"If it's Jin Tuyi …"
Li Yao's soul gradually spread out dark golden waves that looked like hidden but sharp demonic energy.
At first, he chose to bow to the old nobles and magnates, making them believe that he was their most loyal spokesperson and lackey. Also, in the escape plan a hundred years later, he would definitely fight for the most positions for their families and forces. Therefore, he won the support of a lot of nobles and magnates.
Then, he infiltrated the academic community in secret and controlled quite a few cutting-edge research institutes. On one hand, he significantly reduced the difficulty of building starships and developing human hibernation technology in his propaganda. On the other hand, he even fabricated several habitable planets dozens of lightyears away without any evidence, claiming that they were all worlds with abundant resources and abundant crystals and spiritual energy. In such a way, he won everyone's support and forced a large batch of projects that were destined to consume tremendous resources, which bordered on black holes.
He even arranged for his men to spread propaganda among the people, telling them that dozens of lightyears away was the land of hope, the land of rebirth, and the land of eternal glory for everyone. As long as they slept comfortably for hundreds of years, they would be able to start a new, happy life on a planet that was a hundred times more beautiful than Earth. The premise was that all the people gritted their teeth and squeezed every penny in their pockets and every drop of blood in their bodies so that they could work hard for the plan to march into the grand universe.
On the other hand, he also raised a private army made of the old soldiers, the radiation people, and the modified people in the darkness, who bared their sharp fangs at a lot of opponents.
His private army pretended to be the remnants of the superhumans who were defeated in the Battle of the Overspirits and assassinated a lot of people who opposed him in the Earth Council. He also pretended to be the most extreme nationalists and "purists" and besieged the nests of the superhumans, raising the fire of hatred between the two parties. In such a way, the superhumans, the extreme nationalists, and all the opponents suffered losses so that he could further concentrate the power in his hands.
He also secretly built a lot of cutting-edge weapon development centers and delivered the most advanced military technologies to his private army to improve their combat ability. Gradually, they eroded and even overwhelmed the strength of the regular army.
The leader of Earth, who was faced with the apocalypse, had walked through mountains of blades and oceans of fire. It was full of cruelty and blood.
But Li Yao knew that a lot of unacceptable and inhumane details were hidden behind the history that was being pushed forward in the grand scheme of things.
Fortunately, this was something that had happened billions of years ago. Fortunately, this was only a test or a game. Fortunately, he did not have to face life-like details and live victims. Otherwise, his Dao Heart might very well have completely collapsed at this moment.
His ruthlessness and arbitrariness had finally paid off.
Under the stimulation of the apocalypse, all human beings were inspired with wisdom and courage a hundred times more. Coupled with the discovery of psionic energy and the emergence of superhumans, the war chariot of civilization, which had been stagnant for decades, finally began to rumble again, turning from the Golden Age to the Platinum Age. There was an endless stream of technological explosions. Astronomy, aerospace, energy, material science, human science … There were breakthroughs in countless fields. Almost every three to five years, there would be earth-shattering and epoch-making research results that were put into application. On the barren wasteland, glittering cities of silver grew. Vacuum tubes, anti-gravity devices, unmanned floating discs, remote remote sensing systems, and other technologies that represented the future and hope walked into thousands of households. Like the microcomputers of decades ago, they became something that could be seen everywhere and taken for granted.
When there were only thirty years left in the countdown, the first large immigrant starship that was transformed from an old aircraft carrier was finally built. It successfully escaped the shackles of Earth's gravity and entered the orbit of the moon. The first batch of volunteers for the human hibernation project also successfully woke up after a full ten years of hibernation!
Everything seemed to be developing in the best possible direction.
However, Li Yao's heart was still in his throat.
This was because he knew very well that sending tens of thousands of people into space and sending everyone on Earth into space were two completely different things. The difficulty of the two was exponentially higher.
Although Earth had been ravaged by the Third World War and the Battle of the Oversoul, after decades of recuperation, it had recovered to the size of 2.5 billion people.
To send all 2.5 billion people onto an immigrant starship and rush to the depths of the unknown universe tens of millions of lightyears away was an impossible task.
Even so, Li Yao still racked his brains and tried his best. The best choice was to save as many people as possible.
