Yeying sat calmly on the chair, without saying a word, watching the group of people in front of her chattering. The participants quickly noticed her cold attitude and slowly sat back to their respective seats, with their expressions becoming awkward.

After all, Yeying is the real leader on the Explorer One spacecraft. No one doubts this and no one dares to shake it.

"I remember that you took the initiative to apply and was also the enroller with the strongest attitude towards the position of deputy captain."

Ye Ying stared at Captain Chen Hengsheng, his voice as cold as a knife: "You wrote a letter of determination at that time, and you bit your fingers and wrote it with your own blood. That thing is still preserved in the archives on earth. Why, in more than a hundred years, you have changed your original beliefs and want to look back.

Chen Hengsheng's old artificial face showed a hint of anger. This is the embodiment of the bionic system under the control of emotions. He kept rubbing his hands, and his words were filled with strong anger: "Does a written thing have to dominate my future destiny? Everyone has an ideal. In order to realize it, I have made efforts that ordinary people can't imagine. Returning to Earth with a mechanical body, no one will regard me as a normal person. Even in front of my juniors, I am just a half-human and half-machine monster. I have paid so much, don't even have the power to regret? To be honest, if I had known that things would have turned out like this, the coordinate of Sagittarius UR550854 was empty, and I would not have boarded this spaceship at all. You are liars who made this spaceship and everyone who made plans was all liars."

The first mate Liu Tingwei slowly stood up, patted Chen Hengsheng's shoulder, grabbed his arm, and pressed him on the seat. Liu Tingwei raised his head and said a heavy voice: "Old Yeying, please forgive Lao Chen for his rudeness. His temper is indeed too rough, but every word he said is true. We are tired of this long and boring voyage. We want to go back to Earth and want to go home. This is not our fault. If the archer UR55UR54 has a planet, we will follow the plan and walk unwaveringly. Now, facing an empty coordinate, it is indeed time for us to turn around and return. You are still the manager with the highest authority on this spacecraft. We hope to issue the "return" order from you."

Ye Ying took a deep breath: "What if I refuse?"

“You can’t refuse.”

First mate Liu Tingwei obviously had expected such a reply, shook his head and said, "This spacecraft is the greatest crystallization of wisdom in human history. It does not belong to you, but to the entire human being, and to the entire country. Your personal will cannot control others. Therefore, according to normal procedures, activate emergency plans among all crew members, carefully consult everyone's opinions, and listen to everyone's ideas."

The so-called emergency plan is part of the discussion and decision-making plan before departure. When facing a certain problem that cannot be solved, it is necessary to solicit opinions among all crew members. Different opinions are allocated and unified according to the premise of absolute proportion.

Ye Ying never agrees with this so-called solicitation of opinions. According to regulations, as long as the proportion of those who share the same opinion exceeds 51%, everyone must obey the resolution. But the problem is that not everyone has a clear mind. For the future, most people do not understand what they are doing, nor do they know what impact their actions will have. Fifty-one to forty-nine are largely the induction and driving of lower-class people by the power to achieve their goals in the most high-sounding form.

No one objected to the statement of the first mate Liu Tingwei. Even the blind man could see that the current situation is that Ye Ying is alone and almost everyone is standing opposite her. At this time, even if she holds objections, it is absolutely impossible to raise them. Otherwise, it will immediately become the target of public criticism.

Ye Ying suddenly felt very tired. She didn't even want to say a word, and she hated the familiar faces in front of her. She pushed the chair away and stood up, walking straight towards the door, leaving only a cold word.

"Since you all have the same ideas, do whatever you should do, and there is no need to consider my ideas."

The comments were chaired by Captain Chen Hengsheng. Ye Ying had just returned to her cabin. Less than five minutes later, she heard the captain's speech coming from the public communication channel, and the personal communication terminal also received the comments and answers from the central computer.

There is only one question: Do you want to go home?

Choose "Yes" or "No".

It has to be admitted that Chen Hengsheng and others have indeed planned for a long time. Such questions are easy to touch people's hearts. Who doesn't want to go home? Especially after a long voyage, almost everyone will immediately fill in the answer to "yes". Of course, below the question, is the long-term observation of the coordinates of the archer UR55UR54. Of course, Chen Hengsheng will not deceive the crew, but will make all the questions public. However, he will never add even a word about the meaning of the navigation mission to the answer sheet, but will use long and tearful words to describe the little things that happened during the past 100 years of flight letter and the deep homesickness.

I want to go home

There are my descendants and relatives there.

Even if I die, I will die on earth.

Ye Ying completely lost control of the entire spacecraft. Her communication channels were occupied by various inquirers, including panic, surprise, astonishment and ecstasy. Even Ye Ying's closest family members also expressed their thoughts of returning to Earth.

