In 2895, twenty-five years had passed since the Nuwa Project was launched.

The 25-year rapid reproduction program has paid off.

The population of the fleet has swelled to 800 million, of which 140 million are frozen and 660 million are awake.

Among the sober population, the third generation accounts for 530 million, of which 200 million are combatants, 210 million are ordinary engineers, and 120 million are academics.

Among the academic staff, there are as many as 60 million academic staff in disciplines related to the Nuwa Project.

But anyone whose intellectual development has even the slightest relationship with the disciplines related to the Nuwa Project, even if their most perfect talent lies elsewhere, has been chosen from birth and is destined to be thrown into the project, willingly or not.

This kind of compulsory employment choice is not in line with human nature, nor does it conform to the social rules of optimal allocation of resources.

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

The current human resources distribution system will continue to be implemented, at least until 2900, to form a huge academic team of 500 million people, and at least to train more than 100,000 cutting-edge scholars in various fields, in order to ensure the smooth birth of Tang Tianxin.

……

25-year-old Tang Yinghu stood by the covered bridge, her eyes glazed and her eyes blank.

She didn't have anything on her mind.

Ever since she was born, her eyes have been like this.

She couldn't focus, as if she was squinting at anything.

Her mind went blank.

Other people's thinking quantum storm is like a mountain roaring tsunami, but hers is like a frozen lake in winter.

There is only one exception.

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

In just five seconds, more than 900 other children who participated in the training at the same time as her were seriously injured and dying.

If it weren't for the children's training equipment, which has the highest level of medical security system and the strictest training security system, these children would have disappeared on the spot.

The instructor, who was wearing training armor at the time, was also helpless against her, and it was not until two S-class combatants arrived that the scene was brought under control in time.

Even if they survived, it took more than half a year or three months for the children to recover from the horror and re-enter the armor with trepidation.

Emerson said helplessly to Qin Guang: "This child is different from Instructor Tong after all. The child instructor starts as a human being, abandons the active personality little by little, gives everything to intuition, and eventually becomes a mindless person. This child has been a pure born heartless person since birth. Aside from her innate instincts to fight, her memories are incapable of storing any information. Her soul and personality are hidden in the shadow of her killing instincts. She's a pure killing machine, but she doesn't distinguish between friend and foe. ”

When Qin Guang heard this, he said bitterly: "I'm afraid she has disappointed us, can such a warrior appear on the battlefield?" Now she is wearing children's armor, and when she grows up and truly has the strength of a child instructor, and wears the strongest armor, who else can stop her from wreaking havoc? At that time, I am afraid that she can only be bombarded with naval guns, or let Instructor Tong share life and death with her. ”

Emerson: "Yes. ”

"Change Tang Yinghu's training plan, and from now on, she must not be allowed to come into contact with any lethal weapons again."

Emerson: "But she can't learn anything else." ”

"It doesn't matter, her mission is just to pass it on to future generations. Alas. In the final analysis, it is our problem, we should not bring great bloodlines into the fleet. It's just a pity for the name. In history, Tang Yinghu should have become an excellent general, but when it comes to us, alas, ......"

Qin Guang had some regrets after all, and felt guilty in his heart, but it didn't help.

Since then, Tang Yinghu has been ordered to prohibit driving armor again.

But she was unable to learn knowledge, and she became the idleest person in the entire fleet.

The only thing she can do when she wakes up every day is to stand by the bridge and look at the simulated starry sky in the distance of the fleet.

On weekdays, she has no friends with her, only a long period of loneliness.

The wonderful thing is that in the past 20 years, Tong Ling has woken up three times because of an emergency call to battle.

Every time Tong Ling woke up, her personality would become more indifferent, and she no longer communicated with anyone, but since she heard about Tang Yingque's existence, every time she woke up and completed the combat mission, she would come to Tang Yingque's room to linger for two or three days.

The two did not talk to each other, either looking at the "starry sky" side by side, or sitting and looking at each other, each silent.

