In 2895, the Nuwa Project had been launched for twenty-five years.
These twenty-five years of rapid reproduction have been fruitful.
The population in the fleet has expanded to 800 million, of which 140 million are frozen and 660 million are awake.
Among the waking population, the third generation accounts for 530 million people, including 200 million combatants, 210 million ordinary engineering personnel, and 120 million academic personnel.
Among academic staff, there are as many as 60 million academic staff in disciplines related to the Nuwa Project.
Anyone whose intellectual development is slightly related to the subjects related to the Nuwa Project, even if their most perfect talents lie in other areas, has been selected in the direction of development since birth. Regardless of whether they like it or not, they are destined to be thrown into this project. inside.
This kind of forced employment choice is not in line with human nature, nor does it comply with the social rules of optimal allocation of resources, but there is no choice but to follow the right when the matter is urgent.
According to Emerson, the current number of personnel is not enough and can only be considered as just enough to start the project.
The current human resources allocation system will continue to be implemented until at least 2900. A huge academic team of 500 million people must be formed, and at least 100,000 cutting-edge scholars in various fields must be trained. It is possible to guarantee Tang Tianxin's smooth birth 100%.
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25-year-old Tang Yingyu stood by the covered bridge, her eyes dull and lifeless.
She had nothing on her mind.
She had always had this look in her eyes since she was born.
Her eyes were unable to focus, and she seemed to be squinting when looking at anything.
Her mind went blank.
The quantum storm of other people's thoughts is like a roaring mountain and a tsunami, but hers is like a frozen lake in winter.
Except for one thing.
When she was six years old, when she completed basic military literacy training and stepped into the children's training individual armor for the first time, the ice of the frozen lake cracked, and violent quantum thoughts swept the sea, like a hurricane on Jupiter, Or like sunspots bursting out.
In just five seconds, more than 900 other children who participated in the training at the same time as her were all seriously injured and dying.
If the children's training equipment did not have the highest level of medical security system and the strictest training security mechanism, these children would have died on the spot.
The instructor who was wearing training armor at that time was unable to do anything to her. It was not until two S-class combatants arrived that the situation was brought under control in time.
Even if they were lucky enough to survive, it would take the children as long as half a year or as little as three months to recover from the horrific experience and walk back into the armor fearfully.
Emerson said helplessly to Qin Guang: "This child is different from the child instructor after all. The child instructor started out as a human being, gave up his active personality little by little, left everything to his intuition, and finally became a careless person. This child has been a carefree person since he was born. She is a pure inborn careless person. Apart from her innate fighting instincts, her memory cannot store any information. Her soul and personality are hidden under the shadow of the killing instinct. She is a pure killing machine, But they don’t distinguish between friend and foe.”
Hearing this, Qin Guang said distressedly: "I'm afraid she has disappointed us. Can such a warrior appear on the battlefield? Now she is wearing children's armor. When she grows up, she will truly have the same strength as a child instructor, and she will also wear the strongest armor." After being armored, who else can stop her from wreaking havoc? At that time, I am afraid I can only use naval guns to kill her, or let the child instructor and her fight for life and death."
Emerson: "Yes."
"Change Tang Yingyu's training plan. From now on, she will not be allowed to come into contact with any weapons of destruction."
Emerson: "But she can't learn anything else."
"It doesn't matter, her mission is just to pass on to future generations. Alas. In the final analysis, it is still our problem. We should not bring the great blood into the fleet. It's just a pity this name. In history, Tang Yingyu should have become an excellent general. In our hands, alas..."
After all, Qin Guang felt a little regretful and felt deeply guilty, but it didn't help.
Since then, Tang Yingyu has been ordered not to drive armor again.
But she was unable to learn knowledge, and she became the most idle person in the entire fleet.
After waking up every day, the only thing she could do was stand by the covered bridge and look at the simulated starry sky in the distance of the fleet.
On weekdays, she has no friends to accompany her, only a long period of loneliness.
Miraculously, in the past twenty years, Tong Ling woke up three times due to urgent battle calls.
Every time Tong Ling wakes up, her personality becomes more indifferent. She no longer communicates with anyone, but since she heard about Tang Yingyu's existence, she would come to Tang Yingyu's room and linger for two or three times every time she woke up and completed a combat mission. sky.
