Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 314 Dragnet investigation

The long journey of hundreds of light years, including the deceleration time, was completed in less than 130 years by Li Qingsong.

When the star was still hundreds of billions of kilometers away and there were basically no macroscopic celestial bodies in the surrounding space, Li Qingsong had already released tens of billions of detectors, which together formed a large network and carried out a dragnet-style search of all the space in this galaxy.

It did not stop until the main fleet entered the galaxy and anchored around the nearest large planet.

At this moment, this huge star is still in a relatively violent state.

Under normal circumstances, with its mass and elemental composition, it should not have such a high surface temperature and such intense radiation.

Li Qingsong knew the reason very well.

Of course, it is because it was bombarded severely thousands of years ago.

The aerospace mothership carrying the electromagnetic creatures moved forward and opened the channel. Many electromagnetic creatures, led by Electric Disaster, came to the star.

After a long time, a message was sent to Li Qingsong.

"I can clearly sense that my ancestors once lived on this star.

But now, they are gone.”

Obviously, the Purple Moon Civilization took them all away when they left.

"You electromagnetic creatures are hiding on stars. Can the Purple Moon Civilization also control all of your ancestors?"

"Yes. The Purple Moon civilization's technology is very advanced. The special spacecraft they built can get extremely close to the stars. Back then, we were unable to break free from the Purple Moon civilization's control."

Can it get very close to a star?

Li Qingsong pondered silently.

That was something that even he himself could not do. This alone was enough to demonstrate the power of the Purple Moon Civilization.

but……

"When I find the Purple Moon civilization and defeat it, perhaps there will be a chance for you and your ancestors to reunite."

Li Qingsong still made a solemn promise.

"Thank you."

Leaving the electromagnetic creatures active on the star, Li Qingsong focused his attention on the many planets orbiting the star.

These planets are desolate and dead, with no trace of any living organisms or artificial creations.

But there were very obvious traces of a violent explosion on it.

Obviously, before leaving this galaxy, the Purple Moon civilization also adopted the same method as himself, using hydrogen bombs to wipe out all traces they left behind.

Even a large-scale dragnet search failed to find any valuable clues in this star system.

Li Qingsong also began to try to use the method used by the Intelligent Scourge to analyze the tail flame traces when it tracked him, trying to find clues of the tail flame of the Purple Moon Fleet in space.

But unfortunately, Li Qingsong was disappointed again.

Too much time had passed. Even without the influence of stellar radiation and the autonomous movement of interstellar dust, those traces had completely dissipated, and could no longer be distinguished from the vast void. This search seemed to be fruitless.

"Nothing is gained, but at least we've confirmed the starting point of the Purple Moon Civilization's route. If we continue to track their trajectory, we should be able to find some more traces."

Li Qingsong thought silently, put this issue aside for the time being, and began to prepare for the next voyage.

At this moment, the radius of the flying star has shrunk to only 20 kilometers, and its total mass is less than one percent of its peak period, so it must be replenished again.

While busy building an industrial system to obtain resource supplies from this galaxy, Li Qingsong did not forget to continue his scientific research tasks, and he operated a large number of warships to once again launch real-life exercises and confrontations in this star system.

This confrontation includes both manned warships and unmanned combat forces.

Although Yuanshi AI is powerful, there is no end to performance improvement and self-growth. The more training you do, the stronger it will become.

As for the manned warships, it is worth mentioning that after completing the thorough digestion of the technological data of the two major civilizations of Haveli and Montenegro, Li Qingsong's maximum number of consciousness connections has once again seen a significant increase.

At this moment, the number of clones that Li Qingsong can control at the same time has climbed to about 100 billion. Including those prepared for the unified force field, the total number of clones under his command has increased to 300 billion.

However, the number of warships that Li Qingsong could control at the same time had decreased, from 400 million when he fought against the Robot Scourge Alliance to half of that.

According to his estimation, if a full-scale war breaks out at this moment, he can only control about 200 million ships at the same time while ensuring that the logistics industrial system is operating at full capacity.

There is no way. The performance of warships has improved, technology has advanced, and the complexity has also increased accordingly.

In the past, only ten clones were enough to control a smallest Mercury-class battleship, but now the number has skyrocketed to sixty.

The largest Mars-class battleship requires tens of thousands of clones working together to exert maximum combat effectiveness.

However, although the overall number of warships has decreased, the overall combat effectiveness has increased by more than ten times compared to before.

This can be seen from actual combat exercises, where the warring parties can see the impact of their surrounding environment.

Often, even a simple stray bullet could create a crater over ten meters in diameter on a planet's surface. A single medium-sized battle during a single exercise could cause an entire gaseous planet to heat up and begin to glow.

Li Qingsong was even confident that he could defeat the previous Venus-class battleship without any damage using only the smallest Mercury-class battleship at the moment.

It is not impossible for dozens of Mercury-class battleships to unite and defeat the previous Earth-class battleship.

A total of no more than 40 warships are needed to completely defeat the Mechanical Scourge Alliance, which was at its peak before.

This is the visible improvement in combat power that technological advancement has brought to Li Qingsong.

In a flash, more than 60 years had passed. In just such a short time, Li Qingsong had completed all the resource collection tasks in this star system.

The diameter of the flying star climbed to 150 kilometers again, and all the spacecraft completed maintenance work and returned to their peak condition.

The transport ships and warehouses that were originally empty were once again filled with various supplies.

It's time to set sail again.

Under the bright tail flame, the huge fleet deviated 16 degrees from the center of the Milky Way, following the footsteps of the long-gone Purple Moon civilization. Many spaceships accelerated at the same time and once again entered the vast deep space.

(End of this chapter)