Chapter 89: Two People

As soon as Lin Lei arrived at the Ecological Sphere, he rounded up all the Layite People inside and detained them; he had to strangle any unstable factors in the cradle.

The original Layite leader asked in terror, “What exactly do you want to do! We did not violate any regulations of the Star Alliance.”

“In view of the serious violations committed by the Layite People, I have to take this extreme measure to ensure the safety of the Earthlings. Of course, you can resist.” Lin Lei sneered at this Layite Person.

He would actually prefer these people to resist, so that he could justifiably eliminate them, but these fellows were as obedient as rabbits; aside from shouting a few words of resistance, they took no actual action.

Lin Lei instructed Li Dasong, who was wearing the Night Demon Mecha, to watch these fellows, while he himself walked toward the humans who had already gathered in the Ecological Sphere.

He jumped onto the highest bungalow and looked down from above at his kinsmen constantly gathering in the Ecological Sphere, feeling a flame burning in his heart.

The humans in the Ecological Sphere seemed to be pushed by an invisible giant hand, slowly starting to gather towards this side, moving faster and faster, until the people at the end were running with all their might.

Their bodies were weak, their steps unsteady, and they fell to the ground from time to time, yet they quickly got up and continued to move forward.

Everyone held a fervent hope, a sacred sense of pilgrimage.

“Why are we running forward?” a boy of about eighteen or nineteen asked the person beside him in a daze.

The person next to him did not know the specific reason either; he stopped, scratched his head and thought, and said with confusion, “Yeah, why are we running in this direction?”

At this moment, another person passed by him, saw this and shouted, “Everyone is gathering over there! News came from the front that that person is back! What are you two still standing there for? Run!”

After saying that, he panted heavily and continued to run with the flow of people.

The two people left standing there looked at each other, and a strange light appeared in their eyes; ignoring their fatigue, they began to run forward with all their might.

The entire Ecological Sphere was a huge semicircular space with an area of over a hundred square kilometers and a diameter of a full ten kilometers. This distance was simply an insurmountable gap for these humans whose bodies were almost completely drained.

But the hope in their hearts, the longing for freedom, allowed all the humans to complete this Long March-like journey.

Nearly seven hundred thousand people gathered almost completely in front of Lin Lei. Most of them looked at Lin Lei standing on the high platform, holding their breath, their eyes filled with incredibly excited light.

They were waiting for Lin Lei’s verdict, a verdict for freedom!

Lin Lei took a deep breath and shouted with all his might:

“I! Am here! To take you away from here!”

“My Earthling kinsmen, from now on, everyone is free!”

Everyone’s passion was ignited by Lin Lei’s words. The previous silence was like a suppressed volcano, only for this moment of eruption!

People wept tears of joy; regardless of whether they knew each other or not, they hugged and cried together. The Earthlings, who had once been disappointed in the future, regained their freedom.

Freedom is like air; before, because it was always surrounding them, they did not feel its importance, but only after losing it did they discover that it was the most precious treasure in the world.

When the erupted passion of the crowd subsided slightly, Lin Lei continued, “The spaceship will arrive in two days, and everyone will leave here, leaving this damned Ecological Sphere! Our Earth is being repaired, and in one year, we will return to Earth!”

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Lin Lei spoke with fervor on top of the low house, while in the crowd below, two people remained calm amidst the boiling crowd.

“Do you think what he says is true? Lu Daolin, although he claims to be an Earthling, don’t you think his body is too perfect? There are no flaws on his skin, and his whole body seems to be shrouded in a faint halo. Setting aside the inexplicable sense of closeness I feel toward him, I think this is more like a conspiracy.”

The person speaking was also very thin, but his eyes were bright and spirited, revealing a calm and wise light.

The person he was speaking to, whom he called Lu Daolin, had gray hair and a haggard face. Through his tattered clothes, one could see how thin he was; he was truly skin and bones.

But he had eyes similar to the person who had just spoken to him; the difference was that his eyes held a hint of a pure, translucent color.

He heard his companion’s question, looked at Lin Lei on the low house with a complex gaze, and after a long while, he lowered his eyes and replied in a low voice, “Mu Zhe, I don’t think there will be any more conspiracies against the Earthlings, because we simply don’t have that value right now. The only ones who would go through the trouble to help us now are our own kinsmen. Wait, time will prove everything.”

Mu Zhe lowered his head and thought, silently agreeing with Lu Daolin’s words. The Earthlings now, even if they knew it was a conspiracy, had no room to resist and could only passively accept it.

All their passion for resistance had been vented in that earth-shattering nuclear explosion three years ago, leaving only pain.

The Sapphire Company’s Universe-B class large spaceship did not make Lin Lei wait too long; in fact, it arrived in the outer space orbit of Mote Planet after a day and a half.

Because it was too huge, a full hundred kilometers in length, and looked like an incredibly giant rugby ball in shape, it would not land on the surface of Mote Planet.

But looking up from the surface of Mote Planet, one could still clearly see this giant spaceship. Lin Lei’s words were verified by this fact, and all the humans in the Ecological Sphere truly let go of the hidden worries in their hearts.

The captain of this spaceship was Lucius, and he contacted Lin Lei and his group through a holographic communicator.

“Nice to see you, Lucius. I didn’t expect Buxiuva to let you come.” Lin Lei was a bit pleasantly surprised; for this kind of matter, having a familiar person come was much better than a strange captain.

“Haha, Lei, I volunteered to come. We should have arrived earlier, but purchasing the various living supplies you requested took us half a day.”

