Resurrection Empire

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Although they are defeated now, they have the opportunity to become the non-staff subjects of Uncle Chifeng whose rise is already unstoppable, and the treatment seems to be not much worse than Uncle Nanxiang's promise, which makes them overjoyed.

This group of people even thought to themselves, why bother if they knew this earlier?

Why didn't we choose to surrender to you from the beginning?

You told us earlier that you have this strength, and you come up with this rule, how can we worship without accepting our heads?

Why do so many people die?

Especially the surviving mid-level and high-ranking members of the five elders were so depressed that they wanted to vomit blood.

Of course, this kind of thing can only be thought about.

In fact, everyone knew very well that even if Ren Zhong announced the surrender policy from the very beginning, before he had proved his strength, the pirate alliance would never choose him.

It is a bit strange to say that the time-consuming work of accepting the surrender is even much longer than the time-consuming of the two sides' serious fighting.

After a full five standard time working days passed, the Second Red Front Expeditionary Force completed its reorganization, and then continued to move forward at a slow speed, heading towards the Broken Star Ring.

The reason why it took five days to accept the surrender was still due to the change in the attitude of Chifeng's army.

When the two sides were still enemies, they would naturally not be merciless in killing. It only made the pirate coalition army feel what it means to be as cold as the autumn wind, and all kinds of attack methods are extremely destructive and lethal.

However, after the surviving pirates expressed their clear willingness to surrender through means such as information flow communication, radio waves, and light flashes, the positions of the two sides changed, and the enemy became a friendly army.

The army of the Chi Feng tribe immediately changed from a cold autumn wind to a warm spring day.

Regardless of whether it was a pirate ship that was forced to stay where it was, or a ship that escaped and then turned back to surrender, it was more or less damaged.

There are severely damaged pirate ships that have even stopped their life support systems.

There are also some pirate ships whose main structure is damaged, and the emergency leak plugging devices placed in the many connections inside the ship are used as partitions to barely keep another part of the area.

On the other side of the partition where there was a leak, the surviving but unlucky pirates used up their last luck and suffocated to death one after another.The pirates on the other side still have to tremble and wait for the trial of fate.Because the smart device is damaged and can only be repaired manually, the sealing effect is not very good, and the air keeps leaking.The sizzling sound made people feel flustered.

There are also some pirate ships and even the main structure collapsed. Only a few lucky people stayed in their closed cabins, waiting for rescue in an isolated situation.

This kind of situation that still has a chance to live, but can only wait in the dark, and has to endure the gradual thinning of oxygen, the need to breathe harder and harder, and completely entrust the hope of survival to others is not a good feeling.

However, the rescue work of the Chifeng Army is indeed very difficult.

After all, the soldiers of the expeditionary force have always been trained to cause damage and destruction.

In the thinking of soldiers, the bounden duty of a soldier is to create destruction and kill people.Killing is easy to say, but in fact it is also difficult, because you have to prevent being killed.

Chifeng soldiers did not do rough work of killing, on the contrary, they were very delicate, and even complex tactical ideas could be executed in an orderly manner.

But when saving people, these fine buddies immediately degenerated into rough buddies.

Ren Zhong once thought of adding some additional professional capabilities to the soldiers of the Chifeng tribe, such as disaster relief and rescue.After all, in his three views, the enemy of a soldier is never just an enemy country with weapons.Anything that poses a threat to the lives of its own people is an enemy and must be confronted, including of course various man-made and natural disasters.

Unfortunately, his vision has not yet been realized.For the Chifeng clan who are currently at a disadvantage and need to use an actual battle to establish their status, it takes exhaustive efforts just to improve the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and there is no way for the soldiers to work part-time in emergency rescue and disaster relief.

Just as it is always easier to destroy than to build, it is far more difficult to save than to kill.

Therefore, during these five days, the Chi Feng soldiers first spent two days carefully exploring, and settled down in an orderly manner the pirates who were in the best situation, the least difficult to rescue, and whose ships were still intact.

