Chapter 488 To the dead, the epitaph to the living
Chapter 488 Those who go to the dead, epitaphs for the living
After sending Hua Yuelan away, Ren Zhong sat in the office for a while.
He once thought that once he lost his resurrection, he would have to say goodbye to the people around him one after another.
He also did a lot of psychological construction.
This construction was basically a success.
He knew from the beginning how difficult the road ahead would be.
But when this moment actually happened, he was still quite caught off guard.
But this is just the beginning.
There is another more realistic problem that involves more people than before.
He had to select 750,000 people to carry out the mission.
Not one or two, but seven hundred and fifty thousand.
When he was in Xinghuo Town, Ren Zhong was furious because the census officer could decide the life or death of tens of thousands of people with just one sentence.
But now that he has reached this point, he realizes how much of a fool he once was.
Liu An was just one of the tens of thousands of imperial earls, but because of his evil thoughts, he dug a hole that the fleet had to fill with 750,000 lives.
And this seems to be just the beginning.
The Machine Empire amplified the evil of the Origin Star countless times.
How ridiculous.
This journey back home was filled with blood every step of the way.
Counting the Battle of the Imperial Mothership and the reconnaissance ships, transport ships and armed ships that were accidentally damaged along the way, as well as those who unfortunately died in experimental accidents, and those who worked on the ship for the entire second half of their lives without ever taking a break.
people, the sacrifice of the fleet is too great.
Ren Zhong rubbed his temples.
"I have to get used to it."
Six hours later, Ren Zhong stood up and went to the mobilization department headed by Xiao Xingyue.
Xiao Xingyue was once the star of hope for the Nianli division under the association, and later became the leader of the secret review department of the Ren Group. After joining the fleet, she began to serve as the head of the legal department.
Although she has always had issues with the heavy responsibility and spends most of her time in cryogenic slumber, it is the work that she should be responsible for, but she has never given up the choice.
When the heavy responsibility arrived at the mobilization department, Xiao Xingyue was leading the team to conduct the final selection of personnel with the assistance of Sun Ai, who was pretending to be "Net".
Six hours ago, after Ren Zhong and Hua Yuelan agreed on the plan, a new recruitment order was announced to all members of the reconnaissance army.
Today, the reconnaissance corps still has five major military branches, the total size of reconnaissance ships has increased to three million, and the total number of members is 30 million.
The soldiers of the reconnaissance force still implement a rotation system. Due to the improvement of armament, the "Eye" reconnaissance ship has higher performance and stronger firepower, which puts higher demands on the crew members of the reconnaissance ship. Most of the scouts are elite and enjoy more ordinary service.
Higher pay for shipboard soldiers.
Correspondingly, the casualty rate of scout ship crew members is also much higher than that of ordinary ship-borne troops, but the intention of new recruits to sign up to join the reconnaissance corps remains high.
In particular, the Third Reconnaissance Army, which had suffered the heaviest casualties, became the most popular.
Even if the Ministry of Military Management has improved the selection standards and thresholds for scouts, it still cannot stop the enthusiasm of young people.
The main crew members of the special service ship are mainly composed of two people. One part is pure technical personnel in charge of core technologies. They are selected by Hua Yuelan and Chen Qiao within the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. The total number is 50,000, one person per ship.
The other part is technical soldiers who will be selected from within the reconnaissance corps.
The internal selection mode is to clearly inform the soldiers in the reconnaissance corps that this is a life-or-death mission, but it is extremely important and affects the life and death of the entire fleet, and then allows the soldiers to take the initiative to sign up.
Before issuing the announcement, Xiao Xingyue actually asked Ren Zhong. She believed that there was no need to make the registration requirements so clear, and there was no need to fully announce the dangers of the mission. Anyway, the brains and communications of all work ships are completely affected by the "network."
"The control of the "Net" is also used for remote control and driving under normal circumstances. You only need to tell the personnel in the work ship that this is a special task.
All information exchanges will be completed under the control of the "net", and shipboard personnel have no right to check specific information. They will not even know their specific routes. In the vast universe, they try to rely on the naked eye to complete positioning and figure out where they are.
Where, and it is absolutely unrealistic to figure out where the large troops are.
But Ren Zhong rejected Xiao Xingyue's proposal.
