Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 248 100%!

At this speed, even a relatively famous blue giant star appeared to Li Qingsong to have a reddish hue, like a red dwarf star.

Also changing is the speed of time.

In the past, when the fleet was traveling at 8% of the speed of light, the time within the fleet only slowed down by about 0.32%. That is, when 365 days passed in the outside world, about 364 days passed in the fleet's time, which was one day slower than the outside world.

But at this moment, when the speed is 50% of the speed of light, time slows down by 13.4%!

In this way, when 365 days have passed in the outside world, only about 316 days have passed in the fleet!
It slowed down by 49 days!
Time changes can bring many problems. For example, when Li Qingsong and the clones remaining in the Pegasus V432 galaxy communicate, the changes in time will cause a lot of confusion.

For example, if the clone describes that XX event was detected a year ago, if Li Qingsong reverses the process based on his own time, it will lead to errors.

There was no other way, Li Qingsong had to adjust the time parameter value again to avoid these errors.

At the same time, Li Qingsong also saw that the interstellar particle collision, which had originally had little impact, now greatly increased in power.

They are like high-energy heavy nuclear radiation, constantly bombarding every spaceship in the fleet.

Li Qingsong once did an experiment. He put a cow into a device that was only sealed but had no radiation protection function. He placed it in interstellar space without the protection of an energy shield for a few minutes and then took it back.

It was only a few minutes of interstellar heavy nuclear radiation, and the strong bull showed symptoms within just over ten minutes.

It began to vomit, had a fever, vomited blood, and eventually died.

The intense interstellar radiation disrupted the chemical bonds in its cells, causing them to lose their ability to replicate. Consequently, its skin was damaged beyond repair, and its internal mucous membranes were damaged beyond repair, leading to its death.

Li Qingsong didn't dare let the clone eat the beef, but threw it away as garbage.

God knows what elements these heavy nuclear radiations have created in its body. If it eats this beef, it will probably get diarrhea and die.

At this moment, the vast and quiet space seemed to be full of dangers.

Fortunately, the layer of pale yellow light outside each large spacecraft is like a magical candle, which protects all life and all creations with its own light, preventing external invasion.

Time passed quietly. Currently, Li Qingsong no longer conducts large-scale multidisciplinary research and development, but instead focuses his efforts on the development of biotechnology.

The flying star had been completely consumed, and supplies were no longer plentiful. Biotechnology research didn't require a lot of resources, so now was the perfect time to focus on a breakthrough.

Li Qingsong has always had a premonition that after major breakthroughs have been made in other disciplines, his own biotechnology will also have a breakthrough.

After all, biology is closely related to physics. It doesn't make sense that breakthroughs have been made in basic physics and other disciplines, but not in biology, right?
So Li Qingsong devoted himself to research for more than 1000 years, and finally developed the latest gene editing plan, new gene editing tools and various auxiliary transformation tools. He then created clones and placed them in culture tanks.

It still took about half a year of development time for the latest 1000 clones to be born.

"With so many technological breakthroughs and so many iterative optimizations, how much can the maximum number of consciousness links of this clone be increased to?"

With a little anticipation and a little nervousness, Li Qingsong began his attempt.

After transferring his consciousness to one of the clones, Li Qingsong tried to connect with his existing clones again. In an instant, he once again had that "empty truck" feeling.

There were a total of 19 billion clones awake at this moment. Previously, his maximum consciousness connection count was only 15 billion, unable to fully connect them all. And now, even after connecting to 19 billion clones, he still felt "empty"!
Suppressing his excitement, Li Qingsong decisively issued an order to awaken all the hibernating clones. Suddenly, the total number of awake clones reached 30 billion.

Li Qingsong once again connected the consciousness of all 30 billion clones. But... Li Qingsong still felt that he still had enough energy to connect more clones!
But now there are no more clones for Li Qingsong to try to connect to, because the entire fleet only has 30 billion clones.

At this stage, the fleet's material reserves are limited, and it is not the time to mass-produce clones.

Li Qingsong felt both excited and regretful.

"I don't know for now what the maximum number of consciousness connections will be this time. I'll only know when we reach the inner galaxy, have sufficient supplies, and produce enough clones.

However, even if the maximum number of connections is only the current 30 billion, the improvement is huge enough.

The larger the base number, the smaller the improvement. But now, this is at least a 100% improvement! "

With the breakthrough in biotechnology, Li Qingsong's large-scale scientific research came to an end.

Existing material reserves are no longer sufficient to support large-scale research in any discipline.

"It's time to find a star system to dock in."

Li Qingsong thought secretly: "Now, I have been sailing for more than 50 years at a speed of 20% of the speed of light, and have sailed a distance of more than ten light years. Even if that intelligent disaster catches up with me again, it will take at least a hundred years.

A hundred years is more than enough for me just to collect supplies."

With the current technological strength, if Li Qingsong fights to the death, he is not without the ability to fight.

But, there is no need.

Every delay makes me stronger. So, why not delay as long as possible, until I have an absolute technological advantage and am 100% sure of victory before fighting the Omnic Scourge?

To survive in this dangerous universe, it is better to be cautious.

Thinking of this, Li Qingsong adjusted the course and controlled the entire fleet to fly towards a nearby star with a more suitable environment.

The star burns relatively steadily and has three planets around it, two rocky and one gaseous, making it a great place to collect supplies.

The fleet changed its jet direction, and the long-dormant thrusters started up again, beginning to violently spray light towards the star.

Time passed quietly, and the fleet was getting closer and closer to the star.

A piece of information suddenly came to Li Qingsong's fleet.

"Dear guest, hello. This star system has become the temporary residence of our 'Havel' civilization.

......"

(End of this chapter)