"I'm sorry, I have let down the empire. I have let down the sage, and I have let down my closest comrade-in-arms and best friend, you. As a commander with a heavy responsibility, I forgot during the long journey My own responsibility, I lost my judgment under the temptation of family affection. I personally trained the leader of the rebel army, which caused a catastrophe. If it weren't for your strategizing, everything would be irreversible. Although the matter is over, someone must be responsible. It must be me who takes this responsibility."
General Cage only left Qin Guang such a sentence and a fragmented corpse.
"Give Solent Cage a funeral with adequate decorum."
Qin Guang ordered.
"teacher……"
"Go and do your work, I need a break."
Qin Guang waved his hand and interrupted Zhou Donglai's words.
When Zhou Donglai walked out of the room, Qin Guang's tense body suddenly relaxed, like a deflated balloon.
He rested his elbows on the table, tangled his fingers in his hair and rubbed it.
Only in this way can the annoyance in his heart be relieved slightly.
Qin Guang formulated the entire plan from beginning to end. The purpose was to give the Free Will Alliance a chance to vent and re-understand the importance of unity. At the same time, it was also to let these people understand that the only way out was.
In Qin Guang's initial calculations, when nearly 10 million people were executed through the doomsday suppression program, the situation would be completely stabilized, and the death penalty would be abolished and changed to forced freezing.
But in fact, the doomsday suppression process did not stop running, and armed conflicts even broke out, threatening the entire Nuwa plan.
When the crazy Bill Cranston broke into Tang Yingyu's room, it was the most dangerous moment of the situation.
Fortunately, Tong Ling, who woke up unexpectedly, took control of the situation, but then, Tong Ling, who was as cold-blooded as the doomsday suppression program, took over the battle situation and the highest command.
More than 80% of the 300 million fatalities basically died in the process of suppressing the armed elements led by Tong Ling who were loyal to the fleet's original mission.
Free will fighters are not truly powerless to resist when they surrender.
It's just that these second and third generations, who were born in the fleet and rarely went out on missions, have been taught about the fleet's strongest force and how powerful the guardian instructor Tong Ling is since they consciously realized it.
When they think that they will be enemies with Tong Ling, most free will fighters will feel frightened and deeply afraid.
When the top warrior belonging to the Free Will Alliance was easily killed by Tong Ling, this fear reached its peak and quickly defeated the rebel warriors' already weak will.
But before the last rebel fighter laid down his weapon, the total death toll exceeded 300 million, and the number of reserve embryos that became inactive due to damaged ships was tens of billions.
According to estimates, the overall strength of the fleet in all fields such as scientific research, production, and military affairs has declined by more than 30%, which is dozens of times more severe than the combined losses suffered in all encounters that have occurred so far.
Just now Qin Guang was just holding on in front of Zhou Donglai, but he already felt doubly guilty in his heart.
He had already begun to wonder whether he was really too old, his judgment had declined, and his comprehensive planning ability was no longer enough to take on important responsibilities. It was time to provide psychological intervention to Solent Cage, and then tell him the facts and give him the appropriate instructions. Delegate power to this long-time assistant and train him to become a transitional top leader.
But Qin Guang did not expect that Cage would commit suicide by drinking a bullet.
Qin Guang was deeply hurt.
The reason for the serious injury was not that he had lost a long-time friend and a successor to whom he wanted to entrust the task, but that he was shocked to find that his judgment had declined to such a pathetic level.
Regardless of the reason, suicide is always the most shameful way for a person to escape when facing difficulties.
With Cage's mental state and ideological state, he was not even qualified to be an ordinary soldier, let alone deputy commander-in-chief or acting commander-in-chief.
"I don't even understand this. It's such a shame."
Qin Guang slapped himself hard.
Winning is due to luck, but losing is a complete loss.
This is Qin Guang's summary for himself.
A few days later, more and more people found their jobs again, and everything was back in operation. Repairs of damaged ships, waste recycling, and mass production of new mass-energy collection devices were quickly carried out, and the situation finally stabilized. .
Qin Guang called Zhou Donglai to his office again.
"Teacher, what do you want from me?"
"I have almost made the arrangements. I will announce my retirement at tomorrow's supreme meeting, and you will take over the position of supreme commander, while I will become a staff advisor."