The two of them didn't talk to each other. They either looked at the "starry sky" side by side, or they sat and stared at each other in silence.
Emerson calls this phenomenon resonance among the unintentional, and it doesn't hurt.
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"Teacher, the situation has changed. Some dissatisfied people have begun to gather together to discuss."
Zhou Donglai said softly in the top-secret communication channel.
Qin Guang nodded, "I know."
Zhou Donglai said with a slightly angry tone: "Everyone has a lot of dissatisfaction. In addition to questioning the expedition plan, there are also many people who are dissatisfied with the Nuwa Plan. Some academic staff related to the Women's Foreign Affairs Plan began to forcefully apply for transfers to unrelated disciplines. Or apply to be transferred to soldiers and workers.”
"These third generation don't understand anything at all! They lack the spirit of sacrifice. They selfishly pursue self-satisfaction, but have forgotten what supports mankind to this day. If it was before, someone in the military dared to talk like this, it would have been long ago They were restrained. Now they are getting bolder and bolder, relying on the law to avoid blaming others."
Zhou Donglai became more and more angry as he spoke.
Qin Guang smiled and said, "Calm down. You are my successor. You have to learn how to be smart and think about problems from others' perspective. Dr. Emerson has already said that the brain structure of the third generation of humans is completely the same as ours. , but their thinking quantum spiral has undergone some changes, and the stability of us humans born near the Milky Way has become even more traceless and elusive."
"This has brought a lot of help to their scientific creativity, but at the same time it will inevitably make their emotions more unpredictable and unpredictable. We need the power of the third generation, and naturally we have to face the challenges that come with it. Disadvantages. In fact, fighting side by side is the best way to eliminate differences. Only those who can survive on the battlefield can truly understand how profound our enemies' hostility towards us is."
"Only then can we clearly realize how powerful the enemy is that we can't breathe. It's just that we are performing a secret mission. We have to hide the size of our troops. We can only send elites to make small-scale contacts every time, and we even have to do it again and again. We left our comrades behind. We endured, hibernated, and moved forward just for the final destination."
"The ignorance of the third generation is not their fault. After all, people are social creatures, and the information transmitted by society can determine a person's thinking to a considerable extent. Maybe some people even mistakenly think that the history we depict is It’s just a fabricated lie. But as long as we can reach the center of the galaxy, all these difficulties and obstacles will disappear.”
Zhou Donglai nodded, "I understand, teacher. But those gossips..."
"I will make arrangements."
Twelve hours later, at a regular meeting of the fleet's top management, Qin Guang made a controversial speech.
"Starting from tomorrow, I will implement a first-level military control strategy within the fleet, appropriately punish some second- and third-generation people who spread demagoguery, and implement zone management policies."
As soon as he finished speaking, Deputy Commander Cage raised his hand.
"General Cage, please speak."
"In the original plan, we would arrive at the Galactic Center between 2980 and 2985, and around 2970 we would decide whether to initiate first-level controls depending on the situation. And the person who will exercise the decision-making power at that time should be our successors who are young and strong. Not us. Although the situation has changed now, and there are indeed some gossips, I don’t think the situation is serious to this extent, right? There is a saying in ancient Chinese civilization that it is better to defend the people than to defend the river. Should the successors be given more power? How much freedom? Restricting freedom will inevitably restrict creativity, which will make the successors lose their souls and make the sword of the fleet dull."
Qin Guang was stunned, not expecting that Cage would object.
It is extremely rare for the fleet's top command to have differences of opinion.
After a short discussion, although Qin Guang could still ask for enforcement, he slightly changed his mind out of respect for Cage and decided to only implement secondary military control, leaving some privacy space for the fleet members, and not Direct accountability and only appropriately strengthen ideological education work.
The education work seems to have played a role. The secondary control has changed the atmosphere to some extent, and the stricter work arrangements have also appropriately suppressed the opportunities for the second and third generations to think wildly.
However, there are policies and countermeasures, and it seems that the more suppressed they are, the more these people are able to find solutions.
A new language was quietly born.
This language does not make sounds, but is conveyed through a series of actions or the regular placement of objects.
It is not expected to be a language, but rather a huge set of cryptographic signals.
The person who invented this language was a senior scientific researcher who was deeply involved in the core stage of the Nuwa Project. He was extremely smart and took the differences in thinking patterns of the first, second, and third generations of humans into consideration to the extreme.
