Cui Lingfeng was silent, his lips were as strong as the gate of the starship facing directly to the cosmic vacuum.

Tang Dingyuan glanced at Li Yao, his eyes became more severe, and his anger slowly accumulated: "First it was the 'Red Lotus Plan', and now there is another 'Rebirth Plan'. I don't know how much else there is on this ship?"

"a lot of."

Cui Lingfeng said quietly, "You are the captain of the Firefly. The captain must be fearless, move forward bravely, and ride the wind and waves! Only those who are ignorant can be fearless, and you don't need to know everything."

"I want to know."

Tang Dingyuan stared at Cui Lingfeng's eyes, paused word by word, and said calmly but firmly, "If you don't say it, then let Ding Zhengyang say it."

Cui Lingfeng's lips, the gate that sealed countless secrets, trembled slightly for a long time, and finally said: "In the past thousand years, we have encountered countless difficulties and obstacles and are in danger. We have formulated emergency plans for all situations. The 'Rebirth Plan' is the emergency plan for the most serious, most dangerous and most deadly 'special crisis' situation."

Tang Dingyuan was slightly stunned and said, "I have never heard of any 'special crisis situation'. The 'first crisis situation' is already the highest level."

Cui Lingfeng smiled: "No, Level 1 is not the highest, Level 1 is the special level. The so-called "Special Crisis" means that the resources on the ship used for survival and escape are insufficient to one-fifth of the standard. The circulation system and artificial greenhouse have been severely damaged. The subsequent resources cannot be recovered to one-half of the standard within 50 years, and will even continue to decrease, resulting in the collapse of our civilization within 50 years and completely extinction within 100 years. Oh, this is still an ideal state. In fact, due to human survival instincts and various crazy actions before death, once everyone knows that we will perish within 50 to 100 years, it will not take so long. At most five years, the social order will completely collapse. Within ten years, the fire of civilization on this ship, as weak as fireflies, will be completely extinguished.

Once the Speaker realizes this situation, he has the power and must initiate a ‘rebirth plan’ to reduce the population on board quickly, efficiently and steadily until the sustainable recovery of population and resources is reached.

Tang Dingyuan's voice began to tremble: "How, how to 'reduce the population'?"

Cui Lingfeng said: "Do you know the ice rain attack from Firefly that Firefly suffered 728 years ago? The ice rain itself is not serious. It only penetrated the outer shell of our outer starship. However, the ice ice carries a strange virus, causing a great plague inside Firefly, reducing our population by 20%.

"Of course I know that it was almost the hardest and darkest period of Firefly."

Tang Dingyuan said in confusion, "But wasn't that plague completely extinguished by us?"

"Yes, the plague was extinguished, but the virus was not completely destroyed."

Cui Lingfeng smiled strangely, "This is really a perfect virus, with many mutations, spreading through the air and spreading at a fast speed, the symptoms are not obvious, the incubation period is uncertain, once it occurs, it is extremely fatal, and it will automatically find the strongest host to be infected first. In the host with the stronger the psychic energy, the faster the mutation and erosion speed, which can offset the host's efforts to use psychic energy to self-heal. In other words, this is a "equal treatment" virus. Neither ordinary people nor cultivators can escape its clutches, and the mortality rate is almost equal.

Our virologists conducted in-depth research on it in the laboratory. At the beginning, the idea was to refine a viral weapon to attack the empire, but later it was discovered that it had a fatal weakness and could be easily prevented and treated by a synthetic drug. The materials for synthesizing this drug are produced in all worlds, and the synthesis method is not too complicated.

In other words, even if a virus weapon is really refined, it will be difficult to cause a serious blow to the empire. At most, it will be rampant on one or two of their starships for a while, and it does not have much military significance.

But this special medicine... is difficult to refine in large quantities on our ship.

Therefore, experts hundreds of years ago began to refine virus weapons for a new purpose. The final result was very satisfactory. It spreads fast, has hidden symptoms and is highly lethal. At the same time, it targets cultivators and ordinary people. Once it spreads through the air circulation system inside the sealed starship, it can quietly reduce a large number of people in an instant. The most important thing is that it has a characteristic we call "half-life". Once it is spread for several generations, it will automatically annihilate and will not continue to spread.

And this half-life is controllable, long or short.

