Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 58 I must be crazy to confront you head-on!

On Luoshen Star, Li Qingsong felt a chill in his heart.

The probe's actual close observation lasted only a short time, but even that short period was enough for him to understand a lot of information.

My opponent is very strong.

This can be seen not only in their ability to build larger spacecraft, but also in their propulsion technology.

Humans have already mastered ion propulsion technology and have applied it on a large scale.

The principle of this technology is to first ionize the working fluid - that is, the material that is ejected and uses the reverse thrust to propel the spacecraft to move - and then use the electromagnetic field to accelerate the working fluid ions to an extremely high speed and then eject them from the nozzle.

Because the speed of the working fluid ions is extremely high, even up to 10,000 to 20,000 kilometers per second, far exceeding the injection speed of chemical fuels of several to more than ten kilometers per second, the unit mass of working fluid can provide a reverse thrust far exceeding the chemical propulsion method, thereby contributing to higher propulsion efficiency.

However, this technology has significant limitations. Although its specific impulse is high and the working fluid utilization rate is extremely high, the overall thrust per unit time is extremely small.

Simply put, one unit of chemical fuel thrust can accelerate a one-ton object from zero to ten meters in one second, but it can only last for three seconds, so the total acceleration is thirty meters.

However, with ion propulsion, if the same mass of working fluid is used, the maximum it can achieve is to accelerate one ton of object from zero to 0.01 mm per second within one second, but it can last for a full year, so the total acceleration reaches 315.36 meters, far exceeding chemical fuel propulsion.

In the human world, ion propulsion technology is basically unable to meet the needs of rapid maneuvering of large-mass objects, and is only used in needs such as satellite orbit maintenance and slow acceleration of long-distance spacecraft.

Ion propulsion has both obvious advantages and disadvantages. So… what if there were a technology that could address its disadvantages while retaining its advantages? In other words, what if it could address its low thrust while retaining its ultra-high specific impulse?
This is the high-speed ion propulsion technology that the human world has always dreamed of!
People imagine that once they master high-speed ion propulsion technology, they may even be able to create spacecraft capable of conducting interstellar voyages!

However, high-speed ion propulsion technology is too complex and has never been mastered by the human world. As a last resort, they had to settle for the next best thing and temporarily developed secondary pressurized injection technology, which is the propulsion technology currently used by the Deep Space spacecraft as a transition.

And now... Li Qingsong saw the practical application of high-speed ion jet technology from these unknown spacecraft!

Based on this alone, Li Qingsong was able to judge that the opponent's technological strength was far superior to his own and far superior to human civilization before it disappeared.

Coupled with the huge spaceship, Li Qingsong had enough reason to believe that they came from other galaxies.

So there's a problem.

What are you doing in the solar system?
What's so special about the solar system? After much thought, the only thing that makes it special is that it's a galaxy that hosts an intelligent civilization.

Apart from intelligent civilization, Li Qingsong doesn't think there is anything special about the solar system.

So, what is your connection to the disappearance of humans? What role do you play in this incident?
Li Qingsong's millions of brains were thinking about this question at the same time, but it only lasted for a moment before stopping on its own.

Now wasn't the time to dwell on that. The most important thing right now was that they were flying towards him!

Judging from the current situation, their mothership, the large spaceship, seemed to have suffered accidental damage, forcing them to temporarily dock in the orbit of the enemy planet, using its resources to recover. Perhaps they had not attacked me directly, but had used the strange bird swarm as a borrowed weapon, because they were in the early stages of repair and temporarily unable to destroy me.

And now, after decades of recuperation, they have recovered a certain amount of strength, so they can't wait to embark on an interstellar voyage to destroy themselves!
How advanced would the offensive and defensive technologies of a civilization that mastered high-speed ion propulsion be?
There was no way he could be his opponent! At least if we went head-to-head, he definitely wouldn't win!

Li Qingsong immediately made this judgment in his mind.

So...what should I do?
In the face of this unprecedentedly powerful opponent, Li Qingsong remained calm and composed.

Taking into account his own advantages, technical level, the opponent's strengths and weaknesses, etc., a plan quickly formed in Li Qingsong's mind.

"I don't care what your plans are or what your background is. At least at this stage, the strength you have shown me is just these few dozen small spaceships.

If we were to fight head-on, I probably wouldn't be able to defeat these dozens of spaceships, but it doesn't matter, I'd be crazy to think of fighting you head-on!"

At this moment, Li Qingsong decisively gave orders to the 110 million clones he was controlling at the same time.

Except for the jobs necessary to maintain the base's own operation and the survival of the clones, all other non-essential jobs have been stopped.

This immediately mobilized as many as 90 awareness link shares.

The next moment, these 90 consciousness link shares and their corresponding clones were all invested in one thing.

Build guns! If you can't build more advanced guns, build gunpowder guns! Build a lot of gunpowder guns!
With the temporary suspension of operations of many unrelated factories, all factories related to guns and bullets were thrown into a frenzy of activity.

Many mines suddenly began to increase their production rates, and numerous excavators and crushers roared wildly, mining large chunks of ore.

The train was running frantically, transporting the ore to the metallurgical plant at an unprecedented speed.

The blast furnace spewed out black smoke, and the hot molten steel flowed out like a flood. After cooling and forming, it came to the processing plant and was turned into parts by countless machines.

The chemical plant was also running frantically, sending large amounts of gunpowder to the bullet factory, which was then processed into bullets of standard specifications, which also flowed down the conveyor belt like a flood.

When starting the crazy process of making guns and bullets, Li Qingsong also ordered that all of his only 500 Mercury-class battleships that were stationed around the space base be transferred back to the surface of Luoshen Star and then into the huge factory.

It wasn't long before all these warships appeared.

But this time, they did not stay in space again, but started to accelerate madly, and with the support of the deep space communication network, rushed towards the enemy planet madly.

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