Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 173 Island
The huge fleet was still moving at a speed of 1.2 kilometers per second.

Looking at the asteroid that was gradually moving away, and the sun that was still bright but no longer prominent, a smile appeared on the face of the clone where Li Qingsong's consciousness resided.

"Goodbye, my hometown."

At this moment, 30 years have passed since Li Qingsong set sail. In the future, there are still about 400 years of long journey waiting for him to cross.

Time passed quietly, and during this process, Li Qingsong was not idle.

Because sufficient supplies were carried on board when the voyage began, some scientific research that consumes less supplies can also be carried out at this time.

As a result, many ferry ships appeared and traveled back and forth between the numerous roller-type residential ships, large scientific research ships, and aerospace motherships.

A large number of clones and blueprint people travel back and forth between different spacecraft, communicating with each other, materials are circulated between different spacecraft, and scientific research activities are in full swing.

Li Qingsong wants to take advantage of these 400 years to make up for all his technological shortcomings.

Although Li Qingsong has caught up with or even slightly surpassed the Bluetook civilization in key technologies such as spacecraft structure, engineering, materials, controlled nuclear fusion, and propulsion, there are still many gaps in some details.

The technological development model of a normal civilization always advances in parallel, and technology in all aspects will progress at the same speed.

It is impossible that mobile phones have entered the era of highly intelligent machines, but computers are still old-fashioned and backward computers, and mice are still scroll wheel mice.

However, Li Qingsong's special mode allowed him to face the strange situation where his military technology was highly developed, but his other less important technologies were still inferior to the original human civilization.

Now is the perfect time to take advantage of the time we have these years to catch up with all the backward technologies.

In the vast and empty space, there appeared an "island" composed of many spaceships, floating quietly.

Although the fleet's speed was as high as 1.2 kilometers per second at this moment, because it had lost its reference point, it still looked like it was quietly floating as a whole, as if it was not moving at all.

Even if a small spaceship leaves a large spaceship and enters space, or clones or blueprint people enter space in space suits, there is no need to worry about being left behind by the fleet.

Because every spaceship and every person in this fleet had the same orbit and speed during the previous acceleration process, and they were stationary relative to each other.

Apart from the fact that there are no other celestial bodies around, life within the fleet is not affected at all.

So various experiments were carried out in many laboratories. The experimental data and thinking conclusions from hundreds of millions of clones were constantly summarized in Li Qingsong's mind, and then distributed and synchronized to the minds of each clone.

While the number of Blueprint scientists was small, they undoubtedly played a crucial role in providing references and clearing up blind spots in thinking. This even led Li Qingsong to ponder, "If this situation arises again in the future, perhaps I'll have to capture some more aliens to join the effort. After all, the more intelligent life forms with diverse cultural and physiological attributes, the more references we have, and the fewer blind spots we have."

However, this way of behaving seems to be somewhat similar to that of unorthodox intelligent life forms such as the Mechanical Scourge and the Parasitic Scourge.

Li Qingsong thought about it and decided that even if he had the ability in the future, he would never take the initiative to maliciously invade other civilizations. Unless the other civilization had ill intentions towards him first, he would capture their population and join his army.

This wasn't because Li Qingsong had some sort of moral aversion, or that he was determined to draw a clear line between himself and the natural disasters. Rather, Li Qingsong hoped to carry on the beautiful qualities of human civilization and not lose them.

Only in this way can Li Qingsong feel that he is still a human being, rather than having turned into some strange thing.

These cultural attributes are probably my only connection with human civilization right now...

With the concerted efforts of many clones and blueprint people - the blueprint people who refused to work together had already been marginalized over the years, and their genes could not be passed on at all - those less important technologies that Li Qingsong had not had time to allocate energy, brainpower and resources to develop before also made breakthroughs.

These breakthroughs in secondary technology even began to show signs of feeding back into primary technology. During this process, Li Qingsong came up with many hypotheses regarding more advanced warship structures, more powerful electromagnetic and laser cannons, and even spacecraft propulsion methods.

However, due to insufficient supplies at the moment, large-scale research cannot be carried out for the time being. We have to wait until we reach the Altair Galaxy.

Every day, a large number of spaceships shuttle back and forth, and a large amount of materials are allocated out of warehouses every day. In the millions of nuclear fusion reactors, a large amount of deuterium gas is consumed every day, and in food factories, a large amount of starch, meat, fish, fruit, etc. are produced every day.

It is worth mentioning that during this migration, Li Qingsong did not adopt the practice of storing a large amount of food in advance as he did when he sailed from Luoshen to Jupiter. Instead, he adopted the method of synthesizing starch, built a large industrial spacecraft, and directly synthesized starch with carbon dioxide.

This technique is actually not that difficult, and Li Qingsong mastered it a long time ago.

The reason why it was not used before was simply because synthetic starch technology can only produce starch, which is too low-end.

There is no shortage of resources and energy in the galaxy, and intelligent planting bases also have low consumption. Clones do not take up much space and can produce more carbohydrates with different flavors, which is objectively more beneficial to maintaining the physical health and brain activity of clones.

What's more, some economic crops, such as cotton, sesame, oilseeds, sugars, etc., still need to be planted and cannot be directly synthesized.

Then just adopt the planting base approach, there is no need to use synthetic starch technology.

However, at this moment, we are in an interstellar navigation state, with limited resources and supplies, and we cannot care whether the clones' physical health will be affected, so there is a need to use synthetic starch technology.

Therefore, supported by the abundant energy of the nuclear fusion reactor, the carbon dioxide produced by the clones and blueprint people is collected and converted into starch through a series of processes. Part of the starch is used as the staple food of the clones and blueprint people, part is used for industrial purposes, and part is used as animal feed to produce meat. Finally, a considerable part of the starch is eaten by organisms to support their life activities. The life activities then produce carbon dioxide, which is synthesized again, and the cycle continues.

(End of this chapter)