Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 315 The foothold

This voyage is somewhat different from the previous ones.

This time, Li Qingsong also brought a large number of deep space exploration spacecraft with the fleet.

The total tonnage of this exploration spacecraft is about 20 million tons, and it carries detectors of different sizes and functions, as well as several hibernation modules.

There is a clone sleeping in each hibernation chamber.

After accelerating the main fleet to 80% of the speed of light, Li Qingsong began releasing these deep space exploration ships. As for the target, it was limited to a radius of 100 light years.

That is to say, Li Qingsong will send a deep space exploration spacecraft to all star systems within 100 light years around Li Qingsong's route.

Because the distance was too far, Li Qingsong was obviously unable to directly control these spaceships.

But it doesn’t matter. These spacecraft are equipped with a simplified version of the Primordial AI, and at least in terms of deep space exploration, they have extremely high intelligence.

They will autonomously start to decelerate when approaching a star system, and after entering the star system, they will release all the detectors inside to detect every star in the star system and as much interstellar space as possible, searching for any possible traces of intelligent life, especially traces left by the suspected Purple Moon civilization.

At this moment, although his technological level was somewhat inferior to that of the Purple Moon Civilization, there was no significant gap. Li Qingsong had reason to believe that the Purple Moon Civilization would also choose a similar method as his own during their long voyages, that is, after each voyage, they would find a star system to stop and repair and resupply.

What Li Qingsong has to do now is to find the next stop of the Purple Moon civilization.

After that, you can take the next stop as the starting point and follow the general direction to continue searching for the next stop.

If all the footholds can be connected together, the possibility of eventually finding the Purple Moon civilization will be much greater.

The star density around the solar system is about 0.004 stars per cubic light-year.

At this moment, Li Qingsong's fleet is closer to the center of the Milky Way, where the star density is higher, about 0.005 stars per cubic light-year.

Based on this star density, assuming that Li Qingsong travels a thousand light years, the volume of the cylinder with a radius of 100 light years and a height of 785.4 light years will reach 4 million cubic light years, which corresponds to about star systems that need to be explored, which means deep space exploration ships of tens of millions of tons.

Just the manufacturing alone is an extremely huge construction task for any powerful nuclear civilization. The subsequent launch of each spacecraft into the star system and the aggregation and analysis of all data make the entire exploration mission even more unimaginably huge.

Even if it is capable of carrying out this exploration mission, there is still an insurmountable obstacle for ordinary strong nuclear civilizations.

How to recycle data?

No need to think about remote communication.

With Li Qingsong's current level of quantum mathematics, he can only achieve a communication distance of 2000 billion kilometers, and the previous intelligent mechanical disaster was only about 1100 billion kilometers.

Then we can only find a way to recover these spacecraft and recover the data.

But don't forget, our main fleet is always sailing at high speed, and those exploration ships can't catch up with the main fleet. Even if they can catch up, they don't have enough fuel.

But this insurmountable obstacle was overcome by Li Qingsong through a method similar to cheating.

At least at this stage, Li Qingsong has not yet discovered the limit of the communication distance between himself and his clones.

Although the connection speed is only the speed of light, the distance seems to be infinite.

Then, let's have a few clones aboard each deep-space research vessel. Once the Primordial AI has compiled the data, it will activate the hibernating clones, which will then transmit the final data they see to themselves. Thus, this massive deep-space research mission will begin.

As they moved forward, they spread scientific research spacecraft along the way, searching for any possible traces of the Purple Moon civilization.

Li Qingsong once again focused his main energy on scientific research.

With the support of Feixing, as long as the research is not on ultra-large-scale basic physics that involves the advancement of civilization, all other research will not be a problem.

More than a decade later, a message came from the clones on the first research vessel.

It was an ordinary red dwarf galaxy with no signs of intelligent life activity inside.

After completing the scientific expedition, Li Qingsong immediately issued orders.

After a period of delay, the large research vessel that has recovered all the probes will crash into the star, completely destroyed without leaving any trace.

Then the second one, the third one...

Detailed data of one star after another and one star system after another appeared in front of Li Qingsong.

Big and small, bright and dark, single, binary, triple, quadruple, quintuple, etc., all kinds of star systems made Li Qingsong feel eye-opening.

But Li Qingsong was never able to find any traces of intelligent life activities.

The vastness and emptiness of the universe and the rarity of intelligent civilization made Li Qingsong sigh in his heart.

Although the Recorder Civilization's list of extinct civilizations contains over 1, that spans hundreds of millions of years. Furthermore, the Milky Way is vast, with hundreds of billions of stars.

These 1 civilizations are scattered among them, as inconspicuous as drops of water merging into the ocean.

The long journey continues. Li Qingsong's research continues day after day, and intelligent beings of all races also spend day after day working and living.

On this day, Heimerlan, the deputy chief of the Weile tribe, finished a whole day of meetings and returned home dragging a slightly tired body.

After washing and eating with the help of the intelligent robot, he lay down on the comfortable and soft big bed.

Although my body is tired, my spirit is very excited.

Today, he finally persuaded the chief of the Weile tribe, Vashilolo, who was once just a small official but has now become the head of the tribe, to change the overall strategy of the race's development, from the current focus on applied physics to basic physics.

"Hmph, not to mention Vashilolo, even the patriarchs of other races are short-sighted. They can't even see that with the digestion and assimilation of the scientific and technological data of the Haveler and Montenegrin civilizations, the research focus of human civilization will inevitably shift from the current emphasis on applied physics to a focus on basic physics.

There will no longer be the kind of rapid technological advancements that we had in the past. We will have to tackle tough problems and push forward the development of basic physics bit by bit.

But I can't blame them. They used to be just low-level people in civilization, so how could they have the global vision like me?

Now that we have made this early turn, we, the Weile people, can seize the initiative in the next phase, make greater contributions to civilization, and further elevate our status within it..."

(End of this chapter)