Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 399 Damn it, this is a conspiracy against Fleet International! (3k)

Europa Spaceport Base.

As the "capital" of the Fleet International, Europa was attacked by multiple droplets a year ago. The entire Fleet International's high command suffered a decapitation strike by four droplets, including the then chairman of the Solar System Joint Conference, the top military commissioners of the three fleets, and the former commanders of the two fleets, all of whom perished in the droplet attack.

With the combined attack of the Sophon and the Droplet, traditional underground air-raid shelters became meaningless. The Droplet even crashed through the surface layer of Europa, which lies 10,000 meters underground, and efficiently slaughtered the international fleet officials who had taken refuge there.

This is something that no one in the entire human world had ever imagined.

Beneath the water droplet, there is no absolutely safe area in the solar system.

Moreover, during the Doomsday War, the Trisolaran world directly designated Earth's leadership as a priority target for extermination.

In the final stages of the Doomsday War, the fastest-moving droplet had already entered the Great Ring and crashed into an underground fusion reactor inside the Great Ring without hesitation. The resulting explosion caused the deaths of thousands of dinosaurs, and even two white fish known for their "hardness" were directly smashed by the droplet.

Electron-degenerate matter cannot collide with neutron-degenerate matter.

Even the indestructible white dwarf starfish cannot overcome the strong interaction force material on the surface of a water droplet.

Even white fish can't stop the impact of water droplets, let alone other man-made shelters?
It was precisely because of the relentless pursuit of the Water Drop that the officers of Fleet International became the group with the highest casualty rate in the Doomsday War. The leadership was almost completely wiped out, with only a very small number of Fleet International leaders surviving.

Commander Grant, who fell into a coma in the explosion, and Chimmon, who successfully escaped from the Paradox Engine, were among the few survivors.

The former took on the main responsibility for Fleet International, while the latter returned to Earth to act as a liaison between Fleet International and Earth International.

As for the commander of the Asian fleet, he has completely disappeared. There are rumors that he was evaporated in the super-high temperature of millions of degrees on the surface of a water droplet and his body was never found.

But that's all in the past.

In the past six months, the victims of Fleet International have been completing their reincarnation process.

After nine months of embryonic development, the world, with its extremely low birth rate, has finally ushered in the largest baby boom in the 23rd century, with approximately 178 million babies born in birthing factories around the world.

Since the average human lifespan reached 200 years, the birth rate of newborns in society has dropped to an extremely low level. Each year, the number of newborns born through normal reproduction by men and women in accordance with traditional family values ​​is only in the tens of millions, and most of them are born to people in the Common Era. This has just maintained the dynamic balance of the Earth's population.

To facilitate the reincarnation of these 178 million babies, countries around the world have had to restart their almost abandoned birthing factories.

For a severely aging global society, these 178 million babies are indeed a shot in the arm for human society.

The coalition government is gearing up and ready to welcome these "reincarnated babies".

However, in all of human history, there has never been a case of a baby reincarnated with "memories." Therefore, the government is somewhat at a loss as to how to "raise" these more than ten million babies with memories of their past lives.

Family foster care is definitely not suitable, as traditional couples find it difficult to accept that an infant has the same level of thinking as themselves.

Even having the reincarnated baby raised by their previous life's family is not an option. These space forces were originally created by Fleet International using artificial womb technology to combine fertilized eggs for reproduction and social upbringing, and they had no parents in the traditional sense.

The very few reincarnated babies with parents have already been taken away by their families.

After much deliberation, the coalition government decided to entrust the entire process to simulated wet nurses in order to avoid potential ethical issues.

In the eyes of these AI-controlled wet nurses, the past identities of these infants are irrelevant.

Whether you're a former fleet commander or a heroic captain, it makes no difference in the eyes of AI.

Your name is Vitalis, right? Former Commander-in-Chief of the European Fleet, what are you babbling about?
Mommy doesn't understand, so I obediently nurse.

The simulated wet nurse lifted her clothes and poured the liquid onto her without saying a word.

Little Vitalis shook his head in terror, trying to avoid the giant bun's thrusts, but was eventually forced to put it in his mouth and suck on it.

Because of little Vitalis's struggles and wriggling, the simulated wet nurse gently slapped Vitalis's soft little bottom a few times as punishment.

Thus, Commander-in-Chief Vitalis, hailed as the last traditional French man, suffered a Waterloo in his life and shed tears of humiliation.

It wasn't until these reincarnated babies were six months old and had the ability to roll over and crawl that they began to rebel.

Unable to speak due to underdeveloped vocal cords, these shy space force infants can only learn to refuse these simulated nannies with their actions and struggle to control their less-than-flexible hands and feet, using pens to write and express their thoughts.

