Chapter 462 I’m done [5400 words]

Until asteroid No. 73259 turned into cosmic particles in a violent explosion, at least a hundred people in the hall thought Ren Zhong was just joking.

The Source Star has many small settlements built on planets, space and asteroids.

The settlement farthest from the source star and with the most difficult conditions is on asteroid 73259.

The length of No. 73259 is 87 kilometers. It is not spherical, but has a long strip structure.

The purpose of this settlement is not mining, nor is it responsible for producing resources.

The mission of the nearly ten thousand people living here is to serve as observers on the periphery of the galaxy. Together with hundreds of other asteroid settlements located in different areas, they form the outermost "eye" of the source star galaxy to prepare for possible occurrences.

enemies from outer space.

They have to maintain equipment, replace faulty parts, and from time to time fly out with small spacecraft to repair space exploration telescopes floating in farther orbits.

Although the source star has never suffered an external attack in a thousand years, the observation station settlements on asteroids such as No. 73259 have never been vacant.

Due to limited conditions and high material transportation costs, no large-scale space station has been established here. As a result, the living area of ​​the people here is very narrow and the activity area is extremely limited. Apart from surfing the Internet, there is almost no joy in life.

Almost no one can persist here for more than five years, especially after the "internet disconnection", which can only use radio communication, which is even more inconvenient, and the living conditions here have become even more difficult.

In order to ensure work efficiency, the association has maintained an average rotation period of every five years.

What's even more unfortunate is that due to the heavy responsibility, the untrustworthy deserter is not even qualified to suffer here.

This is a matter for citizens...

Among the citizens of Yuanxing, there is also such a saying.

"Either you become a useless person, or you must not be the last person, otherwise you have to count the stars on No. 73259."

Parents of lower-class citizens often use this sentence to encourage their children to study or to quit, so that the small 73259 Asteroid Observatory enjoys a reputation that is completely unequal to its size.

But now, with a violent explosion, it disappeared.

People on the Seeker, which was only 10 million kilometers away from it, saw the close-up from the large optical telescope more than thirty seconds later.

Some people who once claimed to understand the heavy responsibility fell silent.

Even Ma Xiaoling covered his mouth, speechless and choked.

In her knowledge, Ren Zhong would never kill innocent people.

Ren Zhong had also sworn to tell her that everyone who died in his hands had their own way of dying.

But now, Ren Zhong swallowed hard what he had said.

There were ten thousand people up there, and they all evaporated.

Since Ren Zhong can kill 10,000 people without batting an eyelid, he can also kill another 18 billion people.

Once a person lifts the butcher's knife, he becomes a non-human being. There is actually no essential difference between killing ten thousand people and killing a trillion people. They are all butchers anyway.

Of all the people present, only Ren Zhong knew the truth.

When Sun Ai just recovered, an empty transport ship completely controlled by Sun Ai arrived at No. 73259.

At the same time, another transport ship that had been docked here set sail, returning nearly 10,000 people who had been working here for four and a half years to the forward transport ship No. 1717.

These 10,000 people were instilled with the idea that they were simply finishing their shifts early.

Their work will be taken over by another 10,000 people, and their successors have already arrived at the observation station.

They can even communicate with their successors and hand over work through the restored "network".

They also saw the list of successors.

Of course, these ten thousand people do not actually exist, because the people on this list still live in Spark Town.

They didn't even know that they had been sent to asteroid 73259.

Ren Zhong, who knew the truth, did not want to clear his name. He just waved his hand and said: "'Net' has completed the cleaning work. This is 'Net' re-synthesized based on the information captured by optical telescopes and cameras established in various areas."

The projection screen. After we leave, these related facilities will self-destruct. You can watch it by yourself and disperse the meeting."

After finishing speaking, Ren Zhong stood up on his own, stepped on the conveyor belt behind the throne, and quickly disappeared into the distance.

After Ren Zhong left, there was a brief silence in the hall.

Everyone was paying attention to the figure gradually disappearing into the darkness, and the invisible sense of oppression did not disappear with his departure.

Then, I don’t know who screamed first, “Oh my God! Look at Yuan Xing!”

Only then did everyone react and looked up.

The people belonging to the old forces showed no emotion. After all, in their eyes, this was the fate of deserters and low-class citizens, which was reasonable and reasonable.

It would be happier to die in a violent explosion than to have your brains harvested one by one. At least it would be painless and fearless.

That is to say, time is too tight and we must leave immediately. Otherwise, if the leaders of the old forces feel that the responsibilities are heavy, the Viscount may choose to harvest everyone's brains before leaving.

Although the Source Star Colony has already exceeded its quota for human brain transplantation, the starship larvae are now dead and injured, and the losses can be described as heavy. After all, those are 18 billion human brains, which are considered hard currency and hard assets in the empire, more or less.