Some warships that still have maintenance value were also sent to the vicinity of the repair-type war fortress for quick repairs to restore basic mobile functions.

At the same time, Engineering War Fortress also used these two days to transform a large number of single fighters into multi-functional rescue aircraft.

In the past, they could only kill, and the pilots of the Chifeng Army, who were born for war, also crammed together in the virtual network to learn how to use rescue aircraft for two days.

At the beginning of the third day, as a representative of the prisoners of war, the head of the five old pirates, who may have been unlucky, or who was particularly good at saving his life, was finally summoned by the heavy responsibility.

"Kui Sheng pays his respects to the Earl."

A middle-aged man almost crawled to the ground in a five-body prostration.

Sitting on the throne in front of him is Ren Zhong.

At this moment, Ren Zhong looked a little tired.

Others thought that he was enjoying the joy of victory in the past two days. In fact, after he left the warship and returned to the command flagship, he immediately connected to the virtual system and took over the design and supervision of the multi-functional rescue aircraft. Work.

At present, among the Chifeng tribe, there are three people who are best at production management. One is Ju Qingmeng, who is sleeping.The other is Jin Simin, who is currently presiding over the overall situation on Chifeng Star.The third is that all-rounders take responsibility for themselves.Since he is in this fleet, he will do his part in this matter.

The reason why he was able to complete all the transformation plans within two days had something to do with him taking over the whole process.

At this moment, the last batch of modified one-man fighters had just been delivered to the production line, so he could have a little leisure time, remembering that it was time to meet the prisoners of war.

Ever since, he saw the scene in front of him.

Kui Sheng, the helm of an ancient force with a long history of tens of thousands of years in the Broken Star Ring, did not have the slightest reservation to inherit the leader of a force in front of Ren Zhong, and gave a full-scale gift when he came up.

The corner of Ren Zhong's mouth twitched slightly, feeling quite speechless.

With his insistence, the Chi Feng clan has long since abandoned the bad habit of low-ranking people needing to bow down to high-ranking ones, so much so that he got goose bumps all over his body when he kneeled all of a sudden.

"Commander Kui, get up and come to the front." Ren Zhong waved his hand.

Hearing this, Kui Sheng straightened up, but his knees were still welded to the ground, kneeling all the way to approach Ren Zhong.

Ren Zhong: …….

"I'm talking about letting you stand up and talk, what's the point of walking on your knees like this?"

Kui Sheng was taken aback, "Isn't it like this in the empire? It's the same inside us."

Ren Zhong waved his hand, "From now on, it will no longer be like this. In my territory, I set the rules."

Chapter 544 Everyone's Life is Deserving of Respect

"This……"

Kui Sheng was stunned for a long time.

He first wanted to thank the great Uncle Chi Feng for his generosity, but at the same time, he felt a trace of indescribable unwillingness and grief from Ren Zhong's seemingly arrogant and domineering statement.

Although it was only the first time they met, and even though he almost died at the hands of the other party before, Kui Sheng suddenly felt that he seemed to understand this cutting-edge Earl a little bit.

However, looking at Ren Zhong with a calm expression, Kui Sheng felt that he might be overthinking and thinking too much.

Under Ren Zhong's oppressive gaze, Kui Sheng slowly mustered up his courage and stood up, but his head was still lowered subconsciously.

He understands the truth, but his body still doesn't obey.

"Commander Kui, do you know why I was the first to meet you?"

Seeing his appearance, Ren Zhong also knew that it was difficult for others to sit and talk to him with peace of mind like others, so he simply stood up by himself, walked to Kui Sheng, and asked like this.

Kui Sheng still lowered his head, "I don't know, please tell the Earl clearly."

