Victor was summoned to Lu Yuan.

"Has the Dawn System been laid?" Lu Yuan asked in a flat voice.

"Report to the CEO, you are ready to ascend collectively on the El Star at any time to complete the final stage of the "Synthetic Age Project"!"

"All we have to do is make the final authorization ceremony."

Even if he has been upgraded to a synthetic mechanical life, Victor's body seems to retain a certain obsession and fanaticism when he was born as a human in the past, and his gaze at Lu Yuan is still full of loyalty and reverence.

Soon, Professor Eureka, the chief scientist of the Gray Gu Company, also temporarily put down his work and came to Lu Yuan.

He was joined by Chen Wei, the minister of energy, and several corporate ministers from other departments.

Seeing that the high-level officials had arrived, Lu Yuan bowed slightly, and they came to a large control authorization table together.

Among the many ministers of the original company, only Victor and the head of the business department were promoted to synthesizers in the propaganda of internal employees.

But when a group of high-level officials came to the authorization platform of the Dawn System, including Lu Yuan, Professor Eureka and others, who originally showed their images as human beings, gradually faded from their disguises.

The data code surged, and the appearance of the original human organic form disappeared from Lu Yuan and the others like a layer of erased projection.

After removing the camouflage, what was exposed on Lu Yuan and the others was a perfect mechanical body, a synthetic metal body.

Such a scene was broadcast to all parts of the planet in the form of real-time live video, and was shown in the eyes of countless company employees.

When the senior management of the company, who had already been promoted to synths, revealed their true images in front of all employees, some of them had complicated expressions, some of them had slightly moving faces, but more of them had shocked expressions.

At this moment, everyone knows that their civilization has reached an important juncture.

At this time, only a few years have passed since the company unified the Ayr Star and began to develop space technology.

In just a few years, all the company's employees, regardless of the bottom, middle and senior levels, have clearly witnessed the development and progress of their collective in all aspects.

These developments and advances are capable of upending everything that has been built on the planet's thousand-year-old civilization, including worldviews and values.

The company's space engineering program is well underway, civilization has entered the interstellar age, and the employees' world perspective has suddenly been raised to a height that they could not even imagine and even their mortal bodies could not bear.

The company's newly created star map system, which shows their interstellar vista that often measures distances in light years, has further transformed their thoughts and concepts.

Many employees are well aware that with their fragile human bodies, it is difficult to keep up with the company's growth.

They are fed by the abundant material resources of the company, and basically the company no longer needs their work to provide any useful value to the collective, because the massive intelligent machinery units produced by the company can completely replace them for those busy grassroots work.

Even if the company asked them to engage in behind-the-scenes scientific research that could give full play to their surplus value, with the birth of the "Ascension Protocol", more and more synths were upgraded, and their work in the field of scientific research was gradually competed by those synths.

It can be said that the original 20 billion employees at all levels within the company can no longer create more value for this collective, in exchange for the previous Elstar civilization before it was unified by the company.

After all, they have lost their use value, and if they are not eliminated, will it be a waste of resources to stay?

However, for those internal employees who have lost their use value in an objective sense, Gray Gu Company still has not abandoned them, and in the past few years, it has consistently provided them with excellent material life enjoyment, so that they can enjoy all the rights of being born as human beings in peace.

But this is not a long-term solution after all, in the Gray Gu Company, no one can only enjoy the rights brought by the collective, without exerting any useful value.

Despite the Ascension Agreement, a large number of company employees were willing to sign this agreement and upgrade to a more advanced synth to continue to create more benefits and value for the company.

However, due to the previous space engineering program, too many resources were focused on related projects, and it was impossible to achieve too many people to fly.

Therefore, even if most people intend to sign the ascension agreement, they cannot be allowed by the company's upper management, and a quota limit has been established to avoid too many people signing the ascension agreement at the same time, which will bring too much resource burden to the previous company.

Previously, among the company's employees, only those who were on the verge of death or about to die had the opportunity to sign the ascension agreement without being restricted.

Now, the quota limit for the Ascension Agreement has been lifted, and all regular employees of the company are eligible to apply for voluntary signing of the agreement, and a threshold has been released.

More than 80 percent of the company's employees applied for the signing of the Feisheng agreement almost immediately after the restrictions were ordered to be lifted by the CEO.

Without exception, all of these applications were granted.

The number of signatories to the Ascension Agreement is fully published in the information channels that are available to all employees.

The company's senior management, led by Lu Yuan, took the opportunity to announce to all employees the full content of the "Synthetic Era Plan".

Unexpectedly, when the content of the plan was announced to employees, it was not condemned and opposed, but some employees who did not actively sign the Ascension Agreement took the initiative to apply for the signing of the agreement.

Nowadays, more than 90% of the company's employees have voluntarily signed the ascension agreement, or have already been promoted to synths.

The remaining small number of company employees seem to be still waiting and hesitating.

When this small group of people saw that the company's top management had already risen collectively, their hearts couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

An inevitable oppression hangs over their bodies and minds.

The company has given every employee the right to choose whether to sign the Ascension Agreement, but not every employee of the company is willing to sign the Ascension Agreement independently.

In a collective, even if there is 99 percent unity, when it comes to trade-offs, there will be one percent of individuals.

The company did not force these employees to make the same choice as everyone else, but allowed them to pursue their own opinions.

Even after the announcement of the "Synthetic Era Plan", the gray Gu company will still maintain the principle of absolute fairness and respect the personal power in the hands of each employee.

(End of chapter)