APTnovel Chapter 208: Klon 1
Chapter 208: Klon 1
In the dark interstellar space of a galaxy, a sudden tremor occurred, ripples of spacetime spreading outwards. An unusually circular bulge, like a lens, blurred and magnified the background stars. Then, this lens was torn open, and a colossal silver-white warship burst forth. Immediately afterward, numerous other silver-white warships appeared around this one, completely obscuring the background stars. These warships resembled white specks embedded in a dark curtain.
This silver-white fleet sailed toward the two planets ahead.
One planet is blue, the other silver, gleaming with a metallic sheen. Their lands are covered with intricate, interconnected patterns, like a giant etched circuit board array. Above this array, numerous flying objects swing back and forth rapidly like shuttles on a loom, firing countless laser beams at the silvery land, as if a sculptor were carving.
Countless warships suddenly appeared in the skies above the blue planet, accelerating towards the silver-white warship. As they sped along, the warships began to form battle formations.
The silver-white fleet split into two groups, one heading towards the blue planet and the other towards the silver planet. The fleet departing from the blue planet also split into two groups to intercept them. The silver-white warships continued their advance towards the two planets.
Without warning, the silver-white warships suddenly disintegrated, each breaking into nearly ten thousand flight modules. These modules accelerated and crashed violently into the blue planet warship. The blue planet warship fired beams of intense lasers at the densely packed flight modules, but after withstanding the intense fire, the modules accelerated and continued to collide with the blue planet warship. The blue planet warship exploded violently in space, quickly cooling down and leaving behind wreckage that floated in space.
The fleets above the blue and silver planets were completely annihilated in less than an hour. The overwhelming combat modules then advanced towards the blue planet's continent, destroying its ground-based air defense systems one by one.
This blue planet is very strange; there isn't a single advanced intelligent life form on it. Lower animals seem to be the dominant species.
The intelligent combat modules began to leave, converging towards the skies above the blue planet, and then automatically and seamlessly attached themselves, becoming warships.
After the great war, those "loom" flying objects on the silver planet were simply executing some kind of command in a programmed manner, still shuttling back and forth and carving as before.
“Let’s use this blue planet as our base,” Zhou Yuan No. 1 said to all the clones around him as he looked down at the blue planet from the warship.
"Huo Jing, what exactly is that silver planet doing?"
"I don't know, but I guess they're modifying planetary weapons."
"But why are there no advanced intelligent life on the blue planet?"
"Perhaps the intelligent civilization on this planet has already migrated elsewhere. However, analysis shows that this planet is very suitable for us to live on."
"It seems that the civilization on this planet is also a humanoid civilization."
"Well, in any case, we must stay here and quickly replicate ourselves, build a time machine, and start time travel. This is our top priority."
The fleet began to bustle with activity, with intelligent machinery and robots being deployed on the ground for large-scale production and construction. In space, shipyards were also rapidly being built.
This fleet was the first clone time fleet dispatched by the Earth Empire. The Zhou Yuan No. 1 clone held absolute control and command over the fleet, while the Thomas No. 1 clone strictly executed all orders from Zhou Yuan No. 1. Huo Jing No. 1 was responsible for the construction of the time machine.
This clone fleet mines various resources on this blue planet, producing warships, intelligent robots, weapons, time machines, and more. Of course, these clones also perform the task of replicating and storing their consciousness before cloning themselves. These clones differ slightly from the originals; while they possess emotions, they cannot reproduce. They cannot have offspring of their own; they can only replicate themselves. Self-replication and time travel are innate in their DNA. Of course, Zhou Yuan and Panna, like other clones, do not possess superpowers. The fleet comprises approximately one thousand clones.
After this fleet of clones creates a large number of clone fleets, these clone fleets will travel to other worlds to further self-replicate. Given enough time, the Earth Empire's six clone time fleets will self-replicate at an astonishing rate; this is Sage Zhou Yuan's bug-like replication plan.
In the time calculation of Krono Time Fleet No. 1, two years passed quickly, and in these two years, six Krono Time Fleets have been sent away.
