Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1355 - 512: Undercurrents Surging (Part 3)

Not only that, but mining bases located within the inner asteroid belt between Red Blade Star and South Nine Star frequently experienced unexplained explosive "incidents." These explosions continuously propelled space asteroids into the starry sky. Occasionally, some asteroids randomly traveled vast distances, precisely entering the orbital path of Red Blade Star, getting caught in Red Blade Star’s gravitational field, and falling onto the planet’s surface.

These asteroids did not cause much damage to the surface of Red Blade Star, as most burned up rapidly in the upper atmosphere, becoming meteor showers. However, accumulation leads to qualitative change, and some asteroids were particularly fortunate to collide with unfortunate satellites, space stations, or ships, causing varying degrees of destruction.

Such irritating and troublesome events have never ceased.

Interestingly, Earl Red Blade never displayed the dignity of an Earl to publicly accuse Grue Augustus of disrespect. Instead, he announced early on that he would enter a long period of cryogenic sleep, during which he would not awaken.

With Earl Red Blade, the noble aristocrat, absent from the scene, Huo Donghua and the Red Blade Star governors, had to bury their heads in the sand, ignoring the issues and adopting a strategy of endurance and tolerance, making their resilience and thick skin impervious.

It’s unfair to blame Huo Donghua for being too weak.

Looking at the Red Blade Clan, Ren Zhong single-handedly holds all the power and military achievements, making him the sole aristocrat in the entire clan. As for his retainers, not only do they lack titles, but they also do not possess influence and assets elsewhere like Nanxiang Marquis’s retainers.

Aside from the "traitors" who were expelled from the Red Blade Clan, the normal Red Blade Clan members have virtually zero individual influence in the Star Cluster.

But even in such unfavorable circumstances, no one in Red Blade Star ever questioned Huo Donghua’s passive national policy, silently enduring it all, hiding their anger deep within, and working hard to learn, work, and accumulate technology.

To outsiders, it seems as though Red Blade Star has been cornered by Nanxiang Marquis and Grue Augustus, and survival on the planet is assumed to be difficult.

It does appear that way from a long-range telescope.

Red Blade Star hasn’t built any new spaceships or space stations for quite some time, and the three thousand-plus cities on the surface are no longer expanding in scale.

The only change to the planet’s surface is the increasing presence of vegetation on previously barren hills, plains, highlands, deserts, and mountains. There are also more wild animals active, forming large wild animal communities, including herds of zebras, sheep, and elephants. In the vast oceans of Red Blade Star, algae, corals, shrimp clusters, and even large fish are gradually appearing.

It seems that Red Blade Clan people, facing the inability to expand externally, have chosen to devote most of their energy to the completion of the planet’s ecological environment from scratch, an endeavor of seemingly little significance.

In the Viscount Mansion of Viscount Nan Jiu, there were servants who advised trying to destroy the biosphere of Red Blade Star again, but Grue Augustus, having suffered a significant setback because of the Star Annihilation Ants, vetoed this proposal and simply said, "Earl Red Blade has actually given up. He has no alternative but to employ this method to earn more points in the Earl review. But the Empire has never truly cared about so-called marginal matters like ecological circles; it only cares about achievements in core areas like science, military, economy, education, and racial performance. Now that he is hiding and no longer taking risks, he is unlikely to die prematurely and will eventually become an Earl. It’s not advisable to push too hard. Leaving room for reconciliation is wise."

While saying this, Grue Augustus instructed others to attempt triggering a controlled large-scale stellar flare eruption on South Nine Star to cause a new level of disruption to communications on Red Blade Star.

Of course, the real situation on Red Blade Star is not as dire as outsiders believe.

Resources obtained from the Storm and Fang Pirates will last a long time.

The true core changes do not lie on the planet’s surface, but in the dome-capped surface cities, in the research institutes, universities, and factories within these cities.

Red Blade Star possesses advantages in full industrial chains, technological prowess, species diversity, and the technological reserves that come with Earl status.

The planet is silently accumulating more and more energy, like a spring being compressed tighter and tighter.

Amidst such complex changes, after three more years, with only sixty years left until Ren Zhong’s Earl review, the Expeditionary Fleet, with the assistance of Viscount Wen Yuanbo of Observatory, finally completed its final assembly near a cloud of space dust 0.07 light years from the Observatory Space Station.

A storm of blood and chaos is about to sweep across the Shattered Star Ring.