Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 363 Nebula Project
Time slipped by quietly. In Haimeran's eyes, the starry sky remained vast and serene. Before him, the dim white star continued to quietly emit its light.

Everything seemed the same as before, yet everything also seemed different.

In any case, their mission has finally been successfully completed. What happens next is no longer something they can control, influence, or even see.

It's time to focus on yourself.

Because those space carriers had been destroyed, our side no longer had the fuel and supplies to return to the Pegasus G76 system, so we had no choice but to stay here.

Under Haimeran's command, a total of nine integrated spaceships started propulsion together and slowly approached a dark and cold dwarf planet that quietly revolved around the white dwarf star.

This dwarf planet has a radius of only 800 kilometers and a surface gravity of only about 10% of that of Earth.

Such low gravity means that these large spacecraft, with the longest reaching 10 kilometers, can land directly on its surface while maintaining their structural integrity.

The framework made of strong-core materials is strong enough to support its own weight under such gravitational forces.

Of course, it's impossible for it to take off again.

With numerous engines starting simultaneously, the nine large spaceships decelerated as they gradually plummeted toward the surface of the dwarf planet.

When the distance was only a few thousand meters, the spacecraft completely lost its lateral velocity and began to fall toward the ground at an acceleration of 1.23 meters per second squared.

The engine's jet direction was changed to counteract the gravitational acceleration, and the descent speed of the spacecraft was precisely controlled. It took more than a day for it to finally land gently in a canyon on the surface of the white dwarf star at a speed of only 0.2 meters per second.

This canyon is extremely large, with a length of over 1,000 kilometers, a depth of over 600 meters, and a width of about 2 kilometers.

It has more than enough space to accommodate a multi-purpose spacecraft.

The remaining eight spaceships followed the same method, landing one after another and connecting closely together, occupying an area of ​​approximately 100 square kilometers.

After that, numerous mechanical devices left the spaceship, and a total of 90,000 soldiers, engineers, workers, and others, dressed in spacesuits, arrived on the planet's surface to begin the next phase of engineering construction in cooperation with the Primordial AI.

Outside the canyon, hill after hill was leveled, and tens or even hundreds of billions of tons of earth were transported into the canyon and covered the spaceships.

These simple projects originally required no human intervention and could have been accomplished solely by the Primordial AI. However, unfortunately, they currently only have nine spaceships, lacking any basic industrial production capabilities and a sufficient number of mechanical equipment.

There was no other way but to adopt the current approach of combining human and AI methods.

Numerous intelligent beings, wielding hammers and cutters, operated crushers, off-road trucks, and other equipment, continuously transporting excavated earth to the canyon while simultaneously collecting water ice, dry ice, methane, ethane, and other compounds and various metallic elements that would be used later.

Ultimately, after several years, the nine spaceships were completely buried.

The canyon, which comprised approximately 100 square kilometers and housed the nine spaceships, was completely filled in, level with the surface.

Each spaceship was covered by a layer of rock hundreds of meters thick.

The collection of all supplies has been completed. At least for the time being, our nine spaceships will not have to worry about being unable to operate due to a lack of supplies.

Haimer sighed softly.

For the past few years, Haimerlan has been assigning people to keep an eye on the activity in space, hoping to discover a few more of their own ships that have reached this star system.

But he was ultimately disappointed.

For the past few years, space has remained quiet.

He then knew that, most likely, those six spaceships... would never be able to come to this star system again.

Haimerlan did not know exactly what happened that caused the six spaceships to malfunction.

The universe is vast and the starry sky is boundless; there are simply too many unexpected events that can occur.

It's possible that after losing contact, they were detected by the Purple Moon Fleet and subsequently self-destructed. Alternatively, they might have been damaged due to the intense acceleration of 80 meters per second for the previous few hours, rendering the spaceship unable to decelerate or maneuver. They could also have encountered a cloud of interstellar dust in space, causing damage. Or perhaps they encountered some unknown life form...

Anything is possible. And our side will never know exactly what happened.

Those six spaceships, carrying 60,000 compatriots, were thus silently lost in the sea of ​​stars.

"Let's begin hibernation."

Haimerlan issued the order.

After a series of preparations, 90,000 hibernation pods were ready in the nine spaceships that were to be "buried alive." One by one, our compatriots entered the hibernation pods and fell into a deep sleep.

After watching his last companion enter hibernation, Haimer knew it was time for him to hibernate as well.

