In 2895, the Nuwa Project had been underway for 25 years.

The rapid reproduction plan of these 25 years was very effective.

The population of the fleet had expanded to 800 million, of which 140 million were frozen and 660 million were awake.

Among the awake population, the third generation accounted for 530 million, of which 200 million were combat personnel, 210 million were ordinary engineering personnel, and 120 million were academic personnel. Among

the academic personnel, as many as 60 million were academic personnel related to the Nuwa Project.

Anyone whose intellectual development was slightly related to the subjects related to the Nuwa Project, even if their most perfect talents were in other areas, would be chosen from birth to develop in a certain direction, and would be thrown into this project whether they were willing or not.

This kind of compulsory employment choice is not in line with human nature, nor is it in line with the social rules of optimal resource allocation, but in an emergency, there is no choice.

According to Emerson, the current number of personnel is not enough, and it can only be regarded as just enough to start the project.

The current human resource allocation system will continue to be implemented, at least until 2930, to form a huge academic team of 500 million people, and at least more than 100,000 cutting-edge scholars in various fields must be trained, in order to 100% ensure the smooth birth of Tang Tianxin.

...

25-year-old Tang Yingqu stood by the corridor bridge, her eyes dull and lifeless.

She didn't have any worries.

Her eyes have been like this since she was born.

Her eyes were too bright to focus, as if she was squinting at everything. Her

mind was blank.

The quantum storms in other people's minds were like tsunamis, but hers were like a frozen lake in winter.

There was only one exception. When

she was six years old, when she completed basic military training and stepped into the children's training-type individual armor for the first time, the ice of the frozen lake cracked, and violent quantum thoughts swept the sea, like a hurricane on Jupiter, and like sunspots bursting.

In just five seconds, the other nine hundred or so children who participated in the training with her were all seriously injured and dying.

If the children's training equipment did not have the highest level of medical support system and the most stringent training security mechanism, these children would have died on the spot.

The instructor in training armor at the time was helpless against her until two S-rank fighters arrived and brought the situation under control in time.

Even if they survived, it took these children as long as half a year, or as short as three months, to recover from the horrific experience and step back into the armor tremblingly.

Emerson said to Qin Guang helplessly: "This child is different from Instructor Tong after all. Instructor Tong started as a human being, gradually gave up his active personality, left everything to intuition, and eventually became a Heartless. This child has been a pure natural Heartless since she was born. Apart from her innate fighting intuition, her memory cannot store any information. Her soul and personality are hidden under the shadow of the killing instinct. She is a pure "She is a killing machine that does not distinguish between friend and foe."

Qin Guang heard this and said distressedly, "I'm afraid she has disappointed us. Can such a warrior appear on the battlefield? Now she is wearing a child's armor. When she grows up and has the same strength as Instructor Tong, and wears the strongest armor, who can stop her from wreaking havoc? At that time, I'm afraid we can only use the cannon to kill her, or let Instructor Tong fight her to the death."

Emerson: "Yes."

"Change Tang Yingqu's training plan. From now on, she is not allowed to come into contact with any lethal weapons."

Emerson: "But she can't learn any other knowledge."

"It doesn't matter. Her mission is only to pass on to future generations. Alas. In the final analysis, it is our problem. We shouldn't bring the great bloodline into the fleet. It's just a pity for the name. In history, Tang Yingqu should have become an excellent general, but now in our hands, alas..."

Qin Guang still had some regrets and felt deeply guilty, but it was of no avail.

From then on, Tang Yingqu was ordered to prohibit driving armor again.

But she couldn't learn knowledge, and she became the most idle person in the entire fleet.

After waking up every day, the only thing she could do was to stand by the corridor and look at the simulated starry sky in the distance of the fleet.

On weekdays, she had no friends to accompany her, only long loneliness.

The strange thing is that in the past twenty years, Tong Ling has awakened three times because of emergency combat summons.

Every time Tong Ling wakes up, her personality becomes more indifferent. She no longer communicates with anyone, but since she heard about Tang Yingju's existence, every time she wakes up and completes the combat mission, she will come to Tang Yingju's room and wander for two or three days.

The two did not talk to each other. They either looked at the "starry sky" side by side, or sat facing each other in silence.

