When there was no expectation in her heart, Tong Ling had no knowledge of aging, and it didn't matter at all.
She didn't know when or where she would die.
But she knew that a soldier's destiny was to die in battle.
Now she has changed.
She regards it as greed, and it is difficult to satisfy it.
She can only hide her delusions deep in her heart.
In 2805, when Tong Ling participated in the fleet top-level meeting as the chief instructor of the unknown fleet, the situation changed.
"Three days ago, we received an integration package of the latest scientific research achievements packaged and sent by the imperial command. In fact, we received this integration package several times a year in the past, but this time the situation is somewhat special and very important to us."
Sitting on the rostrum, Qin Guang tried his best to restrain himself and tried to tell the facts in a calmer tone.
But people still heard something different from his slightly trembling tone.
Something big happened.
"The name of this new technology is human body freezing technology."
Sure enough, as soon as Qin Guang said this, there was an uproar under the stage.
In the previous expedition plan, the final battle order was planned like this.
The members of the command sequence headed by Qin Guang and the battle sequence headed by Tong Ling could not live to reach their destination.
Therefore, when the real final war breaks out, the main combat effectiveness on the spacecraft will be multiplied for at least one generation.
What kind of results can be achieved in the end will first depend on how much scientific and technological breakthroughs can be made by mankind in the nearly 300 years of voyage, and how many achievements can be transformed with the existing resources of the unknown fleet.
Second, it also depends on how many excellent successors the existing 150 million people in the fleet can cultivate, and how many excellent commanders and combatants the fleet can accumulate in the nearly 300 years of voyage.
This is an expedition destined to span at least two generations.
Before Tong Ling's potential burst, there was no big problem with the plan.
After all, the population base of the fleet is not small, and those who boarded the fleet are the elite of the elite, with great genetic potential.
Every time an S-class combatant falls down in the passage of time, more or less there will always be new S-class personnel on top.
But since Tong Ling's potential burst, problems have arisen.
Even after more than 80 years, only a few peak soldiers have been trained in the fleet, and the gap between these peak soldiers and Tong Ling is still visible to the naked eye.
This means that even two hundred years later, the cutting-edge combat power represented by Tong Ling may not be able to make up for it.
What's more, it means that mankind can't leave the strongest individual combat effectiveness to be displayed in the decisive battle, which is a great pity.
In addition, in recent years, several top scientific research talents have emerged in the fleet, who have shown the same talents that are difficult to replicate in different fields. Even if the fleet cannot transmit real-time information with the outside world, which makes it more difficult for these scientific research talents to obtain information, they can still keep up with external progress in most fields and help the fleet digest the high-tech achievements shared by the outside world in the shortest time.
Unfortunately, because researchers generally use the brain excessively and live a short life, it is difficult for these early born geniuses to live 200 years later. Even in a few hundred years, it is unknown whether the fleet can have scientists of the same level or continue to keep up with the scientific and technological progress of the whole empire.
This is always worrying.
"This is the case. About 60 years ago, the Empire conducted a large-scale scientific experiment. In this experiment, scientists conducted in-depth research on human genes, earth biological genes, Hella cell genes, sage primitive genes, virtual water bear insects, Pisces man stacked memory and personality storage technology."
"Up to now, after decades of calculation and repeated demonstration, a large number of experiments have been completed. Scientists have finally found a way to seal the personality. Of course, the technology is still in the theoretical stage. The success rate of 360000 volunteers is still zero."
Hiss
The meeting room was filled with cold breath.
Emerson cobert, the new chief scientist of the unknown fleet who had just taken office, stood up and added: "360000 volunteers did not sacrifice in vain and collected a lot of data for the project. After repeated research, scholars generally believe that the problem is that irreversible data overflow occurred in the process of transforming human memory into stacked memory, resulting in insufficient integrity of the final frozen personality, and more data will always be irreversibly lost until the personality collapses Before the solution to this problem, human freezing technology still lacks reliability. "
The last chief scientist has passed away. Emerson cobert, 43, is a new generation in the fleet. He was born on the No. 3 research ship and his parents are two senior physicists.
After Emerson finished, other scientists stood up and asked, "does this require the subject's thinking to have mechanical characteristics? Then, freezing the blank can succeed?"
Emerson nodded first and then.
"The blank person is really suitable for human body freezing, but the blank person's freezing is meaningless, because the blank person's thinking activity can be turned off and restarted at any time like a light bulb. The blank person's freezing technology has been verified successfully long before we set out, but it has not caused a sensation. Its essence is no different from saving the machine for decades and then taking it out for use Qualitative change is not worth paying attention to. "
The crowd nodded.
