Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 187 Environmental Protection
With the support of the first batch of 10,000 quantum supercomputers, Li Qingsong's construction process has truly entered a crazy stage.

On the dozens of larger planets selected by Li Qingsong that are larger than the original and have reached hydrostatic equilibrium, as well as larger asteroids that do not have enough mass to be spherical but also have certain value, Li Qingsong's countless intelligent machines, countless intelligent equipment, and countless intelligent robots all began to be built day and night.

That’s right, after the quantum computer was put into use and the intelligence level of Shengong AI was greatly improved, Li Qingsong finally had a new production tool, a humanoid general-purpose multifunctional robot!

Originally, Li Qingsong also owned a large number of robots, but those robots could usually only be fixed in one place and perform fixed work tasks.

But things are different now. Higher intelligence has made the emergence of general-purpose humanoid robots possible.

Not only can they replace clones to work in heavy, dangerous and harsh frontline jobs, but they can also make autonomous decisions and collaborate independently to complete tasks more intelligently and efficiently.

During this stage, most of the clones were finally able to evacuate the front line and move into the control base with a comfortable, spacious and bright environment to work.

They only need to sit in front of the computer or lie in the smart cabin and contribute their brainpower under the unified coordination of Li Qingsong. Unless there are special circumstances, they no longer need to go to the front line of work.

Even the Jupiter planes and transfer platforms flying in Altair A can finally all use robots instead of clones, and the clones no longer have to endure the torture of gravity that is ten times that of the Earth.

From this moment on, the clones collecting deuterium resources only need to work in the orbit of Altair A and control the Jupiter aircraft through remote control with the assistance of Shengong AI.

There was originally no gravity here, but through self-rotation, appropriate gravity can be created on demand, which greatly improves the working environment.

Because of the huge improvement in work efficiency, Li Qingsong can also manufacture more Jupiter planes and put them into Altair A. Under the premise of using the same number of clones, the collection efficiency can be increased tenfold or even more.

Construction on other planets is also in full swing.

Originally, Li Qingsong could only carry out the construction of hundreds of thousands of factories simultaneously. Now, with the quantum computer and hundreds of millions and billions of intelligent general-purpose robots and machines, the number of factories that Li Qingsong can carry out the construction simultaneously has skyrocketed to millions, or even more than tens of millions!
Even more than 30% of the surface area of Altair b, a large rocky planet, totaling 4 million square kilometers, has been directly planned by Li Qingsong as an industrial zone.

It could be a mine, a steel mill, a chemical plant, a chip factory, a spacecraft parts factory, a power plant, and so on.

Countless factories were born in the industrial zone, and their lighting even gathered into a sea of light on the side facing away from Altair, which was clearly visible from far away in space.

The same is true for the rest of the planets.

As Li Qingsong began construction with all his strength, each planet became colorful and splendid.

The number of transport ships traversing space has skyrocketed. Total cargo volume has soared from an average of approximately 100 billion tons per year to over billion tons, and the pace is still rising.

Likewise, while the total volume of freight has increased significantly, the number of clones used in transportation projects has not.

Under such circumstances, the number of various large spaceships in Li Qingsong's fleet began to surge.

Li Qingsong's goal is to build a fleet 20 times the size of the previous one, which means that Li Qingsong has to build 5 giant aerospace motherships, heavy transport ships, etc.

But in actual construction, Li Qingsong needs to build six more of this large spacecraft.

Of course, these weren't real spaceships, but rather empty hulls of the same size and tonnage. As the real fleet grew, the size of the camouflage fleet also had to increase in tandem.

But even if it is an empty shell spacecraft, its construction difficulty will not be too easy.

With such a huge tonnage and volume, even if only thrusters, reactors, shells and some simple equipment are needed, the difficulty is not comparable to that of real small and medium-sized spacecraft.

It is worth mentioning that since coming to the Altair Galaxy, all of Li Qingsong’s construction actions have followed one principle.

Environmental friendly.

This is certainly not to protect the environment of the Altair Galaxy.

There are not even the simplest single-celled organisms here, so what’s the point of protecting the environment?

The main purpose is to avoid causing too much change to the environment here, which would be noticed by external observers.

In such a huge production process, almost all the waste gas generated will be deliberately collected by Li Qingsong, condensed into solid through various means, buried deep in the planets, or thrown into Cowherd A.

If these exhaust gases are emitted directly, they will condense into an atmosphere on the planet's surface, or merge into the existing atmosphere, changing its composition. In this way, through occultation, distant observers will be able to detect industrial activity in this galaxy from a distance of more than ten light-years, or even further.

This will inevitably lead to Li Qingsong being exposed.

These waste gases cannot be thrown into Altair either, because Altair is a star and will directly vaporize these solid wastes and integrate them into its own atmosphere.

Although this would only cause a very small change in Altair's atmosphere, it would inevitably be noticeable.

There would be no such concerns if it were buried deep or thrown into the giant gas planet Altair A.

Wastewater, waste residue, or light pollution on the planet are not a problem and do not require additional treatment.

At this moment, Li Qingsong's industrial scale has expanded dozens of times, industrial production capacity has also expanded dozens of times, and the corresponding environmental protection efforts have also been increasingly strengthened.

In the past, when industry was limited in scale, a small leak of exhaust gas was not a big deal. But now that the scale is so large, a little leak here and there might even make it into the atmosphere.

Thus, countless spaceships shuttled through the Altair Galaxy, countless factories roared, and a bustling scene was everywhere. But even just one light-year away, the Altair Galaxy still looked as quiet as before, with almost no changes.

This is the conclusion Li Qingsong came to after actual observations through those "backup" spacecraft.

Time flies quickly in this situation.

The number of warships parked in space is increasing, and the star in the images transmitted from the clones in the solar system is becoming brighter and brighter.

(End of this chapter)