Can compensate for the vacancy of starship larvae.

The senior staff from Ren Group had a different expression.

Their pupils suddenly dilated and their mouths opened wide.

Because they were too shocked, everyone's nostrils also enlarged unconsciously, and their bodies began to tilt backward involuntarily.

In the eyes of everyone, the originally blue Source Star had turned into a huge fireball.

Mushroom clouds are rising into the sky one after another, violently pushing away the atmosphere belonging to the Source Star and shaking out the air.

A huge beam of light shot from the slant, like a flying knife piercing the source star hard, breaking away the clouds on the surface of the source star, causing ripples like water waves, spreading in all directions.

Some people's eyes followed the light beam and moved into the distance, and they saw the galaxy-class main gun that was being recharged for the second time.

Looking further away, the sky above Venus and Mars also lit up with a glow representing destruction and death.

The four major gas planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, also seem to be wearing wreaths of flames.

Between the orbits of source Jupiter and source Mars, and outside the orbit of source Neptune, there are also dots of fire spots that light up in the two inner and outer asteroid belts.

Only the former source of Mercury, which is now the body of the "Net", has survived. It has already left the ecliptic plane and risen to a high position. It is also being pulled by hundreds of transport ships operating at full power and with the help of its own propulsion engines.

They were chasing down the main fleet.

There was a popping sound from the front of the hall, followed by howling and then hysterical roaring.

"It's over, it's all over! It's all over! Chen Hanyu, Wen Lei, Yu Jin... it's all over! Why, why is this! Why the hell is this? Boss, why are you doing this! Everyone trusts you so much, you obviously

I said...I don’t understand! I don’t understand!”

Ou Youning was lying on the ground, beating the floor hard and questioning the darkness in front of him at the top of his lungs.

Next to Ou Youning, Zheng Tian clenched her fists, her face was pale, and her whole body was shaking uncontrollably.

If it were Zheng Tian in the past, she would probably roll on the ground and cry bitterly like Ou Youning. But now she also knows that she is the second military commander in the fleet, so she must hold on to her anger.

No matter how many doubts, sorrows and incomprehensions are in my heart, I must hold on to the end.

Zheng Tian's eyes seemed to be darkening, and the darkness hidden behind the throne seemed to turn into a flood, making her shake.

She simply bit her tongue hard, using the severe pain to stimulate her brain, and nailed her legs to the ground to support herself not to fall.

Further ahead, Ma Xiaoling also sat softly on the ground, muttering to himself, "I was wrong. I was really wrong."

She is a warrior who is not afraid of death on the battlefield and is almost omnipotent.

She kills people without blinking an eye, and hundreds of millions of people have died at the hands of the Morality Committee she established over the years.

Although Ma Xiaoling has always had a clear conscience, occasionally he feels a little down, questioning whether he has killed too many people, and he has also asked whether comfort is more important than comfort.

Ren Zhong told her that as long as all the people killed were those who deserved to be killed, she would have no regrets. You are the holder of the law, you are the arbiter, you only act on behalf of the law, you are not the executioner, they are the ones who really kill those people.

Own.

Ma Xiaoling believed it and just walked out of the shadows.

But now, she is on the verge of collapse.

She thought of Yu Chengde. Before leaving, she had persuaded this great-great...grandfather to let this lost blood ancestor board the ship together.

But Yu Chengde said this: "Xiao Ling, your father has passed away. My great-grandfather, I only have you as a blood relative. The other family members have already buried their bones here. Wherever they are, that is my home. I am also old.

Gao, I don’t want to be too far away from home. I can leave the affairs of the empire to you young people. Xiaoling, you also know that I am good at training people. I don’t know if you will need our help in the empire in the future. I might as well stay here.

On the Source Star, what if we find a few more combat geniuses like you and Ren Zhong among the 18 billion people? What's more, since you are all gone, there must be experts here to take charge, so naturally I

You will do your part. You can go ahead with peace of mind."

Ma Xiaoling thought that this was reasonable, and then thought that Ren Zhong had taken over the "Net" anyway and could still communicate remotely even if he left, so he didn't persuade him anymore.

Who would have thought that this separation would actually separate heaven and man forever.

She never expected that it was Ren Zhong who personally killed her last blood relative.

"Sister Qingmeng, go and ask him, what on earth is he doing?" Ma Xiaoling gritted her teeth and raised her head, looked at Ju Qingmeng who was wearing a red dress next to her, reached out and tugged at the hem of Ju Qingmeng's skirt.

Ju Qingmeng lowered his head and looked at her, with tears streaming down his face and his eyes red.
To be continued...