Ren Zhong turned around and said with a smile, "Because among all the pirate groups of the Five Elders, the low-level pirates under your Kui Xing pirate group have the best living environment. Your Kui Sheng's real surname is not Kui. You even have the ability to counter gravity. disaster relief plan, and has been implemented for many years. The management rules of your Kuixing Pirates Group are different. They don’t pay attention to bloodlines, only pay attention to ability. Only those who inherit the leader of the pirate group will change their surname to Kui. This is a real election by the people. System. You have done things that the empire cannot do. For this, I appreciate you very much. When the two sides are still hostile, I can destroy your ships one by one with my own hands, and I can also kill them within 1 minute. There are millions of you, but that is only about position, not about hatred. Now that you have chosen to submit to me, I will naturally not be stingy with my appreciation. So, you can hold your head up and don’t have to be so humble.”

Hearing Ren Zhong say so much in one breath, Kui Sheng finally felt at ease.

He was sure that Uncle Chifeng's acceptance of the surrender was not just talk, and the promise of the identity of the non-staff subjects that Uncle Chifeng said was by no means empty words.

Kui Sheng raised his head and respectfully said in a slightly excited tone: "On behalf of all the people of the Kuixing Pirates, I would like to thank the Earl for his kindness."

Next, Kui Sheng truthfully explained many things to Ren Zhong, including the distribution and development of the Wulao Pirate Group and other relatively ancient and powerful pirate groups, their background, resource stars and hidden bases.

The First Expeditionary Force's infiltration and investigation of non-ruled areas has never been interrupted for decades. Vincent Van Hoy, who is in charge of the First Expeditionary Force's garrison, is well aware of the heavy ambitions, but the past few decades The in-depth investigation was not as detailed as what Kui Sheng, an insider, spent two hours dictating.

Ren Zhong is very satisfied with Kui Sheng's performance.

He checked the time again.

Kui Sheng understood and knew that the Earl had other arrangements, so he rushed to ask before the end of this conversation: "Master Earl, can we continue to go to the Broken Star Ring? This is the exit of the Star Cluster Warp Passage. It is always close, I am afraid that Uncle Nanxiang will notice the battle situation here and make another change."

Ren Zhong shook his head, "Don't rush to leave, even if Uncle Nanxiang's spies saw us parked here swaggeringly, he wouldn't dare to do anything else. Liu An seems to be domineering, but in fact he has a bit of a brain. The first thing he has to do is to figure out why the trend of the battle is completely different from the deduction results of his military combat system. He will not do anything until he knows what cards I have and makes complete preparations. I can’t bear the price of another failure. For this operation alone, I will have a good talk with him at that time. As for the departure, I’m afraid I have to wait a few days, and the gathering and placement of the surrendered troops has not been completed yet.”

When Kui Sheng heard this, he felt a little doubtful, and subconsciously asked, "Isn't everything already gathered?"

"No." Ren Zhong shook his head, "It's just that the people who are more convenient to gather have been settled down, but there are still many people trapped in the damaged ship. Some people even float in space wearing individual armor All these people were saved.”

"Ah? They're all going to be saved?" Kui Sheng was stunned.

Now, Ren Zhong was confused, "What do you mean? Don't you save me?"

Kui Sheng's lips trembled, not knowing what to say.

According to the common sense he got from the empire, whether it is the surrender or the rescue operation, it should be over at this point.

Perhaps as Ren Zhong said, there are still many people who have not been rescued, but so what?

Could a pirate's life be more valuable than a battleship's energy battery?

This is unscientific, unreasonable, and does not conform to management cost science.

Regardless of whether it is the civilians in the Nanxiang star cluster or the pirates themselves, they all agree to try, that is, the lives of pirates are worthless, not even their time.

Given the consistent behavior of Nan Xiangbo or other forces in the star cluster, it is absolutely impossible to waste precious time and resources here.

Ending now and leaving immediately is the most cost-effective option.

It should be known that due to the different situation of each prisoner of war, the difficulty and input cost of the prisoner of war resettlement work will inevitably continue to increase with the improvement of the degree of completion.

