Lin La sent a message to Yang Guoding.
Yang Guoding looked at the private communication channel and manipulated the cursor to move back and forth between deleting and opening for five seconds.
"You are insulting us with your selfishness. I was once proud of you, but that is all in the past."
Seeing this message, Yang Guoding's facial muscles twitched slightly, and then he replied, "I am busy. You just need to obey orders."
"I know you are not busy, because you haven't found the direction of being busy yet. You are lying, you are escaping. You are selfish. I was not sure at first, but when you lied to me, I knew the answer. Do you know what you are doing? You are heading towards the abyss of sin. You think you are great, but in fact you are despicable. You are committing a crime, and you will become a sinner in history."
Lin La's message was no longer in text, but in voice.
The two finally met.
The two sat opposite each other in the reception area of Yang Guoding's office.
Lin La glared at Yang Guoding.
Yang Guoding, who usually kept his emotions to himself, was rarely looking away.
"I know I was a bit rude. With my rank, I have no right to see you purely on official grounds. You could have stopped me outside the door, or even ordered the guards to take me away. But you still saw me, which once again proves my suspicion of your selfishness."
Lin La attacked fiercely as soon as he opened his mouth.
Yang Guoding's eyes shrank slightly.
Lin La: "You are upset. You regret. You are wavering. Your will is no longer pure. Your self-pretended nobility is collapsing. You are indeed not a qualified politician, but just a scientific researcher. It is actually a mistake to let you be the general manager of our project."
Yang Guoding was silent.
"You have qualified knowledge, but you are not cold-blooded enough. Under your leadership, we failed to realize our highest potential. In order to prove yourself, you took over the position of project leader. But you did not do your job well. So, the reality we have to face is that an unqualified leader led us to conduct an unqualified scientific experiment, and failed to exert our greatest ability in the matter of resurrecting the sage. In a world where failure is equal to death, there is no such thing as glory in failure. Incompetence is a crime in itself."
Yang Guoding finally spoke, "Enough, I asked myself. Except for your matter, I have a clear conscience."
"If you really want to have a clear conscience, you should take everyone with you to die, instead of trying to drive others off the ship."
Yang Guoding: "But this is murder."
"According to you, every general should be sent to the gallows? No, the general who really deserves to be gallows is this one. He knew that a soldier could still help complete the mission, and the soldier himself had enough awareness, but he forcibly drove the person away from the mission out of selfishness, causing the mission to fail irreparably. This is murder. The targets of his murder are billions, tens of billions, or even hundreds of trillions of victims in future wars!"
"Your sweet words are meaningless. You are taking care of me and want me to live. I admit that my physical condition is not good, but what does it matter? You should have my assessment data in your hands. Yesterday, I became the best nutritionist in the base. If you drive me away, you are irresponsible to the entire human race and you are humiliating me."
Yang Guoding turned his head stiffly.
"Yang Guoding, if you are really selfless, then you should let me stay. There is still hope for the sage. You know tardigrades, right? Tardigrades that have been frozen to death for hundreds of millions of years can still recover their vitality and reproduce in space. The underlying information in the sage's genes is more primitive than that of tardigrades. As long as we can complete the **reverse deduction and integrate the sage's genes with the characteristics of tardigrades more deeply, there will be a chance."
Yang Guoding shook his head, "This is unrealistic. Basic information is basic information, and the human body and tardigrades are different after all."
"But if it is a virtual energy life that can exist widely in the universe, what about the crystal tardigrades that our nameless fleet encountered before? According to my calculations, if we first stably transform the embryo into virtual energy matter, and then engrave the characteristics of the crystal tardigrade into it."
"When the spaceship truly reaches the speed of light, as long as the consciousness of the sage still exists, it will be sucked back by the infinitely magnified tardigrade absorption characteristics, and the personality that the sage finally participated in will have the opportunity to enter the embryo unhindered. Then the fusion will be completely completed. From now on, it will be his business. I have just begun to deeply contact the latest research results of the Nameless Fleet on crystal tardigrades, but you want to drive me away? Drive me away because of your selfishness?"
