Chapter 234 A Helpless Choice

Qi Yiming knew very well that it was impossible for humans to resist the invasion of the Zerg army in the current situation.

Even if Qiao Shan had the Azure, he would not be able to hold out for long.

Qi Yiming, who had been sitting in silence for a long time, looked up at Qiao Xin and asked, "How long have you been fighting the Zerg?"

"When I set out, the war had just broken out for less than half a month." Qiao Xin thought for a while and then said, "I spent nearly 8 years on the road. My brother told me that the Rhine Empire can only hold out for five years at most. After five years, whether you receive the message or not, he will take the people of the empire on the road to escape."

"That means we have less than seven years to prepare." Wang Shuhua whispered.

But Qi Yiming said categorically, "No, we don't have seven years, only three years at most, and it is very likely that we don't even have three years."

"Why?" Ye Lu glanced at Qiao Xin and then looked at Qi Yiming with a worried look.

"You still don't understand the Zerg. They seem to be born to adapt to long-distance travel in space, so their jump speed is much faster than the current maximum speed of humans." Qi Yiming paused and continued: "If Qiao Shan can really hold on for five years, then according to the speed of the Zerg, the eight-year journey that Qiao Xin needs to travel will be completed by the Zerg in less than three years."

"So fast?" Ye Lu's worry became more serious: "Then can Qiao Shan and the others still escape?"

Qi Yiming shook his head silently and said nothing.

He Zhenzhu, who had been standing aside without saying a word, stood up and said to everyone: "Don't be stunned, think about what we should do!!"

Qi Yiming looked up at He Zhenzhu: "Is there still a need to consider? Others don't know what the Zerg looks like, but you don't know? Do we have any choice now?"

"Ready to run away?" He Zhenzhu said with anger.

"What else can we do? Stay here and wait for death?"

"We ran away in our last life." The awakened people habitually referred to their experiences before the Human Federation as their last life. He Zhenzhu continued, "Do we have to run again in this life?"

"Do you have any way to repel the Zerg?" Qi Yiming glanced at He Zhenzhu irritably.

In the end, He Zhenzhu shut up. She really had no way to stop the Zerg.

The living room fell into a deathly silence, and you could hear a pin drop.

After a long while, Qi Yiming spoke again, this time with a bit of tragic and tenacity in his voice: "Fang Min... Inform all countries of the Zerg invasion and speed up the construction of two giant colony spacecraft."

Fang Min nodded and left the living room.

"Wang Sen, prepare supplies with all your strength." Qi Yiming thought for a while: "Especially energy blocks. From now until we escape, we will produce as many energy blocks as we can."

Wang Sen agreed and turned to leave the living room.

"Wang Shuhua, from now on, the Federation Fleet will enter the first-level combat readiness state, and all officers and soldiers on leave will return to their combat posts."

Then Qi Yiming looked at Chen Cheng again: "The Marines will go to the streets to implement martial law, and anyone who dares to take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos will be shot on the spot."

Under Qi Yiming's orders, the citizens of the New Federation, who had just enjoyed a few years of stable life, once again felt the coming of a war.

On the city streets of each administrative star, teams of marines with live ammunition were patrolling.

The giant holographic screen on the city street played Qi Yiming's public speech to the citizens of the Federation in a loop.

Although the New Federation immediately launched propaganda against the threat of the Zerg after occupying the huge territory of the Commercial Alliance, it still caused quite a stir when it suddenly announced that humans had to embark on the road of escape because they could not defeat the Zerg.

For such things, some people believe it firmly and others must sneer at it.

Soon, large-scale riots broke out on various administrative stars.

Especially the dozen administrative stars that had just been incorporated into the new federation. These people were the last group of people in the federation to see the propaganda information about the Zerg. They had just had a few days of good life. When they heard that the federal government was going to run away, they took to the streets one by one to demand that the federation abandon this so-called escape plan.

At this time, Qi Yiming had no energy to argue with these people, and he also knew that the old and young people of the business alliance were standing behind them.

These people didn't take advantage of the chaos to make some trouble, and Qi Yiming would never believe it.

So Qi Yiming didn't waste any words and immediately asked Chen Cheng to arrest people, regardless of whether they participated or not.

With these people as an example, the chaotic situation was barely suppressed.

But what made Qi Yiming angry was the attitude of other human countries. Needless to say, the Yunhuan Federation had suffered from the destruction of the Zerg, so they responded to Qi Yiming's evacuation plan at the first time.

Qi Yiming also returned the favor and shared the construction technology of the giant colonial spacecraft with them.

The attitudes of the Turing Republic and the Taro Empire were somewhat ambiguous, and the two countries were divided into two distinct factions.

One faction firmly supported the New Federation's plan and demanded that the New Federation share the technology of giant colonial spacecraft.

The other faction was skeptical of Qi Yiming's retreat plan, and they even thought that this was part of a new round of attack plans launched by the New Federation.

The purpose was to divert their attention so that the New Federation's fleet could attack them unexpectedly.

Qi Yiming had no better solution for this, so he could only promise the group that supported him that as long as they were willing to provide resources, he could help them build a giant colony ship.

But how can a giant colony ship be built just like that? Even if the New Federation started construction several years in advance, the two giant colony ships have only been completed by 70%.

The remaining 30% of the project will take another year and a half to complete after repeated compression.

But even if the two giant colony ships are packed, they can only take away less than 6 billion people.

What can 6 billion people do? In the interstellar era, 6 billion people can't even support a decent interstellar war.

Not to mention a direct confrontation with the Zerg.

So in order to take away more people, Qi Yiming discussed with the top leaders of the Yunhuan Federation, and the Yunhuan Federation completely stopped the production of various types of warships, and began to build giant colony ships with all its strength, while freeing up production capacity to build more small colony ships.

The New Federation is fully producing escort warships. As long as there are enough people serving in the warships, there will be fewer people who need to board the colony ships.

In September of the 3341st year of the Star Calendar, one of the two giant colony ships built by the New Federation was finally completed after seven years.

In November of the same year, the other giant colony ship was also completed.

The first batch of people to board the ship were the scientists of the Academy of Sciences and their immediate family members, the second batch of people to board the ship were the immediate family members of the military, followed by the workers who built the giant colony ships and their immediate family members, and finally the ordinary people.

Although there were many riots during this period, fortunately the army did not get into chaos and quickly suppressed the riots.

Qi Yiming then invested all the production capacity of building giant colony ships into the construction of small colony ships.