Among the billions of fleeting strategic options, Li Yao keenly grasped an option called "Death Education".
Among the countless technologies that had yet to be developed, he also chose a technology called "Self-Disciplined Machine Teaching". Together with "Unmanned Vehicle", they were the key research projects.
But this time, the two choices didn't proceed smoothly. Instead, they emitted two streaks of red light and made ear-piercing "beep" sounds.
Li Yao was slightly dazed. He did not understand what was going on.
"It's a pity that you have made the wrong choice. 'Death Education' and 'Self-Disciplined Machine Teaching' are not the antidotes of our civilization."
The voice popped up in his head. "You've lost your first chance. However, before you propose a reasonable suggestion, I'm very interested to hear why you did that. What's your plan?"
Wrong choice?
He had lost one of the three chances. In other words, he had lost one of the three 'lives' he had?
Li Yao took a deep breath and secretly warned himself not to panic. He had already built the first immigrant starship, and he had only lost his first 'life' after reaching this point. It should be a performance that was far above average. He still had two more chances. Don't be hasty and take it slow.
"With the resources under my control and the progress of my research, it is impossible for me to take everyone away in only thirty years."
Li Yao said calmly, "However hard we try, in the end, it will be the best that we can take three to five hundred million people away. In other words, we can only save one out of five."
"Yes," the voice said.
The voice said, "Your judgment is very correct, if not overly optimistic. Only one out of five can be saved. It is indeed the greatest problem that our civilization is facing. The horror of human hearts is even more terrible than the scourge of meteorites and black holes. How are you going to solve the problem?"
"I don't have a solution. I'm just an insignificant human being, not an omnipotent god."
Li Yao said with a bitter smile, "I can only try to come up with the fairest and most reasonable way to decide who is qualified to board the immigrant starship in the end.
"In my moral opinion, it is a natural law that 'the old, the weak, women, and children' take priority. Considering the particularity of saving our civilization, the old who do not have much time left and the weak who are plagued by diseases cannot be the priority. Then, women and children are the most qualified to board the immigrant starship. According to the ratio of five to one, we may be able to save all the women and children."
"Fair enough," the voice said.
"Women and children are the hope of a civilization. Males are just consumables and reproductive tools. One male is enough to make a hundred females pregnant and give birth to an entire species. On the other hand, a hundred males and one female can only give birth to a few offspring no matter how hard they try. It is not enough to maintain the operation of the civilization.
"Therefore, it is not necessary to carry too many men on the immigrant starship. Theoretically speaking, that is indeed the case. The question is, how are you going to achieve that?"
"So, I chose the strategy of 'death education'."
Li Yao explained, "It is not a technology but more like a philosophy. It is to educate everybody how to face death, how to consider the relationship between individuals and civilizations, and how to view their short life and the long journey of civilization. Eventually, I hope that people can view their lives more calmly and peacefully, that they can be more self-sacrificing, and that they can place all their hopes on the next generation.
"Eventually, when the immigrant fleet takes off, according to the age classification of the census, all the children, pregnant women, and young ladies will board the starship. If there are any vacant cabins, they will line up according to the age of everybody else."
"That explains a lot," the voice said calmly.
"That is to say, in your ideal world, the main passengers of the immigrant fleet are women and children. Then, how are they going to navigate the starship, and how are they going to colonize after they arrive at their destination?"
"Most of the time, space voyages are not as complicated as you think."
Li Yao replied, "The space zones in the universe are all empty vacuums that are even calmer than sailing on the ocean. Should we encounter the most dangerous environment, it will be the same no matter who is steering the starship.
"Since 99% of the passengers will be in the hibernation state 99% of the time, does it matter whether they are children or adults?
"Also, when all kinds of cutting-edge weapons are popular, and spiritual energy and crystals can significantly change the human body, I don't think that women are necessarily weaker than men and that they cannot play the roles of soldiers and scientists well. For example, I know a woman. You won't understand her toughness even if I tell you.
"Besides, I've decided to devote tremendous resources to the development of 'autonomous education robots', or a fully-automatic education system. When the children wake up from their long hibernation, they will be able to get the help of super computers and fully-automatic robots to slowly learn how to navigate the starship and save the civilization.
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