When she had no expectations, Tong Ling had no idea about aging and didn't care at all.

She didn't know when and where she would die.

But she knew that a warrior's fate was to die on the battlefield.

Now she has changed.

She sees it as greed, and this greed is difficult to satisfy.

She can only hide her delusion deep in her heart.

In 2805, when Tong Ling participated in the fleet's highest-level meeting as the chief instructor of the Nameless Fleet, the situation changed.

"Three days ago, we received a package of the latest scientific research results from the Imperial Command. In fact, we have received this kind of package several times every year, but this time it is a little special and very important to us."

Qin Guang, sitting on the podium, tried his best to restrain himself and tried to tell the facts in a calmer tone.

But people still heard something different from his slightly trembling tone.

Something big happened.

"The name of this new technology is human body freezing technology."

Sure enough, as soon as Qin Guang said this, there was an uproar in the audience.

In the previous expedition plan, the final combat order was planned like this.

The command sequence headed by Qin Guang and the combat sequence headed by Tong Ling will not survive to reach the destination.

Therefore, when the real final battle breaks out, the main combat force on the spaceship will have been reproduced for at least one generation.

What kind of result can be achieved in the end will first depend on how much technological breakthroughs humans can achieve in the nearly three hundred years of voyage

, and how much results can be transformed with the existing resources of the nameless fleet. Secondly, it also depends on how many excellent successors can be cultivated with the existing 150 million people in the fleet, and how many excellent commanders and combat personnel can be accumulated in the nearly three hundred years of voyage.

This is an expedition that is destined to span at least two generations.

Before Tong Ling's potential exploded, this plan did not have much problem.

After all, the population base of the fleet is not small, and those who board the fleet are the elites of the elites, with huge genetic potential.

Every time an S-class fighter falls in the passage of time, there will always be a new S-class personnel to replace him.

But since Tong Ling's potential burst out, problems have arisen. Even after

more than 80 years, only a few top fighters have been trained in the fleet, and the gap between these top fighters and Tong Ling in actual combat is still visible to the naked eye.

This means that even if another 200 years pass, the cutting-edge combat power represented by Tong Ling may not be compensated.

It also means that humans cannot save the strongest individual combat power for the decisive battle, which is a huge regret.

In addition, several top scientific research talents have emerged in the fleet in recent years. These people have shown the same difficult-to-replicate talents in different fields. Even if the fleet cannot achieve real-time information transmission with the outside world, which increases the difficulty for these scientific research geniuses to obtain information, they can still keep up with external progress in most fields and help the fleet digest the high-tech achievements shared by the outside world in the shortest time.

Unfortunately, due to the general overuse of brains by scientific researchers and their short lifespan, these geniuses born early are unlikely to live for two hundred years. Even if we wait for another eleven hundred years, it is unknown whether the fleet can still have scientists of the same level and whether it can continue to keep up with the technological progress of the entire empire.

This is always unavoidable and worrying.

"The situation is this. About sixty years ago, the Empire conducted a large-scale scientific experiment. In this experiment, scientists conducted in-depth research on many fields, including human genes, Earth biological genes, HeLa cell genes, primitive genes of sages, virtual water bears, the stacked memories of the Pisces people, and personality sealing technology." "

Now, after decades of calculations and repeated demonstrations, and a large number of experiments have been completed. Scientists have finally found a way to seal the personality. Of course, the technology is still in the theoretical stage. A total of 360,000 volunteers have tried it, and the success rate is still zero."

Hiss...

the sound of people gasping for air came one after another in the conference room.

Emerson Colbert, the new generation chief scientist of the Nameless Fleet who had just taken office, stood up and added: "The sacrifices of 360,000 volunteers were not in vain. A large amount of data was collected for the project. After repeated studies, scholars generally believed that the problem was that irreversible data overflow occurred in the process of converting human memory into stacked memory, resulting in insufficient integrity of the final frozen personality, and more data would always be irreversibly lost until the personality collapsed. Before a solution to this problem is found, human body freezing technology still lacks reliability."

The previous chief scientist has passed away. Emerson Colbert, who is only 43 years old, is a new generation in the fleet. He was born on the No. 3 research ship. His parents are two senior physicists.

After Emerson finished speaking, another scientist stood up and asked a question. "This requires the patient's mind to have mechanical properties, right? Then, freezing a blank person can be successful, right?"

Emerson nodded, then shook his head.

"Blanks are indeed very suitable for human body freezing, but freezing a blank person is meaningless because the thinking activities of a blank person can be turned off and restarted at any time like a light bulb. The freezing technology of a blank person has been verified to be successful long before we set out, but it did not cause a sensation. Its essence is no different from storing a machine, putting it away for a few decades and then taking it out for use. It is not a qualitative change and is not worth paying attention to."