Zhou Donglai was stunned and shook his head: "Teacher, I'm not ready yet. And although we have the internal situation under control now, in a few years, the distance between us and the galactic center will be less than 4,200 light years. According to According to the intelligence provided by the empire, the enemy began to strengthen patrols near the galactic center fifty years ago. We have not had an encounter for several years. According to the theory of statistics and probability, every second that passes, an encounter will occur. The possibility of war will be a little higher. The fleet still needs your experience, teacher. The fleet can only be led by you, teacher..."
Qin Guang interrupted Zhou Donglai again, "Donglai, I know what you are thinking. You think that if I take a back seat at this moment, I will take the blame and resign and hurt my reputation, right?"
Zhou Donglai shook his head and denied, "Teacher, I didn't think so. When I was pretending to be frozen, in addition to contacting the Free Will Alliance, I actually also used my free time to read a lot of ancient books. I..."
"Sophistry. Ignorance! I've watched you grow up, and I still can't understand what you think? I don't need these false names. The principle of appointment in the fleet is to appoint those who are capable. I now clearly know that I am no longer qualified! Just as As you said, unexpected situations may occur at any time, so it is even more necessary for competent people to step up to the front. If I stay in this position for one more day, I will cause more potential losses! Get out! Prepare to take over!"
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Qin Guang never expected that Zhou Donglai would strike first at the meeting the next day.
"Everyone. Ancient leaders told us that it is not terrible to make mistakes. The important thing is to sum up experience and lessons in time after every mistake, find out where the mistake is, correct it in time, and re-establish the correct route. I made a mistake."
"A long time ago, when I realized that the bad thoughts in the fleet were hard to come back, I designated this plan. I will not let something that harms the fleet operate in secret."
"In ancient times when medical technology was not developed, our ancestors were helpless against cancer. It's not that cancer cells cannot be killed, it's just that in the early stages of cancer cells being born and secretly expanding, their numbers were too small and they were too harmful to the human body. Small, the body’s immune system fails to mount a strong enough response in time.”
"The terrible cancer cells are like killers lurking in the shadows, constantly accumulating strength until they are strong enough to deliver a fatal blow to the human body, and then the patient will feel the first intense pain."
"But at this time, there were too many cancer cells and their distribution was too wide. To kill these cancer cells, too many originally healthy cells needed to be killed. In the end, many ancient people unfortunately died during the treatment process. "
"But with the advancement of genetic technology, Dr. Lamenech Nanding invented a cancer cell gene vaccine. This vaccine travels in the human body for a long time and has a keen sense of smell. Its ability to sense cancer cells is five times the body's own immunity. A thousand times.”
"Of course, it is not aggressive, but once it finds cancer cells, it will approach them and actively speed up the division of cancer cells. But these rapidly multiplying cancer cells are not mature, not big, and not strong enough, and can easily will be killed by the immune system."
"However, cancer cells don't know that they are blinded by their huge numbers and begin to show their force in the human body, just like the ancient Persian Empire sent a hundred thousand troops to attack Sparta, but these one hundred thousand troops were all five-year-old children. .These cancer cells will be quickly destroyed by the body's immune cells and rapidly produced antibody proteins."
"What I have to do is to turn myself into this vaccine. I lurked into the Free Will Alliance and provided a reliable top-secret communication channel for the rebels. I accelerated the speed of the Free Will Alliance organization from a loose organization to a system."
"The reason why General Cage could easily freeze the Commander-in-Chief was because I pretended to be in deep sleep and secretly modified the guard rotation program and turned off some functions of the fleet's self-protection intelligent program, thus providing General Cage with a defensive force. window period.”
"After Commander Qin Guang fell asleep, I have been waiting for the activation of the doomsday suppression program. This doomsday suppression program is the immune system of the fleet."
"But I did not calculate the armed turmoil, nor did I want to kill General Tang Yingyu, Ofilos and Cage. Because of my personal mistakes, I caused irreparable losses. So I hereby declare myself guilty and ask you to give me Deserving punishment.”
"I think I should be executed."
The meeting was held twenty minutes earlier than the time Zhou Donglai notified Qin Guang. When Qin Guang pushed in the door, he happened to see Zhou Donglai announcing that he hoped to be executed under the eyes of an uproar.
Qin Guang was stunned on the spot.
Everyone in the conference room turned to look at Qin Guang.
Qin Guang pointed at his beloved disciple angrily, "You..."
"Teacher, I'm sorry for you."
Zhou Donglai said slowly and word by word.
