Light and shadow rotate.

The shuttle speeds away.

Lin La sits by the window, watching the things outside constantly flying backwards. Her thoughts drift away for a moment, but they do not drift to Yang Guoding. What

is surging in her mind like waves is still the unfinished work in her hands.

Countless nutritional ratio schemes are repeatedly appearing in her mind, and then calculated and argued by the human brain.

The ratio scheme is not a simple percentage combination.

It can be traced back to the specific process in the synthesis stage of the raw materials of the nutrient solution.

The synthesis method of each nutrient, as well as the modification and fine-tuning after synthesis, have extremely strict standards.

In the future, it can be moved to a series of biochemical reactions that may occur after the substance is absorbed by the "resurrected" embryo.

Although similar calculations have been completed by artificial intelligence for no less than 10 billion times, 100% results have not been obtained.

Lin La and other researchers in countless other related links are racing against time to trace the source and try to find the cause.

At this point, nutrition and aerospace engineering are similar in that they use a large number of calculations and simulation experiments to find the point of failure as much as possible, and then improve the process and design solutions little by little, and finally solve the problem.

Unfortunately, it is always a breath away.

So Lin La is trying to give up the computing power assistance of artificial intelligence and use her own human brain to do mental calculations.

It is only about five kilometers from the launch platform to Lin La's workstation.

The shuttle only needs sixteen seconds to reach this section of the road.

On the way, she completed a round of deductions, but it was useless.

Along the way, when the shuttle passed through the office area of ​​Yang Guoding's project manager, Lin La's thoughts fluctuated briefly.

She didn't need to look to guess what Yang Guoding was doing now.

He must still be sitting there, staring at the embryo simulation diagram, with countless details of the entire project from the beginning to the end in his mind.

His body temperature must be much higher than that of a normal person.

Because his brain has never stopped for a second.

One minute and seven seconds later, Lin La sat back at her workstation again.

She completed another embryo simulation modeling at an extremely fast speed and sent out the photon mapping information.

In the real-energy printer connected to her workstation, a replica that was a one-to-one replica of the original embryo began to be synthesized again.

Her next experiment will be based on this replica.

The head of the nutrition team, who was waiting anxiously outside, received the operation prompt and was surprised to find that Lin La was working again.

"Lin La, what are you doing! Didn't you say you were going to visit Director Yang? Get down from your workbench as soon as possible! We must evacuate!"

Lin La looked at the synthetic embryo replica that was rapidly forming in the sealed chamber of the real-energy printer, shook his head slightly, and said, "Captain Demon, I'm sorry, I lied, I decided to stay. You can go, don't worry about me."

"Shut up! You know the consequences. Everyone on this planet will die. You don't have to sacrifice in vain. The preparation station on the mothership is ready. What difference will it make if you work there?"

Lin La: "Only in the research institute base can we use the pure energy level scanner to carry out the most accurate physical reconstruction of the original embryo. Away from here, any data must be transmitted through the quantum network. When information is transmitted, there will definitely be gains and losses, and the results obtained will definitely be slightly different. This is the significance of our research institute. . Captain Demon, didn't you say that we have the best experimental conditions? If everyone fails, we will be the most shameful, isn't that right?"

Demon's beard trembled violently, "But there are already thousands of people left in the space station, and they are enough. The ancient sages once said that the Chinese have an old saying, "As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood." The meaning of living is more important than dying in vain."

Lin La grinned, "Captain Demon, you are an American, and you can remember the ancient Chinese sayings."

Demon: "I have read a lot of quotations from ancient sages, but this is not the point now."

"But you only read about the ancient philosophers, right?"

"Yes. I told you that's not the point!"

There were still three minutes before the embryonic clone was synthesized. During this time, Lin La was relatively free. After a brief thought, she decided to have a frank talk with Damon James.

Lin La said slowly: "Team Leader Damon, I recognize your academic ability. But I have never admired you. Do you know why?"

"I don't need your worship, I just need you to abide by the rules and regulations, come out honestly, board the spaceship, continue to live, and then go to the mothership to complete the work you should complete."

Lin La: "No, no, no, my most important job is here! It is to ensure the survival rate of the sages! This is our business! Our most important business is here! So I won't go anywhere!"

Damon: "Are you doing this for Director Yang?"

Lin La: "This has nothing to do with Director Yang, it's my own decision."