After all, Wang Qinian was just their grandfather. All the juniors born on the spaceship had never even met Wang Qinian. It was almost impossible to make them feel for strangers they had never met, let alone outsiders like Su Hao who had a farther relationship.

It has been too long since I left the earth. People have forgotten the tragic situation brought about by the virus outbreak, the fierce and violent mutant creatures in abandoned cities, and the cruelty of cannibalism when they were hungry. They only know that they have been closed in this spacecraft for too long, and they only know that they have been sailing in the vast universe for more than a century. Time is enough to erase everything, responsibilities and beliefs are completely faded, and even the so-called "most loyal love" cannot withstand the invasion of time, so naturally there is no reason to blame those who are still alive. They just want to go home, want to see the familiar blue sky above their heads, breathing the air freely.

More than 300 "worker bees" and more than 100 crew members have become loyal support groups around Ye Ying. However, compared with as many as tens of thousands of people who want to go home, this number is too few.

In the past century, each corner of "Explorer One" has staged a drama of mutual admiration, marriage and reproduction. Four successor spacecraft have arrived one after another, making the docking hatch set by "Explorer One" complete. The overall spacecraft has increased several times as much as it was initially launched, and the reinforcements that have arrived have also increased the number of crew members again and again. Now, it has become an extremely huge number.

Not everyone who wants to go home is disgusted with Ye Ying. On the contrary, most of them trust Ye Ying very much and like this leader who shows indifference and looks gorgeous. However, Captain Chen Hengsheng released relevant information about the shooter UR6755UR54, and Ye Ying's beautiful image suddenly plummeted. Titles such as "liar" quickly became synonymous with Ye Ying. Many negative rumors about her were also spread inside the spacecraft.

"We were all cheated. There was no need for a spaceship to reach that coordinate. This was simply a scam between Yeying and Wang Qinian. The real purpose was to find a planet suitable for human habitation. But you have also seen it, we got nothing at all."

"She had known that it was an empty coordinate, but she still had not issued a return order. Can't you see it? She had never considered our life and death, and only then did she know what was thinking in her mind. In short, if I want to go home, I must return immediately."

"Since you have won the biological war, why do you still have to go to the universe? This makes no sense. I can't see what the connection is between the two? I have paid too much, and I don't know if I should be considered a human or a machine now? It's time to end it."

The order inside the spacecraft began to become chaotic. People no longer obey Ye Ying's orders and instead regard the captain Chen Hengsheng, who "opened the truth", as a hero. With the assistance of first mate Liu Tingwei and others, Chen Hengsheng's prestige reached its peak.

The result of the comments was of course to support the return. The proportion of those who agreed was as high as more than 90%. Faced with this overwhelming "mass call", Ye Ying remained silent.

"Explorer One" stopped in space.

When Captain Chen Hengsheng and others walked into the night shadow cabin, she was looking at her yellowed wedding photos.

Wang Qinian doesn't like taking photos. It may be because he is too ugly, or his fat and dirty appearance is too terrifying. In short, the old fat man is extremely disgusted with the word "photography", and even stubbornly refuses to use mobile phones with camera functions, and would rather use old-fashioned phones.

In this photo, Ye Ying was trying every means to threaten and seduce Wang Qinian when she was getting married, and almost forced him to sit in front of the camera.

He should not have changed much. The semi-mechanical and semi-biochemical technology has turned life into eternity. Of course, this man he loves must no longer be like he remembers. There may be a lot of extra parts on his body, which are very hard and cold to the touch. He doesn't need to eat and sleep, and he always smells of motor oil on his body.

Captain Chen Hengsheng sat directly opposite Ye Ying. Next to him, there were still some confidants including the first mate Liu Tingwei.

"Old Yeying, I believe you have seen the voices of others. We are going home, and we will not accompany you to continue this purposeless sailing. I have ordered the ship to stop, and next, we should talk about the issue of returning."

Ye Ying's eyes did not leave the photo in her hand at all, and her voice was cold and calm: "I have never agreed to any return opinion. That is your business. If you agree, there will definitely be objections. You should know more about this kind of thing than me."

A hint of anger flashed in Chen Hengsheng's eyes: "Say it again, we are going home, almost everyone on this ship wants to go home. Your thoughts cannot represent all of us."

Ye Ying said coldly: "Then do what you think, there is no need to report to me."

Chen Hengsheng turned his head and looked at each other with the first mate Liu Tingwei standing next to him, and his eyes turned to Ye Ying again: "Since that's the case, please tell me the core password of the "Explorer 1" host and enter the command to turn the spacecraft."