Everyone nodded.

That's the truth.

Emerson added, "Having said so much, I want to tell you something. In previous information sharing, the technologies provided to us by the Empire were basically finished products, and we only needed to digest and absorb them. But this time, the Empire needs our help."

Someone immediately stood up and objected, "How can we help? We only have more than 100 million people. Do we have to select volunteers from among our people? What if we fail again? Are we sending ourselves to die in vain? We are different. We don't have unlimited resources, let alone an infinitely large gene pool. We have limited manpower, but if one dies, there will be one less."

"Yes, it's not that we are selfish. We are not afraid of death. If you really want me to go, I will go. But we are a lone expeditionary force going deep into the enemy's base. The core mission is to reach the silver center. We have to fight the strongest enemy in the enemy's base camp and turn it upside down. We are not freer than the outsiders."

"What if we lose our strength in order to cooperate with the empire's scientific research, and in the end the scientific research here fails, and our mission fails. Then who can we ask for explanation? What if the sage is resurrected, and when we look back at the records, we find that our vast The expeditionary force became a joke that cost people their lives. How can he be so angry that I won’t be able to rest in peace even if I die?”

Qin Guang pressed his hand down, signaling to the people below to calm down.

When the meeting room quieted down again, Emerson said slowly, "I understand everyone's concerns, and the top leaders of the Empire also understand, so they didn't force us to do it, but asked us if we were willing. It mainly depends on... Forget it. Let me first talk to you about the value of human cryonics. "

There is no doubt that Emerson is on the side of conducting experiments.

Human civilization is a huge collective composed of countless individuals.

In this collective, someone will be in a high position and in charge. In the Fallout era, some people can dominate the world in terms of technology, and in the Fallout era, some people can surpass others in combat, and continuously raise the combat level of the entire civilization by their own strength.

This small group of pioneers is like the steering wheel of the civilization's chariot, or It is a guide bearing.

But no matter what era, only a few people are famous. The main component of civilization is still the masses, which are inconspicuous and can even be easily replaced. The value of screws is not   denied

.

If a screw is missing from a tank system, another screw will be quickly replaced after a short while, and the tank will remain intact. But what if all the screws are removed at once?   Even

the largest tank will collapse.

Likewise, the value of the steering wheel cannot be ignored.

Take it away for a short while, and the Civilization will go off the track a little.

After a while, a new steering wheel will gradually grow up, take over the responsibility of leading the way, and correct the chariot's wrong direction.

But by then, civilization has already wasted a lot of time and energy on the wrong road . Resources.

There may also be a situation where, for example, a person's talent is beyond his time and is not understood by his time. He never reaches the height he should have reached throughout his life, wasting his talent.

It is not until many years later that later generations reflect on his untimely birth and often lament and lament that there is nothing they can do about it, such as Ryan, who is active in the 21st century.

In such a rough scientific background, Ryan still used his keen sense that was hundreds of years ahead of his time to propose and complete the design of the universe's large logistics pipeline. Hundreds of years have passed, and the core concept proposed by Ryan is still revered. If Ryan could live in the 26th century, it would be a great blessing for him and the entire civilization.

Similar situations also happened to Tesla, Zhang Heng and others.

This kind of waste is not limited to Similar waste exists in science, art, politics, business, and other fields.

For example, Yu Boya, Beethoven, Zhong Lei...

If these people with great musical creativity were exposed to more musical instruments, heard more different sounds, and experienced more synthetic sound technology and more advanced modern and postmodern music, How many more songs can these   people create in their lifetime? How many classic melodies that have been quietly wasted in their brains can they save after accessing brain link technology?

I dare not imagine.

In life, we have brought our talents to the extreme.

But this extreme must take into account the constraints of the times.

The core value of human cryonics technology is that it can allow these talents to break free from the limitations of the times and open up another possibility for the entire civilization.

When necessary, the pioneers will be frozen and their talents will be preserved until the time when they are needed and appropriate. After certain necessary conditions are met, these talents that are limited by the times will be placed in a more appropriate position, allowing them to change to a better How much help will the restoration of a comfortable environment bring to civilization?

It is hard for ordinary people to imagine.

For example, a top scientist has advanced an important project to a certain extent, and the remaining research needs to be verified by experiments until a large number of The next step of deduction can only be carried out after experimental data is obtained, or huge calculations and long-term observations are required.

This is very realistic.

Some astrophysics projects involving stars often require decades or even hundreds of years of observation and waiting.

Without human cryogenic technology, this talented scientist would have to waste his life and talent in vain waiting.

Even if he turned to other directions and produced some results during this period, the significance would not be as great as the great achievement that would run through his life. The project is huge.

