My empire of stars

Although Li Mingze did not want to raise the butcher knife against the citizens of the Empire under his command, he had no feelings for the people of the three experimental civilizations.

When the three empire hive motherships arrived at the three river systems, the outcome of the war was already determined.

After each hive mothership was upgraded with space folding technology, the one hundred trillion Wasp drones it carried could be said to be "covering the sky and the sun".

All hostile facilities disappeared completely wherever the swarm went. The three experimental civilizations that had just unified the river system were no match for the empire's swarm.

As soon as the two sides met, the swarm of bees directly devoured the fleets of the three civilizations.

After dozens of minutes, except for the flying swarms, the former fleets had disappeared, and all the materials on these warships became materials for the motherships to replenish the lost Wasp fighters.

In less than a month, the fleets of the three experimental civilizations were all destroyed, and all the buildings in the orbits of these civilizations had been devoured by the swarms.

Now the people of these three experimental civilizations can only shrink on the surface of the planet and dare not show their heads.

Any spacecraft that dares to break through the atmosphere will eventually be swallowed by the swarm.

After taking control of all the planets of the three experimental civilizations, the Empire immediately began to experiment on these experimental civilizations.

According to the calculation, if you want to restore technology to normal, you can only reduce the population.

There are more than one way to reduce the population. Killing all the excess population is one way.

Sending the excess population to a dormant chamber is another way. Of course, whether this method will work depends on the experimental results.

The third method is a method between the two, that is, after killing all the people, extracting their souls and storing them in a specific container.

The Empire began to use these three methods on the three experimental civilizations one by one.

Ten years have passed.

The first experimental civilization, that is, the civilization that used the most primitive and brutal method of slaughter to reduce its population, successfully restored its technology research and development to normal after the population was reduced.

As for the second experimental civilization, Li Mingze did not think that this method of sealing the excess population in dormancy would succeed.

But unexpectedly, this method actually worked. After more than half of the population was frozen in dormancy, the technology research and development of this civilization also returned to normal!

Not to mention the third experiment, it also returned to the normal speed of technology research and development.

At this time, the conclusion of the experiment came out, that is, as long as the daily population is kept below 10 trillion, the speed of technological research and development of this civilization will not be slowed down.

The excess population can be completely sealed in the dormant chamber, so that the empire can be restored to operation without killing them.

But Li Mingze knew that this was no different from killing these people.

After all, he didn't know when these people would wake up again.

As long as the population of the empire is limited to 10 trillion, these excess populations may never have a chance to wake up in this life after dormancy.

In this case, they are tantamount to being "killed".

Therefore, Li Mingze fell into a new dilemma, that is, how to select the people to be frozen, and how to do ideological work for these people so that they voluntarily want to be frozen.

Compulsory freezing is indeed feasible, but Li Mingze can't get over the hurdle in his heart.

What's more, this is likely to cause dissatisfaction in the empire and seriously affect his prestige!

"Your Majesty, there may be some turning points in the matter." Tianyi suddenly comforted.

"Oh? What turning point?" Li Mingze asked puzzledly.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten the existence of the virtual world? These people can enter the virtual world after being frozen to live out the rest of their lives!"

"In this way, these people have only changed places, but they can experience the life they could not have before, and they can even achieve immortality in a certain sense!" Tianyi explained, looking into Li Mingze's eyes.

Yes, once the body enters hibernation and the consciousness enters the virtual world, it means that these people's bodies will stop metabolizing, and their bodies can exist for thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years.

As long as their bodies are not dead, their consciousness can gallop in the virtual world forever, and they don't have to fear death or hunger!

These people can do many things in the virtual world that they could not do before, and they can choose what kind of world and what kind of era they live in.

These people can choose to be born in the world of magic, or they can be born on Earth in the 1980s.

In the "fantasy" world, any place that people can think of can be created.

Such conditions can still attract many people to enter the hibernation chamber and freeze completely.

After all, there are only less than 8 trillion people working in the empire in the true sense now.

After scientists and technicians, the rest are old people, children, and citizens who play games at home.

These citizens can't create any value for the empire anyway, so it's better to let them go into complete hibernation. In the virtual world, they have everything they want!

"No, I think it is still necessary for me to tell my citizens the real situation. They have the right to know the truth, and they also have the right to choose their own life!" Li Mingze shook his head gently and rejected Tianyi's plan to trick people into entering the virtual world. plan of.

If when he first came to the empire, he still regarded these citizens of the empire as NPCs in the game, now he sees these citizens of the empire as living people!

"Your Majesty, as you wish!" Tianyi nodded and disappeared.

The next day, Li Mingze delivered an important speech to the entire empire via television.

"Dear citizens of the Empire!"

"The empire has now fallen into the constraints of the rules of this universe."

"As the empire's population surges, our empire's technological research and development speed gradually slows down, and in the end it reaches the ceiling of known science!"

"If we don't reduce our population, our empire's technology will stagnate until a more powerful civilization appears to wipe us out."

"We." Li Mingze's serious figure appeared on the screens of all the empire's equipment through holographic images.

The citizens of the empire also learned about the current situation of the empire through this national speech.

"In order to allow the empire to continue to develop, we decided to put a portion of the population into hibernation to get the empire back on the right track!" Li Mingze slowly stated his plan.