Emerson called this phenomenon the resonance between the unintentional, which is not bad.

...

"Teacher, the situation has changed. Some dissatisfied people have started to gather together to discuss."

Zhou Donglai said softly in the top-secret communication channel.

Qin Guang nodded, "I know."

Zhou Donglai said with a slightly resentful tone: "Everyone has a lot of dissatisfaction. In addition to questioning the expedition plan, many people are dissatisfied with the Nüwa plan. Some academic personnel related to the Nüwa plan began to forcibly apply for transfers to unrelated subjects, or apply to transfer to become soldiers and workers."

"These third generations don't understand anything at all! They lack the spirit of sacrifice. They selfishly pursue self-satisfaction, but forget what supports mankind to this day. If it were in the past, if someone in the army dared to gossip like this, they would have been detained long ago. Now they are getting bolder and bolder, relying on the fact that the law does not punish the masses."

Zhou Donglai became more and more angry as he spoke.

Qin Guang smiled, "Calm down. You are my successor. You have to learn to be cunning and learn to think from other people's perspectives. Dr. Emerson has said that although the brain structure of the third generation of humans is exactly the same as ours, their thinking quantum spiral has undergone some changes. Unlike us humans who were born near the Milky Way, they are more elusive and unpredictable."

"This has greatly helped their scientific creativity, but it has also inevitably made their emotions more unpredictable and elusive. We need the power of the third generation, and naturally we have to face the disadvantages that come with it. In fact, fighting side by side can best eliminate differences. Only those who can go on the battlefield and survive can truly understand how deep our enemies' hostility is to us." "Only then

can we clearly realize how powerful the enemy is and how it makes us unable to breathe. It's just that we are carrying out a secret mission. We must hide the size of our forces. Each time we can only send elite small-scale contacts, and we even have to abandon our comrades again and again. We endure, lie in wait, and move forward, all for the final destination."

"The ignorance of the third generation is not their fault. After all, humans are social creatures, and the information conveyed by society can determine a person's thinking to a considerable extent. Maybe now some people even mistakenly think that the history we portray is a fabricated lie. But as long as we can reach the goal, all the difficulties and obstacles will disappear."

Zhou Donglai nodded, "I understand, teacher. But those gossips..."

"I will make arrangements."

Twelve hours later, at the regular meeting of the fleet's senior management, Qin Guang made a controversial speech.

"Starting tomorrow, I will implement a first-level military control strategy within the fleet, impose appropriate punishments on the second and third generations who spread misleading remarks, and implement a zoning management policy." As

soon as he finished speaking, Deputy Commander Cage raised his hand.

"General Cage, please speak."

"According to the original plan, we will arrive at the Silver Center between 2980 and 2985, and decide whether to open the first-level control around 2970 depending on the situation. And the decision-making power at that time should be exercised by our young and strong successors, not us. Although the situation has changed now, and there are indeed some gossips, I don't think the situation is serious to this extent. There is a saying in ancient Chinese civilization that it is more difficult to guard against the people's mouths than to guard against the river. Should we give our successors more freedom? Restricting freedom will inevitably restrict creativity, which will make the successors lose their souls and make the fleet's swords blunt."

Qin Guang was stunned. He didn't expect Cage to object.

Extremely rarely, there was a difference of opinion among the top commanders of the fleet.

After a brief discussion, although Qin Guang could still demand compulsory execution, he changed his mind slightly out of respect for Cage and decided to only implement the second-level military control, leaving some privacy for the members of the fleet, and not to directly pursue responsibility, but to appropriately strengthen ideological education.

The education work seemed to have worked, and the second-level control more or less changed the atmosphere, and the stricter work arrangements also appropriately suppressed the second and third generations' opportunities for wild thoughts.

But there are countermeasures to every policy, and it seems that the more repressive, the more these people can find ways.

A new language was born quietly.

This language does not make any sound, but is conveyed through a series of actions or the arrangement of objects.

Rather than calling it a language, it is better to say that it is a huge set of coded signals.

The inventor of this language is a senior researcher who was deeply involved in the core stage of the Nvwu Project. He is extremely smart and has taken into account the differences in thinking patterns of the first, second, and third generations of humans when thinking about problems.

