Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 188 Shield? !
Over the years, Li Qingsong has never relaxed his work of receiving information from the solar system.

Although the information was delayed by more than ten years due to the long distance between them, and the scenes he saw were things that happened more than ten years ago, it was still the first-hand information that Li Qingsong could get.

This was only possible thanks to Li Qingsong's connection between his own consciousness and his clones, a connection he himself didn't understand. Any other electroweak civilization wouldn't even be able to obtain this information, delayed for over a decade.

So Li Qingsong used the eyes hidden in the vast space of the solar system and the automatically running observation equipment to see with his own eyes that the dim star gradually became brighter and expanded in size. At this moment, it looked like a bright nebula, and its overall appearance was several times larger than the moon.

Li Qingsong felt increasingly heavy-hearted.

After some observations and estimates through the telescope, Li Qingsong saw that the overall scale of this fleet was even larger than his previous solar system migration fleet.

Among them, there are at least 800 super-giant aerospace motherships. Each aerospace mothership is filled with densely packed small and medium-sized spaceships, as well as numerous giant roller spaceships and countless unmanned warships!
Including unmanned warships, the total number is at least over 5000 million!

"Such a huge fleet..."

Li Qingsong narrowed his eyes slightly.

Through the information obtained from the Bluetook civilization and the knowledge he gained from developing intelligent AI over the years, Li Qingsong knew that what restricted the size of this intelligent civilization's fleet was probably not its technological level, but the number of captives it had.

Only when there are enough captives and through conversion using special algorithms can AI become more intelligent, have sufficient productivity, and have the ability to precisely control the production of spacecraft.

Judging by the size of this fleet, the number of intelligent beings currently living within it, acting as "brain mines," is likely no less than one hundred billion...

At that time, the total population of the entire Bluetook civilization was only around 100 billion.

Taking into account the extremely high loss rate of intelligent life within the intelligent machine civilization, I am afraid that these more than 100 billion "brain mine" populations come from at least two or more civilizations, or even three or four.

If the Bluetuk civilization had not been destroyed by itself, what awaited the intelligent life of the Bluetuk civilization would also be reduced to a "brain mine", making the scale of this intelligent mechanical disaster fleet even larger.

Under Li Qingsong's close attention, the fleet finally completed the deceleration and docked in the Jupiter system.

Li Qingsong saw that countless mineral-collecting spaceships left the fleet and landed on many planets.

During this process, one detail caught Li Qingsong's attention.

He saw that when faced with an unexpected asteroid, one of the small warships flew out and fired only an unknown projectile, and the asteroid, which was over 20 meters in size, exploded and disintegrated.

What kind of weapon is this! How can it be so powerful?
Even the most powerful electromagnetic cannon could only penetrate the asteroid. It was impossible to shatter it in one blow.

This seems to mean that their projectiles have a higher energy release mechanism.

After being shattered, the asteroid's debris continued to move forward at an extremely high speed. However, the spacecraft in the path ahead did not dodge or avoid it, as if it was unaware of the debris.

As the asteroid debris approached the spacecraft, Li Qingsong saw a pale yellow light curtain of unknown material illuminate around the spacecraft. It flashed and disappeared. Blocked by this light curtain, the asteroid debris was directly deflected, failing to cause any damage to the spacecraft. Energy shield?!
Li Qingsong felt a little shocked again.

Is this technology really possible? And... a third-level nuclear civilization could master it?

In this case, the speed of a strong nuclear civilization's fleet can reach 70 to 80 percent of the speed of light, and the technology used to solve the particle collision problem is energy shield technology?
No wonder they can reach such a high speed...

If such a small spaceship can be equipped with an energy shield, then those large spaceships can be equipped with an energy shield.

Li Qingsong didn't know how many weapons they possessed in terms of offense, but the weapon that had previously shattered the asteroid was enough to give him a glimpse of the situation.

At this moment, there is even a super-powerful defensive facility such as the energy shield. If I were to face this intelligent mechanical disaster at this stage, how would I fight?
No matter how strong your armor is, it probably won't be able to withstand the attack of that kind of weapon. No matter how powerful your electromagnetic guns, missiles, and mines are, they probably won't be able to penetrate that kind of energy shield!
In this case, even if your warships are ten or a hundred times more numerous than your opponent's, they will probably be of no use.

This is not a gap that can be made up by relying on numbers like the Bluetook civilization!

But after secretly observing for a while, Li Qingsong discovered something even more terrifying.

The scale of this fleet is extremely large, and its dispersion range is also very large. The width of the fleet is as high as hundreds of millions of kilometers.

Normally, this means that communications from one side of the fleet to the other will experience significant delays, since electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light.

One hundred million kilometers means a delay of at least 5 minutes.

But judging from the overall movement of this fleet, their actions were extremely coordinated, and there seemed to be no communication delay at all.

So……

Long-distance communication?

Is there technology that can achieve real-time communication regardless of distance, ignoring communication delays?
If I can master this technology, then why should I endure the communication delay of more than ten years from the solar system to the Altair system?

With long-distance communication, how much higher will the coordination of the entire fleet be? And how much of a boost in combat power will this bring on the battlefield?!
More importantly...

After realizing that this intelligent mechanical disaster fleet was very likely to have long-distance communication technology, Li Qingsong's heart instantly lifted and his spirits tensed up.

If we had super-distance communication technology, we could communicate in real time between two different star systems that were more than ten light years apart...

It seems that their main fleet can determine whether there is an intelligent civilization in a certain galaxy without having to arrive there in person.

They can simply launch a probe with long-distance communication capabilities to every suspected target galaxy, every galaxy they may reach, or launch a detection fleet, so that they can determine whether that galaxy is their long-distance target without the main fleet having to move.

In this way, all of his disguises would be completely ineffective. After detecting where he was, the main fleet could go straight to Huanglong. It would only take a very short time to reach the galaxy where he was located and then complete the capture!
(End of this chapter)