Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1341 - 508: A Sudden Emergence

Fourteen months later, the two fleets completed their rendezvous and entered the warp subspace channel from another star zone, bypassing Liu An’s territory.

Not only that, upon hearing that Ren Zhong achieved his goal with additional gains, Royal Viscount Wen Yuanbo made a new wager, revealing a secret line he had developed, which was exactly the return entry star system lord chosen by Ren Zhong.

This lord concealed the whereabouts of Ren Zhong’s fleet and did not report this matter to the Nanxiang Earldom and the Military and Political Center.

Thirteen years and two months after the Source Star Fleet arrived in South Nine C, one thousand nine hundred and six armed battleships finally jumped out of the warp channel outside the South Nine Star and returned to the base.

At this time, about eight years had passed since the fleet departed from South Nine C, and much had changed.

A large number of humans from the Source Star had left South Nine C through the labor dispatch trade export promoted by Ju Qingmeng, entering into hundreds of different forces and had been operating for many years.

It is just that the Nanxiang Earldom has not yet been able to produce evidence proving Ren Zhong is dead, otherwise, South Nine C would have changed hands long ago.

Having reaped quite a few benefits, Viscount of South Nine, Sosgate Augustus, originally was pushing the final step, trying to swallow the forty billion people of South Nine C whole, with the advantage of being geographically close, when he suddenly received a report from the Military and Political Department’s inspection personnel, leaving him dumbfounded on the spot.

Since several years ago, when the Nanxiang Earldom verified the news of Ren Zhong’s death through special channels, various promised support to the Viscount of South Nine had gradually been put in place.

In just a few short years, the Viscount Mansion of South Nine had been climbing step by step toward another peak. Sosgate knew that as long as he stabilized this excellent situation, allowed the family to develop step by step, once Liu An was promoted to Marquis, the next Earl in the Nanxiang Star Cluster would definitely come from the Augustus family.

For the sake of this dream, to live up to the role of the rejuvenation master of the Augustus family, Sosgate had rarely refused cryogenic sleep these years, being on duty daily, guarding nightly, paying attention to every important matter, attending every subordinate’s commendation, running around to visit neighboring star systems, and even going to great lengths to manage the officials in charge of personnel and trade in the Nanxiang Military and Political Center, at all costs, quickly burning precious biological lifespan, only to let the family’s foundation keep up with the rapidly growing strength, expecting to obtain more surrounding territories as soon as possible.

But suddenly, his beautiful dream was shattered by a strike.

Walking along, he was inexplicably hit on the back of the head, knocked out on the ground.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Sosgate sat in the chair, muttering to himself.

He had just repeatedly watched the video clips provided by the inspection personnel, convinced that his eyes weren’t fooled, it was indeed the fleet that departed from South Nine C eight years ago.

Although the numbers were slightly fewer, those outdated olive-shaped battleships and the orderly military formation were not fake.

Years ago, Sosgate had secretly mocked the Earl of Source Star for being rigid and pretentious, insisting on using warships for a mere cargo fleet, and deliberately arranging such a formation, clearly bluffing.

Now Sosgate vaguely understood. Ren Zhong’s actions were not bluffing; this army was truly well-trained, with strict discipline.

The regular army of the Empire was no more than this. Perhaps only the Imperial Guard, which Sosgate had only heard of but never seen, could surpass them.

After a long time, Sosgate tentatively sent a message to Ren Zhong, congratulating him on his victorious return.

Almost at the moment his message was sent, he received a reply.

"Thank you for your concern. South Nine C is now fully open to investment from the Nanxiang Star Cluster. Feel free to contact us for discussions. Communication code X54IU334..."

"Damn, automated response." Sosgate then tried to directly dial Ren Zhong’s private number, but no one answered.

He tried several contact methods. Over the years, due to dealings with the labor resource foreign trade department of Ju Qingmeng, the Viscount Mansion of South Nine had established some personal relationships within the Source Star humans.

But strangely enough, all these personal communications were cut off, so Sosgate, helpless, had to knock through the public communication code.

Even though he made clear his identity, the customer service on the other end still handled him with official talking points, first thanking the Viscount for his concern and stating that the Earl had successfully completed the commerce orders and will take a break for some time, no longer accepting orders, with full efforts concentrating on building South Nine C. As for the specifics of investment and promotion, it was not about hiring outsiders or using external funds for planetary construction, but that the Source Star humans had newly established a manpower resource trade company.