I Really Didn’t Want to be a Savior

When she had no expectations in her heart, Tong Ling had no idea about 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 fate was to die on the battlefield.

She has changed now.

She sees it as greed, which is difficult to satisfy.

She could only keep her delusions deep in her heart.

In 2805, when Tong Ling participated in the highest-level meeting of the fleet as the chief instructor of the unknown fleet, the situation changed.

"Three days ago, we received a package of the latest scientific research results packaged and sent from the Imperial Command. In fact, we have received this package several times every year, but this time the situation is a bit special and is very important to us. .”

Qin Guang, who was sitting on the stage, 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 has happened.

"The name of this new technology is cryonics."

Sure enough, when Qin Guang said this, the audience was in an uproar.

In the previous expedition plan, the final combat order was planned like this.

Neither the command sequence headed by Qin Guang nor the combat sequence members headed by Tong Ling could survive until the day they arrived at their destination.

Therefore, when the real final battle breaks out, the main combat power on the spacecraft will have been reproduced for at least one generation.

What kind of results can be achieved in the end will first of all depend on how much scientific and technological breakthroughs humans can make during the nearly three hundred years of voyages, and how many achievements can be transformed with the existing resources of the Nameless Fleet.

Secondly, it also depends on how many outstanding successors the fleet can cultivate out of the 150 million people in the fleet, and how many outstanding commanders and commanders the fleet can accumulate during this nearly three hundred years of voyage. combatants.

This is an expedition destined to span at least two generations.

Before Tong Ling's potential exploded, there wasn't much problem with this plan.

After all, the population base in the fleet is not small, and those who board the fleet are all the elites among the elites, with huge genetic potential.

Every time an S-class combatant falls in the passage of time, there will always be a new S-class combatant to take over.

But since Tong Ling's potential exploded, problems have arisen.

Even though more than eighty years have passed, only a few top warriors have been trained within the fleet, and the gap between these top warriors and Tong Ling in actual combat is still visible to the naked eye.

This means that even if another two hundred years pass, the cutting-edge combat power represented by Tong Ling may not be able to be compensated.

It also means that mankind cannot save the strongest individual combat effectiveness for the decisive battle. This is a huge regret.

In addition, over the years, several top scientific research talents have emerged in the fleet, and these people have shown the same talents in different fields that are difficult to replicate. Even if the fleet cannot transmit information in real time with the outside world, making it more difficult for these scientific research geniuses to obtain information, they can still keep up with external progress in most fields and help the fleet digest high-precision information shared from the outside in the shortest possible time. Cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements.

Unfortunately, because scientific researchers generally overuse their brains and have short life spans, it is difficult for these geniuses who were born early to live two hundred years later. Even if we wait for hundreds of years, it is still unclear whether the fleet will still have the same level of scientists, and whether it will be able to continue to keep up with the scientific and technological progress of the entire empire.

This is always worrying.

"The situation is like this. About sixty years ago, the empire conducted a very large-scale scientific experiment. In this experiment, scientists tested human genes, earth biological genes, HeLa cell genes, sage primitive genes, and null energy. In-depth research has been conducted in many fields such as tardigrades, fish star stacked memories, and personality sealing technology."

"Now, after decades of calculations, repeated demonstrations, and a large number of experiments, scientists have finally found a way to seal personality. Of course, this technology is still in the theoretical stage. A total of 360,000 people The success rate of the volunteer test is still zero.”

hiss……

There were gasps of air in the conference room.

Emerson Colbert, the new generation chief scientist of the Unknown Fleet who just took office, stood up and added: "The sacrifice of 360,000 volunteers was not in vain, and a large amount of data was collected for the project. After repeated studies, scholars generally believe that The problem is that irreversible data overflow occurs in the process of converting human memory into stacked memory, resulting in insufficient integrity of the final frozen personality. More data will be irreversibly lost until the personality collapses. After finding a solution to this Until the problem is solved, cryonics technology still lacks reliability."

The previous chief scientist has passed away. Emerson Colbert, who is only 43 years old, is a new generation in the fleet. He was born on the No. 3 research ship to two senior physicists.

After Emerson finished speaking, another scientist stood up and asked a question, "Does this require the subject's mind to have mechanical characteristics? Then, can it be successful to freeze the Blank?"

Emerson nodded first, then shook his head.

"Blank One is indeed very suitable for human cryonics, but Blank One's freezing is meaningless, because Blank One's thinking activity is like a light bulb that can be turned off and restarted at any time. Blank One's freezing technology has been successfully verified before we set off. However, it did not cause a sensation. Its essence is no different from keeping a machine for decades and then taking it out for use. It is not considered a qualitative change and is not worthy of attention."

