Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 368 A multi-pronged approach
The most important reason why Li Qingsong spared the lives of the Purple Moon people and did not kill them directly was to let them witness the destruction of the Demon Eye Kingdom.

Aren't you demon-eyed creatures willing to sacrifice everything for higher-level demon-eyed beings? Aren't you willing to endure any pain for the sake of higher-level demon-eyed beings? Aren't you willing to die yourselves to ensure the interests of higher-level demon-eyed beings?

Then I'll let you watch the Demon Eye Kingdom be destroyed with your own eyes!
Physical torture, however painful, cannot vent my anger! Not only physically, but I will also inflict the greatest mental torment upon you!

Just wait, just wait...

Li Qingsong's gaze fell upon the enormous star, whose radius had already reached 5000 million kilometers and which was extremely expanded.

On that star, the battle of the electromagnetic lifeforms has ended.

Those life forms, resembling red orbs of light, have left the star and arrived in Li Qingsong's main fleet.

"Your Excellency, we have killed all our ancestors. They are now free and no longer need to suffer those torments."

The words spoken during the power outage were filled with grief and sorrow.

Li Qingsong sighed and said, "The matter here is over. Now, are you still willing to follow me?"
If you wish to leave and live freely in this universe, then I can let you go.

Even today, the Stellar Cannon, a strategic weapon, remains extremely important to Li Qingsong. Even if they were to eventually advance to a gravity civilization, this weapon would still possess immense power and could still be considered a strategic weapon.

However, Li Qingsong was unwilling to force anyone or anything that posed no threat to him.

For beings like the Purple Moon People, with whom he harbors deep hatred, Li Qingsong can unhesitatingly use the most cruel punishments, inflicting the most brutal torture on both the body and mind. But towards beings like the Electric Disaster, he is never stingy with his kindness.

Only by continuing to practice the values ​​and moral concepts left behind by human civilization can Li Qingsong feel that he is still a human being.

Faced with Li Qingsong's question, Dianzai remained silent for a long time before replying: "In this vast universe... where can we go?"

Our very existence is a sin.

I hope to continue following you and contribute to the development of your civilization to the best of our ability. At least by following you, we don't have to worry about the things that happened to our ancestors happening to us.

"Alright."

Li Qingsong slowly nodded: "From now on, you are members of human civilization, just like the Weyler, Blueprint, and Red-eared tribes. You are the Electromagnetic Tribe! Electric Disaster, you are the chieftain of the Electromagnetic Tribe."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Now, go back to your spaceships and rest. You have more missions to carry out later."

"Yes."

Having resolved matters related to electromagnetic life, Li Qingsong truly dedicated his own and his many intelligent beings' industrial capabilities to the task of detonating a supernova.

The first thing to do is very simple.

Push that planet closest to the star, and crash it into the star!

It is quite obvious that the more the star expands and the larger its volume, the less gravitational control it has over the surrounding stellar matter, making it easier and faster for the white dwarf to capture stellar matter.

How can we make stars expand further?

It's very simple: just push a planet into it, and you'll achieve your goal.

Although the planet is extremely small compared to this star, it is insignificant in both size and mass.

However, a collision of this magnitude is more than enough to disrupt the entire structure of a star, destroy its internal layers, make its stellar activity several times more intense, and further exacerbate its expansion rate.

Just like when Comet Shoemaker-Levy colliding with Jupiter in the solar system.

In the first impact, a mere four-kilometer-sized fragment of the comet—utterly insignificant compared to Jupiter, whose radius is tens of thousands of kilometers—created a hazy region larger than Earth upon impact, drastically altering Jupiter's climate.

At this moment, the impact of this planet will have a similar effect.

only……

Li Qingsong had only ever propelled dwarf planets with a radius of a few hundred kilometers before. He had never propelled a large planet like the one in front of him, with a radius of 3600 kilometers—larger than Mars.

The engineering difficulty is also incomparable.

Such a massive planet can essentially be considered a "water planet".

At the planetary level, even the toughest rock layers can flow like fluids, and the boundary between solid and liquid is not actually clear.

This means that if the planetary thruster is powerful enough, it will inevitably penetrate into the planet's interior. If the power is insufficient, it will be completely impossible to propel the planet.

