Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 267: Half The Population

This time, the attack from the Havilah fleet was different from all previous ones.

It seemed that the Havilah fleet had intentionally hidden its strength and reduced its attack density before.

But now, they unleashed their full combat power, completely and without reservation.

Not only did 600,000 warships and a large number of unmanned combat facilities charge desperately, but even the many residential ships, industrial ships, passenger ships, cargo ships, aerospace carriers, and other types of ships protected by the warships—regardless of type—as long as they still had weapons, they all disregarded everything and launched attacks together, firing laser beams or energy cannon shells into space, attacking Tom’s defense line.

At this moment, those flame-like unknown objects had also completely differentiated.

Under Tom’s reconnaissance, these objects had dispersed into individual ’entities’ with radii ranging from about 20 meters to hundreds of meters, and their number was in the millions.

Millions of unknown objects crashed through space, launching indiscriminate attacks on any technological creations they encountered.

Just laser beams were fine; they were within the scope of what could be defended against. The only thing that made Tom feel the situation was problematic was their method of attaching to energy shields and then destroying them.

Once the energy shield was lost, even a warship made with a Strong Nuclear technology shell could not withstand conventional attacks!

These unknown objects were not only continuously spreading but even had a tendency to spread deeper into the solar system.

At this stage, it was unknown whether they could enter the atmosphere. If they broke through into the atmosphere and reached the surface of the Second Planet, then the industrial system he had painstakingly built, and the 5 billion clones he had laboriously accumulated, would...

It was possible that even the remote combat control base would be attacked. Once that happened, the front line battlefield would immediately collapse.

At that point, it wouldn’t be a question of whether he could stop the Havilah Civilization, but whether he would be turned against by the Havilah Civilization, captured, or even eliminated!

However... these unknown objects seemed to be indiscriminate, treating all technological creations equally.

Because Tom saw that some Havilah Civilization probes, hidden in corners that even he hadn’t discovered, were also destroyed by these unknown objects.

Perhaps that’s why the Havilah Civilization went to great lengths to send them deep inside his defense line before detonating them...

The concern about the Havilah Civilization turning against him was probably unnecessary. But even so, he still had to allocate more energy and combat power to deal with these unknown objects, quickly figure out their combat mechanism, find a solution as soon as possible, and not let them run wild in the solar system any longer.

Tom quickly made a judgment.

With the Havilah fleet’s desperate strike, attempting to break through, and with these flame-like unknown objects causing trouble in the rear, increasing his casualties significantly...

Perhaps, he really couldn’t stop the Havilah fleet’s escape.

But even if I can’t stop you, you won’t get away easily!

You’ve caused me so much trouble; how could I let you leave without paying a price!

With that decision, the warship tactics belonging to Tom on the front line immediately changed.

They no longer intercepted the Havilah Civilization’s fleet but allowed them to leave, while simultaneously launching a full-scale, all-angle attack on the Havilah fleet.

Previous operations had the primary goal of stopping the fleet’s acceleration and creating conditions for total annihilation. But now, the primary goal was to inflict casualties on the enemy’s living forces

The change in tactical objectives was immediately reflected on the battlefield.

At this moment, countless Havilah warships were subjected to indiscriminate and fierce attacks. Some of Tom’s fleets even briefly tore through the opponent’s defenses, entering the main fleet and causing massive casualties to non-military ships.

The intensity and cruelty of the war suddenly increased several times over.

Because from this moment on, the war no longer involved only casualties of remotely controlled warships, but truly the deaths of intelligent life

Boom!

Amidst a violent explosion, a Havilah Civilization residential ship suddenly exploded, and countless debris, countless severed limbs and broken bodies flew out.

This was a medium-sized residential ship. According to Tom’s estimation, it housed at least a million Havilahs.

And now, over a million Havilahs were buried in space.

Another burst of fire suddenly appeared, illuminating the entire surrounding starfield.

It was an interstellar missile equipped with a large-yield hydrogen bomb, which broke through the opponent’s defenses at extremely high speed and then exploded with a roar next to a giant aerospace carrier.

That giant aerospace carrier, with a length of 12 kilometers, was instantly vaporized, leaving not a single trace.

Such a giant aerospace carrier required at least ten thousand people to operate. With the explosion of this hydrogen bomb, these ten thousand or more Havilahs, and the hundreds of millions of tons of materials loaded on the aerospace carrier, instantly turned to dust.

Enduring continuous heavy casualties, the Havilah fleet continued to accelerate at maximum power until the Havilah Civilization’s main fleet had fled 10 billion kilometers away, at which point Tom gave up the pursuit.

Because 10 billion kilometers was the limit of Tom’s long-range communication at this moment. Any further, he wouldn’t be able to control the warships.

To pursue, to deplete the Havilah fleet’s material reserves and prevent them from having enough supplies to travel to the next solar system, Tom’s main body would have to move out.

But in doing so, all bases in the rear would fall under the threat of those unknown objects. Without his main body overseeing them, they would have no resistance whatsoever.

At this moment, he... could not pursue.

Tom’s fleet stopped at this distance, watching the heavily scarred Havilah fleet continue to move away.

During that short period of fighting, Tom knew that he had destroyed at least 100,000 Havilah Civilization residential ships.

They included large, medium, and small ones.

Calculating with an average population of 1.5 million per residential ship, this meant at least 150 billion people!

Half of the Havilah Civilization’s population was buried in this solar system.

The remaining industrial ships, transport ships, shuttle ships, scientific research ships, etc., were countless.

As for warships, Tom destroyed over 400,000 of them.

The Havilah Civilization currently only had 600,000 warships in total. Now, more than two-thirds of them were directly destroyed by Tom, and even those that survived were all damaged.

Even the remaining civilian ships, all suffered more or less damage.

At this moment, the Havilah fleet had truly become a defeated and crippled force, barely clinging to life. Even if they could reach the next solar system, it would be impossible for them to recover in less than a thousand years.