Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 157 Parasitic Disaster
The confidential secretary's face was filled with grief.

Li Qingsong's eyes narrowed slightly.

He spoke slowly, "You're saying that that powerful, core-level Omnic Scourge... is very likely to pursue us into the solar system?"

The confidential secretary nodded.

At this moment, Li Qingsong's heart was instantly filled with anger.

I originally thought that your Bluetuk civilization would only engage in predatory exploitation of the solar system, but I didn't expect that you would actually bring such a trouble here!

You, you deserve to die!
Li Qingsong was angry for a while, but had to stop dejectedly.

The entire Bluetuk civilization was destroyed by me, and the few remaining people became my captives. How can I take revenge on them?

Kill the only remaining prisoner?
There is no point. They are already my wealth at this point, and killing them will only cause losses to myself.

"How long will it take for the Omnic Scourge to catch up?"

The confidential secretary shook his head. “I don’t know. No one knows. But we all agree that it’s very likely to come.”

After all, legitimate intelligent civilizations are not as common as cabbages in the universe. If they can find traces of an orthodox intelligent civilization, how could they let it go so easily?

Li Qingsong thought quickly and continued, "As far as I know, our civilization had already made many attempts to unify the strong nuclear force earlier than the current stage, and had made a lot of progress.

We have established the Standard Model and are relatively close to the goal of unifying the strong nuclear force.

Your technology is more advanced than ours, and you will definitely go further than us on this road.

And since you can become a strong nuclear civilization once you unify the strong nuclear force, why did you choose to escape instead of devoting all your efforts to developing technology and fighting against that omnic scourge?"

After all, during interstellar travel, material reserves, no matter how much, are limited, and many scientific research cannot be carried out. Choosing to escape means almost losing the possibility of continuing to develop technology.

The confidential secretary said gravely, "Unifying the strong nuclear force isn't as simple as you imagine. The reason you think you're close to unification is simply because your research isn't deep enough and you haven't discovered the major obstacles that lie ahead.

Our civilization once considered staying in the galaxy to develop technology rather than fleeing, but a team of scientific experts evaluated that the possibility of us breaking through to become a strong nuclear civilization is almost non-existent within at least one thousand years.

At the same time, even if we become a strong nuclear civilization, there is still a long way to go from theory to practical application.

Overall, it will take us at least two thousand years to have the strength to fight against that intelligent mechanical disaster, and we must also go all out and reduce internal friction.

We didn't think the omnic scourge would arrive so late.

We can only escape.

It is precisely because time is urgent that after discovering the existence of your civilization in the solar system, we have become more determined to come to the solar system.

Because we originally planned to capture your civilization to help us collect resources for the next voyage. That way, we can set sail and escape as quickly as possible."

Li Qingsong remained noncommittal and continued, "The data from your civilization shows that the flight speed of a strong-core Omnic Scourge fleet can be extremely close to the speed of light, while your fleet's speed is only 3% of the speed of light.

The gap is so huge, are you sure you can escape?"

"When we were fleeing our home system, we disguised a group of fleets and sent them fleeing in another direction to provide cover. At the same time, our main fleet also deliberately optimized its thrusters to minimize the brightness of its tail flames and improve their directivity.

In the solar system, we plan to disguise ourselves again.

As for whether it would work... that's not for us to decide. We only know that if we escape, there's still a glimmer of hope. If we don't, we're doomed." Li Qingsong sneered, "You've always assumed it would pursue us to the solar system. It seems you don't even have confidence in the disguise you've created in your home system."

The confidential secretary sighed again, "Time is of the essence. Given the urgency of the situation, a little delay would be a blessing. How can we expect too much? However, we intend to seriously work on the camouflage here in the solar system."

Li Qingsong fell into a moment of thought.

Based on the interrogation of the confidential secretary and many other personnel, and the intelligence obtained from Bluetook's many spaceships, Li Qingsong knew that there was a great possibility that the intelligent mechanical disaster would come to the solar system.

I'm afraid I won't be able to fight it in the short term.

Maybe I will have to run away too.

But how to run and how to run can be planned carefully to increase the success rate as much as possible.

In any case, we must first digest and absorb the technology from the Bluetuk civilization, master a series of technologies such as controlled nuclear fusion and high-speed ion propulsion technology, and truly possess the ability to travel between stars.

Now I can’t even leave the solar system.

Li Qingsong continued, "You are just an electrically weak civilization. How do you know so much information?"

"While exploring the surrounding galaxies, we discovered the remains of a long-extinct civilization. It took a lot of effort to obtain this information.

If not, we wouldn't have been able to immediately determine that the omnic scourge was targeting us when we discovered the alien spacecraft, and then make the decision to flee immediately."

Li Qingsong didn't dwell on this question, but said, "Tell me about the parasitic disasters and microbial disasters you know about."

The Blueprint civilization knows a total of four types of natural disasters. The mechanical disaster and the infected disaster have been preliminarily introduced, and now there are only parasitic disasters and microbial disasters left.

"Parasitic Scourges and Infectious Scourges share certain similarities. Both begin as silent infections. However, the purpose of the parasites in Parasitic Scourges isn't to steal genes, but to control the individuals of a civilization.

Complete control from mind to body, and then complete replacement.

This individual looks exactly the same as the original one, even its behavior and tone of voice are exactly the same, but its core has completely become a parasite.

Under these circumstances, the parasite quietly produces young and spreads widely, infecting more individuals until all intelligent life in the entire civilization is infected."

Thinking of the situation where all human civilization was infected and all his relatives, friends, and classmates had their "souls replaced", Li Qingsong felt a chill from the bottom of his heart.

"What's the purpose of a parasite parasitizing intelligent life? It can't be for reproduction, right?"

"of course not."

The confidential secretary shook his head: "There may be life forms in the universe that specialize in parasitizing other organisms to maintain the reproduction of their own populations, but that can only be called a disease, not a parasitic disaster.

The information we have obtained shows that in parasitic disasters, the purpose of the parasites in parasitizing other civilized intelligent life is to seize everything from this civilization.

All the wealth of this civilization, including all resources, technological creations, and most importantly, scientific and technological data, scientific and technological thinking, culture, art, customs, etc., will be taken away by them.

The pathogens of the parasites are intentionally spread in the universe by parasitic disasters. Once the parasites mature, they inherently know how to communicate with the mother civilization.

They will attempt to return to their parent civilization, adopting the form of life forms from the host civilization, using the host civilization's technological data and scientific thinking to contribute to the development of their parent civilization."

(End of this chapter)