Chapter 1701: Chapter 668: Stellar Pull_2

"Yes. Although this is a lie, I am standing right in front of you now. But I have my reasons. I have not betrayed native humanity, I am not ashamed. They will trust you, and they will trust me," Ren Zhong said with a smile, very honestly.

He always had a kind of magic power that easily earned the trust of people who did not have an inherent aversion to him.

This might be due to his personality, or perhaps it’s because the brain waves he emitted while thinking influenced those around him in a way similar to the Spirit Demon Race, but less overtly.

In the end, Bourbon Louis unconditionally accepted Ren Zhong’s request and mobilized resources within the Far Border Star Domain.

Moreover, the seeds Ren Zhong planted in the Nanxiang Star Cluster and the Far Border Branch of the Royal Academy of Sciences bore fruit today.

In the Mechanical Empire, two research institutions made the most progress in the study of free Fold Jump technology. First and foremost was the main body of the Royal Academy of Sciences, with the Far Border Branch next.

The reason is simple: When Ren Zhong contributed technology back to the Empire, he was employed at the Far Border Branch, and the ship modification technologies he shared were initially absorbed by the Far Border Branch, then submitted to the main body of the Royal Academy.

Even now, although the Mechanical Empire still fails to achieve free Fold Jumping, the Far Border Branch remains the furthest ahead in this project.

To meet the research needs of the Far Border Branch, a large reserve of consumables for Fold Jump experiments has been stored in this region.

During independent research and development, one must face a failure rate as high as two-thirds. Failures lead to explosions, confirming that these components are indeed consumables.

However, with Ren Zhong’s intuition-based computational assistance, more precise three-dimensional universe coordinates can be obtained, making free Fold Jumping a reliable endeavor rather than a gamble.

In fact, the gap between the Mechanical Empire and free Fold Jump technology is just Ren Zhong.

As a massive fleet of transport ships gradually arrived in the Southern Nine Star System, a large shipment of ship modification parts also arrived simultaneously.

Within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, there were many enterprises and factions that consistently cooperated with the Red Peak Clan.

Now, although over two thousand years have passed and times have changed, the Red Peak Clan has long since become a legend buried in history, and the Liu Family of the once-flourishing Nanxiang Marquis is long gone. The influence left by the Red Peak Clan in this star cluster remains.

Those who achieved leaps in development through cooperation with the Red Peak Clan back then did not sink into complete dismay due to Ren Zhong’s departure. Instead, they relied on the knowledge systems and spiritual qualities acquired from the Red Peak Clan workers and gradually changed their fate, even inheriting some lateral genes.

They first freed themselves from the exploitation of the Liu Family, then received additional support from Jin Shi out of nostalgic motives.

Now, the Nanxiang Star Cluster has transformed from a once backward and remote star cluster into an important industrial and scientific center within the Far Border Star Domain, with a large reserve of production machinery, trained skilled workers, and even several mobile planetary factories.

Under the powerful mobilization by Bourbon Louis and Wen Yuanbo, all these production resources converged towards the Southern Nine Star System, and within two short years, the arriving large transport ships were simultaneously modified in power and structural systems to meet the technical standards for executing free Fold Jump guided by Ren Zhong.

A total of five years passed, and Ren Zhong led a fleet of transport ships through continuous Fold Jumps and three-dimensional space navigation to return to the Source Star System.

Next, Ren Zhong initially used the full-range, all-type information interference function of the Starry Sky Red Peak Armor to cut off all communication channels between those present and the outside world.

Then, he revealed his identity and transferred all crew members from the ships into the passenger cabins within the planet-sized interior of the Starry Sky Red Peak Armor.

Immediately afterward, Ren Zhong had Sun Ai take over the control centers of all transport ships.

This massive fleet’s total mass reached 180,000 times that of Source Star, also known as Earth, slightly less than half of the Source Sun.

For a fleet of this typical scale, when entering a planet system, it usually would not approach the star closely, keeping at least 20 billion kilometers away from the main bodies within the star, and would not appear on one side individually, instead arranging itself in relatively even distribution in space.

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