When Chen Feng boarded the fast shuttle for the return trip and headed straight for the Earth, the massive statue removal plan had already been finalized and was immediately implemented.

Today, humans have hundreds of super-large cities, tens of thousands of medium-sized cities and settlements, and even more industrial bases and military camps in the solar system.

A total of 33,762 statues of the sage Chen Feng are being rapidly constructed by large-scale automated machinery, and are being peeled off piece by piece starting from the top.

Chen Feng watched the people in the statue square through the online monitoring provided by the stars.

Before the action was implemented, almost everyone received a notice.

Then, almost everyone put down what they were doing and came here.

At this time, the statue squares in major cities and settlements were crowded with people.

People looked up at the sky one after another, with different expressions.

Some people gnashed their teeth, some cried bitterly, some cursed, and some were numb and stiff...

Although everyone knew that this was the request of the sage himself, countless people still couldn't help themselves and had difficulty controlling their emotions when facing the statues being demolished.

Some people even rushed up out of control, wanting to defend the temple in their hearts with their lives.

The soldiers responsible for maintaining order had to use coercive means to control the situation.

Tear gas, regional electric shocks, forced lassos, strong anesthetic smoke...

But in fact, these soldiers didn't feel any better.

In fact, they were more sad than ordinary people.

Soldiers are the most devout believers of the sage Chen Feng.

It's just that it's the duty of soldiers to execute orders, so they have to be the evil ones.

Their reason made them obey the decision jointly made by Chen Feng and the top brass of the Guards, but they still couldn't avoid struggling in their hearts.

The seemingly simple removal of a statue became a pain in civilization, like quitting smoking or even quitting drugs.

This scene made Chen Feng very painful.

No one had a more complicated mood than him.

He silently turned off the surveillance and didn't want to watch it anymore.

Chen Feng sighed, picked up the purple clay teapot in front of him, held it in his palm, and felt the scalding temperature in his palm.

He turned his head to look out the window of the shuttle, trying to use the starry sky to relieve his mood.

But he failed, and his eyes drifted downwards involuntarily.

The shuttle was taking off, and Chen Feng looked down from above, just in time to see his own statue built on the Star Fortress.

This statue is made of metal and is 35 kilometers tall. It protrudes beyond the force field shield and is even taller than the atmosphere of the Star Fortress.

This is the largest statue built by human civilization for Chen Feng. It even has its own unique name, the Star Colossus.

Compared with other statues, the Star Colossus has its own unique features.

It is not a dead object, but a huge humanoid machine with real combat power.

In addition to being the largest statue of Chen Feng, the Star Colossus is also the largest humanoid warrior ever made by humans.

All of humanity has only made this one humanoid warrior with a height of more than 100 meters.

Top-level Galaxy War Maru warriors can enter wearing the All-Round Warrior Form Armor and control it through a secondary connection.

The Star Colossus combines the latest technologies from dozens of research units, including the Mechanical Institute, Power Institute, Explosives Institute, Large-Scale Mechanical Central Control System Research Institute, and Bionics Institute. It is the pride of countless people.

Three months ago, the Star Colossus just underwent a comprehensive technological upgrade and completed a high-mobility exercise.

As a technology display medium for many scientific research institutes and an important historical symbol, the Star Colossus has always been the pride of the residents of the Star Fortress.

But Chen Feng thinks it is simply ridiculous.

The Star Colossus has symbolic significance, and only symbolic significance.

The humanoid armor is so large that its mobility and firepower distribution are extremely unreasonable.

In space battles, it is a stupid living target.

The battlefield effect of such a huge humanoid weapon can never be equivalent to that of several battleships of the same weight, or a cluster of micro fighters.

Making this thing is a sheer waste of resources and the precious lives of technicians.

Scholars and the military obviously know this, otherwise they would not have made only one.

So the technical display is all empty nonsense, and the real purpose is to build a statue for him. What

's even more annoying is that at this time these people are reluctant to dismantle the Starship Colossus and disassemble and reassemble it into small fighters, but just change the face of the Starship Colossus, turning it into the image of a faceless man.

In the Star Fortress transformation plan, the Star Fortress Colossus will be transformed into a two-legged intelligent battleship, orbiting the Star Fortress, barely fulfilling a protective function that is better than nothing.

Chen Feng snapped the porthole shut, not wanting to look anymore.

Annoying.

I did make a mistake.

As a thief, I ended up indulging in false fame.

I shouldn't have blindly improved my status a thousand years ago.

This is the bitter fruit of my bad nature - the love of vanity.

Now the world is tasting it with me.

He opened the full channel communication.

"I am Chen Feng, and I have something to tell you."

He said a lot.

He has never said so much in a public speech.

He shared with people how he had been a mortal and how he had come to where he is today.

He made a deep confession and self-examination.

