Chapter 1643 - 630: The Mobile Fifth Empire

Chapter 1643: Chapter 630: The Mobile Fifth Empire

Unbeknownst to everyone, Um Wei Wu is already thirteen years old. The Red Blade Army has been stationed in the Seventh Star Cluster for a decade now.

Nowadays, the large army of the original Sublimators in this vast star cluster has long been shattered into fragments, leaving only a few scattered forces occasionally resisting stubbornly, struggling like the Shattered Star Ring Pirates in the Nanxiang Star Cluster back then, akin to guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.

However, many members of the Red Blade Army originally transitioned from the Shattered Star Ring Pirates. Guerrilla warfare was their old line of work.

Although they haven’t been actively engaging for a while, leading to some rustiness in their skills, the vast combat experience accumulated over the years hasn’t been entirely discarded but preserved well in the database.

The Red Blade Military Academy hasn’t been idle these years either, continuously digesting and absorbing the guerrilla warfare tactics left by the Shattered Star Ring Pirates, making good use of them.

Nowadays, the Red Blade Army is essentially conducting guerrilla warfare, albeit due to the range. Understanding the Red Blade Army’s actions within the entire territory of the Sublimators is guerrilla warfare. But within the Seventh Star Cluster, where they hold absolute power, they are engaging in annihilation warfare.

Furthermore, the high-speed Eye Ships and Shuttle Ships under the army’s command are gradually spreading out.

These small ships have no combat duties; their role is to monitor the situation in the three-dimensional universe space surrounding the Seventh Star Cluster.

The information flow used for scanning originates from the Seventh Star Cluster, spreading out in all directions.

If this information flow encounters tangible objects in three-dimensional space, it will be absorbed or reflected.

If it encounters no objects, it will continue spreading into the depths of the universe, thereby altering the characteristics of the cosmic background information flow received by the Red Blade Army’s detectors.

Subsequently, the superbrain of the Red Blade Army, namely Sun Ai herself, will calculate the altered cosmic information flow characteristics and perform distant modeling.

This is the basic principle of radio radar, except it employs both cosmic background information flow and artificial information flow, two advanced technologies.

Indeed, within the entire Hundred Clusters Star Domain, numerous vast space lifeform-formed armies are converging on the Seventh Star Cluster from all directions.

Actually, the Sublimators are aware that without Fold Jump Subspace Channels, this massive army is unlikely to even touch the tail of the Red Blade Army, rendering their efforts futile.

But what else can they do? This is the heartland of their territory, and they can’t simply ignore the Red Blade Army settling down. Even knowing it’s meaningless, they have to do something.

Of course, besides the basic troop movements, the Sublimators are preparing more grandiose strategies within the Hundred Clusters Star Domain. For example, significantly adjusting the productivity distribution of other star clusters, quickly enhancing the conventional forces within each star cluster, ensuring none are as inadequate as the Seventh Star Cluster.

Furthermore, production bases within nearly a hundred other star clusters are rapidly shifting, swiftly laying down quantum energy life production lines and constructing new Fold Jump Subspace Channels to interlink multiple star clusters, avoiding staring blankly when the Star Gate is destroyed.

New Biological Star Gates are also spontaneously emerging.

The defensive forces surrounding the Star Gates are rapidly increasing exponentially.

The Sublimators don’t have the so-called First Level or Second Level combat readiness states like the Mechanical Empire. The reproductive subunits of the Sublimators don’t have the complex feeling of urgency in combat readiness like humans, nor do they mind the extreme military preparations triggering civil crises. The entire Hundred Clusters Star Domain simply moved forward silently but passionately, akin to a foreign object landing in the liver, prompting the immune system’s white blood cells and macrophages to self-activate. These are instincts of a biological nature.

But this is precisely the effect that Ren Zhong wanted to achieve. He intended to use himself as this foreign object to induce the Sublimators to develop "liver cirrhosis."

The Sublimators attempted to employ the Three Domains War to sustain the bloodletting of the Mechanical Empire, like slicing meat with a dull blade.

Failing to slice the meat, they inadvertently invited wolves in, allowing the cancerous Red Blade Army to infiltrate their body, akin to a virus entering the lungs, causing discomfort and helplessness—it’s quite reasonable.