Fortunately, Li Qingsong had already found an engineering solution to this problem long before arriving at this star system.

From a planetary perspective, planets don't actually have solid surfaces? No problem, I'll just create one artificially!
Having dealt with the Purple Moon Civilization, and with no further threats within the star system, Li Qingsong immediately launched a massive industrial construction project simultaneously on a total of five large planets.

Factories, power plants, mines, shipyards, machinery factories, and so on sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

In just one year, over a trillion general-purpose robots and numerous intelligent machines have arrived on planet G76a.

Based on the planet's topography, one large crater after another was quickly dug.

Each of these large pits is at least 1 meters deep and covers an area of ​​more than 1 square kilometer.

After reaching the bottom, Li Qingsong will extend the excavation layer by layer in all directions, covering an area of ​​at least 100 square kilometers before stopping.

For each of these large pits dug, Li Qingsong needs to move 10 cubic kilometers of earth, or more than 260 billion tons.

According to Li Qingsong's estimation, the total mass of the world's famous Mount Tai is only about 2700 billion tons. At this moment, every time Li Qingsong digs one of these large pits, it's equivalent to moving one-tenth the mass of Mount Tai!

But at this moment, the number of craters that Li Qingsong has dug on this planet is more than 200 million!

After the crater was excavated, a variety of special cement-like reinforcing materials, produced from other planets and native to this planet, were poured in to fill all the hollow areas.

These materials solidify quickly, possessing extremely high strength, and eventually form a "base".

On this base, Li Qingsong began the construction of the planetary thruster.

One after another, giant planetary thrusters, like swords reaching to the sky, with heights exceeding 10,000 meters and radii exceeding 5 kilometers, were built, densely packed together, turning the planet into a hedgehog.

This project was so massive that even with Li Qingsong's industrial strength, it took him more than a decade to complete.

After that, all the planetary thrusters were activated in unison under Li Qingsong's command.

Energy from numerous fusion power plants surged forth, accelerating the powder from the excavated soil to tens of thousands of kilometers per second via an electromagnetic acceleration mechanism, before violently ejecting it into space.

Millions of giant planetary engines started up and spewed out simultaneously, and the next moment, a huge comet tail appeared on the planet, stretching rapidly into the depths of space.

With a rough calculation, Li Qingsong learned that the total kinetic energy of this planet's rotation is approximately 2.38 * 10^28 joules.

This energy is so enormous that if there were a way to transfer it all to Earth and use it to boil seawater, it could boil all the seawater on Earth until it was completely vaporized six times over!
What Li Qingsong needs to do now is to completely neutralize this energy and stop it from rotating.

As the planetary engines were activated, a surge of energy rushed in, compressing the planet's surface and causing violent earthquakes to erupt repeatedly.

The volcano began to erupt, sending endless plumes of smoke and dust billowing forth. At the same time, mountains collapsed, valleys were filled, and the world was turned upside down.

Eventually, under this enormous reaction force, the planet's rotation was gradually brought to a stop, and it began to face the star with one side always facing away from it. The planet's surface was now almost entirely covered in lava.

Because the energy from its rotation canceled out the energy from the planetary thrusters, it was converted into heat. As a result, the entire surface of the planet was melted.

Fortunately, Li Qingsong's planetary thrusters were robust and efficient enough to continue operating under these conditions.

Having stopped the planet's rotation, the next step is to compress its orbit.

Generally speaking, a more economical approach would be to slow down its orbital speed, so that it would slowly fall under the influence of the star's gravity.

While this solution is simple and economical, it has one problem: it's too slow.

Li Qingsong doesn't have that much time.

Then let's take a faster and more direct approach.

It directly squeezes its orbit, forcing it directly into the star!

All 200 million planetary thrusters were activated again, propelling the star at full speed.

This time, because the exhaust plumes from the 200 million planetary thrusters were aligned with the direction of the star's light pressure and radiation pressure, they remained relatively straight and were not dispersed by the star.

Thus, the enormous "tail" extending from this planet stretched for billions of kilometers like a sharp sword, even encompassing several other large planets, clearly visible even from trillions of kilometers away. Like an arrow struck hard in mid-air, the planet's orbital speed abruptly decreased. Due to the star's gravity, its orbital speed began to increase.

