Nightshade really wanted to throw out a bunch of questions for the people in front of her to explain. However, it was in vain. Whether you are right or wrong does not really depend on whether you really adhere to your beliefs, but on the number of people who agree with right and wrong.

There are only a few hundred supporters on his side. And the crew members who want to go home on their side are as many as tens of thousands.

"Have you forgotten what happened in the past?"

Nightshade heard her voice tremble, "The virus outbreak isn't as simple as you think. As long as the danger at the source is not resolved, there is a risk that it will be repeated again. Our friends are fighting alone in that faraway place, and you want to turn away at this time. I knew that I couldn't hold everyone in moral binds. But you will never be able to coerce me with numbers and public opinion. ”

Taking a deep breath, Nightshade's whole person became fierce and powerful again. She scanned everyone with a fierce gaze like a she-wolf, almost grinding her teeth and growling, "I will never hand over the host password for Explorer One." You'll either spend two more months dismantling the other hulls and putting them together into new ships. Either follow me to the coordinates of the shooter's 6867550854. I can assume that this qiē never happened and is still business as usual. ”

A moment of silence followed, and every pair of eyes that poured into the room stared at the night shadows in shock. Captain Chen Hengsheng pursed his lips, and his hands clenched hard unconsciously. It's like you've just experienced an extremely violent explosion and haven't woken up from the shock.

After a while, the stiff shoulders of the first mate, Liu Tingwei, began to loosen. He turned around, shook his head at the cold-faced captain, and said helplessly, "I knew it would be like this." She is stubborn and will not listen to us at all, and it is impossible for her to do what we want. It's better to give up! It doesn't matter if you want a host password or not, as long as you mobilize as many maintenance robots as possible, you will always compress the construction period and buy more time. ”

Logistics Minister Mei Ting's face was ugly. She is also half-mechanical, half-cyboid, with an external bionic skin that is equivalent to that of a twenty-year-old girl. The young and beautiful appearance is indeed very eye-catching, but it creates too great a contrast between the old mental age and the speech and demeanor. Mei Ting was obviously not willing to admit defeat like this. She thought for a moment, frowned, and raised her hand, pointing at Nightshadow with a long, smooth finger.

"You're so selfish. Ever since the follow-up spaceship brought the news that Wang Qinian had passed through the portal and headed to that coordinate, you had expressed a stronger desire to accelerate than anyone else. If you try your best to get to that coordinate, you're not as clear as you seem. To put it bluntly, it's just to see your own man a day earlier. For this purpose, you do not hesitate to kidnap all of us, just to satisfy your own vile and dirty self-interest. ”

These words have been brewing in Mei Ting's mind for a long time.

Wars between women are often more fierce and brutal than fights between men.

Nightshade is the undisputed number one person on Explorer One. There must be people who are dissatisfied with this. Mei Ting is one of them. She doesn't think Night Shadow is a big deal, isn't it just that her face is prettier than others? Temperament is better than others? Is it a general appointed by the military department? If I had her foundation, I might have done better than her.

The spaceship is a miniature version of the world.

Here, the distance between people is compressed into the narrowest space. Mei Ting had heard too many words of praise about Night Shadow, and she was secretly comparing herself with it. Every time she compares, Mei Ting will revise it according to her own shortcomings. It is undeniable that this kind of self-reinforcement has indeed made Mei Ting better, and she has gradually been promoted in her position. She was originally just an ordinary maintenance and communications officer. Now, he is the most important logistics supply minister in charge of the whole ship, and he is among the top leaders who can only be compared with the captain.

There is never a time in life to be satisfied.

Mei Ting saw the best time to take down the Night Shadow. Since learning about Captain Chen Hengsheng's plan, Mei Ting has generated such a strong motivation for the first time. She felt that every mechanical part in her body was new, and the energy furnace in her body was also burning to the extreme, and she had incomparably sufficient strength. There is no doubt that Nightshadow will definitely not hand over the console password. This is Mei Ting's chance. She can tie up to tens of thousands of crew members to her side, becoming an incomparably large group of supporters. For this reason, Mei Ting also blatantly threw out the three words "Wang Qinian", instead of being extremely humble and respectfully calling each other "Dean Wang" with the most humble smile when she was on earth more than a hundred years ago.

Nightshade stood quietly by the table, lonely and haughty. She is still as beautiful as ever, her mechanical body is not as terrifying as she imagined, and she still maintains a graceful figure that is enough to make all women envious, jealous, and even crazy. The cold and arrogant temperament is unapproachable, but he can't bear to give up, and at the same time shows a strong and incomparable deterrent. Her gaze was no longer scattered, but stared at Mei Ting, who was standing at the front of the crowd.

She didn't speak, and the cold atmosphere gradually began to change, and many people felt the killing intent released from Nightshadow's body. Although there is no movement, it is more terrifying than directly showing a knife or pistol. This kind of imposing threat can be easily detected even by a mechanical body.

