"By the way, Joseph, I have some ideas for the next step, and I want to discuss it with you. Wait a minute, I need to call Professor Herman over. ”

William turns on the communication channel and calls out to Herman. A moment later, Herman walked in with two large black circles under his eyes. Joseph was taken aback at the sight of Herman's bird's nest-like hair and sunken cheeks, and asked, "You have overdosed on stimulants, and why did you suddenly lose weight like this?"

Herman smiled wryly, "For some reason, as soon as I came here, I was drowsy every day, I had no motivation to study at all, and my head was like a paste filled with paste, and I was so dull that I was deadly. In order to complete the research progress, I had to play doping every day, and I could only complete the task by relying on it. ”

"Isn't your research primarily based on individual chips?"

"Chips also need people to give instructions. ”

"Didn't the federation have chips that can be researched independently hundreds of years ago?"

Herman was momentarily speechless. William glared at Joseph and said, "Have you forgotten the Phil Blue Fire?"

Joseph patted his head and said, "I remember." Alas, lately it has been a real memory loss, and I often forget things. ”

Herman didn't mind, and said, "To be honest, even if there is no rebellion of the mastermind of Phil Blue, the Federal Research Institute has concluded that there is no problem with AI being used to assist research, but if it controls the research, it will often develop in an inexplicable direction." In the vast majority of cases, their research is meaningless. For example, study whether a person walks with their left foot or their right foot first. ”

Joseph asked, "By the way, you are also from the Federal Research Institute." I heard that the institute is still secretly working on AI-led research projects, is it true? ”

Herman hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

William snorted and said coldly: "These guys never know how to learn a lesson, don't they know the 150 million lives on the Phil Blue Star and let them know and be in awe?"

"175 million. Joseph corrected.

"Why did your memory suddenly get better?"

"Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad. ”

Herman said: "Of the nearly 200 million people on Phil Blue that year, less than 20 million escaped. More than two-thirds of the escape ships were destroyed by the mastermind-controlled air defense system. In fact, if you want to talk about casualties, you have to add the starships lost during the attack on Phillan's main brain and space station, and the 3 million people killed in the battle when they finally landed on the planet. ”

William sighed and said, "AI doesn't know how to be in awe like us humans, and there are many ways of thinking about them that we simply can't understand. At that time, the main brain planted a total of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs around the planet's main city, and even a super-large antimatter bomb. At that time, the instantaneous explosion yield exceeded 10 trillion tons, and no life survived within 1,000 kilometers, and even the planet was eventually damaged to a certain extent. This record was not broken until 200 years later. ”

Joseph smiled reluctantly and said, "Okay, don't talk about these sad things." Didn't you say you were going to discuss planning, let's start now. ”

As soon as William pressed on his personal terminal, a brand new fortress appeared in the center of the room, saying, "This is the fortress I am going to update." ”

Joseph was taken aback, "Four times bigger?"

William nodded, "Yes, now that I have cleaned up the beast's nest, I have some free time, so I plan to expand it in a big way, and completely turn our place into the main city of the entire planet in the future! We are still only a single-function defensive base, barely a fortress in terms of size. However, after the expansion, it will be a full-scale fortress that can support the movement of the entire area! ”

William pointed to the facilities and said, "Here, here, and here are all main energy stations, and there are two more underground for safety." They provide enough electricity for a large city. This will be our command center, next to the officer's quarters, oh yes, I've planned a fully enclosed park in the quarters, it's not big, but it's completely modeled after the home planet's environment. Behind the officer quarters are barracks and civilian quarters. ”

"Wait, civilian quarters, where are we civilians?" interrupted Joseph.

"The factories, the hospitals, the research institutes, the people in them are civilians, and their families," William said. ”

"Wait, you're going to use civilians?

"Yes. Civilians are not good at fighting, and their professional abilities are much stronger than those in the legion. I never thought there was any point in setting up existing divisions in society within the legion. ”

"Well, you have a point. But have you thought about it, the survivability of civilians is much worse. As soon as the beast tide comes, how many of them can reach the front line?"

"We will have enough guards and we will not need civilians to go to war. ”

"Even so, what do you mean by the family? Look outside, in such a hellish place, you let them bring their family?" Joseph continued.

William's face was calm, "They don't know. By the time they found out what it was like, they couldn't go back. At least for some time to come, we won't be able to leave here. ”

"What's the point of that?"

"If they can work and live here with peace of mind, and if there is their own family behind them, once the beast tide hits, everyone will be desperate, even if he is a coward. ”

Joseph sighed and said, "I really don't want to choose an opponent like you. ”

William looked at him and said seriously, "I really don't want to choose an opponent like you. ”

Joseph snorted and said, "I really didn't expect you to think highly of me?"

"No matter how clever a general is, he can't predict the action pattern of a second cargo. ”

Joseph was furious: "It looks like we haven't fought for a long time!"

William glanced at him and sneered: "Your injury is not healed, you are not my opponent." ”

Joseph's eyes lit up with danger, "Who said you can't fight if you're not injured?" Maybe I'll be at a disadvantage, but it's just that I'm more seriously injured, and you're just lightly injured." I think the process of beating you up is more important than the result!"

William was not angry and said: "You see, this is what makes you unreasonable, and that's why I don't want to choose an opponent like you. ”

As soon as Joseph's mind calmed down, William added: "If you win, you can't get praise, but if you lose, you lose your reputation." Why bother?"

Joseph instantly felt that it was still necessary to fight.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Herman quickly diverted the topic: "Regarding the research center of the new base, I have several ideas, which will determine our future development direction, so I have to ask the two generals to make a decision. ”

This was a big deal, so Joseph suppressed his anger and listened carefully to Herman's account.