Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1308 - 496: Poisoning, Ant Swarm (3)

This method of production makes the audience feel as if they are personally involved.

No, the protagonists of the documentary are all the members of the fleet.

The audience is already the lead actors.

The eyes of the vast majority are filled with tears, trembling hands tightly clenched into fists.

Many who had never participated in battle, and had never even awakened from frozen sleep, finally understood in a more direct way the price others paid to ensure their safe arrival while they slept peacefully.

They knew they owed a debt of gratitude they could never repay.

Ma Wei’an’s mother, now a white-haired old woman, silently bowed her head. In her heart, she forgave the cold-hearted Chen Qiao and the Imperial Earl Ren Zhong. Years after losing her son, she finally understood what kind of life he most wanted. She also finally understood why her husband, Ma Xiaoyun, repeatedly refused to join her in frozen sleep, choosing instead to grow old along the way.

The Sammy brothers, now past their thirties, were sitting in the family-exclusive large communal cabin with a group of little Sammys.

An eleven or twelve-year-old Sammy clenched his fists, mumbling to himself.

He had heard his elders at home praise his great uncle countless times and had always felt proud to have such an uncle. But this sense of pride had never been as intense as it was now. Ahmed Sammy sat on the work ship’s command seat, his figure shining as brilliantly as the Source Sun.

Secretly, the young boy thought, now my classmates will finally stop saying I’m bragging. You’ve all seen it. Everyone in the fleet has seen it.

Of course, not everyone would have positive feedback in their hearts.

Ren Zhong had explicitly told the director Xiao Xingyue about the complexity and diversity of human nature.

Within this vast fleet, there was indeed a tiny portion of people secretly thinking that this was just boring melodrama, and the fundamental aim was to allow Ren Zhong, the unsteady Imperial Earl, to manipulate people’s thoughts, making others willingly serve him and become stepping stones to his success.

But these people didn’t dare to show their disdain on their faces, hiding it deep within their hearts.

Some of them even displayed more intense emotional reactions than others, crying and swearing loudly.

Of course, while they were performing, they glanced at the others around them, only to secretly scorn these fools coldly. They felt as if they were the only ones awake while everyone else was foolishly drunk, giving them the sense that everyone in the fleet, except themselves, was ridiculously foolish.

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After a full 108 days had passed, ship after ship seemed to emerge from the water, drilling out from a spherical plane, rising at an angle perpendicular to the equatorial plane of South Nine Star.

This border star system belonging to the Augustus family of Viscount Nan Jiu finally welcomed a group of new settlers.

It is less than a billion kilometers from here to the outer asteroid belt of the Southern Nine Star System and 3.5 billion kilometers from South Nine C.

Next, just 35 hours of conventional navigation will bring the fleet to the far orbit of South Nine C.

At this moment, countless pairs of eyes were watching here.

The vast majority of power holders within the Nanxiang Star Cluster were curious about what changes Ren Zhong, this newly arrived Earl, would bring to the cluster.

Currently, most of the Viscounts and Barons in the Star Cluster have intricate ties with the Nanxiang Earldom.

But wherever there are people, there will be varying degrees of closeness and conflicts of interest. Some are prosperous, while others feel great hardship.

In pursuit of military achievements, Liu An has engaged in reckless warfare for thousands of years, exploiting the power of the star cluster’s Military and Political Officer to enforce a policy of relentless oppression and plundering against the many nobles of lower status within the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

Apart from the normal taxation and collection of military management fees compliant with Imperial law, the industries under the Earl Mansion often forcibly invest in other industries, causing great distress.

And this can hardly be refused.

Because secretly, many space pirates based in the Shattered Star Ring have extensive ties with Liu An, often brutalizing and pillaging the lesser Viscount Star Systems and planets jointly managed by Barons within the star cluster.

These evil pirates sometimes cut off trade routes, seizing cargo and abusing crew members.

If the victims are willing to offer a proportion of their assets as dry shares and invite the Nanxiang Earldom to station a nominal Security Affairs Officer, the frequency of space pirate ambushes decreases significantly, as if these useless Security Affairs Officers, who only receive bribes, genuinely wield a deterrent aura that can intimidate the brutal space pirates.