That's the reason.
Emerson added: "after talking so much, I want to tell you. In the previous information sharing, the technologies provided by the Empire to us were basically finished products, and we just need to digest and absorb them. But this time, the Empire needs our help."
Someone immediately stood up and objected: "how can this help? We had only more than 100 million people. Should we select volunteers from our people? What if we failed? Should we die in vain? We are different. We have no unlimited resources, let alone an unlimited gene bank. Our manpower is limited, but one who dies is less."
"Yes, it's not our selfishness. We're not afraid of death. If we want to let me go, I'll go too. But we're a lonely expeditionary army. Our core task is to reach Yinxin. We have to fight with the strongest enemy in each other's base camp. We're not more free than people outside."
"If we lose our strength in order to cooperate with the imperial scientific research, and finally our scientific research fails, our task will also fail. Who can we reason with? If the sage resurrects, look back at the records and find that our mighty expeditionary army has become a joke of giving away heads. He doesn't have to blow his lungs? Then I won't close my eyes when I die."
Qin Guang pressed his hand and motioned the people below to be calm.
When the meeting room was quiet again, Emerson said slowly, "I understand everyone's concerns and the high-level of the Empire understand them, so we didn't ask for it, but asked whether we were willing. The main thing is to see... Forget it, I'll talk about the value of human body freezing technology with you first."
There is no doubt that Emerson is the one who prefers to carry out the experiment.
Human civilization is a huge collective composed of countless individuals.
In this collective, some people will occupy a high position and hold power, others can lead the era of science and technology and radiation, and others can press the heroes at the battle level and continuously raise the combat level of the whole civilization with their own strength.
This small group of pioneers are like the steering wheel or guide bearing of a civilized chariot.
However, in any era, there are very few famous people in the world. The main component of civilization is still all sentient beings, one after another insignificant screws that can even be easily replaced.
Do not deny the value of screws.
In the huge chariot system, one screw was missing. Before long, another screw could be quickly repaired, and the chariot remained motionless. But what if you remove all the screws in an instant?
No matter how huge the chariot is, it has to collapse.
But similarly, the value of the steering wheel can not be ignored.
Take away the steering wheel for a short time, and the civilized chariot will take a little fork.
In a few days, a new steering wheel will gradually grow up, take over the responsibility of leading the way and correct the wrong direction for the chariot.
But at this time, civilization has been in detours, wasted a little time and wasted a lot of resources.
This may also happen. For example, the talent of a steering wheel completely exceeded the times and was not understood by the times at that time. In his whole life, he failed to stand at the height he should stand, wasting his talent in vain.
Until many years later, later generations reacted and often lamented his untimely life, such as Ryan, who is active in the 21st century.
In such an extensive scientific background, Ryan still proposed and completed the design of the cosmic logistics pipeline with a keen sense of smell hundreds of years ahead. Hundreds of years later, the core idea put forward by Ryan is still regarded as reasonable. If Ryan could be active in the 26th century, it would be a great blessing for him and for the whole civilization.
A similar situation also happened to Tesla, Zhang Heng and others.
This waste is not limited to the field of science, but also has similar waste in the fields of art, politics, commerce and so on.
For example, Yu Boya, Beethoven, Zhong Lei
If these people with high musical creativity are exposed to more musical instruments, hear more different sounds, see more synthetic sound technology and more perfect modern and postmodern composition system, how many more songs can they create in their whole life? After accessing the brain chain technology, how many classic melodies can be saved that are quietly wasted in the brain?
I can't imagine.
Perhaps these people have brought their talents into full play in their lives.
But this so-called extreme must take into account the constraints of the times.
The core value of human body freezing technology is to make these talents jump out of the limitations of the times and open another possibility for the whole civilization.
When necessary, how much help will it bring to civilization to freeze the pioneers and preserve their talents until they are needed and appropriate. After meeting some necessary conditions, put these talents limited by the times in a more appropriate position and let them bloom again in a more comfortable environment?
It's hard for ordinary people to imagine.
For example, a top scientist has promoted an important project to a certain extent, and the remaining research needs experimental research. The next derivation can not be carried out until a large number of experimental data are obtained, or huge calculation and long-term observation are required.
This is very realistic.
Some stellar physics projects involving stars often require decades or even hundreds of years of observation and waiting.
In the absence of human body freezing technology, this talented scientist had to waste his life and talent in meaningless waiting.
Even if he turns to other directions and comes up with some results during this period, the significance is not as great as the major project that can run through his life.
