When there is no expectation in her heart, Tong Ling has no knowledge of aging, and she doesn't care at all.

She didn't know when or where she would die.

But she knows that the fate of a warrior is to die on the battlefield.

Now she's changed.

She sees it as greed, and that greed is hard to satisfy.

She can only hide her delusions deep in her heart.

In 2805, when Tong Ling participated in a meeting at the highest level of the fleet as the chief instructor of the unknown fleet, the situation changed.

"Three days ago, we received a bundle of the latest scientific research results from Imperial Command. We've received this modpack several times a year in the past, but this one was a bit special and important to us. ”

Qin Guang, who was sitting on the hosting stage, tried his best to restrain himself, trying to tell the truth in a calmer tone.

But people still heard something different in his slightly trembling tone.

Something big is wrong.

"The name of this new technology is cryonics."

Sure enough, as soon as Qin Guang's words came out, the audience was in an uproar.

In previous expeditionary plans, the final combat order was planned like this.

The members of the command sequence led by Qin Guang and the members of the battle sequence led by Tong Ling could not live to the day they arrived at their destination.

So when the real final battle breaks out, the main combat power on the ship will be multiplied for at least one generation.

What kind of results can be achieved in the end will first depend on how much scientific and technological breakthroughs mankind can make in the nearly 300 years of voyages, and how many results can be transformed with the existing resources of the Nameless Fleet.

Second, it also depends on how many excellent successors the existing 150 million people in the fleet can cultivate, and how many excellent commanders and combatants the fleet can accumulate in these nearly 300 years of voyages.

It was an expedition destined to span at least two generations.

Before Tong Ling exploded her potential, there was no big problem with this plan.

After all, the population base in the fleet is not small, and those who board the fleet are the elite of the elite, and the genetic potential is huge.

Every time an S-Class combatant falls over time, there is always a new S-Class to step up.

But since Tong Ling exploded her potential, problems have arisen.

Even after more than eighty years, only a few peak warriors have been cultivated within the fleet, and the gap between these peak warriors and Tong Ling in actual combat is still visible to the naked eye.

This means that even if another two hundred years have passed, the cutting-edge combat power represented by Tong Ling may not be able to make up for it.

It also means that human beings cannot save the strongest individual combat power for the Armageddon, which is a huge pity.

In addition, over the years, several top scientific talents have emerged in the fleet, and these people have shown equally difficult to replicate talents in different fields. Even if the fleet is unable to transmit information to the outside world in real time, making it more difficult for these scientific geniuses to obtain information, they can still keep up with external progress in most fields? And help the fleet to digest the high-precision scientific and technological achievements shared by the outside in the shortest possible time.

Unfortunately, due to the general overuse of the brain by scientific researchers, the life span is short, and it is difficult for these early geniuses to live to two hundred years later. Or even wait for a few hundred years? Can the fleet have scientists of the same level? It remains to be seen whether it will be able to keep up with the technological progress of the empire as a whole.

It's always heart-wrenching.

"Here's the situation. About sixty years ago? The Empire conducted a scientific experiment on a very large scale. In this experiment, scientists conducted in-depth research on human genes, terrestrial genes, HeLa cell genes, primitive genes, hypothetical tardigrades, osthosmanian stacked memory, and personality sealing technology. ”

"Now, after decades of calculations and repeated arguments? And then a lot of experiments were done. Scientists have finally found a way to seal the personality away. Of course? The technology is still in the theoretical stage. The success rate of the 360,000-person volunteer trial is still zero. ”

Hiss......

The sound of gasps in the conference room came and went.

Emerson Corbert, the new chief scientist of the Nameless Fleet, stood up and added: "The 360,000 volunteers did not die in vain, and a huge amount of data was collected for the project. After repeated research? Scholars generally agree that the problem is that there is an irreversible data overflow in the process of converting human memories into stacked memories. Insufficient personality integrity that caused the final freezing? Will more data be irreversibly lost? Until the personality collapses. Until a solution to this problem is found? Cryonics technology still lacks reliability. ”

The previous Chief Scientist has passed away? At just 43 years old, Emerson Corbert is a newcomer to the fleet, born aboard the third research ship to two veteran physicists.

After Emerson finished speaking, another scientist stood up and asked, "Does this require the recipient's mind to have mechanical properties?" So? Freezing blanks? Can it be successful? ”

Emerson nodded first? Shake your head again.

"Is the blank really good for cryonics? But there is no point in freezing the blank, because the mental activity of the blank is like a light bulb that can be turned off and restarted at any time. The Blank's freezing technology has been proven successful long before we set off? But it didn't cause a stir. Its essence is no different from storing the machine, putting it for decades and then taking it out for use, it is not a qualitative change, and it is not worth paying attention to. ”

Everyone nodded.