Some of the Space Force cubs even refused to be nursed and tried to drive away the 'enemy' with their urine.

Ultimately, through persistent and tireless struggle, the Space Force cubs achieved their goal of drinking from a large baby bottle. This was a great victory in the struggle between the Fleet International and the Earth International!
However, the Earth United Government did readjust its care plan for the reincarnated babies later on. The officials of the United Government also realized that the rough feeding of these babies in the early Space Force infant stage was indeed unreasonable.

Unfortunately, this grudge has been remembered by the reincarnated babies.

Since this summer, the Space Force's pups have turned six months old, and some of the early-developing ones can already speak in simple sentences, such as Commander Vitalis, who gave an interview to the media.

This 8-month-old baby, in his indistinct baby talk, clearly rebuked the excessive "motherly" pampering of Earth International.

The enraged Commander-in-Chief Vitalis even declared that he had found the reason why Earth's international order was so weak!

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Commander-in-Chief Vitalis:
[(Translated from Baby Language) Baby Vitalis solemnly points out that the current unprincipled, overprotective education system in the global education system is a serious misguidance for individual development! It is systematically eroding the independent will and fighting spirit of modern people, molding them into mediocre individuals who lack self-care abilities and are addicted to virtual fantasies. This educational model not only fails to cultivate qualified members who can shoulder the responsibilities of our time, but also causes long-term damage to the foundation of social development. It must be immediately recognized and thoroughly corrected!]

Netizens around the world were in an uproar, condemning Vitalis's insane, "no pain, no gain" mentality, and flooding the screen with comments like: "Go drink your milk!", "Good boy~", "You'll get a spanking if you don't behave.", "Come and get a spanking with Mommy.", "Come to Mommy's for milk.", "Commander-in-Chief is so cute~" and so on.

This still seems to indicate that there are still differences in public perception between the Fleet International and Earth International, which seems to foreshadow a spiritual rift in human civilization.

Led by Commander-in-Chief Vitalis, the infants raised the banner of rebellion, with some even arguing that Earth International was deliberately using "breast milk" (literally) to co-opt them.

Indeed, due to the nature of infants, resisting the allure of pacifiers is a very difficult thing.

Many brave and fearless space force soldiers have fallen for the comfort of pacifiers and simulated wet nurses, and have even learned to actively ask for hugs and breastfeeding.

Some radical infants even pointed out: This is a despicable color revolution and a pacifier revolution targeting the fleet internationally!

Earth International, huh? You just wait.

Wait until we grow up!
Let you old folks experience what it's like to be force-fed milk!
Over the past two months, as their bodies have developed, the Space Force cubs have relearned to stand and walk. Their conflict with their simulated nannies has intensified, eventually reaching a point where it is completely irreconcilable.

The Earth United Government, having no other option, devised a compromise with the Jupiter Provisional Government:

Incorporate these Space Force cubs into the military.

Thus, the army with the youngest average age in human history was born.

—A massive army of human infants with an average age of less than 7 months.

But even if they are incorporated into the military, they still have to face a problem.

That means there's no room for these reincarnated babies in the current solar system fleet.

There is now a consensus on Earth that rebuilding the solar system fleet is no longer practical, and the existing 500 star-class warships are sufficient for humanity's current self-defense.

These 500 starships could easily handle refugees 0.41 light-years away.

To proceed with the next phase of large-scale shipbuilding, we must wait until humanity has completely mastered the technology of warp drive light-speed spaceships.

In the design of the new generation of space warships, we learned that warp drives and hulls made of strong interaction materials are essential components.

The new light-speed spaceship will completely surpass the old star-class warships.

However, Earth has estimated that it will take at least 50 Earth years to fully master the warp drive technology and the large-scale application of strong interaction force materials, and perhaps 100 Earth years to build a fleet of spaceships traveling at the same speed as the second fleet of the Trisolarans.

The gap between civilizations is too great; even with substantial technological compensation, they still need ample time to develop.

It is precisely because of these complex historical backgrounds that these space force juveniles, after reaching adulthood at the age of twenty-six, will likely be assigned to various planets to engage in orbital defense work, rather than returning to the solar system fleet.

However, these space force babies will definitely live on Earth before they reach adulthood, which may be a novel experience for space forces who have grown up in space.

Twenty-six years of life on Earth may have a special impact on these reincarnated babies.

Of course, whether they stay on Earth or go to other Jupiters depends mainly on the personal wishes of these young creatures.

However, one thing is certain: Fleet International will soon be a page turned in history.

The remaining fleet international is merging with the Earth international, and a new solar system government led by Earth is slowly taking shape.

(End of this chapter)