Resurrection Empire-Chapter 839 - 321: "Mercury," Passed Away

Ren Zhong made no comment, only said indifferently that past events were already in the past, just compensate more money, apologies were unnecessary.

The second change came from the Mengdu Group.

Hugh Augustus used private connections to get in touch with him, inviting him to a banquet and promising that the Mengdu Group would immediately cease all additional actions within Yangsheng City's borders.

Ren Zhong also accepted the goodwill of the other party with a smile.

The various other benefits were too numerous to mention.

Even though Ren Zhong was still a "mere" Seventh Level Citizen at this time, the top tier of Source Star Society had already deeply recognized his value.

Because the "Net" depended on Ren Zhong's abilities.

He had already gained a more definite "irreplaceability."

Just based on this point, he had actually already reached the top of the Citizen Pyramid.

At a quarter past eight in the evening, when Ren Zhong returned to the villa shared with Ma Xiaoling, he had basically completed these social tasks.

Ma Xiaoling already knew the good news. She wasn't very surprised and simply asked if Ren Zhong wanted to have a few drinks to celebrate.

Ren Zhong smiled and declined, only letting her busy herself.

He still needed to hold a temporary meeting with other colleagues in order to quickly enhance his business skills as the leader of the algorithm project team.

Ren Zhong first briefly checked the fixed information privileges of the algorithm project team.

A bit regrettably, he couldn't directly find the physical location of the "Net" within the range of his privileges.

That was clearly a higher-level secret, which he would probably need to serve Deep Communication Group for a few more years, attain a higher Citizen Level, and gain higher-level trust from the "Net" to know.

But Ren Zhong wasn't discouraged.

He had already speculated that the "Net" was likely a planet, so the difficulty of obtaining information next was significantly reduced.

Two hours later, Ren Zhong, as the newly appointed group leader of the algorithm team, attended a large department meeting hosted by Ma Xiaocheng.

In the meeting, Ma Xiaocheng mainly summarized the gains and losses of this significant situation, emphasizing the outstanding performance of Ren Zhong and the frontline engineering team.

The large-scale collapse of the "Net" was a natural disaster due to non-human factors. One hundred and fifty years ago, Deep Communication Group was at a loss for this, suffering heavy losses.

Now, with the great migration imminent, the Association's various work schedules were very tight.

If at this critical time they lost 20% of the "Net"'s computing power, it would be a severe blow to the whole Association.

Subsequently, both social stability and the emergency exploitation of resources, as well as the follow-up work on manufacturing long-distance spacecraft, would be affected.

In this brief summary stage of the commendation meeting, Ma Xiaocheng also asked Ren Zhong to stand up and say a few words.

Ren Zhong didn't brag much, only did a very amiable self-introduction, then humbly expressed that he was new, hoping to receive guidance from all colleagues in the future, and so forth.

Originally, the other department heads were somewhat worried that the well-known Ren Zhong's personality might be aloof and difficult to deal with, not expecting him to be so amiable.

The commendation meeting ended in a cheerful atmosphere.

After exiting the virtual meeting room, Ren Zhong immediately contacted another team leader who was commended today, namely the leader of the frontline engineering team.

Ren Zhong: "Team Leader Ma Yuanming, please wait a moment, I have a question."

Ma Yuanming: "Please go ahead, Team Leader Ren."

Ren Zhong: "In this incident, I know the minister used the Ghost Particle Communicator as the communication tool, right?" 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Ma Yuanming: "Yes, the communication between the two of us is also using the Ghost Particle Communicator, but it's on a civilian-grade line. The emergency response used a military-grade line, with slightly different stability."

Ren Zhong expressed his concern, "Logically, when executing tasks, I don't need to contact you directly, Team Leader Ma Yuanming, this shouldn't be something I need to worry about. But I still want to know, if the Ghost Particle Communicator fails, do we have any other communication methods?"

Ma Yuanming thought for a moment, seemingly choosing his words, then shook his head and said, "The Ghost Particle Communicator comes from the Empire, extremely reliable, it can't possibly fail."

Ren Zhong: "But what if it does? Surely there can't be no backup plan?"

Ma Yuanming sighed, "There are backups, indeed, which is widely used electromagnetic communication. However..."

"However, what?"

"The delay time for electromagnetic communication can last up to five minutes and is not fixed. Sometimes it even diminishes because of obstructions. It can only connect through repeaters, which takes more time. This is not a reliable backup solution."