From the perspective of Viscount Nanjiu, the Origin Star Fleet was completely in a predicament.

For seven days, the Origin Star Fleet has never dispatched a single ship to land, and it just continued to conduct high-altitude exploration like a pile of flies.

The Origin Star Fleet does not need to land. Instead, it has begun to dismantle the armed ships. It seems that it is planning to build stronger ships by tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall.

Viscount Nanjiu once thought that the heavy duty plan was to try to strengthen the structure of the ship to force the landing.

He laughed straight at that time, just waiting in his heart to watch the show.

He especially wanted to know the wonderful expression on Ren Zhong's face when he found that his carefully prepared landing ship fell, but found that no matter how strong the structure was, it was impossible to resist the Star Destroyer Ant.

But after a moment Southgate was confused again.

Yuan Xingbo must be a smart person. Now that the Star Destroyer Ant has been discovered, he will definitely try his best to test the characteristics of this strange life. He should not be able to judge that no matter how strong the ship is, it will only become the more powerful Star Destroyer Ant. The reality of a delicious meal.

After wondering for a while, Southgate stopped caring about it.

He also remembered that five days ago, he used the power of the director of the military and political department of the Southern Nine Galaxy to forcefully reject Ren Zhong's application for excessively grabbing the light energy and stellar wind matter of the Southern Nine Stars.

Thinking that he could no longer pretend to be lofty at that time, and only looked like he was angry, swearing, and incompetent and furious, Southgate suddenly laughed, overjoyed, and satisfied.

According to the laws of the empire, since Ren Zhong owns a planet in the Southern Nine Galaxy, he has a certain right to mine stellar energy.

But just according to the mining rights designated by the empire, it really takes at least 40 years of waiting to get enough nuclear fusion energy. .

Southgate felt he was in control.

Of course, since the spies had never been successfully installed, he did not know that the industrial machines and scientific research machines in all the ships in the Origin Star fleet were in full swing.

That must be something he has never seen before, the explosive power that a real human civilization should have.

After arranging everything properly, Ren Zhong fell into a frozen sleep again.

Time flies, and he slept for five years. During this period, he woke up intermittently several times due to important matters, but the total time spent did not exceed a month.

But most of the others did not receive this treatment. After all, there was too much work to be done in the fleet.

Chen Yinghua, the general manager of the Commercial Transportation Company, has worked hard here for many years, and has also traveled a lot of commercial routes in the Nanxiang star cluster. He has established a lot of personal connections, and is familiar with the business environment of the Nanxiang star cluster.

It's just a pity that the nearly 8,000 annual ships in the fleet are already overcrowded, and most of them are for residential functions, so they can't be used for transportation tasks.

For the time being, the Merchant Transport Company has only a thousand annual ships available and cannot expand.

The enhancement of the fleet to the commercial transportation company is mainly due to the fact that each annual ship can be equipped with some special small ships such as eye ships and shuttle ships, which can improve the armed force of the fleet to take some risks that could not be taken before. logistics and transportation work.

But the strange thing is that when Chen Yinghua was ready to fight, he was very embarrassed to find that many parties who had cooperated with him happily for many years chose to suspend cooperation.

Obviously, the comprehensive blockade of Nanxiang Earl's Mansion and Nanjiu Viscount began to take effect, which is to cut off the source of the source star fleet's economic source.

The total ban has indeed caused heavy damage to the Origin Star Fleet. What is worse is that due to the delay in fully developing Nanjiu C, the Origin Star Fleet has almost no special products that can be sold to the outside world.

For many fleets returning from colonies, there is also a particularly common big business, which is human trade.

Based on the average professional level, knowledge level and genetic level of the Origin Star Fleet crew, it must be regarded as a high-quality population in the Nanxiang star cluster, and there is absolutely no worry about sales.

In fact, there are already many viscounts and baron families in the Nanxiang star cluster trying to contact the heavy responsibility, expressing their willingness to buy some high-quality population from the Yuanxing Fleet at a high price to increase the diversity of the family and optimize genetic information.

This so-called "optimization", to put it bluntly, is because Yuanxing human beings have been developed for thousands of years and dozens of generations, and they are no longer invaded by the inferior genes injected by Nanxiangbo. They can be regarded as pure genes with more potential. To put it bluntly , is a good "thoroughbred".

If these nobles need to hire heavy-duty subjects to work, then maybe they can talk about it. But according to the transaction terms provided by these people, the commodity attributes of these populations are clearly emphasized. If he really sells people, Ren Zhong feels that these people have absolutely no chance to display their ambitions. They can only be "studies" who work hard for a lifetime, and can't be exposed to any substantive work. They are slaves at all.