To rescue a prisoner of war who is partially trapped in a sealed cabin or a space armor floating in the air, the manpower and material resources needed to be invested are definitely several times greater than the batch receiving personnel.

But Uncle Chi Feng was obviously not joking, but serious.

With unspeakable doubts, Kui Sheng returned to the fort where the prisoners of war were concentrated.

The other pirates came forward to ask him how the situation was.

Kui Sheng first stood in front of the viewing window of the fortress, watching the multi-functional rescue aircraft coming out like a swarm of locusts, and did not rush to answer everyone's questions, but recalled in his heart the last thing he heard before leaving the office with heavy responsibility. That sentence.

"The reason why we must do our best to save everyone is because everyone's life is worthy of respect."

At that time Chifeng Boren said so in a flat tone.

But these words sounded like thunder in Kui Sheng's heart, piercing through his cognition.

Up to now, Kui Sheng is still recalling this simple sentence repeatedly in his mind, and trying to figure out the truth of this sentence from the details hidden in his responsible micro-expression and tone at that time.

He really wanted to figure out whether these were Chi Fengbo's words from the bottom of his heart, or just a trick to win people's hearts.

If it is the former, Kui Sheng will feel that he has lived in vain for hundreds of years.

If it was the latter, Kui Sheng would also feel that Uncle Chi Feng was unfathomable and frightening, because he was really touched at the time.

After a long time, Kui Sheng smiled wryly, subconsciously shook his head slightly.

He couldn't think of the answer.

Seeing Kui Sheng's attitude, the other pirates were startled, and they were about to die.

Someone couldn't hold back anymore, and stood beside Kui Sheng, and turned his shoulders, "Commander Kui, just tell the truth. Is this acceptance of surrender a scam at all? Is Uncle Chi Feng planning to gather us together?" It’s so convenient to kill faster? When do you think he will do it? What will happen to our family members in the base? Is there still a chance to negotiate? How can he believe in our sincerity to surrender?”

"That's right, Commander Kui, you have something to say."

"Everyone waits like this, I really have no idea in my heart, so let's have a good time."

……

Everyone said a lot with one glance at me, and their emotions became more and more excited.

Kui Sheng looked around, seeing everyone's behavior, felt absurd and ridiculous for a while, and felt wronged for Uncle Chi Feng.

After thinking about it, Kui Sheng simply pointed to the circular viewing window and said, "Have you seen those small aircraft outside?"

"I see, what is it for?"

"Is there someone still resisting? Are these people going to clean up the battlefield?"

Kui Sheng shook his head, "During the previous two days, Uncle Chifeng spent an hour designing a brand new multifunctional aircraft. This aircraft is based on their high-performance single-man fighters. "

"Multifunctional? More weapons installed? It's not necessary!"

"That's right, that kind of fighter is very scary. The design in all aspects has reached the peak of Nanxiang star cluster material science. There is no room for improvement, right?"

Kui Sheng: "No. These aircraft were removed from the weapon system, and then installed such devices as quick cutting, sealing gel spray, integrated first aid kit, high-precision short-range life detector, etc. Now, they are no longer killing people. It is not a fighter plane, but a multi-functional emergency aircraft that saves people. Those elite fighter pilots who made us helpless on the battlefield before have now become rescuers. The reason why Uncle Chifeng has no time to meet me in the past two days is because It is because he is personally responsible for the transformation of these emergency aircraft. He has taken care of all the work from design to production management to product acceptance."

"This……"

"Why! What is he trying to do? Is he planning to..."

Kui Sheng: "That's right, he intends to rescue everyone who can be rescued. Even if it seems like a loss, it's worthless, even if we were fighting him two days ago, even if there are actually a lot of Chifeng Army soldiers died at our hands. But that's what he did. Before I came back, he said a word to me earlier."

"What?"

"Commander Kui, you should hurry up and say it, don't keep it up!"