Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 154: Infected Natural Disaster
At this moment, looking at the 1.6 million Bluetuk people distributed in thousands of large cargo ships that have undergone emergency modifications and have temporary survival capabilities, Li Qingsong felt a little emotional.

A powerful civilization with a total population of hundreds of billions was destroyed, more than 99.9% of the population died, and now only these few people are left.

After the Bluetuk civilization occupied Venus, they placed most of the population on Venus to build various facilities, perform various tasks, and collect various resources as supplies for this war.

Later, as chaos descended, only a few people were able to grab a seat or have their own spacecraft and take off from Venus on their own.

Most people failed to escape.

Li Qingsong roughly estimated that at least 800 billion people were swallowed up by the harsh environment of Venus.

Of the remaining approximately 200 billion people, some died on the battlefield, and the vast majority died in the previous chaos.

In the end, only these 1.6 million people are left.

The cruelty of this war can be seen from this.

For Li Qingsong, this was a bit regrettable. After all, many of the Bluetuk people who died were scientists and possessed a lot of knowledge.

But there's nothing we can do about it. It doesn't really matter, as the experts and scholars among the remaining 1.6 million people are enough to piece together a rough scientific framework.

Li Qingsong can study the rest of the details by himself.

After leaving enough clones to clean up the battlefield on Venus and collect as many valuable warship wreckage as possible and those still intact spaceships, Li Qingsong loaded these captives and flew to Mars, manipulating the clones on Mars to build a new town as quickly as possible.

In the next period of time, this city named "Blueprint City" by Li Qingsong will be the gathering place for all Bluetuk people.

Building a new city may seem like a huge undertaking, but if you don’t consider livability too much and only consider livelihood, it’s actually not that difficult.

It's nothing more than some fully sealed steel frames, plus some air exchange systems, temperature control systems and the like.

Various factories are readily available, capable of directly producing the building materials needed for this city. Combined with the capabilities of the divine AI, by the time these cargo ships arrive on Mars, the Blueprint City will have been initially constructed.

So, with feelings of uneasiness, hesitation, fear and other emotions, these Bluetuk captives entered the city.

The interrogation then began.

There are actually only two issues that Li Qingsong is most concerned about.

First, what exactly is a natural disaster? Or, more broadly, what is the situation around the solar system, the entire Milky Way, and the entire universe? How do different civilizations interact with each other? What are the taboos?

Li Qingsong had never even left the solar system. The Bluetook civilization was the first alien civilization he had ever dealt with, so he really knew nothing about these things.

Second, it is the technology mastered by the Bluetuk people.

The Bluetuk people already have complete interstellar navigation capabilities and master a series of technologies that Li Qingsong is extremely interested in, including small-scale ship-borne controlled nuclear fusion, high-speed ion injection technology, layered space scanning radar technology, etc. Li Qingsong must obtain this part of the technology.

Once you get it, you can save yourself at least hundreds of years of hard work.

Technological matters couldn't be rushed and could be taken slowly. However, matters concerning natural disasters could be answered immediately. After a simple screening, Li Qingsong immediately began interrogating the highest-ranking survivors.

While interrogating, Li Qingsong was also controlling the clones, searching for relevant information from every surviving spaceship and every surviving computer for corresponding purposes.

Among this group of highest-ranking survivors, the highest-ranking one was a confidential secretary of the President's Office.

His identity determines that he will be involved in a large number of core confidential events concerning the entire civilization, making him the best target for obtaining intelligence.

"Why did your Bluetuk civilization leave its home galaxy and migrate?"

The confidential secretary, trembling with fear, began to confess without any intimidation or punishment, "Because, because we have discovered signs of a natural disaster. If we don't escape, the disaster will come."

This statement actually confirms what Momorans said at the time.

"What is a natural disaster?"

The confidential secretary said tremblingly, "Natural disasters are a general term for disasters that are not natural and originate from outside the sky and can lead to the extinction of civilization."

Li Qingsong was stunned for a moment before he understood what this rather complicated conversation was about. He couldn't help but sneer, "Isn't it just an alien invasion? Why are you calling it a natural disaster?"

If it's not formed naturally, then it's the intentional work of an intelligent being. If it comes from outside the sky, then it's an alien civilization. If it causes the destruction of that civilization, isn't that invasion?
If these three are combined, isn’t that an invasion by alien civilization?

"No, it's different. Well, actually, if you must classify it as an alien invasion, it's correct. However, this invasion may be a little different from what you originally thought."

"Oh?"

"Do you think that alien invasions are always like the battle between our civilizations this time, with each civilization using technological weapons to attack and defend each other? No, no, this is only the way we, 'orthodox' intelligent civilizations, fight each other.

We generally call conflicts between orthodox intelligent civilizations wars, not natural disasters. Natural disasters are threats posed to orthodox intelligent civilizations by unorthodox intelligent beings.

Li Qingsong was a little confused: "There are also orthodox and unorthodox?"

"Yes. A true intelligent civilization, like us, researches technology bit by bit, gradually improving the performance of technological creations, ultimately gaining powerful combat power and survivability.

This is the most orthodox way to improve one's own strength in the universe - at least in the universe that we know of, so it is called orthodox intelligent civilization.

But unorthodox intelligent beings - we can only call them existences, not civilizations, because they are very complex, diverse, and strange, and it is really difficult to describe them as civilizations.

For example, we already know that there is a kind of intelligent existence that is good at infecting other life forms, using the bodies of other life forms as nutrients, intercepting and integrating the excellent genes of other life forms to optimize itself, and finally, after maturing, abandoning this entire destroyed ecosystem and continuing to travel in the universe.

We call this invasion launched by intelligent life an infection disaster.

In addition, there are parasitic disasters, microbial disasters, and the kind that will force our civilization to migrate between stars... the omnic disaster, and so on and so forth."

(End of this chapter)