Chapter 1714: Chapter 672: Fifth Level God’s Particle and New Species_3

This matched Ren Zhong’s initial assessment. He first assumed that Duke Wenle was the next officially appointed Chosen One. Then, after losing him, the Royal Family would never, in a moment of crisis, let another legitimate Chosen One fall into danger again; they would certainly place him under protection and then lavish him with preferential treatment. Duke Wenle’s style of action would also be fundamentally different from his own—once becoming a Chosen One, the duke’s first choice would surely be to shrink back into his shell and hide properly.

What followed then unfolded as a matter of course.

Sun Ai collected all ship traffic data from after the relocation of Duke Wenle Mansion, trying to find some clue.

Unfortunately, the situation was now wartime, and the Mechanical Empire’s security measures were extraordinarily thorough. Sun Ai could not deduce Duke Wenle’s whereabouts from these seemingly patternless changes in the data, but once Ren Zhong had memorized all the information in his mind, he forced himself, relying on intuition and foresight, to sift out several suspicious Star Systems from the Star Map.

Next, Ren Zhong would pilot this small, transformable ship and carry out a carpet search of these Star Systems.

At present, this single-seat ship employing Fifth Level God’s Particle technology possessed extremely strong stealth capability. During Short-range Jumps it almost emitted no external spatial turbulence, and when necessary it could also activate a Space Shield and shift into a dark matter form.

Ren Zhong’s means of communication had also changed; he no longer used the old shared information-flow channel, but instead operated on a new information-flow band. The signal strength was as weak as the information flow in cosmic background radiation itself. At the Mechanical Empire’s current technological level, it was absolutely impossible to identify.

In addition, a scanner based on the same principles as a Zeroing Weapon could complete an undetectable, comprehensive reconnaissance of an entire Planet System, while Sun Ai, on her end, would use computing power to assist him in performing genetic identity recognition.

Seven years passed, and Ren Zhong finally arrived at the Empire Core for the first time in his life.

According to the prior plan, his ship was mixed in among a large batch of ordinary single-seat ships and shipped out from the logistics hub.

After that, Ren Zhong transformed the ship into a single-person War Armor, quietly slipped out of the container, then activated the Space Shield, shifted into dark matter form, and noiselessly traversed the cargo route of the transport vessel. He then took advantage of yet another transfer’s open-hold inspection to swagger out into space.

The Empire Central Star Domain was not particularly large in area, with a depth of just over six hundred light years, containing in total more than seven hundred thousand stars and twenty million planets. On average, each star possessed nearly thirty planets.

The density of planets was clearly abnormal, artificial rather than natural.

Yet this also made sense. Across nearly ten million years of history, the Mechanical Empire had once exercised absolute rule over the Ancient Disk Galaxy for a very long period, with its power spread across every corner.

The rise of the other three races had not been achieved overnight either, but was a gradual process.

During this interval, the Mechanical Empire had gone from prosperity to decline, and had more than once implemented a strategy of major contraction. In almost every contraction, they never forgot to move things.

Even after the Mechanical Empire completed a comprehensive contraction, it never ceased transporting resources from its former dominion into the Central Star Domain.

In the Core Star Domain of this center were piled up material resources that accounted for more than half of the entire Empire.

Thus, what finally appeared before Ren Zhong was a Star Domain whose flourishing exceeded his imagination.

He did not even need to use instruments to scan; just by casting his naked eyes around, he could see gigantic megastructures whose sheer scale refreshed his understanding.

Almost every Planet System had been equipped with a colossal logistics network.

In the vast majority of relatively prosperous Planet Systems, expensive Star Gates were also distributed, and as for Dyson Balls—those structures which, in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, required an Earl noble to drain the family fortune to build just one—they were here everywhere to be seen.

To meet the illumination needs of planets, these Dyson Balls were specially designed, leaving the ecliptic plane open; their construction cost was twice that of ordinary Dyson Balls.

The people living here in the Empire were practically like heavenly dragons, their lives incomparably convenient and affluent. Even students on vacation could easily travel across hundreds of light years to admire scenery like cosmic wonders. One must know that in the peripheral Star Domains, because of the extremely high energy consumption, the right to use Star Gates was a strategic-grade resource that ordinary civilians could not even dream of. Moreover, people here enjoyed the best educational resources from birth. Upon reaching adulthood, they could freely choose their professions, and need not lightly go to war. They could even enter frozen hibernation at an extremely low cost, as simple as paying the electric bill.

Just as Ren Zhong left the transport vessel, a medium-sized ship was flying past him, carrying a group of half-grown children.

These half-grown children were lying comfortably in Static Level frozen hibernation chambers.

Ren Zhong saw this scene, and Sun Ai also helped him hack into the ship’s central computer, letting him see these children’s travel itinerary.

At the very same time, people in the Empire’s peripheral regions were being uprooted and displaced by war, and even large numbers of civilians, unable to evacuate, were being abandoned planet by planet.

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