Humanity Is Gone, but I Have Billions of Clones

The battlefield was already pure chaos. The total number of various unmanned combat weapons engaged in the slaughter probably exceeded one hundred million units.

Looking up at the sky from one of Neptune's moons, one could see what looked like a brilliant fireworks show unfolding in the quiet, deep expanse of space.

An endless sea of fiery light flared into existence only to vanish, then reappear, seemingly without end.

Into this chaotic scene, a new force of nearly two hundred thousand Manned Warships plunged, making the battlefield even more chaotic and brutal.

In a single instant, more than a thousand Manned Warships were destroyed. Between both sides, over twenty thousand people were blown to bits, their remains scattered across the sea of stars.

But of the thousand-plus Manned Warships destroyed… over eighty percent belonged to Li Qingsong!

Over eight hundred of his Warships were lost in a flash!

Li Qingsong's heart grew heavy.

The enemy's formidable combat strength, especially that of their Manned Warships, was on full display.

Their maneuverability was superior, capable of hundreds of meters of acceleration per second squared. Their Electromagnetic Cannon Projectiles had greater mass and higher velocity, and their Laser Cannons packed more power. This was especially true of their electromagnetic artillery, which could fire projectiles at speeds exceeding 60 kilometers per second!

And that was just their smaller warships, to say nothing of the larger ones.

They were like tanks plowing through an ancient battlefield, rampaging with near impunity!

Wherever they flew, vast swaths of unmanned ships, armed Cannon Platforms, armed satellites, and Manned Warships were annihilated!

Li Qingsong felt the crushing pressure of a technologically superior foe.

'But... the weapons and equipment I've poured my heart and soul into developing all these years are not to be trifled with!'

Under the control of the tactical Wukong version in each Warship, high-speed radar scanning power was cranked to maximum. They desperately scanned for any threat from space, and in response to any danger, they unleashed tens of thousands of interceptor projectiles.

The offensive Electromagnetic Cannon barrels swiveled constantly, launching relentless attacks on every location where enemy traces were found, all in coordination with the vast Unmanned Combat System.

'Your Interception Systems are stronger? One hundred thousand projectiles can't breach your defenses?'

'Then I'll use a million! Ten million!'

'Your armor has higher resistance to Lasers? Then I'll hit it with a hundred beams, a thousand beams!'

Over one hundred thousand Mercury-class Warships fought to the death.

Unlike the smaller warships that could barely tie down the enemy's fleet and had to concentrate their fire just to destroy a single enemy vessel, the Venus-class Warships demonstrated far greater lethality on this battlefield.

This was because the Venus-class Warships were larger and more survivable, and they were equipped with more powerful Electromagnetic Cannons and Laser Cannons!

In addition, they carried a weapon that Li Qingsong had specially developed, one not found on the Mercury-class Warships.

The Electromagnetic Artillery Cannon!

Fueled by the immense power from their nuclear fission reactors, the massive electromagnetic accelerator barrels used unimaginably high power to accelerate 10-kilogram shells to speeds exceeding 20 kilometers per second.

Furthermore, this velocity was added to the warship's own speed. Sometimes the ship itself was already traveling at 10 kilometers per second, meaning the projectiles' velocity wasn't just 20 kilometers per second, but 30!

And after leaving the barrel, they even had their own self-propulsion for an additional boost!

Their higher velocity gave them greater penetration capability. Thus, out of a hundred shells fired, one or two would always manage to break through the enemy warship's defenses, get close, and then detonate violently.

The 10 kilograms of polynitrogen anion salt would instantly unleash over four hundred million joules of energy, blasting through any armor, no matter how advanced, in an instant.

Even if it was intercepted before impact, it didn't matter. At such extreme speeds, the material of the shell itself possessed immense kinetic energy. It could shatter the enemy's armor on impact alone!

Besides the Electromagnetic Artillery Cannons, there were also Nuclear Missiles.

Unlike the Nuclear Missiles previously deployed in space, these ship-borne Nuclear Missiles could leverage the warship's speed for an initial velocity boost.

Once their fission process ignited, their speed would surge to over one hundred kilometers per second, giving them superior penetration ability and even greater destructive power.

This was because their engines were, in themselves, small atomic bombs!

And even more powerful than the Venus-class Warships were the Earth-class Warships.

Li Qingsong had prepared a total of 50 Earth-class Warships at Uranus, and he had now thrown all of them into the fray.

The colossal ships, each with a total mass of 15,000 tons, could only move slowly through space. However, their Electromagnetic Cannons, Laser Cannons, Electromagnetic Artillery Cannons, Nuclear Missiles, and even their interception capabilities were all a tier above the rest of his fleet.

At full power, a single ship could fire hundreds of thousands of Electromagnetic Cannon Projectiles and hundreds of laser beams per second!

The number of defensive Electromagnetic Cannon Projectiles it could launch was even higher, reaching into the tens of millions!

Now, facing a fierce enemy assault, the Earth-class Warship *Greedy Wolf* moved to a sector where the defensive line was on the verge of collapse, immediately stabilizing the situation.

With the support of its long-range fire, the enemy fleet, composed of dozens of small warships, was immediately broken and forced to flee for their lives.

The role of the Earth-class Warships on the battlefield was truly irreplaceable.

The thought had barely crossed Li Qingsong's mind when, in the next instant, the Earth-class Warship *Greedy Wolf* was suddenly struck by a projectile that had broken through its defenses.

In the next moment, a high explosive of some unknown material—with a payload of at least 20 kilograms and a yield greater than polynitrogen anion salt—detonated. Instantly, the *Greedy Wolf*'s armor was breached, leaving a gaping hole over ten meters wide.

A huge amount of gas and debris spewed from within.

Drawn by the damage, more projectiles converged on it. Before long, the warship *Greedy Wolf* exploded violently, disintegrating into wreckage.

A priceless Earth-class Warship was lost to the battlefield.

'But... it doesn't matter!'

'Again!'

'I still have 49 Earth-class Warships! And more are on their way to Uranus!'

The situation on the battlefield had reached the pinnacle of chaos and cruelty.

Manned Warships, Unmanned Warships, Mine-Sweepers, Mine-Layers, communication satellites, reconnaissance satellites, armed satellites, Cannon Platforms, and so on, had turned the space around Uranus into a chaotic soup.

But these were not all the participants in the battle.

On Uranus's many moons, sprawling surface-to-space defense batteries were also unleashing a furious barrage of firepower into space.

Looking at the overall situation, given the enemy's immense strength, Li Qingsong was still at a disadvantage, despite having given his all.

But it didn't matter. For now, the battlefield had largely stabilized, and the tide was slowly beginning to turn in Li Qingsong's favor.