Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1572: Chapter 589: Preparations Complete

Liu An eventually received aid from the Duke Wenle Mansion.

Though the Red Blade Clan nearly bought out all material inventories in the Nanxiang Star Cluster and the area near the Star Gate, Duke Wenle, being a duke himself with deep roots and immense authority, certainly wasn’t incapable of rescuing a mere earl.

The Duke Wenle Mansion is enormous, with a vast and substantial variety of resources in stock.

In addition, the Nanxiang Military and Political Center also has some reserve resources that are not easily mobilized in normal times.

Previously, these resources were equivalent to Liu An’s private inventory.

But after he lost his position as the Chief Officer of the Nanxiang Military and Political Center, Wen Zaiyin disregarded him, leaving Liu An to watch helplessly.

In the current predicament of the Nanxiang’s Earldom, Wen Zaiyin was also an accomplice in aiding Ren Zhong’s manipulations.

However, with the power of the Duke Wenle Mansion, they could force Wen Zaiyin to relent, mobilizing the reserves of the Nanxiang Military and Political Center to help Liu An through the immediate crisis. Meanwhile, Sena would transport materials from the Duke Wenle Mansion to the Nanxiang Star Cluster, not only replenishing the inventory shortfall of the Nanxiang Military and Political Center but also continuously supplying Liu An.

Subsequently, Liu An could use the Duke Wenle Mansion as a trading hub, reopening supply channels.

In this way, Liu An could at least get through the current crisis, avoiding a terrifying halt due to energy shortages.

The materials supplied by the Duke Wenle Mansion would certainly be slightly above market price, but that’s still better than having no goods to use and better than the predatory quotes from the Red Peak Commerce Department.

After finalizing various matters, Sena Romanov said before seeing the guests off, "Although Wen Zaiyin is merely a Chief Officer of a Star Cluster, he belongs to the formal administrative system of the Empire. Thus, exerting pressure on him would cost the Duke a considerable price. So Liu An, you must understand, you have no room for hesitation."

Liu An: "I understand. I fully understand."

Deep in thought about the economic loss he would incur due to the aid from the Duke Wenle Mansion, Liu An bowed his head and left Sena’s estate in his single-person spaceship.

Due to the energy shortage, distribution had to be controlled, and the atmospheric radiation layer of his main star was operating at low power, causing the starlight, when penetrating the cover of his spaceship, to appear somewhat scorching and glaring.

Liu An covered his eyes but slightly unwillingly glanced up at the star overhead.

He thought to himself, the Red Blade Clan truly is returning the same tactics in kind.

The scene where he and the Duke Wenle Mansion had teamed up to create an energy crisis for the Red Blade Clan was still vivid in his mind, yet now this knife had turned around to cut his own head.

Liu An then wondered, could this just be the beginning?

He guessed right.

With more explicit instructions from Ren Zhong, Han Zhixin became even more ruthless and vicious.

Han Zhixin rose from the bottom, having served in countless positions from the bottom up, possessing profound knowledge of many industries.

At the same time, the subordinate institution of the Red Blade Science Academy also established a dedicated Low-Intensity Warfare Research Institute, covering economic warfare, cultural warfare, transportation warfare, public opinion warfare, resource warfare, technology warfare, and various other fields.

These people can always propose all kinds of insidiously vicious proposals to Han Zhixin.

Han Zhixin can always swiftly select the sharpest blade from a vast and complex proposal library, then quietly stab it toward Nanxiang’s Earldom.

Similar to their method of controlling energy battery materials, these blades are not particularly sharp and not directly lethal, always leaving a glimmer of hope for Liu An, yet they keep Nanxiang’s Earldom bleeding continuously.

The beneficiary might not necessarily be the Red Peak Earl Mansion, but that doesn’t matter; what matters is to make it impossible for Liu An to let go of his hatred, and even more impossible to remain rational.

Within the Mechanical Empire, the scope of space is vast, yet time passes quickly.

As if in just the blink of an eye, ten years have passed.

But the fast and slow of time is relative.

The smaller the scope covered by time, the slower it moves; the larger the scope, the faster the speed.

For an individual, ten years is a long time, long enough for someone to grow from childhood to youth, long enough for a person who just left school to start a family and a career, evolving from a naïve graduate to an indispensable cog in society.

But for a country, a planet, or even a vast civilization composed of thousands of planets and trillions of people, ten years are merely a fleeting moment, a small segment in the long river of history, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.