Therefore, although Ren Zhong coveted the offers of others, in the end he refused all invitations to trade in population without hesitation, and cut off an important financial path.

The Fleet Academy of Sciences has also thought about undertaking some entrusted scientific research tasks with its own research and development capabilities. But the ideal is beautiful, the reality is cruel. For any power, scientific research projects are the core area. If anyone dares to entrust the scientific research project to the Origin Star Fleet at this time, it means that they have chosen a clear position in the battle between the two earls of the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

Unless there is a day when Ren Zhong breaks Liu An's power blockade, or the Yuanxing human beings show the unparalleled ability of turning stone into gold in the field of scientific research, it is impossible to receive orders in the short term.

To sum up, the current financial source of the fleet is only the auxiliary scientific computing project led by the Royal Academy of Sciences.

This so-called auxiliary scientific computing project is actually the same as the contribution points that people can get after using a watch on Yuanxing for hypnosis. The difference is that the treatment is more generous.

In addition, after arriving in the Empire after all, Origin Star humans can still use ready-made contribution points to purchase anti-aging agents developed by the Royal Academy of Sciences and produced by the pharmaceutical factory commissioned by the Augustus family to prolong their lifespan.

According to Imperial law, Southgate could not cut off the supply of this potion.

It is foreseeable that in the near future, the average life expectancy of the Origin Star fleet will soon catch up with the average level of the mechanical empire.

This is also the reason why many middle- and upper-level managers no longer need to count their lifespans as before, and have to freeze them from time to time.

Regarding the dilemma of the commercial transportation company, the fleet headquarters had nothing to do, but simply carried out a comprehensive transformation of the annual ship held by the commercial transportation company, and continued to install more laser transmitters below it.

At this point, the fleet has completed most of the transformation work.

Exactly a thousand light-capturing sails belonging to the Origin Star have also begun to orbit Nan Jiuxing in close orbits.

Many scientific research projects related to the planetary transformation program are also progressing steadily.

The responsibility must face a new dilemma.

The problem still lies in the collection of fusion materials.

When making plans, Ren Zhong and the fleet members have considered the external environment difficult enough, but the reality is still surprising.

What he encountered was an all-round blockade at the level of trade, economy, resources and technology. It was really airtight and had no dead ends.

The fleet of 4 billion people clearly lives in the territory of the empire and has the ability to travel to the stars, but it is forced to live a poor life in isolation and isolation.

If nuclear fusion materials such as hydrogen isotopes can only be captured piecemeal from the stellar wind near Nanjiuxing, the originally planned 16-year preparation period will be extended to at least 25 years.

The conventional reserve super battery has long been exhausted, and the fleet has to continuously consume resources to release high-energy lasers to drive off white flying ants, maintain scientific research progress, maintain and transform ships, maintain the ecological environment of ships, and produce necessities for life. There are expenses in all aspects, and they are not small. Now the fleet can only save money and save money. It will take a year of the monkey to get what it wants.

In the throne room, the newly awakened responsibility held a meeting again.

Previously, he had verified the development of the fleet at an extremely fast speed.

For five years, many things have gone according to plan.

The transformation of the laser transmitter for the white ants has been completed in half, and now 500 annual merchant ships have completed technical transformation and personnel training. These former merchant ships are now revolving around Nanjiu c. One after another, high-energy lasers are scanning down from the sky, driving the white ants to the two focal points. Due to the insufficient density of high-energy lasers, the white ants have not been completely driven away for the time being. However, the Fleet Academy of Sciences has conducted research on the living habits of a small number of white ants that have been hunted and farmed, and they feel that it is just right to maintain the current intensity. If the density of white ants in the two hot and cold poles of Nanjiu c exceeds the standard through continuous driving, the white ants can invade the star mantle in advance.

The battleship transformation is progressing faster.

The original scale of nearly 4,000 armed warships has been reduced to 2,000.

Although a lot of equipment was installed and the performance parameters of many core components were changed, the internal space of the battleship did not expand, but became smaller.

The original daily living spaces with both leisure and entertainment functions were all demolished and rebuilt into functional modules related to military capabilities. On the contrary, the number of people on board each ship has increased to 60,000, and the per capita living space has dropped by a full 80%, from the single room in the past to a multi-person dormitory. Ren Zhong and Zheng Tian didn't think this was a problem.

The core reason why the previous armed warships had to reserve so much living space was that the voyage was too long.

With the passage of time, for today's armed forces, it is no longer necessary to consider the conventional quality of life, and soldiers should have the attitude of soldiers.

The military system has also been reorganized, and 120 million people have passed the selection and become the new faces of the streamlined and powerful army.

Some of the other 280 million grass-roots soldiers were arranged on the thousand annual ships of Yuanxing Commerce, and some were still on the annual ships.