It doesn't hurt that Emerson called this phenomenon the resonance of the mindless.

……

"Teacher, things have changed. Some disgruntled people began to gather to discuss. ”

In the top-secret communication channel, Zhou Donglai said softly.

Qin Guang nodded, "I know." ”

Zhou Donglai's tone was slightly resentful: "Everyone has a lot of dissatisfaction. In addition to questioning the expedition plan, there are also many people who are dissatisfied with the Nuwa plan. Some of the academic staff involved in the female foreign program began to forcibly apply for access to unrelated disciplines, or to apply for a job as a soldier and worker. ”

"These third generations don't understand anything at all! They lack the spirit of sacrifice. They selfishly pursue self-satisfaction, but they forget what has sustained humanity to this day. If it had been before, someone in the army dared to chew the root of their tongue like this, and they would have been restrained a long time ago. Now they are getting more and more bold, relying on the law and not holding the people accountable. ”

The more Zhou Donglai talked, the more angry he became.

Qin Guang smiled, "Calm down, you are my successor, you have to learn the city government, you have to learn to think from other people's perspectives." Dr. Emerson has already said that although the brain structure of the third generation of humans is exactly the same as ours, their mental quantum spiral has undergone some changes, and it has become more untraceable and unpredictable than the stability of those of us who were born near the Milky Way. ”

"This has helped them a lot in their scientific creativity, but it has also inevitably made their emotions more unpredictable and unpredictable. We need the strength of the third generation, and naturally we have to face the drawbacks that come with it. In fact, fighting side by side is the best way to bridge differences, and those who can walk on the battlefield once and survive can truly appreciate how deep our enemies' hostility is towards us. ”

"Only then can we clearly realize how strong the enemy is, so that we can't breathe. It's just that we are on a secret mission, we have to hide the size of our troops, we can only send elite small-scale contacts every time, and we even have to leave our comrades behind again and again. We endure, hibernate, and move forward, all for the ultimate destination. ”

"The ignorance of the third generation is not their fault, after all, people are social creatures, and the information transmitted by society can determine a person's thinking to a considerable extent. Perhaps some people now mistakenly think that the history we portray is a fabricated lie. But as long as you can reach the silver heart, all these difficulties and obstacles will disappear. ”

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

"I'll make arrangements."

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

"Starting tomorrow, I will implement a first-class military control strategy within the fleet, appropriately punish some of the second and third generations who spread demagoguery, and enforce a zoning management policy."

As soon as he finished speaking, Cage, the deputy commander-in-chief, raised his hand.

"General Cage, please."

"In the original plan, we would have arrived at the Silver Heart between 2980 and 2985, and around 2970 we would have the discretion to decide whether or not to open Level 1 control. And it will be our young heirs, not us, who will exercise the right to decide. Although the situation has changed now, and there is indeed some gossip, I don't think the situation is so serious, right? There is a saying in ancient Chinese civilization that the mouth of the people is more important than the defense of Sichuan, should the successors be given more freedom? Restricting freedom will inevitably limit creativity, which will deprive the heirs of their souls and dull the swords of the fleet. ”

Qin Guang was stunned, but he didn't expect Cage to object.

Extremely rarely, there was a difference of opinion among the highest command of the fleet.

After a short discussion, although Qin Guang could still ask for enforcement, he changed his mind a little out of respect for Cage, and decided to only enforce second-level military control, leaving a little privacy space for the fleet members, and did not directly pursue responsibility, but only appropriately strengthened ideological education.

Education seems to have worked, with secondary controls more or less changing the atmosphere and tighter work arrangements duly suppressing opportunities for second and third generations to be cranky.

However, there are policies and countermeasures, and it seems that the more they are suppressed, the more these people will be able to find a way.

A new language was quietly born.

This language does not produce sounds, but is conveyed through a series of actions or patterns of the placement of objects.