Mei Ting began to retreat unconsciously, and stood behind the first mate Liu Tingwei in a panic. Through the broad shoulders of the first mate, his face was full of fear and unwillingness, and he looked at the night shadow with hatred.

"There are some names that you would never be qualified to mention. Don't think that the pitiful way you look now can cover up your past. Your personal file is stored on the central computer of the ship, and there is also a preserved archive on Earth. I can make appropriate concessions, but I will never make concessions again and again. Don't let me hear those words a second time. Otherwise, I'll just turn you into cosmic garbage. ”

Chen Hengsheng was also angry at Night Shadow's strong and cold words. At the same time, I also felt incomprehensible about Mei Ting's provocation. Is this woman an idiot? If Nightshade were the kind of ordinary housewitlock who could subdue with her mouth, the matter of returning would not have become so tricky. Yes, you can threaten Nightshade, but definitely not in this form. In fact, the reason why Chen Hengsheng brought Mei Ting over with him was actually to want Mei Ting to persuade Night Shadow with soft words. After all, as a woman, many words are more convenient to say, and they can also achieve their goals from other angles.

"Of course, we'll arrange the dismantling of the ship right now. But I hope you understand that it was actually the right choice to let this ship go home. Nightshade, it's never a good thing to go your own way. Those who are persistent are often miserable and will be abandoned by everyone. ”

After saying this, the iron-faced captain Chen Hengsheng turned around and strode out of the room.

……

The hull separation work was fully launched two hours later.

Thousands of robots began to cut joints, dozens of connected passages were temporarily closed, and autonomous carriers traveled back and forth between warehouses and workshops. Captain Chen Hengsheng released the video of the negotiation with Night Shadow for the first time, which caused different reactions among the crew. Some people were angry about this, some people took it lightly, and some people sided with Nightshadow, saying that it would not be a big deal to wait for two more months.

It's Saturday, and Nightshadow is holding a family meeting in the cabin as usual.

There weren't as many participants as last time, just five or six people. Not every descendant wants to see their father and grandfather, and for Wang Qinian, in fact, many descendants do not have a specific impression. They even stand across from Nightshade, desperate to return to Earth.

Nightshade was noncommittal. After all, everyone has their own choice. Even if it is his grandson or great-grandson, he still has the right to choose the future.

The granddaughter, Xiao An, has always been by the side of Night Shadow. She is Nightshade's closest person and believes in her grandmother's every decision.

"Why don't those people come with us?"

The steel cover of the brain of the robot Xiao An is slowly rotating, releasing excess heat from the regulating valve to keep the brain at a constant temperature: "Aren't they willing to obey your orders, grandma?" Or do you want to go back and build a new ship and then send someone else? ”

Nightshade is accustomed to Xiao An's strange logic that cannot be explained by normal thinking. With a smile on her face, she wore an apron and rolled dumpling wrappers on the board. Whenever she feels happy or upset, she always uses this method as a solution.

"Grandma said that grandpa is a hero among mankind."

"I'm going to be a hero too."

"In fact, fewer people are better, and two engines can be added to the No. 1 main engine to increase the speed. In the past, the survival chamber occupied too many places, but now the number of people on board has been reduced by more than half, and with the new engines installed, the speed of the ship can be increased by at least twenty percent. ”

Xiao An almost grew up under the care of the computer, and she knew almost nothing about human affairs. However, in a broad sense, Xiao An belongs to human beings after all, and even if she says the wrong thing, Nightshade will not blame her, and still smiles at her.

Nightshade shuts down her main messaging program, leaving only a high-density channel for her henchmen and family to contact. These days, her dedicated communication channel is almost occupied by all kinds of messy information. Insults, accusations, praise, solidarity...... In short, any imaginable phrase can be found in these communications. As many as tens of thousands of people send messages almost simultaneously, and the resulting data stack is terrifying. Nightshade had to do this, or the information processor might collapse completely.

Anyway, what should have been said has already been said. After two months, they left, and we continued to move forward.

Just as Nightshade had just put down her rolling pin and wanted to wipe the excess flour on her hands, she suddenly felt a very bad feeling.

Before receiving the transformation of half-mechanical and semi-biochemical technology, Nightshadow was already a first-order evolutionary human. Powerful from genes, more table xiàn in terms of the brain. Even though the vast majority of the body has become a machine, the strength of the brain's thinking consciousness is far greater than that of machinery and metal. Although Nightshade is not a "worker bee" and has no black particles inside its body, it still has a special way of understanding potential danger omens.

The signal light on the side of the shoulder glows red. This is the agreed method of communication between Nightshade and the captain of the guard. She quickly pressed the keyboard above her left arm, and a small screen popped up on the side of her forearm, revealing the figure of the captain of the guard.

It was a tall, middle-aged man. He is a "worker bee" who has been transformed by Su Hao's blood, and he is also an evolutionary warrior with a rare number and strong abilities on the "Explorer No. 1". Including him, all the "worker bees" have not undergone half-mechanical and half-biological technological transformation, and are still human beings in the true sense of the word.