Everyone nodded.

This is the truth.

Emerson added: "Having said so much, I want to tell you. In the previous information sharing, the technology provided to us by the Empire was basically finished product, and we only need to digest and absorb it. But this time, the Empire needs our help .”

Someone immediately stood up and objected: "How can this help? We only have more than 100 million people. Do we need to select volunteers from among our people? What if we fail again? Will we die in vain? We are different. We do not have unlimited resources. We have limited resources, let alone an infinitely large gene pool, and our manpower is limited, but if one dies, one will be missing."

"Yes, it's not that we are selfish. We are not afraid of death. If you really want me to go, I will go. But we are a lonely expeditionary force. Our core mission is to reach the center of the galaxy. We have to fight with the strongest in the opponent's base camp. The enemy will fight him and turn the world upside down. We are no more free than the people outside."

"What if we lose our strength in order to cooperate with the empire's scientific research, and in the end the scientific research here fails, and our mission fails. Then who can we ask for explanation? What if the sage is resurrected, and when we look back at the records, we find that our vast The slutty expeditionary force became a joke that cost people's lives, why should he be so angry that he would explode? Then I won't be able to rest in peace even if I die."

Qin Guang pressed his hand to signal the people below to calm down.

When the conference room became quiet again, Emerson slowly said: "I understand everyone's concerns, and the empire's senior officials also understand, so they did not impose any requirements, but asked us if we were willing. The main thing is to see...forget it. First, let me talk to you in detail about the value of cryonics technology."

There is no doubt that Emerson was on the side of experimentation.

Human civilization is a huge collective composed of countless individuals.

In this group, some people will hold high positions and hold great power, some can lead technology and radiate the era, and some can overwhelm the others at the combat level and continuously improve the combat level of the entire civilization with their own efforts.

This small group of pioneers is like the steering wheel or the guide bearing of the civilization's chariot.

But no matter in any era, there are very few people who are famous in the world. The main component of civilization is still all living beings, one after another inconspicuous screws that can even be easily replaced.

There is no denying the value of screws.

In the huge tank system, if a screw is missing, it won't take long for another screw to be quickly replaced, and the tank will not move at all. But what if all the screws were removed instantly?

No matter how huge the chariot is, it will collapse.

But equally, the value of the steering wheel cannot be ignored.

If you take away the steering wheel for a short time, the civilized chariot will go a little off track.

After a few days, a new steering wheel will gradually grow up, take over the responsibility of leading the way forward, and correct the wrong direction of the chariot.

But at this time, civilization had already wasted a lot of time on detours and wasted a lot of resources.

This may also happen, for example, a certain steering wheel's talent is completely beyond the era, and is not understood by the era at that time. He has not been able to stand at the height he should stand throughout his life, and his talent has been wasted.

Many years later, when later generations come to their senses, they often lament that his life was not at the right time and do nothing, 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 large logistics pipeline in the universe with his keen sense that was hundreds of years ahead of his time. Hundreds of years have passed, and the core ideas proposed by Ryan are still regarded as true. If Ryan can be active in the twenty-sixth century, it will be a great blessing for him and the entire civilization.

Similar situations also happened to Tesla, Zhang Heng and others.

This kind of waste is not limited to the scientific field. There is also similar waste in the fields of art, politics, business, etc.

For example, Yu Boya, Beethoven, Zhong Lei...

If these people with extremely high musical creativity are exposed to more musical instruments, hear more different sounds, see more technology for synthesizing sounds, and more complete modern and post-modern arrangement systems, these people will be better throughout their lives. How many more songs can be created? After accessing the brain link technology, how many classic melodies that have been quietly wasted in the brain can be preserved?

can not imagine.

Perhaps these people have maximized their talents in their own lives.

But this so-called ultimate must take into account the constraints of the times.

The core value of cryonics technology is that it allows these talents to transcend the limitations of the times and open up another possibility for the entire civilization.

When necessary, freeze the forerunners and preserve their talents until they are needed and appropriate. After meeting certain necessary conditions, put these talents that have been limited by the times into a more appropriate position and let them change to a more appropriate position. How much help will a comfortable environment bloom again to civilization?

It's really hard for ordinary people to imagine.

For example, a top scientist has advanced an important project to a certain extent, and the remaining research needs experimental verification. The next step of derivation cannot be carried out until a large amount of experimental data is obtained, or it may require huge calculations and long-term observations. .

This is very realistic.

Some astrophysical projects involving stars often require decades or even hundreds of years of observation and waiting.

Without cryonics technology, this talented scientist would have had to waste his life and talent in useless waiting.