The hibernation pod lid slowly closed, and anesthetic gas began to be released.

In the last moment before losing consciousness, a thought involuntarily flashed through Haimer's mind.

Will I be able to wake up from this hibernation?
Now that their mission has been successful, can the leader use this reinforcement to defeat the Purple Moon Civilization?
If we still cannot win, then naturally everything is over, and no one will come to our rescue. Our tens of thousands of people will be trapped and die on this desolate and lifeless planet.

Are we going to rely on these tens of thousands of people to save ourselves?
Impossible. The number of people is far too small; they can't even complete the basic transfer of technology. Even with the Primordial AI, it wouldn't be able to develop a complete industrial system from its current state of near-total poverty.

Being trapped and dying is the only outcome.

If the leader can defeat the Purple Moon Civilization with this help, will he be able to complete the subsequent task of detonating a supernova?
If possible, we are not too worried about the impact of the supernova explosion.

At this moment, we are still tens of light-years away from the G76 Pegasus galaxy, and the energy of the supernova has been greatly weakened by the time it reaches us.

Furthermore, our own spacecraft is protected by a layer of rock hundreds of meters high.

However, once the supernova is successfully detonated, the Führer will have to flee at full speed with the main fleet beforehand, leaving no time to rescue his own forces.

To be rescued, we'll have to wait until the effects of the supernova explosion have subsided.

At that time, the main fleet was probably hundreds of light-years away.

Would the Führer really go to such lengths to travel hundreds of light-years for a mere few tens of thousands of people, risking retaliation from the Destroyer civilization, just to come here?

Don't forget, once the Crimson Star Kingdom escapes, the Destroyer Civilization's plans will be thwarted, and they will be extremely angry.

Crushing our human civilization is as easy as crushing an insect.

In this situation, instead of doing everything possible to escape and hide, why would someone return to the vicinity of the "crime scene" to rescue their own side?
Would the Führer... do that?

Haimerlan pondered carefully, sometimes thinking it would, sometimes thinking it wouldn't.

Of course, when facing his comrades before, he always said with great conviction that the leader would never abandon them, because those who completed this mission would be heroes of the entire civilization.

The leader will not allow heroes to be trapped and die.

But deep down, he was never really sure.

Even now, as he is about to enter hibernation, he still can't figure out this question.

He didn't figure it out until he completely lost consciousness and entered hibernation.

At this moment, all 90,000 people of various races have entered hibernation. The once bustling cabins are now completely silent.

The Milky Way was vast and serene, as if nothing had ever happened.

Only the Primordial AI continued to operate, constantly gazing at the starry sky, waiting for the light released by the spaceship's deceleration tail flame, which might never come.

……

"Unified force field!"

In the G76 star system of Pegasus, on the planetary battlefield of G76d, amidst the vast starry sky where countless warships were entangled, Li Qingsong boldly issued an order.

At that moment, billions of clones died simultaneously from brain overload. In space, over a billion unified force field components also exploded instantly due to energy overload.

A torrent of X and Y bosons, carrying devastating power, surged forth like a flood, completely engulfing this star field at the speed of light.

The next moment, a series of extremely violent explosions erupted, their light connecting and even obscuring the light of a star as large as a mountain.

After a brief wait, the light faded. After tallying the results, Li Qingsong let out a soft sigh.

The unified force field covers too large an area, thus reducing its average lethality.

During the process of building the unified force field framework, our side suffered a desperate attack from the Purple Moon Fleet, resulting in the destruction of about 40% of the unified force field components, which failed to exert their power.

The combination of these two factors prevented the unified force field from exerting its intended power, thus significantly reducing its destructive impact on the Purple Moon Fleet.

In total, this only resulted in the destruction of approximately 6 warships of the Purple Moon civilization.

Based on recent battle reports, the destruction of these 6 warships will only give them a respite of no more than two years.

"The Purple Moon Civilization has a general understanding of the killing methods and countermeasures of the unified force field."

They cannot fight against the torrent of X and Y bosons, but they can reduce the damage they suffer by destroying unified force field components, expanding the battlefield area, and interfering with our framework construction.

The destructive power of the four recent unified force fields has decreased with each iteration. Once I accumulate another unified force field, its damage to the Purple Moon civilization will likely drop to below 50,000 warships. The unified force field is Li Qingsong's most important asset in enabling him to withstand the siege of the Purple Moon fleet, which has mastered gravity cannons.

