Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 241 Life Wisdom
"If I had been stuck for a while longer due to those problems, or if I had been a little slower, I might have been blocked in the galaxy by the Omnic Scourge Fleet.

But the distance between us is still too close, so I need to be more careful with my next moves."

Li Qingsong started random maneuvers again, but this time the propulsion power was even smaller, only about 1% of the full power.

This would make the tail flame even fainter, making the track even more difficult to detect. Even if the omnic Scourge fleet could still distinguish the track, it would probably require more time and effort.

Time passed quietly, and the clones remaining in the Pegasus V432 galaxy clearly saw the tail flames from the intelligent machine Scourge Fleet becoming brighter and larger.

But their brightness did not really reach its peak before disappearing, and it seemed that they had stopped slowing down.

At the same time, another smaller but brighter tail flame lit up.

A sudden realization arose in Li Qingsong's heart.

He knew that the main fleet of the Omnic Scourge would probably not enter the galaxy again this time.

Their previous deceleration was merely a preparation for changing course. Meanwhile, while the main fleet slowed down, the other squadron did not.

They will arrive in the galaxy in advance, and because the number of spacecraft is smaller and the maneuverability is more flexible, they can decelerate at a higher rate and enter the galaxy faster.

What is this squadron here for?

The answer is obvious. It must be to connect with those spy detection devices inside the galaxy to obtain information.

After deciphering the course of their own fleet from this information, the main fleet, which has not yet completely slowed down, will directly change its course and begin tracking.

"Luckily, I prepared a countermeasure in advance... Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to escape this time."

Li Qingsong silently analyzed the traces of the main fleet's tail flames he had observed earlier. He realized that the scale of the main fleet of the Omnic Scourge should have returned to its previous size, with the total number of warships once again increasing to over 200 million.

"Sure enough, the Omnic Scourge Fleet recovered its strength just as quickly."

More than a year passed quietly.

Li Qingsong clearly saw that the tail flames of the main fleet of the Intelligent Scourge appeared again in the depths of distant space.

They had clearly read the data from the detectors within the system. At this point, the main fleet hadn't even entered the system, but had simply turned around and followed the direction their own fleet had left.

Several years later, the detection device deployed by Li Qingsong near the separation point between his main fleet and the camouflage fleet detected the presence of the Intelligent Scourge Fleet.

They stayed here, and a large number of scientific research vessels, exploration ships, etc. carried out exploration in this void far away from any macroscopic celestial body.

In the supercomputing mothership, in the logic operation unit of Akainu AI, numerous logical thinking data are still flashing rapidly.

"Six track data have been confirmed. A total of six fleets fled in six directions, accelerating at an estimated 0.06 meters per second squared.

The push began 35 years ago.

Based on the estimated speed of the prey fleet, they have escaped at a distance of about 4 light years.

Because of the short distance, this search does not need to search star systems one by one, and can directly launch a space pursuit based on the track data.

Combined with the random maneuvering mode that the prey civilization will inevitably adopt, our fleet will be able to search for the first fleet in about 50 years.

From now on, we will track down each fleeing fleet one by one, at an average rate of one every 50 years. Currently, it's impossible to confirm which fleet is real and which is fake. This way, we will catch up with our prey fleet in 50 years at the earliest and 300 years at the latest.

It should be noted that there is sufficient evidence to show that the prey civilization has completed the breakthrough from electroweak civilization to strong nuclear civilization.

But they probably haven't yet completed the transition from basic physics theory to industrial and war capabilities.

There is also ample evidence that the prey civilization carried an unimaginable amount of supplies when it fled, estimated to be around 150-250 trillion tons.

Such abundant material support is enough to support their technological transformation during the escape process.

By the time our fleet catches up with them in the future, their applied technology may have achieved a huge breakthrough and their combat effectiveness will have been greatly improved.

In the previous stage, because we encountered traps in this galaxy, which led to the death of a large number of slave creatures, our life intelligence supply was seriously insufficient, resulting in a serious decline in the performance of our combat system.

But even if one side gains while the other loses, we expect that we can still maintain absolute technological dominance over the other side.

At the same time, the extraordinary speed of technological development of the prey civilization means that the prey civilization has higher life wisdom.

But at this moment we are seriously short of life wisdom.

Taking into account our situation, in order to prevent future encounters with other civilizations, we do not have sufficient combat power and technological level to threaten our master's life. This time, capturing the prey civilization and supplementing our lack of life wisdom is the top priority.

We must go all out!"

The huge fleet stayed in this void for less than ten years before setting sail again. Propelled by an acceleration far exceeding that of Li Qingsong's fleet, it quickly headed in the direction indicated by one of the tracks.

Seeing this scene, Li Qingsong was slightly frightened, but he finally relaxed a little.

They were shocked because the Omnic Scourge Fleet had set sail so quickly, but they were relieved because the course they had chosen was not the course of their true main fleet.

There are six tracks in total. In completely random mode, the probability of selecting the correct track on the first try is only about 16.7%. If even this is encountered by the Omnic Scourge Fleet, then I'm really unlucky.

This means that I still have at least 50-100 years of development time.

After the robotic Scourge fleet left again, Li Qingsong lost all trace of them.

In the future, how they will choose and how they will track is no longer something Li Qingsong can know.

At this moment, the only thing Li Qingsong can do is to develop with all his strength.

During the previous decades of sailing, with sufficient supplies, Li Qingsong never stopped researching and developing science and technology.

At this moment, the total mass of the flying star has dropped from about 202 trillion tons to about 140 trillion tons, a full 30% decrease.

This is equivalent to the mass of several previous migrating fleets having been consumed by Li Qingsong's long acceleration and numerous experiments and research institutes.

With the grand unified formula as the support of basic physics, the consumption of these materials finally allowed Li Qingsong's various technologies to make great progress.

At this moment, Li Qingsong's attention was focused on two spaceships, one on the left and one on the right, about 3000 million kilometers apart, located on both sides of the fleet.

Each of these two spacecraft contained a massive device, and at this moment, these two devices, so far apart, were connected together through some strange method.

(End of this chapter)