Three more days passed in the blink of an eye.

In the first conference room of the base, Yang Guoding, the general manager, was sitting in the same office with dozens of ministers and team leaders.

This is a meeting.

The value of the conference goes without saying, but it's been nearly three years since the trip and all the senior executives have come together instead of a face-to-face meeting in a quantum network, for the first time.

Ordinary meetings, supported by latency-free internal quantum networks, can be solved online.

No one leaves their desk, which is both a meeting purpose and a time saver.

This meeting was both very important and involved in the most important task of the task, and at the same time there was another reason, the biological activity of the embryo has completely stopped.

To put it simply, the embryo is dead.

The mission has failed, everyone is idle, and there is nothing left to do in the short term.

At this time, the atmosphere in the conference room was extremely dull.

No one wants to be the first to speak up.

Even if the failure has clearly happened, people will inevitably have illusions, fantasies about miracles, fantasies about where the monitoring equipment is wrong, or where the data is not accurate enough, and come to the wrong judgment.

Even many people have dreamed that the embryo suddenly moves again.

But dreams are just dreams after all, and they have not become reality.

Yang Guoding looked around for a moment, and saw that no one had ever stood up to speak, and it was not good after all.

He tapped lightly on the table, organized the language, and said in a calm tone: "Things have happened, and we have to face reality after all. So far all our plans have been implemented, and we have done everything we can, but we have not been able to prevent the embryos from dying. Yes, let's stop kidding ourselves, the embryo is indeed dead. ”

"Of course, we are not convening this meeting now to hold accountable, let alone to conclude after the fact. It's not over yet, it's not time to wrap up. Before us, no one has ever participated in real physical light speed flight alive, and never before have so many people carried out scientific experiments operating equipment with a limit close to the speed of light. No one knows what will happen next. Miracles may or may not happen. Therefore, we must not only face the current failure, but also sum up the next countermeasures. Is it to go? Is it to stay? Who goes? How to go? Who stays? It's all a problem. ”

"This issue didn't exist in the first place, after all, according to our original plan, only a few thousand people would remain on the base. But now the situation has changed, and there are still 370,000 people in the base, and each of them is a top talent in various fields. The sages are the wealth of mankind, but these talents are also the wealth of mankind. I am responsible not only to the sages, but also to humanity, and we must find a balance between giving and preserving wealth, and that is the purpose of this meeting. ”

Yang Guoding's words finally played a role in throwing bricks and jade.

The leader of the navigation team in charge of flight control, the commander of the eighteen Worm III spacecraft, stood up and spoke: "According to the data reference provided by the external observation team, the corpse planet and the research institute base have been physically stretched by 763,215.77 times, so we can't suddenly open the complete curvature bubble, so that the human body will be torn apart like a broken spring under the huge elastic impact, and will be broken into elementary particles. ”

"We are now flying at 281,200 kilometers per second, and if we continue to accelerate, we are still more than a month away from reaching the speed of light. Gradually turning on the large curvature bubble and slowly increasing the output power according to the Barov curve, allowing the ship and the planet to gradually slow down, we have a chance to live, but it also announces the end of our mission completely. In addition, after three days, when our flight speed reaches 282,300 kilometers per second, the window for the planet to slow down as a whole will close. The tipping point at which the human body can theoretically withstand is to decelerate from 282,300 kilometers per second, which is the limit. ”

After the flight commander sat down, the leader of the escape equipment management team stood up and answered: "Due to the hundredfold increase in the number of personnel remaining in the base, the number of escape boats in the previous design is not enough. Therefore, after departure, the escape team has briefly opened the low-power dark energy absorption energy compartment, and used the extra energy to build a small escape boat in an orderly manner. ”

"Last month, we just completed the construction of 3,800 small escape boats that could be used by 380,000 people. At the time of our departure, the original escape boat was designed to achieve the performance of moving in parallel, then detaching from the same orbit, and finally decelerating slowly at speeds of more than 280,000 kilometers per second. Under such flight conditions, the original theoretical survival rate of the crew of the escape boat is about 40%. ”

"But in the last three years, we've had a lot of support from outside research units, and now we can maintain a theoretical survival rate of around 60 percent after speeds above 295,000 kilometers per second. So, if we want to withdraw, there is still a chance. ”

After the two men finished speaking, the other leaders of the many core groups who were really related to the resurrection plan were silent, and no one spoke.

The content they are responsible for is to resurrect the sages, and now they have basically failed, and all the methods have been exhausted, although the new plan continues to be released, and they are all used in the first time, but since there is no news coming in at this time, it means that there is no effect over there, and if the real dead horse is treated as a live horse.

After another three minutes of silence, the team leader in charge of the administrative and logistical management of the institute finally stood up, rubbed his eyes, and said sadly: "Let me first say something that everyone doesn't like to hear. I think that since the mission has basically failed, some people should be allowed to choose to start evacuating in small escape boats. When the number of applicants reaches 100, an escape boat will be sent away. ”

"Now we haven't reached a speed of 290,000 kilometers per second, and the survival rate of the escape boat is still very high, more than 95%. So, now is the time to start giving the rest of the base their own choice, and arrange it as soon as possible. Of course, I personally chose to stay and stay until the end. After all, I signed up at the beginning, and I know that there are a lot of people who will stay until the end, and I will always do the logistics for everyone until ......"

Yang Guoding coughed lightly and interrupted the words of the administrative team leader.

Yang Guoding shook his head and said, "I don't agree to choose independently, then no one will sign up." It should be ordered directly by us to order some of the people to leave. As for who stays and who leaves, I've actually compiled a list before. The original batch of 6,320 people who were scheduled to remain in the institute are now 5,943 people, all of whom remain. ”

"In addition, I have selected 18,300 people who are of the highest skill level, in the best physical condition, and who may be able to last longer at the limit. This part of the people was ordered to stay. Everyone else must leave, whether they accept it or not. This is an order, there is no room for negotiation. ”

"We have made a lot of efforts and sacrifices, and the more than 24,000 people who have stayed behind will live up to the expectations of those who have left. We will do everything possible to complete the unfinished business of everyone. ”

"The person who leaves is not selfish, let alone greedy for life and afraid of death, will not be ridiculed, and there is no need to blame himself. Whether it's for themselves, or for the sake of the empire as a whole, these people deserve to live. ”

Yang Guoding gave the meeting a final word.

Before the end of the meeting, Yang Guoding gave a special instruction to the head of the administrative group: "You add such a sentence to the order. We understand the sacrifice and dedication of all of you. But for now, it seems that the chance of reviving the sage may only be one in a trillion. ”

"We cannot allow all the wealth of mankind to be sacrificed in vain, it is not heroic, it is not honorable, it is even shameful. For the sake of the long-term future of civilization as a whole, the evacuees continue to live after a brief retreat, perhaps greater than those of us who have died. Finally, you must emphasize to everyone that this is an order and must be carried out unconditionally. ”

Ten minutes later.

Yang Guoding's personal wisdom assistant said in an electronic voice.

"Director Yang, Lin La, Senior Research Institute of the Nutrition Group, applied for a meeting. She's outside your door. ”

Yang Guo fixed his head and didn't reply, "I don't see." ”

He knew what Linla was about.

Lin La's academic level is very high, but her physical condition is not up to par, so she is not on the list of left-behind personnel drawn up by Yang Guoding.