Fleet engineers stopped building reefer containers and began to build large-scale transgalactic spacecraft with ultra-long-range stable navigation capabilities, large living space, and ultra-high-performance energy absorbers.

After absorbing the latest research results, these spacecraft can theoretically maintain the speed of light at 500 times the speed of light for millions of years, and can also divert excess energy to continuously create cold warehouses during flight.

Everyone is free to choose what they want to do, who they want to be, everything in the fleet is in full swing, in full swing, and it seems that the situation is very good, but the instigators of the reforms, the Cage father and son, are in trouble.

"There are more and more people signing up to leave, even too many. This has already seriously affected the original plans of the fleet. ”

At the dinner table, Sorent Cage said worriedly.

Compared with other first-generation members who raised offspring, Sorent Cage, who has been a synth since he was a child and has never seen his parents, adopts a very rare mode of full companionship when raising offspring.

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

In an encounter more than thirty years ago, Ophoros's mother, an S-Class female combatant, was tragically killed, leaving only father and son.

As an adult, the fathers and sons lived in close proximity to each other, and as long as they weren't particularly busy, they would usually get together for dinner and exchange things about work and life.

The relationship between father and son is much stronger than that of ordinary families.

"Father, I ......"

Ophoros lowered his head and said in a low tone.

At this time, the blonde young man no longer had the vigor he had when he first launched the "coup", but seemed full of worries and doubts.

The situation that has taken a turn for the worse has left him in deep self-reproach and tormented in his heart.

Solent sighed and patted her son on the shoulder.

"It's not your fault. I was willing to support you at first because there had not been such a large-scale ideological divide in the previous expeditionary Tinder fleet. This has led me and you, and everyone in the entire Coalition of Free Will, to misjudge that our fleet will be the same. ”

"But it turned out that we were all underwhelmed. There was no disagreement in the Tinder fleet because they were numbered in millions at best, and they did not reach the point where they formed a complete social system. The second, third, and more generations of the Tinder fleet will need to build their personal will on the soil provided by the will of the distant Empire. ”

"The situation with the Nameless Fleet is different. Our scale is too large, and we have formed a complete system of social operation. Also, unlike the other colonies in the Empire, we can only communicate with the Empire headquarters through regular data packets, which has been a long-term information isolation that has created too much of a 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 duckweed, which is not as good as the countless details of daily life. We have unwittingly become a new civilization. ”

"Even without the freewill alliance led by you and Zhou Donglai, other rebels would have been born. This is the inevitability of history and the choice of civilization, which is unstoppable and cannot be disobeyed. We opened the box, and things were out of control. Alas......"

Hearing this sigh, Ophoros looked up at his father's face, and felt as if his father had aged dozens of years in an instant.

In his memory, his father Sorent Cage was an extremely strong man, even if his mother died in battle, he never sighed and did not shed a single tear in front of anyone.

But now my father has become like this.

"Father's ......"

Sall Cage raised his hand, interrupted Ophoros's choke, and squeezed his son's shoulder.

"Ophoros. In two days' time, I will stand up as the first Supreme Consul of the League of Free Will, and then I will try to speak publicly. If we still can't change the situation, because this change has caused irreparable damage to the fleet, and caused us to fail to reach the Silver Heart, or because of the meaningless defeat, all the blame will be borne by me. I should have been 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 again. When the time comes, you can run away, stay in the Silver Heart area and be a guerrilla, and you can hold out for as long as you can. I'm old, and I deserve to say that I have committed the biggest foolishness. ”

At the dinner table, the father and son talked a lot, which seemed to be very in-depth, but in fact, they still ignored one point.

Ophoros is not really a commoner.

In the process of his growth, the people he came into contact with, no matter what generation he was in, could be regarded as the best, and his positions were basically in the middle and upper, and there were few real people in the bottom fleet.

The level and depth of information that people in the middle and upper classes have in contact with the civilians at the bottom are different.

Ophoros initially saw that most of the people around him were inclined to stay and fight, maybe these people really intended to do so at first, very sincerely, but only at this level.

