Chapter 1624 - 613: Reunion with Old Friends, Blossoms Unchanged

Chapter 1624: Chapter 613: Reunion with Old Friends, Blossoms Unchanged

Looking at the Blue Planet gradually approaching and growing larger in the naked eye, Ren Zhong felt an illusion of nearing his homeland.

This isn’t a wanderer’s return, but his hometown rushing towards him, yet Ren Zhong’s mood is just so fitting.

In fact, ever since leaving the Southern Nine Star System for the Liao Yuan Star System, Ren Zhong hadn’t seen a blue planet for a long time.

Though the Planet Ship has the size of a planet and an internally built verdant ecological environment, it is, after all, a space vessel with duties of war, so its exterior is mostly constructed of solid alloys, giving it a futuristic and tech-heavy look, yet it ultimately does not match the biological instincts of Earth humans who are carbon-based life forms.

Humans are the culmination of carbon-based life evolved over 3.5 billion years on Earth. To nurture humans, the Solar System almost expended a third of the star’s life.

Throughout history, countless segments of genes are etched in the genetic information of humans, like inscriptions on a stone monument.

Some inscriptions appear as characteristics on the surface, such as a person’s height, skeleton, appearance, congenital hereditary diseases, etc.

But some inscriptions remain hidden, not even participating in the reverse transcription of amino acids and proteins, which made many scientists in the 21st century consider them useless redundant information.

Could the brilliant creator, nature, really make such a mistake, placing useless things inside the ultimate evolved life of Earth?

In fact, those useless pieces of information were merely lurking, quietly staying in every inch of the human body along with countless cell nuclei, subtly changing some materials that 21st-century humans couldn’t understand or detect, such as quantum entanglement laws and information flow.

Ultimately, these things contributed to the biological instincts of Earth humans.

Ren Zhong understood this principle, but he did not resist.

He merely looked at the blue brilliance representing the ocean on the planet’s surface and felt a sense of intimacy.

This sense of intimacy is exactly his biological instinct.

Ren Zhong couldn’t help but praise it in his mind.

Even though the Source Star Science Academy is under his command, frequently undertaking research tasks he personally distributes, Ren Zhong never deliberately guided or controlled the technological path of Source Star.

There was no need, nor could he do well.

Different environments inevitably require different ways of survival; compared to living in the abundant resources of the Red Blade Clan’s main base, the "abandoned" humans of Source Star face a barren environment almost drained of resources, leaving just the star and scarce resources.

They need their own way to survive.

Now, Ren Zhong sees another development path for humanity in the interstellar era, departing from the concept of warships, using planets as ships to roam the universe and traverse the gaps of three-dimensional space and subspace.

Those who remained on Source Star made a wondrous transformation of this planet.

They preserved the atmosphere using an ultra-large, extremely stable reinforced force field shield.

They didn’t pursue metal ships because it was unachievable.

So, they mostly retained the surface environment of the planet.

The humans of Source Star played with the force field to a refined degree, embedding numerous tiny Gravity Traction Devices underground and modified the Star Core, turning Source Star’s Star Core into a giant Gravity Traction Engine, relying on numerous small Gravity Traction Devices deep-fused with the earth to provide auxiliary power.

The enhanced force field shield protecting the atmosphere also has a strong ability to circulate. If colliding with space dust in the universe, these dust particles not only wouldn’t become resistance but would be accelerated to move backwards like a comet tail’s force field shield, using the reaction force to provide minute propulsion to the planet. Countless minute propulsion aggregated together can continually push the planet to accelerate. Only space dust directly hitting the geometric top of the Source Star shield would become resistance, but this proportion is too low to be considered.

Thus, Source Star, this primitive planet, possessed low-energy, low-resistance, low-acceleration, but ultra-high-speed motion performance.

Upon departure, Source Star took over a hundred years to accelerate until reaching the brink of light speed.

Immediately after, Source Star consumed more than 90% of its energy reserves, using space distortion equipment based on the Third Level God’s Particle to forcibly create space pressure difference in the direction of the force field shield, further increasing speed, simultaneously activating the short-range warp device, then relying on Ren Zhong’s provided three-dimensional space coordinates guidance, crash into subspace completely overlapping with the three-dimensional universe, which the Mechanical Empire had to open up independently to use, and relying on inertia, traveled at ten times light speed through naturally existing channels to reach the designated location, which is here.

This meant Ren Zhong’s Red Blade Clan was the first to discover methods of freely entering subspace at ten times light speed without requiring mature Fold Jump Subspace Channels.

This is technology yet untapped by the four major human branches, including the Mechanical Empire, representing the next era and a breakthrough capable of reversing the course of nature.

Of course, Ren Zhong does not intend to share this technology breakthrough with the Empire.

This is his secret, also essential for him to stir up a frenzy.

In fact, Sun Ai concealed even more things.

Until now, the Mechanical Empire doesn’t even know, the humans of Source Star, long thought to be completely destroyed and exterminated, have already rendezvoused with Ren Zhong.

...

The Source Star Ship gradually stabilized next to the upright Starry Sky Red Blade Armor, with the help of Gravity Traction Devices, the two "planets" began rotating around each other, maintaining locked mutual distance at millions of kilometers.

Ren Zhong, accompanied by a handful, boarded a small spaceship to fly forward.

The battle flames in the distance continued relentlessly.

"I’m sorry, we wrongly accused you. You never abandoned your promise; you’ve achieved perfection and protected everyone."

Behind Ren Zhong, Ma Xiaoling seemed somewhat embarrassed to say.

Ren Zhong turned around, merely smiling, "It should be me saying sorry, for making you all uncomfortable. In fact, only I know we’ve always been the big winners. Even the so-called rules of the Empire were played around by us."

Ju Qingmeng then raised her hand to gently stroke her chest and murmured: "I wonder what Starfire Town has become."

Ma Xiaoling also hummed in agreement.

Behind them, Shi Lin also responded: "I want to visit the cemetery. If my father knew I not only left Source Star but have been following President Ren to this day, he would definitely be satisfied."

Ma Xiaoling also nodded, "Yeah. My dad the same."

Suddenly, Ren Zhong’s mind conjured the image of Ma Dafu’s cheerful yet chubby face.

Oh, and Wang Zhaofu.

But in the end, there are still regrets.

If Zheng Tian, Bai Feng, Ou Youning, Xiao Xingyue, Qian Wangshen... were still alive, wouldn’t that be wonderful?

...

Looking at the graceful woman walking towards him, Ren Zhong was briefly dazed.

Chen Hanyu had regained her original appearance.

She hadn’t aged, her figure still tall and upright, with curves in the right places.

Time hasn’t left traces on her, only adding unexplainable enchanting charm to her originally cool demeanor.

Her face wore a rich smile, yet seemed to hold some sadness.

Beside Chen Hanyu, walking shoulder to shoulder, was a man still not tall, but with a slightly gaunt face, a few strands of white hair, yet still spirited middle-aged man and his wife.

They are the former "young Yujin and young Hu Yang."

No Wen Lei.

"Sir. Where are the enemies?"

Yujin gently spoke, still firm, like steel.