Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 362: Population Cleansing

The spatial radius of the Purple Moon Civilization Main Fleet is approximately 600 million kilometers. The larger the area covered by the Unified Force Field, the lower its average lethality.

Using it directly against an entire Main Fleet would likely not result in too much lethality.

But... it doesn’t matter.

Because this time, Tom was aiming to "wound ten fingers" rather than just "breaking one finger" as he had in the past.

After a period of busy preparation, Tom decisively gave the order.

"Activate!"

At this moment, billions of clones once again contributed their bio-intelligence at the cost of their lives. All of Tom’s decades of industrial accumulation in Unified Force Field components exploded due to energy overload, thereby releasing the most intense energy possible under current conditions.

Just over ten seconds after the Unified Force Field was activated, Tom saw its effect.

Because the X and Y bosons stimulated by the Unified Force Field traveled at the speed of light, there was a certain delay. The first ships to be affected were those on the periphery of the Purple Moon Civilization Main Fleet.

At this moment, among the more than 1.5 million manned warships and even more unmanned warships currently entangled with Tom, tens of thousands of ships exploded simultaneously in an instant, transforming into bright stars in the vast starry sky.

After this, the X and Y bosons, carrying that world-destroying power, still advanced inward at the speed of light.

Passing beyond the Purple Moon Fleet’s defensive line, the affected ships became the industrial ships, transport ships, and others deployed behind the warships and outside the residential ships.

Compared to warships, their defensive capabilities were weaker.

Thus, Tom once again witnessed the continuous explosions of ships, releasing dazzling light.

After that came the most core ships: research, residential, and supply vessels.

Explosions occurred one after another, and brilliant fireballs appeared within the Purple Moon Fleet.

Furthermore, these explosions were merely the direct damage from the Unified Force Field. Following this direct damage, secondary damage from the exploding ships also began to appear.

The violent energy, high-speed shrapnel, intense radiation, and so on, spread unbridled within the Purple Moon Civilization Main Fleet, scorching and destroying all tangible and intangible existences in their path.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Tom launched another offensive.

This time, Tom tore a large hole directly in the Purple Moon Fleet’s defensive line. An endless torrent of energy cannon shells, laser beams, artillery shells, missiles, and more poured in unchecked, raging for several days before being sealed off by Purple Moon warships arriving as reinforcements.

But even if the Purple Moon Fleet reorganized its defensive line, the immense damage he had inflicted on the Purple Moon Civilization Main Fleet was an unchangeable fact.

Roughly estimated, at least 200,000 various ships in the Purple Moon Fleet were destroyed, including more than a dozen aerospace carriers fully loaded with supplies!

Calculating based on approximately 500 million tons of supplies per aerospace carrier, this amounted to billions, or even nearly ten billion tons of material loss in one fell swoop.

Not to mention all the other heavy transport ships, industrial ships, and so on.

What excited Tom the most were the residential ships.

Affected by the direct damage of the Unified Force Field and subsequent secondary damage, Tom saw that out of the Purple Moon Civilization’s total of approximately 140,000 residential ships, over 6,000 were directly destroyed by him!

Calculating based on 2 million people per residential ship, this was a loss of over 12 billion people in one go!

Even for a vast civilization like the Purple Moon Civilization, with a total population of around 300 billion, a loss of over 12 billion people in one fell swoop could certainly be called catastrophic.

At this moment, the entire Purple Moon Civilization Main Fleet was scarred. Countless ships experienced gas leaks, with thick smoke continuously billowing out and then rapidly dissipating into the cosmic starry sky.

Countless ships were covered in deformations and holes, unable to even undergo emergency repairs, only able to watch them further deteriorate, eventually losing power completely, or directly exploding.

Countless warship wrecks and severed limbs floated in space, yet the Purple Moon Fleet couldn’t even clean up the battlefield.

"At least I’ve reclaimed some interest first.

Purple Moon Civilization, just you wait, this isn’t over yet!"

At this moment, the cruising speeds of both fleets had reached 85% of the speed of light.

The difference was that Tom’s fleet could no longer accelerate. The Purple Moon Civilization Main Fleet was still in the process of accelerating.

Maintaining a cruising speed of 85% of the speed of light, Tom quietly watched the massive, heavily damaged fleet gradually move away.

"Clean up the battlefield, and then, it’s time to find a solar system to stop and rest."

Quickly salvaging the valuable wreckage from the battlefield—if they were too slow, they might be "corroded" by interstellar high-energy radiation, rendering them completely worthless—Tom slightly adjusted his fleet’s course, aiming for a solar system a dozen light-years away.