Lin La took another deep breath, his tone suddenly heavier, "Although the world government and the salvation have been emphasizing the community of human destiny. Human beings have let go of the concepts of country and race for hundreds of years. But many things are deeply rooted and difficult to shake. Just like my Family, Team Leader Demon, you know that my family implements a very strict traditional education mechanism. In addition to receiving regular knowledge learning, I have to maintain a high degree of interaction with my family. Before joining the Primitive Gene Research Institute, I even lived under the same roof with my parents for a long time. "

Demon nodded, he knew this very well, "This is not uncommon in pure Chinese families. Chinese people are so old-fashioned, but we understand your different national customs, just as you also understand other people very well."

Lin La: "In fact, this kind of family has caused me a lot of trouble. I used to feel very painful, and sometimes even felt torn. I live in the gap between the knowledge system of modern society and the old traditional family concept."

"I wanted to escape, but I couldn't give up my family. I wanted to be lazy, but I couldn't let go of the responsibilities given to me by the ancient sages and the church. I was like a floating duckweed, with nowhere to put my heart, until I met Yang Guoding, I realized how happy it was to ignore everything and just focus on a specific person and a specific thing."

"I have also asked myself many times, is my love for Yang Guoding love, or a simple desire for genetic matching, or an impulse to give birth to better genetic offspring for mankind? I didn't find the answer."

"Later, I found that when I started thinking about love, I couldn't help but compare myself with my parents."

Damon interrupted, "Your father, Dr. Lin, and your mother, Dr. Li, were married freely, right?"

"Yes, they are childhood sweethearts, and their love is sincere and deep. I can understand my envy of them, and I also realize that I am still a very traditional Chinese after all. No matter whether I have resisted or not, my family has inevitably determined my way of thinking. Of course, I am also trying to adapt to other people's worldviews, because the importance of unity is self-evident. But I must admit that no matter how many languages ​​I master and how hard I try to integrate, I will clearly realize the differences between me and you."

Damon: "The diversity of ideologies is in line with the development outline of the empire, and you don't have to worry about it. All of us are working towards the same goal with our own different lifestyles. . "

Lin La: "But I must tell you the difference between the real Chinese and you. Before human technology began to take off, China experienced hundreds of years of decline and depression. We suffered heavy losses in the war, and the lives of the people were wiped out. After the war, we suffered decades of long-term oppression."

Damon: "That's all in the past. The Empire does not encourage hatred, and now we have a common enemy."

Lin La: "Yes, I know. But what I want to talk about here is not hatred, but objective facts that must be respected. Compared with you, the Chinese have experienced more. This modern history is different from the history of thousands of years ago. The new data carriers and detailed video data in the information age allow us to see this history more clearly."

"Captain Damon, do you know? China's road to rise is far from as easy as the world government described it to the outside world after its establishment. It is a lonely and thorny journey of suffering. We rose from humble beginnings and moved forward bit by bit amidst hostility. It took us a hundred years of struggle to stand at the top of the world again. The hardships and obstacles in the struggle have been engraved deep in our national memory. Compared with others, we have a lot of experience and lessons in dealing with difficulties."

"Only six hundred years have passed, and the memory of the nation is not so easy to forget. In the past, we have restrained our edge for the common goal of all mankind and chose to treat the world with a more inclusive attitude. But today, I have to let you know how Chinese people in difficult situations usually treat their work."

"My father once told me that my job is my life! If the job is important enough, if the job is related to the life and death of more people, the Chinese will always stick to their jobs. We will complain and we will envy. We are mortals for most of our lives. But if the time really comes when we need to take the lead, we will stand where we should be. "

I know that the corpse planet will be physically accelerated to the speed of light without the protection of an outer layer, and the human body will disintegrate in such an environment. But I don't care at all. This has nothing to do with human rights and freedom. It only concerns the choices I made voluntarily driven by my personal beliefs."

"These, Captain Demon, you don't understand. Just now you said that as long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood, but in the logic of me and my elders, there are two kinds of green mountains. One is to regard oneself as a green mountain, and the other is to regard the entire civilization and the entire collective as a green mountain. If my sacrifice alone can bring a higher return, it can make the green mountains greener and the trees more luxuriant. I will choose self-sacrifice without hesitation."

"Team Leader Damon, you only read the quotations of ancient philosophers, but ancient philosophers are only a part of the Chinese people, they are just representatives. You can't understand the thousands of years of inheritance of the Chinese people from him alone."

"Team Leader, can you take another look, besides me, are there many people left? Quite a lot, right?"

Lin La asked at last.

Damon glanced at the list again.

Indeed, as Lin La said, among the more than 3,000 people in his team, there are still more than 600 people who have not come out, and these people don't even respond to his call.

"Team Leader Damon, please look at the other teams and see what percentage of the people who have applied to stay behind are Chinese."

Damon pulled up the entire list of staff of the institute, then swallowed his saliva and said slowly, "More than 80%."

