Chapter 1016: Chapter 626: Lurking_1 Chapter 1016: Chapter 626: Lurking_1 In 2895, the Protheus Project had been underway for twenty-five years.
These twenty-five years of rapid reproduction had been highly successful.
The population on the fleet had expanded to 800 million, including 140 million in cryopreservation and 660 million awake.
Of the awake population, the Third Generation accounted for 530 million people, including 200 million Warriors, 210 million general engineering personnel, and 120 million academic personnel.
Among academic personnel, as many as 60 million are involved in the Protheus Project.
Any individual who is slightly involved in the intellectual developnt and fields related to the Protheus Project, even those with perfect talent elsewhere, would be assigned a career path from birth, regardless of willingness. They are destined to be thrown into this project.
This compulsory employnt choice does not conform to human nature, nor does it conform to social rules for the optimal allocation of resources. But in the face of urgency, there is no choice.
According to Erson, the current number of personnel was still insufficient and only enough to launch the project.
The current human resource allocation system would continue to be implented until at least 2930, when a large academic team of 500 million people would be assembled, and at least 100,000 top scholars in various fields would be trained. Only then might the birth of Nora Camp be ensured successfully.
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Twenty-five-year-old Kamilia Camp stood by the corridor bridge, her eyes dull and lifeless.
She had no worries.
Ever since her birth, her eyes had always been like this.
Her gaze could not focus, as if she were squinting at everything.
Her mind was a complete blank.
While others had a Thought Quantum Storm surging like an eternal tsunami, hers was like a frozen lake in winter.
There was only one exception.
When she was six years old, she completed basic military training and entered a children’s practice power armor for the first ti. The ice on the frozen lake cracked open, and a torrent of quantum thoughts swept across the sea, like a hurricane on Jupiter and like the eruption of sunspots.
In just five seconds, more than 900 other children participating in the training were severely injured and dying.
Had it not been for the highest level of dical security systems in the children’s training equipnt and the most stringent training safety asures, these children would have already perished.
The instructor wearing the training armor was helpless against the power of Kamilia, and it wasn’t until two S-class Warriors arrived that the situation was brought under control.
Even with their narrow survival, it took the children anywhere from three months to half a year to recover from the terrifying experience and cautiously re-enter their armor. Physical injuries healed easily, but ntal trauma could only be alleviated with ti.
Erson said helplessly to Quentin Cooper at the ti, “This child is fundantally different from Instructor Bell. Instructor Bell started as a person, gradually giving up her active personality, handing everything over to her intuition, and finally becoming a Heartless One. Kamilia was a pure, natural-born Heartless One from birth. Apart from her innate fighting intuition, her mory cannot store any information. Her soul and personality are hidden beneath killer instincts. She’s a pure killing machine, but can’t distinguish between friend and foe.”
Quentin Cooper said worriedly, “It seems we’ll be disappointed, as a warrior like her cannot be allowed on the battlefield. At present, she wears children’s armor, but when she grows up and truly possesses the power of Tiffany Bell, wearing the most powerful armor, who can stop her rampage? At that ti, it might be necessary to bombard her with ship cannons, or have Tiffany Bell fight her to the death.”
Erson: “Yes.”
“Change Kamilia’s training plan, and do not allow her to touch any lethal weapons from now on.”
Erson: “But she can’t learn any other knowledge.”
“It doesn’t matter. Her only task is to pass on her genes. Alas, the problem ultimately lies with us, for bringing the great bloodline into the fleet. It’s a pity about this na. In history, Kamilia was supposed to beco an excellent commander, but now…sigh.”
Quentin Cooper still had so regrets and felt guilty deep down, but it was too late.
From then on, Kamilia was explicitly forbidden from piloting armor again.
But she was unable to learn anything else, so she beca the most idle person in the entire fleet.
Every day after she woke up, the only thing she could do was stand by the gallery bridge and gaze at the simulated starry sky in the distance.
On ordinary days, she had no friends to accompany her, only the endless loneliness.
Oddly enough, over the past twenty-plus years, Tiffany Bell had been awakened three tis due to urgent battle summons.
Each ti Tiffany Bell awakened, her personality beca colder and more detached. Originally no longer communicating with anyone, she began to linger in Kamilia’s room for two or three days before returning to sleep each ti she awoke and completed her battle assignnts after hearing of Kamilia’s existence.
Neither of them spoke to each other, either standing shoulder to shoulder watching the “starry sky” or sitting face to face, each silent.
Erson called this phenonon the resonance between Heartless Ones and saw no harm in it. He let it be and hoped that one day Tiffany Bell might be able to influence Kamilia slightly.
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“Teacher, there have been so changes in the situation. So dissatisfied people have started gathering to discuss their grievances,” said Dylan Mitchell softly in the highly confidential communication channel.
Quentin Cooper nodded, “I know.”
Dylan Mitchell’s tone was a bit indignant, “Many people have a lot of dissatisfaction. In addition to questioning the expedition plan, quite a few people are skeptical about the Protheus Project. So academic personnel involved in the project have started to forcibly apply for access to unrelated knowledge under the guise of interest or simply apply to change careers to beco Warriors or workers.”
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