Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 383 Stellar Surgery
On the planet Tavira, in the first underground city, all the high-ranking officials of the civilization had gathered. The atmosphere in the conference room was so heavy that it felt as if it had been completely soaked in mercury.

Everyone was filled with anticipation, anxiety, and fear as they awaited the final verdict of fate.

People subconsciously look up at the big screen every few seconds. When they see no information being sent back, they look down and try to think about something else. But they can't think about any problem for more than five seconds. Within five seconds, they can't help but look up at the big screen again, and then repeat the process.

In the anxious wait, the faint sounds that had been emanating from the conference room vanished instantly, as if a pause button had been pressed. In this slightly eerie silence, the person who had been looking down seemed to sense something and raised their head.

The unknown advanced civilization replied! And it even used their own language and script! The message was then displayed on the large screen!
At that moment, people seemed to forget to breathe, their entire spirit focused on those words.

"Your Excellency Head of State of Yashan..."

People read the information carefully again and again, their brains working at lightning speed.

The first thought that flashed through President Yashan's mind was conspiracy.

But the next moment, after careful and rational analysis, President Yashan slowly realized... this was very likely not a conspiracy!
The reason is simple: our side has completely accepted the situation as untenable and has utterly surrendered. Faced with a completely surrendered opponent, why would the enemy need to deceive us?

It's like if you've captured a prisoner who has completely surrendered, is completely open and honest, and fully cooperates with any of your demands. Would you still have any reason to deceive him?

Isn't this redundant?
This advanced, unknown civilization has absolutely no reason to deceive us!

So, are they telling the truth?

Not only are they not a malicious civilization, but they can also help their own side heal their sick sun?
If that were the case, the suffering our civilization has endured could finally end...

President Yashan breathed heavily, feeling as if his long-dead heart was slowly regaining some vitality.

A low sob drifted through the large conference room. Head of State Yashan walked shakily to the podium, wanting to say something, but when he wiped his face, he realized that tears were welling up in the corners of his eyes.

"Fellow countrymen... things are not yet fully clear, and we still cannot rule out the possibility that this advanced civilization is still deceiving us for some unknown reason."

Therefore, this information need not be released to civilization for the time being.

But at the very least, the likelihood that this civilization is benevolent has greatly increased.

Suppressing his excitement, Yashan forced himself to maintain a relatively objective and rational perspective on the matter and made the following arrangements: "Going forward, we must remain humble and respectful, and obey any arrangements made by the Lantuk civilization."

After countless deliberations and revisions, the response to this message finally gained the approval of the vast majority of people.

A message was sent into the distant depths of space.

"Respected Lantuk civilization, we sincerely welcome your arrival with the utmost humility and respect."

Whatever your needs, we will do our best to fulfill them.

Thank you for your kindness, thank you for your goodwill, thank you…

Looking at the string of thanks and the obvious caution in the words, as if afraid of using the wrong word and offending him, Li Qingsong smiled and muttered to himself, "Don't be so nervous, I'm not some man-eating monster."

However, there's no need to contact them again for now. Let's get back to work. Only when you see my actions will you truly believe in my goodwill.

Of course, there is one more thing to do before we actually get to work: develop a detection device based on the physiological characteristics of the Tavira people to check whether they have been infected by the Demon Eye.

This was already Li Qingsong's routine procedure before he came into contact with the unfamiliar civilization.

After a covert inspection, confirming that the Tavira civilization was a normal civilization, Li Qingsong completely lowered his guard.

His massive fleet finally entered the interior of the star system and headed straight for the ailing star. During this process, all the Tavira ships moved aside to the sides of the flight path, unloaded all their weapons, and made a grand spectacle as if they were lining up to welcome him.

Li Qingsong's fleet only stopped when they were only 1000 million kilometers away from the star. Then, tens of thousands of specialized exploration ships took the stage, all of which came closer to the star.

Endless light and heat surged forth, engulfing the probes like a tidal wave. However, thanks to more advanced nuclear materials technology and specially developed microgravity manipulation techniques, these probes remained completely unaffected, even after penetrating the star's chromosphere and reaching the photosphere.

From the outside in, the structure of a star consists of the corona, chromosphere, photosphere, convection zone, radiative zone, and core.

The corona and chromosphere are invisible to the naked eye because they are too thin. The photosphere is the "surface" of a star that is visible to the naked eye.

Of course, although it is called a surface, it is neither a solid, nor a liquid, nor a gas like that of a gas giant planet.

This is the fourth state of matter: plasma.

Endless high-temperature plasma converged to form a vast "ocean" with no clear boundary between it and the other layers of the structure.

These probes that entered the chromosphere were now as if they were in an ocean of light and heat. Everywhere they looked—up, down, left, right, front, and back—was filled with scorching, raging plasma.

Driven by the stellar magnetic field and convection, the Purple Clouds release endless energy, millions of times more violent than the most unimaginable planetary oceans.

But even amidst such turbulent waves, Li Qingsong's probes remained calm and steady, like Mount Tai. Moreover, they even deliberately descended, penetrating more than 10,000 kilometers into the chromosphere before stopping.

With tens of thousands of probes landing directly on the surface and even inside the star, along with gravitational wave detectors, neutrino detectors, and other detection tools in the main fleet, Li Qingsong essentially performed a comprehensive X-ray scan on this star "patient," quickly grasping its "condition."

This scene once again plunged the leaders of the Tavira civilization, including Head of Yashan, as well as a group of top scientists, into boundless shock.

"Directly send probe ships to penetrate into stellar matter for exploration?"

"Tens of thousands of degrees Celsius and such violent stellar radiation, they can't affect these probe ships?"

"If even their probe ships possess such capabilities, then what about their warships?"

"The advanced technology and formidable fighting power of this civilization far exceed our imagination..."