In other words, this is a viral weapon that is 'precise strike'. As long as you control the length of the half-life and know the total number of people available for infection, you can calculate in advance how many people it can kill. After the death toll reaches the standard, it will also be exhausted and annihilated, leaving no sequelae.

This virus is named ‘Rebirth Virus’, which is the key to the rebirth plan and may bring…rebirth to the Firefly, which is on the verge of destruction.”

Tang Dingyuan couldn't believe his ears at all and looked at Cui Lingfeng for a long time: "You, you have secretly developed a virus weapon, but not used to deal with the enemy, but to kill their own people, their own compatriots, and those whom you swear to protect! What's the difference between you doing this and the immortal cultivator?"

"have."

Cui Lingfeng said calmly, "Suppose you are an immortal cultivator and are responsible for implementing the 'rebirth plan', think about it, what exactly will you do? Of course, it is to isolate the cabin where ordinary people, that is, the lowly 'original people', from the cabin where the immortal cultivator, that is, the 'real people' live, and just release the virus in the cabin of the original human; or let all immortal cultivators take special medicine in advance; even during the refining stage of the virus weapon, try to weaken its aggressiveness against those who awaken spiritual roots, so as to only infect ordinary people and not cultivators, right?

After all, in the eyes of immortal cultivators, ordinary people are garbage populations, which are useless burdens. Since there is insufficient resources, it is natural to reduce the number of garbage populations.

But this is not how we implement it. I can decrypt all the implementation plans of the "Rebirth Plan" to you. We have no intention of isolating everyone or asking anyone to take special medicines in advance. In order to ensure insurance, our ancestors have long destroyed all the special medicines and materials that can be refined.

Once I decide to launch the virus, the virus will instantly spread across the entire Firefly, killing its prey at random. No one can survive. Whether it is a cultivator or an ordinary person, or even myself, they may be infected and eventually die.

Do you understand? The ancestors who made this decision did not regard themselves as a "superman" who can determine the life and death of "mortals". Whether they are cultivators or ordinary people, everyone is the same. If they obey the verdict of fate, many people will die, but more people will bear their burdens and continue to move forward, and continue to move forward in...the dark universe.

It’s better to say that the ancestors who made the ‘rebirth plan’ were deceiving themselves, but I think this is probably their…the biggest difference between us and immortal cultivators.”

Tang Dingyuan's heartbeat and breathing became extremely difficult. The upper and lower rows of teeth were biting so hard that it made people feel that even if a starship was placed in his mouth, he could chew it hard: "No matter how you defend yourself, I still can't accept it, absolutely not!"

"So, brother Dingyuan, what should you do?"

Cui Lingfeng sighed and said, "Suppose now, as the captain, you know very clearly that the resources on the ship are only enough for one hundred people to survive, but we have two hundred people, two hundred mouths that are hungry and can never fill the stomach. What would you do?"

Tang Dingyuan fell into deep thought, speechless, and his voice became much deeper: "Cultivator, cultivator should not be like this, this..."

"If you think the cultivator shouldn't be so dark."

Cui Lingfeng said lightly, "That's just because someone is standing in front of you. I will help you get rid of these dark, dirty and cruel things first, my captain."

In the cell, Ding Zhengyang let out a "quack" laugh like a crow: "Captain, you know the truth about the 'rebirth plan', your heart is not hindered! Tell me, are you a real cultivator who can draw up such a plan? No, I am not the first cultivator on the Firefly. There have been cultivators on this ship and have been occupied by cultivators for a long time!"

Cui Lingfeng said coldly: "Ding Zhengyang, we did not implement the 'rebirth plan' until the end, and the Firefly survived."

"Yes, I survived it, but it was just because you were lucky enough that you didn't encounter a 'special crisis'!"

Ding Zhengyang smiled and said, "But luck will not always be so good. If I had not encountered the Empire Claw Fleet and the Starry Federation, the Firefly would continue to drift into the depths of the starry sea and towards the unknown places that were rarely visited. As the starship slowly ages, a "special crisis" will definitely happen within hundreds of years!

Don't compete with me for this. I am the first mate. I know every thread of every screw on this boat!

In other words, within a few hundred years, even if the empire does not catch the Firefly, the Firefly itself will be swallowed by the darkness and become a small "cultivator civilization"!

Do you understand? One day, we will all become immortal cultivators. I just... took one step first!
Chapter completed!