That's the reason.

Emerson added, "I've told you all about that. In the previous information sharing, the technology provided to us by the empire was basically a finished product, and we only needed to digest and absorb it. But this time, the empire needs our help. ”

Someone immediately stood up and objected: "How can this help?" We have only more than 100 million people, so do we want to recruit volunteers from among our people? What if it fails again? Is it for nothing? We are different, we don't have unlimited resources, we don't have an infinitely large gene pool, we have limited manpower, but if we die, we will have one less. ”

"Yes, it's not that we're selfish. We're not afraid of death, if you really want me to go up, I'll go too. But we are a lone expeditionary force, and the core task is to reach the heart of the silver, and we have to fight the strongest enemy in the opponent's base camp to turn him upside down. We're no freer than people out there. ”

"In case we lose our strength in order to cooperate with the Empire's scientific research, and in the end, the scientific research here does not succeed, and our mission also fails. So who to reason with? What if the sage is resurrected, and when he looks back at the records, he finds that our mighty expeditionary force has become a joke about giving people heads, and he must not blow up his lungs? Then I won't be blind when I'm dead. ”

Qin Guang pressed his hand and signaled the people below to be restless.

When the conference room was quiet again, Emerson said slowly: "I understand everyone's concerns, and the top management of the empire also understands them, so it is not mandatory, but consults whether we are voluntary. The main thing is to see...... Forget it, let me first talk to you about the value of cryonics technology. ”

There is no doubt that Emerson was on the side of the experiment.

Human civilization is a vast collective composed of countless individuals.

In this collective, there are people who will be in high positions and hold great power, there are people who can lead science and technology and radiate the era, and there are people who can overwhelm the others at the combat level and constantly raise the combat level of the entire civilization with their own strength.

This handful of forerunners is like the steering wheel of a civilized chariot, or a guide bearing.

But no matter what era, there are very few people in the world, and the main components of civilization are still all living beings, one after another inconspicuous screws that can even be easily replaced.

The value of screws is not denied.

In the huge chariot system, one screw is missing, and it doesn't take long for another screw to be quickly replaced, and the chariot does not move at all. But what if you remove all the screws in an instant?

Even the largest chariot had to collapse with a bang.

But again, the value of the steering wheel cannot be ignored.

Take the steering wheel for a short time, and the civilized chariot will take a slight fork in the road.

It will take a few days for a new steering wheel to gradually grow and take over the responsibility of leading the way forward and correcting the wrong direction for the chariot.

But at this time, civilization has already taken a long detour and wasted a lot of resources.

It may also happen that the talent of a certain steering wheel is completely ahead of the times, not understood by the times at that time, and he has not been able to stand at the height he should have stood at in his whole life, and his talent has been wasted.

It wasn't until many years later that later generations reacted and often sighed at the inopportune time for his birth, such as Ryan, who was active in the 21st century.

In such a rough scientific background, Ryan still proposed and completed the design of the cosmic logistics pipeline with a keen sense of smell hundreds of years ahead. Hundreds of years later, Ryan's core ideas are still being taken to justice. If Ryan could be active in the twenty-sixth century, it would be a great blessing for him and for the entire civilization.

A similar situation also happened to Tesla, Zhang Heng and others.

This waste is not limited to science, but also has similar waste in the fields of art, politics, business, etc.

For example, Yu Boya, Beethoven, Zhong Lei......

If these highly creative musicians were exposed to more instruments, heard more different sounds, saw more synthesized sound technology, and had a better modern and post-modern arrangement system, how many more tunes would these people create in their lifetime? After accessing the brain chain technology, how many classic melodies that are quietly wasted in the brain can be saved?

I can't imagine.

Perhaps these people have brought their talents to the extreme in their own lives.

But this so-called extreme must take into account the constraints of the times.

The core value of cryonics technology is to allow these talents to jump out of the limitations of the times and open up another possibility for the entire civilization.

When necessary, how much will it help civilization to freeze the forerunners, preserve their talents, and save them for the right time when they are needed, and after meeting certain necessary conditions, put these talents that have been limited by the times in a more appropriate position, and let them bloom again in a more comfortable environment?

It's hard for ordinary people to imagine.

For example, if a top scientist advances an important project to a certain extent, the rest of the research needs to be experimentally verified until a large amount of experimental data is obtained before the next step can be derived, or a huge amount of calculations and long-term observations are required.

It's realistic.

Some astral physics projects involving stars often require decades or even hundreds of years of observation and waiting.

In the absence of cryonics, this brilliant scientist had to waste his life and talent in a needless wait.

Even if he turns to other directions and produces some results during this period, in fact, the significance is not as great as the major project that can run through his life.