But now, the effectiveness of this reliance is also irreversibly diminishing.

If this continues...

I glanced at the distant starry sky, which remained tranquil and vast.

It has been almost a century since the mission fleet broke through. If all went well, the reinforcements I've been hoping for should have arrived by now.

But now... there's no sign of any reinforcements arriving.

Haimer Blue, what exactly did you encounter in this vast starry sky?
Did you successfully complete your mission? Are you... still alive?
At this moment, Li Qingsong had no way of obtaining information from Haimeran.

All he could do was persevere and wait.

Time passed quietly, and the Purple Moon Fleet's offensive continued as always.

It will take approximately five years to build up the next unified force field offensive. Based on the current rate of loss and replenishment of our own warships, we can only sustain this for a little over a year at most.

More than a year...

If reinforcements arrive within a year or so, then I should already be able to detect some signs by now.

Li Qingsong once again conducted the most detailed deep space observation.

But he was disappointed once again.

The starry sky remained silent and vast, with no sign of reinforcements arriving.

The situation seems to have truly reached a dead end.

But Li Qingsong remained calm and composed, without the slightest panic.

Because Li Qingsong had been preparing for this project for nearly a century, during which he had consistently utilized a significant portion of his extremely valuable industrial resources, and had been persistently working on it, it was now truly complete.

"Project Nebula, launch!"

At this moment, on the mottled and colorful surface of the large satellite numbered G76d-6—those vibrant colors are actually sulfides, which come from the numerous volcanoes on this satellite.

This large satellite is geologically extremely active. Under the gravitational pull of the planet, it is repeatedly kneaded like dough, resulting in extremely high internal temperatures and pressures. When the pressure reaches its limit, it erupts through volcanic eruptions.

One of the key components of the Li Qingsong Nebula Project is located on this large satellite.

With Li Qingsong's order, the next moment, a total of 200 million high-yield hydrogen bombs, which had been pre-buried according to the geological nodes of this satellite, were simultaneously detonated, with the deepest point reaching 1600 kilometers and the shallowest point on the Earth's surface.

At that moment, the entire planet seemed to tremble.

The combined power of two million high-yield hydrogen bombs would be far insufficient to destroy this planet. However, given its already active geological conditions, it is possible to further intensify its geology, even to a degree that natural forces could not possibly achieve.

As a result, the already volatile satellite became even more volatile at this moment.

The tens of thousands of active volcanoes that were already on it were completely activated at this moment, and a super eruption unprecedented in history was launched.

Endless sulfur compounds were squeezed out from the planet's interior, which was under immense pressure and temperature, through the planet's internal veins, and erupted violently into the sky from the volcanoes.

In that instant, more than 100 million tons of material gushed out of the crater.

Li Qingsong estimates that this eruption will last for about a month, and the total mass of material ejected will reach hundreds of billions of tons!
Because the eruption was so violent, about one percent of the ejected material, or about 100-200 trillion tons of mass, was ejected directly into space, escaping the planet's gravitational field.

The total amount of water on the entire Earth is approximately 140 trillion trillion tons.

This global volcanic eruption has ejected a mass equivalent to all the water on Earth into space.

At this moment, the entire planet G76d-6 seemed to be shrouded in a mist, becoming indistinct and shadowy.

Then, these "mist" began to spread outwards due to their enormous kinetic energy.

The gravitational environment around planet G76d is extremely complex. In this region of space, there is not only the gravitational and magnetic influence of the massive planet, a dozen large moons, and hundreds of small and medium-sized moons, but also the influence of the massive red giant G76.

Thus, it was as if countless fans were fanning a cloud of smoke. Once it left the original satellite's gravitational field, this "smoke" quickly spread to the entire planetary battlefield.

But this is only one part of Li Qingsong's "Nebula Project".

On other planets, Li Qingsong was also undertaking an extremely large-scale project.

On G76d-5, a large satellite almost entirely covered by ocean, 10 million "water towers" have been erected in the vast area of ​​Haiyan, which covers a total area of ​​about 60 million square kilometers.

Each of these water towers is 100,000 meters high. Considering the thickness of this satellite's atmosphere, this distance can be considered to extend beyond its atmosphere.

Li Qingsong's original plan was to build 1000 million space elevators, not 1000 million water towers.

