Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1344 - 509: Blue Planet

"I’ve fallen into the Source Star Viscount’s trap," Sosgate said with a sigh, watching as Ren Zhong’s warship swaggered away. "They used Wen Yuanbo’s status as a Royal Family’s illegitimate child as cover, fabricated a non-existent commercial shipping order, yet made us believe it was true, leaving us defenseless. I thought with the Nanxiang’s Earldom Special Service Bureau stepping in, there was no way he would return. So I completely dropped my guard around those hired personnel and let them into critical positions. I must admit, these colonists from Source Star truly stand out, highly intelligent, remarkably capable, and above all, have an impeccable work attitude. Within a fair environment, their competitiveness is overwhelming. Now, I have no choice but to return these people to him. They’re all technical backbones, their minds carrying a lot of our core technology, including the Star Annihilation Ant’s. Damn it."

Standing behind Sosgate, Grune asked softly, "Father, should I arrange..."

"No! Absolutely not!" Sosgate quickly waved his hand, stopping his son’s dreadful thought, not even allowing him to finish, "Where there is the Super Network, all is royal land. The Imperial Family would never allow the murder of a high-ranking noble. Even though now we are enemies with the Source Star Viscount, it is still normal and healthy competition. We must not harbor any evil thoughts, it’s taboo, understand?"

Grune was momentarily stunned and then thought to ask why Nanxiang Marquis Liu An dared to instruct pirates to act. But he wasn’t foolish; he quickly realized that space pirates were not under the surveillance of the Empire Super Network. A dignified Nanxiang Marquis surely has the means to evade the Empire’s monitoring. However, with the strength of the Viscount Nan Jiu, he certainly wouldn’t have this ability.

"Understood, Father."

Sosgate nodded, "Your main task now is to find a way to deploy probes into the atmosphere of South Nine C; we must find out what exactly is happening there."

"Yes, Father!"

...

In the end, Viscount Nan Jiu’s calculated plan never succeeded.

Even after another fifteen years, not a single piece of information came out from within South Nine C.

But Grune’s espionage efforts ended in failure.

The reason was simple: the humans of Source Star voluntarily ended their action of using smog to cover South Nine C, further publicly announcing the lifting of the border closure.

Subsequently, Viscount Nan Jiu’s space station easily captured many images of South Nine C’s surface, much to everyone’s shock.

The once pancake-shaped planet of eternal day and night no longer existed, having been replaced by a round blue spherical body.

About 75% of the planetary surface was an azure ocean, with the remaining 25% being land, spread across six continents distributed relatively evenly across different areas above and below the equator of the planet.

Yes, this planet finally had a rotation, hence an equator. A full rotation took about 27 hours.

Across the planet’s land, over three thousand base cities transformed from Annulus Ships were spread above the land.

Around the metal cities, patches of green representing vegetation were rapidly expanding like a game of Go.

South Nine C, once a notoriously harsh planet in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, suddenly turned into a tantalizingly perfect habitable planet in just thirty-five years.

"This... Unbelievable! Inconceivable! How did he do it? What happened to the Star Annihilation Ant?"

Upon witnessing this scene, the now aged with white-haired and withered Viscount Nan Jiu, Sosgate, was first stunned, then muttered to himself.

Minutes later, Sosgate received a communication from Liu Jin, the director of the Nanxiang’s Earldom Special Service Bureau.

The other party sternly questioned, "Viscount Augustus, when the Source Star Viscount returned to the Southern Nine Star System, I didn’t retract the support given to you. It was to reward your loyalty to the Earl and also to strengthen your power to maintain comprehensive suppression over the Source Star Viscount. Is this how you repay me?"

Sosgate said through clenched teeth, "I have thoroughly suppressed the Source Star Viscount from every possible domain I could think of, and have been quite effective. For thirty-five years, the Source Star Viscount’s fleet only ventured out once. Other than that, not a single resource-carrying ship has approached South Nine C. Our Augustus family has done everything in our power in this matter, with a clear conscience. The other side is an Imperial Earl after all; I can’t very well mobilize the army to pressure the border or use the Southern Nine Star System Military and Political Department’s planet cannon to fire a shot at South Nine C, can I? Director Liu Jin, even if you are the Earl’s favorite, you should consider some rationale."