Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 108 One Hundred Million! (Subscribe!)
The only question now is how closely the simulation matches reality. Can excellence in the simulated world truly translate into excellence in the real world?

"I don't expect to fully realize the simulation results and double the maximum number of consciousness connections to 2000 million. 1500 million is enough."

Li Qingsong thought silently: "1500 million will satisfy me."

At this moment, human embryos produced using this gene editing program have been placed in culture tanks, and the answer will be revealed in half a year.

Just half a year passed quickly.

At this moment, more than 30 years had passed since Li Qingsong arrived in the Jupiter system. During this time, a new batch of 1000 clones were quickly born.

Li Qingsong breathed a sigh of relief. "The fact that it was born successfully instead of developing into a freak at least means that the overall direction of this plan is correct."

Li Qingsong's consciousness was immediately transferred to one of the clones.

The next moment, Li Qingsong widened his eyes in shock.

what's the situation? !

He felt that the number of his consciousness connections did not increase to 1500 million, nor was it the 2000 million shown in the simulation results.

But... one hundred million!
Damn, this Nuwa AI is so wrong, isn’t it?

The AI simulation results were indeed wrong, with an error of up to 400%. But what Li Qingsong could never have imagined was that this error was not a bad error, but a good error!

This this……

In an instant, something that had not happened for a long time, the consciousness of all the clones were connected together in an instant. However, there were still a large number of connections, resulting in a feeling of "emptiness" that swept through Li Qingsong's entire mind, making him stunned for a moment before he reacted.

Is this 100 million? Is this over 100 million?

I originally prepared 3000 million clones, thinking it would be enough, but now it's so far short?

This instantly disrupted all of Li Qingsong's previous arrangements and plans.

Originally, Li Qingsong had built an extremely large-scale clone breeding factory, which could breed 50 clones in each batch, with an annual output of 100 million. He originally thought that it would be enough, but now it seems that it is still far from enough.

To build a larger clone breeding factory, the scale must be expanded at least ten times from the current level!
No, ten times is not enough!

The maximum number of connections is 100 million, so he needs to have about 200 million clones under his command to ensure the rest time of each clone and to be used as a substitute in case of accidents.

Even if the existing production capacity is expanded tenfold, it can only produce 1000 million clones per year, which requires 20 years of full-load production.

Li Qingsong doesn't have that much time to wait.

Therefore, the current clone production capacity would have to be increased at least 30-fold, reaching an annual output of 3000 million clones, to be considered sufficient. Producing 3000 million clones annually would require a massive clone cultivation plant, a vast culture fluid preparation plant, and auxiliary factories like power plants, equipment repair shops, and so on...

Also, the number of clones skyrocketed to 200 million in a short period of time, and the rest of the facilities had to keep up.

The most immediate issue is food security. The scale of our own planting, breeding, and aquaculture bases must be expanded at least sixfold from the current level.
For example, a clothing factory needs to keep up with the production of space suits, right? And for daily necessities, underwear, coats, hats, towels, quilts, cups, tableware, soap, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and so on, they also need to keep up, right?
The construction of the dormitory area should keep up, right? You can't even think about letting the clones live in family buildings, but at least you have to make sure every clone has a bed, right?

As the number of clones increases, transportation needs will increase. Will the number of buses increase? Will the railway lines need to be expanded? Will the number of passenger spacecraft increase?

Besides, so many clones require enough jobs so that they can produce enough materials to supply scientific research and development, so all kinds of factories have to be built, right?
Should the scale of the research base be expanded? Should the number of research facilities be increased?

In just a moment, a construction demand so huge that it made him feel a little scared appeared in Li Qingsong's mind.

"This, this is truly a happy worry. Let's start with the most urgent construction needs. Build the clone breeding factory, its subsidiary factories, and the food base first."

The existing breeding factory, which produces 100 million clones annually, together with its subsidiary factories, covers an area of 100 square kilometers.

Now, even if the technology is further improved and the production capacity is higher, the area will still need to be expanded to at least 3000 square kilometers to reach the level of producing 2000 million clones per year.

The existing comprehensive agricultural base covers an area of about 300 square kilometers.

Li Qingsong had previously thought that such a large base could at least last for dozens or even hundreds of years. However, he had no idea that it would collapse after just over a decade.

He also needs to build six comprehensive agricultural bases of the same scale.

However, such a large-scale construction also requires sufficient material support.

Fortunately, he now has 3000 million clones in his hands. If he puts them all into various mines and factories as soon as possible, he can barely support the resource needs of these constructions.

Thus, under Li Qingsong's manipulation, 3000 million clones were plunged into unprecedentedly busy work.

In space, numerous cargo ships from dozens of satellites and Jupiter's rings shuttle back and forth, and countless supplies enter or leave the four large satellites through four space elevators;
Fuel production plants, powered by electricity from nuclear fission power plants, worked tirelessly to produce liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, methane, and other fuels. These were either supplied to spacecraft of all sizes, ultimately transforming them into fiery gases that erupted into the vast expanse of interstellar space and vanished. Other fuels were supplied to various vehicles, transforming them into exhaust gases that erupted into the atmosphere.
Hundreds of thousands or even millions of heavy intelligent machines, under the control of the "divine craftsmanship" AI and maintained by a large number of clones, are galloping across the desolate land day and night.

For a time, Li Qingsong even put aside the most important task of researching the miniaturization technology of nuclear fission thrusters, and devoted all his energy and unreserved efforts to the construction.

In the first year, the first phase of the clone breeding factory was put into operation, and 500 million cloned embryos began to be cultivated;
In the second year, the total number of clones under Li Qingsong increased to 4100 million. The second phase of the clone breeding factory was put into operation, and another 1500 million cloned embryos began to be cultivated. At the same time, three comprehensive grain bases were completed, and various crops, livestock, aquatic fish, fruits, cotton, etc. began to be cultivated.

By the third year, this crucial clone breeding factory and the newly built comprehensive grain base were finally completed, solving the urgent problem.

At this moment, the number of clones under Li Qingsong's command skyrocketed to 1.1 million.

(End of this chapter)