The fleet engineers stopped manufacturing freezer containers and began to build large-scale intergalactic long-distance spaceships with ultra-long-distance stable navigation capabilities, ultra-large living spaces, and ultra-high-performance energy absorbers.

After absorbing the latest research results, these spaceships can theoretically maintain 500 times the speed of light for a million years, and during the flight, they can also allocate excess energy to continuously manufacture freezers.

Everyone can freely choose what they want to do and who they want to be. Everything in the fleet is in full swing and looks good, but the initiators of the reform, Cage and his son, are in distress.

"More and more people are signing up to leave, even too many. This has seriously affected the original plan of the fleet."

Solent Cage said worriedly at the dinner table.

Compared with other first-generation members who have raised their offspring, Solent Cage, who has been a synth since childhood and has never seen his parents, adopts a very rare full-accompaniment mode when raising his offspring.

When Ophiros was young, the family of three lived under the same roof.

In an encounter more than 30 years ago, Ophiros' mother, an S-class female fighter, unfortunately died, and since then only the father and son were left. After

Ophiros became an adult, the dormitories of the father and son were very close to each other. As long as they were not particularly busy, the father and son would usually have dinner together and communicate about some things, both work and life.

The relationship between the father and son was much stronger than that of an ordinary family.

"Father, I..."

Ophiroth lowered his head and spoke in a low voice.

At this time, the blond young man was no longer as high-spirited as when he launched the "coup". He only seemed to be full of worries and doubts.

The sudden turn of events made him fall into deep self-blame and suffer from inner torment.

Solent sighed and patted his son's shoulder.

"It's not your fault. I was willing to support you at first because there was no such large-scale ideological disagreement in the previous expeditionary Spark fleet. This made you, me, and everyone in the Free Will Alliance make a wrong judgment, thinking that our fleet would be the same." "

But facts have proved that we all failed to consider it. There was no disagreement in the Spark fleet because their scale was at most a few million people, and they had not reached the level of forming a complete social system. The second, third, and even more generations of descendants in the Spark fleet need to establish their personal will on the soil provided by the distant will of the Empire."

"The situation of the Nameless Fleet is different. Our scale is too large, and we have formed a complete social operation system. Moreover, we are different from other galaxy colonies in the Empire. We can only communicate with the Empire headquarters by regularly sending data packets to each other. This is the result of information isolation over the years, which has created a deep gap between us and the Empire." "

Although under the leadership of General Qin Guang, the fleet has tried every means to strengthen ideological education, but without the influence of society, no matter how gorgeous the language is, it is rootless and not as good as the countless details of daily life. We have unknowingly become a new civilization."

"Even if there was no Free Will Alliance led by you and Zhou Donglai, other rebels would still be born. This is a historical necessity and a choice of civilization. It cannot be stopped or violated. We have opened this Pandora's box, and things are out of control. Alas..."

Hearing this sigh, Ophiroth looked up at his father's face and felt that his father seemed to have aged by several decades in an instant.

In his memory, his father Solent Cage was an extremely strong man. Even though his mother died in the battle, he never sighed or shed a tear in front of anyone.

But now his father has become like this.

"Father..."

Solent Cage raised his hand, interrupted Ophiroth's sobs, and pinched his son's shoulder.

"Ophiros. In two days, I will step forward and serve as the first Supreme Executive of the Free Will Alliance. Then I will give a public speech. If the situation still cannot be changed, and this change causes irreparable damage to the fleet and leads to our failure to reach Silver Center smoothly, or a meaningless defeat, all the blame will be borne by me. I should be nailed to the pillar of shame in history, not you. I have let the Empire and the Sages down."

"You and Zhou Donglai are still young, and you still have a chance to prove yourself. You can escape if you can, or stay in the Silver Core area as guerrillas, and hold on as long as you can. I am old, and it is reasonable to say that I made the biggest mistake, and I deserve it."

The father and son talked a lot at the dinner table, and it seemed very in-depth, but in fact they still overlooked one point.

Ophiros is not a real civilian.

During his growth process, the people he deeply contacted, no matter which generation, can be regarded as outstanding, and their positions are basically from the middle level up, and there are few real bottom-level fleet people.

The information and depth of contact between the upper-middle class and the bottom-level civilians are different.

At first, Ophiro saw that most of the people around him were inclined to stay and join the war. Perhaps these people really intended to do so at the beginning, and they were very sincere, but they were only people at this level.

