Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 273 Life or death
After thousands of years of fleeing, Li Qingsong was already tired of it.

After painstaking planning, they successfully broke through to become a strong nuclear civilization and fled with the flying stars. During the long voyage, they studied the strong nuclear-level technology bit by bit, and finally raised their technological level and combat effectiveness to a considerable height.

In recent years, in the Lyra G16 galaxy, a great battle was fought with the Haveli civilization, and the Haveli civilization, which had transformed into the strongest civilization with the same level of technology, was defeated on the front battlefield. This has truly proved its current strength.

There was still some time left for further technological development. The numerous warship wrecks from the Harvil civilization could also be used for reverse engineering, accelerating technological development to a certain extent.

In that case... then let's go all out, develop with all our might, and then have a life-and-death battle with the Omnic Scourge in this Lyra G16 galaxy. It's either you die or I die!

It would be fine if you don’t come, but as long as you come, there will be only one person who can leave this galaxy in the end!
Li Qingsong really made up his mind.

By this time, the war had subsided, and peace had finally returned to the Lyra G16 galaxy. Li Qingsong, with his 35 billion consciousness connections, was fully engaged, manipulating his clones, who remained at a constant 35 billion, to carry out technological research and development.

Propulsion, radar, long-distance communication, quantum mathematics, basic physics, applied physics, chemical industry, biotechnology, materials technology, energy shield technology, fusion technology...

And so on and so forth, the entire industrial system, the entire scientific system, whether it is at the basic level or the application level, all began to be studied, without leaving any behind!
At the same time, Li Qingsong did not forget to carry out large-scale production of clones.

The unified force field, a unique attack method of his own, is his biggest trump card at this stage, and he must do his best to strengthen it.

Due to its unique mode, each attack will consume a large number of clones, so it is necessary to reserve enough clones.

Li Qingsong's plan is to increase the number of clones under his command to 100 billion!
There are only 50 billion commonly used clones. The remaining 50 billion clones can only eat and do nothing, and still need the rest of the clones to take care of them. Isn't this a waste of resources?

It doesn't matter, just let them hibernate. In this way, he only needs to send a small number of clones - no more than 1000 million, to complete all tasks related to the hibernation of clones, such as taking care of them, producing minerals, energy, maintaining equipment operation, etc.

It’s not that Li Qingsong can’t store more clones, but there’s no point in doing so.

Limited by the maximum number of consciousness connections of 35 billion, Li Qingsong can only dispatch a maximum of 35 billion clones in a single unified force field attack.

There is actually no upper limit to the number of related equipment used to carry out unified force field attacks.

After meeting the minimum requirement, that is, the requirement of about 10 billion unified force field-related devices, the more related devices there are above this number, the greater the energy that can be released, the higher the detection accuracy, the higher the prediction accuracy, and the greater the ultimate lethality.

This mechanism determines that no matter how many unified force field-related devices Li Qingsong has in stock, they will all be used up at once when the actual attack is launched.

The reason is simple: it is better to break one finger than to injure ten. It is better to destroy ten thousand warships than to damage one hundred thousand.

Li Qingsong couldn't possibly divide his stockpile of unified force field-related equipment into two groups and launch two attacks. If he did, each attack might be insufficient in power, and ultimately, nothing would be achieved.

Either don't launch an attack, or launch the strongest attack within your capabilities! This is the strategic significance of the unified force field.

In addition, the complexity and precision requirements of the equipment related to the unified force field are extremely high. Even with Li Qingsong's industrial strength, it is impossible to mass-produce it in a short period of time. The combination of various factors ultimately created a situation where the unified force field "can only be used once in a war."

Since they can only be used once, there is no point in stockpiling too many clones.

In addition to the commonly used clones, 35 billion are reserved specifically for unified force field attacks, and another 15 billion are reserved to supplement the commonly used clones, adding up to a total of 100 billion.

At this moment, Li Qingsong was conducting technological research and development, stockpiling clones, and stockpiling equipment related to the unified force field. In addition to these three aspects, he was also carrying out another crucial task.

In the previous war with the Harvil civilization, the Wukong AI had only performed at a standard level. While its performance was acceptable, it was just mediocre. This was something Li Qingsong could not accept.

Facing a powerful opponent like the Robot Scourge, no matter what aspect, one must improve to the extreme within the possible range in order to have a hope of winning.

In this case, it is time to do this thing that has been delayed for a long time.

Conduct live-fire exercises to train Wukong AI!

As a result, the rumbling of artillery fire ignited again in the space that had originally returned to peace, and on average, thousands of unmanned warships were destroyed every day.

In addition to unmanned warships, the consumption of unmanned combat facilities such as interstellar artillery, mines, missiles, artillery shells, satellites, detectors, etc. has reached a level that is enough to make ordinary powerful nuclear civilizations dumbfounded.

Li Qingsong unscrupulously and without any scruples used his huge industrial manufacturing capabilities, going all out to supply the consumption of live-fire exercises and cultivating Wukong AI with all his strength, allowing it to grow rapidly.

Time passed quietly in Li Qingsong's busy life, and more than ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time, G16 Lyrae's stellar activity maintained a biosignature pattern.

But because it didn't cause him any other trouble, Li Qingsong ignored it.

Until today, a high-energy laser beam from nowhere suddenly hit one of Li Qingsong's warships.

This battleship is stationed around a star to prevent electromagnetic disasters from leaving the star and causing trouble for itself.

This laser beam immediately aroused Li Qingsong's vigilance.

Because looking at all his combat forces at the moment, no laser beams were fired in that direction.

Moreover, this laser beam comes from the direction of the star.

Li Qingsong's first reaction was that the electromagnetic disaster creatures were not behaving well again.

But the next moment, Li Qingsong realized that this was not launched by the electromagnetic disaster creatures.

Normally, laser beams can't travel very far because they expand rapidly with distance, causing their specific energy to decay.

However, his own detection equipment did not detect any Scourge creatures approaching. At the same time, the type of laser this was also different from the lasers fired by the Scourge creatures before.

It has higher energy, greater lethality, and a more diverse radiation type.

It wasn't launched by myself, nor by the natural disaster creatures, then... who could it be?

Li Qingsong's heart suddenly became heavy.

(End of this chapter)