Lin La smiled, "Now you know why your ancestors were always wary and afraid of the Eastern powers before the shadow of war dissipated? Of course, the facts now prove that they were wrong. Because many years ago, when we had the ability to reject war, we took the lead in setting our sights on the community of human destiny."

"The sage was indeed a Chinese, but his life is related to whether the entire human race can survive. We all have the same goal now, which is to do everything we can to ensure that he is alive. So I respect your choice, but you should also understand us."

"Those of us who stayed behind have not communicated with each other. It was our own decision to stay. Why did we make the same decision without any prior agreement? Because we all believe that this moment is the most important moment of life and death that mankind has faced since the 21st century."

"In the past few hundred years, we have united for hundreds of years in the way of all mankind. Now it's time to show you how different the Chinese way of unity is."

Damon was silent for about thirty seconds.

Then he dialed the communicator.

On the other end of the communicator was his wife Stella, who was far away on Earth.

He didn't say much, but told Stella in a very calm tone that he decided to stay because the work was not yet completed.

Stella asked him if this was a government requirement, with some anger in her expression and tone.

Damon shook his head, "No, I just want to do my job better. I don't want to lower my head in shame when my children ask me many years later if I have done my best to complete the most important work of my life."

Damon's decision to stay spread quickly.

Many people came to ask him.

Damon didn't say much, but just passed on the recording of his conversation with Lin La.

About thirty seconds later, more and more people who had boarded the small spaceship turned around and ran down the stairs.

Those who arrived at the mother ship earlier also submitted applications one by one, requesting to return to the institute.

The small spaceships that travel between the mothership and the space station no longer return empty.

In just one and a half minutes, 400,000 people changed their minds.

Everyone had different ideas.

Some people did not agree with Lin La's statement, and strongly opposed the more narrow-minded Chinese concept of re-taking the common destiny of mankind, and even secretly criticized Lin La's words for being a moral kidnapping of others. Others

were just immersed in their work before, and only numbly and strictly obeyed the orders of their superiors, without considering their own personal choices at all. Now that they have been reminded, they realize that they can actually stay.

But it doesn't matter what everyone's motivation is. What matters is that the final choice is completely consistent.

The sudden change made outsiders even mistakenly believe that a new technological revolution had occurred again, and staying on the fish-man corpse planet was no longer a matter of certain death.

The administration even consulted the organizing committee of the confidential project, saying that since safety is now guaranteed, should they open up registration to allow more technical personnel to come to the base to enhance the technical capabilities of the original gene research institute.

There are indeed many young people outside who are petitioning to register.

The administration quickly got a reply.

The miracle did not happen.

Staying behind is still equivalent to death.

These people who were originally going to evacuate suddenly changed their minds, not because of any technological breakthroughs, but because these staff members made new choices on their own.

The conversation between Lin La and Damon also spread within the senior management.

The highest conference room of the imperial government fell into silence.

The solar system held a quickly convened summit meeting and decided to respect the different self-selections of the institute staff.

The Solar System's rulers realized that perhaps since the Dome was resolved, the Solar System, as the rear area of ​​the war, had received too favorable conditions, which made the Solar System's human beings lose their courage to sacrifice and forget the principle of doing everything possible.

Lin La used her own way to call back the blood of the Solar System's human beings.

Millions of families were affected by this incident.

This matter is a top priority for the Solar System and these millions of families.

However, if the area is enlarged and the time is extended, this is just a drop in the ocean in the history of the entire Orion Arm human beings and the Morrowind Empire.

One after another, the staff of the nutrition team returned quickly. There was no need for much greeting, nor any need for mutual encouragement and encouragement. They quickly returned their attention to their respective work.

Sitting at her workstation, Lin La watched the originally empty laboratory compartment next to her become lively again, but silently said in her heart, "I'm sorry."

What she said to Damon before was actually a conspiracy.

She was actually very selfish.

She just didn't want Yang Guoding's sacrifice to become meaningless.

But the other side of selfishness is selflessness. The

first condition of her conspiracy is to sacrifice herself first.

Her ultimate goal is to ensure the survival rate of the sage.

"Everyone listen up. We will definitely die here, there is no doubt about that. What we have to do now is to make our death more valuable. So, no matter what tricks you each have and what kind of support you need from the main brain, bring your plans to me as soon as possible! No matter if it is useful or not, as long as it has not been tried before and has no precedent, bring it all out. The embryos of the sages are among us, and we, hundreds of thousands of people, are now carrying the hopes of millions of human beings!"

Damon's rough voice rang out in the nutrition group's communication channel, full of energy and awe-inspiring.