Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 240 Parting ways
In this way, when the intelligent mechanical disaster fleet returns in the future, they can salvage these detectors and easily read the information, so that they can know what they have done in the galaxy during this period, and even... know which direction their fleet fled to.

Just as even the Omnic Scourge Fleet could not completely eliminate his spy detection devices, it was even more impossible for him to eliminate the spy detection devices left behind by the Omnic Scourge Fleet.

Space is too vast, and spy detection devices are too small. The deep space of the universe will completely hide their tiny figures, and they will not be noticed by the outside world at all.

Furthermore, the Omnic Scourge Fleet would certainly do this, as it was both inexpensive and very useful.

What should I do?
If the main fleet and the camouflage fleet went their separate ways within the galaxy, the camouflage would be useless because the detection devices would definitely be able to detect which one was the real main fleet and which one was the camouflage fleet.

In response to this situation, Li Qingsong came up with a solution.

Since separating within the galaxy would expose the main fleet and the camouflage fleet, then...

I won't separate!
My camouflage fleet and the main fleet maintained the same course and escaped together!

I will separate from you after I reach a space that you cannot detect!

The reason for this is that Li Qingsong can confirm one thing.

That is, the detectors left behind by the Intelligent Scourge Fleet in the Pegasus V432 galaxy must not have the ability to accelerate for a long time, and must not be able to always follow their own fleet for close observation.

The reason is simple: the fleet needs to be accelerated to 8% of the speed of light, a process that requires more than a decade of full-power activation of the propellers.

This consumes a huge amount of fuel.

Even if those spy probes have enough fuel stored, then enough fuel means enough mass to provide propulsion acceleration for such a huge mass, which will cause the tail flame to be extremely bright.

Spy probes rely on stealth to survive in space, and bright tail flames can reveal them.

Then the following situation will occur at this moment: if your detectors want to follow my fleet, they will inevitably be exposed, and I will definitely be able to destroy you.

If your detectors do not follow my fleet, they can continue to hide, but they will be farther and farther away from my fleet, until they are so far away that apart from the light of the tail flames, they can no longer see the details of the fleet and cannot distinguish which one is the real main fleet and which one is the camouflage fleet.

Now that you can't tell the difference, I can truly separate the camouflage fleet from the main fleet.

Even if your detectors truly observed the fleet split into six and heading in six directions, you would no longer be able to determine which one is the real main fleet.

Because even a camouflaged fleet has the same propulsion power.

The best part is, once the course is changed, the tail flame will also change direction and no longer be aimed at the galaxy. Because they are highly directional and are now relatively far away, the detectors you left inside the galaxy will no longer be able to see the tail flame.

If you want to find out the fleet's direction, you still have to go to the separation point to survey the tail flames. If you want to find out which fleet is the real one, you still have to track them one fleet at a time.

In this way, the spy detection devices left by the Mechanical Scourge Fleet inside the Pegasus V432 galaxy will become useless.

It was for this reason that Li Qingsong allowed a total of six fleets to leave together.

With the fierce advancement, with the gradual increase in speed, and with the fleet gradually moving away, the light of Pegasus V432 gradually dimmed, and the figures of countless large planets, asteroids, comets, etc. gradually disappeared from Li Qingsong's sight.

Over the past few hundred years, his all-out efforts seemed to have had no externally visible impact on this star system.

No matter how powerful Li Qingsong's industrial capabilities are, they are still too small compared to these natural celestial bodies.

"Okay, okay..." Li Qingsong sighed and cast his gaze towards the distant and vast starry sky.

Time passed by bit by bit, and in the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.

At this moment, the distance between the fleet and the Pegasus V432 galaxy had increased to approximately 3 trillion kilometers, or about 0.32 light-years. Its speed had accelerated to approximately 6.3% of the speed of light, but had not yet reached the originally planned 8% of the speed of light.

At this moment, the fleet has not yet left the gravitational boundary of Pegasus V432.

Although this place is vast and empty, Li Qingsong knows that in those corners that even he cannot detect, there may be tiny celestial bodies hidden, still controlled by the gravity of this huge star and still revolving around themselves.

However, for detection equipment, a distance of about 0.32 light years is far enough.

Then, let's separate the fleet here.

Following Li Qingsong's command, a total of six main fleets quietly changed their jet directions.

So the next moment, the six fleets that had been accompanying each other for ten years parted ways, each flying in a different direction, and the distance between them became farther and farther.

In a blink of an eye, about three years passed.

At this moment, Li Qingsong, who was in the main fleet, could no longer see any trace of those squadrons.

At this moment, the fleet's speed finally accelerated to the original speed of 8% of the speed of light, and the distance from Pegasus V432 reached about half a light year.

At this moment, Li Qingsong's fleet entered the inertial navigation mode.

After flying for a while, Li Qingsong's fleet started the random maneuvering mode.

At the same time, if there were no malfunctions in his preset program, the camouflaged fleets should have also started random maneuvers.

The numerous thrusters were turned on again at low power for a total of 10 days, imparting a course deviation of approximately 5 kilometers per second to the fleet in a randomly selected direction, before being turned off again.

In the future, Li Qingsong will conduct multiple random maneuvers, striving to make the course of his fleet untraceable.

Time continued to slowly pass. 46 years later, Li Qingsong received a link to the clone's consciousness from the Pegasus V432 galaxy.

At this moment, the distance between Li Qingsong and the Pegasus V432 galaxy has expanded to about 3 light years.

This means a three-year communication delay, which means that the consciousness connection with the clone from the Pegasus V3 galaxy started three years ago.

The condition for awakening the hibernating clones is to observe the approach of a suspected intelligent mechanical Scourge fleet.

This seems to mean... the return of the Intelligent Scourge Fleet is more than ten years earlier than originally expected.

Li Qingsong sighed secretly.

"Luckily, I've been giving it my all these years, never slacking off. That's why I was able to escape so narrowly before the arrival of the Omnic Scourge Fleet..."

(End of this chapter)