At this moment, another military commander next to Zhou Donglai suddenly lost control of his emotions, jumped up, and roared angrily: "Damn it! It's you! I'm going to fuck you! It's a shame that we trust you so much, Zhou Donglai!"
This old general with white hair and over 260 years old punched Zhou Donglai in the face.
Zhou Donglai vomited blood and fell on his back.
The old general was so angry that he almost went crazy. He rushed forward and punched Zhou Donglai in the face with both fists, and he cursed loudly while beating him.
No one accused the old general of being impatient.
Compared with others, the old general is the most qualified to vent his anger.
Although the old general has no biological descendants, the kind-hearted old general is very willing to cultivate his descendants.
In the past 100 years, he has used his spare time to personally undertake the basic military literacy training of thousands of children preparing for combat orders.
The old general regarded these children as his own.
Among them, his most proud achievement is that one of his children has a third-generation peak warrior, as well as dozens of S-class warriors and hundreds of A-class warriors.
But during this turmoil, his children had to be painfully divided into two factions, one of which was led by the rebellious peak warrior, while the other would rather bear the blame than stay with the old general.
In the end, Dingfeng died at the hands of Tong Ling, but the children of other old generals had to fight against each other and fight each other.
These "children" who have the same "father", in order to prove their beliefs and also to dispel the doubts of other comrades, work harder than others on the battlefield.
Once they meet each other, they will kill each other without mercy.
When the battle was at its fiercest, the old general, who had been away from the front line for decades, went into battle in person, regaining the style of an S-class combatant of the past, and killed two of them. Train well, and sooner or later you will die on the battlefield.”
Compared with other people's subordinates and family members, the children of the old general suffered particularly heavy casualties, with their number falling sharply from thousands to less than a thousand.
Until now, neither the children of the old general who previously joined the Free Will Alliance nor the children of the old general who stayed with the old general have yet to get out of their psychological shadow.
He certainly has reason to be angry.
Just over ten seconds passed before the nearby participants finally restrained the old general. Zhou Donglai was beaten beyond recognition and was completely unconscious.
"Put Donglai into the medical cabin next to him, and the meeting will continue."
Qin Guang ordered as he stepped on the flat-bed flying vehicle and landed on his leadership platform.
The scene is a little chaotic, but there must be an end to it.
Qin Guang is now very anxious.
Before coming here, he organized a lot of language and made enough mental preparations, but Zhou Donglai's self-assertion completely disrupted his plan.
Zhou Donglai has "confessed his guilt", and Qin Guang must not include himself in it again.
It's not that he doesn't dare to take responsibility, but now that Zhou Donglai has fallen and Qin Guang himself falls again, the fleet will lose its backbone.
Among the other successors, there is currently no one who has the ability and prestige to command the entire ship.
Zhou Donglai's treatment over there is proceeding rapidly. With the help of the real-energy treatment device, the injuries on his face and body are recovering rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The issue here was officially launched. First, the newly appointed administrative director stated, "Zhou Donglai bravely admitted his mistake. But the losses he caused to the fleet are indeed worthy of the death penalty. I think we should not reject his request."
"I think we need to think about it again. There is no second choice among our successors who can compare with Zhou Donglai in terms of military command capabilities. It has only been more than seventy years since we arrived at the Galactic Center, and we may not have time to cultivate a second Two commanders, so he should be given a chance to change his ways and atone for his sins. Although he made a mistake, his starting point was not rebellion..."
"I think……"
The meeting that was originally thought to be one-sided turned out to be unexpectedly divided.
About ten minutes later, when most of the people had expressed their opinions, Qin Guang first lowered his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, then looked at the old general who had just taken action, and asked: "General Lu, what do you think?"
General Lu snorted first, then gritted his teeth and said, "I wish he would die quickly."
As soon as General Lu said this, the expressions of those who wanted to save Zhou Donglai's life darkened, and they were finished.
"But he can't die yet. We are all half-buried. After all this time, I really don't dare to freeze anymore. I have to stay awake and watch these careless bastards, so as not to freeze again. There will be trouble. So I can live for another fifty or sixty years at most, and I won’t be able to wait until the day I reach the center of the galaxy.”
"You are all the same, but someone has to take over the overall situation, right? Tang Tianxin is a good choice, but according to historical records, Tang Tianxin's ability will not take shape until at least 3015. There is still a gap of twenty-five years. During the blank period, besides him, who else can we count on?"
"I've already beaten him. Give him forced freezing and release him when I'm dead. As long as I don't see him again, I have nothing to be angry about."
