146: Chapter 146 The Emperor's Secret Plan

On the space fleet orbiting the Earth, Chu Yuhang stood in the flagship's command room with a grave expression, flanked by Elisa and the artificial intelligence "Hope".

After a long while, he let out a long sigh: "How many people are living on the Blue Star now?"

"Hope" lowered its head, and after a moment, replied slowly: "There are twenty-eight thousand four hundred and twenty-three people registered with us, but the actual number should be higher than that."

Chu Yuhang couldn't help but mock himself: "I'm afraid the Blue Star people have the most detailed data."

Elisa shook her head sadly: "I don't understand. Even though they know that once they go over, they will be living under the other side's close surveillance, why are so many people still scrambling to sign up!"

The people in the command room fell into an eerie silence.

In fact, if some of them didn't have important duties, they probably would have signed up to migrate to the Blue Star long ago.

They knew the Emperor must be plotting some plan, but they didn't understand how any plan could work when every move would be closely monitored by the other side.

Chu Yuhang stared straight ahead, and after deep thought, finally spoke: "Not enough! We need to migrate another thirty thousand people over!"

"Hope" replied instantly: "Then our quantum conductors won't be enough; we won't be able to communicate effectively and in real-time with those thirty thousand people."

"Then change it from one per three hundred people to one per five hundred, or even one per a thousand. In any case, the number must be met!"

Elisa looked up at the Emperor, pondering in her heart.

Quantum conductors were currently Earth's scarcest resource, and making such a massive investment was almost a desperate gamble.

Ever since the last joint effort with the Trisolarans failed miserably again, the Emperor had fallen into a depression.

But not long after, he visited the battlefield ruins again. Besides scavenging some more conductors, he seemed to have come up with a new strategy.

So, when he returned and heard the news that people from Earth were smuggling themselves to live on the Blue Star, he was not angry at all.

Instead, he initiated an organized migration plan.

Of course, the personnel going over had to be in groups of three hundred, and they had to regularly report their locations and surroundings to their team leader via code words or ciphers.

Then, the team leader would upload the consolidated information back to Earth via code.

However, this plan was immediately opposed by the members of the previous Blue Star infiltration squad.

Even Du Fei, who had always stood firmly by the Emperor's side, felt this plan was inappropriate. He shouted anxiously: "We hadn't even entered the Solar System last time; we were discovered by them just after exiting the wormhole. This time will surely be no exception. Perhaps they really are protected by gods!"

Chu Yuhang gave the order decisively: "Even if we are discovered, we must go. We must carry out this operation right under their noses. Those Blue Star people who think they are protected by gods will surely become arrogant."

"As long as they show a single flaw, we will win this time!"

Although the Emperor said so, no one except "Hope" knew even the tip of the iceberg of his plan.

However, the longing for sunlight was engraved in the genes of all Earth people.

The immense yearning for the Habitable Zone and the sun made everyone sign up frantically, even knowing they were being kept completely in the dark.

Soon, two batches totaling over twenty thousand people flew to the Blue Star continent via shuttles.

For the first period of time, everyone was cautious, fearing they would be caught by the Blue Star people like last time.

But after some time, they were surprised to find that no one came to interfere with their lives.

They bathed greedily in the sunlight, tears streaming down their faces as they looked at the blue sky.

To integrate into the lives of the Blue Star people as quickly as possible, everyone followed suit and got themselves a copy of the "xingyang divine canon".

And they went to the sanctuary or Xingyang Temple to worship at fixed times.

It took a very short time before they were no different from the Blue Star people around them.

If the team leaders hadn't been constantly reminding them, they would have even forgotten that they were living under the other side's surveillance.

Over time, some Earth people gradually lost their vigilance.

When "fellow countrymen met", they would occasionally chat without restraint.

"I can feel that I'm being monitored, but if I don't specifically think about it, it's not that uncomfortable."

"Yes, perhaps the Xingyang God here really exists, and is as kind and great as described in the divine canon. He feels we have no ill intent, so he lets us live on this warm planet."

"But do we... really have no ill intent? We might not, but what about the Emperor?"

"Sigh, let's just take it one step at a time. To be honest, the Emperor has already been beaten twice by the Blue Star people. Why does he think this third time will definitely work! Could it be that he plans for us to raise our arms in a call to action when the time comes, launching an uprising to disintegrate the Blue Star regime from within?"

"That definitely won't happen; Chu Yuhang isn't a fool. Not to mention there are only tens of thousands of us now, even if millions of Earth people came, we are unarmed and wouldn't even be enough to fill the gaps in the Blue Star army's teeth."

The Earth people living on the Blue Star discussed it, but they couldn't come to any conclusion among themselves.

So, they just continued living like that.

Seeing that nearly ten years had passed since the first batch arrived.

Many people now had their own jobs, careers, and even families on the Blue Star.

The Earth people soon discovered a fact that shocked everyone!

That was that there was actually no reproductive isolation between them and the Blue Star people!

The first child born from the union of a Blue Star person and an Earth person was seven years old, healthy, and cheerful.

But the Milky Way Galaxy and the Three-Spiral System were clearly billions of light-years apart, and Earth people had studied other humanoid intelligent creatures.

Theoretically, as long as they were not in the same star system, or even on the same planet, two different intelligent life forms could not reproduce.

But the Blue Star and Earth were an exception.

This gave some Earth people a strong sense of belonging, and some no longer reported their work to their team leaders regularly.

Over time, they even forgot the codebooks and code words.

They just secretly made up their minds: no matter what methods the Emperor would use in the end, they would only stand firmly on the side of the Blue Star!

Firmly protecting their families, protecting the friends they had newly met here, and protecting this planet with its azure atmosphere!