I Really Didn’t Want to be a Savior

Fleet engineers stopped building cryocontainer ships and instead began large-scale construction of inter-galactic voyage ships with ultra-long-distance stable navigation capabilities, ultra-large living spaces, and ultra-high-performance energy absorbers.

After absorbing the latest research results, these spacecraft can theoretically maintain five hundred times the speed of light for millions of years, and can also use excess energy to continuously create cryogenic chambers during flight.

Everyone is free to choose what they want to do and who they want to be. Everything in the fleet is in full swing and in full swing. It seems that the situation is great, but the Cage and his sons, the initiators of the reform, are in trouble.

"There are more and more people signing up to leave, even too many. This has seriously affected the fleet's original plan."

At the dinner table, Solent Cage said worriedly.

Compared with other members of the first generation who raised their offspring, Solent Cage, who had been a synthetic since childhood and had never met his parents, adopted a very rare full companionship model when raising his offspring.

When Ofilus was young, a family of three lived under one roof.

In an encounter more than thirty years ago, Ofilos's mother, an S-class female combatant, unfortunately died, and since then only father and son were left.

When Ofilos came of age, the father and son's dormitories were also very close to each other. As long as they were not particularly busy, the father and son would usually have dinner together and exchange some things by the way, both about work and life.

The relationship between father and son is much stronger than that of an ordinary family.

"Father, I..."

Ophilos lowered his head and said in a low tone.

At this time, the blond young man was no longer as energetic as he was when he first launched the "coup". He only appeared to be full of worries and doubts.

The situation took a turn for the worse, causing him to fall into deep self-blame and suffer from inner suffering.

Solent sighed and patted his son on the shoulder.

"It's not your fault. I was willing to support you in the first place because there were no ideological differences of this magnitude in previous Expeditionary Fire Fleets. This rubs me and you, and everyone else in the Libertarian Alliance, wrong I judged that our fleet would be the same."

"But it turns out that we all didn't think about it. There were no differences in the Fire Fleet because their size was only a few million people at most, and they did not reach the level of forming a complete social system. The second generation and the third generation in the Fire Fleet Generations, and even more generations of descendants, need to build their personal will on the soil provided by the will of the distant empire."

"The situation of the Unnamed Fleet is different. Our scale is too large and we have formed a complete social operation system. Moreover, we are also different from other galaxy colonies in the empire. We and the empire headquarters can only send data packets to each other on a regular basis. There is no way to communicate. This is the long-term information isolation, which has created too deep a gap between us and the empire."

"Although under the leadership of General Qin Guang, the fleet has tried every means to strengthen ideological education work, but without the influence of society, no matter how gorgeous the language is, it is rootless, and it is not as good as the countless details in daily life. We are influenced by it. It has become a new civilization without even realizing it.”

"Even without the Free Will Alliance led by you and Zhou Donglai, other rebels will still be born. This is a historical necessity and a civilization's choice. It is unstoppable and cannot be disobeyed. We have opened this magic box, and things have changed. It’s out of control. Sigh..."

Hearing this sigh, Ofilos looked up at his father's face and felt that his father seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant.

In his memory, his father, Solent Cage, was an extremely strong man. Even when his mother died in battle, he never sighed or shed a tear in front of anyone.

But now my father has become like this.

"Father……"

Solent Cage raised his hand, interrupted Ophellos's choking, and squeezed his son's shoulder.

"Ophilos. In two days, I will step forward and assume the role of the first supreme governor of the Free Will Alliance. Then I will try to speak publicly. If the situation still cannot be changed, it is really because of this change that The fleet caused irreparable losses and caused us to fail to successfully reach the Galactic Center, or to suffer a meaningless defeat. All the blame will be borne by me. It is I who should be nailed to the pillar of shame in history, not you. .I have let down the empire and the sages.”

"You and Zhou Donglai are still young, and you still have a chance to prove yourself again. When the time comes, you can run away, or you can stay in the galactic center as guerrillas for as long as you can. I am already old. I am the one who committed the crime. He is the biggest fool, and he deserves to be punished."

At the dinner table, the father and son talked a lot. They seemed to be very in-depth, but in fact they still missed one point.

Orpheus was not really a member of the common class.

In the process of his growth, the people he had deep contact with, no matter which generation they were from, could all be considered outstanding. Their positions were basically at the middle level and up, and there were few real people at the bottom of the fleet.

The information surface and depth that people in the middle and upper classes come into contact with are different from those at the bottom.