This is the biggest difference between Ye Ying and Chen Hengsheng, and it is also the biggest secret in her hands.

The host password of "Explorer 1" was set by Wang Qinian himself, and only Ye Ying was the only one who searched the spacecraft. This is the secret that Ye Ying found from Wang Qinian's computer on the eve of the departure. Under the password control, the spacecraft can dock temporarily, but it is absolutely impossible to turn. In other words, without getting Ye Ying's password, even if Chen Hengsheng obtained everyone's support, he could not change the course of the spacecraft.

"I will not force you to act according to my will. By the same token, I cannot obey your arrangements."

Ye Ying gently stroked Wang Qinian in the photo and said calmly: "This spacecraft consists of five hulls in total. Explorer 2, 3, 4 and 5 are just additional parts of the hull No. 1. When it was initially designed, I considered that it might encounter dangers. Multiple hulls are equivalent to large life rafts. Each hull has an independent central control computer and a permanent energy furnace. You are the captain and have the same in-ship authority as me. Separate the four hulls from No. 2 to No. 5 and then recombinate them. All kinds of parts are standard models, and there are complete parts production workshops inside the four hulls. It only takes a hundred hours at most, and you can get a new spacecraft. It does not require my control password, you can complete the operation yourself."

This is the biggest concession Ye Ying can make.

She thought about it and it was indeed unfair to force everyone to accompany her to the unknown blank place. Everyone has their own choices. Chen Hengsheng may be too cunning on this issue and also used other people as bondage for interests, but in essence, he did not do anything wrong. Just like a math problem, although there is only one correct answer, everyone's way of understanding is different.

The design function of "Explorer One" is very powerful. Four separate hulls alone are enough to maintain the normal living needs of 100,000 people. Even if separated from the main body, the comprehensive performance of these additional hulls will not change, especially the navigation speed will not become slow due to the separation of the main body.

In short, if you go away yours, I go away mine. There will be no disturbance between each other.

A hint of astonishment flashed through Chen Hengsheng's eyes. He turned his head and looked at the first mate Liu Tingwei standing on both sides and Mei Ting, the logistics minister of the spacecraft, and found that they were like him, with obvious anger in both expressions and eyes.

"You can't do that."

First mate Liu Tingwei took a few steps forward and stared at Ye Ying with condescending attention. The electronic synthesizing sound was as cold as his mechanical body: "Separating the hull will cause many unpredictable dangers. We have never done this before. It is not just that it is just to separate the two hulls. Many life-saving systems and energy reserve systems have completed the synchronous construction work as early as when the two ships were docked. This is equivalent to dismantling all the ancillary facilities to make enough separation space. With the number of repair robots we currently have, it will take at least two months to complete this work."

"Then wait two more months here."

Ye Ying's attitude was cold and tough, like a piece of granite frozen in the ice of thousands of years: "We have been on this road for more than a hundred years and don't care about waiting for two more months."

Mei Ting interrupted impatiently: "Why can't you think about other people? You are so selfish. Almost everyone on this ship agrees to return, but you have to use various reasons to obstruct and oppose. Two months, do you know what "returning home" means? Do you know how long we have been waiting for this day?

Ye Ying took her gaze away from the photo and slowly raised her head. At this moment, she suddenly had a very wonderful and extremely confused thought.

All the people in front of me are their subordinates.

Yeying is very familiar with them.

Whether it is Captain Chen Hengsheng, First Deputy Liu Tingwei, and Logistics Minister Mei Ting, Ye Ying treats them as trustworthy objects. The reason is simple: everyone is on the same boat and is working hard for a common goal. Although the destination is very far away and no one knows how long they will be wandering in the vast universe, they have the same intentions, both for the earth and for humanity.

Of course, this may be a bit biased. Neither Ye Ying nor Wang Qinian actually had any idea of ​​"human interests". In their minds, they were first a Chinese, and then a human being.

All members of the Explorer One ship were yellow-skinned and dark-eyed.

Every crew member’s wedding is a celebration. Although Ye Ying could not always be present to congratulate him, she would never forget to send congratulatory messages to the newlyweds. She knew that she was very respected in the crew and also seriously carried out every order. But now, the captain, the first mate, and the logistics minister, they no longer used respects to themselves, but became extremely cold and even hostile.

Why is this happening?

Those who were actively signing up, writing their resolution letters over and over again, rushing to join the expedition team and heading to the distant starry sky, where are they now

They lost their bodies during the long sailing years, but their brains remained intact. Thinking and memory are almost eternal existences in the brain. But where did their former ambitions go? Where are those who want to be heroes?

Everyone has two faces, the only difference is time.
Chapter completed!