Two years later, that silver planet seemed to have taken shape. After absorbing the sun's heat, the silver earth's circuit board undulated like waves, the undulations becoming more and more violent. Then, cracks appeared on the "circuit board," as if the "circuit board" had been pried open. The tiny pieces of the "circuit board" on the ground began to curl and then stretch freely. Gradually, an army of beetles leaped and jumped, layer upon layer covering the silver planet's land.
Zhou Yuan No. 1, Huo Jing No. 1, and the others were deeply shaken as they looked at the changes on the silver planet.
"Zhou Yuan, are we going to blow up this silver planet?"
"Thomas, don't rush. These replicant beetles are bound by the planet's gravity and can't harm us right now. I didn't expect this silver planet to be a replicant production base. However, we need to make some preparations."
Just like when the Kronosphere fleet first arrived in this interstellar space, two days later, a spacetime fragment appeared, and a fleet broke through the void and arrived near the silver planet.
Hundreds of large warships shot out beams of light above the surface of the silver planet. These beams swept back and forth across the ground, quickly engulfing the layered beetle replicants on the ground and making them disappear.
After wiping out all the replicants on the silver planet, the fleet left the planet and accelerated into hyperspace.
Clones Time Fleet 1 appeared somewhere in space and accelerated before entering hyperspace.
About a year later, the fleet carrying the replicants escaped hyperspace and entered the normal space of the Milky Way. The replicant beetles poured out of the warships, automatically assembling in space, and then the warships took shape. These replicant warships flew at near-light speed towards the solar system, 22 light-years away. Meanwhile, the original fleet carrying the replicants accelerated into hyperspace and disappeared from interstellar space.
Ripples of spacetime appeared, and a fleet entered normal space.
These beetle replicant fleets are targeting Earth's human civilization in the solar system. This is a small, microcosmic galaxy where human civilization has already embarked on interstellar travel, its furthest reach currently extending ten light-years away. The solar system is teeming with human spacecraft.
"The humans in this parallel world have reached 60% of the speed of light, but that's still far behind the speed of the replicant fleets that travel at near the speed of light. Can humanity withstand the replicant attack?"
"The question is, do we want to save humanity, or continue following that hyperspace fleet?"
"That hyperspace travel fleet's mission is probably to package and deploy replicants, then have the replicant fleet attack advanced human civilization. Since human civilization in this world is going to be destroyed by replicants anyway, let's conduct time travel experiments on this Earth. Time travel is our primary mission."
"22 light-years? In my memory, my mother planet, Earth, was also threatened and attacked by Gliese replicants 22 light-years away."
"Yes, Huo Jing. This virtual universe is a series of simulations and reenactments. You think these 22 light-years are not accidental, but a deliberate arrangement by this virtual universe?"
"Yes, I think it's possible. Otherwise, why wouldn't that hyperspace fleet deploy the replicants closer to the solar system?"
"This is an important and interesting discovery. I wonder if other clonal time fleets have encountered this as well. If they have, it is very likely that 22 light-years is just a 'story setting'."
"We should send out hyperspace information to inform the mother fleet and other clones."
Thomas 1, commencing hyperspace communication.
The replicator fleet maintained its course, speeding towards Earth.
The Klonite Time Fleet No. 1 accelerated into hyperspace, then jumped out of hyperspace to reach the solar system space. These warships were all hidden near the sun.
Zhou Yuan No. 1, Pan Na No. 1, Chu Xiaolu No. 1, and Huo Jing No. 1 traveled to Earth's atmosphere aboard a stealth warship, which then landed in the southwestern suburbs of the planet's capital.
The four of them boarded an invisible time machine and flew towards the bustling capital city, which was naturally a scene of prosperity and grandeur.
Zhou Yuan No. 1 and the other three were captivated by the bustling world. After being cloned, they were sent directly to the warship and did not personally experience the prosperity of the various planets of the Earth Empire's Nine Stars Sun-Circling Base. However, these clones had memories of the bustling scene of the Nine Stars Sun-Circling Base in their minds.
The four people walked straight toward a tall building, which was the Parliament Building, the highest authority of human civilization on this planet.
Police were patrolling the area around the Parliament building, with plainclothes officers checking pedestrian identification and questioning suspicious individuals. Several drones were also circling overhead.
The four looked at each other and walked together toward the guard post at the entrance of the Parliament building without hesitation.