Chapter 279 Fang Min's Choice

Soon the hibernation plan was put on the agenda.

The first to enter hibernation were He Zhenzhu, Zhong Zhirong and Yun Mao.

Although the three of them belonged to the same era as Qi Yiming, Qi Yiming did not give them special treatment and they only held less important positions among the core members.

So the three of them quickly handed over their tasks and entered hibernation.

Next were Wang Shuhua and Ye Lu. As fleet commanders, they have always been Qi Yiming's right-hand men. Considering that they are likely to encounter insect swarms again in the future voyage, both of them entered hibernation in their respective ships.

With this arrangement, if an emergency occurs, they can take over the command of the fleet as soon as they are awakened.

Some grassroots commanders and soldiers with rich combat experience in the fleet also hibernated with the two.

Of course, these people also hibernated in the hibernation cabins built into the warships.

Qi Yiming watched the core members enter the hibernation cabins one by one and returned to the Xuefeng. Before entering the hibernation cabin, he handed over the command of the Xuefeng to Wang Sen. Usually, there would be adjutants on duty in the Xuefeng ship.

Then Qi Yiming also lay down in the hibernation capsule under the arrangement of the staff.

That was all he could do, and the rest really depended on God.

After everyone entered hibernation, Wang Sen and Fang Min also started busy work.

They both had too many things to deal with now.

With the growth of the fleet's industrial capacity, Fang Min needed to establish a sound top-down administrative relationship to manage the human society within the fleet in a refined manner.

Fortunately, the three giant colonial spacecrafts all had their own central intelligence brains to assist in the work.

Fang Min only needed to make a rough division of the organization, and the central intelligence brain could find the corresponding management system from the vast database.

Of course, this all depended on the Academy of Sciences' analysis of the pre-human technological heritage, which of course included the administrative relations used in each stage of human social development.

By the way, none of Shi Shaojie and his scientists were willing to enter hibernation. The reason they gave Qi Yiming was very simple. They were only interested in the technological heritage of the pre-human federation in their lives. Let them enter hibernation? Don't even think about it.

Qi Yiming, who couldn't beat these people, finally had to compromise.

As for Wang Sen, he was even busier. A large number of engineering tasks kept his engineers working at full capacity all the time.

More than half of the industrial facilities in the three giant colonial ships had not yet been relocated. It was not that mineral resources limited the production progress, but that the fleet needed to enter the jump voyage from time to time, and the factory had to be assembled outside the ship when it was relocated, so the engineers could only work overtime desperately to advance the progress of the project while the fleet was resting.

In the first ten years, there was always the hidden danger of the swarm.

Wang Sen and Fang Min agreed that the fleet’s rest time should not be too long each time. In addition to giving the jump engine cooling time, the fleet would only wait at the rest point for half a year at most, and then the entire fleet would set sail again.

It was not until 30 years later that the fleet arranged a rest of more than two years at the jump node because the three giant colonial ships needed a major maintenance.

At this time, the fleet’s industrial capacity has made great progress.

First, all the industrial facilities in the three giant colonial ships completed the relocation work, and the industrial ship planned by Qi Yiming also had a prototype.

In order to allow industrial production to proceed normally during the fleet's jump, Wang Sen and Fang Min discussed and suspended the relocation of the remaining small colonial spacecraft, and concentrated all efforts on adding an outer protective shell to the industrial spacecraft.

During this period, Shi Shaojie's Academy of Sciences also received good news. They have found a way to overcome the problem of a large number of equipment being unusable due to energy disorder during the jump.

The engineering team has added another transformation plan.

However, the progress of this plan can be slowed down. It has been persisted for more than ten years, and people who are accustomed to fleet life don't miss these few years.

In the 32nd year of Fang Min and Wang Sen's rule, the industrial ship completed the installation of the dome.

The fleet also stopped resting and continued on the road to escape.

Except for the encounter with the Zerg Experimental Fleet, there was no Zerg encounter along the way. It must be said that humans are still very lucky.

Fang Min and Wang Sen's 79th year in power.

This year should be the time for Fang Min to enter the hibernation capsule, because he is the oldest among all the core members. At this time, he is 150 years old. Although it is the golden age of life, according to Qi Yiming's requirements, the age of all on-duty personnel in hibernation cannot exceed 150 years old.

This day Fang Min found Wang Sen, and he wanted to talk to Wang Sen about the issue of hibernation.

"Old Fang, you are finally going to be liberated! After so many years of hard work, you can finally take a break." Wang Sen poured wine for Fang Min who came to visit and said in an envious tone: "I am miserable. I have to work for another 30 years."

"Who will be the next person to wake up and take over my job?" Fang Min asked Wang Sen calmly.

Wang Sen called up a table from the holographic panel: "Let me see... Here! The person who will replace you is Hao Chenqi."

Fang Min was silent for a long time. Wang Sen saw that he was in a bad mood and asked tentatively: "What's wrong, I'm retired in stages, can't bear it?"

Fang Min shook his head and still didn't speak, but his brows were tightly knitted as if he was thinking about something.

"Then what's wrong with you?"

"Have you calculated whether we can reach the destination after completing one rotation?"

Wang Sen shook his head. What's the point of calculating that? Qi Yiming should have calculated it long ago to make such an arrangement.

Fang Min smiled and continued: "I calculated it two days ago. It will take at least two rotations for us to reach the destination. By then, we will not be as old as we are."

Wang Sen's originally happy expression suddenly froze.

Fang Min continued: "By then, what passion do you expect us old men who are not as old as we are to complete the counterattack against the Zerg?"

"Isn't there still the next generation?"

"The next generation? Look at the humans in the colony spacecraft. How many of them still remember that there are bugs following us?"

Wang Sen lowered his head and said nothing. After careful calculation, from the time Qi Yiming started to implement the evacuation plan to now, at least one generation of people in the fleet has entered the old age. In a few years, with the death of these people, I am afraid that the threat of the Zerg will become a legend again.

"It's only been a short while, and we've already shown signs of forgetting about the Zerg. Do you still expect our descendants to take up arms and fight the Zerg to the death?"

Wang Sen's face didn't frown any tighter. He was trying to digest what Fang Min said.

"Think about the Cloud Ring Federation, Turing Republic, Taro Empire, and the Business Alliance. Perhaps the predecessors who established these four countries also hoped to defeat the Zerg like Qi Yiming, but what happened later?"

Fang Min took a deep breath and seemed to have made an important decision.

He looked at Wang Sen with a firm look: "I want to give up hibernation and stay awake until I die..."