My empire of stars

According to what His Majesty the Emperor said frankly on TV, if the Empire wanted to return to normal, twelve trillion Empire citizens must go into hibernation. The audience in front of the TV couldn't help but hold their breath for a moment.

Originally, they thought that the empire only needed to freeze part of the population, but they never expected that three-fifths of the population would need to be frozen!

People fell into silence, even though Li Mingze had just told them that after entering the dormant warehouse, people would live in a virtual world.

But how many people are willing to abandon real life and enter the virtual world to spend the rest of their lives.

On TV, Li Mingze also listed the adverse consequences that may occur if the empire cannot return to the normal development track. The citizens of the empire hesitated.

Now there are only two choices before them: for the country and civilization, or for themselves.

Although the empire has opened a registration hotline and website, it has also opened registration points in various cities.

People only need to go to the registration point or log in to the website to apply for hibernation, and the empire will give them three months to deal with all things in reality.

In order to compensate these people, once the application is approved, the empire will compensate each of them with 300,000 energy coins. These 300,000 energy coins are enough to buy a private spaceship or an ordinary manor on a colonial star.

Those who receive the funds can choose to give it to family members or squander it during those three months.

After finally experiencing something in reality, these people will be taken to the dormant center of the empire by a transport ship.

Underground in the capital world, countless construction ships have built dormant facilities in the underground space that can accommodate 20 trillion imperial citizens.

Imperial citizens who participate in hibernation may sleep here forever and never even wake up.

For three days, three full days, no one came to sign up at the registration point or registration website. It was obvious that everyone was still hesitating.

At this moment, many old people suddenly appeared on the street. These old people walked towards the registration point with firm eyes flashing in their eyes.

The biotechnology the Empire now possesses has allowed the lifespan of its citizens to reach nearly a thousand years.

But now it is the year 2900 of the Imperial Calendar, and a full 880 years have passed since the Empire stepped out of its home star of Sith!

Most of the citizens of the empire who have followed the empire have reached old age.

These elderly people have the deepest feelings for the empire, so after three days of persuading their families, these elderly people from the empire stepped forward without hesitation.

They don't have many years left to live, and they no longer create any value in the empire. Their only role is to receive subsidies from the empire to take care of themselves at home.

But now that the empire is facing this situation, they are no longer willing to continue this worthless life, so they might as well dedicate their last remaining energy to the empire.

Instead of living and wasting the empire's resources, it is better to take the initiative to enter dormancy and make room for the young people of the empire.

These old people have made an agreement through spiritual networks or forums to go to the registration point together on this day. They want to show off to those who are still hesitating!

On this day, all entertainment venues in the empire were closed, and all entertainment programs were stopped. Everyone in the empire focused their attention on these old people walking towards the registration point.

Some people who hesitated made up their minds instantly, put on their clothes and left the house.

After all, hibernation is just entering the virtual world, they are not dying, so many people still make up their minds.

At this time, some young people who stayed at home every day were also touched.

They began to think back on their lives and found that apart from receiving empire subsidies and staying in the game every day, they did not seem to have done anything meaningful, and they had not created any value for the world.

Since they stay at home every day just to play games, why don't they directly enter the virtual world? Anyway, they are immersed in a false world.

Their hibernation also makes room for those who create value for the empire!

Overnight, the number of people in the empire who signed up to enter hibernation increased rapidly, reaching nearly ten trillion people in just one day.

This is equivalent to half of the empire's population choosing to sacrifice themselves to pave the way for the empire's development.

Li Mingze was not surprised by this part of the population. The empire's real working population is only six trillion people. The remaining fourteen trillion people either stay at home and indulge in the game world, or they have reached retirement age. Idle at home.

As the conditions of the empire get better and better, and more and more people are idle at home, the empire still has at least four trillion of water that has not been squeezed out.

However, it is basically impossible for those who have not made up their minds at this time to be willing to go into hibernation.

After waiting for ten days, the number of people signing up has stalled. Now the empire has eleven trillion citizens willing to live in the virtual world.

Although the dormancy conditions have been met, Li Mingze still plans to release some more spare time, so that the empire can increase its natural population.

The remaining one trillion people come from there, and of course they are the clones of the empire.

After such a long period of development, the population of cloned humans has reached more than one trillion.

Excluding the clone soldiers in the army and some clone workers in the high-power industry, there are exactly one trillion clones who can be laid off for social services.

Faced with these clones that can be produced at any time and have no emotions, the Empire is not so kind and directly gathers them on a planet for destruction.

The day of destruction is called "Clone Sorrow". One trillion clones were gathered on a planet, and the Empire's antimatter cannon turned the planet and all the clones on the planet into dust in the universe.

For the Empire, this is just like recycling a lot of waste. All relevant records have been completely erased, and there will be no record of this matter in history.

After all, no one knows when a clone protection association will jump out to expose the "good deed" done by the Empire.

But no matter how much the Empire conceals it, this matter still falls into the eyes of those who are interested, and the clone who once obtained the mental linker is one of them.

Seeing the planet full of clones being destroyed by antimatter through the camera, tears suddenly flashed in the eyes of the clone who escaped from the control of the Empire.

"I will avenge you!" The clone turned off the holographic screen in front of him and disappeared into the shadows.