The Purple Moon Fleet’s speed became increasingly high, eventually completely disappearing from the clones’ naked eyes. Later, even through telescopes, only a dim star could be seen.

Tom temporarily abandoned his pursuit of the Purple Moon Fleet and refocused his attention on the solar system ahead and this part of outer space.

Whether it was previously tracking the Purple Moon Fleet or during the four-year war, Tom had never relaxed his observation of the cosmic starry sky.

Those mysterious, constantly unfolding peculiar phenomena in the starry sky had also never stopped.

Stars continued to be destroyed, and new stars were constantly born; stars constantly disappeared, and stars constantly appeared.

Tom knew that this was not actually because the wars of Space-level civilizations always revolved around stars. Rather, stars were almost the only light source in this vast starry sky.

Whatever other changes occurred, they would ultimately be manifested through the stars. To his eyes, it appeared as if the stars were constantly changing.

In addition to stars, cosmic microwave background radiation, spatial curvature, interstellar high-energy radiation, and so on, were all undergoing a series of changes of unknown principles.

"I wonder if, at this point in the war, the Space-level Demonic Eye has gained the upper hand, or if the Red Star Alliance holds the advantage.

Alas, it’s a pity that at this moment, I can’t even understand this war, let alone participate in it.

It’s better not to worry about them for now and focus on my own affairs first."

Thinking this, Tom maneuvered his fleet to gradually berth within the solar system, once again embarking on a super-large-scale industrial construction mission.

In a corner of vast space, the Purple Moon Civilization Main Fleet, resembling a refugee fleet, and the Da Hao ship.

The atmosphere in the conference room was unprecedentedly heavy.

"Your Excellency Head of State, our fleet’s material reserves are severely insufficient; we must find a solar system to stop and rest."

A high-ranking civilization official reported some data regarding material reserves with a heavy tone.

Another high-ranking civilization official frowned deeply and slowly said, "We... cannot stop again.

Centuries have passed since the second opening of the Star Gate. It would be fine if we just stopped, but what if the Bluetoth Civilization catches up again?

Their technology and combat power are constantly and rapidly improving. If the Bluetoth Civilization catches up again, never mind whether we can win, just the act of shaking them off and setting sail again... can we even do it?"

His words silenced all the high-ranking officials, including the Head of State.

This was indeed a very realistic problem.

If they stopped, they might be entangled by the Bluetoth Civilization again, like disgusting sticky worms.

But if they didn’t stop, what then, given the severe lack of supplies at the moment?

After a long period of contemplation, Purple Moon Leader slowly said, "Finding the Star Gate, entering the Demonic Eye Nation, making our Purple Moon contribution to this war, and handing over those humans who very likely contain great secrets to the Demonic Eye Lord, is our highest mission and primary objective.

No matter the cost, we must accomplish it."

Purple Moon Leader’s words immediately set the tone for this meeting.

All subsequent actions and plans must be formulated under the premise of ensuring the completion of the mission.

Given this, the option of stopping at a solar system for rest could be directly ruled out.

Because it contradicted the highest mission.

Then... the options left to them were not many. No, it could even be said that only one remained.

Since they couldn’t expand their sources, they could only... economize.

Reduce material consumption and save those extremely precious materials and energy as much as possible.

How to save? How to reduce?

Purple Moon Leader slowly stood up: "Execute the Civilization Cleansing Plan.

All citizens rated below Level 6... shall be killed, their bodily materials recovered to replenish fleet consumption."

People who were old and frail and could no longer contribute to the civilization, people who were seriously ill and whose work ability was affected, requiring a large amount of resources to cure, people with mental abnormalities who still retained traces of their original species’ thinking, and so on, were uniformly rated as Level 7 or lower in the Purple Moon Civilization.

This portion of the population accounted for approximately 10% of the civilization’s total 300 billion people.

Originally, with abundant civilization resources, they could afford to support this portion of negative assets. But now, with civilization resources strained, they could only make cuts.

After cleansing these approximately 30 billion people who only consumed resources and could not create value, the pressure on civilization resource consumption would be greatly alleviated.

At the same time, the total body mass of 30 billion people was approximately 2.4 billion tons, most of which could be recycled, such as oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen elements.

This was another supplement.

Roughly calculated, after executing the cleansing mission, the probability of their fleet reaching the Star Gate would increase to over 95%!

Purple Moon Leader’s words caused all the high-ranking officials present to fall silent for a moment.

But after a moment, a high-ranking official raised his hand.

"I agree with the Head of State’s proposal."

"Agree."