Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 255: Heavy Price

Because the computational load was too immense, and the demands for real-time processing and inter-communication were too high.

Every clone participating in the Life Intelligent Supercomputer had to, within an extremely short time, coordinate with their companions to solve their computational tasks.

It was like 2 billion people simultaneously manufacturing one component of a complex machine composed of 2 billion parts, without time for communication or confirmation. Each person made one, and after completion, these 2 billion components fit together perfectly to form the complex machine, which could even operate smoothly.

This was no longer a problem that training alone could solve.

No matter how much training or coordination, ordinary intelligent life still couldn’t truly achieve perfect synchronization and such unified coordination.

But... Tom was different

He could just achieve this point

After solving this problem, Tom faced the next challenge.

The engineering requirements for constructing the "Unified Force Field" were too massive and too precise.

Tom needed to manufacture over a billion various devices and make them operate in perfect, unified coordination to precisely influence a section of space.

If even one of them went slightly wrong, it could be like a domino falling, leading to the collapse of the entire structure.

The precision required for this project truly exceeded the limits of orthodox intelligent civilizations.

But for Tom, this obstacle was also surmountable!

Because all the clones were under my conscious control, all clones were a part of me, and all clones could coordinate as one, like a single entity.

Thus, Tom had the foundation to construct the "Unified Force Field" and execute this unprecedented attack.

But at this moment, it was just a foundation.

There was another problem to solve.

The cost of executing this unprecedented attack, named "Unified Force Field" by Tom, was truly immense.

It was a huge price that orthodox intelligent civilizations simply couldn’t bear. Even for Tom, it was somewhat unbearable.

But... at this moment, Tom had no other options.

The situation had reached a dead end; there was only a desperate fight to the death.

Given that, even if the cost was immense, it had to be used.

So, Tom truly made up his mind.

You were the one who forced my hand!

At this moment, inside the 2 billion intelligent cockpits, special agents were injected into the infusion needles connected to the neck veins of the 2 billion clones.

They instantly broke through the blood-brain barrier and entered the brains of these clones. The next moment, the brains of these clones became active as never before, like sick cats suddenly transforming into fierce tigers.

Data from the battlefield, from every spy satellite, every probe, every spaceship’s battlefield perception system, and from every telescope and radar in the main fleet, instantly surged like a flood into the paired quantum supercomputers, and also, via neural chips, into the brains of these clones.

Under this unimaginably powerful intelligent computation, and under Tom’s unified coordination and summation, based on existing battlefield data, numerous quantum supercomputers and up to 2 billion brains together began predictive calculations for the battlefield situation approximately 33 seconds later.

Tom needed to calculate the position, behavior, and posture of every warship 33 seconds later, and predict the future changes of every gun turret, every unmanned spaceship, and even every space mine cluster, among countless other battlefield elements.

Such a massive computational load had to be completed in no more than two seconds. Because once it took too long, these calculations would lose their real-time relevance, rendering them meaningless.

Thus, two seconds later, the corresponding decisions, almost without delay, instantly arrived via Stellar Communication Technology at the billion-plus large and small devices Tom had set up, controlling them to adjust their power and orientation.

Tens of thousands of high-power nuclear fusion power plants operated at full capacity, and surging energy instantly poured into these devices. The next moment, the "Unified Force Field" deployment strategy, specifically tailored for the current battlefield situation, the position, speed, and heading of every spaceship, every explosion, every maneuver, and countless other variables on the battlefield, was executed in real-time by these devices.

Surging energy transformed into countless X and Y bosons, following specific trajectories and orientations, erupting at speeds very close to the speed of light, rushing towards the battlefield.

After exciting these X and Y bosons, the billion-plus devices that Tom had painstakingly manufactured, and painstakingly assembled and coordinated, all simultaneously exploded due to energy overload.

Not only did they explode, but the hundreds of energy ships that powered them also suffered nuclear fusion reactor instability due to the instantaneous and immense energy demand, simultaneously exploding and disintegrating.

In an instant, Tom’s entire fleet was enveloped in a brilliant flash.

This was one of the costs of employing the "Unified Force Field."

All facilities were single-use; they could only be used once.

Because only "overload explosion" could unleash the devices’ maximum power and maximize the strength of the Unified Force Field.

For an orthodox intelligent civilization, this was almost unimaginable.

So many devices, manufactured with so much human and material resources, were single-use?

How high must industrial strength be to sustain such a strategy?

But for Tom, this was just one of the costs, and the most insignificant one.

The true cost was far greater.

On the aerospace carriers that Tom had specially modified, across a total of 2 billion intelligent cockpits, 2 billion clones, at the instant the Unified Force Field was unleashed, their eyes instantly widened, their bodies twitched uncontrollably twice, and then they became still.

Blood began to flow from their ears, and clear, snot-like fluid flowed from their nostrils.

Tom knew that it wasn’t snot, but... cerebrospinal fluid.

Due to the overwhelming data impact and computational load, after completing the previous calculations, their brains had completely collapsed, resulting in thorough brain death.

The agents Tom had injected into them were indeed for stimulating brain potential. But even with these agents, their brains still couldn’t withstand the consequences of contributing such immense computational power in a short time.

In fact, it was only because of the injected agents that their brains could undertake the corresponding computational tasks. Without these agents, even if their brains collapsed, they wouldn’t have been able to handle it.

In an instant, Tom lost a full 2 billion clones, accounting for two-thirds of the total number of clones Tom possessed at that moment.

This was the greatest cost!

For an orthodox intelligent civilization, 2 billion of their most rigorously trained and elite individuals dying in a single attack... which civilization could bear such a cost?

Even the Havilah Civilization, Tom’s current opponent, had an estimated total of only 150 million warriors.

If all these warriors were to die, the entire civilization would collapse.

At this moment, the attack, launched at such a heavy cost, would reach the battlefield in approximately 30 seconds.