With human body freezing technology, the same person can wait for the maturity of the project and engage in greater and great research in a span of thousands or even tens of thousands of years. What about civilization?
Some people may say that as a mentor, you can train students. Don't you have an heir?
But each successor needs time and cost to learn from his mentor, and different people must think differently.
Some projects just need a complete thinking mode that comes down in one continuous line.
Tutors training successors is a huge trial and error process.
This will not only waste the lives of tutors, but also waste the lives of many eliminated students who are not so suitable.
How much waste of resources has this caused?
What if these resources are saved?
In the past, people dared not think because no one could defeat time, the sharpest weapon in the universe.
Immortality has proved impossible.
But now you can.
There is no doubt that this will bring qualitative changes to the scientific research process of mankind.
The same is true in other areas with similar needs, such as soldiers.
No matter how strong a soldier is, if he is born too early to live until the great showdown comes, he can only be an outsider after all.
However, human body freezing technology can let the talented soldiers born in human beings from generation to generation enter the freezing state and stand up again when civilization comes to the most dangerous life and death.
Another example is the super long-distance voyage across the star system.
This effect is more intuitive.
Assuming that humans choose an extragalactic galaxy with a distance of more than ten million light-years as a long-distance navigation target, even the fastest spacecraft 500 times the speed of light at present will take 20000 years to reach its destination.
Under normal circumstances, the humans in this fleet have multiplied for at least one or two hundred generations.
However, when the natural phenomena of the universe can not pose a threat to mankind, mankind's biggest enemy has become itself.
In the infinite time and distance, there are too many uncertain factors in the direction of the people's heart.
On the way, with the continuous renewal of the population structure, it is easy for the successors to lack a sense of belonging to the whole civilization, resulting in these people losing their faith, eventually falling apart and perishing in the universe in the internal struggle.
Then the voyage was a complete failure.
But with the human body freezing technology, the voyage fleet can flexibly use it to arrange a backbone that can run through the endless expedition plan.
"In short, mastering human body freezing technology can save some talents destined to be wasted. In essence, it is mastering time and creating new infinite possibilities for the development of civilization."
"This technology is similar to the sage Chen Feng's interference in the timeline. The sage steals time from different timelines and then accumulates it into our last timeline, creating a stronger explosive force of civilization for us. However, human body freezing further extracts the value of time in the same timeline, which is a more extreme means of stealing time."
"We can let great people obtain immortality. Even if this is only a false immortality, it is enough to make important people with super high IQ and super ability have the possibility to run through the longer-term era, form a greater impact and provide a stronger explosive power of civilization!"
"Its technology application prospects and applicable scenarios are infinitely broad, and I can't help but imagine the changes it will bring to civilization. This means that we really have the possibility to go to the endless universe."
"This is an important sign that human civilization has made great strides forward on the road of four levels of civilization!"
Emerson said impassively.
After a long time, someone in the conference room sighed.
"Sounds good. Alas, it's a pity that the sage can't enjoy it. Otherwise... Now it would be nice if everyone knew that the sage was still sleeping somewhere."
Qin Guang thought about it, but did not announce the secret that Chen Feng was indeed "sleeping".
That is another "personality freeze storage" technology beyond understanding. It is not universal and has no reference value.
"Well, Mr. Emerson, you say so much just to persuade us to support the project. What should we do?"
An officer stood up and asked.
Emerson turned to Tong Ling, who was sitting in the front row. After hearing the words "human body freezing", she wandered all the way out of the sky, and said, "Tong Jiao Guan has the most mechanized quantum thinking in human beings. Her intuitive thinking mode makes her the only one who does not rely on the song of the world at present So we need the help of the child instructor. "
"This..."
Qin Guang and many other military personnel suddenly changed their faces.
Scientists want "mice".
OK, they have no objection.
Even if you can do it yourself.
But these scientific lunatics dare to think too much. As soon as they come, they stare at the whole nameless fleet, and even Tong Ling, the most cutting-edge combat force of all mankind. They are just thinking of farting!
If something happens to Tong Ling, it will be a disaster.
If you encounter enemy combat units of the same level as crystal water bear again, who will take the lead?
No one is afraid of death, just losing.
"I am..."
Gao Xiaoqi, who had been promoted to major general, stood up and spoke loudly.
But before he finished, Tong Ling interrupted him.
"I agree."
Tong Ling's reply was concise, sonorous and powerful, with an indisputable and non-negotiable flavor.
No one knows. In fact, her soul is shaking with excitement.