Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 179 Evacuate at any time
During the past hundreds of years of sailing, Li Qingsong has accumulated many experimental needs.

As long as he allocates the corresponding industrial power at this moment, builds all these various experimental facilities, verifies those experimental requirements one by one, collects the corresponding data and then conducts further analysis and thinking, Li Qingsong can be sure that his technical level will inevitably see a huge improvement above the current level.

Although this does not involve phased results, such as major improvements from nuclear fission to nuclear fusion, or from secondary pressurization propulsion to perfect plasma propulsion, the improvements in many specific technical details can still effectively promote overall progress.

But at this moment, Li Qingsong did not intend to put his industrial strength and brainpower into technological advancement.

The reason is very simple. Li Qingsong must first complete another extremely important task before he can do this.

That is to repair his own interstellar fleet and complete the accumulation of supplies to the point where he can immediately launch the fleet and set sail anytime and anywhere if the situation changes. Only then will Li Qingsong have the energy to do other things.

Li Qingsong has never forgotten the threat of the artificial intelligence disaster.

For this matter, even the crucial development of technology can be put aside temporarily.

Now that there is a sufficiently complete industrial base, large-scale production, repair and resource collection work will immediately begin.

Numerous factories roared day and night, producing mountains and seas of spare parts. A large number of clones came to one spaceship after another on industrial spacecraft, and during spacewalk missions, they dismantled and replaced any faulty parts.

Giant docks capable of berthing aerospace carriers appeared one after another. The aerospace carriers that had been operating continuously for hundreds of years could finally be docked here, all irrelevant personnel inside could be evacuated, all facilities could be shut down, and a comprehensive overhaul could be carried out.

Li Qingsong's fleet contained hundreds of millions of spaceships, large and small. At this moment, each of these hundreds of millions of spaceships was undergoing the most rigorous inspection and repair.

On the giant gaseous planet Altair A, Li Qingsong specially selected several areas with stable airflow to create deuterium fields. He produced a large number of Jupiter aircraft and placed them there, collecting deuterium fuel all day long.

Endless spare parts, raw materials, water ice, methane, ethane, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, caustic soda and other basic materials were produced and temporarily stored in warehouses;
In the spaceship factory, countless parts were assembled together by robots and clones, and a large number of spaceships began to gather in space.

Li Qingsong did not intend to produce new spacecraft locally to replace the old spacecraft in the fleet. All the spacecraft produced at the moment were just empty shells used for camouflage.

In this way, after more than 20 years of full-hearted work, all the work was finally completed.

The dilapidated and battered spaceship, which had been sailing for hundreds of years, was now completely renovated and restored to its peak performance.

The originally empty warehouse was once again filled with resources and various materials collected from the Altair Galaxy;
A large number of empty spaceships were already in place, and even the ballast was fully prepared. If necessary, they could immediately set sail in other directions to provide cover for the main fleet.
Even the clones lost in the past few years have been produced by the clone factory, replenishing the total number to 30 billion.

At this moment, it can be said that Li Qingsong has completely completed the preparations for the next interstellar voyage.

If necessary, Li Qingsong can issue a retreat order in the next second. After no more than five days of collecting clones and rare materials, the entire fleet can set sail and leave the Altair galaxy.

Until this moment, Li Qingsong's heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally felt relieved a little.

Only after ensuring that he could leave at any time could Li Qingsong focus on doing other things.

He raised his head and gazed at the dim star in the sky. At this moment, the sun was just an ordinary star in Li Qingsong's eyes, completely indistinguishable from the other stars.

Even with the help of the most advanced telescope, Li Qingsong could not detect any changes occurring in the solar system.

The vast universe conceals all details, hiding them behind thick darkness.

It was a darkness that even the most powerful electromagnetic antenna could not penetrate.

If it were any other electroweak civilization, it would probably not be able to know any information about the interior of the solar system.

But Li Qingsong is different.

The connection between the original body and the clone based on unknown principles can break through these obstacles and complete communication and exchange between the two stars.

And now, Li Qingsong has been unable to establish any contact with the clones sleeping in the solar system.

This means that nothing unexpected seems to have happened in the solar system, and no external fleet has entered.

Or maybe... an external fleet has actually entered, and those clones have been awakened, but due to communication delays, what those clones see has not yet been transmitted to their own brains?
But this situation was unpredictable. With no information coming in at this moment, Li Qingsong could only assume that nothing was happening in the solar system for the time being.

"If that omnic scourge hasn't reached the solar system yet, then I'm temporarily safe in the Altair system.

At the same time, advancing science and technology requires the support of sufficient supplies. Even if I were a civilization beyond the level of ordinary civilizations, capable of carrying more supplies, I could only advance science and technology very slowly during interstellar travel.

Even if I were to embark on a long voyage now, I would still be unable to develop technology. Without developing technology, I would be unable to completely escape the threat of the Omnic Scourge.

Then... don't leave yet. Stay in the Altair Galaxy and devote all your energy to developing technology. If that omnic scourge really does reach the solar system, I can then embark on a long voyage and escape."

After making up his mind and making the decision, Li Qingsong immediately invested all existing industrial resources into the construction of scientific research facilities.

Laboratories and experimental bases sprang up like mushrooms after rain. Numerous clones were then devoted to scientific research, beginning to verify the hypotheses accumulated over the past hundreds of years of voyages.

Experimental data are generated one after another, hypotheses are verified or ruled out one after another, and new technologies begin to emerge.

Although these new technologies are generally small and mostly at the application level, such as increasing the tightness of a certain bolt by 5%, or increasing the toughness of a certain support rod by 3%, they seem insignificant, but Li Qingsong was still excited.

"A little bit adds up to a lot. One new technology is nothing, but tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of new technologies combined can have a significant impact on the whole."

(End of this chapter)