Despite having guessed something in her heart, Nightshade remained unfazed: "What happened?" ”

As you can see from the screen, more than a dozen "worker bees" have gathered around the captain of the guard. They were heavily armed, and the captain himself had a coarse assault rifle in his hand. He looked anxious, his rough face full of stubble taking up almost the entire screen, and his tone was full of anger.

"Your Excellency, I just received an unsolicited call from Spacecraft Two. The sender is Captain Chen Hengsheng. He knew that we relied on confidential channels to communicate with each other, and asked me to relay the signal and interview you. ”

Nightshade didn't immediately agree. She frowned slightly, staring at the gun in the hand of the captain of the guard, and behind him, another "worker bee" who was carrying a single cannon mounted by a single soldier, and asked, "Your location is hatch 22, what's wrong there?" ”

While checking the magazine, the captain replied hurriedly: "Two hours ago, I received a secret signal from the third hull. The identity of the other party is an ordinary crew, and according to him, the situation in the remaining four parts of the hull is unstable. Many people don't want to wait for the two-month dismantling period and ask you to hand over your console password immediately. The passage between the main compartments has been sealed, but they are arming to break the locks of the entrance machine and force you to accept the conditions. ”

Nightshade asked calmly, "Have they already done it?" ”

"Not yet!"

The captain of the guard grabbed a few magazines from the ammunition box and stuffed them into his clothes pocket, and said seriously: "I released some miniature probe planes, and the cabin opposite the lock of the closed machine was in chaos, they were distributing weapons, and there were people installing space survival devices. It is clear that this was a premeditated plan. These weapons and devices are all classified as key supervision materials, and no one can open the heavy steel gate without the permission of the administrator and the electronic key. ”

As he spoke, the captain of the guard smiled with relief, "Unless they are all evolved people like me." ”

Night Shadow thought silently for a few seconds and said, "Take over Chen Hengsheng's communication." I'm here to see, what the hell is he trying to do? ”

There was apparently some unknown energy fluctuation inside the spaceship, and snowflakes were constantly flashing on the screen, accompanied by a cacophony of "zizi". Night Shadow had to use a band stabilizer to make the chaotic picture gradually recover, although it was not very clear, but Chen Hengsheng's figure could barely be seen.

Judging by the surrounding layout and environment, his current location is the captain's office. Nightshade had been to that room and remembered the brush stand made of horn material on the desk.

The chaotic energy caused the picture to constantly crack, and Chen Hengsheng's voice seemed vague.

"Lord Nightshade, this is a private call between me and you. Don't worry, I've closed all my main channels and no one will be able to cut through the communication between you and me. Now, we should sit down calmly and have a good talk. ”

Without waiting for Night Shadow to answer, I saw Chen Hengsheng pick up the controller placed next to him, press the button, and a person who was firmly bound by a huge mechanical arm slowly descended from the ceiling of the room.

That is Night Shadow's favorite and most trusted grandson Wang Kai. His robotic arm has been removed, and the tracked robotic leg is gone. The whole person was only left with his body, and his head and neck were held in place by two mechanical steel claws that stretched out from the side, and he couldn't even turn or do anything like that.

Just above Wang Kai's head, there was a mechanical drill bit that came down vertically from above. The surface of the drill bit has a dense metal texture, and this kind of drill bit can easily penetrate the all-steel protective gate with a thickness of tens of centimeters, not to mention the transparent polyester layer of the brain of the protector Wang Kai. The outermost metal shield had been lifted, and the distance between the drill bit and the brain was only a few centimeters, like a sword of Damocles that could fall at any moment.

"I didn't want to kill, and I never wanted to be your enemy. I just want to go home! Go home! Go home! ”

Captain Chen Hengsheng glanced at Wang Kai, whose electronic voice was dismantled, and his gaze shifted to the screen again: "Don't force me to do it." I don't have your lofty and great ideals, I'm just an ordinary person. I'll admit that when I was on Earth, I did want to be a hero. But I now realize that the road is too far. I had no confidence in the future, and I had to turn around and go back the way I came. Please forgive me for my rudeness, and please understand my brutal and barbaric approach. But in any case, please hand over your console password. ”

Night Shadow looked at Chen Hengsheng coldly: "What's the matter, you can't even wait for two months?" ”

"I have to go back now. I can't stay here for even a minute. ”

"Are you really so anxious to go back? As far as I know, you are an only child and have no relatives. Even if you return to Earth now, you are the only one alone. Don't deceive me with anything like affection. Why interfere with communication channels? Why do you have to get the host password? I'm not the simple-minded woman you think I'm in. You must be brewing some kind of shady conspiracy. If you don't want to make it worse, you'd better be honest! ”

Everyone has their own ideals, and Chen Hengsheng is no exception.

He really wanted to go home. As time went on, this thought became stronger and stronger, and it was almost impossible to suppress.