But there was no other way; the space elevator was simply too long, needing to extend to a point 10,000 kilometers above the planet's surface. And that location, at this moment when their side was being completely suppressed by the Purple Moon civilization, was already beyond Li Qingsong's defensive limits.

Even if a space elevator could be built, it would inevitably be destroyed.

Li Qingsong could only build each water tower 100 kilometers high, just extending beyond the atmosphere, and still within his own protection range.

But this brings up a new problem.

In the case of a space elevator, there's no need to consider maintaining altitude. This is because a space elevator essentially uses a high-speed, heavy object from a distance to lift itself up.

Although the satellite's gravity is extremely low compared to Earth's, it is still extremely difficult to extend the water tower without it collapsing due to the planet's own gravity.

Even high-strength materials cannot achieve the intended strength.

Li Qingsong solved the problem in a somewhat clumsy way.

On this 100-kilometer-high water tower, Li Qingsong installs a "propulsion belt" every 500 meters, with 20 propulsion engines on each belt.

By employing a high-speed ion jet method, once these propulsion engines are started, they can contribute a continuous upward thrust, forcefully "pulling" the water tower up so that it does not collapse.

As for the sheer amount of energy and working fluid required to operate these 1000 million water towers and over 400 billion thrusters at all times, Li Qingsong didn't care at all.

I've built many large-scale nuclear fusion power plants. If that's not enough, I can build even more!
Don't even mention 4000 billion thrusters, even 400 billion wouldn't mean anything to me!
At this moment, these 1000 million water towers have been completed and are now operational.

Under the suction of multiple powerful water pumps, seawater from the vast ocean rushed into the water tower at an astonishing rate.

Assuming a water tower pipe diameter of 60 meters, its cross-sectional area would be approximately 2800 square meters. Assuming a seawater flow rate of 200 meters per second within the pipe, an average of 56 tons of seawater would be pumped into the water tower every second!

1000 million water towers would amount to 5.6 trillion tons per second, or approximately 48.4 trillion tons per day!
At this rate of drainage, in less than 80 years, all the oceans, lakes, raging rivers, and all other water sources on Earth will be drained.

Even though the total amount of water on this large satellite is currently three times that of Earth, such a rate of water pumping has had a very significant impact on the planet.

In the vast ocean, due to the effects of planetary tidal forces, towering waves thousands of meters high are a common sight.

They are like towering mountains that can move at any time, rising above the ocean, sweeping everything away with an unstoppable force.

This is the power of heaven and earth, which human beings cannot match.

But with the extraction of water from a total of 1000 million water towers, the situation changed.

Li Qingsong saw that countless giant waves, each over a thousand meters high, collapsed and disappeared within minutes before they could even sweep across the area.

Because the total volume of water stirred up by a single giant wave is only about 2000 to 5000 billion tons of seawater. Compared to the giant water towers built by Li Qingsong, it would only take 4 to 10 days to pump it all out.

If there were 6000 to 1.5 water towers, all the water from a giant wave could be pumped out in just one minute.

At this moment, Li Qingsong has put a total of 1000 million water towers into operation!

The power of nature, seemingly insurmountable by human strength, is merely a trivial matter in front of Li Qingsong.

At this moment, not only did the giant waves disappear, but even the massive ocean currents that had previously traversed the entire planet vanished.

The surging seawater no longer flowed along its original path. At this moment, all the seawater possessed 1000 million cores, and all the seawater was flowing towards these cores.

This massive amount of seawater was forcibly pumped up to an altitude of 100 kilometers, and then, like a giant nozzle, it was ejected into space.

At this moment, the entire planet G76d-5 seemed to transform into a giant showerhead.

Because of the extreme expansion of star G76, even though the planet G76d is 10 billion kilometers away, the stellar radiation it receives is extremely high.

If a steel plate were placed there, the temperature on the side facing the star could even rise to over 100 degrees Celsius.

These seawaters, once they enter space, will not freeze at all; instead, they will be heated to an extreme temperature.

What will happen to this water if the temperature rises and it is in a vacuum without atmospheric pressure?
Clearly, they will quickly turn into water vapor and then decompose into water molecules. Under extremely strong stellar radiation, the hydrogen and oxygen elements that make up water molecules have a very high probability of having their chemical bonds broken, decomposing into hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Then, under the influence of complex gravitational environment, magnetic field, and stellar radiation, they will mix with the volcanic ash ejected from the G76d-6 satellite and spread throughout the entire planetary system.

(End of this chapter)