He started to curse again, and this time he cursed not only others but also himself.

The general meaning is, if I am wrong, I am wrong.

I admit it.

I make mistakes too.

I don't care if you worship me.

I hope you learn to resist everything.

Even if it is me who oppresses you, you must resist me.

What humans need is not the will to worship someone, but the courage to resist all oppression and challenge fate.

Whether it is the solar system barrier that you can see, or the mental cocoon formed by your invisible worship of my personal worship and sense of mission, all are oppression.

There is only a way out if all oppression is broken and reasonable freedom of thought is restored.

You must ignite your own desires and break all oppression.

Even if your desire is just a simple desire to survive, as long as you base your desire to survive on cooperation with mutual trust, it will be fine.

Only when you have desires can you get real creativity, activate your brains, and bring out real curiosity, and then you can achieve groundbreaking results.

Therefore, I will not change my decision to demolish my statue.

Even if you cry or make a fuss, I don't care at all.

I am not happy, but sad.

I will only hate my self-marketing even more.

Yes, I am not as great as you think.

I was just a thief who coveted false reputation.

None of the knowledge I spread thousands of years ago was my own original achievement.

I just served as a bridge for information transmission so that the efforts of people in a certain timeline would not be in vain.

I shouldn't have occupied the nest of a magpie and impersonated someone else.

I was unknowingly too intoxicated with my personal fame.

Now I give others' things back to them.

I tell you the truth.

This truth is devastating and hard to accept, and you must accept it.

Now, are you awake?

After cursing, Chen Feng cut off the communication again and did not allow anyone to contact him.

Anyway, the hearts of people in this timeline have been twisted to this extent, so just make trouble.

He is gambling again.

Betting on whether his own self-overthrow and denial can really break the cocoon of thinking, awaken everyone's self-confidence, and let the world realize that "I can", not because the ancients could do it and I can, but that I can do it.

While saying this, Chen Feng did make a new decision.

After returning this time, he will continue to weaken his presence in the process of building civilization to avoid being deified again.

He even wants to quietly erase his name from history.

In the past, his superficial reason for focusing on building his own authority was to make things easier, and he hoped to use himself as a mirror to inspire other potential leaders to learn from him and catalyze their self-improvement.

But his underlying psychological driving force is vanity.

Chen Feng didn't realize it before, but now he understands.

Now he has become a leader as he wished, but the growth of his descendants has not met his expectations at all.

This is not his random speculation. In addition to his own understanding of the Ares Plan and the Lost, there is another strong evidence.

In this timeline, humans have never experienced brutal wars after the Great Extinction Catastrophe, and have more time to recuperate and develop technology.

After entering the 29th century, there is also the intelligent assistance of the stars.

The human civilization in this timeline has unique living conditions, and the level of science and technology should have developed better.

Chen Feng has been observing for more than a month. From the Galaxy War Maru, the Snowflake Battleship, and the super brain core of the stars, it can be seen that it is indeed better than the previous timeline.

But Chen Feng is still not satisfied, because he has not seen a leap-forward qualitative change.

Chen Feng does not know much about civil technology, and his vision is mainly focused on military weapons.

The performance of live ammunition weapons has not changed qualitatively. They are still playing with protons, neutrons, and quarks. They barely reach the fission and fusion of the bottom layer of quarks and initially explore string energy.

This string energy is not as simple as the string theory thousands of years ago. It has undergone essential changes. The structure is more complex, the theory is richer, and the classification of string energy is also larger and more accurate.

But the essence is still the subdivision of matter, or in other words, preons or hyperpreons.

Energy weapons are just more powerful and stronger, but there is still no qualitative change, they are still phase particles, gamma rays, high-energy rays, etc.

The Star Cannon is an innovation that combines live ammunition and energy weapons, but this innovation itself is still based on human research on the sun.

The innovative theory of the Star Cannon is still based on the imagination of human beings in the 21st century.

I don’t know whether the people in the past were too strong or the people in the future were too useless.

It may also be that a thousand years is too short compared to the entire process of civilization. Time compression and the blockade of the solar system have limited the vision of future generations.

The most advanced weapon technology of mankind at present is the physical toxin bomb launched by absorbing the biological manufacturing concept of Z bacteria, but its structural stability, infectivity and blasting ability are not as good as the original.

Other things such as biosynthetic metal materials and envelope-type curvature engines are still derived from Z bacteria.

The colonization magic war catalyzed by Chen Feng's arrival is also a by-product of Z bacteria.

The fact is that, in addition to the mutation innovation brought by absorbing Z bacteria, the progress of mankind in other aspects is still limited to the stars in the previous timeline and the roads that major human science academies have calculated but have not been completed in time.

No one has really jumped out of the physical rules within the solar system and "taken the ideas out and brought them back."

