Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones

At this moment, more than one billion brains of Li Qingsong started to run madly at the same time.

The situation at this moment is so bad that it cannot be worse. If it were another civilization, such as the Bluetook civilization, there would be no hope of survival in this situation.

Even if the Blueprint civilization defeated me in the solar system, and with my help, they could complete the material collection work in the shortest time and move on to the next star system, the Blueprint civilization would definitely not be able to avoid being captured by the intelligent mechanical Scourge.

The moment the robotic Scourge appeared in the solar system, the fate of the Bluetook civilization was sealed.

Even if it is not destroyed by itself, it will be destroyed by the artificial intelligence.

But... I am not an ordinary civilization!

This desperate situation for ordinary civilizations may not be a hope for them!

Li Qingsong has now figured out this glimmer of hope.

That is something that ordinary electro-weak civilizations would never dare to think about and would never be able to do.

Develop technology while on the run!

During the long process of interstellar migration, in the vast empty space, we develop technology while fleeing!

As long as he did not stop at the star system and continued to drift in the vast void, it would be unlikely that the Intelligent Scourge Fleet would find him.

Because the universe is so vast, no matter how powerful the Robotic Scourge Fleet is, it can only search star systems and it is impossible to search the entire interstellar space.

They couldn't find the probes they had deployed in the solar system to secretly conduct reconnaissance on the robotic Scourge fleet.

Their own fleet drifted into space and they couldn’t find it either!

He wanted to take away all the more than 1,500 large scientific facilities with a total mass of more than 3 billion tons that he had built with his own efforts, and carry out large-scale experiments in space, including but not limited to particle collision experiments, gravitational wave observation experiments, neutrino observation experiments, ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure experiments, and so on, all closely related to the development of basic physics theories!

Only in this way would he have a chance to break through to become a third-level strong nuclear civilization before the intelligent mechanical disaster caught up with him.

Only by breaking through to the third level of strong nuclear civilization can we have a chance of survival in the face of that intelligent mechanical disaster!

But……

These large scientific devices are not only of extremely high quality themselves, but also require more materials to carry them on long voyages and migrations, and driving them also consumes countless energy and materials.

A single high-energy particle collider requires a nuclear fusion power plant, which consumes as much power as a large spacecraft running at full power. And there are more than 1,500 such large scientific facilities.

Furthermore, in order to achieve a technological breakthrough, he must go all out and use all his brainpower. In this case, the number of clones that can stay awake for a long time will no longer be the 1 billion that migrated before, but at least 2 billion.

How much more material consumption will this result in?

The more critical point is that the more supplies need to be carried, the corresponding increase in the number of spacecraft is not one-to-one.

Assuming that the fleet's mass was 1, and excluding the fixed propellant, the maximum amount of supplies it could carry was also 1, then if you want to increase the amount of supplies you can carry to 2, the fleet's mass must be increased to 4 or 5.

If the amount of supplies carried increases to 3, the quality of the fleet itself will probably have to increase to 10.

Because fuel is also part of mass.

More supplies require more fuel. More fuel requires even more fuel.

Just like when Li Qingsong built a rocket weighing tens of thousands of tons in order to launch a probe into the inner solar system.

After a simple calculation, Li Qingsong found that in order to achieve his goal, the amount of supplies he carried, excluding fuel, would have to be at least five times the amount he carried when he left the solar system.

Correspondingly, the total size of his fleet will have to be expanded to 30 times the previous size!

When leaving the solar system before, the size of the fleet had already amazed the Blueprint people, as it had already exceeded the limits of ordinary electroweak civilizations.

And now, the fleet is 30 times larger than before. This scale, and the corresponding industrial strength required, makes even Li Qingsong feel a little scared when he thinks about it.

This fleet is so huge that even if I were in a form similar to a "natural disaster", it would take at least 300 years for me to concentrate on its construction without any distractions and do nothing else.

300 years... is too long. Li Qingsong can’t wait.

"Then... discard the unnecessary baggage."

Li Qingsong gritted his teeth secretly: "Abandon 90% of the huge number of unmanned warships! Only carry a small number of unmanned warships!"

During the migration process, if they encounter a strong nuclear civilization like the Intelligent Scourge, then no matter how many unmanned warships they have, they will be useless.

If we encounter an electro-weak civilization like the Blueprint civilization, then the existing unmanned and manned warships should be sufficient.

"Except for the unmanned warships, everything else that can be streamlined will be streamlined. For daily consumption such as food and water, we will increase the recycling rate of materials and reduce the weight of the spacecraft..."

After an overall assessment, the scale of the fleet he needed to build was reduced to 20 times of the original size, and the time required was also greatly reduced, from 300 years to about 200 years.

But... it's still too long!

The longest time Li Qingsong can accept is 30 years.

The reason is simple, the artificial intelligence disaster may come at any time, and if it exceeds 30 years, the risk will be too great.

However, within 30 years, the fleet construction will be 20 times the current size, including 10,000 giant aerospace carriers, 50,000 heavy transport ships, 5,000 large roller spacecraft, 3,000 large scientific research ships, and 50,000 other types of spacecraft, as well as the materials, deuterium, minerals, and chemicals required for all these spacecraft and personnel...

How is this possible?!

Even if Li Qingsong worked all the clones to death and overclocked the supercomputing base running the Shengong AI until it started smoking, it would be impossible to complete such a huge construction task.

So, what to do?

After a moment's thought, Li Qingsong made up his mind.

"The only feasible way at present is to complete this task through improvements in two aspects.

First, using the interstellar navigation experience, scientific conjectures, and technical ideas accumulated over the past hundreds of years of interstellar voyages, we will comprehensively improve and optimize the performance and efficiency of the fleet and reduce material consumption as much as possible.

Second, we will use five years to master quantum computer technology, greatly improve the performance and intelligence of Shengong AI, and then greatly improve our industrial strength, and complete the task of building a fleet 20 times the size of the previous one within 25 years!"

Quantum computing has huge advantages over traditional electronic computers in some areas.

Because quantum gates are different from electronic circuits that can only be in two states at the same time, they can be in three states at the same time: on, off, and on and off again.

This means it has extremely high parallel capabilities.

Suppose you ask a computer to read a very thick book, it can only read it page by page in order.

A more advanced computer with higher computing power can only turn pages faster.

But quantum computers are different. They can do the same as a group of people flipping through the pages of a book at the same time, with each person only flipping through a part, completing the task of reading the book with higher parallel computing power.