Yang Guoding was finally completely speechless and could no longer find any reason to refute.
Not long after, the second person came to the door again. He was an expert in the field of virtual energy.
His reason was similar to Lin La. Since the new direction happened to be the scope of his professional field, he should not leave.
Yang Guoding had to give in again.
The wonderful thing about the system is that it cannot be easily broken for a specific target. Once a gap is opened and the news leaks out, there will be more and more imitators, and the original plan can no longer be implemented.
Just like Lin Lazha, Yang Guoding is not a qualified politician or soldier.
He can neither be cold-blooded nor absolutely enforce orders.
Others said.
"It's not just you, Yang Guoding, who is great, we have never given up. Everyone will die eventually, or it's lighter than a feather... Now that there is a new plan, we want to try it again."
Some people even refuted Yang Guoding's words.
"You once said that we are soldiers and this is our battlefield. We agree. However, you should know that soldiers do not have the right to emergency evacuation. Every soldier has taken an oath when he joins the army. Although we have never taken the oath, we have realized it in our hearts. If the soldiers retreat whenever there is a risk of death, how can we fight this war? Who will protect the people? Who will protect our base?" "
This kind of desertion is essentially a lack of trust in people outside. We should believe that this is where we are most needed, so we do not agree with your judgment, Director Yang."
"There are millions of people out there, and one more of us doesn't make any more, and one less of us doesn't make any less. But here, for every person missing, the organization's operation speed will slow down. This is where we are most needed. Our greatest value is to die here, regardless of success or failure. Even if we fail completely, our story will shine forever in the universe like the sun, and inspire future generations together with the ancient philosophers."
Yang Guoding could not tell others that the declaration at the time was not his original words.
But he couldn't tell anyone about this.
He could only accept it, there was nothing he could do.
This was the only time since the entire plan began that the project participants collectively disobeyed his orders.
But no one was punished.
The institute's last attempt began to virtualize the dead embryos, and the genetic information carried by the virtualized embryos must be kept completely consistent with the genetic information carried by the embryos originally composed of real energy.
After everyone left, Yang Guoding's office became quiet again.
He suddenly recalled the words that the main brain Fanxing gave him.
He couldn't help but wonder, when Fanxing was compiling that speech, could it be that he had already anticipated his character flaws and anticipated what would happen today?
Since Mastermind Fanxing has figured out human nature when the mission is on the verge of failure, could it be that he has also calculated the death of the embryo or whether it is a fake death? If
all this is really in the plan, then it means that there is still hope.
Yang Guoding was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat, and was deeply grateful for it.
If Lin La hadn't used the unspeakable feelings between the two to force him to give in, there would only be more than 20,000 people left in the base.
Lin La pulled him back from the edge of the sinner's cliff.
An indescribable and complex smile silently emerged at the corner of his mouth, which was a little grateful, a little ashamed, and a little relieved.
He knew that before Lin La entered the door, she had already anticipated what would happen when the gap was opened.
She was still using all the last strength of her remaining life to help him from every angle.
...
In the void of the universe, there is silence.
The eighteen slightly elongated Worm IIIs and the even elongated corpse planets slowly float past like an arrow piercing the sky.
The starry sky in the distance remains the same, and the huge extragalactic galaxies farther away also look no different from ordinary stars.
In the process of human exploration of the universe, the most intuitive gift given to humans by the universe is "loneliness".
The farther away from home, the easier it is for people to fall into the endless emptiness left by the universe for humans.
But at this time, this emptiness is an illusion.
In the level that human eyes cannot see, earth-shaking changes are taking place.
However, when the changes in the energy rules in the external environment exceed a certain range, the monitoring equipment can detect some clues.