Chen Feng did not see anything that was enough to subvert tradition. For example, the two cores he had been looking forward to, the antimatter bomb and the dark energy black hole bomb, still failed to be born ahead of time, and scientists were blocked outside the gate.

These represent the new two poles of human technological level, the use of antimatter and dark energy. In addition

, because the research level of the unified force is still not up to standard, human curvature technology has not evolved to the complete form that can exceed the speed of light - curvature technology.

There is no instant movement ability like the suspected folding of the spherical battleship.

Based on his observations of the compound eye civilization, Chen Feng can be sure that antimatter, dark matter, unified force and folding must be the correct way forward.

But now human civilization is still a layman in these four roads.

The so-called progress is still confined to the proven path in the past. There is no real revolutionary innovation, it is just going further on the previous path.

Perhaps the current state is enough to defeat the spherical battleship.

But if the compound eyes really have another fleet, they will still be defeated.

Chen Feng only made the worst plan. He also wanted to obtain further innovative cross-era weapons and subversive scientific research results.

He believed that he must return free thinking to mankind, and only in this way can the next revolutionary progress be achieved.

Chen Feng did not know where this progress was going.

But based on his understanding of the universe, he speculated that if a low-level civilization could achieve a qualitative change in a certain technology, the qualitative gap would suppress the quantitative gap.

For example, a low-level civilization has mastered a super-convenient and super-fast way of moving spaceships, so fast that the compound eyes can't catch up, and can even pass through the solar system barrier, so that the fire can be preserved.

Then this low-level civilization has the qualifications to survive freely in the universe.

Now Chen Feng has not seen this hope, so he is not satisfied with the status quo.

He is not satisfied with himself, Lu Xianfeng, Na Weilun, Dong Shan, Ou Qinglan and Schroeder, the helmsmen of the major systems.

But he is still not in a hurry. Since there is conclusive evidence that "Never Walk Alone" can appropriately eliminate the risk of civil war, then next time, he can indeed implement a relatively extreme tactic of raising pigs.

He no longer specifies any target to try to infiltrate across time, and no longer hopes that he can deploy great leaders through the air.

First weaken your own presence, then preserve the concept of survival of the fittest and let future generations choose.

Chen Feng remembered that he had talked with Zhong Lei a long time ago about whether to save Yue Fei.

He was stuck on this question at the time.

Zhong Lei said:

"History can always correct itself, and humans can always find ways to solve problems.

Don't think of yourself as so important and civilization as so fragile.

You think too highly of yourself and underestimate the power and inertia of civilization.

If Yue Fei really caused adverse turmoil, wouldn't it be enough to do something else to eliminate the negative impact he left behind?"

Chen Feng thought he understood these words at the time, but now it seems that he only vaguely understands them.

History has gone in a big circle. Chen Feng's thoughts moved forward, turned a corner, and passed through nine twists and turns. In the end, his understanding of civilization returned to the starting point that Zhong Lei once said.

Give civilization and future generations real freedom.

Don't think too highly of yourself, and return the right to choose to everyone.

Ignite everyone's wildness and give real freedom to thoughts.

Only in this way can the power of individuals and groups be further exerted to the extreme, and let civilization bloom like weeds breaking through the ground.

Don't deny the importance of great leaders, but everyone should follow themselves in addition to following great leaders. You are your own leader.

Only such a world is a free and unrestrained world full of hope and infinite possibilities.

You may lose completely, but you will also win beautifully.

Because Chen Feng has already vaguely touched upon the rules of the universe.

The universe has such a long history and such a vast territory that it has infinite possibilities.

As an emerging civilization, humans must face the cruel reality.

This reality is that there must be an advanced civilization in the universe that was born earlier than humans, is more powerful, and is extremely hegemonic.

The advanced civilization that humans have seen so far is the compound eye.

Humans will not allow another intelligent life species that is reproductively isolated from humans to exist on Earth or in the solar system.

After humans took over the Earth, the most diligent thing they did was to constantly sweep and study the Earth and the solar system to observe whether there is another intelligent civilization in the vicinity.

This is due to the nature of civilization's self-protection.

If one day we find another intelligent civilization in our own territory that is reproductively isolated, will we talk to each other about everything from poetry to life philosophy?

Obviously, we only have a butcher knife.

Because, although the universe seems infinite, our resources are always limited within our own territory.

The same is true for the compound eye civilization.

Human beings once ruled the Earth.

Assuming that the compound eye civilization is so powerful, its ruling area is the Milky Way or the Virgo Supercluster.

Before human civilization transcends Level 1 civilization and has the ability to go out of the solar system, in the eyes of the compound eye civilization, humans may just be macaques who can pick up stones to crack walnuts.

But if human civilization masters the technology to fully mobilize the energy of a planet and can build a large spaceship with long-distance navigation capabilities, it can enter the next galaxy to establish a colony.

