At this moment, looking at the 160 million Bluetook people distributed in thousands of large cargo ships that had undergone emergency modifications and had temporary survival capabilities, Li Qingsong felt a little emotional.
A powerful civilization with a total population of hundreds of billions was destroyed, more than of the population died, and now only these few people are left.
After the Blueprint civilization occupied Venus, they placed most of the population on Venus to build various facilities, perform various tasks, and collect various resources as supplies for this war.
Later, as chaos descended, only a few were able to grab a seat or have their own spacecraft and take off from Venus on their own.
Most people failed to escape.
Li Qingsong roughly estimated that at least 80 billion people were swallowed up by the harsh environment of Venus.
Among the remaining population of approximately 20 billion, some died on the battlefield, and the vast majority died in the previous chaos.
In the end, only these 160 million people are left.
The cruelty of this war can be seen from this.
For Li Qingsong, this was a bit regrettable. After all, many of the Bluetuk people who died were scientists and had a lot of knowledge.
But there is nothing we can do about it. But it doesn’t really matter. The experts and scholars among the remaining 160 million people are actually enough to piece together a rough scientific framework.
Li Qingsong can study the rest of the details by himself.
After leaving enough clones to clean up the battlefield on Venus and collect as many valuable warship wreckage as possible and those spaceships that were still intact, Li Qingsong loaded these captives and flew to Mars, while manipulating the clones on Mars to build a new town as quickly as possible.
In the next period of time, this city named "Blueprint City" by Li Qingsong will be the gathering place for all Bluetuk people.
Building a new city may seem like a huge undertaking, but if you don’t consider livability too much and only consider livelihood, it’s actually not that difficult.
It's nothing more than some fully sealed steel frames, plus some air exchange systems, temperature control systems and the like.
Various factories are ready-made and can directly produce the building materials needed for this city. Combined with the capabilities of the divine AI, by the time these cargo ships arrive on Mars, the blueprint city will have been initially built.
So, with emotions of uneasiness, hesitation, fear, etc., these Bluetuk captives entered the city.
The interrogation then began.
There are actually only two issues that Li Qingsong is most concerned about.
First, what exactly is a natural disaster? Or, to extend it a little further, what is the situation around the solar system, the entire Milky Way, and the entire universe? How do different civilizations get along with each other? What are the taboos?
Li Qingsong had never even left the solar system. The Bluetook civilization was the first alien civilization he had ever dealt with, so he really knew nothing about these things.
Second, it is the technology mastered by the Bluetuk people.
The Bluetuk people already have complete interstellar navigation capabilities, and have mastered a series of technologies that Li Qingsong is extremely interested in, including small-scale ship-borne controlled nuclear fusion, high-speed ion injection technology, layered space scanning radar technology, etc. Li Qingsong must obtain this part of the technology.
Once you get it, you can save yourself at least hundreds of years of hard work.
Things related to science and technology cannot be rushed and can be done slowly, but when it comes to natural disasters, the answers can be known immediately.
After a simple screening and selection of the highest-ranking survivors, Li Qingsong immediately began interrogation.
While interrogating, Li Qingsong was also controlling the clones, searching for relevant information from every surviving spaceship and every surviving computer for corresponding purposes.
Among this group of highest-ranking survivors, the highest-ranking one was a confidential secretary in the presidential office.
His identity determines that he will be heavily involved in core confidential events concerning the entire civilization, making him the best target for obtaining intelligence.
"Why did your Bluetuk civilization leave its home galaxy and migrate?"
The confidential secretary was trembling with fear. Without any intimidation or punishment, he began to confess like a bamboo tube pouring beans: "Because, because we found signs of a natural disaster. If we don't escape, the natural disaster will come."
This statement actually confirms what Momorans said at the time.
"What is a natural disaster?"
The confidential secretary said tremblingly: "Natural disasters are a general term for disasters that are not naturally formed and come from outside the sky and may lead to the destruction of civilization."
Li Qingsong was stunned for a moment before he understood what this complicated conversation was about. He couldn't help but sneer, "Isn't it just an invasion by alien civilization? Why is it called a natural disaster?"
If it is not formed naturally, then it is intentional by an intelligent being. If it comes from outside the sky, then it is an alien civilization, and if it causes the demise of a civilization, isn’t that invasion?
If the three are combined, isn't that an invasion by alien civilization?
"No, it's different. Well, in fact, it's not wrong to classify it as an invasion by alien civilization, but this invasion may be a little different from what you originally thought."
"oh?"
"Do you think that alien invasions are all like the war between our civilizations this time, with each using technological weapons to attack and defend each other? No, no, this is just the way our 'orthodox' intelligent civilizations fight.
We generally call the fighting between orthodox intelligent civilizations wars, not natural disasters. Natural disasters are threats posed by unorthodox intelligent beings to our orthodox intelligent civilizations, and we call them natural disasters. "
Li Qingsong was a little confused: "Is it divided into orthodox and unorthodox?"
"Yes. Orthodox intelligent civilizations are just like us, researching technology bit by bit, improving the performance of technological creations bit by bit, and eventually possessing powerful combat power and survivability.
This is the most orthodox way to improve one's own strength in the universe - at least as far as we know it, so it is called orthodox intelligent civilization.
But unorthodox intelligent beings - we can only call them existence, not a civilization, because they are very complex, diverse, and strange, and it is really difficult to describe them as civilization.
For example, we already know that there is a kind of intelligent existence that is good at infecting other life forms, using the bodies of other life forms as nutrients, intercepting and integrating the excellent genes of other life forms to optimize itself, and finally, after maturing, abandoning this entire destroyed ecosystem and continuing to travel in the universe.
We call this invasion launched by intelligent life an infection disaster.
In addition, there are parasitic disasters, microbial disasters, and the... omnic disasters that force our civilization to migrate between stars, and so on."
