Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1581: Chapter 592: Devastation of All Living Beings

Where the Red Blade passed, not a single blade of grass grew—the name is "humanity," but the essence is a natural disaster.

This was the first impression of the remaining people in the Nanxiang Star Cluster after seeing the "devastation" left in the Liao Yuan Star System once the vast Red Blade Army departed.

Over the past few decades, the Liao Yuan Star System once, solely, held a production capacity comparable to the entire Nanxiang Star Cluster.

Every day, massive amounts of resources were transported from various locations into the colossal machinery of production that was like a wonder of the cosmos, and then transformed into one giant ship after another, one war machine after another.

But after the entire Red Blade Army migrated, outsiders discovered that this massive planet system was "abandoned" overnight, and the gigantic star ring formed by countless trash planets vanished without a trace. Not a single planet remained in the Liao Yuan Star System. Even the size of the Liao Yuan star seemed to have shrunk.

With remote precision telescopes, further analysis of the Liao Yuan star showed that its lifespan was extended by over a billion years. It appeared to be a good thing, yet this only indicated the brutality of the Red Blade Clan. Having mastered the cheap technology to produce dark matter energy, they still did not spare the Liao Yuan star.

"Truly a swarm of mutated locusts! They rival even the Transcendents."

This is the psychological portrayal of many people within the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

No matter how outsiders evaluated them, the Red Blade Army began pouring out like a fountain from the Fold Jump Subspace Channels near the Star Gate twenty days later.

The fleet of the Red Blade Army was so vast that there was once a traffic jam.

However, the Red Blade Clan showed excellent self-awareness and self-regulation skills, quickly restored order, dispersed systematically in space, then transformed into a star river streaming in three-dimensional space in turn towards the Star Gate.

In the next ten days, the star river that the Red Blade Army had become linked the Fold Jump Subspace Channel directly to the Star Gate.

Ren Zhong’s medium disc-shaped ship crept along silently within it.

During this period, the Red Blade Clan started to isolate themselves from the outside, not contacting any other forces of the Empire, merely performing quietly as a silent river occupying the Star Gate.

During this period, there were indeed people who held resentment against the Red Blade Clan.

In any era, society would distinctly present different classes. These different classes, facing the same great tide, would always take different actions.

Although this is an era of abundant resources, the vast majority of civilians still do not possess the financial ability for cross-Star Domain migration. Long-term migration required prolonged disconnection from work and forced freezing stasis, not to mention the necessary transportation equipment, accompanied by fuel costs, equipment maintenance fees, freezing stasis maintenance fees, Fold Jump Subspace Channel passage fees, and Star Gate usage fees.

Even civilians on the small-affluent level, who may have some savings, find it hard to sustain these expenses during disconnections from work.

To Ren Zhong and the upper echelon within the Red Blade Clan, such transport costs might be trivial, but to the vast majority of civilians within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, they were insurmountable obstacles.

Therefore, there were always those who could escape deeper into the Empire using private cosmic ships or via jointly contracted transportation means. This is reasonable, as nobles heading to the frontline have the right to pursue better living conditions for their families.

Of course, these people had to queue honestly now because the transportation capacity of the Nanxiang Star Gate was completely occupied by the Red Blade Army’s river, leaving no space for others. But Ren Zhong didn’t care about these people’s discontent, just as they didn’t care about the civilians watching anxiously as they fled. The migration of the Red Blade Army was a military task, currently the most urgent and highest priority matter within the Three Major Star Regions.

More people had to remain on the planet surfaces and fixed orbit space stations within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, struggling humbly alongside the star system.

These people forced to stay didn’t harbor much discontent.

They were accustomed to it.

In the history of imperial warfare, as bottom-tier civilians, they were naturally the Empire’s expendables. Expendables must have the consciousness of expendables. Being allowed to be born, allowed to live, allowed to enjoy the trouble-free living environment provided by powerful productivity—it has already been an ample grace. Now, just at necessary times, you’re made to use your life in garrison duties, becoming tools to exhaust enemy ammunition, is only fitting.

Before the disc-shaped ship entered the Star Gate, Ren Zhong saw the general situation on the surfaces of various planets in the Nanxiang Star Cluster through super network intelligence.