Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1303 - 495: The Power of Culture

While everyone else abandoned their past understanding and threw themselves into learning the new knowledge from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Ren Zhong was still the busiest person in the entire fleet.

He also needed to learn new knowledge.

As the Steering Man of the entire civilization, he no longer needed to study every branch of technology as deeply as he had in the past, but at the very least he had to gain a cursory grasp of every field so as not to make basic mistakes.

This made his study load extraordinarily heavy, all‑encompassing, covering every trade and profession.

He was turning himself into a sponge, gulping down and siphoning off the basic understanding of almost every line of core technology.

In addition, Ren Zhong had to spend a great deal of time studying basic information on all aspects of politics, military affairs, and the economy in the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

If he wanted to lead Source Star civilization to take root and develop in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, he naturally had to "know yourself and know the enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles."

On top of that, he also had to personally lead a team to complete the simulated research for the fleet’s full colonization plan on South Nine C.

Since it was already known to be a planet with an extremely harsh environment, the difficulty of just figuring out how to land safely was probably enough to make the fleet suffer badly.

Whether Annulus Ship or Armed Battleship, they were true space vessels; their design functions did not include landing on planets with a complete atmosphere, let alone an atmosphere that was particularly unruly.

So how to transfer the four billion people on the ships and huge amounts of materials and equipment down to the surface became the first unavoidable major problem.

Someone proposed using the large number of Eye Reconnaissance Ships as transport tools.

Given the performance of the Eye Reconnaissance Ships, they could indeed meet the requirements for safe landing, but they were, after all, military carriers and had not been reinforced for transport capacity.

If they really relied on the Eye Ship, just the landing operation alone would probably take ten years.

It was also not very realistic to refit the Eye Ship in space.

First, after the long, clandestine voyage, the fleet’s reserves of energy and supplies were already running low. Second, refitting as many as two million Eye Ships was itself an extremely time‑consuming mega‑project.

Someone proposed imitating the Space Elevator on Source Star. But this plan was quickly rejected again. The never‑ending Fourteenth Level gales that raged all year round posed an almost insurmountable challenge to the tensile materials.

All sorts of other schemes were popping up every day and were being ceaselessly interrogated and refined by a large group through brainstorming.

There was also heated discussion on how to establish the first stable base on the surface of South Nine C.

The scope of discussion ranged from the engineering design of the base to the varying demands for all kinds of new materials.

The biomedical personnel, mainly composed of people from the former Mengdu Group, were also busy, pooling their wisdom to figure out how to reconstruct a complete ecosystem on South Nine C.

Due to the extremely harsh environment and the brief lifespan of the atmosphere, there were almost no complex multicellular organisms on South Nine C; most life forms were low‑grade organisms with only simple life structures, such as various heat‑ and cold‑resistant bacteria and other microorganisms. The ecosystem was virtually a blank slate.

In short, the common goal of the vast majority of people in the fleet was how to help civilization take root on South Nine C in the best way and at the fastest possible speed.

But the deeper the discussion and research went, the more irreconcilable the contradiction appeared between the Source Star Fleet’s current relatively "impoverished" situation and South Nine C’s excessively harsh environment.

Amid this feverish atmosphere, Ren Zhong, who was in his office continuing to cram intelligence on the various forces in the Star Cluster, received a high‑priority audience request.

Before he could give any hint, Sun Ai directly relayed, "Uncle, that old flame of yours who especially enjoys peeping into the privacy inside people’s hearts wants to see you. She says she has something important to report to you."

Ren Zhong ignored Sun Ai’s teasing and only said, "Let her in."

A minute later, Xiao Xingyue, dressed in white casual clothes and wearing a grave expression, walked in.

Her brows were tightly knit, and she looked deeply preoccupied.

Over the more than sixty‑year voyage, Xiao Xingyue had been awake for a substantial period, adding up to more than three years in total. Such a short span of biological life had not left many traces of time on her.

She now still looked as youthful and radiant as in the past, but between her brows there was an added aura of someone in high position, formed from serving in a core department that held too much power over life and death. It lent her a greater gravity and made her awe‑inspiring.

As soon as she entered, she headed straight for Ren Zhong’s desk and said rapidly, "I’ve discovered some not‑so‑good developments in the fleet. We must take action immediately, but before that I have to talk to you about them."