Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 261: Cycle

Tom’s massive fleet truly arrived next to the Second Planet. Then, numerous industrial ships, energy ships, material ships, and others disregarded the still harsh environment on the surface of the Second Planet and forcibly landed.

At this moment, all space elevators on the Second Planet had been destroyed. Building his own space elevator on-site was simply too slow. But with too many materials needing to be transported, what could be done?

Tom’s solution was this: directly land those large ships and use them as initial factories.

It must be known that the large ships Tom had built at this time did not yet possess the ability to directly take off and land on the surface of a large planet. Once they landed now, they would never be able to take off again.

But, it didn’t matter.

If they couldn’t take off, then they couldn’t take off. I would build new ones in the future. For now, rapidly establishing a basic industrial system was the most important thing.

Thus, one large ship became a power plant, and with the landing of a large number of energy ships, Tom immediately had enough basic energy supply systems.

With the landing of one industrial ship after another, supported by the energy ships, Tom immediately had preliminary industrial production capabilities.

With the landing of one supercomputing ship after another, Tom immediately possessed intelligent construction capabilities.

The preliminary industrial system was completed in just a few days. After this, Tom truly began the development of this planet.

Disregarding the still harsh environment after numerous hydrogen bomb explosions, many machines and robots built from Strong Nuclear materials, like ants, rapidly began production under the dual control of AI and clones, and Bluetoth.

Massive amounts of ore, even while still in a molten state, were indiscriminately mined and directly thrown into smelting equipment.

Railway lines leaped over ravines, crossed plains covered in lava, directly connecting mines and factories. Countless blast furnaces rose from the ground, processing countless ores into various raw materials according to Tom’s wishes.

Just as Tom had finished setting up his preliminary industrial system, the massive fleets from the First Planet and Third Planet arrived.

That was hundreds of thousands of manned warships and millions of unmanned warships, as well as one material ship after another, transport ships, and nearly countless space mines, turrets, missiles, satellites, and so on.

Carrying the grief of losing loved ones and the rage for avenging their compatriots, the Havilah Civilization’s retaliation had arrived.

Hundreds of billions of eyes were watching the development of the battle, hundreds of millions of warriors were fully operating manned warships, countless rear-area workers were operating intelligent machinery day and night, countless factories were roaring, and countless massive machines were bellowing.

The goal was only one.

Defeat Human Civilization!

Facing this all-out attack born of grief, Tom felt immense pressure.

At this moment, Tom still had approximately 600,000 manned warships and corresponding unmanned combat forces remaining.

Under normal circumstances, although this force could not defeat the opponent, it could generally maintain stability.

But now, the Havilah fleet’s combat power seemed to have inexplicably increased significantly. Not only was their logistics supply more abundant and maintenance more timely, but even their tactical level and coordination among themselves had greatly improved.

In the past, Tom could still vaguely detect signs of poor coordination among various war elements, such as one fleet not coordinating well with another, or in terms of logistics supply, one fleet receiving supplies more promptly while another experienced slight delays.

This was a very normal thing. After all, a civilization could not be without internal conflicts. Being able to control these conflicts within a certain range without affecting the overall situation was already a sign of an excellent civilization.

But now, the Havilah fleet’s offensive was flawless.

It seemed that at this moment, they had eliminated all internal conflicts; everyone just wanted to fight this battle well, everyone only wanted one thing, and that was to destroy him.

Even if Tom put all his strength into planetary defense, the battle situation still began to tilt unfavorably towards him in an instant.

Every minute and every second, large numbers of his own warships and unmanned combat facilities were being destroyed. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Feeling the immense pressure on the battlefield, Tom, in addition to resisting with all his might, also put all his energy into industrial production.

Truly an all-out, even frantic, industrial production.

Countless railway lines seemed to grow on their own, spreading wantonly across the scarred surface. Heavy-duty trains roared all day long, and in the sky, heavy fixed-wing aircraft shuttled back and forth, non-stop.

Tom also brought out all his strength

But...

Even so, Tom still felt that his construction was proceeding too slowly.

There was nothing he could do. Previously, to build the Unified Force Field, he had lost 2 billion clones.

At this stage, the number of clones he could deploy was less than 1 billion!

Although there were still about 600 million Bluetoth, the total productivity contributed by these 600 million Bluetoth was good if it could match a few million clones, having almost no impact on the overall situation.

Rapidly restoring the number of clones was the most urgent matter under the current circumstances.

To this end, Tom forcibly extracted tens of millions of clones from his already extremely strained workforce and fully invested them in the construction of clone factories. All kinds of industrial materials were prioritized for clone factories, even the production of war reserves had to take a backseat.

Under these circumstances, in just a few months, the first clone factory with an annual output of 100 million clones was completed. The first batch of clone seeds was put in to develop at the fastest speed.

It would only take half a year for 50 million clones to be born.

After this, the clones responsible for building the clone factories were not replenished into other industrial production but immediately began the construction of the second clone factory without stopping.

Half a year later, 50 million clones were born.

At this moment, the battlefield situation was already extremely dire. Even with hundreds of millions of clones producing at full capacity, it was still somewhat unable to keep up with the consumption on the battlefield.

Under the Havilahs’ almost frantic attack, the front line was precarious.

But even so, these 50 million clones were still not replenished into industrial production but instead joined the construction of new clone factories.

The number of clones under Tom thus rapidly recovered. And, the more clones there were, the faster the construction speed of the clone factories. The faster the factories were built, the more clones there were, and so on in a cycle.