It's expected to be a language, but it's a huge set of cryptographic signals.

The language was invented by a senior researcher who was deeply involved in the core phase of the Nuwa Project, who was brilliant and took into account the differences in thinking patterns between the first, second and third generations of human beings.

The first generation of human beings looked at the ordinary small movements, such as the frequency of walking, the direction of the soles of the feet, the swing of the arms, the bending of the fingers, etc., in the eyes of the third generation, which has a stronger mental variability, contains a lot of information.

The way of communication has shifted from the open to the "underground", and sometimes people at several tables apart in the cafeteria have a meal together, and a lot of inquiries are quietly exchanged.

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

Intelligent monitoring can only draw ambiguous conclusions through a large number of analyses, suspecting that there is something in it, but the evidence is not conclusive enough to be determined, let alone read.

Information is like an undercurrent, quietly surging.

Qin Guang was vaguely aware, but quietly let it go.

There was another unavoidable question before him.

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

The elderly, who were already over 100 years old when they first boarded the ship, should have come to the end of their lives in the nearly 200 years of voyages.

The advent of cryonics has changed the situation a little, so that some mortal people can still live in freezers, waiting for their light and heat to be vented in the most brilliant way at the most opportune time.

However, the atmosphere in the fleet has changed.

Qin Guang needed the help of these people.

However, many of the elderly in high positions at the time had only 20 or 30 years of life expectancy left at the longest, and as short as 10 years.

He wanted to increase the proportion of the first generation in the fleet's population and return some of the sleepers to their high-ranking jobs, but even if they were willing to give their lives early, they would only last until around 2930.

At that time, when the first generation is really completely dead, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to recover if there is another problem.

Therefore, although Qin Guang had begun to perceive the pressure, he still restrained himself from easily waking up these first-generation older generations.

……

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

"Teacher, some people are beyond cure. We couldn't recognise how they communicated, but my gut told me they were definitely talking about something. I suspect that some people are trying to circumvent the supervision of intelligent systems, hijacking some ships to turn around and escape away from the galaxy. I even suspect that there are still people who are ready to activate the constitution of the fleet, and start the full change of command of the fleet in advance. ”

After decades of growth, Zhou Donglai, who is the leader of the second generation of human beings, has gradually matured, but he is no longer easily happy and angry.

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

"Their plans are treacherous, but they don't want to cause damage to the fleet. They are very conceited and always think that they are the most right. 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, and they are also preparing a completely new plan, and even trying to convince the Empire. The highest motives of the expeditionary force are being shaken. ”

Qin Guang smiled, "I think the effect they want to achieve the most is like this. Give everyone the right to choose, and if you are willing to continue to go to the silver heart, you will continue to move forward. If you want to turn around and leave, organize a fleet and leave. The fleet will be split in two. Regardless, there are still some people who believe in our original decision to go to the Silver Heart, and there is a need for a commander who can lead them. ”

"What do you mean, teacher?"

"From now on, you go into a deep sleep."

"Sleeping?"

"False slumber. Your mind will remain active, and at the same time, you will break into the rebel group as a second-generation human and become their leader. ”

"General Cage's son, Ophoros, is already one step ahead of me, and he is also very capable."

"He is inferior to you, let him be your lieutenant. You pretend to be asleep, and secretly join forces, which is already the greatest rebellion. You set your rebellious motives as being suspicious of my command and resentful of the loss of my trust and respect. Others will believe you, go for it. Use the fastest speed and the most powerful means to organize the rebels. ”

"Okay teacher, I see."

At this time, Zhou Donglai finally understood why he had not been summoned in person since 2876, and only contacted privately through the top-secret channel, and nearly twenty years had passed in the blink of an eye.

It turned out that the teacher had always made arrangements.

At the same time, he had to feel sorry for his teacher.

The teacher was indeed a kind person, very generous and benevolent.

If you don't go this far, you will never pick up the butcher knife easily.

Now there's no way around it.