Nightshade sat calmly in her chair, silent, watching the group chatter in front of her. The attendees quickly noticed her cold attitude and slowly sat back down in their seats, their expressions becoming embarrassed.

Nightshade is, after all, the true leader of the Explorer 1 ship. No one questioned this, and no one dared to waver.

"I remember that you took the initiative to apply for the job back then, and you were also the applicant with the strongest attitude towards the position of deputy captain."

Night Shadow stared at Captain Chen Hengsheng, and his voice was as cold as a knife: "You wrote a letter of determination at that time, and you still bit your finger and wrote it with your own blood. That thing is still preserved in the archives of the earth. Why, more than 100 years have made you change your initial belief and want to turn back? ”

Chen Hengsheng's old artificial face showed a flush of anger. This is the embodiment of the bionic system under the domination of the emotion. He kept rubbing his hands, and there was a strong anger in his words: "Is it necessary that a written thing must govern my future fate? Everyone has an ideal, and in order to achieve it, I have put in unimaginable efforts. Returning to Earth with a mechanical body, no one will treat me as a normal person. Even in front of my juniors, I'm just a half-human, half-machine monster. I've given so much, don't I even have the right to regret it? To be honest, if I had known that things would turn out like this, the shooter 6867550854 this coordinate was empty, I wouldn't have boarded this ship at all. You are liars! All the people who built this spaceship and made plans back then were all liars! ”

First mate Liu Tingwei slowly stood up, patted the excited Chen Hengsheng on the shoulder, grabbed his arm, and pressed him to the seat. Liu Tingwei raised his head, and his voice was heavy: "Your Excellency Night Shadow, please forgive Lao Chen for being rude." His temper was indeed too rough, but every word he said was true. We are tired of this long, boring voyage, we want to go back to Earth, we want to go home. It's not our fault. If there is a planet in the shooter 6867550854 we will all follow the plan and go on unswervingly. Now, faced with an empty coordinate, it is indeed time for us to turn around and return home. You're still the highest-ranking manager on this ship. We want to give you the "homecoming" order from your mouth. ”

Nightshade took a deep breath, "What if I refuse?" ”

"You can't say no."

First mate Liu Tingwei obviously expected such a reply, shook his head, and said, "This spaceship is the greatest crystallization of wisdom in human history. It does not belong to you personally, but to humanity as a whole, to the nation as a whole. Your personal will cannot dominate anyone else. Therefore, according to the normal procedure, the emergency plan was activated among all crew members, and everyone was carefully consulted to listen to their ideas. ”

The so-called emergency plan is part of the plan that is discussed and decided before departure. When faced with an unsolvable solution, it is necessary to consult with all crew members. According to the premise of absolute proportion, different opinions are allocated and unified.

Nightshade has never been in favor of this so-called consultation. According to the rules, as long as the proportion of people who agree with the same opinion exceeds 51 percent, everyone must obey the resolution. The problem is that not everyone knows what they are doing or what the impact of their actions will be. Fifty-one to forty-nine, a large number of dù is actually the most high-sounding form of the inducement and drive of the powerful to the lower class characters to achieve their own goals.

No one disputed the statement of the first mate, Liu Tingwei. Even the blind can see that the current situation is that Nightshade alone is vulnerable, and almost everyone is on the opposite side of her. At such a time, even if there is an objection, it is absolutely impossible to raise it. Otherwise, it will immediately become the target of public criticism.

Nightshade suddenly felt tired. She didn't even want to say a word, and she was disgusted by the familiar faces in front of her. She pushed aside her chair and stood up, walking straight towards the door, leaving only a cold word.

"Since you all think the same way, then you can do what you have to do, and you don't need to consider my ideas."

……

The consultation was presided over by Captain Chen Hengsheng. Nightshadow had barely returned to his cabin, and less than five minutes later, he heard the captain's speech coming from the public communication channel, and the personal communication terminal had received an answer to the request for comments from the central computer.

There is only one question: do you want to go home?

The answer is either "Yes" or "No".

I have to admit that Chen Hengsheng and others have indeed been planning for a long time. It's easy to ask such a question. Who wouldn't want to go home? Especially after a long voyage, almost everyone immediately fills in the answer "yes". Below the question, of course, is the long-term observation of the shooter 6867550854 this coordinate. Of course, Chen Hengsheng will not deceive the crew, but make the issue public. However, he would never add a single word about the significance of the voyage to the answer sheet, but described in a long and tearful voice the bits and pieces that had happened in the course of the voyage over the past 100 years, as well as the deep homesickness.

I want to go home!

There are my descendants and relatives there.

Even if I die, I will die on earth.

Nightshade completely lost control of the entire ship. Her communication channels were all occupied by all kinds of inquirers, some panicked, some surprised, some stunned and ecstatic. Even Nightshade's closest family members have expressed a desire to return to Earth.

