"Within four days."

In the vastness of space, beam cannons and beam energy cannons wove a web of fire, while high-speed missiles fell like a torrential downpour.

Round after round of high-energy explosions erupted in different regions, creating areas in space that resembled barren zones.

These terrifying explosions were caused by armed ships in desperate situations, releasing three-phase bombs and mimicked high-explosive bombs in a last-ditch effort.

Although the flow of information ceased, radio and laser communications barely served as replacements. Communication efficiency had decreased, but it was still usable.

The Source Star Fleet was simply returning to the ancient era of cold weapons, where real-time communication had become delayed messages delivered by pigeons or horseback messengers.

If the Association still held power, where the command system completely relied on the calculations and planning of the "Net," it would indeed be a fatal weakness, because in the Association's military system, almost everyone was merely a messenger for the "Net." So-called commanders merely needed to sit there, requiring neither much thought nor any particular qualities of will, and quite a few lazy and incompetent high-ranking citizens had ascended to high positions with hardly any learning.

But Ren Zhong changed this pattern; he placed significant emphasis on basic knowledge training and spent a full ten years completing the transformation of the Source Star Fleet's military system.

Those who idled away their time were removed, replaced by graduates who performed excellently in the ten-year military training centered around the Starfire Military Academy.

For example, in the Reconnaissance Corps, although Ding Canghai performed brilliantly, other army chiefs, division commanders, and regiment commanders also tried various methods during the communication breakdown, only to unfortunately fail.

In short, due to multiple factors, the Source Star Fleet, though at an overall disadvantage, did not collapse at the first blow.

Every Source Star warship besieged by the vast army demonstrated tenacious qualities, fighting to the last soldier, and always managed, when out of ammunition and supplies, to have Absolute Killing Soldiers in the safe house detonate massive three-phase bombs, thereby perishing with the enemy and doing their utmost to prevent the enemy from seizing the core products of Empire's technology, making the Mother Empress Ship suffer damage without gaining anything substantial.

As for the more than thirty thousand high-tier Professionals, including Ren Zhong, they played important roles across all fronts.

Though no longer aided by Sun Ai's computing power and with the intelligence of the original armor not fully functional, the backup silicon chip technology of the equipment still provided strong performance.

...

"Sigh, there are just too many. The term 'a sea of people' doesn't do justice, and 'endless fields' is only the tip of the iceberg — it's purely infinite and endless."

Looking at the numbers on the notebook, Ren Zhong recalled the scenes he saw before his demise, still feeling somewhat claustrophobic.

At that time, as the top-ranked force holding out until the last moment, he manipulated the Red Blade Armor, charging left and right in space. But wherever he went, there were thousands of enemy troops surrounding him.

In other areas, as resistance gradually weakened, the Mother Empress Ship allocated more and more basic combat units to Ren Zhong's location, relentlessly pursuing him, even attempting to capture him alive.

Ren Zhong's desperate struggle was not in vain; besides encountering numerous Critical Poison Stings and different levels of Sting Snakes, he also encountered many other types of soldiers.

Of course, in the end, he couldn't turn the tide single-handedly, overwhelmed by the endless sea of soldiers, leading to his death without even the chance to struggle.

During this process, Ren Zhong, who had not engaged in life-and-death struggles for many years, found himself regaining the state he was in when he once used all his wisdom and courage to kill a Crystal Winged Dragonfly, even when he was weak.

His long-dormant life-and-death intuition was further elevated in battle. His intuition no longer stayed at a vague sensing level but could accurately see the specific scenarios down the line by fully integrating both internal and external information in his mind. This allowed him to consistently evade the enemy's encirclement and always find floating energy cells in the universe for replacement, greatly extending the time he could survive. Even regarding his exhaustion and death, he accurately predicted a day in advance, but no matter how he adjusted his strategy, he could not move the Death Omen Star overhead. He could only keep altering the manner and place of his death.

The biological electric power and Physical Index, whose effectiveness of mother-child medicine and various biochemical reagents had long been exhausted, began to climb once more.