He said: "Although it is theoretically possible to keep everyone in the dark and let them die unknowingly, anyway, under the impact of the dark energy explosion, it is impossible for there to be any more information flow to convey the news.
, it seems that there is no danger of the news leaking out. But I don’t think so. I have already told a lie once during the clean-up operation of Source Star. The same thing must not happen again. If we use deception to let these people die,
I don’t know why, but the moral court in my heart will judge me again and torture me.”
"At the same time, this will also bring greater risks. Some people will realize that they have been deceived and abandoned. If any one of these people becomes resentful and does something beyond technical limitations, it may
The whereabouts will be exposed. The people who stayed in the fleet will also lose confidence in me because I lied twice in a row, and worry about whether my next order will be like this again. People's hearts will be shaken, and fleet citizens may also
Abandon me. In normal times, my strong control may never be shown, but once these resentful people find an opportunity to betray me and cause me substantial harm, they will not hesitate."
"Lies may bring short-term benefits, reduce the cost and difficulty of social management, seem to simplify complex things, and even make civilized managers addicted to it."
"However, lies are actually poison that quenches thirst. As much as you enjoy the convenience brought by lying, you will overdraw your credibility. The anger and dissatisfaction in people's hearts are like undercurrents under the deep sea. They will accumulate and one day they will erupt like a volcano.
, I have to pay the price of repayment.”
"This is the reason why I was able to take over the rule of the nine administrators so easily, suppress the nine major groups easily, and control all the resources in my own hands. The nine administrators even made up stories in order to lie.
History. When the truth of history was exposed, in the entire Origin Star, except for the vested interests within the nine major groups, no one was loyal to them."
"In addition to drastic regime changes, there is another way of so-called resistance, and that is destruction. The Origin Star civilization, with a population of 20 billion, still encountered a hundred-year-long struggle even though it had ready-made knowledge in the Knowledge Ball.
This is the reason for the above technological stagnation.”
"I can't make the same mistake again. We have to trust our soldiers, let them know, and take the initiative to sign up."
Xiao Xingyue had some doubts at first, but after only half an hour, she understood the gap between herself and Ren Zhong.
In just half an hour, more than one million people signed up.
Now, six hours later, the total number of applicants has even climbed to tens of millions.
This means that on average, at least one out of every three Scout Army soldiers has chosen to sign up.
If Ren Zhong had not ordered to terminate registration, the number of people would have continued to rise.
"A total of only 700,000 people are needed. As a result, these soldiers knew that there would be no chance of death, but there were still too many applicants, which brought great difficulties to our selection work."
In front of the workbench, Xiao Xingyue said with a hint of distress, "Even if we used the 'net' to pre-screen and eliminate some soldiers who did not meet the technical ability standards, there were still more than three million qualified candidates. I didn't expect the soldiers to be like this.
Zhengyue, I should have trusted your judgment and changed the registration mode to first-come, first-served, first-come-first-served basis."
Ren Zhong shook his head, "That won't work either. The position of the work ship is very important. Determination is not enough. You still have to have the ability to meet the standards."
"But now I can't decide on the final candidate by random drawing, right? That would hurt morale." Xiao Xingyue looked back at the densely packed names on the workbench projection screen and said with a frown.
"Let me think about it." Ren Zhong thought for a moment, "Give me new conditions."
"What conditions?"
"First, only children whose parents have died are prohibited from registering. Second, all brothers and sisters in the same family are prohibited from registering. The same genetic source and similar parental education background may produce offspring with similar levels. Look at these three people
, all named Sami. Ahmed Sami, Luchad Sami, and Pansim Sami are clearly three brothers."
"Similarly, thirdly, parents and children are prohibited from registering at the same time. That's it for now, let's screen and see how many people are left."
Sun Ai was very efficient and completed the screening in just a blink of an eye, leaving 1.07 million people.
"The remaining ones will be screened according to the scores of the latest functional assessment, and all those with lower scores will be eliminated from the alternative series. After completing this, start recruiting from each fleet. Give them some time to say goodbye to their families, and work on the fleet.
It will be launched intensively in a week.”
…
The three brothers Ahmed, Luchad and Pansim were gathering together excitedly to discuss the next arrangements.
As a minority race on the Origin Star civilization, the ancestors of the three brothers have never lived a satisfactory life on the Origin Star. For thousands of years, no matter how hard the men and women of the Sami family tried, they could only live in the temporary desert.
