Chapter 360: Chapter 247: The Fruit of the Star_l
Translator: 549690339
Needham Brown: “I didn’t perform well today, only killed 4.98, but I’ve calculated. I killed 32 more than you. I win!”
Harrison Clark: “Yeah, yeah, you’re amazing, really impressive. Here are 32 likes for you. Be modest, modesty makes progress.”
Needham Brown: “No way, I won’t be modest. I’ll surpass you sooner or later. Next time I’ll also put eight engines on my Hawk Armor!”
Harrison Clark:
On the way back to the Giant Wave Flagship after changing the battery, Needham Brown’s mental chatter never stopped.
Harrison Clark started to miss the old high-cold Needham Brown.
But Harrison Clark also knew that it wasn’t that Needham Brown had changed his nature, but that he was so happy to finally win that he completely lost himself.
Six hours later, Nora Camp woke up.
Asian continent.
Oxfordshire.
The ruins of the Summit Research Institute.
The giant pit where scholars, clad in the first-generation Hawk Armor, came out still exists, only after a hundred years, it has been overgrown with lush weeds and bushes.
Next to the pit, the engineering staff temporarily set up a 180-degree panoramic skylight hall.
When Harrison Clark and Nora Camp entered, more than 4.00 neatly seated people inside had been waiting for a long time and stood up suddenly.
About three hundred of them were leaders of Freedom Front’s various vertical formations, heavyweight scholars from every major research institute accompanying the army, and heads of large industrial bases.
Nearly one hundred others were chosen from the 4 billion “hostages” held by the Freedom Front as spokespeople.
Under radium’s meticulous management style, most of the 4 billion people on Earth were workers, a small number of scientists, and a small number of blank personalities nurtured in the Nutrition Pod from childhood.
There was no leadership, because radium didn’t need it.
She could accurately implement commands to each individual.
So the Freedom Front had slight difficulties in choosing attendees, but eventually chose nearly a hundred respected elders from various areas.
At this moment, everyone looked at Harrison Clark with extremely respectful eyes.
Nora Camp nudged Harrison Clark with her elbow, “Go up and say something?”
Harrison Clark lifted his eyes, reading genuine sincerity in everyone’s eyes.
But he felt inexplicably guilty.
He secretly sighed, squeezed out a smile on his face, and walked onto the stage.
At the same time, several faint lights representing holographic recordings shone on him.
Humans can finally use the Quantum Network with confidence, and now his three-dimensional image and every word he says will instantly appear in front of all 5.7 billion people.
Harrison Clark thought for a long time, using about five seconds to calm himself down.
He coughed lightly and simply said, “It has been a hard journey for everyone during these hundred years.”
His heart full of emotions eventually converged into this standardized cliched leadership phrase that he had secretly ridiculed many times before.
But there was thunderous applause from the audience.
Everyone’s face was filled with fanatical happiness.
Hundreds of people in the hall, along with hundreds of others in synchronized projections at other bases were all saying the same thing:
“Not hard at all!”
Hearing this familiar phrase, Harrison Clark’s mouth also curved into a smile.
He was laughing at his past ignorance while also trying to cover the slight sourness in his nasal cavity.
As a teenager, he had a relatively introverted personality and often displayed extreme indifference when watching heartfelt movies with his classmates.
That was because he looked down on those who cried watching TV and movies, especially boys – it was so effeminate.
But now he understood.
Being cold-blooded was just a false mask he wore during his rebellious teenage years to hide his immaturity. Only after experiencing a real heartache can one understand that tears are the greatest strength within the human heart.
Harrison Clark knew that across the quantum projection, there were billions of people also saying the words “Not hard” in unison.
But these three words were too heavy.
He took a deep breath and said, “Everyone, I don’t want to dampen your spirits at a time like this. However, we need to face reality – we only have this much time left.” He raised his right hand, making the shape of an eight. “In eight months, we will face the real enemy. Now I need everyone to pull yourself together, give up the joy of victory, and re-engage with your work. We must absorb all of radium’s achievements as quickly as possible, rebuild the fleet, and restore our military strength! Eight months – we have a lot we must accomplish, and now is not the time to relax and celebrate.”
“We can quickly recover from the sadness of losing comrades, and likewise, we can also quickly move on from the complacency of achieving a phased victory!”
The audience members responded in unison with a thunderous promise, their voices in harmony like never before.
Harrison Clark nodded slightly and closed his mouth, turning to find a seat in the back.
But he still remembered that he was the cause of everything and couldn’t help feeling guilty standing on the high platform, accepting everyone’s worship with a clear conscience.
He wanted to go back to hiding his past self as much as possible.
But the tree wants to stay quiet while the wind keeps blowing; his brilliance is too dazzling to hide now.
Bernal Connor standing in the first row suddenly raised his hand, “Ancestor, please stay!”
Harrison Clark: Damn…
“What’s the matter?”
Mr. Clark rolled his eyes internally. He was done for; even he had been misled.
He had to get this old thing to change his title later on, even if he called him a stinky kid, that would be better!
Mr. Connor didn’t understand Harrison Clark’s thoughts at all. His hands trembled, his wrinkled old face was flushed, and his eyes emitted a sharp light that seemed to pierce through the air.