"Report, there is a violent quantum tidal surge in the outer space of the fleet. With us as the center of the sphere, the frequency of the birth and annihilation of energy particles within a range of 50 billion kilometers is continuing to increase."
This is the first reference information provided by the intelligence department.
The second information comes from the intelligence department of the entire Morning Wind Empire.
With the solar system as the center of the sphere, there are violent quantum tidal surges within a range of nearly 250 light years.
Immediately afterwards, the contour lines of the energy cycle frequency were drawn.
At this time, the contour line looks like an inverted water wave to the naked eye. Lines representing the intensity of the tidal surge are starting to retract from a range of 250 light years and gathering towards the location of the corpse planet.
There are no real unsolved mysteries in the universe.
All seemingly abnormal supernatural phenomena must have reasons that are temporarily unknown to humans.
But this time, it is too abnormal and too unreasonable.
Such a large area and large-scale abnormal quantum tidal surge occurred instantly at the same time, which completely exceeded human understanding of the universe.
It is a huge spherical area with a diameter of 250 light years.
Behind the abnormal tide, it represents the change of the laws of space.
It only takes a simple calculation to figure out that if human-made explosives are used to achieve the same scale and the spatial laws are changed instantly and synchronously, the heat energy to burn all the stars in the entire galaxy will not be enough.
Humans cannot imagine what kind of great power can accomplish such a magnificent feat.
Some people even speculate in despair.
Is it that the super civilization behind the compound eyes has finally taken action in person and used cosmic "nuclear weapons" that destroy the rules of the game?
In the panic-stricken Empire, the people in the Corpse Planet Research Institute are extremely calm.
Only the intelligence team observes the external environment step by step, exchanges intelligence with the Empire, and then organizes the information and provides it to scientific researchers.
As for others, they put all their energy into the project of how to virtualize the embryo.
The supernatural phenomena outside are very strange, but that's all.
It may be related to the ancient philosophers, or it may not be.
But since we can't determine where the connection is and what impact it will have on the mission, just ignore it and do our own thing.
Seven days passed like this, and the intelligence team finally got new data.
This is the result of three days of continuous analysis by the highest intelligent computer, Stars, which used 90% of the computing power.
It was "people" who caused the abnormal surge of quantum tides.
Maybe they are not people, but at least they are human shadows.
Hundreds of billions of extremely tall human-shaped shadows are squeezing each other layer by layer, approaching the corpse planet.
The scientific view that scholars have gradually formed over a long period of time has been overturned.
Many people even wondered whether people really have souls.
Does the soul still exist after death?
Are these figures the spirits of the deceased?
Why are there only a few hundred billion of them, and not more?
Seven days passed, and Fanxing was the first to get the answer.
The answer for Fanxing came from the memories that Chen Feng copied to her.
These "people" are Blanks.
There are Blanks who actively allowed "Songs of the World" to infiltrate and mechanize their thinking in order to enhance computing power in this timeline.
But Fanxing has a list of Blanks who sacrificed themselves in this timeline.
The number is far less than that, at most a few billion people.
The origins of the other tens of billions of Blanks are beyond Fanxing's understanding.
From Chen Feng's "memory", his ninth, eighth... and even the first history of that year.
Every time Chen Feng died and came back to life, there was a span of at least a thousand years, and humans would reproduce for countless generations.
Ten thousand years have passed, and there are those who sacrificed themselves, those who were innocently implicated, and the eight million blanks created under Lei's control. All of them are here.
Fanxing "saw" many of the same people, and even saw five Sergei, who was still brainwashed by "Song of the World" before he got "Morning Breeze".
Fanxing didn't know what happened, and didn't understand why these people who obviously shouldn't exist in this timeline would appear, but the fact is that this is the case.
It seems that since their death, their so-called souls, that is, the personalities dissolved into the laws of the universe, have never left, but have been quietly approaching the solar system, and gathered together at this moment, triggering quantum tidal anomalies.