Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1378: Chapter 520: Scheming on Their Own (Part 3)

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, ten thousand years have passed.

The Augustus family has prospered and thrived. However, the descendants of those old comrades who once followed the elder Augustus to conquer the world do not fare well.

This is also the common sentiment of people.

In the common knowledge of the Mechanical Empire, any emerging noble wanting to grow stronger inevitably bleeds the surrounding subordinate forces.

After the first generation leaders of each of their families either entered frozen slumber or died of old age, the successors no longer shared the camaraderie through hardships, and the targets of leeching naturally fell upon those who were once their own people.

One large interstellar corporation after another, belonging to the Augustus family, extended their tentacles into the various continents of South Nine D Star, gradually controlling all industries on this planet, and further, either incorporated many of the system’s exploitable resource planets, except South Nine C, into their fold, or introduced the Nanxiang Marquis, cutting off the old camaraderie’s hopes of development.

In essence, the Augustus family enjoyed all the fine food and drink, never sparing a thought for the descendants of the old comrades who were scraping by on scraps.

By now, several baron families on South Nine D Star, including the Harton Baron, have long lost any real power, existing in name only, barely scraping by on basic feudal taxes, with any hope of revival or family resurgence being a pipe dream.

When Vittel Haddon pledged to Ren Zhong, he once said, "Today, if the descendants of our baron families hope to stand out, our only hope is to study hard and enter the Augustus Academy of Sciences. But even if we get in, achieve high positions in the Academy, and make achievements, those achievements often have nothing to do with us. My father was once a senior technical director in the Academy, worked hard his whole life, and left countless patented technologies, but he could only earn meager wages. My father once wanted to switch jobs, but was restrained by that old dog Sosgate with a lifetime contract, and in the end, he wasn’t even given the opportunity for frozen slumber, leaving him, a dignified baron, to work to death at his post."

"Now the Augustus family possesses a full ten star systems, yet we are still stuck with just one measly continent, and even then, we see the land but not the wealth. The majority of the citizens on my feudal estate also work for companies under Augustus. Money flows entirely into their pockets, leaving us with nothing to see. Back when I earned my doctorate, I thought about going out to find a job and a way forward, but who would have thought that after visiting all the main power factions in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, not one was willing to accept me. They all said they had contracts with the old dogs of the Augustus family, and we Haddons were born with non-compete clauses, rendering us unusable. Out of desperation, I entered the Augustus Academy, and have now worked here for almost thirty years. Do you know what my colleagues call this baron? They call me a poodle! Because I am not only a noble, but also a dog raised by Sosgate!"

At that time, Vittel Haddon gritted his teeth, but Ren Zhong was not surprised.

Under normal circumstances, the Mechanical Empire is a winner-takes-all system, where fairness was never a consideration. Not every power could be like him, with both the status and the guts, as well as the ability to defy fate. The vast majority of people in this system could only drift with the tide, struggling bitterly.

But this too was fortunate, because of this, Ou Youning’s Special Service Bureau’s infiltration work could be unparalleled.

As long as Red Blade Star could provide means to evade the Empire Super Network Node, breaking through wasn’t too complicated.

As for how Vittel Haddon got connected with him, it was quite miraculous.

It was actually an offshoot defector who initially split from Red Blade Star and returned to the Augustus family who was responsible for making the connection.

Grune had forcibly frozen most of Red Blade Star’s past allegiance members, freeing only some reliable individuals with the Augustus surname, including a female researcher named Sera Augustus.

Sera Augustus was once a minor leader in a biological laboratory within the Source Star Fleet.

She was among the few who, having left the Source Star Fleet, were not considered useless among the tens of thousands who returned to their parent tribe.

When she was about to leave, she worried that Ren Zhong wouldn’t let her go, perhaps quietly eliminating her, but she managed to leave with surprising ease, feeling both secretly delighted and full of emotion.

Excitedly returning to her family, she was poised to make her mark and had gradually participated in several family academy projects over the years.

But gradually, she noticed some oddities.