The leader may not be lonely for a lifetime, but there will always be lonely periods.

Because the leader must bear the greatest responsibility and must know the most information, sometimes even having to shoulder all the burdens alone.

...

In a certain sense, Ren Zhong was abandoned by everyone.

Time can heal wounds of the heart, but this saying does not hold true in the era of the Four Nations with human cryogenic technology.

Cryogenic freezing can only escape trauma, but cannot cure it.

Because when a person enters freezing, the memories are also frozen at that instant, including the pain within those memories, which cannot be forgotten.

Two days later, Donald Alson stood nervously in front of Ren Zhong, holding a thick stack of paper documents in his hands. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Donald said, "Viscount, the top executives of the former Ren Group, including the administrative officer, military officer, and legal officer you appointed, a total of 365 people, have entered cryogenic sleep in Transport Ship 0002. Their freezing was without your authorization, but subordinates dared not dissuade them. These are the letters they entrusted me to hand over to you before entering sleep. Would you like to review them?"

"I already know the reasons behind this. You may leave and take these to be burned."

Donald: "Yes, Viscount. So we..."

Ren Zhong smiled slightly, "What? You also want to leave? I know you, as descendants of the nine administrators, have families to turn to within the Empire. But first, you must reach the Empire alive. Do you think you can also enjoy cryogenic sleep before obtaining my permission?"

Donald Alson felt a chill on his forehead and quickly left with that stack of papers.

Once again, Ren Zhong was alone in the office.

Sun Ai's voice sounded, "Don't blame them for abandoning you, their beliefs have simply collapsed."

Ren Zhong looked up at the ceiling, with not much loneliness on his face, "I know, I don't blame them. After all, the cohesion of Ren Group has always been supported by me alone. They united because of me and put all their faith in me. Others see me as emperor; they see me as leader, entrusting their lives and talents to me, allowing us to create miracles and achieve impossible power transitions. But now I've changed first, so I can't blame them. It's hard to say who abandoned whom, it's my own doing. Their choice of freezing is avoidance, avoiding responsibility and pain. I know each of them feels they have lost a leader, as well as many remaining relatives and friends, making any action reasonable. Moreover, the journey is still long, and I will have many actions unlike my past self ahead. This kind of thing is bound to happen eventually, changing course certainly involves pain."

After a moment, Ren Zhong added with a smile, "It's fine, I was worried before that the journey would simply waste their lives, now it's okay."

Sun Ai: "Generally, entering cryogenic sleep in a great migration requires gradual and detailed planning, and your administrators have not entered sleep, yet your trusted aides who should be sharing your workload all went to sleep without reporting. This is against regulations. If you don't take action, it might damage your authority."

"That won't happen, isn't there you managing? You're my web," Ren Zhong shrugged, "Alright, time to work."

After speaking, Ren Zhong sat back down, opened the administrator document, and began to organize the next five-year plan.

In a conventional great migration, administrators need do nothing, just comfortably lie in the Static Level Frozen Storage and wait to reach the end of the long journey.

But the Source Star Colony's migration is unusual. First, because of the 'civil unrest,' the top combat capability of the Ice Sealing Army is completely lost, and then because of the 'final waveform' leaking information, the fleet might face lurking invading enemy rogues, threats both domestic and foreign are all present.

Ren Zhong has always been a prudent person.

He fully understands the importance of the Ice Sealing Army.

He once was very wary of this special force absolutely loyal to the frozen elders.

Though the Ice Sealing Army's performance in the 'civil war' appeared mediocre, there were many lucky coincidences involved.

Even under the heavy restraint by Li Yang, the 'divine level spirit demon race,' the Ice Sealing Army still inflicted multiple destructive blows to Ren Zhong's 800,000 elite troops, even multiple times leading to instances where Ren Zhong's forces fought to the point of exhaustion and annihilation but failed to advance to the surface of the Tracker Spaceship.