Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 189 Earth Playground

This way, it seemed that he would have no chance of escape. All his previous plans would be in vain. His only option was to use his backup plan and start over in another galaxy.

only……

This seems to contradict the existing situation.

If they could truly accomplish this, why would they even bother coming to the Solar System? They could simply launch a probe to confirm the Solar System's situation, and then determine which star systems they'd target next. Further exploration would confirm they were in the Altair system. So, why wouldn't they simply go directly to the Altair system instead of stopping in the Solar System?

While thinking silently, a possibility emerged in Li Qingsong's mind.

"Perhaps... even if we master long-distance communication technology, we still won't be able to communicate between stars.

Ultra-long-distance communication technology may also be limited by distance. Although it has no delay, if the distance is too long, it may fail for some reason.

As for what the reason might be, I don't know for now, because my basic physics theory has not yet reached that stage.

This is the only possible reason. Otherwise, there is no way to explain why the Mechanical Scourge Fleet, which clearly has long-distance communication technology, still has to go to great lengths to send the main fleet to each star system to complete the search.

However, even though ultra-long-distance communication technology has distance limitations and will become ineffective if the distance is too long, it still has extremely important significance.

Without long-distance communication technology, even within a star system, there could be a delay of several days from one side to the other. With long-distance communication technology, at least within a star system, there is no longer any need to endure communication delays.

After figuring this out and confirming that he was safe for the time being, Li Qingsong secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Since the arrival of the omnic Scourge fleet in the solar system, Li Qingsong had observed numerous details. From these details alone, he had detected several types of technology far beyond his own.

Facing such an enemy, everything Li Qingsong was proud of was useless.

"Technology, technology, and more technology! The gap between unified strong nuclear force and ununified strong nuclear force is like an insurmountable chasm.

Unless it's an extremely special case, no matter how powerful an electro-weak civilization is, it can't possibly be a match for the weakest strong-nuclear civilization! Even if I could single-handedly fight against more than ten electro-weak civilizations, I still wouldn't be a match for this omnic scourge!
If you want to have that glimmer of hope, you must also break through to a strong nuclear civilization!"

Feeling the information from the solar system, Li Qingsong gritted his teeth secretly.

The construction in the Altair Galaxy was still going on at full speed. Li Qingsong did not relax at all in receiving information from the solar system.

He saw that while the Jupiter system was undergoing large-scale development and resource collection, a fleet left here and flew towards the Earth.

Moreover, judging from the size of that fleet, it does not seem like a small-scale expedition fleet, but rather seems to be planning some major action against the Earth.

Li Qingsong's heart gradually lifted.

The Earth is my home. Before leaving the solar system, I will risk wasting time to purify the Earth and restore its ecology.

There is no need to say much about the importance of the earth in my heart.

Now, what is this omnic scourge going to do to Earth?!

Mining resources?
Unlikely. The universe is full of planets, and what it lacks most is resources. And for a planet like Earth, with its thick atmosphere, it's naturally not suitable for resource extraction.

There are clearly four gas planets in the solar system that can provide sufficient fusion fuel, two large planets, Mercury and Mars, and hundreds of larger satellites and dwarf planets that can provide mineral resources. There is really no need for this intelligent mechanical disaster to carry out large-scale development of the earth.

Even if it were me, I would at most conduct a small-scale survey of the earth, collecting some biological genetic data or biological resources at most, and would not waste time developing it.

This is also the reason why he insisted on rebuilding the Earth's ecosystem even though he knew that the intelligent mechanical disaster was very likely to come to the solar system.

"I've also hidden some clones on Earth and set them up for automatic activation. Let's wait for them to wake up."

Those clones are hidden in underground bases, underwater and other places, and can observe the surface through extremely tiny optical devices.

Because the relevant equipment is extremely small and the surface environment is large enough, Li Qingsong believes that even a third-level strong nuclear civilization will most likely not be able to find them without a special search.

Once an abnormal situation on the surface of the earth is detected, the automatic program will awaken the hibernating clone and automatically connect its consciousness with itself.

By then, you will know what this intelligent mechanical disaster has done on Earth.

Time passed quietly. Sure enough, not long after, several more consciousness links from the solar system arrived and transmitted some images to him.

Li Qingsong saw some strange scenes.

He saw a group of mechanical creatures with multiple limbs, like dogs and spiders, running wildly on the surface in groups.

This is a grassland. On the grassland, countless creatures are fleeing for their lives, chased by robot spiders.

There were some small aircraft flying in the sky. Half of the aircraft was covered with a transparent glass cover, and inside the cover was a seat, on which sat a bloated, fat-like thing.

The thing was extremely large and thick, but it didn't seem to have much toughness. Instead, it was as soft as fat or jelly.

In that large pool of fat, you can barely see some organs that appear to be eyes, noses, arms, and legs.

The strange creature rode on the small translucent aircraft, flying around in the air as if playing, firing bullets from time to time, which created puffs of smoke and dust on the ground, and the fleeing animals died one after another.

Every time this happened, the pile of fat would tremble, looking very excited.

Besides these aircraft carrying strange creatures, there were also numerous other aircraft that were clearly unmanned. Like guards, these unmanned aircraft surrounded the manned aircraft like stars surrounding the moon, loyally guarding the safety of the strange creatures.

Sometimes, when the running direction of the animal herds on the surface deviates, the unmanned aerial vehicles will fly over and shoot, forcing the herds to change direction so that the manned aircraft can better shoot.

After chasing for a while, a forest appeared in front of them, and many animals fled into the forest and disappeared.

The fat, ugly creature seemed angry, and with its stubby arm-like organ, it pressed a button. Then, numerous robotic spiders on the ground swarmed over. The next moment, the thick trees collapsed, revealing all the animals once again. The creature resumed its hunt...

(End of this chapter)