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In the virtual conference room, Ren Zhong once again gathered nearly all on-duty senior management for a full meeting.

In the 21st century, as a devout lab coat-wearer, Ren Zhong loathed holding meetings for they were colossal time-wasters, utterly meaningless, a wicked stumbling block on his scientific path, yet he couldn’t escape them and had to accept grudgingly. At that time, Ren Zhong often thought that if it weren’t for these useless matters, his life’s achievements would reach another level.

But now, becoming the leader of a civilization, Ren Zhong, this Dragon Slayer, finally turned into the evil dragon.

Though he didn’t indulge in hosting meetings, he discovered that sometimes humans relied on such methods to maintain life.

Even if all the information in the meeting could be distributed by Sun Ai, the effect is different when communicated face-to-face by him in real time, even if the words are the same.

Currently, Guo Denghuai, the military chief commander of the Red Blade Army, provided a brief report on the combat situation within the Seventh Star Cluster, then continued: "Currently, we’ve detected large numbers of long-distance space lifeforms of the Sublimators surrounding the star cluster, which will successively arrive in twenty-five years."

Clearly, the Sublimators have gone berserk, upgrading the long-distance capabilities of large space lifeforms in the three-dimensional space.

Ren Zhong nodded and gave a small commendation to the recent military outcomes. Although these are within Guo Denghuai and others’ responsibilities and don’t show astonishing results, as long as performing normally without errors, it already reflects a competent military management system.

Then came the routine report from the production management department. The reporter was the newly appointed acting chief administrative officer, Tessis Alson.

As the direct descendant of the nine major families of Source Star, Tessis Alson’s life has been quite eventful.

He was once obscure but has shown potential in the military dimension and even served as Yujin’s mentor.

But once the Red Blade Clan arrived at the Seventh Star Cluster and stationed here, transitioning from nomadic tribes to settled civilization, Tessis Alson performed another splendid transformation, utilizing the Alson family’s expertise to become a highly talented administrative manager in production resource allocation.

Under Tessis’ operation, the productivity explosion within the Red Blade Clan in the Seventh Star Cluster was orderly and highly efficient.

Ten years have passed, and whether it’s stellar development, dark matter capture, or the recycling of Sublimators’ remnants, or the construction of modular industrial bases, progress has been swift, sufficient to keep up with the Red Blade Army’s comprehensive transformations, even exceeding expectations to meet resource and energy needs for scientific research tasks, with some surplus.

Ren Zhong naturally didn’t hesitate with his commendations.

But everyone knew the main event of today’s meeting comes last.

The final speaker was Yang Misi—the second idol only to Ren Zhong in the Red Blade Clan’s academic realm.

Yang Misi suddenly introduced a big basket of key new projects.

As follows:

"About New Interference and Decryption Techniques for Mother Empress Ships Over Reproductive Subunits"

"New Anti-Interference Information Flow Communication Technology"

"Dyson Membrane’s Giant Ruined Beast Rapidly Developed Based on the Stellar Energy Plant in the Pegasus Star System"

"Higher Efficiency Dark Matter Capture and Energy Conversion Technology"

"Preliminary Sublevel Artificial Synthesis Technology for Rare Materials in Some Mechanical Empire Territories"

"Alien Mineral Life Artificial Synthesis Method"

"Space Dust Virus that Can Absorb Energy State Life"

"Biotechnology Modified Space Membrane Shield Generator" (The special force field shield membrane on Source Star Ship has been renamed as Space Membrane)

These total eight core research projects will set the primary scientific tone for the Red Blade Clan over the next twenty-five years and must be conquered one after the other.

If some critical technologies can be completed ahead of schedule, the Red Blade Clan will have the opportunity to take away most planets from the Seventh Star Cluster upon departure.

Whether solid, liquid, or gaseous planets, none will be spared.

Yes, a true scorched-earth policy, carrying away entire planets.

This also means that the Red Blade Clan will have the chance to become the Fifth Empire alongside the other four major human branches, but without fixed territory, instead a mobile empire.

Wherever we go, our stars will follow.