Wang Qinian is just their grandfather after all, and all the descendants born on the spaceship have not even seen Wang Qinian at all. It is almost impossible to make them feel affection for strangers they have never met, let alone an outsider like Su Hao, who has a farther relationship.

It's been too long to be away from Earth. People have forgotten the tragic scenes brought about by the outbreak of the virus, the ferocious and violent mutated creatures in the abandoned cities, and the cruelty of cannibalism in times of hunger. All they knew was that they had been locked up in this spaceship for too long, and that they had been in the vast universe for more than a century. Time is enough to wipe out a qiē, duty and belief are completely diluted, and even the so-called "most loyal love" cannot resist the invasion of time, and naturally there is no reason to blame those who are still alive. They just want to go home, to see the familiar blue sky above them, to breathe the air freely.

More than 300 "worker bees", as well as more than 100 crew members, have become loyal supporters around Nightshadow. However, compared to the tens of thousands of people who want to go home, this number is too small.

For more than a century, every corner of "Explorer 1" has staged a repertoire of mutual love, marriage, and reproduction. Four successor spacecraft arrived one after another, completing the preset docking hatch of Explorer 1. The spacecraft as a whole has increased several times as much as it was when it was first launched, and the number of crew members has increased again and again due to the continuous arrival of reinforcements. By now, it's an extremely large number.

Not everyone who wants to go home is disgusted by Nightshade. On the contrary, most of them trust Nightshade, and they like this dominant man who is cold and flamboyant. However, Captain Chen Hengsheng released relevant information about the shooter's 6867550854, and Night Shadow's beautiful image suddenly plummeted. Titles such as "liar" quickly became synonymous with Nightshade. A lot of negative rumors about her have also been spread within the spaceship.

"We've all been lied to. You don't really need a spaceship to get to that coordinate. This is simply a scam between Night Shadow and Wang Qinian. The real purpose is to find a planet suitable for human habitation. But as you can see, we don't get anything. ”

She had known that it was an empty coordinate, but she still hadn't given the order to return. Can't you see it? She had never thought about our lives and deaths, and the devil knew what was going on in her head. Anyway, I want to go home, and I have to go back immediately! ”

"If you've already won the biological war, why go to the universe? It doesn't make sense, I don't see any connection between the two. I've given too much, and I don't know if I'm a human or a machine right now. It's time for this qiē to end! ”

Order inside the ship began to become chaotic. The people no longer obeyed Nightshade's orders, and instead regarded Chen Hengsheng, the captain of the ship who "opened the truth", as a hero. With the assistance of the first mate Liu Tingwei and others, Chen Hengsheng's prestige reached its peak.

The result of the consultation was, of course, support for return. More than 90 percent of the voters were in favor. In the face of this overwhelming "mass cry", Nightshade remained silent.

Explorer 1 stopped in space.

When Captain Chen Hengsheng and the others walked into the Night Shadow cabin, she was looking at her yellowed wedding photos.

Wang Qinian doesn't like to take pictures. Maybe it's because he's too ugly, or because his fat and dirty appearance is too terrifying. In short, the old fat man is extremely disgusted with the word "photography", and even stubborn to the point that he is not even willing to use a mobile phone with a camera function, preferring to use an old-fashioned phone.

In this photo, when Night Shadow was getting married, he tried every means to threaten and lure Wang Qinian, almost forcing him to sit in front of the camera.

He shouldn't have changed much. Half-mechanical, half-cyborg technology has made life eternal. Of course, this beloved man is definitely no longer what he remembers. There may be a lot of extra parts on the body, it feels very hard to the touch, cold, you don't need to eat or sleep, and there is always a smell of engine oil on your body.

Captain Chen Hengsheng sat directly opposite the night shadow. Next to him, there are still a few cronies such as Liu Tingwei, the first deputy.

"Lord Nightshade, I'm sure you've seen the voices of others. We're going home, and we're not going to accompany you on this purposeless voyage. I have ordered the ship to stop, and now we should talk about the return voyage. ”

Nightshade's gaze didn't take any of the photos in his hand, and his voice was cold and calm: "I've never agreed with any idea of returning home. That's your business. If there is pro, there will definitely be opposition. You should know this kind of thing better than I do. ”

A trace of anger flashed in Chen Hengsheng's eyes: "Say it again, we have to go home, and almost everyone on this ship wants to go home." Your ideas can't be representative of all of us. ”

Nightshade said coldly, "Then do what you think, you don't need to report to me." ”

Chen Hengsheng turned his head, glanced at each other with Liu Tingwei, the first mate standing next to him, and shifted his gaze to Night Shadow again: "In that case, then please say the core password of the "Explorer One" main engine, and enter the command for the spaceship to turn." ”

This is the biggest difference between Night Shadow and Chen Hengsheng, and it is also the biggest secret in her hands.

