Chapter 1363: Chapter 515: Sun Ai’s Gift, Ren Zhong’s Lifespan (3)
He began to analyze the pros and cons in detail, using handwriting in the new notebook.
Disadvantages:
First, a fifty percent failure rate, and if failed, he could only live in the virtual world, becoming a true puppet master.
Second, even if successful, he must accept the fate of never having descendants. There will be no Ren Family to inherit his dreams; he must resolve everything on his own.
Advantages:
First, obtaining a life close to eternal as long as there’s no accidental death, eliminating concerns about lifespan issues, allowing endless life and time to be focused on advancing his career. This not only provides him, as an Earl, with a massive advantage against competitors, but also incidentally solves the currently existing issue of no descendants.
Second, having a physical condition that transcends the upper limit of carbon-based life, making him the first Planet Level or even Constant Star Level single warrior in the history of the Mechanical Empire. This not only rapidly elevates his status within the Mechanical Empire but also offers the Red Blade Clan unmatched top-tier combat power.
Ren Zhong thought about it again. He already possessed the top qualities of human traits within the Mechanical Empire, and after transformation could gain a transcendental lifespan and physical strength similar to that of an Ascender, while the complete Consciousness Upload and the data pathways in his brain endowed him with certain Pilgrim characteristics. As for the preemptive knowledge gained through communication with the cosmic information stream, it’s indeed one of the ultimate abilities that the High Rank Spirit Demon Race covets.
In other words, betting on this gives the chance for a primitive human from the 21st century to acquire all the advantages of four human branches at the same time.
Faced with such a significant decision, he actually pondered for only fifteen minutes before he tentatively used foresight to glimpse the future.
After a long while, he slowly said, "Do it."
He had made his choice.
Once he decided, Sun Ai immediately started completing the final preparations, primarily setting up various contingency plans to maximize the success rate of the transformation and to cover for potential failures.
This still required some time, coincidentally allowing Ren Zhong to make some last-minute efforts in leaving descendants.
In the blink of an eye, another two months passed, and Ren Zhong had stored a massive amount of genetic material carriers, numbering billions.
Don’t ask him how he achieved it, the answer is national secret.
During this time, Zheng Tian executed a fatal strike on the Main Battle Fleet of the Golden Dogs and swiftly swept through numerous bases of small and medium-sized powers.
Currently, the Expeditionary Fleet is entering another silent phase, heading straight for the Golden Dogs’ base, expected to arrive in three years.
At this moment, the size of the Expeditionary Fleet has become slightly smaller, with only eight hundred armed warships.
It’s not because the Expeditionary Fleet suffered losses, but because Zheng Tian chose to divide the troops.
For those conquered pirate bases, Zheng Tian did not wipe them out, nor did he plunder resources. Instead, upon gaining control, he left a small number of warships to oversee public order, forming teaching groups with remaining warriors to explain ideas and spread knowledge to the lower-class pirate civilians.
According to Zheng Tian’s requirements, the teaching groups would cause no harm to the civilians, take nothing, extract no resources, and instead meet all requests, prioritizing rapid improvement of local livelihood and economy.
According to Zheng Tian’s plan, when the Expeditionary Fleet attacks the base planet of the Golden Dogs, the warships stationed at pirate bases would depart swiftly without leaving a trace.
The Red Blade Expeditionary Fleet’s teaching groups leave behind only the name of the unnamed Expeditionary Army and the impact of their actions at several lower-class pirate bases.
The lower-class pirate civilians will see a different kind of army than ordinary pirates. For the first time, they will feel that even a powerful military force considers them humans rather than livestock or tools.
This intriguing perception is the seed the Expeditionary Fleet intends to plant.
Once the teaching groups depart, when other pirate forces take over, the lower-class pirates will immediately notice the differences.
It’s easy to transition from poverty to luxury, but difficult from luxury to poverty.
The lower-class pirates will realize that the reality they could once easily endure is now so repugnant.
They will attempt to resist.
Previously, they couldn’t see hope in successful resistance.
But now, the knowledge, resources, and productivity left behind by the teaching groups will become weapons in the hands of the lower-class pirate civilians, giving them a chance to resist.
Perhaps, among the dozens of sparks left by the teaching groups, only a few will take root and sprout, but that’s already enough.
Meanwhile, the lower-class pirate civilians who interacted with the teaching groups for years will leak the movements of this army.
The pirate forces in the Shattered Star Ring will know that a giant has arrived.
This unseen, untouchable, untraceable giant is extremely powerful.
The name of this mysterious army will be circulated throughout the Nanxiang Star Cluster.
Everyone will know that an invisible strong army is very active.
Therefore, someday when the Expeditionary Army suddenly chooses to reveal its true self, the advert effect of Ren Zhong’s stealth technology will explode instantly.