The first generation of humans saw small movements that were commonplace, such as the frequency of walking steps, the direction of the soles of the feet, the swing of the arms, the bending of the fingers, etc., but in the eyes of the third generation, who have stronger thinking flexibility, they contain a lot of information.

The way of communication has shifted from being open to being "underground". Sometimes people who are several tables apart in the cafeteria eat together and quietly exchange a lot of information.

This kind of body language is certainly not in the database of the fleet's artificial intelligence star body.

Intelligent monitoring can only draw ambiguous conclusions through a lot of analysis, suspecting that there is something here, but the evidence is not certain enough, it cannot be judged, let alone read.

Information is like an undercurrent, quietly surging.

Qin Guang knew it vaguely, but he quietly let it go.

Another unavoidable problem appeared in front of him.

According to the original long-distance voyage plan, the first generation of fleet members are now dying one after another.

The elders who were already over a hundred years old when they first boarded the ship should have gradually reached the end of their lives during the nearly two hundred years of voyage.

The emergence of cryogenic technology has slightly changed the situation, allowing some dying people to continue their lives in freezers, waiting to vent their light and heat in the most appropriate time and in the most brilliant way.

However, the atmosphere in the fleet has changed.

Qin Guang needs the help of these people.

But many of the elders who were in high positions at the time only have a lifespan of 20 to 30 years at most, or 10 years at short.

He wants to increase the proportion of the first generation in the fleet population and let some sleepers return to their senior jobs, but even if these people are willing to sacrifice their lives in advance, they can only last until around 2930.

By that time, when the first generation is truly dead, it will be even harder to reverse the situation.

Therefore, although Qin Guang has begun to feel the pressure, he still restrains himself from easily awakening these first generation elders.

...

In the top-secret channel of the commander-in-chief, Qin Guang and Zhou Donglai, the master and apprentice, started a conversation again.

"Teacher, some people are beyond help. We cannot identify their way of communication, but my intuition tells me that they must be discussing something. I suspect that some people are trying to bypass the supervision of the intelligent system, hijack some ships, turn around and escape away from the Milky Way. I even suspect that some are preparing to activate the fleet constitution and start a full-scale change of the fleet command in advance."

After decades of growth, Zhou Donglai, as a leader among the second generation of humans, has gradually matured and is no longer easily showing his emotions.

Qin Guang nodded, "I know. Donglai, what do you think they are most likely to do?"

"Their plan is tantamount to rebellion, but they don't want to cause damage to the fleet. They are very conceited and always think they are the most correct. I think they will try to evolve peacefully and force you, teacher, to hand over power. Some of the coordinators of the Nuwa Project are working hard to study the fleet constitution. They are also preparing a new plan and even trying to convince the empire. The highest motivation of the expeditionary force is being shaken."

Qin Guang smiled, "I think this is what they want to achieve most. Give everyone the right to choose. Those who are willing to continue to go to Yinxin can continue to move forward. Those who want to turn around and leave can organize a fleet and leave. The fleet will be divided into two. But no matter what, there are still some people who believe in our original decision and will choose to go to Yinxin. This group of people must need a commander who can lead them."

"What do you mean, teacher?"

"You will fall asleep from now on."

"Sleeping?"

"Fake sleep. Your mind will remain active. At the same time, you will infiltrate the rebel group as the second generation of humans and become their leader."

"General Cage's son Ophiros has already gone ahead of me, and he is also very capable."

"He is not as good as you, so let him be your adjutant. You pretended to be asleep and secretly made alliances, which is already the biggest rebellion. You also set the motive of your rebellion as your doubts about my command ability and your dissatisfaction with losing my trust and respect. Others will believe you, go ahead. Organize the rebels as quickly as possible and with the strongest means."

"Okay, teacher, I understand."

At this point, Zhou Donglai finally understood why he had never been summoned in person since 2876, and only contacted privately through a top-secret channel. In a blink of an eye, nearly twenty years have passed.

It turned out that the teacher had always made arrangements.

At the same time, he couldn't help but feel sorry for the teacher.

The teacher is indeed a kind person, very generous and kind.

Unless it comes to this, he will never pick up the butcher knife easily.

There is no other way now.