As for the lower-level second and third generation fleet people, no matter what they said, once the opportunity to choose was placed in front of them, these people with relatively limited education and relatively narrow information and knowledge would inevitably make a more selfish choice to evacuate.

When the upper and middle classes found that most of the lower-level people chose to evacuate, they would inevitably be affected and touched in their hearts, and change their minds. At the same time, they began to influence more and more people of the same class to have other ideas, and finally turned into the current out-of-control situation.

...

The chaos is still going on, and it is getting worse.

Anyone who signed up to join the Free Will Fleet, no matter what job they had before, all became engineers building spaceships.

The Nuwa Project has been seriously affected. In addition, the fleet's daily training, education, production and other fields have also stagnated, and scientific development has been completely shut down. Not to mention producing new results, even the data packets sent by the Empire have been "indigested."

Ophelos ran to Zhou Donglai to discuss, and the two decided to hold another high-level meeting of the Free Will Alliance.

At this meeting, Ophelos and Zhou Donglai jointly proposed that they hope to control the situation a little and try to keep more people. Unexpectedly, they were rejected on the spot.

Many people in the top leadership of Free Will have changed their minds.

The real chaos occurred six months later, when the first super-large interstellar long-distance ship was built.

Some people proposed to leave by ship in advance, changing the centralized evacuation to one ship after another is built. As for the order of boarding, it will be evaluated according to the contribution of the Free Will Alliance members from top to bottom.

Some people opposed the change of plan, arguing that every time a ship goes out now, there is an increase in the risk of exposing the fleet in advance.

Some people agreed, arguing that a super-large-scale encounter may break out within five years, and if they start leaving now, maybe more people can leave.

Others questioned the contribution evaluation system, thinking that they should leave first and questioned its fairness.

There are also people who hold some real power and can appropriately increase the contribution of some grassroots personnel.

A new class is born.

In the endless disputes, the operating system of the Free Will Alliance has quietly changed, and the highest level has become a parliamentary system.

...

No matter what, Cage and his son and Zhou Donglai still hold real power, and the three of them are firmly opposed to changing the plan.

It is unacceptable for more than 80% of the people to leave after five years, and it is absolutely unacceptable to start evacuating now.

But the situation changed again. One day, Zhou Donglai went to freeze again to extend his life, saying that he was not asleep before, but was frozen in a fake way.

Although Zhou Donglai entrusted his leadership voting rights to Ophiroth, making Ophiroth equivalent to a veto power, the father and son of Cage still felt a little alone in the parliament and could only barely hold on.

As the father and son of Cage used the veto power to block the way again and again, it finally caused great dissatisfaction inside and outside the parliament.

Three months later, Ophiroth was assassinated.

The murderer was a grassroots third-generation male fighter.

After killing Ophiroth, the fighter committed suicide and shouted the loud slogan "For Freedom" before he died.

This was not the first murder case in the fleet's two hundred years of existence, but the identity of the deceased was the highest in the fleet's history.

The ship's AI found out in a flash that the fighter's wife and three children were all senior members of the Free Will Alliance, and their contribution assessments had reached the standards of the first batch of shipboard personnel.

In the end, the fighter's wife and children were not implicated, but were acquitted.

The fighter's behavior was indeed personal.

Whether this person was motivated by selfishness or was really for the so-called lofty ideals, there was no need to pursue it.

The loss of his beloved son, coupled with years of mental stress and indescribable guilt, finally broke Sorento Cage's will. Admiral Cage's mental state became unstable, and the fleet's intelligence temporarily froze his power and classified him as a patient who needed psychological intervention.

However, there are now problems with the fleet's psychological counselors.

The first generation of psychological counselors have passed away one after another, and there are not many left now.

Most of the first generation who remain are in a frozen state, and their days are numbered.

The psychological counselors of the second and third generations of humans are already unstable factors, and they are even less capable of providing counseling intervention to high-level personnel like Solent. They can only use tranquilizers to calm Cage down a little.

Some people have raised the question of whether Solent Cage should be given forced freezing treatment, but a little evaluation shows that General Cage, with his confused thinking, is unable to train himself to have a complete intuitive personality, so freezing cannot be implemented.

The situation is far more than that. According to the previous charter of the Free Will Alliance, when Ophiroth dies, the leadership voting rights of Ophiroth and Zhou Donglai will automatically be exercised by Solent Cage, but now Cage himself is no longer able to do it.