If we have the technology of human cryogenics, we can allow the same person to wait for the project to mature over thousands or even tens of thousands of years and engage in even greater research. What will happen to civilization?

Maybe someone will As a mentor, can you train students? Don’t you have successors? But it takes time for each successor   to

learn from the mentor, and different people will think about problems differently.

What is needed is a complete and consistent thinking model.

The training of successors by mentors is a huge process of trial and error.

This not only wastes the mentors’ lives, but also the lives of many students who are eliminated and may not be so suitable.

How much resources are wasted in this?

If these How can resources be saved?

In the past, people did not dare to think about it because no one can defeat time, the most powerful weapon in the universe.

Immortality has been proven to be impossible.

But now it is possible.

There is no doubt that it will It will bring qualitative changes to the scientific research process of mankind.

The same is true for other fields with similar needs, such as warriors.

No matter how strong a warrior is, if he is born too early and cannot live to see the decisive battle, he will eventually become an outsider.

However, human cryonics technology can keep generations of talented warriors frozen in time, allowing them to stand up again when civilization faces the most dangerous life-and-death moments.

Another example is the ultra-long-distance voyage across galaxies.

The impact is even more intuitive.

Assuming that humans choose an extragalactic galaxy more than 10 million light years away as a long-distance voyage target, even the fastest spaceship with a speed of 500 times the speed of light will take 20,000 years to reach the destination.

Under normal circumstances, the humans in this fleet have already gone through at least one or two hundred generations of reproduction.

But when the natural phenomena of the universe cannot pose a threat to humans, humans become their own biggest enemy.

In infinite time and distance, there are too many uncertain factors in the direction of human hearts.

Halfway through the journey, as the population structure is constantly updated, it is easy for the heirs to lack a sense of belonging to the entire civilization, causing these people to lose faith and eventually fall apart, and perish in the universe in internal strife.

Then this long-distance voyage will be a complete failure.

However, if human body cryogenic technology is available, the long-distance fleet can use it flexibly and arrange a backbone that can run through the endless expedition plan.

"In short, mastering the technology of human body cryonics can preserve some talents that are destined to be wasted. In essence, it is mastering time and creating new infinite possibilities for the development of civilization." "

This technology is similar to the ancient sage Chen Feng's interference with the timeline. The ancient sage stole time from different timelines and accumulated it in our last timeline to create a stronger civilizational explosive force for us. But human body cryonics is to further squeeze the value of time infinitely in the same timeline. This is a more extreme means of stealing time."

"We can allow great people to gain immortality. Even if it is only a false immortality, it is enough to allow important people with super high intelligence and super strong abilities to have the possibility of lasting for a longer period of time, creating a greater impact, and providing a stronger possibility of civilization explosion!"

"Its technical application prospects and applicable scenarios are infinitely broad, and the changes it will bring to civilization are so exciting that I can't help but imagine it. This means that we really have the possibility of moving towards an endless universe."

"This is an important sign that human civilization is striding forward on the road to Level 4 civilization!"

Emerson said passionately.

After a long time, someone in the conference room sighed.

"It sounds great. Alas, it's a pity that the sage couldn't enjoy it. Otherwise... it would be great if everyone knew that the sage was still sleeping somewhere."

Qin Guang thought about it, but did not announce the secret that Chen Feng was indeed "sleeping".

That was another "personality freezing and sealing" technology that was even more beyond comprehension. It was not universal and had no reference value.

"Okay, Mr. Emerson, you said so much just to convince us to support the project. Tell me, what should we do?"

An officer stood up and asked.

Emerson turned his head to look at Tong Ling, who was sitting in the front row and had been daydreaming the whole time after hearing the four words "human body freezing". He said, "Instructor Tong possesses the quantum thinking that is closest to mechanization in the current human race. Instructor Tong's intuitive thinking mode makes her the only one who has acquired mechanized thinking ability without relying on "Songs of the World". Therefore, we need Instructor Tong's help."

"This..."

Qin Guang and many other military personnel suddenly changed their faces.

Scientists want "guinea pigs".

Okay, they don't object.

Even if they do it themselves, it's no problem.

But these crazy scientists are too bold. They set their sights on the entire nameless fleet and even Tong Ling, the most advanced combat force in the entire human race. They are simply dreaming!

If something happens to Tong Ling, it will be a disaster.

If they encounter enemy combat units of the same level as the crystal water bears again, who will take the lead?

No one is afraid of death, only of losing.

"I object..."

Gao Xiaoqi, who has been promoted to major general, stood up suddenly and spoke loudly.

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Tong Ling.

"I agree."

Tong Ling's answer was concise, powerful, and unquestionable.

No one knew that she was actually trembling with excitement.