Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones

After the threat of the strange bird was completely resolved, the base circle centered on the main base once again saw a scene of bustling construction.

The destroyed mining base was renovated, the accommodation building was rebuilt, the damaged mining equipment was repaired and upgraded, and it began to roar again to collect large amounts of minerals.

Heavy trains began to run again on the railway line that had been destroyed, and thousands of tons of minerals once again gathered at the main base like rivers flowing into the sea.

At this time, the Deep Space spacecraft, which had been controlled by Li Qingsong to take refuge in deep space, returned again and parked in orbit around Luoshen.

So several clones immediately carried the strange bird specimens and boarded the landing spacecraft to the Deep Space spacecraft to conduct genetic analysis on these strange birds.

After this analysis, the genetic spectrum of the strange bird was quickly presented in front of Li Qingsong.

So Li Qingsong was shocked.

"What's going on? This monster's genome actually has 50% genetic similarity with me and humans?"

This is kind of shattering.

Although Li Qingsong knew that even a banana had a genetic similarity of 40%-60% with humans, the current situation still shocked him.

After all, humans and bananas are both life forms on Earth, formed by the same species after countless years of evolution. That is, humans and bananas have the same "ancestor", but this strange bird actually has the same ancestor as humans?

Was it once life on Earth?

After careful research, relying on the current incomplete genetic analysis technology, Li Qingsong came to a relatively rough and approximate conclusion.

According to genetic analysis, this strange bird was indeed once an Earth species. Before humans inexplicably severed their connection with themselves, the species closest to this strange bird in the existing Earth life was probably a microorganism, the tardigrade.

Li Qingsong had seen some records that some researchers had discovered microbial life in the Earth's upper atmosphere tens to hundreds of kilometers away from the surface.

So... in the early days of the Earth, perhaps there were some species living in the upper atmosphere with extremely tenacious vitality. Through various special mechanisms, such as close pass by asteroids and the influence of solar wind, they left the Earth and entered the space.

Then after billions of years of evolution, they finally adapted to the space environment and evolved into the species we have today.

They have adapted to the darkness and cold, but are not adapted to the environment closer to the sun, where the temperature is higher and the solar wind and radiation are more intense. So they stay in the vast deep space far away from the sun, constantly migrating and reproducing, and thus survive.

"No wonder their body fluids are rich in nutrients that can be absorbed by human embryos... It turns out that billions of years ago, we all had the same ancestor."

Li Qingsong's heart was filled with emotion.

The wonder of life was truly displayed before Li Qingsong at this moment.

"If such a small planet can give birth to such wonderful life, how many more wonderful types of life are there in the vast universe?"

Looking into space, Li Qingsong's heart was full of anticipation.

After dealing with the issue of human disappearance, I, who have acquired the abilities I have now, will definitely not be satisfied with the small solar system.

Entering the universe and the starry sky is the path you should take in the future.

After daydreaming for a moment, Li Qingsong withdrew his thoughts.

Even a tall building must be built from the foundation.

At this stage, I should first restore the production level to its original level before talking about further development.

More than 60,000 clones were busy for more than a month, and all the facilities destroyed by the war were repaired and production was fully restored.

The land for building the giant clone breeding factory has also been planned and the preliminary leveling has been completed.

But Li Qingsong did not directly put all the idle construction resources into it. Instead, he started to do another thing.

Research and develop chips!

At this moment, Li Qingsong, who has already possessed a considerable industrial level and can produce internal combustion engines, various vehicles, and artillery by himself, can build various factories by himself, and construct railway networks and power grids, and has a considerable level of chemical engineering, deeply feels that his current model of controlling clones to perform various tasks still has a low labor utilization rate.

For example, in a planting base, the clones working inside need to manually prepare the nutrient solution every day, manually add, dilute and recycle the nutrient solution, manually process organic matter, and even harvest the wheat manually.

Raising pigs also requires manual watering, spraying pesticides, and mixing pig feed every day.

Not to mention various factories and mineral bases.

All manual!

However, this tedious, fragmented, and repetitive labor is a huge waste of the clones' physical and mental strength. Not only is it wasteful, it is also inefficient.

The solution is also very simple, automation.

Once automation is implemented, at least 70% of repetitive work can be done by the automated system.

In this way, without increasing the number of clones, Li Qingsong's productivity can be increased several times out of thin air.

In particular, facing the construction task of a super-large cluster of clone breeding factories with a total area of ​​10 square kilometers, it would probably take more than ten years to complete it by manual labor without automation.

But if there is a certain scale of automation, the production efficiency of various building materials will be greatly improved, and the construction speed will also be greatly improved. It may be completed in a year.

But to achieve automation, you must first have chip technology.

"Chip technology is the foundation of almost all future technologies. So let's conquer chip technology first!"

Li Qingsong made up his mind.

He directly mobilized 10,000 clones and quickly built a huge laboratory. Based on his previous knowledge reserves and the knowledge learned from the knowledge base, he customized various equipment and prepared various materials, and the experiment began immediately.

At this moment, we have just started to try to manufacture chips ourselves, and it is obviously not feasible to directly manufacture planar integrated circuits with high technological content.

However, since I have mastered enough principles and accumulated certain technical skills, I don't have to start from the most basic part like the history of chip development.

After comprehensive consideration, Li Qingsong finally chose the goal he wanted to achieve.

Discrete integrated circuits!

The so-called separation type is to first manufacture individual components such as resistors, capacitors, transistors, etc., then install them one by one on the circuit board, and connect them with thin wires to realize their functions.

If we roughly calculate it, the manufacturing process of integrated circuits of this level can be roughly considered to be at the millimeter level, compared to modern chips.

One millimeter is equal to one thousand micrometers, one million nanometers. Human civilization has long been able to manufacture chips with a 2-nanometer process! Modern times have even developed quantum chips that are beyond the scope of silicon-based chips!

The chips with millimeter-level process are so backward that they are almost unbearable to look at.

But for the automation upgrade that is just beginning, millimeter-level chips are enough.