Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 34 Machine Guns, Artillery, and Tanks!

According to the structure and operation method of this vehicle, the clone was almost in a panic, shaking the gear levers, pressing buttons, and pulling triggers. After a lot of operations, the car slowly began to move forward.

There is no way. The original vehicle has no automated facilities and is so difficult to operate.

Forget about automatic transmission, it's impossible. Even modern manual transmission can't do it.

When shifting gears, the clone needs to first operate the gear out, and then replace another gear in the gearbox to complete the shift.

When starting the engine, the clone also needs to pay close attention to the dashboard, pay attention to the pressure of methane and oxygen, and manually adjust the amount of the two gases.

If the vehicle speed is high, you have to manually increase the fuel supply, otherwise the vehicle will stall.

But it doesn’t matter. Although the operation is complicated, it is still a piece of cake for Li Qingsong.

The clone acting as the driver familiarized himself with the car and practiced for a while, and then all the clones learned to drive this extremely complicated car.

After driving the car around the base for a few hundred kilometers, Li Qingsong tested it again.

He was quite satisfied with the result, so after adjusting a few hundred places that needed fine-tuning, the car was immediately finalized and put into production.

It is obvious that this car is far from perfect now. After practice, Li Qingsong also found some of its designs that can be called "anti-human", but cannot be adjusted for the time being. It is certain that with large-scale use in the future, various design flaws will be exposed more and more.

But whatever. As long as it worked, the clones wouldn't complain.

In order to produce various vehicles, Li Qingsong temporarily requisitioned dozens of factory buildings and built dozens of new factories.

There are companies that specialize in producing engines, bogies, fuel tanks, tires, car bodies, glass, and so on.

As a result, this simple off-road vehicle named "Hunter Type 1" by Li Qingsong was quickly produced, and soon a thousand vehicles were accumulated.

Li Qingsong selected 1000 clones to act as drivers, and filled each vehicle with enough fuel to travel more than 1000 kilometers. He also brought various foods, drinking water, enough oxygen, etc., and dispersed these reconnaissance vehicles.

From this moment on, they will roam all over Luoshen, searching and determining the number and location of the strange bird clusters.

Even if they haven't found the strange bird, they won't be idle. They will take the opportunity to survey the surface of Luoshen to confirm the reserves and locations of various mineral deposits and prepare for larger-scale development in the future.

With the experience in car manufacturing, Li Qingsong immediately began to develop armored vehicles, tanks, tankers and other special vehicles based on this.

From a basic principle point of view, these special vehicles are actually no different in essence from off-road vehicles. They are all just large shells powered by internal combustion engines, but they have more armor, weapon systems or other things.

Anyway, the requirements are not that high, as long as it can be used.

While the vehicle was being developed and produced, Li Qingsong also did not give up another part.

Machine guns and artillery!
Based on the original submachine gun, Li Qingsong wants to develop a gun with greater power, higher rate of fire, and higher magazine capacity.

It would be best if the gun didn't even require a magazine and could be loaded directly with a bullet chain.

Another one is artillery.

In fact, from the basic principle point of view, there is not much difference between artillery and firearms. They both use the combustion of gunpowder to generate hot gas and use its pressure to launch the projectile.

The difference is that the shells are filled with gunpowder, while the bullets are not, relying entirely on kinetic energy to kill. But even so, this still requires Li Qingsong to allocate a considerable number of clones to conduct research.

After all, this is a weapon, different from civilian equipment. If the barrel explodes and then detonates the ammunition depot, it will be a big trouble.

These lines advanced simultaneously. Even though the war had been temporarily suspended and the front line no longer needed to occupy too much of the consciousness connection share, Li Qingsong clearly felt the pressure.

Not only were all the clones evacuated from the front lines put into the new production line, but Li Qingsong also took a break to meet the current manpower and brainpower needs.

It is obvious that all the clones responsible for perimeter security at each base do not need to be on alert. It is sufficient for some clones to maintain consciousness connection and operational reconnaissance capabilities.

So Li Qingsong "stole" another 3,000 consciousness link shares and dispatched 3,000 spare clones to join the production, and only then was he able to barely take on the existing construction tasks.

Time passed quietly. At the shooting range, the sound of machine guns and artillery could be heard, and the ground was shaking slightly.

In the vehicle factory, equipment roars day and night, and steel is kneaded into various shapes like noodles, and then assembled together, eventually becoming vehicles of different appearances.

There were armored vehicles three meters tall and weighing over five tons. There were tanks two meters tall, using crawler tires to propel themselves forward, weighing 5 tons. They also had long barrels—they were tank guns specially developed by Li Qingsong. There were also five meters tall, 15 meters long, pulling a massive 20-cubic-meter tank behind them, specifically designed to transport methane or oxygen.

Like mushrooms after rain, it didn't take long before all kinds of weapons and equipment appeared in the main base, which was completely different from the time when they could only use kitchen knives as weapons.

At this moment, Li Qingsong's confidence was unprecedentedly high.

Although he still couldn't build airplanes, with so many submachine guns, machine guns, cannons, and tanks, Li Qingsong was confident that even if another 100,000 of those strange birds came, he could destroy them in one battle.

But the situation at the moment seems a little strange.

A thousand reconnaissance vehicles were circling Luoshen Star, searching for traces of the strange bird, but up to this point, apart from a few dead strange birds, not even a single living one was found.

"Where did they all go?"

Li Qingsong was full of doubts.

Li Qingsong would never believe that there were only less than 100,000 strange birds on Luoshen Star.

They must all be gathered somewhere, so I can't find them.

But what are they gathering together for?
This unknown made Li Qingsong feel a little uneasy.

The search is still going on, but there has been no progress. However, something happened in the biological laboratory.

Li Qingsong looked at the embryos in the culture tank that had not yet fully developed, and his heart was filled with shock.

Although they have not been born yet, even if they are just embryos, Li Qingsong can clearly perceive their "excellence" and "strength" through some data.

Compared to the embryos I cultivated before, they are much stronger!

And...what kind of high-quality brain can develop from such a strong and healthy body?

(End of this chapter)