Once they had made their choice, humanity had to face the corresponding consequences.
Huang Ji had said this before. Now that Liu Tengkong and the others were to be socially declared dead, they could understand it as well.
They had never planned to return alive in the first place. Being able to survive now was already an enormous gain.
Not to mention that from now on, they could follow Huang Ji and venture into the vast interstellar society.
Yu Mo Shuo and the two leaders thought it over and said nothing. They understood why Huang Ji had to do this.
He had only saved six people, which seemed insignificant, but the implications ran deep. If those six were allowed to return safely, it would be tantamount to saying: Go ahead and risk your lives. Whatever desperate plan you have, as long as it achieves the goal, do it. It doesn't matter if you can't come back—perhaps Huang Ji will rescue you. We've got people in the universe...
Wouldn't that be disastrous? Though such thoughts were only beginning to take shape, the leaders were not fools and would not think that way most of the time.
But when the time came to formulate plans for fighting a Gamma-ray Burst, a catastrophe of that scale, someone would suggest: We need not consider the cost in human lives.
That was clearly unacceptable.
Imperceptibly, people's thinking would become skewed. Even being skewed by a little was still being skewed.
A price was a price. If it had not been six people sacrificed today, but six hundred million, then regardless of whether Huang Ji chose to save them, Earth would forever be short six hundred million people! Everyone present was shrewd enough to understand Huang Ji's meaning. He simply feared that humanity would become dependent.