Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 183 A glimmer of hope

At this moment, Li Qingsong's more than one billion brains started to run wildly at the same time.

The situation at this moment is so dire that it cannot be worse. If it were another civilization, such as the Bluetuk civilization, they would have no hope of survival in this situation.

Even if the Bluetook civilization defeated him in the solar system and, with his help, could complete the material collection work in the shortest time and then move on to the next star system, the Bluetook civilization would definitely not be able to avoid being captured by the intelligent machine Scourge.

The moment the robotic Scourge appeared in the solar system, the fate of the Bluetook civilization was sealed.

Even if it is not destroyed by itself, it will be destroyed by the intelligent mechanical disaster.

But... I am not an ordinary civilization!

This desperate situation for ordinary civilizations may not be a hope for us!
Li Qingsong has now figured out this glimmer of hope.

That is something that ordinary electroweak civilizations would never dare to think about and would never be able to do.

Develop technology while on the run!

During the long interstellar migration process, in the vast and empty space, we develop technology while fleeing!

As long as he did not stop at a star system and continued to drift in the vast void, it would be unlikely that the Intelligent Scourge Fleet would find him.

Because the universe is so vast, no matter how powerful the Robotic Scourge Fleet is, it can only search star systems and cannot search the entire interstellar space.

They couldn't find the detectors they had deployed in the solar system to secretly conduct reconnaissance on the intelligent Scourge fleet.

Their own fleet drifted into space, and they couldn't find it either!

He wanted to take away all the more than 1500 large scientific devices with a total mass of more than 30 billion tons that he had built with great effort, and carry out large-scale experiments in space, including but not limited to particle collision experiments, gravitational wave observation experiments, neutrino observation experiments, ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure experiments, and so on, all closely related to the development of basic physics theories!
Only in this way can he have a chance to break through to the third-level strong nuclear civilization before the mechanical disaster catches up with him.

Only by breaking through to the third level of strong nuclear civilization can we have a chance of survival in the face of that intelligent mechanical disaster!
but……

These large scientific devices are not only of extremely high quality themselves, but also require more materials to carry them on long voyages and migrations, and driving them also consumes countless energy and materials.

A single high-energy particle collider would require a dedicated nuclear fusion power plant, consuming as much power as a large spacecraft at full power. And there are over 1500 such large scientific facilities.

Furthermore, in order to achieve a technological breakthrough, he must go all out and use all his brainpower. If so, the number of clones that can maintain long-term consciousness will no longer be the 10 billion that migrated previously, but at least 20 billion.

How much more material consumption will this cause?
The more critical point is that the more supplies need to be carried, the corresponding increase in the number of spacecraft is not one-to-one.

Assuming the fleet's mass was 1, and excluding the fixed propellant, its maximum cargo capacity was also 1, then if I wanted to increase the cargo capacity to 2, the fleet's mass would have to be increased to 4 or 5.
If the amount of supplies carried increases to 3, the quality of the fleet itself will probably have to increase to 10.

Because fuel is also part of mass.

More supplies require more fuel. More fuel requires even more fuel.

Just like when Li Qingsong built a rocket weighing tens of thousands of tons to launch a probe into the inner solar system.

After a simple calculation, Li Qingsong found that in order to achieve his goal, the amount of supplies he carried, excluding fuel, would have to be at least five times the amount he carried when he left the solar system.

Correspondingly, the total size of his fleet will have to be expanded to 30 times the previous size!
When they left the solar system, the scale of the fleet had already astonished the Blueprint people, surpassing the limits of ordinary electroweak civilizations. And now, with a fleet 30 times larger than before, this scale, and the industrial strength required to achieve it, even Li Qingsong felt a sense of dread at the thought.

This fleet is so huge that even if I were to exist in a form similar to that of a "natural disaster", it would take at least 300 years for me to focus on it without any distractions and devote all my energy and energy to its construction.

300 years... is too long, Li Qingsong can't wait.

"Then... discard the unnecessary baggage."

Li Qingsong gritted his teeth secretly: "Abandon 90% of those huge number of unmanned warships! Only carry a small number of unmanned warships!"

During the migration process, if one encounters a strong nuclear civilization like the Intelligent Scourge, then no matter how many unmanned warships there are, they will be useless.

If we encounter an electro-weak civilization like the Bluetook civilization, then the existing unmanned and manned warships should be sufficient.

"Except for the unmanned warships, everything else that can be streamlined will be streamlined. Regarding daily consumption like food and water, we will increase the recycling rate of materials and reduce the weight of the spacecraft..."

After an overall assessment, the scale of the fleet he needed to build was reduced to 20 times the original size, and the time required was also greatly reduced, from 300 years to about 200 years.

But...it's still too long!
The longest time Li Qingsong can accept is 30 years.

The reason is simple. The artificial intelligence disaster may come at any time. If it exceeds 30 years, the risk will be too great.

However, within 30 years, they would have to build a fleet 20 times the current size, including 5 giant aerospace carriers, 5000 heavy transport ships, 3000 large roller spacecraft, 5 large scientific research vessels, and other types of spacecraft, as well as the supplies, deuterium, minerals, and chemicals required to power all these spacecraft and personnel...

How is this possible? !
Even if Li Qingsong worked all the clones to death and overclocked the supercomputing base running Shengong AI until it started smoking, it would be impossible to complete such a huge construction task.

So, what to do?
After a moment's thought, Li Qingsong made up his mind.

"The only feasible way at present is to complete this task through improvements in two aspects.

First, using the interstellar navigation experience, scientific conjectures and technical ideas accumulated over the past hundreds of years of interstellar voyages, we will comprehensively improve and optimize the performance and efficiency of the fleet and reduce material consumption as much as possible.

Second, within five years, we will master quantum computer technology, significantly improving the performance and intelligence of Shengong AI, thereby significantly increasing our industrial strength and completing the task of building a fleet 25 times the size of the previous one within 20 years!

Quantum computing has huge advantages over traditional electronic computers in some areas.

Because quantum gates are different from electronic circuits that can only be in two states at the same time, they can be in three states at the same time: on, off, and on and off again.

This means it has extremely high parallel capabilities.

If you ask a computer to read a very thick book, it can only read it page by page in order.

A more advanced computer with higher computing power can only turn pages faster.

But quantum computers are different. They can do the same thing as a group of people simultaneously flipping through the pages of a book, each person only flipping through a portion, completing the task of reading the book with much higher parallel computing power.

(End of this chapter)