Even if he turned to other directions and produced some results during this period, the significance was actually not as significant as that major project that would last throughout his life.

If cryonics technology is available, the same person can wait for the project to mature and engage in larger and greater research over thousands or even tens of thousands of years. What will happen to civilization?

Some people may say, as a mentor, aren’t you able to train students? Don’t you have successors?

But it takes time for each successor to learn from a mentor, and different people will think about the problem differently.

Some projects require a complete and consistent thinking model.

Mentoring to train successors is a huge trial and error process in itself.

This will not only waste the life of the tutor, but also waste the lives of many eliminated students who may not be so suitable.

How much waste of resources is caused here?

What if these resources were saved?

In the past, people didn't dare to think about it because no one could defeat time, the sharpest weapon in the universe.

Immortality has been proven impossible.

But now it works.

There is no doubt that this will definitely bring qualitative changes to the scientific research process of mankind.

The same goes for other fields with similar needs, such as warriors.

No matter how strong a warrior is, if he is born too early and cannot survive until the decisive battle, he will eventually become an outsider.

However, cryonics technology can allow the genius warriors born in generations of human beings to enter a frozen state, and then stand up again when civilization reaches the most dangerous life and death situation.

Another example is ultra-long-distance voyages across star systems.

This impact is more intuitive.

Assuming that humans choose an extragalactic galaxy that is more than 10 million light-years away as a voyage target, even the fastest spacecraft with a speed of 500 times the speed of light will take 20,000 years to reach the destination.

Under normal circumstances, the humans in this fleet have reproduced for at least one or two hundred generations.

But when the natural phenomena of the universe fail to pose a threat to mankind, mankind's biggest enemy becomes itself.

In infinite time and distance, there are too many uncertain factors in the direction of people's hearts.

Halfway through the journey, as the population structure continues to change, it is easy for the successors to lack a sense of belonging to the civilization as a whole, causing these people to lose faith and eventually fall apart and perish in the universe amid internal strife.

Then this voyage was a complete failure.

But if cryonics technology is available, the expedition fleet can use it flexibly to arrange a backbone that can run through the endless expedition plan.

"In short, mastering cryonics technology can preserve some talents that are 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 intervention in the timeline. The sage stole time from different timelines and then piled it into our last timeline to create a stronger explosive power of civilization for us. But cryonics , but it is to further extract the value of time infinitely in the same timeline. This is a more extreme method of stealing time."

"We can allow great people to gain immortality. Even if it is just a false immortality, it is enough to allow important figures with super high IQs and super abilities to last for a longer period of time, create greater influence, and provide a stronger civilization. The possibility of explosive power!”

"Its technological application prospects and applicable scenarios are infinitely broad, and I am so excited just imagining the changes it will bring to civilization. This means that we truly have the possibility to move towards the endless universe."

"This is an important sign that human civilization is making great strides forward on the road to level four civilization!"

Emerson said impassionedly.

After a long time, someone in the conference room sighed.

"It sounds so good. Alas, it's a pity that the sage can't enjoy it. Otherwise... it would be great if everyone knew that the sage is still sleeping somewhere."

Qin Guang thought for a while, but did not reveal the secret that Chen Feng was indeed "sleeping".

That is another "personality cryopreservation" technology that is even more beyond comprehension. It is not universal and has no reference value.

"Okay, Mr. Emerson, you are just trying to convince us to support the project. What should we do?"

one of the officers stood up and asked.

Emerson turned to look at Tong Ling, who was sitting in the front row. She was in a daze the whole time after hearing the words cryonics, and said: "Instructor Tong has the quantum thinking that is closest to mechanization among humans. Instructor Tong's intuitive thinking mode, This makes her the only person who has acquired mechanical thinking ability without relying on "Song of the World". Therefore, we need the help of child instructors."

"this……"

The expressions of Qin Guang and many other military personnel suddenly changed.

Scientists want "guinea pigs."

OK, they have no objection.

It’s no problem even if you go on your own.

But these scientific lunatics are too daring to think. As soon as they arrive, they focus on the entire unknown fleet, and even Tong Ling, the most advanced combat power in all mankind. They are simply thinking nonsense!

If something happened to Tong Ling, it would be a disaster.

If we encounter an enemy combat unit of the same level as the Crystal Tardigrade again, who will take the lead?

No one is afraid of death, only afraid of losing.

"I am against..."

Gao Xiaoqi, who had been promoted to major general, stood up suddenly and spoke loudly.

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Tong Ling.

"I agree."

Tong Ling's reply was concise, concise, sonorous and powerful, with an air of being beyond doubt and leaving no room for negotiation.

No one knew that she was actually so excited that her soul was trembling.