Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 342 Disguise
This change was extremely brief and subtle. If Li Qingsong hadn't been observing it with all his might, he probably wouldn't have been able to detect it even though he was currently within ten light-years of it.

These signals also indicate two things.

Firstly, it is almost certain that the change in brightness of Pisces Australe H11 is not caused by natural factors, but rather by some intelligent being.

Based on the information provided by the Yunluo civilization, the identity of this intelligent being becomes quite clear.

Purple Moon Civilization.

After a long and arduous search spanning a millennium, the traces of the Purple Moon Civilization have finally been found!
At this moment, even Li Qingsong, with his calm demeanor, couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion.

Secondly, this change in brightness implies that a large number of man-made spacecraft have appeared at a distance extremely close to the star—most likely no more than 500 million kilometers, and more likely within 400 million kilometers.

The Purple Moon civilization most likely brought a large number of spaceships to this distance.

but……

Facing a white subgiant with a mass 1.6 times that of the Sun, and only 400 million kilometers away from its surface, how high must the spacecraft's heat insulation, radiation resistance, overall stability, and other indicators be?
At least with Li Qingsong's current level of technology, it's impossible. Even with special design, including increased armor thickness and energy shield strength, it could only reach a distance of about 600 million kilometers at most for a short period.

If it were to exist in the long term, the distance would have to be increased to around 900 million kilometers.

This alone undoubtedly showcased the advanced technological strength of the Purple Moon Civilization to Li Qingsong.

Furthermore, considering what the Electric Disaster said, its predecessors are still under the control of the Purple Moon Civilization. So, what the Purple Moon Civilization is doing now seems to be... herding?
Release electromagnetic life forms onto the surface of a star and dispatch relevant spacecraft as "shepherds" to train, monitor, and control these electromagnetic life forms.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why the Purple Moon civilization would do this.

"Faced with the Purple Moon Civilization, which also possesses electromagnetic life forms, I'm afraid my trump card, the 'Stellar Cannon,' is out of the question."

Now that the Purple Moon Civilization was confirmed to be there, Li Qingsong accelerated the pace of various industrial construction projects and did his utmost to prepare for war.

More than a hundred years passed under these circumstances, and Li Qingsong's massive fleet finally arrived at a place only about 3 light-years away.

Given Li Qingsong's fleet's current acceleration and deceleration rate of 0.8 meters per second squared, and its current speed of 80% of the speed of light, Li Qingsong needs to start decelerating at this distance.

Thus, countless high-powered, high-speed ion thrusters, which had been dormant for hundreds of years, finally started up, unleashing their jets towards the massive white subgiant star, propelling the fleet to a slow, decelerating speed.

Li Qingsong knew that the enemy would definitely notice the exhaust flames of his fleet, and the enemy would definitely take action as a result.

Unfortunately, the distance was too great, and even with all his efforts, Li Qingsong was unable to detect the subtle changes inside the galaxy or learn what arrangements the Purple Moon civilization had made.

Due to the limited power of electromagnetic wave communication, the two civilizations were also unable to communicate at this distance.

That can only be done when the distance is shortened to at least half a light-year.

Time continued to pass slowly, the white star grew brighter and brighter, and the radiation detected from it became increasingly intense.

At this moment, there are still about 4 trillion kilometers left to travel.

A powerful electromagnetic wave signal finally traversed the vast distance, arriving at his fleet just as Li Qingsong had predicted. "Respected alien civilization:"

We are the 'Rovik' civilization from the depths of space. This star system has become our temporary home.

To avoid misunderstandings and friction between the two parties, we respectfully request that you relocate to other star systems.

The head of the Rovik civilization, along with all its people, wishes your voyage a safe journey and prays for lasting peace in this vast galaxy.

The Lovik Civilization?
Li Qingsong scoffed.

Clearly, the Purple Moon Civilization is intentionally concealing its true identity.

The possibility of a misunderstanding certainly exists, but it's so small as to be almost negligible. Besides, the probes we released earlier are almost inside the galaxy; at that point, it will be clear whether this civilization is indeed the Purple Moon Civilization.

Li Qingsong did not reply to the message, but continued to carry out the deceleration action as usual.

Ultimately, the remote probes that reached the interior of the galaxy earlier transmitted the information they had collected back.

Around the five major planets within this star system, Li Qingsong saw a massive fleet resembling a swarm of bees, massive industrial construction underway on each planet, and an endless transport fleet in space, like a celestial river.

All of this demonstrates that the civilization currently residing within the galaxy possesses a massive population, immense industrial strength, and... extremely formidable warfare capabilities.

The Abyss Civilization was already quite advanced, with a massive industrial scale. But now, merely observing from the outside, the Purple Moon Civilization has demonstrated even more advanced and larger-scale technological and industrial capabilities than the Abyss Civilization.

Furthermore, this strength is fundamentally different in nature from the strength of the original Abyss Civilization.

Although the Abyss Civilization was powerful at the time, Li Qingsong only needed to deploy an unmanned fleet to force them to mobilize the entire civilization.

At this moment, Li Qingsong clearly realized that even if he went all out, let alone just deploying the unmanned fleet, he might not be able to gain the upper hand against the Purple Moon Civilization.

The reason is simple: being slightly better in one area is nothing, but each area—the overall technological system of a powerful nuclear civilization—can be divided into dozens of large areas, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of smaller areas, and millions or tens of millions of different directions.

In so many fields and directions, it excels in every aspect—more maneuverability, more stability, better temperature control technology, higher fusion efficiency, and a more optimized hull structure…

While their technology may seem only slightly superior to that of the Abyss Civilization and themselves, when combined, their overall strength has risen to a level that is almost insurmountable for the Abyss Civilization and themselves.

But Li Qingsong already knew about these things.

He already knew of the power of the Purple Moon civilization.

What truly caught Li Qingsong's attention were the fleet's shipbuilding style and technical characteristics.

After a brief examination and combining the information provided by the Havele and Yunluo civilizations, Li Qingsong immediately confirmed that this was indeed the Purple Moon civilization!
(End of this chapter)