Selection

"I'm back, honey!"

"You're back. Ugh, it's so cold! Why did you turn the air conditioning up so low? Are you out of your mind? Turning the air Electric Fireplace?"

The woman who had just stepped inside shivered from the cold air conditioning. She quickly looked up at the man inside and saw him sitting in the living room with an Electric Fireplace in front of him.

The room was now blasting air conditioning at 5 degrees Celsius, so the woman immediately asked the Intelligent System to adjust the temperature to a comfortable range as soon as she entered. However, before she could even speak, she heard the man's leisurely voice.

"On Earth, today should be the Winter Solstice, but unfortunately, that festival no longer exists." The man said, getting up and walking towards his kitchen. A moment later, he returned with a large bowl of steaming Dumplings and a large plate of glutinous Ciba. "These two were common foods for people on the winter solstice in Earth Era, right? Here, wife, try them and see what you think of my handmade creations!"

The woman didn't take the plates of Dumplings and Ciba. Instead, she looked at her husband suspiciously, then reached out and touched his forehead. "You're not sick anymore. I mean, is your 'Missing Earth Syndrome' acting up again?"

The Missing Earth Syndrome was a name the woman made up on the spot. She withdrew her hand and continued talking. She was wearing only thin clothes, but instead of putting on a coat because of the cold, she immediately activated her Overclock Mode to resist the cold weather.

She is a new generation of human, while her husband is an Earthling from the Callisto Era. The two are 1,800 years apart in age, but that does not prevent them from becoming husband and wife.

"Let's set the mood. I've already registered online for the Lyra warrior selection, and I've passed the test. If nothing unexpected happens, the notification should come down soon. It'll be centuries before we part ways again." Chen Yi Nan looked to be in his forties, simply threw off the heavy coat he was wearing and started his own Human Body Overclocking mode.

The main reason was that he saw the woman had activated Overclock Mode, and if he didn't, he wouldn't be able to handle her if things went wrong.

"It tastes good. What kind of filling is it? It's a bit sticky." The woman nodded, then moved closer to the man, picked up Dumplings, and popped it into her mouth.

"An improved version of the Guduo Beast, originally from the Dog-Headed People Planet. The Dumplings filling on Earth uses alien meat products, which is only available in this interstellar age. Back then, we wouldn't have even dared to dream of it. Hmm, this meat is actually quite tender." The man also put a Dumplings in his mouth and ate it.

"You really passed the test?" The woman picked up the glutinous Ciba next to her and started eating it. The glutinous Ciba was made of glutinous rice flour, but it seemed to have some extraterrestrial ingredients mixed in. However, the woman had never eaten real Earth Ciba, so she couldn't tell the difference.

"How could this be fake? Although your husband isn't as smart as you, my development in the realm of Mental Consciousness is top-notch. The test results are in, and my perception in the mental realm and my control over the subconscious have both exceeded the admission criteria. I estimate that in another ten days to two weeks, I'll be able to go to the Lyra to adapt to the real consciousness connection." The man's tone was full of pride. He had thought that he would just pass by like an ordinary person in his life, but he never expected that he would have such a talent in this area.

The man was from the Callisto Era, but he was not an elite Research Personnel or anything like that. He was an ordinary person who had served as a soldier in the Security Department. However, as time went by, his service term ended, and he returned to his assigned residence on a certain Residential Spaceship to live an ordinary life.

He then met a woman who was a scientific researcher. The two hit it off immediately, got married, and had three children. However, now that the children have their own lives, the two of them continue to live together.

He, who has no worries about food and drink, often brings up memories from the Earth Era to spice up his life. Women like this kind of thing, just like this time. After the two of them finish eating these things, they will probably have some tender moments together.

As for the selection of the soldiers for the Lyra, those with strong consciousness control and perception abilities were chosen to be one of the eight thousand pilots.

With the Lyra now completed, the selection of the eight thousand pilots required for the consciousness link naturally needs to be accelerated. As humanity's most powerful and advanced flagship, the personnel required must be the most outstanding talents.

This type of selection not only selects those with good Mental Consciousness control, but also requires sufficient military knowledge and battlefield adaptability. After all, as a pilot, although not necessarily the one directly controlling the warship's actions, one still needs to be "observant and aware" in a shared Third-Person Perspective, so basic military skills are a must.

Because of the high demands placed on control over one's dreams, this selection process is not limited to the military but is open to all of humanity.

It is under these circumstances that men rediscover their value in life. He had always thought he would just be an ordinary man behind his wife, but he never expected to have the chance to face the Sea of Stars.

Although spending one's life on Residential Spaceship and sailing through the universe with the human Great Fleet can be considered as traveling among the Sea of Stars, how can that feeling compare to being the pilot of Human Flagship, which truly means facing the vast universe head-on?

With a limited number of Consciousness Linking Device, and almost all humans now knowing that their Racial Talent is Third-Person Dream Realm, becoming a pilot on New Warship and putting their talent to good use has become a dream for many humans.

However, what these ordinary people don't know is that the number of soldiers selected for the Lyra is not just 8,000, but more than 20,000. This is only the current plan, and the number may increase later.

The reason is simple: we need reserve personnel and replacement personnel.

As far as humanity knows, piloting a warship from Third-Person Perspective using a mind-connection method leads to mental exhaustion, making it impossible to meet the minimum requirements. If there are only eight thousand people, what if they all get tired halfway through the battle? Then there will be replacement pilots.

Humans possess this talent, so there's no shortage of people. Moreover, the New Lyra is large enough to house millions of people without any problem.

Therefore, personnel are not a problem; in this situation, the most elite people should be selected first.

This is unthinkable in other civilizations. Even the Awakener Civilization can't do it like humans do, because even for the Awakeners, every individual life with awakened talents is extremely precious. Otherwise, they wouldn't have made awakening Fallen Civilization their business all this time.