Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1487: Chapter 560: Sovereign Arrival

This was an objective fact, but every rule has its exceptions.

In the eyes of many insightful people in the Far Border Branch of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Ren Zhong’s view could not be called wrong, but it was in fact limited by the times. In certain periods of the past, the Mechanical Empire had attached great importance to theoretical research. It was only later, when almost all cutting-edge theoretical work ran into bottlenecks and would not advance an inch no matter what was tried, that using quasars to compute the universe’s hash value in order to fully penetrate its mysteries became the only direction that might break through the barrier. It was this situation that slowly guided the great wheel of history onto its present course.

When he reached the conference room, the senior commissioner received a piece of news that could not be called good, but could not be called bad either.

After a full search of their internal databases, the upper echelons of the Far Border Branch really did find a suitable candidate in the Royal Academy of Sciences’ frozen talent reserve.

As long as they brought this person out and put him on display, they could more or less prove to Earl Red Blade Ren Zhong that the Royal Academy of Sciences had indeed achieved results on the theoretical front.

However, this person was currently still in the Frozen Storage where the Empire Core concentrated its talent reserves. It would take some time to wake him up and send him to the Far Border Star Domain, so there was no need to rush.

As for Ren Zhong, on his side, he did not idle away the time while he and Seven Seven rode a fast starship away from the space station.

Throughout the trip he was busy sending messages to the Internal Affairs Research Institute under the Red Blade Science Academy, stuffing back to Red Blade Star, in a gulp, the mass of results he had memorized by rote that afternoon with his super memory.

On the other side, Sun Ai knew exactly what she had in her hands. While happily hauling this treasure trove, she also carried out an initial sorting of this additional knowledge, sharing it with the Red Blade Clan and with the distant main base, Source Star.

No matter how much longer Ren Zhong would remain in the core region of the Far Border Star Domain, it was foreseeable that for a long time to come, the Red Blade Science Academy and the Source Star Science Academy would, with Sun Ai and Ren Zhong as their link, launch an internal scientific competition to see who could digest this entirely new body of knowledge first.

In fact, Ren Zhong himself had not really managed to fully digest this ocean of knowledge; that would have been unrealistic.

But that did not matter. As long as he recorded and sent back the names of the key materials, their specific properties, the application-verification results from experimental work, the design concepts and performance analyses of the devices, and so on, there would naturally be people who would put their minds to work on them.

The Red Blade Ministry of Commerce would also find ways to obtain whatever samples they could get their hands on and carry out further verification, in order to transform this theoretical knowledge into real achievements.

Ren Zhong did not need to personally oversee every detail.

That night, he kept himself busy until late into the night before he more or less managed to send back all of the day’s harvest.

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The next day, at the administrative capital of Wangjiang Star.

Due to the preferences of the Marquis Zhenjiang’s clan, the proportion of human-built structures on Wangjiang Star was relatively low, with the original ecosystem preserved as much as possible.

But today was a special day: the day of Earl Red Blade Ren Zhong’s investiture.

Some of the buildings in this administrative capital that had originally preserved the natural environment as far as possible also changed their forms of existence and modes of presentation, in order to display as much technological flair as they could.

In the original words of Seven Seven (Marquis Zhenjiang), this would become an important moment in Earl Red Blade’s life.

Although Ren Zhong’s end point would not be the rank of Earl, this was his first investiture ceremony, and thus carried great significance.

This ceremony would not only be broadcast live across the entire Far Border Star Domain, it would also be recorded into his personal database. The scene therefore had to be made presentable, to give it greater commemorative value.

More importantly, given the level of attention Earl Red Blade currently attracted, there would inevitably be many nobles from other regions watching the slightly delayed remote broadcast. They could not be allowed to lose face and make people think that the Far Border Star Domain really was a backwater, and that Earl Red Blade was some country bumpkin to be looked down on.

So they had to put in the work on the pomp and staging, dressing up Wangjiang City to make it feel more ceremonial, more solemn and dignified.

Inside the Marquis Zhenjiang Mansion there were indeed some people who were not fully informed and expressed doubt, even questioning whether it was necessary to make such a grand spectacle of it.

In the past five hundred thousand years, subordinate Earls who had the qualification to hold their investiture ceremonies in the Far Border Star Domain were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

Allowing Ren Zhong to have his ceremony here already counted as an extraordinary favor.

After all, although Marquis Zhenjiang held the rank of Marquis, his influence within the Empire was not inferior to that of an ordinary Duke. He relied on illustrious military achievements to hold absolute sway in the Far Border Star Domain, his authority immense.