It would be like the macaques invented the monkey language and carved the first sentence on the stone tablet: "The macaque tribe will never be enslaved, and the footprints of the macaque tribe will surely cover the entire galaxy."

At this time, the first thing that all human beings in the world would do is to make the macaque species disappear from the universe.

This is the objective reality of the universe.

The powerful take all.

But the weak are not born to be slaughtered.

The infinite possibilities of the universe are not limited to the death of weak civilizations. Weak civilizations still have a slight possibility of creating miracles. It is

even possible that the compound eye civilization got some kind of opportunity and overthrew the previous ruler to get its current status.

In short, it must be difficult for the weak to break the cruel class gap constructed by the time difference of thousands, tens of millions and billions of years in the universe and break through the technological barriers, but there is definitely hope.

Even if this hope is one in a billion, it still exists.

Chen Feng is this hope now.

Civilization is groping, and he is also groping. What

Chen Feng has to do now is still a process of trial and error.

Anyway, he is used to losing and can afford to lose.

Half a day later, all the statues were demolished without leaving a single one.

Almost at the same time, including the military command meeting he held last time, Chen Feng's memory about the war was also carefully analyzed.

In the meeting in the previous timeline, he explained many key points orally.

This time, because Fanxing directly released the memory screen, it saved Chen Feng the effort.

There are hundreds of thousands of military theory researchers in the Military Theory and Combat Command Research Institute who comprehensively and carefully analyzed his war memories, which is much more convenient than him summarizing it himself and then speaking out.

After more than half a day, the statues had been dismantled, and Chen Feng entered the small conference room again.

There were less than ten people attending this time.

"What's the situation?" Chen Feng asked.

Na Weilun flipped open the briefing, "General Chen, about one-third of the people have accepted the reality, but two-thirds still need psychological intervention. Generally speaking, the work status of almost everyone has been affected to varying degrees. The think tank and Fanxing have made a comprehensive estimate that one month later, one-third of the people will lose more than 50% of their work ability due to poor mental state."

Chen Feng asked, "Everyone?"

"Yes, including soldiers and scientific research personnel, including... us." Na Weilun looked around helplessly.

Although the result was expected by Chen Feng, he sighed and waved his hands, "It's okay, there are still more than ten months. It is inevitable to have pain. I wrote an article, you can circulate it to the public, it can be regarded as my personal summary."

After Chen Feng finished speaking, he sent a copy of the article to everyone present, and then left the conference room.

In this article, Chen Feng analyzed the reasons for the emergence of the thinking cocoon.

He once again put all the responsibility on himself.

The root of everything is him.

He created his own personality in order to get the leadership thinking in the future.

Chen Feng speculated that after he left, this idea was very solid. He himself paid too much attention to the guidance of thinking and did a lot of shady operations that involved thinking.

These operations permeated his long life thousands of years ago.

He deeply engraved his personal traces into the development of civilization.

These are details that are almost impossible to see in history books.

His influence slowly permeated through a series of actions, and spread and expanded to form the current pattern.

Obviously, the current pattern is not ideal.

The hearts of people in this era can be used, but they are just superficial.

People's seemingly firm will is rootless, otherwise there would not be so many people crying when the statue was removed this time.

The world attaches too much importance to the importance of gene awakening, and the ranking list has a clearer impact on the concept of mate selection.

The value of using gene awakening to guide racial reproduction has been affecting all aspects of the world, ignoring the differentiation of personal thoughts.

This value is too utilitarian and seems to be able to achieve better results, but it is actually opportunistic.

The Ares Plan for Chen Feng is also an opportunistic move by the civilization leaders to get a strong leader.

This is a very deliberate, self-anesthetized, era atmosphere of striving for something, which has formed a larger information cocoon, subtly constraining everyone's thinking and not allowing different voices.

This is the Invisible Warrior Plan that covers everyone's head, which is also opportunistic.

The four words "opportunism" have become the main theme of civilization.

The universe will never be kind to civilizations that indulge in opportunism.

The price of taking shortcuts is that true creativity cannot be born in the soil that is constrained.

Because thoughts need freedom.

This freedom is not unlimited, and sometimes it should be controlled.

But there can only be one reason for people to give up their freedom, in order to gain greater freedom.

Human beings live freely in the universe, which is the freedom that humans want.

Controllable and firm freedom, this is what Chen Feng wants to pursue, but he did not do it well this time.

He summarized his mistakes in this article.

Before, Chen Feng did not say it out loud, and no one could jump out of his overly dazzling personal halo, always thinking that everything he did was right.

"This is my last self-analysis. If those people still don't change after reading this article, then... eliminate them. I believe they still have a spirit of sacrifice, and then send them all into the suicide battleship."

Chen Feng wrote at the end of the article.