Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1347 - 510: Playing Dead Plan, Accumulating Strength for a Decade

There are still sixty-five years left for Red Blade Star, so Ren Zhong is not in a hurry.

After the high-profile announcement of opening up to the outside world, Red Blade Star immediately switched to a core strategy focused on planetary development, starting to keep a low profile and gradually accumulating strength, gradually enhancing the competitiveness of the Red Blade Clan.

Of course, the retaliatory actions against the Augustus family are also being secretly initiated.

This matter is handed over to Ou Youning, who is more adept at wheeling and dealing. Loyal defector Wu Moyou, now tested, has become Ou Youning’s assistant.

Ren Zhong established the Special Service Bureau for this purpose, allocating a thousand super-class professionals and tens of thousands of potential newcomers who possess various skills, are interested, and have talent in the direction of espionage, to Ou Youning. He also named Xiao Xingyue and Ma Xiaoling as advisors in the Special Service Bureau to share experiences accumulated by various secret review departments and the Moral Judgement Committee in related special operations work.

Wu Moyou previously had a preliminary understanding of the Source Star humans’ style of conduct, originally believing that he already understood enough, but was still shocked after seeing many cases presented by Xiao Xingyue and Ma Xiaoling.

Wu Moyou sighed in his heart, realizing that Source Star humans were also not so righteous in the past, that human nature is equally complex, with many complicated processes of change.

But it is precisely this complex environment that more highlights the difficulty of Ren Zhong rising from the grassroots and then reshaping the qualities of civilization spirit.

The existence of these cases also provides Wu Moyou with great convenience. He originally worried about taking a group of "naive sweethearts" and forcibly organizing a spy group would be difficult, but quickly realized that each of them is a worldly genius, crafty and cunning, having seen real darkness, with no need to worry at all. The wonder is that these colleagues, even though covered in muck, have not left much shadow in their hearts.

Wu Moyou once asked Ou Youning about this matter, "I don’t understand, your growth environment is not considered good, but why has your societal atmosphere formed as it is now."

Ou Youning thought for a moment, shrugged and replied, "I can’t say for sure either. I can only say we have a good boss."

Wu Moyou still couldn’t quite understand, even secretly worried that too much negative stuff might be suppressed in the hearts of the many Red Blade people, potentially causing future disasters.

Ou Youning replied irritably, "Don’t think about those irrelevant things, focus on your work. Right now, the only task for both of us is to figure out how to better and faster destroy the Augustus family. As for other matters, if the sky falls, it’s up to the tall to hold it up, and it doesn’t concern you or me."

Wu Moyou: "That’s true."

As Wu Moyou was attempting to devise a plan to infiltrate and sabotage against Viscount Nan Jiu, external events took a dramatic turn.

First, the enraged Nanxiang Marquis Liu An announced the withdrawal of all support for Viscount Nan Jiu, and then publicly announced within the Nanxiang Star Cluster the comprehensive embargo against the Southern Nine Star System, prohibiting any trade relations between other civilizations within the star cluster and the Southern Nine Star System.

If it weren’t for the Contribution Points economy being directly controlled by the Empire, Liu An might even strip the Southern Nine Star System of the right to use Contribution Points.

The former South Nine C, now Red Blade Star, remains within the Southern Nine Star System’s scope. Although Liu An’s sanctions announcement did not explicitly designate it, Red Blade Star is clearly within the range of sanctions.

The uninformed might think Red Blade Star has suffered collateral damage from the upheavals within the Southern Nine Star System, but those truly versed in the Nanxiang Star Cluster understand that Liu An might have ulterior motives, with the so-called sanctions against the Southern Nine Star System ultimately targeting Red Blade Star.

Liu An’s move tears off the disguise, clearly forcing various forces within the Nanxiang Star Cluster to realign.

Under the pressure created by Liu An, the previously developing Red Blade Star diplomatic institutions stationed in various star systems have to temporarily halt their operations.

Many migrant workers who originally took root and sprouted with employers are also forced to choose, either abandoning their hard-earned careers to move back to Red Blade Star with their families or making a clear break from their homeland.

By now, millions of Source Star humans are striving outside. Due to the unique societal atmosphere formed within the Source Star Fleet, the Red Blade tribe does not favor the use of cryogenic sleep, preferring to focus on the present, burning their biological lifespan as much as possible within limited time to create more value as quickly as possible. As for future matters, they believe more distinguished descendants will continue the legacy. Even when they sometimes have to use freezing to traverse time, they don’t sleep for long, and their active physiological time is often higher than that of other clanspeople. Only a very few who receive orders from the higher-ups or clarify that their skills and job requirements have cross-temporal value willingly lie into the frozen storage. Therefore, most of these millions of people have already established families and careers.