Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 390 The Third Way
For billions of years, this core has been covered and subjected to immense pressure by a thick layer of gas more than 20,000 kilometers thick.

The pressure here has long been maintained at about 1000 million times the standard atmospheric pressure of Earth, while the temperature has long been stable at around 3 degrees Celsius.

Now, all the gases that once covered it and continuously pressed down on it have disappeared.

Thus, under the release of enormous stress, while the core still maintained an extremely high temperature, a massive earthquake occurred, affecting the entire planet from the core to the surface.

The continuous volcanic eruptions, gas ejections, and earthquakes that shook the entire planet were a hundred times more chaotic than when Earth was first formed.

Without external intervention, this chaotic situation would persist for at least a million years. Only after the stress is released and the internal balance is restored will it calm down.

Later, it may absorb some interstellar gas, or release some gas from its interior, regaining a thin atmosphere and eventually evolving into a planet similar to Mars.

But it's clear that Li Qingsong won't give it that chance.

Because a considerable number of star beasts are still hidden within this star core.

"With such high temperatures and frequent geological activity, even if your star beasts' 'technology' has reached the gravity level, surviving in such a harsh environment must be extremely painful."

But please rest assured, your pain and torment will soon be over…

Li Qingsong shifted his gaze to another planet.

It was a planet with a radius of about 2000 kilometers that was rapidly approaching us.

It was originally a satellite of that ice giant. With Li Qingsong's pumping action, it broke free of its original orbit and became a dwarf planet.

Unfortunately, Li Qingsong had other uses for it, so he forcibly moved it off the track again and brought it here.

At this moment, over a million giant thrusters on its body are propelling it at a speed exceeding 60 kilometers per second. Its target is… the star core before Li Qingsong.

"You think you can hide in the star core and I can't do anything to you?"

A slightly cruel smile appeared on Li Qingsong's lips: "Then I'll smash this star core to pieces! Let's see where you can hide then!"

While maintaining a strong external deterrent to ensure that no star beast could escape the star core, the massive celestial body, which was originally a satellite but is now a dwarf planet, crashed into us like a raging beast with an unstoppable momentum.

At the moment of impact, Li Qingsong felt as if the entire universe was shaking.

Endless dust and debris erupted from the two planets like a fountain, hurtling into space at incredible speeds.

At the point of impact, a light brighter than a star erupted, blindingly so. The two spherical celestial bodies began to deform in that instant, like dough being kneaded repeatedly, with an unprecedented and violent tremor extending to all matter.

At this moment, whether it was towering mountains and deep valleys or basins and plains, everything was easily flattened like sandcastles. Even the tectonic plates were easily torn apart like cardboard.

The two planets were completely destroyed in the collision that Li Qingsong deliberately designed and orchestrated.

In the future, a significant portion of their mass will sweep across the entire star system, causing continuous impacts on every planet, while another portion will escape the star system, just like the gas that Li Qingsong previously ejected.

Yes, those gases won't stay around the star either, because they're too fast.

At the original location of that ice giant, the star's escape velocity was only about 10 kilometers per second, which was not enough to hold the gas.

At this moment, they have transformed into a cloud of interstellar dust, gradually enveloping the star system. Although its density is extremely low and it is indistinguishable on a small scale, it is clearly visible from a sufficiently far distance and from an overall perspective.

If a primitive civilization were to discover that this star system is covered by a cloud of interstellar dust, they would be quite puzzled. This is because it completely contradicts the principles of stellar evolution.

If they make a little more progress, they might be able to vaguely sense that this was not formed naturally, but rather came from... human intervention.

The remnants of these two celestial bodies will most likely form an asteroid belt in their current orbit, and will then be gradually torn apart and destroyed in the gravitational battles between the major planets.

But that's hundreds of millions of years from now, and Li Qingsong wouldn't care about that far ahead.

He still has one more thing to do.

While it is certain that a planetary collision will cause massive casualties to the star beast population, it is hard to guarantee that some lucky star beasts will escape unscathed.

At this moment, they may hide inside some larger debris and escape outwards with the force of the planetary impact.

This is unacceptable.

Since we're going to kill them all to silence them, we can't allow any of the star beasts to escape!
They must all be killed here; they must not be allowed to reveal their plight to any high-ranking backers they might have.

Even though the probability of him suffering retaliation from a high-level being was extremely low, Li Qingsong could not accept such a risk.

Guided by this philosophy, Li Qingsong's massive fleet was once again deployed, closely monitoring each of the larger planetary debris.

The shattered planetary debris is generally not very large. The smallest pieces are interstellar dust, and the largest are only a little over 100 kilometers in size.

Li Qingsong set a standard.

Every piece of debris larger than 50 meters was thoroughly inspected, leaving no stone unturned.
Debris ranging from 50 meters to 10 kilometers in length is directly shattered by launching hydrogen bombs of varying yields. Larger debris is then manipulated to collide with other debris, reducing it to a smaller size before being bombed again with hydrogen bombs.

As expected, along with Li Qingsong's actions, thousands more star beasts that had hidden themselves and were trying to escape were sifted out by Li Qingsong and then killed one by one.

After a full year of hard work, with the last Star Beast killed and the last large piece of wreckage turning into interstellar dust in the light of the hydrogen bomb explosion, there were finally no more Star Beasts in sight.

Li Qingsong couldn't be sure if there were any hidden star beasts in the deeper reaches of the starry sky, but he thought the probability was not high.

Given the "personality" of these star beasts, if they existed, they should have arrived to help at the initial stage of the battle long ago.

They have no concept of fearing battle or hiding their lives.

Even if they do exist, since they have been able to hide until now, they must be extremely far away from me, and they might not even be able to see clearly who I am.

Keeping the risks under control at the current level is the limit that Li Qingsong can achieve.