This was requested by Lin Lei; first was clothing. Everyone in the Ecological Sphere was in rags; the Layite People would not care about the humans’ needs in this regard, as long as the humans didn’t starve to death all at once.

There were also various nutritional supplements, a large amount of medical equipment, and medicine.

These were essential; due to the very harsh living environment in the Ecological Sphere, various infectious diseases were prevalent, but this was secondary. More importantly, almost everyone’s life force had been seriously overdrawn.

The loss of life force was not something that could be recuperated in a day or two; even with the technology of an interstellar civilization, it had to go through a gradual process to avoid leaving aftereffects.

“Thank you for your trouble, Lucius, you have helped me a lot.” Lin Lei said seriously.

“We are friends, aren’t we? Alright, I have already started dispatching the landing shuttles down, so you can start arranging for people to board.” After saying that, Lucius closed the communicator.

Less than five minutes later, the first batch of landing shuttles landed outside the Ecological Sphere. Each landing shuttle was two hundred meters long and could hold a thousand people.

Although there were twenty landing shuttles, the total number of Earthlings was over seven hundred thousand. To get everyone on board the Universe-B spaceship, they would have to make thirty-five or thirty-six trips.

Lin Lei took this opportunity to conduct a statistics on the basic condition of all the humans.

But as time passed, Lin Lei’s eyebrows gradually furrowed. There was no problem with the age of these people; the average age was less than 30. But there was a very serious problem: the ratio of men to women was seriously unbalanced, and the number of males was a full three times the number of females!

“Old Xiao, look, what should we do?” Lin Lei felt this matter was really tricky. This kind of imbalance was enough to cause very serious social problems.

Men and women are different; they are the greatest driving force for social development, but also the root of social unrest. If there were so many single males, the newborn Earth Civilization would definitely have many problems.

Of course, Lin Lei might be able to suppress these problems with strong measures, but this kind of rule similar to autocracy and dictatorship was not what Lin Lei wanted. What he wanted was for every Earthling’s personality to develop and for every Earthling’s creativity to be fully unleashed, to promote the development of Earth technology to the greatest extent.

In a repressive social environment, it was impossible for people to burst out with maximum creative passion.

Perhaps it was a bit early for Lin Lei to think about these issues now, but without foresight, there would be immediate trouble. These problems had to be solved immediately, without delay.

Xiao Boru also scratched his head in distress, his face wrinkled like a bun. If he were asked questions about physics, he could answer immediately, but in this regard, he knew nothing at all.

“How about you find an interstellar civilization to clone hundreds of thousands of human females? Anyway, there are so many people here; if everyone’s genes are adjusted before cloning, there won’t be the problem of racial genetic simplification.”

Lin Lei rubbed his chin, seriously considering the feasibility of Old Xiao’s suggestion. After thinking it over, he found that only the path of cloning could solve the fundamental problem.

Although the cloned people might be very dull and lacking in spirit, after social integration, this situation should slowly improve.

“We can only do this, Old Xiao. But I remember there is a regulation in the Star Alliance laws that strictly forbids the mass cloning of intelligent beings. It seems we have to act secretly; it’s really a headache.”

“You handle this; I have no clue at all.” Old Xiao directly threw the problem to Lin Lei.

At this time, two middle-aged men who had been standing not far away walked towards Lin Lei; they were Lu Daolin and Mu Zhe.

“Hello, do you have a moment?” The first to speak was Mu Zhe. He had been eavesdropping for a long time, and the little doubt in his heart vanished with the wind. Although he still doubted Lin Lei’s identity as an Earthling, he was indeed seriously helping the Earthlings restore their race.

Lin Lei was a bit surprised. He had been standing for so long, and wave after wave of people only looked at him with excitement and awe, but no one dared to come forward and speak to him. The person in front of him had a calm demeanor and clear eyes, without a hint of a defeated look.

And the person standing next to him was the same. Although their clothes were tattered and their bodies were thin, they showed no sign of hunching over. When they looked at Lin Lei, they showed no sense of inferiority either. It seemed that these two, like Old Xiao, had very strong minds.

Lin Lei immediately became interested and said happily, “It’s nothing important, just say whatever you want to say.”

“We have been watching from the side for a long time and found that you are not very comfortable with managing personnel, while the two of us happen to have very rich professional knowledge in this area, so perhaps we can help you.” Mu Zhe said calmly; this was a self-recommendation, but it was more like stating a fact.

When it came to serious matters, Lin Lei’s attitude immediately became serious: “Can you tell me your names?”

Mu Zhe and Lu Daolin looked at each other, and then Mu Zhe stepped forward and said, “I am Mu Zhe, and the person beside me is Lu Daolin. Three years ago, I was a tenured professor in the Department of Sociology at Tiannan University, while Lu Daolin specialized in research on social resource distribution. I think that at the beginning of the restart of human civilization, our professional knowledge should be able to play a certain role.”

Lin Lei had heard of Tiannan University like thunder; it was one of the best universities in China. Since one could be a tenured professor there, the level should not be low.

But this was not the most critical thing; knowledge could be learned, and Lin Lei did not put this in the first place for consideration. What he looked at was the quality of these two people themselves, and so far, Lin Lei was satisfied.

“Very good. When we get on the spaceship, after you wash up and change clothes, someone will come to find you. For now, take these two communicators.”

He was already overwhelmed by these trifles, and now someone came forward to share the burden, which was excellent. As for Lin Lei, he only needed to grasp the general direction.