If cryonics is available, the same person can wait for the project to mature and engage in greater research over a period of thousands or even tens of thousands of years. What about civilization?

Some people may say, as a teacher, aren't you able to train students, don't you have an inheritor?

But it takes time for each inheritor to learn from the mentor, and different people must have different ways of thinking about the problem.

Some projects just require a complete and consistent mindset.

Mentoring successors is itself a huge trial-and-error process.

This is a waste of the life of the tutor, as well as the lives of many students who have been eliminated and are not necessarily suitable.

How much of a waste of resources is this?

What if all these resources were conserved?

In the past, people didn't dare to think because no one could compete with time, the sharpest weapon in the universe.

Eternal life has been proven impossible.

But now it can.

There is no doubt that this will bring about a qualitative change in the process of human scientific research.

The same is true for other fields with similar needs, such as warriors.

No matter how strong a warrior is, if he is born too early and cannot live until Armageddon comes, he can only be an outsider after all.

However, cryonics technology can enable generations of talented warriors born in human beings to enter a cryogenic state, and then stand up again when civilization has reached the most dangerous life and death stake.

Another example is the ultra-long-distance voyage across star systems.

The impact is even more intuitive.

Assuming that humanity chooses an extragalactic galaxy more than 10 million light-years away as the target, even the fastest spacecraft at 500 times the speed of light will take 20,000 years to reach its destination.

Under normal circumstances, the humans in this fleet have been multiplied for at least one or two hundred generations.

But when the natural phenomena of the universe cannot pose a threat to mankind, the greatest enemy of mankind becomes itself.

In the infinite time and distance, there are too many uncertainties in the direction of the human heart.

Halfway through, as the population continues to change, it is easy for the successors to lack a sense of belonging to the civilization as a whole, causing them to lose their faith and eventually fall apart and perish in the universe in internal strife.

Then this voyage can be regarded as a complete failure.

But if cryonics technology is available, the fleets can use it flexibly to arrange a backbone for endless expeditionary plans.

"In short, mastering cryonics technology can save some talents that are destined to be wasted, which is essentially mastering time and creating new and infinite possibilities for the development of civilization."

This technique is similar to the sage Chen Feng's interference with the timeline. The sages stole time from different timelines and piled it up in our last timeline to create a stronger civilization explosion for us. But cryonics is a further infinite extraction of the value of time in the same timeline, which is a more extreme means of stealing time. ”

"We can make great people gain eternal life, even if it is just a false eternal life, it is enough to make important people with super high IQ and super ability have the possibility of lasting through a longer era, forming a greater influence, and providing a stronger explosive force of civilization!"

"The prospect of its technological application and the applicable scenarios are infinitely broad, and the changes it will bring to civilization are already exciting just by imagining it. This means that we truly have the possibility to go to the infinite universe. ”

"This is an important symbol that human civilization is striding forward on the road of fourth-level civilization!"

Emerson said impassionedly.

After a long time, someone in the conference room sighed.

"Sounds so good. Alas, it's a pity that the sage can't enjoy it. Otherwise...... Now it would be nice to know that the sage is still asleep somewhere. ”

Qin Guang thought about it, but did not reveal the secret that Chen Feng was indeed "sleeping".

It is another more incomprehensible "personality cryopreservation" technology, which is not universal and has no reference value.

"Well, Mr. Emerson, you say all this in order to convince us to support the project. You say, what are we supposed to do? ”

An officer stood up and asked.

Emerson turned his head to look at Tong Ling, who was sitting in the front row and was in a trance after hearing the words cryonics, and said, "Instructor Tong has the closest quantum thinking to mechanization in human beings at present. Instructor Tong's intuitive thinking mode has made her the only person who has acquired mechanical thinking ability without relying on "Song of the World". So, we need the help of a child instructor. ”

"This ......"

Qin Guang and many other military personnel suddenly changed their complexions.

Scientists want "guinea pigs".

Okay, they're not against it.

Even if you do it yourself, it's fine.

But these scientific maniacs are too daring to think, as soon as they come, they will set their eyes on the entire nameless fleet, and even Tong Ling, the current cutting-edge combat power of all mankind, is simply thinking about fart!

If something happens to Tong Ling, it will be a catastrophe.

If you go back and encounter an enemy combat unit of the same level as the Crystal Tardispeller, who will take the lead?

No one is afraid of death, only of losing.

"I'm against ......"

Gao Xiaoqi, who had been promoted to major general, stood up violently and spoke loudly.

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Tong Ling.

"I agree."

Tong Ling's reply was concise, sonorous and powerful, with a taste of unquestionable and non-negotiable.

No one knew, but her soul was trembling with excitement.