Now that the matter here has been completely resolved, then...

Li Qingsong turned his head and looked at the large planet occupied by the Morais civilization. "Finally, I have some free time to deal with you..."

The massive fleet set out once more, surging towards that planet.

At this moment, on Planet One, in the conference room of the Morais civilization, a tall, thin official covered in long, thin tentacles stormed into the conference room in a fit of rage.

Inside the conference room, the head of state and a group of high-ranking officials were engaged in a somber discussion. Upon seeing this official burst in, they all looked at him with surprise.

The intruding official slammed his dozens of tentacles, which coalesced into a hand shape, onto the conference table and roared, "The Lantuk civilization has now completely resolved the Star Beast Catastrophe, and their fleet is already flying toward our planet!"

What can we do now? What else can we do? The only way is to fight them! Fight to the last spaceship, fight to the last soldier!

In the conference room, everyone remained silent. Only the leader, after a moment of silence, stood up, equally enraged, and roared, "Fight! Fight?! You make it sound so easy!"

The Lantuk civilization destroyed even that ice giant star in their attempt to wipe out all the star beasts! Destroyed it!
Is this something a legitimate gravitational civilization would do? Have you ever seen a legitimate gravitational civilization destroy an ice giant?!

Fight? What can we possibly fight with?! We couldn't even defeat those star beasts; we were almost wiped out!

Who would have thought that those star beasts could possess strategic weapons like 'gravitational disorder'? They didn't even use their full strength when they attacked us before!
But what about those star beasts now? They were reduced to interstellar dust by the Lantuk civilization!

How do we fight? How do we fight?! Tell me how we fight?!

Faced with the leader's roar, the official who had barged in trembled and shouted with grief and indignation, "What else can we do but fight? Surrender? This Lantuk civilization might be related to the Grey Worm civilization. They might be the Demon Eye!"

I'd rather fight to the death on the battlefield than be infected and develop demonic eyes! I don't want to! Waaaaaah…

The tentacles on his body coalesced into several hands, which he tightly covered his face with, and then he burst into loud sobs.

The head of state slowly sat down in his seat, let out a long sigh, his face ashen, and remained silent.

The same was true for the high-ranking officials from the civilization sector who attended the meeting. For a moment, the only sound in the large conference room was weeping.

After a long silence, the leader finally said, trembling, "Let's surrender."

"Surrender to the Mystic Eye?! Absolutely not!"

"The Lantuk civilization may not be the Demon Eye! Surrender first! This is our only chance to continue our civilization, our only chance!"

……

"Your Excellency, Head of the Lantuk Civilization, we, the Morais Civilization, have decided to surrender unconditionally and accept any disposal by your civilization..."

Li Qingsong smiled upon seeing this message.

"If we had surrendered earlier, none of this would have happened. Sigh, we went through all this trouble and went through so much trouble, but in the end, it's still the same thing, isn't it?"

After a few thoughts raced through his mind, Li Qingsong immediately replied: "Now, we will lift all air defense control measures and send robot troops to your civilization to conduct an investigation."

Specific measures include, but are not limited to, receiving information from civilization networks, databases, and supercomputing systems, and questioning key figures.

If the review is approved, as a benevolent and civilized nation, we guarantee that we will not cause you any harm.

Numerous Morais warships returned to their base berths, abandoning all resistance. Li Qingsong's robots, aboard numerous spaceships, landed across the planet amidst the Morais's bewildered, desperate, fearful, and angry gazes.

The first thing to do, of course, is to check and verify whether the Morais civilization has been infected by the Magic Eye.

After a thorough examination, Li Qingsong received a somewhat unexpected result.

The first batch, randomly selected, totaling one hundred million Morais, showed no signs of being infected by the Magic Eye.

If the first batch of selected individuals were not detected with the "Magic Eye," then the probability of subsequent detections is extremely low. This almost certainly confirms that the Morais civilization is not a civilization with the "Magic Eye."

"If it's not the Demon Eye, why are you reacting so strongly to the Grey Worm Civilization?"

With this question in mind, Li Qingsong continued receiving and analyzing data while operating the robot to question the head of civilization, various high-ranking officials, and others.

"What exactly is the relationship between your Morais civilization and the Grey Worm civilization? Why are your technological creations so similar? Why did you immediately self-destruct your warships and choose to become our enemy as soon as you heard our questions?"

Before him, the person holding the position of head of the Morais civilization sighed and said in a low voice, "We know very well about the Gray Worm civilization you speak of."

Because...we were once part of the Gray Worm civilization too.

"Ok?"

"That was when civilization was still in a stage of weak electrical activity, and we encountered the calamity of the Demon Eye..."

He gave a wry smile: "The process was thrilling, tortuous, and lengthy. In short, our civilization was not completely infected by the Demon Eye, but rather split apart."

We left our home planet to those infected by the Demon Eye, while the rest formed a fleet and escaped. This was the precursor to our Morais civilization.

Li Qingsong's heart stirred slightly.

He hadn't expected that, besides completely overcoming the tribulation of the Demon Eye and being completely infected by it, there would be a third path: splitting apart.

Having fled their original star system in a panic, they entered the vast universe during the weak electrical phase and were able to develop step by step with the help of their remaining people, progressing from the weak electrical phase to the current gravitational phase. This Morais civilization must have experienced a great deal and had many thrilling and magnificent stories.

Unfortunately, the universe doesn't care how splendid a civilization's past is, nor whether they are despicable or great.

If I hadn't happened to find this place, the Morais civilization would have been wiped out by the Star Beasts.

"The original gray worm civilization is a taboo for our civilization."

The leader said in a somber tone, "The damage the Eye of Evil has inflicted on our civilization is something we have yet to forgive and forget to this day."

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(End of this chapter)