Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 376: Will Save or Not Save?

Time quietly flowed by. In Heimerlan’s eyes, the starry sky remained vast and serene.

Before him, that dim white dwarf still quietly emitted light.

Everything seemed to be the same as before, yet everything also seemed different.

Regardless, their mission this time was finally successfully completed.

What happened next was no longer something he could control, influence, or even see.

It was time to focus on himself.

Because the aerospace carriers had been destroyed, they no longer had the fuel and supplies to return to the Pegasus G76 solar system, so they could only remain there.

Under Heimerlan’s command, a total of nine comprehensive spacecraft simultaneously started their propulsion, slowly approaching a dark, cold dwarf planet that quietly orbited the white dwarf.

This dwarf planet had a radius of only 800 kilometers, and its surface gravity was only about 10% of Earth’s.

Such low gravity meant that these large spacecraft, with their longest parts reaching 10 kilometers, could land directly on its surface and maintain their structural integrity.

The Strong Nuclear level material skeleton was sufficient to support its own weight under this gravitational intensity.

Of course, taking off again would be impossible.

Numerous engines simultaneously started, pushing the nine large spacecraft to decelerate at the same time, and thus they gradually descended towards the surface of this dwarf planet.

When the distance was only a few thousand meters, the spacecraft completely lost their horizontal velocity and began to fall towards the surface at an acceleration of 1.23 m/s^2.

The engine’s thrust direction was changed to counteract this gravitational acceleration, precisely controlling the spacecraft’s descent speed, taking more than a day to finally land gently at a speed of only 0.2 m/s in a canyon on the surface of this white dwarf.

This canyon was extremely vast, with a length exceeding one thousand kilometers, a depth of over 600 meters, and a width of about two kilometers.

Parking a comprehensive spacecraft was still more than enough.

The remaining eight spacecraft followed suit, landing one after another, connecting tightly together, occupying an area of approximately 100 square kilometers.

After this, numerous mechanical devices left the spacecraft, and a total of 90,000 soldiers, engineers, and workers, wearing space suits, also came to the planet’s surface, cooperating with Primal, to begin the next phase of construction.

Outside the canyon, one hill after another was directly leveled, and tens of billions of tons of earthwork were transported into the canyon, covering the spacecraft.

Originally, these simple engineering tasks did not require human involvement; Primal alone could accomplish them.

But unfortunately, at this moment, they only had nine spacecraft and lacked any basic industrial production capacity, not to mention an insufficient number of mechanical devices.

There was no other way, so they could only adopt the current method of human and AI cooperation.

A large number of intelligent beings, holding impact picks and cutters, operating crushers and off-road trucks, continuously transported earthwork to the canyon while collecting water ice, dry ice, methane, ethane, and other compounds, as well as various metal elements, that would be needed next.

Finally, after several years, the nine spacecraft were completely buried.

The approximately 100 square kilometers of canyon where the nine spacecraft were parked was completely filled, level with the surface.

Each spacecraft was covered with a rock layer several hundred meters thick.

The collection of various materials had also been completed.

At least for a short time, their nine spacecraft would not have to worry about being unable to operate due to a lack of supplies.

Heimerlan sighed softly.

Over these past few years, Heimerlan had continuously assigned personnel to monitor the movements in deep space, hoping to discover a few more of their spacecraft arriving in this solar system.

But he was ultimately disappointed.

Over these past few years, deep space remained quiet.

He then knew that, with a high probability, those six spacecraft... would never be able to reach this solar system.

Heimerlan did not know what exactly happened to cause the accident with the six spacecraft.

The universe is vast, and the starry sky is boundless; there are simply too many possible accidents.

Perhaps after losing contact with each other, they were searched by the Purple Moon Fleet and then self-destructed, or perhaps they suffered damage due to the high-intensity acceleration of 80 m/s^2 during those few hours, ultimately leading to the spacecraft being unable to decelerate or maneuver, or perhaps they encountered a cluster of interstellar dust in deep space, causing damage to the spacecraft, or perhaps they encountered some unknown life form...

Anything was possible.

And they would never know what truly happened.

Those six spacecraft, sixty thousand compatriots, were silently buried in the star sea like this.

"Initiate hibernation."

Heimerlan gave the order.

After some preparatory work, within the nine ’buried’ spacecraft, 90,000 hibernation pods were ready.

One by one, compatriots entered the hibernation pods and fell into a deep sleep.

When he personally watched the last companion enter hibernation, Heimerlan knew it was time for him to enter hibernation as well.

The hibernation pod hatch slowly closed, and anesthetic gas began to be released.

In the last moment before losing consciousness, a thought involuntarily flashed through Heimerlan’s mind.

This time, hibernation... will I be able to wake up?

Their mission had been successful, so, could the Head of State, with the help of this reinforcement, defeat the Purple Moon Civilization?

If they still could not defeat them, then naturally everything would be for naught, and no one would come to rescue them, and these tens of thousands of people would only be trapped and die on this desolate and silent planet.

To rely on these tens of thousands of people to save themselves?

Impossible.

The number of people was simply too small, not even enough to complete the basic technological inheritance.

Even with Primal, it would not be able to develop a complete industrial system from the current situation, which could be described as ’starting from scratch’.

Being trapped and dying was the only outcome.

If the Head of State could defeat the Purple Moon Civilization with this assistance, then, could the Head of State complete the subsequent mission of detonating the supernova?

If so, they were not too worried about the impact of the supernova explosion.

At this moment, they were, after all, tens of light-years away from the Pegasus G76 solar system, and the supernova’s energy would have been greatly weakened by the time it reached here.

Furthermore, their spacecraft had a protective layer of several hundred meters of rock.

However, once the supernova was successfully detonated, the Head of State would certainly have to lead the main fleet to escape at full speed, with no time to rescue them.

To wait for rescue, it would have to be at least after the effects of the supernova explosion had passed.

By then, the main fleet might already be hundreds of light-years away from here. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Would the Head of State... be willing to travel hundreds of light-years to rescue these mere tens of thousands of people, and also risk suffering retaliation from the Destroyer Civilization?

Don’t forget, once the Red Star Nation escaped and the Destroyer Civilization’s plan was thwarted, they would certainly be extremely angry.

Crushing our Human Civilization is like crushing a bug.

In this situation, instead of doing everything possible to escape and hide, would he return near the ’crime scene’ to rescue them?

Would the Head of State... do that?

Heimerlan pondered carefully, sometimes believing yes, sometimes no.

Of course, when facing his companions before, he always said with great conviction that the Head of State would definitely not abandon them, because they, having completed this mission, were heroes of the entire civilization.

The Head of State would not let heroes be trapped and die.

But deep down, he was actually always uncertain.

Until this moment, as he was about to enter hibernation, he still could not figure out this question.

He did not figure it out until he completely lost consciousness and entered hibernation.

At this moment, a total of 90,000 personnel of various races had all entered hibernation.

The once bustling cabins had become completely quiet.

The galaxy was vast and full of tranquility, as if nothing had happened.

Only Primal remained operational, constantly gazing at the starry sky, waiting for the arrival of the light emitted by the spacecraft’s deceleration plume, which might never come.