Its orbit gradually changed from an ellipse that was previously close to a standard circle to an increasingly flattened shape.

Its perihelion gets closer and closer to the star, while its aphelion gets farther and farther away.

Ultimately, its perihelion shortened to a distance of only a few hundred thousand kilometers from the star.

The radius of this star has now expanded to approximately 50 million kilometers. If we were to shrink it to the size of Earth, the perihelion of this planet would be only about 5000 kilometers from its surface!

There is actually no clear boundary between stars and interstellar space. Li Qingsong simply regarded the point in the star's atmosphere where the density of stellar matter reached a certain standard as the boundary.

There is also stellar matter outside this boundary line.

At this moment, it can be said that the planet is still hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from the star, but it can also be said that the planet has already entered the star's atmosphere.

As a result, the planet engaged in intense friction with the thin outer layer of the star.

Its surface temperature began to rise dramatically again, even exceeding 6000 degrees Celsius. A long trail of flame stretched behind it, making it look like a giant meteor.

At this moment, the two million planetary thrusters built by Li Qingsong simultaneously lit up with a pale blue energy shield, protecting all components and isolating all stellar matter from harm.

Amidst the intense flight and friction, the planet rapidly escaped the star's atmosphere.

But this time, its aphelion was shortened by tens of millions of kilometers compared to the last time.

The reason is simple: its orbital speed is drastically reduced due to the intense friction with the star's atmosphere.

According to Li Qingsong's calculations, the next time it reaches perihelion, it will plunge headfirst into the star!

This moment didn't keep Li Qingsong waiting long. Just over ten days later, it reached its aphelion and then approached the star again.

During this final stretch of operation, the two million planetary thrusters are still pushing hard.

As its distance from the star decreases, its speed increases, and increases.

Friction with the star's matter has begun again. But unlike last time, this friction is more intense, the deceleration effect is better, and the planet's surface temperature is much higher!

This time, even Li Qingsong's energy shield couldn't withstand such a violent energy attack.

The giant engine that stood like a mountain on the planet's surface was now being ground down as if by a milling machine, gradually becoming smaller and shorter until it disappeared completely.

Li Qingsong has completely lost contact with this planet and can only obtain its real-time location and movement through external observation.

Ultimately, the planet disappeared completely and was never seen again.

Li Qingsong waited silently for several hours, and then he saw the entire massive star suddenly brighten.

It was like a raging beast, violently scattering the matter that made it up at several times the speed it had before, as if it wanted to destroy everything tangible and intangible around it.

Li Qingsong knew that the planet had actually collided with it, and the impact had spread throughout the entire star.

At this moment, the white dwarf appeared even smaller in the face of the raging star. But Li Qingsong could clearly see that, with the ejection of a massive amount of stellar material, the rapidly rotating accretion disk around the white dwarf was becoming thicker and heavier at a speed visible to the naked eye, and because of the intense friction, it was hotter and brighter.

At the same time, the jets at the poles of the white dwarf suddenly became much thicker, extending tens of millions of kilometers into space.

The more material ejected from the jet, the faster the white dwarf accretes stellar material!
According to Li Qingsong's estimate, the time it would normally take for this white dwarf to accumulate enough matter to trigger a supernova explosion was around 100,000 years. Now, with just the impact of a single planet, that time has been shortened by 80%, and it only takes about 20,000 years to accrete enough matter!
The original accretion rate was about 0.3 Earths per year on average, but now it has increased to about 1.5 Earths per year!
But this is clearly not enough; more action is needed to accelerate this process once again.

While constructing the planetary thruster, Li Qingsong was also preparing for other engineering projects.

Now, all the other projects have been completed and can enter the implementation phase.

"Power outage, mobilize!"

"Yes!"

One after another, clusters of pale red light and shadow left the spaceship that Li Qingsong had specially prepared for them, drifting towards the raging star and disappearing into its atmosphere.

According to the "technical solution" provided by Li Qingsong, the number of electromagnetic life forms, which has increased to millions, are cooperating with each other and using their own abilities to manipulate the enormous energy originating from the star.

The weakened version of the Stellar Cannon is ready.

This weaker-level stellar cannon would not cause death or injury to electromagnetic life forms, nor would it weaken them for long; they could recover after just a short rest.

