Chapter 1630: Chapter 619: Insect Nest

Previously, whether on the Source Star or in the Mechanical Empire, Ren Zhong was somewhat hiding and concealing.

He was afraid, afraid of appearing out of place, afraid of being seen through by the "Net," and afraid of high officials discovering there was a soul in his mind that didn’t belong to this era and completely rejected the Empire’s system.

Now it’s better; he no longer needs to hide.

Hanyu was startled.

She always knew Ren Zhong had great ambitions and thought that upon reaching the Empire, it would be enough to contain them. But it turned out, the Mechanical Empire was merely a transition.

"After all these years, you weren’t caught by the Empire Super Network. I don’t know if you acted well or if they were simply too stupid," Hanyu remarked.

Ren Zhong chuckled but didn’t explain further.

Actually, it’s not fair to say the Empire’s monitoring and management system is weak. After all, everyone makes mistakes. To evade the observation of the Mechanical Empire, it requires someone who never makes mistakes teaming up with a super artificial intelligence capable of countering the "Net."

The Mechanical Empire waited ten million years for Ren Zhong and Sun Ai, which isn’t considered early or late.

...

Jin Shi’s hometown is located in a large star domain called the Hundred Clusters Star Domain.

This used to be the border of the Mechanical Empire, and now it’s separated from the Far Border Star Domain by the Great Wall Star Domain.

The shortest distance between the Hundred Clusters Star Domain and the Far Border Star Domain is 1100 light years, composed of 103 star clusters of varying sizes, which altogether host a total of 130,000 stars.

In a more distant past, the Hundred Clusters Star Domain was considered the heartland of the Empire and exceptionally prosperous.

However, those were times long past. Under the fifty-thousand-year reign of the Transcendents, no one knows what it has become now.

The Red Edge Military Academy has studied these star maps for a long time.

These star maps came from Jin Shi, containing detailed information on over 90% of the stars and 80% of the planets in the Hundred Clusters Star Domain.

These parameters were accurate in the past, but many years have passed, and it’s uncertain whether any changes have occurred.

"To completely avoid the eyes and ears of the Empire and the Transcendents, we took a detour, but from now on we’ll travel straight. It will take us about two hundred years to reach the Hundred Clusters Star Domain. We’re most familiar with the astronomical terrain of the Hundred Clusters Star Domain, so we have the highest margin for error here. Once we get there, we’ll choose the Seventh Star Cluster as our base, first destroy the Star Gate, and cut off reinforcements from surrounding star clusters from the Transcendents. This should secure us around thirty years of peaceful development. But we won’t stay here long. We just need to quickly complete the fleet upgrade, cultivate a new generation, and then leave, moving to the next star cluster, continuing our destruction. From now on, we are termites; wherever we pass, not a single blade of grass will be left."

This was the outline of Ren Zhong’s command to the Red Blade Command Center, and now it’s up to them to execute it.

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What is the concept of suddenly piling ten thousand planets into a planetary system?

This violent gravitational disturbance would cause stars to explosively flare and would inflict sudden, devastating damage on the ecosystem of the system’s planets.

If it were 21st-century humans, just the Red Blade Army passing over the Solar System would be enough to plunge humanity at that time into a termination crisis.

At this moment, the Pegasus Star System at the edge of the Seventh Star Cluster in the Hundred Clusters Star Domain faced such a fate.

Serving as one of the nutrient paste production bases for the Transcendents, it originally had a massive web structure spanning the starry sky. Six main planets flew smoothly within the gaps of this web structure.

On the six primary planets, the abundant ecosystems thrived, with an insect humanoid species designated as the Velvet Whisker 331, exhibiting rudimentary individual intelligence and high reproductive capacity, forming a low-end civilization.

The survival meaning of these Velvet Whisker 331 insect humanoids is to continuously consume leaves of space photosynthetic plants transported from space, combining some components from these leaves within their bellies with substances from the planetary surface vegetation, and then constantly squeezing out viscous green gel from their umbilical area on their abdomen.

This gel originally could significantly accelerate the brain development of Velvet Whisker 331 insect humanoids, enhancing their average intelligence, but as producers they didn’t have the fortune to enjoy it, instead piling it under the filamentous space elevators on the planetary surface, watching as it’s transported to space, not knowing where it would ultimately be sent.

The Velvet Whisker 331 insect humanoids in the Pegasus Star System were just lowly subspecies, one minute and insignificant organ in the colossal biological machine of the Transcendents, aggregated within one star system, equivalent to merely one chlorophyll entity on a single leaf from a tree.

However, the Velvet Whisker 331 lived not in pain; they were very content and enjoyed this peace and prosperity.

They didn’t know where they came from, nor did they care about the evolution of their species. They quietly grew, mated, reproduced, and then died, returning to nature.

If they were fortunate enough to experience the information stream shower from a distant Mother Empress Ship crossing during their lifetime, it would be enough to brag to their descendants with pheromones for a lifetime.

Nearby to the Pegasus Star System lay the Star Gate of the Seventh Star Cluster, so these Velvet Whisker 331 were lucky, having the chance every few hundred years to witness the majesty of the Mother Empress Ship.

Especially in recent thousands of years, it was reputed that a large number of Mother Empress Ships had passed through here twice, a legend worthy of pilgrimage.

However, on this day, a Velvet Whisker 331 from the surface of the Third Planet in the Pegasus Star System suddenly felt alert, raising his compound eyes to gaze at the blazing sun overhead.

He saw a black dot, two, three... until it covered the sky.

Then he felt a certain organ within him start becoming unstable. His organ capable of sensing planetary magnetic field directions perceived the impact of chaotic information.

This gave him a splitting headache and immense pain.

He fell to the ground, clutching his head with his four upper limbs, desperately struggling.

But the gaze of the Red Blade Army would not fall upon this tiny Velvet Whisker 331.

After Ren Zhong’s Starry Sky Red Blade Armor exited the passage, he immediately performed consecutive fold jumps, heading towards a position four hundred billion kilometers away.

Indeed, fifty thousand years can change many things.

According to Jin Shi’s provided star map, Ren Zhong deduced the possible location where the Transcendents could establish a Star Gate. Initially, he estimated the fleet’s landing site would be at most two hundred billion kilometers away from the Star Gate, but now the distance had doubled, introducing greater variables.

An ear-piercing information stream alarm abruptly reverberated throughout the realm of the Transcendents.

Though the situation happened suddenly, the Transcendent space creatures stationed at the Star Gate instantly entered combat readiness.

On the surface of the Star Gate selected as the target by Ren Zhong, a faint glow has already begun, indicating reinforcements are imminent.

This terrifying rapid response capability can make countless Imperial Generals envious.

But at this moment, even as he continuously performs fold jumps, Ren Zhong still has the leisure to observe the colossal net covering the star system with his naked eye.

On the net, he could see gigantic insect creatures, each several thousand kilometers long, advancing swiftly.

The function of these insect creatures should be similar to transport carriers.

The starry sky giant web is a guide cable for starry sky orbital transportation.

On the inner side of the starry sky giant web, near the sun’s location, there are semi-transparent hazy leaf structures, similar to a human Dyson Ball.

This entire star system is like a cavern covered with webs, vividly a giant insect nest.

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