Switching back and forth between the two lowest identities of being a wilderness man.
Until the rapid rise of the Ren Group, which completely changed the social atmosphere of Yuanxing and gave people at the bottom a chance to get ahead based on their abilities, this family with extraordinary talents in driving vehicles finally got the opportunity to soar into the sky.
The father of the three brothers, Mamunun Sami, passed numerous selections and took his family on the last train to board the Origin Star Fleet as an excellent Veyron X-fighter pilot.
Mamunun participated in the Morality Committee Trial Battle that took place inside the Source Star, the "Rebel War" that launched an attack on the Pathfinder spacecraft, and also participated in the Battle of the Imperial Mothership. But Mamunun is not a super-class among the water dropships.
Professional, but a reconnaissance ship pilot of the Third Reconnaissance Corps.
When Ren Zhong personally led his team to attack the Mother Royal Ship, Mamunun, whose biological age was over forty, came out of hiding and provided effective fire support to several super-level professionals. He was awarded second-class merit and was promoted.
For a colonel.
During the years when he followed the fleet, Mamunun did not choose cryogenic slumber. He worked hard on the reconnaissance ship for a long time, and used his spare time to seriously teach his three sons and cultivate the three brothers into talents.
Two years ago, Mamnoon Sami died. Before he died, he said to his three sons who were guarding his bed: "If it weren't for your lordship, I would never have had the opportunity to display my talent in my life. I would have been thrown away."
On the surface of the Source Star, I became a discarded gecko tail. The Earl gave me a new life, and I have been fighting for him all my life. I am also very lucky to have lived until now, and I can still watch you three grow up and change.
Children who have grown up to be indomitable. I still remember when I was a child. At that time, I never expected to have such a happy and lucky life. This is all given to me by the Earl. The reason why you were born and became such a great boy is,
This is also an opportunity given by him. Maybe he doesn’t even know your names, but that doesn’t matter, and it doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you. He is very busy, and he must be responsible for everyone in the entire civilization. He is my god, and he should
He is your God and the God of everyone. When he is in need, you must be like me and bravely get on the fighter plane and fight for him until the last moment."
After saying these words and persisting until his three sons nodded and swore with tears in their eyes, Mamnoon Sami closed his eyes with satisfaction.
At this moment, the three brothers waited for the opportunity to fulfill their vows to their father.
As the eldest brother, Ahmed Sami is already a lieutenant colonel capable of commanding an eye unit and an ace driver in the Third Reconnaissance Army.
Although there are differences between his two younger brothers and him, they are only different in age and experience, and their absolute levels are very close.
The three brothers believed that since the Military Administration said this mission was so important, the Sami family would definitely shine in the mission.
Father's God will definitely crown the Sami family just like it did with Captain Ding Cang, making this originally unknown name in the Origin Star society a symbol of glory.
My father in heaven will definitely be proud of this.
Ahmed said to his two younger brothers: "When the time comes, the three of us will definitely be assigned to three different ships. If this is a secret mission, we will not be allowed to communicate privately. But I want to say
, our hearts are always together.”
With that said, Ahmed stretched out his hand, and Luchade and Pansim also stretched out their hands.
The hands of the three brothers hold each other's wrists, forming an equilateral triangle. This triangle represents the eternal and firm will, and is a ritual that the three brothers figured out themselves.
At this moment, the formal recruitment order was issued.
The three brothers changed their colors one after another.
Luchad and Pansim unexpectedly lost the election, and only Ahmed, the eldest brother, was among them.
"This..." Luchad held his head in pain.
Pansim sighed in frustration, "Alas..."
Ahmed lost consciousness for a moment, and then said seriously: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. My performance on the front line will be closely related to your safety, and I will try my best for you. You are still with me, and you are still my motivation.
.you are still making a difference."
At this moment, a message came to the three people's watches.
This command is a video message from Ren Zhong.
The projected image rose from the three brothers' watches at the same time, and Ren Zhong's face appeared in the air.
Ren Zhong said calmly: "This is an epitaph for the living."
"I'm very happy that so many people signed up. Even though you all knew that this mission was a fatal one, you all responded to my call."
"Although you are still alive, you are destined to die."
"On behalf of myself and everyone in the fleet, thank you for your bravery and sacrifice, and thank you for your generosity in dying."
