"So Mr. Williams, if I take a cell from your body and make a clone, and then copy all the information in your brain into the clone's mind through code, and then kill you, in this case, would you think that the clone with the same consciousness, emotion, and memory as you is yourself?"

At the round table with a holographic projection table, Richard Williams gambled on a speechless peace with such a simple example, ignoring his slightly raised eyebrows due to mood swings, and continued with a resolute attitude: "So, in the case that I can never return to the place where I was born and raised, Dior, the last family and best friend I am willing to defend and protect with my life." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Therefore, I will not ask for any benefit obtained by betraying my friends. It is absolutely impossible for me to give him to you as an experimental material and research sample for dismantling and analysis. So, now that I've made it so clear, shouldn't you, Mr. Williams, take your leave? ”

"Hahahaha, interesting, so interesting!" Putting aside Ping'an's attitude towards Dior, just talking about the eviction order she has now makes Richard feel fresh.

"I've been to so many places and dealt with so many people on this ship since I was a child, but you, the Peacekeeper, were the first to try to completely kick me out of your reach."

"Really? But I can't help it, I can't be calm enough to be kind to you in the face of an executioner who is trying to hurt my family and friends. So, I'll go back to my room first, Mr. Williams, and I'll go slowly. ”

After saying all that had to be said, he thought that the matter was safe, and then he got up from the round table and walked to the elevator not far away. However, if she thinks that after this incident she can completely dissociate herself from Richard Williams and never have any entanglements again, then she is really very wrong.

Eight hours of dreamless nights passed, and Ping An, who woke up on time under the control of the biological clock, ushered in the moment of going to the Institute of Alien Biology at eight o'clock in the morning to check on the adventitious worm that had died of illness.

On weekdays, in order to prevent the microscopic tissue components of adventitious insects, which are highly toxic to humans, from being taken out of the Extraterrestrial Biology Research Institute, all personnel entering and leaving the research institute must complete the donning and taking off of special protective clothing in the locker room.

Now, when the adventitious worm they are going to see is infected with the lymph node hemorrhagic fever virus, which is a BSL-4 organism like the Ebola virus, the wearing of protective clothing requires them to be careful and careful.

The researchers were silently and busily in and out of the research institute, and together with their companions, they passed through the isolation doors one after another, and came to the safe place in the sample storage room, facing a huge square glass tank.

In the glass jar filled with a clear liquid, the adventitious worm suspended in the center of the liquid, just as she had heard the rumors at the beginning, was covered with large, apparently festering, yellow-red blisters on the surface of the outer cell.

"Because of his serious illness, he was unable to release high-voltage electrical energy to attack the humanoid mecha, and the tentacles that had destroyed the protein structure by the virus also launched a physical attack and directly melted and exploded the moment they hit the mecha shell. Aside from the fact that the strong acid ejected from the tentacle head contains a large amount of virus, and the remnants of the broken tentacles also contain a large amount of virus, this adventitious worm is no different from other ordinary adventitious worms. ”

As the docent of the visitors, Heinz Izuki, who was also dressed in a protective suit, was explaining the information that the mothership escort team had learned when they fought against the adventitious insect before its death, as well as the results of research in the recent period.

"From the time of infection to the onset of illness and death, it takes about seven days. Because if the lymph node hemorrhagic fever virus is made into a biological weapon and the adventitious worm is dropped, its killing time is too long to compare with the real body penetration bomb, so at present, this adventitious worm that died of disease is not enough to rewrite the history of the war between humans and adventitious worms. Of course, our research will not stop, so if we find other discoveries from it in the future, we will actively use it. ”

After completing the knowledge of the enemy and knowing their opponents, the fifteen manipulators who left the Alien Biology Research Institute returned to the training ground of the Eagle Commandos, and walked into the circular lecture hall of the training ground in the afternoon to participate in the regular strategic meetings chaired by Captain Richter.

The interior environment is cylindrical, and the seats are like the grandstand of the Colosseum, which is arranged in a stepped shape and in a circular downward arrangement.

"You here don't need me to say, I believe all of you know that in the year when the Hope traveled for 400 years, except for the loss of friendly forces on the first coordinate point, the human interstellar alliance was able to successfully complete the rendezvous of all the spaceships on the second to eighth coordinate points."

"At the beginning of the meeting and completion, while the Hope was still in the process of renovating the hull, there was an issue on the agenda of discussion about the future of all mankind, that is, when the Hope completed the hull transformation and had a strong three-dimensional coordinate jumping ability, should we jump immediately, or should we continue to maintain inertial navigation and continue to find other companions on the way."

"If, when we left the solar system, the friendly forces we lost were not located at the first coordinate point but at other coordinate points, then this problem is completely difficult for us, because we can confirm that we have completed the friendly rendezvous with the first coordinate point on this route, and there are no other companions to look for."

"But now it's a different story. When the space jump was completed, the nine spaceships on the first coordinate point, except for two that were confirmed to be destroyed, all of the other seven jumped away without contact. Today, we have confirmed the survival of three of the seven spacecraft, and the remaining four are still not heard from. ”