire, were disappearing one after another.

Yet, aside from those former "elders," Ren Zhong didn’t find any new friends within the Red Blade Clan.

His way of interacting with the newly emerging young talents of the Red Blade Clan was different from the past; it was a definite superior-subordinate relationship rather than a friendship.

Apart from the old partners of the past, no one dared to interact with Ren Zhong as a friend.

It’s not that Ren Zhong has changed; it’s just an inevitability brought about by the change in his status.

It isn’t Ren Zhong who changed, but the others.

In short, Ren Zhong is running out of friends.

So Ma Xiaoling has actually found her new historical position.

She wants to survive, not out of greed, but because she doesn’t want Ren Zhong to truly become a solitary figure.

She wants to become an emotional anchor and support for Ren Zhong.

Ju Qingmeng is the same.

...

Time flies like a shuttle; before you know it, a hundred years have passed in an instant. The Red Blade Army successfully crossed a thousand light years, reaching the outskirts of the Jade Plate Star Domain.

The Jade Plate Star Domain looks like a flattened and enlarged Nanxiang Star Cluster, but inside, tens of thousands of stars are entwined to form a spiral arm structure, and the outer layer of the Jade Plate Star Domain lacks a Shattered Star Belt, only a cosmic vacuum.

Just as the Shattered Star Belt is especially suitable for capturing dark matter, the outer ring of the Jade Plate Star Domain has richer dark matter reserves, more suitable for energy development.

This is the description of the Jade Plate Star Domain by the Red Blade Academy of Sciences, which also basically explains why Ren Zhong chose the Jade Plate Star Domain as the target rather than the more suitable escape destination, the Long River Star Domain.

But in fact, Ren Zhong had another thought in his mind.

Besides the more utilitarian reasons, his choice of the Jade Plate Star Domain also stemmed from a longing for home.

The Jade Plate Star Domain, composed of more than fifty thousand stars, is actually more like a miniaturized version of the Milky Way than the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

Although Ren Zhong never left Earth in his past life, he often sat at home gazing at the stars and countless times admired the wonder and grandeur of the barred spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, on his computer.

After reaching the destination, the spatial energy generator atop the frontmost Planet Ship in the Red Blade Army started to activate, and after two weeks of energy accumulation, abruptly emitted a high-energy level ring-shaped information flow impact belt externally.

Immediately after, this ring-shaped impact tore open a round hole in the subspace with a thunderous roar.

The hole naturally expanded and quickly reached a size sufficient for the army to pass through.

Subsequently, dozens of medium-sized warships rushed out from the surface of the foremost Planet Ship, initially assaulting a nearby group of space biological wandering forces of the Sublimation Faction moving towards another cluster, while reporting information to the Red Blade Army in the subspace channel, providing cosmic coordinate parameters.

After confirming that the temporary passageway torn open was sufficiently stable and the outside cosmic coordinates matched the expected position, the entire corps immediately surged out at full speed.

The ensuing events were fundamentally consistent with Ren Zhong’s previous plan.

Forty-two years later, the Red Blade Army slinked again into the subspace channel, heading to its next destination, leaving the rapidly approaching Grade One Mother Empress empty-handed.

This wasn’t the previous Grade One Mother Empress, but another one originally hidden in the dark serving as an arsenal, a lurking Mother Empress.

It was evident that the Sublimation Faction had dispatched a reserve force.

The march of this Grade One Mother Empress was absolutely covert, with no possibility of leaking information; yet the Red Blade Army, slippery as a fish, still managed to dodge.

However, the Sublimation Faction was not discouraged. They gradually surrounded the Jade Plate Star Domain and preemptively controlled the entrances and exits of the subspace channels connecting the Jade Plate Star Domain with other star domains.

The Star Gates within the Jade Plate Star Domain are already completely controlled, with no possibility of repair by the Empire.

The current difficulties are only temporary; as more forces congregate, no matter how cunning the Red Blade Army is, there will inevitably come a day when its tail is caught.

This situation is on solid ground.

...

A thousand years pass.

The Red Blade Army has surged out more than ten times over this period.

Mechanical Empire’s supplies successfully broke through the blockade and were delivered nearly thirty times, half of which successfully reached the hands of the Red Blade Army, while the other half ended up as space fireworks.

The delivery rate of Mechanical Empire’s materials is roughly fifty percent.

This ratio is basically adequate.

During this millennium, the total scale of the Red Blade Army didn’t expand much, only growing tenfold.

It wasn’t due to a shortage of resources, but rather because Ren Zhong has kept up with the times and adjusted the direction of civilization again, starting to adopt a policy of elite soldiers.

No matter how quickly the Red Blade Clan expands, the Sublimation Faction’s force size always maintains an absolute advantage.

The larger our scale, the wider the range of concern during conflict.

Instead of blindly expanding and becoming a giant paper tiger, we might as well refine ourselves, forging the corps into a normal-sized steel warrior.

However, as time progresses, the force size accumulated by the Sublimation Faction in the Jade Plate Star Domain is also becoming increasingly massive.

The operational space for the Red Blade Army is shrinking, and the time available for staying in place each time after rushing out of the subspace channel is shortening, because the Grade One Mother Empress is arriving faster.

According to intelligence provided by the Mechanical Empire, twelve Grade One Mother Empresses have appeared in the Jade Plate Star Domain and its surrounding regions.

Moreover, the Sublimation Faction indeed attained assistance from the Pilgrim, consistently employing highly precise detection instruments to search for subspace channels established by the Mechanical Empire, then using continuous spatial vibrations to disrupt the stability of the channels, thereby completely severing the connections between the Jade Plate Star Domain and other territories of the Empire.

In addition, the Sublimation Faction established a large number of new Fold Jump Subspace Channels within the Jade Plate Star Domain and, with the aid of the Spirit Demon Race, completely brainwashed and transformed the humans of the Empire in the Jade Plate Star Domain, turning them into slaves.

Subsequently, the Sublimation Faction began using slaves to repair Star Gates and change the locked coordinates of Star Gates, which further accelerated the movement speed of Grade One Mother Empress.

The situation of the Red Blade Army is indeed worsening.

But during this millennium, the Far Border Star Domain and the Long River Star Domain have achieved complete victories, not only driving off almost all Sublimation Faction troops but also repairing many Star Gates.

The order of production and life has been restored to normal.

The Mechanical Empire now faces only the final three questions: whether to reclaim the Jade Plate Star Domain, whether to save the Red Blade Army, and how to save them.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.