Another three days passed in a blink of an eye.

In the first conference room of the base, the general manager Yang Guoding was sitting in an office with dozens of ministers and team leaders.

This was a meeting.

The value of the meeting is self-evident, but it has been nearly three years since the trip began, and this is the first time that all senior management personnel have gathered together instead of holding an offline meeting in the quantum network.

Ordinary meetings can be handled online with the support of the internal quantum network without delay.

Everyone will not leave their workstation, which can achieve the purpose of the meeting and save time.

This meeting, however, is of great importance and involves the most important goal of the mission. At the same time, there is another reason: the biological activity of the embryo has completely stagnated.

Simply put, the embryo is dead.

The mission had failed, and everyone was free. There was nothing to do in the short term.

The atmosphere in the conference room was extremely dull.

No one was willing to be the first to speak.

Even if the failure had obviously occurred, people could not help but have fantasies, fantasizing about miracles, fantasizing that there was something wrong with the monitoring equipment, or that the data was not accurate enough, resulting in a wrong judgment.

Many people even dreamed that the embryo suddenly moved again.

But dreams are just dreams after all, and they have not become reality.

Yang Guoding looked around for a moment and saw that no one stood up to speak. In the end, it was no use.

He tapped the table lightly, organized his words, and said in a calm tone: "It has happened, and we have to face reality. At present, all our plans have been implemented. We have done everything we can, but we still can't prevent the death of the embryo. Yes, let's stop deceiving ourselves. The embryo is indeed dead."

"Of course, we are holding this meeting not to pursue responsibility or to summarize after the fact. The matter is not over yet, and it is not time to summarize. Before us, no one has ever participated in a real physical lightspeed flight alive, and there have never been so many people operating equipment that is extremely close to the speed of light to conduct scientific experiments at the same time. No one knows what will happen next. Miracles may appear or may not appear. Therefore, we must face the current failure and also plan the next countermeasures. Should we leave? Should we stay? Who should leave? How should we leave? Who should stay? These are all problems."

"This issue did not exist originally. After all, according to our original plan, only a few thousand people would remain in the base. But now the situation has changed. There are still 370,000 people in the base, and each of them is a top talent in their respective fields. The sages are the wealth of mankind, but these talents are also the wealth of mankind. In addition to being responsible to the sages, I am also responsible to mankind. We must find a balance between dedication and preservation of wealth. This is the purpose of our meeting."

Yang Guoding's words finally played a role in inspiring others.

The flight control team leader, the commander of the eighteen Worm III spacecraft, stood up and said, "According to the data provided by the external observation team, the corpse planet and the research institute base have been physically stretched 763215.77 times, so we can't suddenly open the full curvature bubble. If we do that, the human body will be torn into pieces like a broken spring under the huge elastic impact and decomposed into elementary particles."

"We are currently flying at a speed of 281,200 kilometers per second. If we continue to accelerate, we will still have more than a month to reach the speed of light. We will gradually open the large curvature bubble and slowly increase the output power according to the Barov curve to gradually decelerate the spacecraft and the planet. We have a chance to survive, but this also means that our mission is completely terminated. In addition, three days later, when our flying speed reaches 282,300 kilometers per second, the window for the overall deceleration of the planet will expire. The mouth will be closed. The theoretical limit of the human body is to start decelerating from 282,300 kilometers per second, which is the limit. "

After the flight commander sat down, the head of the escape equipment management team stood up and said, "Since the number of personnel left in the base has increased by hundreds of times, the number of escape boats designed before is not enough. So since the departure, the escape team has temporarily opened the low-power dark energy absorption energy warehouse and used the extra energy to orderly manufacture small escape boats."

"Last month, we just completed the construction of a total of 3,800 small escape boats that can be used by 380,000 people. When we set out, the original design performance of the escape boats was able to achieve the performance of first moving in parallel, then detaching from the same orbit, and finally slowly decelerating when the speed exceeds 280,000 kilometers per second. Under this flight condition, the original theoretical survival rate of the lifeboat crew was about 40%." "

But in the past three years, we have received a lot of support from external research units. Now we can maintain a theoretical survival rate of about 60% after the speed exceeds 295,000 kilometers per second. Therefore, we still have a chance to evacuate."

After the two men finished speaking, the many other core group leaders who were truly related to the resurrection plan were silent. Still no one spoke.

They were responsible for resurrecting the ancient sages, and now it has basically been declared a failure. All methods have been exhausted. Although new plans are continuously being produced and used at the first opportunity, since there is no news at this moment, it means that there is no effect there, which is tantamount to treating a dead horse as if it were alive.

After another three minutes of silence, the team leader in charge of the institute's administrative and logistical management finally stood up. He rubbed his eyes and said sadly, "Let me say something that you don't want to hear. I think that since the mission has basically failed, some people should be allowed to make their own choices and start evacuating on small lifeboats. When the number of registered people reaches 100, one lifeboat will be sent away."

"Now our speed has not reached 290,000 kilometers per second, and the survival rate of the lifeboat is still very high, over 95%. So, let's start giving other people in the base the right to choose independently, and arrange it as soon as possible. Of course, I personally choose to stay and stay until the end. After all, I signed up at the beginning, and I know that many people will stay until the end. I will always do the logistics work for everyone until..."

Yang Guoding coughed lightly and interrupted the administrative team leader.

Yang Guoding shook his head and said, "I don't agree with independent selection, because then no one will sign up. We should give the order directly and order some people to leave. As for who stays and who leaves, I have actually compiled a list before. The original batch of people who were scheduled to stay in the institute totaled 6,320 people, and there are currently 5,943 people left, all of whom will stay." "

In addition, I have also selected 18,300 people with the highest technical level, the best physical condition, and the possibility of lasting longer under extreme conditions. These people are ordered to stay. Everyone else, whether they accept it or not, must all leave. This is an order, and there is no room for negotiation."

"Everyone has made a lot of efforts and sacrifices. The more than 24,000 of us who stayed will not disappoint the expectations of those who left. We will do everything possible to complete everyone's unfinished business."

"Those who leave are not selfish, nor are they afraid of death. They will not be laughed at, and there is no need for them to blame themselves. Whether for themselves or for the entire empire, these people should continue to live."

Yang Guoding gave the meeting the final word.

Before the meeting ended, Yang Guoding gave a special instruction to the head of the administrative team: "Add this sentence to the order. We understand everyone's spirit of sacrifice and dedication. But at present, the chance of saving the sage may only be one in a trillion."

"We can't let all the wealth of mankind be sacrificed in vain. This is not heroic, not glorious, and even shameful. For the longer-term future of the entire civilization, the evacuees who continue to survive after a short retreat may be greater than us who sacrifice. Finally, you must emphasize to everyone that this is an order and must be executed unconditionally."

Ten minutes later.

Yang Guoding's personal intelligent assistant said in an electronic voice.

"Director Yang, Lin La from the Advanced Research Institute of Nutrition Group requests to see you. She is outside your door."

Yang Guoding did not even turn his head. "No."

He knew why Lin La came.

Lin La's academic level was very high, but her physical condition was not up to standard, so she was not on the list of people Yang Guoding had planned to stay behind.