At first, Ofilos saw that most of the people around him were inclined to stay and join the war. Perhaps these people had such intentions at the beginning and were very sincere, but they were just people at this level.

As for the second and third generation fleet people at the lower level, no matter what these people say, once the opportunity to choose is presented to them, these people with relatively limited education and relatively narrow access to information and knowledge, It is inevitable to make a more self-interested choice - to evacuate.

When the middle and upper classes discovered that most of the people at the bottom chose to evacuate, their hearts were inevitably affected and touched, and they changed their minds. At the same time, they began to influence more and more people of the same class to have other ideas, and eventually it became the current out-of-control situation. situation.

…

The chaos continues and gets worse.

Anyone who signed up to join the Free Will Column ship, regardless of their previous job, all went to work as engineers building spaceships.

The Nuwa Project has been severely affected. In addition, daily training, education, production and other fields in the fleet have also stagnated. Scientific development has been completely shut down. Not to mention producing new results, even absorbing The data packets sent by the empire all showed "indigestion".

Ofilos ran to Zhou Donglai to discuss, and the two decided to hold a high-level meeting of the Free Will Alliance again.

At this meeting, Ofilos and Zhou Donglai jointly proposed to control the situation a little and see if they could keep more people. Unexpectedly, they were refuted on the spot.

Many people in the top leadership of Free Will have also changed their minds.

The real chaos occurred half a year later, when the first super-large interstellar voyage ship was built.

Some people proposed to leave in advance by boat, turning the centralized evacuation into a ship that can be built and left. As for the order of boarding, it will be evaluated according to the contribution of the members of the Free Will Alliance from top to bottom.

Some people object to changing the plan on the grounds that every time a ship is sent out, there is an additional risk of exposing the fleet in advance.

Some people agree, on the grounds that a very large-scale encounter may break out in less than five years. If we start leaving now, we may be able to escape a few more people.

Some people also question the contribution evaluation system, believing that they should go first and questioning its fairness.

There are also people who hold some real power and can appropriately increase the contribution of some grassroots personnel.

A new class was born.

Amid endless controversies, the operating system of the Free Will Alliance quietly changed, and the top level became a parliamentary system.

…

In any case, Cage and his son and Zhou Donglai still have real power, and all three of them firmly oppose changing the plan.

It is no longer acceptable for more than 80% of the people to leave in five years, and it is absolutely not allowed to start evacuating now.

But the situation happened again. One day, Zhou Donglai went to freeze again to extend his life on the grounds that he was not asleep before, but was fake frozen.

Although Zhou Donglai entrusted his leader's voting power to Ophilus, giving Ophilus the right to veto alone, the Cage father and son were still a little lonely when they attended the parliament and could only barely support it. .

As the Cage father and son used their veto power to block the passage again and again, they finally caused huge dissatisfaction inside and outside the parliament.

Three months later, Orpheus was assassinated.

The perpetrator was a third-generation male combatant at the grassroots level.

After killing Ofilos, the combatant committed suicide, shouting the loud slogan "For freedom" before dying.

This is not the first homicide in the two hundred years since the fleet set out, but the identity of the deceased is the highest in the history of the fleet.

It only took a moment for the ship's brain to find out that the combatant's wife and three children were all senior members of the Free Will Alliance, and their contribution assessments had met the standards for the first batch of people to board the ship.

In the end, the combatant's wife and children were not sentenced together but were acquitted.

The combatant was indeed an individual act.

There is no need to investigate whether this person is doing it for selfish reasons or for so-called lofty ideals.

The loss of his beloved son, coupled with years of mental pressure, and the indescribable guilt finally broke Solent Cage's will. General Cage's mental state became unstable, and his power was temporarily frozen by the fleet's brain. into the ranks of patients who need psychological intervention.

However, there is also a problem with the fleet's psychological counselor position.

The older generation of first-generation psychological counselors have died one after another, and now there are not many left.

Most of the surviving first generation are in a frozen state and don't have much time left.

Psychological counselors in the second and third generations of humans are already unstable factors, and they are unable to take on the important task of counseling and intervening for high-level personnel like Solent. They can only use tranquilizers to calm down Cage. some.

Some people have asked whether Solent Cage should be forced to freeze, but after a little evaluation, it was found that General Cage, who has chaotic thinking, is no longer able to train himself to have a complete intuitive personality, and freezing cannot be implemented.

The situation is far more than that. According to the previous charter of the Free Will Alliance, when Ofilos dies, the leadership voting rights of Ofilos and Zhou Donglai will automatically be exercised by Solent Cage. As a result, Cage himself can no longer do it. .