The password of the host of "Explorer 1" was set by Wang Qinian himself, and only Night Shadow could control the entire spacecraft. This is the secret that Night Shadow searched out from Wang Qinian's computer on the eve of departure. Under the cipher control, the ship can be temporarily docked, but it is absolutely impossible to steer. In other words, without getting the password of Night Shadow, Chen Hengsheng would not be able to change the course of the spaceship even if he had everyone's support.

"I will not force you to do what I want. In the same way, I can't do what you want. ”

Night Shadow gently stroked Wang Qinian on the photo, and said calmly, "This spaceship is composed of a total of five hulls. Explorer 2, 3, 4 and 5 are just additional parts of the first hull. When it was first designed, it was designed with the possibility of encountering danger in mind, and the multi-hull structure is equivalent to a large life raft. Each hull has an independent central control computer and a perpetual motion energy furnace. You're the captain of the ship, and you have the same in-board authority as I do. The four hulls of No. 2 to No. 5 were separated and then reassembled. All parts are standard models, and there are also complete parts production workshops inside the four hulls. It will only take a hundred hours at most for you to get a new ship. It doesn't require my control code, you can do it yourself. ”

This was the biggest concession Nightshade could make.

She thought about it, and it was really unfair to force everyone to accompany her to that unknowable empty space. Everyone has their own choice. Chen Hengsheng may have been too cunning and cunning on this issue, and he also used other people as a bundle of interests, but in essence, he actually did nothing wrong. Just like a math problem, although there is only one correct answer, everyone understands it differently.

The Explorer 1 is designed to be very powerful. The four detached hulls alone are enough to sustain the normal living needs of 100,000 people. Even if it is separated from the main body, the overall performance of these additional hulls will not change, especially the sailing speed, which will not be slowed down by the separation of the main engine.

In short, you go yours, I go mine. There is no interference with each other.

A trace of astonishment flashed in Chen Hengsheng's eyes. He turned his head and looked at Liu Tingwei, the first officer, and Mei Ting, the logistics director of the spaceship, who were standing on either side, respectively, and found that they were the same as himself, with obvious anger in their expressions and eyes.

"You can't do that."

First mate Liu Tingwei took a few steps forward, staring at Night Shadow condescendingly, the electronic synthesized voice as cold as his mechanical body: "Separating the hull will cause many unpredictable dangers. We've never done this before. It's not just about separating the two hulls. Many of the life support systems and energy reserve systems have been built simultaneously as early as when the two ships docked. This is equivalent to dismantling all ancillary facilities to make enough space for separation. With the number of maintenance robots we currently have, it will take at least two months to complete this kind of work. ”

"Then wait here for two more months."

Nightshade's attitude was cold and tough, like a piece of granite frozen in ten thousand years of ice: "We have been on this path for more than a hundred years, and we don't care about waiting two more months. ”

Mei Ting interjected impatiently: "Why can't you think about other people?" You're so selfish. Almost everyone on this ship is in favor of returning home, but you have to use all kinds of reasons to thwart it. Two months, do you know what it means to "return to the heart like an arrow"? Do you know how long we've been waiting for this day? ”

Nightshade looks away from the photo and slowly lifts her head. At this moment, she suddenly had a very strange and extremely confused thought.

These people in front of him are all his subordinates.

Nightshade is very familiar to them.

Whether it is the captain Chen Hengsheng, the first mate Liu Tingwei, and the logistics minister Mei Ting, Night Shadow regards them as trustworthy objects. The reason is simple: everyone is in the same boat, all working towards a common goal. Although the destination is very far away, and no one knows how long they will be adrift in the vast universe, they all have the same heart, both for the sake of the earth and mankind.

Of course, this statement may be a bit biased. Neither Yeying nor Wang Qinian actually has any ideas such as "human interests". In their minds, they are first a Chinese, then a human being.

On board the "Explorer 1", all the members are yellow-skinned and black-eyed.

Every crew's wedding is a celebration. Although Night Shadow can't be there every time to congratulate him, he never forgets to send a congratulatory message to the newlyweds. She knew that she was very respected in the hearts of the crew, and she also carried out her every order seriously. But now, the captain, the first officer, and the logistics chief, they no longer use honorifics in the face of themselves, but have become extremely cold and even hostile.

Why is this happening?

Where are the people who signed up and wrote down their resolutions over and over again, scrambling to join the expedition and go to the distant stars?

They lost their bodies during the long years of sailing, but their brains remained intact. Thinking and memory are almost eternal beings in the brain. But where is their former ambition? Where are those who want to be heroes?

Everyone has two faces, the difference is only in time.