The regime built on lies is as fragile as a castle in the air and can easily be toppled by another lie.

True loyalty comes only from two things, recognition of history or the pursuit of common interests.

Ren Zhong satisfied the second point for most of the military on Source Star.

He not only received the official endorsement from the frozen Elders, the Nine Major Groups, and the Source Star Business Association, but also his Ren Group has genuinely changed much of the social atmosphere on Source Star over the past twenty years.

In addition, for fifteen years, Ren Group has never let up on its media publicity campaign, making Ren Zhong's image deeply ingrained in people's hearts.

In comparison, the frozen Elders have nothing like this.

They fall short on both the first and second points.

They are overly cautious, fabricated history, and their management mechanism is too out of touch, almost never appearing before ordinary citizens and wastelanders.

To date, only Ren Zhong knows of Trace Seeker's existence and form, and only the heirs and power holders of the Nine Major Groups are aware of their appearance.

Unfortunately, these heirs and power holders have now all entered Li Yang's "circle of friends."

Under all these factors, the nine frozen Elders, creators of Source Star civilization and Creator Gods, were easily branded by Ren Zhong as an "alien civilization" invasion, without even being able to defend themselves.

They issued many announcements externally.

But all sank without a trace, receiving no response.

The radio communications established by the revival plan would not obey them.

As for the scanning surveillance function of the "net" barely restored by Ma Zhongfei, it inexplicably encountered unknown errors.

The other icy elders believed this was a problem with Ma Zhongfei's competence and questioned why he hadn't previously been upfront about his incompetence, thus allowing the all-capable Angel Envoy to intervene.

Ma Zhongfei angrily refuted, stating that removing the Angel Envoy from specific affairs wasn't his sole suggestion but a decision unanimously recognized by everyone, and the Angel Envoy himself showed no resistance—thought it was all too smooth, losing his vigilance.

In short, everyone has made mistakes, but the main focus now is not accountability but solving the current problem.

Others could not rebut further, internally cursing their luck and secretly worrying about the current condition of the Angel Envoy, wondering if he could pull off a miracle to turn the tide in this abruptly erupted crisis.

Truth be told, it's not impossible.

After all, he's the Angel Envoy who even fixed the "net"!

Up till now, the information on the icy elders was completely obscured by Ren Zhong, keeping them in the dark, completely unaware that the one commanding on the opposite side was the Angel Envoy they had high hopes for.

As they watched the Source Star colonists they had cultivated from frozen embryos with artificial intelligence machinery gradually grow step by step, commanding warships gathering from all directions, the icy elders felt both twisted and helpless at heart.

...

The starry sky was like a canvas.

The enormous blue sun occupied half of the territory.

Yuanjin Star became an unignorable embellishment at the corner of this canvas.

Beside this embellishment, the forced reveal of the Trace Seeker spaceship originally meant to orbit Yuanjin Star along its established trajectory.

At this moment, the spherical spaceship was suspended in space, uncontrollably drifting far away.

It turns out, light indeed has mass.

The explosion triggered by the concentrated fire impact not only momentarily shattered the thin film force field, paralyzing the energy system of the Tracer, but the explosive shock also changed the existing orbit trajectory of the Tracer akin to the Earth-Moon system, pushing it off course and granting it an initial velocity exceeding the second cosmic velocity of Yuanjin Star.

Ying Feng, responsible for controlling the spaceship, did not intend to decelerate to return the spaceship to Yuanjin Star's orbit, as a large number of energy cannons and missiles were being launched from the colonies on Yuanjin Star, chasing after the Trace Seeker—a real encounter with the devil.

Faced with threats from the ground of Yuanjin Star, Ying Feng turned to let the medium engine spew rocket-like flames, driving the spaceship obliquely for further acceleration to rapidly escape the influence range of Yuanjin Star.

In the instant the spaceship's thin film force field was hit by the concentrated fire from energy cannons, the spaceship's intelligent brain informed Ying Feng of each attack's origin and weapon type.

Familiar with the spindle warship's capabilities, Ying Feng knew the next concentrated fire strike from the warship's main cannon would arrive in ten minutes, and it would undoubtedly be pre-aimed and locked.