Of course, its power is far inferior to that of a regular stellar cannon.

"launch!"

The next moment, the surface of the star, covering an area of ​​about 10 billion square kilometers, suddenly darkened. Thermal radiation, electromagnetic radiation, and heavy ion radiation all weakened drastically, as if a huge sunspot had suddenly appeared.

Near this sunspot, a majestic stellar "mountain" stands tall, its peak invisible.

The gravity of a white dwarf is so immense that it pulls up the stellar material on the surface of the star, forming a mountain.

This mountain is tens of millions of kilometers high, stretching from the surface of the star to the accretion disk of the white dwarf, acting like a bridge connecting the two planets.

As that area darkened, the foot of the "mountain" instantly brightened.

That's right, this time the target of the stellar cannon is not the planets outside the star, but the star itself!

With the infusion of enormous energy from the rest of the mountain, the stellar material at the foot of the mountain becomes increasingly turbulent, its energy rises to an extreme level, and its kinetic energy also increases, allowing it to break free from the star's gravity at a faster rate and be attracted to the white dwarf's gravity.

The next moment, this enormous mountain, already so majestic it defied description, expanded even further, as if the flow of water in a pipe had been suddenly accelerated, and surged violently toward the white dwarf.

But this is still not the whole story of Li Qingsong's Supernova Project.

After realizing that the electromagnetic lifeforms had entered working mode, Li Qingsong issued another order.

"Chief Luo Yan, it's your turn!"

"Your Excellency, please rest assured."

"Brother Qingsong, watch me!"

Clusters of pale green light rushed toward the star, eventually settling at the foot of the mountain in another direction, facing the electromagnetic life forms across the "mountain".

In this region, the immense gravity emanating from the star seemed to instantly lose its hold on its own matter. Under the influence of its own light pressure, convection, and magnetic field, this matter instantly surged and tumbled, gathering on the mountain.

It wasn't just this region of stellar matter that lost its gravitational pull. In the direction of the "bridge" connecting the two planets, another group of gravity-based life forms resided. There, they too used their abilities to create even greater gravity.

What would happen if gravity disappeared on one side and increased on the other?
Clearly, this endless stellar matter will converge on the bridge at an even faster rate.

After both electromagnetic and gravitational life forms had entered the fray, Li Qingsong finally made his appearance.

During that period, Li Qingsong also mastered the methods of manufacturing and using the gravity manipulation devices that the Space-level Magic Eye had given to the Purple Moon Civilization.

Thus, one gravity spaceship after another entered the star's atmosphere, enduring temperatures as high as two or three thousand degrees Celsius, and assembled into one huge gravity device after another. Like those gravity life forms, some were responsible for counteracting the star's own gravity, some were responsible for increasing the gravity in directions away from the star, and some gravity spaceships were responsible for collecting star matter that had scattered in other directions. The three combined to increase the material transfer speed of this bridge.

In addition to this, Li Qingsong also continuously manufactured one heavy hydrogen bomb spaceship after another.

Each of these hydrogen bomb spacecraft has a mass of over ten million tons, and the total yield of the hydrogen bombs inside is more than quadrillion tons of TNT.

These hydrogen bomb spaceships were continuously launched into the star by Li Qingsong and detonated in suitable locations. Thus, they served a similar purpose to the previous planetary impact, making the star's activity increasingly violent and violent, ejecting even more stellar material.

At this moment, the number of gravity-based and electromagnetic life forms participating in this project exceeds 300 million.

The total number of spaceships manufactured by Li Qingsong for this project is over 10 billion!

Li Qingsong has done his utmost and used all the engineering resources available.

The accretion disk of that white dwarf star grew larger and brighter, its accretion rate increased, and its jets became more robust.

After a rough calculation, Li Qingsong discovered that the accretion rate of this white dwarf star had now climbed to an average of about 120 Earths per year!
Furthermore, about 15% of the mass of these 120 Earths flowed into the white dwarf accretion disk via a path that was specifically calculated and manipulated.

Their impacts will slowly change the orientation of the white dwarf's poles, eventually causing it to point in the direction it wants.

Based on the current progress of the project, Li Qingsong is confident that he can complete the task of detonating the supernova within the timeframe given by the Crimson Star Alliance!

(End of this chapter)