That night, Ren Zhong did not go back to Zheng Tian’s team’s courtyard, nor did he go to the centralized sleeping pod.
He went to Ju Qingmeng’s villa.
Since he had already bid farewell to everyone, he deliberately restrained himself from paying attention to their news.
Though he had a small worry in his heart, thinking that when he returns from the new mine, he might find everyone dead from various accidents, and the foundation he worked so hard to build would be gone, leaving him alone once more.
That would be quite upsetting.
Logically speaking, it’s not impossible.
But as he had told everyone, he was not and could not be anyone’s babysitter for life.
Although this timeline’s Ren Zhong only lived for 27 days, in total, he had cumulatively spent 82 days on Source Star, nearly three months.
Three months is enough to do many things, to learn many things.
Back in high school, when he was suddenly notified to take the college entrance examination early, he had actually only crammed for three months.
In these 82 days of continuous struggle, death, and more struggle, he continually acquired new elements and gathered more and more of the worldview.
Ren Zhong gradually understood a truth.
This place is ultimately different from Earth.
The Professional System on Source Star places personal power in a significant position.
High-level professionals have an overwhelming advantage over low-level ones.
So far, the strongest professional he had encountered was only at the Fourth Level, yet it already gave him a suffocating sense of terror and oppression.
To deal with Lin Wang, he scrutinized every detail and exhausted his wits.
But even so, he miserably failed three times, dying at the hands of Bei Lihui and Lin Wang three times in total.
They say failure comes in threes, but this was his fourth charge against the seemingly unbreakable Wall of Sighs.
In the first half of his life, Ren Zhong had never endured such setbacks.
Fourth Level is already this daunting, so what about Fifth Level, Sixth Level...
Or even the legendary Level Nine?
He couldn’t imagine it yet.
But to liberate the wilderness people, he was destined to face these sooner or later.
Ren Zhong was neither crushed nor frightened; nor did he waver in his will or give up his ideals.
With his current deep understanding of Source Star society, he knew that if he desired, he could already live a prosperous and comfortable life as a wilderness person.
At this moment, provided by promises he personally made to both acquaintances and strangers about an era of liberation, he was spurred on and driven forward.
If a person is not crushed by failure, they will surely learn from it.
The most important piece of information Ren Zhong had gathered with his wisdom was that it was not about the stock market, Star Origin Injection Liquid, or the existence of the Descending Demon Baby, but that if one is to resist Source Star’s system, and let those they see lead a life worthy of a human being, then one must pursue a revolutionary path that aligns with the characteristics of Source Star.
The great leaders of the past transformed Marxist-Leninist ideologies into something with Chinese characteristics; Ren Zhong, born and raised in China, remembered the truth borne from practice. He would not dogmatically copy others’ approaches but would instead organically combine the experiences he had absorbed from his homeland with the objective conditions of Source Star.
Source Star has many problems, many oddities, including the existence of Ruined Beasts, anomalies in age and sleep, the absurd origin theory of Source Star’s humans, and the evolution and societal development theory of ancient Source Star humans, all of which appear inexplicable to Ren Zhong, an Earthling.
Ren Zhong pondered for a long time on an explanation.
He once hypothesized a situation.
A human space fleet, carrying Frozen Storage, including himself, arrived at this planet.
Then, some unknown incident led to a break in history and technology, and after many years of evolution, it eventually became what it is today.
This was an ambiguous speculation, with many details that didn’t hold up.
Ren Zhong wouldn’t rashly make conclusions, for fear of misleading his judgment instead.
In totality, specific problems require specific analysis and resolution.
First, grasp the focus; the Professional System is the distinctive feature of Source Star’s armed forces!
Without obtaining the peak strength to contend with top-level professionals, all is just idle talk.
Otherwise, even if he did manage to gather a group of tens of thousands, a higher-than-Fifth Level professional could execute a decapitation strike that couldn’t be blocked, and the remaining tens of thousands would be crushed.
Ren Zhong now knew he had excellent talent, as well as the ability of resurrection.
He firmly believed that one day he would surely stand at the pinnacle of personal power on Source Star.