Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 334 Super War
The unknown civilization that claimed to belong to the Crimson Star Alliance, but did not inform Li Qingsong of its name, remained silent for a moment and did not respond. However, the spatial fluctuations that seemed to indicate that they were about to embark on faster-than-light travel, which were enveloping their fleet, gradually disappeared.

A message was sent, but it wasn't a reply to Li Qingsong; instead, it asked, "What is your civilization? Where do you come from?"

This seems to be an assessment of whether one side might possess intelligence that they are interested in.

Li Qingsong thought for a moment and replied, "We are the Lantuk civilization, from the Gliese 625 star system."

Gliese 625 is the same star system where the Lantuk civilization once resided. Of course, what Li Qingsong sent at this moment was not just the name of Gliese 625, but a series of coordinates, stellar characteristics, and surrounding star map data.

With this data, the coordinates of this civilization, which is at least at the gravitational stage, can be easily determined.

"Gliese 625 galaxy... More than 2000 light-years away, that's a very, very far distance for you."

Li Qingsong sighed silently to himself.

Unbeknownst to me, more than ten thousand years have passed since I left the solar system. After many twists and turns, I have traveled such a long distance.

"We can exchange some intelligence with you."

Silicon-based natural disasters can be considered a type of parasitic natural disaster, similar in nature to the infamous Demon Eye—you've already reached the powerful core stage, so you should have survived the Demon Eye's calamity, right?

The Calamity of the Demonic Eye? That's a completely new concept, but it's also relatively easy to understand.

Li Qingsong thought for a moment and then understood.

For early civilizations within the Milky Way, once their technology reaches a certain stage, they will inevitably discover the anomalies in the Magic Eye Galaxy, begin observing it, and then almost inevitably experience a Magic Eye parasitic event.

This would be a catastrophe for any civilization.

If they survive, they can continue to develop. If they fail, they will be parasitized by the Demon Eye and transformed into the Demon Eye Civilization.

Calling it the Tribulation of the Demon Eye is quite fitting.

Yes, we've made it through.

"The 'Magic Eye' civilization is parasitic on intelligent life forms themselves. The silicon-based natural disasters, on the other hand, are parasitic on the technological creations of intelligent civilizations."

Their hosts are spaceships, warships, and the like.

Li Qingsong was slightly startled.

This thing can be parasitized? This thing has no life, how can it be parasitized?

"The silicon-based natural disaster resembles a piece of interstellar dust, and it is difficult to distinguish it from ordinary dust using conventional methods."

They possess very limited self-power and are unable to undertake interstellar travel on their own. They typically hide within a star system, waiting for fleets of intelligent civilizations to pass by. Once a fleet does arrive, they parasitize these technological creations.

The essence of silicon-based natural disasters is similar to neurons in the brain of intelligent life; you can think of them as individual brain neurons.

Once attached to technologically advanced creations of intelligent life, these different neurons interconnect, using the creations as their backbone, and are thus activated, possessing a certain degree of intelligence. This intelligence allows them to understand the operating principles of the technological creations they have parasitized. Then, they disrupt the communication connections between these technological creations and the original system, claiming them as their own, and using their intelligence to achieve control over these technological creations. From the outside, it appears as if these technological creations have gained their own consciousness and have 'come alive.'

Li Qingsong suddenly realized.

No wonder my warships defected back then! No wonder another warship defected immediately after I destroyed one; it turns out they changed their targets!
This form of existence is truly bizarre, no, it's really strange.

"The intelligence of silicon-based natural disasters can also be enhanced along with the technological level of the parasitic creations."

A very basic silicon-based catastrophe might only be able to parasitize the technological creations of an electromagnetic civilization. But after parasitizing once, it will master the operating principles of electromagnetic civilization's technological creations. With this foundation, it will have a chance to successfully parasitize the technological creations of a weak electromagnetic civilization the next time it encounters them.

Thus, silicon-based natural disasters can continue to grow, and if they are not eradicated in advance, their destructive power and lethality will continue to increase.

Rumors circulate that silicon-based cataclysms capable of parasitizing space civilizations even exist within our Milky Way galaxy, but whether this is true or not remains unconfirmed.

Space civilization? I wonder what level of civilization this is?
The next stage of a strong nuclear civilization is a gravitational civilization, a space civilization that appears to be even more advanced than a gravitational civilization.

That must be a genuine super-civilization within this galaxy... If even a super-civilization can be parasitized, this silicon-based catastrophe is indeed troublesome.

"Fortunately, the silicon-based natural disaster you encountered this time was not of a high level. We also had 'high-power gravity cluster bombs' specially prepared for us by an advanced civilization. The silicon-based natural disaster happened to be parasitizing your warships, which allowed us to launch a full-scale attack and wipe them out."

Otherwise, even for us, it would take much more trouble.

Li Qingsong, who had initially felt frustrated by his helplessness in the face of silicon-based natural disasters, now felt only relief.

An advanced civilization, even more advanced than the Gravity Civilization, prepared a "high-power gravity cluster bomb" for this Gravity Civilization to carry, in order to wipe out this silicon-based natural disaster in one fell swoop.

We are merely a powerful nuclear civilization, and it is already quite remarkable that we have managed to survive for so long in the face of this silicon-based catastrophe.

Li Qingsong comforted himself in this way.

The message from that gravitational civilization continued to arrive: "The danger of silicon-based natural disasters is beyond doubt, and civilizations below the gravitational level have virtually no way to deal with them."

However… there are so many dangers in this universe, one more won't make a difference.

"As for the Crimson Star Alliance... I'm sorry, we cannot reveal too much to you."

However, we can reveal some information to you regarding the fact that this star system will no longer be safe in the next few thousand years.

Our Crimson Star Alliance is preparing for war against a space-level demonic eye civilization, and the battlefield should be in this star field.

Interstellar warfare between space-level civilizations is extremely destructive. Even if we have reached the gravitational level, or even more advanced civilizations that have reached the dark force level, we can only do some logistical preparation work in this battlefield and cannot get involved at all.

If you are accidentally affected, the consequences would be dire.

We have to get involved because it's our duty. You don't need to get involved; you should leave as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)