As for the people of the second and third generation of the fleet at the lower level, no matter what these people say, once the opportunity to choose is in front of them, these people with relatively limited education and relatively narrow access to information and knowledge will inevitably make a more self-interested choice - evacuation.

When the upper middle class found that most of the people at the bottom chose to evacuate, they were inevitably affected and touched in their hearts, and changed their minds, and at the same time began to influence more and more people of the same class to have other thoughts, and finally became the current situation out of control.

……

The chaos continues, and it is getting worse.

But everyone who signed up to join the ships of the Free Will Column, regardless of what kind of work they had done before, all ran to become engineers who built spaceships.

The Nuwa project has been seriously affected, in addition, the daily training, education, production and other fields in the fleet have also stagnated, and the development of science has been completely closed, not to mention coming up with new results, and even absorbing the data packets sent by the empire has "indigestion".

Ophoros went to Zhou Dong to discuss, and the two decided to convene a high-level meeting of the Free Will Alliance again.

At this meeting, Ophoros and Zhou Donglai jointly proposed to control the scene a little and try to see if they could leave more people, but they didn't think about it, but they were refuted on the spot.

Many people in the top leadership of Liberty have also changed their minds.

The real chaos came half a year later, when the first super-large interstellar ship was built.

Some people have proposed to leave by boat in advance, and the centralized evacuation will be changed to build and leave one ship, and the order of boarding is evaluated according to the contribution of the members of the Free Will Coalition from top to bottom.

There was opposition to changing the plan, on the grounds that every time one ship goes out now, there is one more point of exposure to the risk of the fleet in advance.

Some people are in favor of it, on the grounds that it may take less than five years for a super-large-scale encounter to break out, and if you start now, maybe you can get rid of more people.

There are also people who question the contribution evaluation system, believing that they should go first, and questioning its fairness.

There are also people who hold some real power in their hands, and they can appropriately increase the contribution of some grassroots personnel.

A new class was born.

In the midst of endless controversy, the system of operation of the coalition of free will quietly changed, and the top level became parliamentary.

……

In any case, Cage and Zhou Donglai still hold real power, and all three are firmly opposed to changing the plan.

It is no longer acceptable to leave more than 80 per cent of the population after five years, and it is absolutely not permissible to start evacuating them now.

But the situation reappeared, and one day, Zhou Donglai really went to freeze again to prolong his life on the grounds that he was not asleep before, but fake freezing.

Although Zhou Donglai entrusted his leadership voting power to Ophoros, so that Ophoros and others had the right to veto, Cage and his son were still a little lonely when they participated in the parliament, and they could only barely support it.

As the Cage father and son used their veto power to get in the way again and again, it finally caused huge discontent inside and outside the parliament.

Three months later, Ophoros was assassinated.

The perpetrator was a third-generation male combatant at the grassroots level.

After killing Ophoros, the combatant committed suicide and shouted the resounding slogan "For Freedom" before dying.

This is not the first homicide in the two hundred years since the fleet set out, but the identity of the deceased is the highest in the fleet's history.

It only took a moment for the ship's intelligence brain to find out that the combatant's wife and three children were all veteran members of the Free Will Alliance, and their contribution evaluation had reached the standard of the first batch of shipboard personnel.

In the end, the combatant's wife and children were acquitted without sitting together.

Indeed, the combatant acted personally.

Whether this person is for selfishness or really for the so-called lofty ideals, there is no need to investigate.

The loss of his beloved son, coupled with years of mental pressure and indescribable guilt, finally broke Sorient Cage's will, and General Cage's mental state became unstable, and he was temporarily frozen by the fleet's brain, and was classified as a patient who needed psychological intervention.

However, now there are also problems with the position of psychological counselor in the fleet.

The first generation of counsellors of the older generation has passed away one after another, and there are not many left.

Most of the surviving first generations are in a frozen state, and their days are numbered.

The psychological counselors of the second and third generations of human beings are already unstable, and they are unable to take on the heavy responsibility of counseling and intervening high-level personnel like Solent, so they can only use tranquilizers to calm Cage a little.

Someone raised the question of whether Solent Cage should be given the treatment of forced freezing, but a little evaluation revealed that the confused General Cage was no longer able to train himself to develop a complete intuitive personality, and the freezing could not be implemented.