At this moment, even the most violent and fanatical warmonger could no longer muster any thought of resistance. The Yashan leader even felt a sense of relief, thankful that his side had adopted the most respectful and humble attitude during their first communication with the Lantuk civilization.

……

Around the star, Li Qingsong had completed the preliminary examination and began to work on developing a treatment plan.

The treatment plan is mainly based on "minimally invasive" methods, just like treating diseases in the human body by making only a small hole on the outside to treat internal diseases.

This ensures that the impact on the star as a whole is minimized.

Of course, even a small impact is relative to a single star. Externally, it would still manifest as a short-term surge in radiation more than ten times greater, enough to destroy a primitive or even electromagnetic civilization, and severely damage even a civilization in its early stages of weak electrical activity.

Fortunately, the Tavira civilization is a powerful civilization, so there's not much to worry about.

Li Qingsong still issued a warning, prompting the Tavira civilization to take precautions in advance. Li Qingsong then saw the numerous Tavira ships fleeing for their lives towards a gas giant planet far from their star. On that inhabited planet, an energy shield powerful enough to block out the entire globe lit up, all factories and cities were sealed off, and all the population entered various underground cities.

Once the Tavira civilization was ready, this stellar "minimally invasive surgery" would begin.

The various components of the Universal Force Field began to appear again, arranging themselves at a distance of about 1000 million kilometers from the star, with the corresponding energy spaceships, supercomputing spaceships, and so on also arriving one by one.

Li Qingsong felt it was a bit of a waste to sacrifice his entire set of universal force field devices, which he had accumulated over hundreds of years, just to help the Tavira civilization heal this star.

This time, when activating the Universal Force Field, Li Qingsong set the energy to 40% of the maximum energy burst.

In the battlefield, such a significant reduction in energy could cause the destructive power to plummet to less than 10% of its original value, rendering even a large target ineffective. However, this at least ensures that the universal force field components will not overload and explode, allowing for reuse.

Besides, the target this time is a star, not a warship, so 40% of the energy burst should be enough.

Similarly, this time it still does not involve life intelligence, so there is no need to sacrifice so many clones' lives.

After the installation of the 10,000-force field components was completed, Li Qingsong also dispatched more than 10,000 hydrogen bomb spaceships and gravity bomb spaceships to be pre-installed at the corresponding locations, ready to perform minimally invasive surgery on the stars.

In addition, the electromagnetic life forms finally received Li Qingsong's orders after a long period of peace.

Millions of electromagnetic lifeforms tumbled and rolled, once again arriving above the star and settling in its chromosphere.

"Stellar surgery, commence!"

With Li Qingsong's command, the Universal Force Field Component, operating at 40% power, was fired again, and endless helium nuclei, X and Y particles surged toward the designated part of the star like a raging torrent.

At the same time these particles arrived, hydrogen bombs and gravity bombs pre-laid inside the star also detonated.

Meanwhile, the electromagnetic life forms located in the higher chromosphere also exerted their power, gathering the stellar energy in the chromosphere without causing casualties to themselves, and channeling this energy into the same location in a weakened version of a stellar cannon.

Energy from three sources was poured in simultaneously, and within an area of ​​only one 1600 millionth of the star's surface, or about 30 square kilometers, all the stellar matter instantly churned up.

Temperatures rose rapidly, pressure increased dramatically, and radiation surged violently.

From a distance, it looks like a tiny bright spot that suddenly appears on the surface of a star.

The changes that occurred here suddenly spread throughout the entire star, and soon the entire star became bright.

These are just the externally observable effects. Inside the star, in places unseen by humans, a series of effects are constantly occurring.

This burst of energy from the star's surface would normally have no chance of affecting the star's interior. However, this particular location was deliberately chosen by Li Qingsong after his meticulous observation of the star's internal activity. Thus, this burst of energy, aided by the star's internal convection, radiation, and magnetic field changes, acted like a sharp and precise scalpel, penetrating the star's thick outer layers and reaching the interior at an extremely high speed, precisely delivering itself to the "tumor" located at the star's core.

Just like a surgeon using laparoscopic techniques to precisely extend surgical instruments into the patient's internal organs through a small incision in the patient's abdomen.

The purpose of surgical instruments is to remove lesions. At this moment, the energy that Li Qingsong applied through various means was like a heavy hammer blow, violently and instantly shattering that "lump".

The convection within the star then transports these scattered heavy elements to the rest of the star, preventing them from existing as a whole and thus from affecting the overall operation of the star.

Li Qingsong, on the other hand, meticulously observes the flow of those heavy elements using neutrino and gravitational telescopes, much like a surgeon checking the results of their surgery using X-ray equipment.

Neutrinos are extremely sensitive to changes in the temperature and pressure inside stars; even slight fluctuations can cause huge changes in their quantity and energy.

Gravitational waves, on the other hand, can precisely describe their trajectories. The combination of both yields observational results even better than X-rays used on patients.

Li Qingsong observed this for a full ten days.

Over these ten days, the star's overall radiation power steadily increased, eventually reaching a peak of 10 times the normal radiation level. Then, after reaching its peak, it began to slowly decline.

Li Qingsong breathed a sigh of relief.

This stellar surgery is finally complete.

Just as a patient needs to recover after surgery, so too does this star.

It is estimated that it will take about 100 years for the star to fully recover and its overall radiation power to return to normal.

By then, the climate on the planet that gave birth to the Tavira civilization will return to normal.

As the ice and snow melt, the desert receives rainfall, lakes and oceans regain their shimmering blue waters, and mountains and grasslands are once again covered with lush vegetation.

"Your star has been healed by me."

Facing the countless spaceships of the Tavira civilization, Li Qingsong solemnly made a declaration.

(End of this chapter)