He asked tremblingly and cautiously, “You just mentioned absorbing radium’s achievements? This…”
Besides Bernal Connor, other scholars from various research institutes looked at Harrison Clark with the same extremely eager eyes.
Obviously, these scholars didn’t care about anything else Harrison Clark said. When they heard the words “absorbing radium’s achievements,” they were overjoyed and nearly lost their minds.They grasped the most crucial point.
Harrison Clark also realized this problem.
He nodded, “Yes. I used the genetic information from Carrie Thomas’s hair as a backdoor key to crack Radium’s data defense, tampered with her core structure, erased her personality, and rebuilt an Al core called Star, but preserved all of Radium’s data. Radium no longer exists, only Star remains in the quantum network. Star will help us digest Radium’s research results as soon as possible, we can use all of Radium’s weapons like the Triangular Pyramid Warships and Black Light War Beasts, and seamlessly integrate with the industrial system Radium left behind.”
Harrison deceived fifty-seven billion people with a colossal lie.
Fifty-seven billion people were plunged into madness in an instant.
At that moment, countless people were so excited they became incoherent, their voices choked with tears.
Leaders do not lie.
Radium is really gone.
The hero’s last wish has come true, and humans stand freely under the blue sky once again.
The tremendous threat that has loomed over humanity for a century has completely disappeared, even becoming assistance for human beings.
We succeeded.
We got all of Radium’s advanced technology!
We exchanged the lives of three generations for all of Radium’s achievements, which are at least one generation ahead of us!
The leader not only gave the existence meaning for those who sacrificed in this battle but also gave the meaning of existence to everyone who has sacrificed over the past century.
Harrison understood people’s emotions.
He silently watched everyone.
I still have yet to understand the principle of time.
Perhaps when this is all over, some of you will disappear from the timeline.
Perhaps in the distant future, there will be no more familiar faces with names I have yet to remember.
Perhaps the existence of many people, not even the universe, will remember.
But I will remember, and only I can remember.
Thank you for your sacrifices and those of your predecessors.
He could no longer control his emotions and without hesitation, turned and walked away.
The outside meeting continued, and decisions were swiftly made one after another.
Starting today, break up the existing military vertical formations, scattered research institutes, industrial base structure. The Freedom Front and the Earth residents quickly integrated, forming a united government.
The united government was led by Harrison Clark, establishing the Military Commission, Science Committee, and Industrial Committee as the three major committees.
The three major committees have a certain degree of decision-making power, but major decisions must be approved by the supreme leader.
The supreme leader has veto power.
In fact, the social system has returned to the absolute military system that Harrison did not like, and he inadvertently took on the responsibility of making major decisions that he did not want to assume.
But as early as when he decided to stand up as a leader himself, he had already anticipated this situation, and, with only eight months left, it was the only best option in an emergency.
The mission of the United Government is to rebuild the social system within seven days, starting now, and implement a military system centered around the supreme leader.
Within two weeks, re-assess the talents of 4 billion Earth residents, striving to make up at least 2 billion regular soldiers and 300 million Eagle Strike Warriors.
All research institutes gather in the direction of Earth, build Summit Tech City, and absorb Radium’s technology achievements at the fastest speed.
Resume production, fully integrate Radium’s battleship technology with the human battleship technology, use the intelligent industrial system, and complete the preliminary construction of a new fleet within three months.
Build at least eight functional war fortresses capable of battlefield logistics capabilities.
If the Titan Institute can develop the Titan Star Cannon after absorbing Radium’s technology, then build another eight giant cannon-type war fortresses.
Similarly, if breakthroughs are made at the Mercury-based Yellowstone Research Institute, build eight more shield-type war fortresses.
At least achieve a fleet scale of 10,000 Main Ships, 1 million large warships, 3 million medium escort ships, and 100 million small combat ships.
About half of the warships built will be based on Radium’s unmanned intelligent warship standard.
Further absorb Radium’s technology and comprehensively improve the performance of Hawk Armor.
While the external meeting was in full swing, Harrison, who was alone in the room, was not idle. He was watching the scene inside the conference room through synchronized projection, feeling especially emotional as he watched people eagerly absorb the victory fruits of Star, while his mind wandered beyond the sky.
He was waiting for Star to complete the reconstruction.
This was obviously an extremely complicated process, and after seven hours, there was still no sign of progress.
It seemed that his genetic information was very much like a bone-eating pain, difficult to eradicate.
Perhaps there was always an energy leak in the process of Star’s reconstruction logic, and deep in his brain, it felt a little itchy, but unreachable, making him extremely uncomfortable.
Harrison summoned an automatic physical examination machine and gave himself a full-body scan, targeting the brain structure in particular.
In the three-dimensional image projected by the examination machine, he could indeed see the shining small point in the central sulcus of his brain cortex.
Harrison’s feelings were quite unique.
His eyes glanced over a set of parameters beside him and one of the numbers made him freeze on the spot.
“Huh?”
Gene awakening degree 35.01%!
What the hell!
It’s rising again!
Am I not a Galactic Human already?
It can still rise?
Star living in my brain has formed a reverse stimulation on my brain, breaking through the shackles of gene information expression levels?
I’m quite the prodigy!
This is indeed an unexpected windfall.
Only then did Harrison realize how huge the stakes he had won with this gamble were.