According to the previous constitution of the Free Will Alliance, when Ophoros died, the voting rights of the leadership of Ophoros and Zhou Donglai would be automatically carried out by Sorent Cage, and now Cage himself can't do it.

These three core voting rights were all invalidated.

If it is a pre-built management system inside the main brain, this situation will never occur.

But the Coalition of Free Will is a private operation to circumvent the mastermind, and it is still a very unsound system, and no one can enforce arbitration.

In the latest vote after the fall of General Cage, the proposal for the first interstellar ship to be allocated in advance finally passed by a large number of votes.

The fact that the first Liberty would set sail seven days later was a foregone conclusion.

As millions of people happily packed their bags, a stern electronic sound warning rang through everyone's smart assistant.

"The Supreme Command Team of the Fleet has lost its function and has ceased to function. The internal situation in the fleet has seriously jeopardized the implementation of the highest program. Situation severity rating: Doomsday Catastrophic. The preset crisis management plan of Zhinao was launched, and the doomsday suppression procedure was implemented. ”

"The crackdown was carried out in the following steps: the entire ship's personnel list was counted, a deep psychological test and memory reading were conducted, and each member of the fleet was evaluated and scored. Those who fail to conform their personal thoughts to the highest program of the fleet shall be sentenced to death and immediately executed. Those who pass will return to normal life and will be assessed regularly. ”

"Warning, from now on, everyone must return to the designated dormitory and the designated work. In your daily work and life, please strictly follow the activities marked as green. No one is allowed to gather at will, talk at will, spread rumors to incite people, and must not evade evaluation tests. However, if the order is violated, the death penalty shall be carried out immediately. ”

"The Doomsday Repression process will be terminated after the following three conditions have been met. First, the number of combat personnel in the fleet fell below 30 million. Second, the average fit of all personnel is more than 95%. Third, the organizational structure of the fleet leadership with sufficient executive capacity should be re-selected. ”

In an instant, there was silence among the tens of thousands of ships of the huge nameless fleet.

No one thought that such an extremely cruel emergency management system would be engraved in the core of the fleet's brain that controlled everything, and it would be triggered again.

I know that all intrigues and rhetoric are meaningless and meaningless under the memory reading of the ruthless artificial intelligence.

In the second generation, at least more than the average person could not pass, and they would definitely die.

In the third generation, more than 85% of them could not pass.

Some combatants rushed to their battle armor, but on the way they were evaporated on the spot by a ray gun that suddenly poked out of the passage.

Others tried to maneuver their armor out of the ship, but their former close companions did not obey the call, and the life support system in the cockpit was pressed on the spot, crushing the people inside to shreds, which were absorbed by the material recovery device and converted into basic particles.

After the rapid death of millions, the remaining billions of people were briefly honest.

This was followed by the fit-to-match assessment test, known as "shooting in line".

In order to avoid wrongful killings, the evaluation test in the Doomsday Suppression program is very comprehensive, the content is varied, and the analysis and comparison of memory data is very rigorous, the evaluation is very slow, only 3 million people can be completed on average, and every time a person is decided to be executed, the law enforcement standards will be made public within the fleet, and the "problem" 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 at the time of departure was only 150 million people, which adds up to 50 days, but now the total population of the fleet is as high as 1.6 billion, and the assessment time has been extended to 534 days.

For ultra-high-IQ space humans, the difference between 534 days and 50 days is too big, big enough for some "smart people" to think of a way to bypass the monitoring of the brain.

Two months later, a rebellious pinnacle warrior cooperated with a top pilot to quietly build a super armor that was completely uncontrolled by the brain under the nose of the brain core, and pounced on the brain control center of the large engineering ship, and then destroyed the center and replaced it with a manually controlled ship as quickly as possible, this "coup" that happened in the curvature space was pushed to the most extreme scenario.

The most terrible enemies often come from within.

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

Led by this pinnacle warrior, the catfish in this fleet kept getting closer to one ship after another without disrupting the stability of the curvature flight, quickly uprooting the intelligence centers of these ships.

They call it "liberation".

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