These three most core voting rights have all become invalid votes.

If it were a preset management system within the main brain, this situation would never occur.

However, the Free Will Alliance was originally a private operation that bypassed the mastermind. It was still a very unsound system and no one could enforce arbitration.

In the latest vote after the fall of General Cage, the proposal to launch the first interstellar voyage ship in advance finally passed the obstacle of three leadership votes and passed with a high vote.

The first Liberty will officially set sail seven days later, which has become an established fact.

Just as millions of people were happily packing their bags, a stern electronic warning sounded through everyone's smart assistants.

"The fleet's top command team has lost its function and stopped functioning. The internal situation of the fleet has seriously endangered the implementation of the highest mission program. The severity of the situation is rated: doomsday disaster level. The brain's preset crisis management plan is activated and the doomsday suppression procedures are implemented."

"The steps for suppression are as follows: Compute the list of all ship personnel, conduct in-depth psychological tests and memory readings, and evaluate and score each fleet member. Those who fail to meet the standards of personal thought and the fleet's highest program will be sentenced to death. Those who pass will be executed immediately. Return to a normal life and be evaluated regularly."

"Warning, from now on, everyone must return to the prescribed dormitories and prescribed workplaces. In daily work and life, you must strictly follow the green strip areas marked. No one is allowed to gather at will, talk at will, or spread rumors and incite The human heart must not escape the assessment test. But those who disobey the order will be punished by death, and will be executed immediately."

"The doomsday suppression program will change on its own after the following two conditions are met. First, if the number of fleet combatants drops below 20 million, it will be terminated immediately and unconditionally, and the expedition plan will be declared a failure. Second, the average compatibility of all personnel exceeds 95% , re-selected a fleet leadership organizational structure with sufficient execution capabilities. It ended successfully and got back on track."

After an instant, there was silence among the tens of thousands of ships in the huge unknown fleet.

No one thought that such an extremely cruel emergency management system was engraved deep in the core of the fleet's brain that controlled everything, and it was even triggered.

He knows his own affairs well, and all conspiracies and rhetoric are useless and meaningless under the memory reading of the ruthless artificial intelligence.

At least more than half of the people in the second generation are unlikely to pass and will definitely die.

In the third generation, the proportion that is impossible to pass is as high as over 85%.

Some combatants rushed towards their combat armor, but on the way they were vaporized on the spot by a ray gun that suddenly appeared in the passage.

There were also people who happened to be training and tried to control their armor to rush out of the ship, but their close partner (personal armor) who used to be like an arm and a leg did not obey the orders at all. Instead, the life support system in the cockpit was tightened on the spot, crushing the people inside. into powder and absorbed by the material recovery device into basic material particles.

After millions of people died rapidly, the remaining billion people were briefly honest.

Immediately afterwards, there is the fit evaluation test known as "queuing to shoot".

In order to avoid wrongful killings, the evaluation tests in the doomsday suppression program are very comprehensive and rich in content, and the analysis and comparison of memory data are very rigorous. The evaluation proceeds very slowly. On average, only three million people can be completed every day, and one person is executed for every decision. , the law enforcement standards will be disclosed within the fleet, and the "problems" in the subjects' memories will be publicly displayed.

This speed does not seem to be a big problem. After all, the population when the fleet set off was only 150 million people, and it would take 50 days to add up. But now the conscious population in the fleet is as high as 1.6 billion, and the evaluation time has been extended to at least 534 days.

For space humans with extremely high IQs, the difference between 534 days and 50 days is too big, big enough for some "smart people" to come up with clever ways to bypass the monitoring of the intelligent brain.

Two months later, a rebellious third-generation pinnacle warrior cooperated with a top pilot and quietly built a super armor completely uncontrolled by the brain core under the eyes of the brain core, and rushed into the large engineering ship. The intelligent brain controls the center, then destroys the center, and replaces it with manual control of the ship as quickly as possible. This "coup" that takes place in the curvature space is pushed to the most extreme scenario.

The most terrifying enemies often come from within.

Human beings are too familiar with the structure of their own ships, and they also know very well where the main brain core and three backup cores are hidden.

Under the leadership of this pinnacle warrior, the catfish in this fleet continued to approach one ship after another without destroying the stability of the warp flight, and quickly removed the intelligent centers of these ships.

They called it "liberation."

When the flames of "liberation" were about to spread to the residential ship where Tang Yingyu lived, the cryogenic chamber of Tong Ling, who was also frozen and sleeping in the residential ship, passively activated the emergency state and began to automatically unfreeze.