Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones

The huge fleet was still moving at a speed of 12,000 kilometers per second.

Looking at the asteroid gradually moving away, and the sun which was still bright but no longer prominent, a smile appeared on the face of the clone where Li Qingsong's consciousness resided.

"Goodbye, my hometown."

At this moment, 30 years have passed since Li Qingsong set sail. There is still a long journey of about 400 years waiting for him to cross in the future.

Time passed quietly, and during this process, Li Qingsong was not idle.

Because sufficient supplies were carried on board when the ship set sail, some scientific research that consumes less supplies can also be carried out at this time.

As a result, many ferry ships appeared and traveled back and forth between the numerous drum-type residential ships, large scientific research ships, and aerospace motherships.

A large number of clones and blueprint people travel back and forth between different spacecraft, communicating with each other, materials are circulated between different spacecraft, and scientific research activities are in full swing.

Li Qingsong wants to take advantage of these 400 years to make up for all his technological shortcomings.

Although Li Qingsong has caught up with or even slightly surpassed the Blueprint civilization in key technologies such as spacecraft structure, engineering, materials science, controlled nuclear fusion, and thrusters, there are still many gaps in some details.

The technological development model of a normal civilization always advances in parallel, and technology in all aspects will progress at the same speed.

It is impossible that mobile phones have entered the era of highly intelligent machines, but computers are still old-fashioned and backward computers, and mice are still scroll-wheel mice.

However, Li Qingsong's special mode allowed him to face a strange situation where his military technology was highly developed, but his other less important technologies were still inferior to those of the original human civilization.

Now is the perfect time to take advantage of these years to catch up with all the backward technologies.

In the vast and empty space, there appeared an "island" composed of many spaceships, floating quietly.

Although the fleet's speed was as high as 12,000 kilometers per second at this moment, because it had lost its reference point, it looked as if it was quietly suspended as a whole, without moving at all.

Even if a small spaceship leaves a large spaceship and enters space, or clones or blueprint people enter space in space suits, they don't have to worry about being left behind by the fleet.

Because every spaceship and every person in this fleet had the same orbit and speed during the previous acceleration process, and they were stationary relative to each other.

Apart from the fact that there are no other planets around, life within the fleet is not affected at all.

As a result, various experiments were carried out in many laboratories. The experimental data and thinking conclusions from hundreds of millions of clones were constantly summarized in Li Qingsong's mind, and then distributed and synchronized to the minds of each clone.

Although the number of Blueprint scientists is small, they undoubtedly play an important role in providing reference and clearing blind spots in thinking in this process.

This even made Li Qingsong start to think secretly: "If this situation happens again in the future, maybe we will have to capture some more aliens to join in. After all, the more intelligent life forms with different cultural and physiological attributes there are, the more references there are, and the fewer blind spots there are in thinking."

However, this way of behaving seems to be somewhat similar to that of unorthodox intelligent life forms such as the Mechanical Scourge and the Parasitic Scourge.

Li Qingsong thought about it and decided that even if he had the ability in the future, he would never take the initiative to maliciously invade other civilizations. Unless other civilizations were malicious towards him first, he would capture their population and join his army.

This is not because Li Qingsong has some moral obsession, or he has to draw a clear line between himself and the natural disasters. Rather, Li Qingsong hopes that he can carry on the good qualities that originated from human civilization and not lose them.

Only in this way can Li Qingsong feel that he is still a human being, rather than having turned into something strange.

These cultural attributes are probably the only connection between me and human civilization now...

With the concerted efforts of many clones and blueprint people - the blueprint people who refused to work together had already been marginalized over the years, and their genes could not be passed on at all - those less important technologies that Li Qingsong had not had time to allocate his energy, brainpower and resources to develop before also made breakthroughs.

These secondary technological breakthroughs even began to show signs of feeding back to the main technology. During this process, Li Qingsong came up with many conjectures about more advanced warship structures, more powerful electromagnetic cannons and laser cannons, or spacecraft propulsion methods.

However, due to insufficient supplies at the moment, we cannot carry out large-scale research for the time being. We have to wait until we reach the Altair galaxy.

Every day, a large number of spacecraft shuttle back and forth, and a large amount of materials are allocated out of warehouses every day. In the millions of nuclear fusion reactors, a large amount of deuterium gas is consumed every day. In food factories, a large amount of starch, meat, fish, fruit, etc. are produced every day.

It is worth mentioning that during this migration, Li Qingsong did not adopt the method of storing a large amount of food in advance as he did when sailing from Rosene to Jupiter. Instead, he adopted the method of synthesizing starch, built a large industrial spacecraft, and directly synthesized starch with carbon dioxide.

This technique is actually not that difficult, and Li Qingsong mastered it a long time ago.

The reason why it was not used before was simply because synthetic starch technology can only produce starch, which is too low-end.

There is no shortage of resources and energy in the galaxy. Intelligent planting bases also have low consumption. Clones do not take up much space and can produce more carbohydrates with different flavors. Objectively, this is more beneficial to maintaining the physical health and brain activity of clones.

What's more, some economic crops, such as cotton, sesame, oilseeds, sugars, etc., still need to be planted and cannot be directly synthesized.

Then we might as well just adopt the planting base approach, there is no need to use synthetic starch technology.

However, at this moment, we are in an interstellar navigation state, with limited resources and materials, and we cannot care whether the health of the clones will be affected, so it is necessary to use synthetic starch technology.

Therefore, under the support of the abundant energy of the nuclear fusion reactor, the carbon dioxide produced by the clones and blueprint people is collected and converted into starch through a series of processes. Part of the starch is used as the staple food of the clones and blueprint people, part is used for industrial purposes, and part is used as animal feed to produce meat. Finally, a considerable part of the starch is eaten by organisms to support their life activities. The life activities then produce carbon dioxide, which is synthesized again, and the cycle continues.