These three core votes all became invalid votes.

If it was the preset management system within the Mastermind, this situation would never happen.

But the Free Will Alliance was originally a private operation that bypassed the Mastermind. It was still a very imperfect system, and no one could perform arbitration.

In the latest vote after the fall of General Cage, the proposal to dispatch the first interstellar long-distance ship in advance finally won a high vote without Land Rover, which had three leadership votes.

The first Freedom will officially set sail in seven days, which has become a set fact.

Just as millions of people were happily packing their bags, a stern electronic voice warning rang through everyone's smart assistant.

"The fleet's highest command team has lost its function and ceased operations. The situation within the fleet has seriously endangered the execution of the highest mission guidelines. Situation severity rating: Doomsday disaster level. The AI ​​preset crisis handling plan is activated and the doomsday suppression procedure is implemented."

"The suppression steps are as follows: compile a list of all personnel on the ship, conduct in-depth psychological tests and memory readings, and evaluate and score each member of the fleet. Those whose personal thoughts fail to meet the highest requirements of the fleet will be sentenced to death and executed immediately. Those who pass the test will resume their normal lives and receive regular evaluations."

"Warning, from now on, everyone must return to designated dormitories and designated work posts. In daily work and life, please strictly follow the activities in the green-marked belt areas. No one may gather at will, talk at will, spread rumors to incite people, or evade assessment tests. However, anyone who violates the order will be sentenced to death and executed immediately." "

The Doomsday Suppression Procedure will be terminated after the following three conditions are met. First, the number of combat personnel in the fleet drops below 30 million. Second, the average compatibility of all personnel exceeds 95%. Third, a new fleet leadership organizational structure with sufficient execution capabilities is selected."

In an instant, the tens of thousands of ships in the huge Nameless Fleet were silent.

No one thought that such a cruel emergency management system was engraved deep in the core of the fleet's intelligence brain, and it was triggered again. Everyone

knows their own business. All conspiracies and rhetoric are meaningless and cannot be hidden under the memory reading of the ruthless artificial intelligence.

At least more than the average person in the second generation cannot pass the test and will die.

The proportion of people who cannot pass the third generation is even higher, reaching more than 85%.

Some combatants ran madly towards their combat armor, but were vaporized on the spot by a ray gun that suddenly appeared in the passage while rushing.

Some people tried to control their armor to rush out of the ship, but their close companions who used to be able to control them did not obey at all. Instead, the life support system in the cabin was compressed on the spot, crushing the people inside into pieces, which were absorbed by the material recovery device and converted into basic material particles.

After millions of people died quickly, the remaining billions of people were temporarily obedient.

Next, there was a compatibility assessment test known as the "line-up shooting".

In order to avoid wrongful killings, the assessment test in the Doomsday Suppression Program is very comprehensive and contains a lot of content. The analysis and comparison of memory data is very strict. The assessment is very slow, and can only be completed for an average of three million people per day. And every time a person is decided to be executed, the enforcement standards will be made public within the fleet, and the "problems" of the subject's memory will be publicly displayed.

This speed does not seem to be a big problem. After all, the population size of the fleet when it set out was only 150 million, and it only took 50 days to complete. But now the total population of the fleet has reached 1.6 billion, and the assessment time has been extended to 534 days.

For the extremely intelligent space humans, the difference between 534 days and 50 days is too big, enough for some "smart people" to come up with a way to bypass the monitoring of the intelligent brain.

Two months later, a rebellious top warrior cooperated with the top pilot to quietly build a super armor that was completely uncontrolled by the intelligent brain under the nose of the intelligent brain core, and rushed into the intelligent brain control center of the large engineering ship, then destroyed the center and replaced it with a manually controlled ship at the fastest speed. This "coup" in the curvature space was pushed to the most extreme scene. The

most terrible enemy often comes from within.

Humans are too familiar with the structure of their own ships, and they know too well where the main intelligent brain core and the three backup cores are hidden.

Led by this top warrior, the catfish in this fleet kept approaching one ship after another without destroying the stability of the curvature flight, and quickly removed the intelligent hubs of these ships.

They called it "liberation".

When the flames of "liberation" were about to spread to the residential ship where Tang Yingqu lived, the freezer of Tong Ling, who was frozen and sleeping in the residential ship, passively activated the emergency state and began to automatically unfreeze.