Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 226 One Hundred Thousand Times

Time passed quietly.

Under Li Qingsong's all-out construction and the entire industrial system's all-out production, millions of deuterium-deuterium fusion power stations rapidly appeared on planets, replacing the original deuterium-tritium fusion power stations and began to supply electricity to the entire industrial and scientific research system.

A deuterium-deuterium fusion power station can only produce a few hundred kilograms of helium-3 every day, which seems insignificant, but it doesn’t matter, there are enough of them!

In the Pegasus V432 system, on the smallest gas giant, a massive flight formation consisting of millions of Jovian aircraft flies all day in the harsh environment, separating huge amounts of deuterium from the gas planet's atmosphere and then gathering them on the Xuanniao platform;

The shuttle shuttle traveled back and forth between the Xuanniao platform and the energy distribution center, transferring a large amount of deuterium gas to the heavy transport spacecraft through a transfer;

This entire process was remotely controlled by millions of clones and blueprint engineers, while specific frontline tasks were performed by humanoid general-purpose robots, completely eliminating the hidden danger of life forms being affected by the excessive gravity of the gas giant planet.
Heavy transport ships transported hundreds of thousands of tons of deuterium to every planet with a nuclear fusion power plant, injecting it like water into a fertile field.
Deuterium gas began to fuse in the reactor, producing a huge amount of energy to supply the entire industrial and scientific research system. At the same time, a large amount of fusion byproduct, helium-3, was continuously generated and temporarily stored in the temporary storage tanks equipped in every deuterium-deuterium fusion power station.

The trains or trains speeding across the surface of the planet travel back and forth between each deuterium-deuterium fusion power station, collecting the helium-3 produced by each nuclear fusion power station, and finally gathering them in the helium-3 distribution center built on each planet, and then via space elevators, heavy transport ships, etc., heading towards the magnetic monopole detector construction area designated by Li Qingsong.

On the first day that millions of deuterium-deuterium fusion power plants were put into operation, Li Qingsong produced a full 40 tons of helium-3!

On the ninth day, the helium-3 reserves reached 360 million tons, which was more than enough to support the construction of a high-performance magnetic monopole detector!

Thus, under the command of numerous high-precision spare parts produced by the industrial system, as well as numerous clones and blueprint engineers involved in planning and design, general-purpose robots and intelligent machinery began busy construction in space.

In addition to the first magnetic monopole detector, Li Qingsong now finally has a second one.

This is just the beginning.

Huge amounts of helium-3 and huge amounts of spare parts are still flowing into space.

In deep space billions of kilometers from the star V432 Pegasi, in the Lagrange points of giant rocky planets, in the Lagrange points of gas giants and large satellites, in even deeper space hundreds of billions of kilometers from stars, in corners of galaxies far from the ecliptic plane...

Numerous magnetic monopole detectors have been built under different environmental backgrounds.

They are like spider webs, quietly spreading out in the vast and deep starry sky, waiting for the appearance of "little flying insects" that may appear at an unknown time and at an unknown angle.

Li Qingsong didn't know when his magnetic monopole detector would be able to capture valuable signals, or maybe his theoretical framework was completely wrong, and there was no such thing as magnetic monopoles in the universe - this was also possible.

Li Qingsong only knew that the more "spider webs" he opened, the higher the probability of capturing magnetic monopoles.

In this case, let's keep building them, keep building them. Even if they are magnetic monopole detectors which are more difficult to build and more expensive than proton decay detectors, we must build a thousand of them!

At this moment, many nuclear fusion power stations are not only energy suppliers but also material producers. They continuously provide huge amounts of helium-3, which strongly supports Li Qingsong's construction, which is so huge that people can't even imagine it according to the blueprint.

At this moment, Li Qingsong once again vividly understood why major breakthroughs in fundamental physics theory must occur within galaxies, rather than during interstellar travel. Take the production of helium-3 alone, for example. How much deuterium would be needed to produce so much helium-3? How many nuclear fusion power plants would be needed? What enormous industrial capacity and material supply would be required?
Only in a galaxy with abundant and almost inexhaustible supplies can such a huge supply of materials be met.

Time passed quietly as Li Qingsong worked non-stop on construction. In addition to maintaining normal production and scientific research, Li Qingsong frantically increased the number of magnetic monopole detectors at an average rate of one every nine days.

This construction speed is unimaginable for any civilization.

Do you really think that such a large-scale, high-end and advanced detector is a toy car and you can make a lot of it whenever you want?

Which major scientific device is not extremely rigorous and solemn, requiring repeated demonstration, repeated design and iterative optimization, taking decades and the entire power of civilization to complete?
But in Li Qingsong's place, hundreds of construction sites for magnetic monopole detectors were operating simultaneously. As long as enough helium-3 was produced and poured in, a detector would be completed immediately.

In this way, more than ten years passed quietly.

After more than 5000 days, Li Qingsong now has more than 500 magnetic monopole detectors. At the same time, the 5000 proton decay detectors that Li Qingsong had spent a lot of time building have also been in operation for more than days.

During this time, each detector detected hundreds of thousands of Cherenkov radiation events on average, and with a total of one thousand detectors, the total number of events detected exceeded 100 million.

Hundreds of millions of clones and specialized scientific research AI worked hard to study these events, but the final result disappointed Li Qingsong.

These more than 100 million radiation events were all neutrino collision events or interferences, and none of them were proton decay!

This made Li Qingsong feel heavy in his heart.

"If the proton lifetime is 10^36 years, then my detectors should have detected more than 14 proton decay events in about years...

But why not once?"

This leaves almost only one possibility.

I had greatly underestimated the lifespan of protons before.

The lower limit of its lifespan is not 10^36 years, but at least 10^42 years, a difference of one hundred thousand times.

Only in this way can the fact that he has not detected any proton decay in 14 years be explained.

So…what’s next?
Continue to increase the number of proton decay detectors to seek a higher detection probability?
But, this doesn't seem to work.

(End of this chapter)