Other scientific research work related to planetary transformation is still in full swing.

In the past, some projects that scientific researchers did not dare to guarantee, can finally give an exact timetable, such as new three-phase nuclear fusion blasting technology, reflector technology, white ant ecological research, and new stellar wind plasma capture technology.

When all the problems are brought together, and then fully demonstrated, the real core problem re-converges at one point, which is still the on-time collection of nuclear fusion materials.

The blockade of Viscount Nanjiu and Nanxiang Bo must be broken, and more nuclear fusion materials must be obtained.

At the meeting, it was suggested that Bo Nanxiang was too deceiving. Since the other party didn't follow the rules first, he was the first year of the first year of junior high school, so he simply did the fifteenth himself, and quietly dispatched a small spaceship to other sparsely populated stars in the Nanxiang star cluster. collect. Anyway, those are all unowned things, so you can't even pick up things on the ground, right?

But the proposal was quickly rejected. It's not that imperial law doesn't allow it, but that if you want to go to other stars, you need to use warp warp channels to cross great distances. Every time you enter and exit the subspace channel, you need to consume a lot of energy. After conversion, there is not much surplus left for a round trip. Running out and stealing is a time-consuming and labor-intensive but very inefficient thing.

Ma Xiaoling suggested that simply steal or rob, there are ready-made gaseous planets in the Nanjiu Galaxy, and it's not worth stealing. Her bad idea was immediately suppressed. God knows how many pairs of eyes are staring at the Origin Star Fleet today. Whether it is stealing or robbing, as long as Liu An catches the handle, he will definitely make a fuss and become a stain of heavy responsibility.

When everyone else was running out of ideas, Ren Zhong finally took out his plan with a smile.

A month later, Ren Zhong and Viscount Liaowang Wen Yuanbo issued a joint statement, stating that the two had reached a strategic partnership.

Three months have passed, and an armed convoy consisting of 2,000 improved warships, led by Ren Zhong, who was on the expedition, set off from Nanjiu c and entered the warp subspace channel.

Eighteen months later, the fleet crossed most of the Nanxiang star cluster, appeared at the other end far away from Nanjiuxing, and headed towards the broken star ring on the other side at 0.15 times the speed of light.

At this time, the purpose of the heavy responsibility is obvious.

Leaving the exit of the warp subspace channel and continuing to walk out, there is a strategic-level ultra-long-range stargate at a distance of 0.12 light-years.

This ultra-long-range stargate is directly governed by officials sent by the royal family, and it is a giant space station hundreds of times larger than the watch.

Liu An's main fiefs are also near the Stargate space station, and are most closely connected with the empire's center.

Further outside the giant space station, at a distance of 0.11 light-years, is the area with the closest distance between the Broken Star Ring and the Nanxiang star cluster, and the area with the highest density of space pirates.

In the entire Nanxiang star cluster, UU reading www. The fattest hunting area on uukanshu.com is the 0.12 light-year distance from the warp channel to the Stargate space station.

A large number of space pirates lurk here using different means, like hungry wolves in the forest secretly peeping at every fat sheep caravan that can undertake star cluster-level long-distance trade, but refuses to pay a lot of money to hire the security officer of Nanxiang Earl's Mansion. .

Of course, the private army of the nearby Nanxiang Bo turned a blind eye to these pirates.

The mighty Imperial fleet that guards the giant space station also rarely interferes with the behavior of space pirates.

The motivations for the two are quite different.

The reason why the Nanxiang Earl's Mansion is on the sidelines is that they have a deep interest in colluding with the pirates.

The Imperial Fleet is simply too lazy to interfere in the internal friction between these inferior people. This is the Empire's policy of raising gu. Anyway, no pirates will dare to provoke the majesty of the regular army of the Empire.

In the Nanxiang Earl's Mansion, the person in charge of the Secret Service who contacted Southgate had just received the news from the eyeliner of the supply space station near the subspace channel, and immediately analyzed it and quickly came to a conclusion.

Obviously, Ren Zhong received a large order across the star cluster through the royal Viscount Wen Yuanbo.

The reward for this order was even rich enough to reverse his predicament, making him decide to take the risk and lead the team in person, trying to pass through the dangerous pirate zone to complete this big order.

The Secret Service Chief passed the order through a secret channel.

This command appeared simultaneously in front of the most active pirate group in the vicinity, the head of the storm.

The Storm Pirates have excellent ships that can travel at 0.2 times the speed of light.

At the level of fast maneuvering, the strength of the Storm Pirates is the highest in Shattered Starlink.

Even if it is only starting from the base now, there is a complete opportunity to intercept it before the Origin Star Fleet arrives at the Stargate.