The first generation of humans looked at small and ordinary movements, such as the frequency of walking steps, the direction of the soles of the feet, the swing range of the arms, the bending of the fingers, etc., in the eyes of the third generation with stronger thinking flexibility , which contains a large amount of information.
The mode of communication has shifted from overt to "underground". Sometimes people who are several tables apart in the canteen have a meal together and quietly exchange a lot of consultations.
This body language is certainly not in the database of the fleet's artificial intelligence, Star Spawn.
Intelligent monitoring can only draw ambiguous conclusions through a large amount of analysis. It is suspected that there is something here, but the evidence is not conclusive enough to determine, let alone read.
Information flows quietly like an undercurrent.
Qin Guang was vaguely aware of it, but quietly let it go.
There was another unavoidable problem before him.
According to the original voyage plan, members of the first generation fleet are now dying one after another.
The elderly people who were already over a hundred years old when they first boarded the ship should gradually reach the end of their lives during the nearly two hundred years of voyage.
The emergence of cryogenic technology has slightly changed the situation, allowing some people who are destined to die to continue their lives in cryogenic chambers, waiting to release their light and heat at the most appropriate time and in the most brilliant way.
However, the atmosphere in the fleet has changed.
Qin Guang needs the help of these people.
However, many seniors in high positions already had life spans ranging from twenty to thirty years to ten years.
He wanted to increase the proportion of the first generation in the fleet population and let some sleepers return to their high-level jobs, but even if these people were willing to sacrifice their lives in advance, they would only persist until about 2930.
By that time, when the first generation is completely dead, problems may become even more severe.
Therefore, although Qin Guang has begun to feel the pressure, he still restrains himself from easily awakening these first-generation elders.
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In the commander-in-chief's top-secret channel, master and apprentice Qin Guang and Zhou Donglai started talking again.
"Teacher, some people are hopeless. We can't identify their communication methods, but my intuition tells me that they must be discussing something. I suspect that some people are trying to bypass the supervision of the intelligent system and hijack some ships to turn them around. Escape in a direction away from the Milky Way. I even suspect that someone is preparing to activate the fleet constitution and start a full-scale change of fleet command in advance."
After decades of growth, Zhou Donglai, who is the leader of the second generation of humans, has gradually matured and is no longer easily able to express joy or anger.
Qin Guang nodded, "I know. Donglai, what do you think they are most likely to do?"
"Their plans are rebellious, but they don't want to cause damage to the fleet. They are very conceited and always think they are the right ones. I think they will try to evolve peacefully and force you, teacher, to hand over power. Part of the coordination of Nuwa's plan The personnel are working very hard to study the fleet constitution, and they are also preparing a brand new plan, and are even trying to convince the empire. The highest motivation of the expeditionary force is being shaken."
Qin Guang smiled and said, "I think the effect they most want to achieve is this. Give everyone the right to choose. Those who are willing to continue to the Galactic Center can continue to move forward. Those who want to turn around and leave, organize a fleet and leave. . The fleet will be split into two. But no matter what, there are still some people who believe in our original decision and will choose to go to the Galactic Center. These people must need a commander who can lead them."
"Teacher, what do you mean?"
"You will fall into deep sleep from now on."
"Asleep?"
"Fake sleep. Your mind will remain active. At the same time, you will break into the rebel group as a second-generation human being and become their leader."
"General Cage's son Ophilos is already one step ahead of me, and he is also very capable."
"He is not as good as you, so let him be your adjutant. You pretending to be asleep and secretly collaborating is already the greatest rebellion. Then you set the motivation for your rebellion to be that you have doubts about my commanding ability, and you have doubts about my commanding ability. You are dissatisfied with losing my trust and respect. Others will believe you, so go ahead. Use the fastest speed and the most powerful means to organize the rebels."
"Okay teacher, I understand."
At this time, Zhou Donglai finally understood why he had never summoned him in person since 2876, and only contacted him privately through top-secret channels. In the blink of an eye, nearly twenty years had passed.
It turned out that the teacher had plans all along.
At the same time, he had to feel sorry for the teacher.
The teacher is indeed a kind person, very generous and kind.
Until we get to this point, we will never pick up the butcher's knife easily.
There is nothing we can do now.
