Consciousness Capacity (Three Updates Today, Please Keep Reading!)

At this stage, the total population under Li Qingsong's command had already surpassed 1,900.

Those 1,900-plus people were scattered among Li Qingsong's four bases, dozens of factories, and other facilities, working day and night to push his overall Technological Level ever higher.

But that small a population was still far too little.

Li Qingsong steeled himself and poured a massive amount of resources into this brand-new Clone Cultivation Factory. After several months of work, it was finally completed.

At this moment, the factory located within a fully enclosed building in the canyon had been finished as well.

It stood five stories tall. The first floor contained equipment rooms and control rooms, while the remaining four floors were entirely devoted to Culture Pod workshops.

Five hundred Culture Pods were placed on each floor, for a total of 2,000 across all four floors.

Li Qingsong currently had fewer than 2,000 people under his command, yet this Clone Factory could cultivate 2,000 clones every six months, directly doubling his workforce!

Filled with anticipation, one clone arrived at the cultivation factory under Li Qingsong's control.

Before him was a vast hall in an almost pure white, cool color scheme. Machine after machine filled the hall, continuously supplying the Culture Pods with the electricity and nutrients they required.

The air carried a faint scent of disinfectant. Every corner was spotless and impeccably clean.

The clone brought a small box. When he opened it, there were exactly 2,000 tiny glass tubes inside.

Each tube contained a batch of Embryonic Cells that had been processed by the highly advanced cell induction equipment and gene-editing equipment aboard the Deep Space spacecraft.

This had been delicate work. To prepare these 2,000 batches of Embryonic Cells before the clone factory was completed, Li Qingsong had needed to transfer another ten clones to the spacecraft.

Now, the Embryonic Cells were placed one by one into the 2,000 Culture Pods.

Half a year passed quietly. At some point afterward, the clones drained the nutrient solution from the Culture Pods and carried the newly born clones one after another into the Rest Area.

Fresh Culture Medium was poured into the Culture Pods, and Embryonic Cells were placed inside. A new round of growth and development began once more.

At this moment, Li Qingsong's attention was no longer focused on the Culture Pods. Most of it was directed toward these newly born clones.

The first clone opened his eyes. Then the second, the third...

Until all 2,000 clones in the resting hall had opened their eyes.

Li Qingsong's consciousness extended toward them in an instant. The next moment, he abruptly felt his consciousness "expand" considerably once again. His information-processing ability, memory, learning capacity, and other brain-related faculties all improved.

Some problems that had accumulated through the clones' labor and had yet to be processed or considered were instantly solved with the addition of 2,000 brand-new brains!

For example, the blueprints for the Heat-Resistant Steel Plant Li Qingsong intended to build, the railway route plans for the two newly added bases, the construction plans for a new type of crane, and much more.

Of course, adding brains could only solve problems of "quantity," not "quality."

Take the steel plant blueprints, for instance. Given enough time, the existing clones could have completed them as well. The newly added brains merely increased the speed and shortened the time required.

Problems that could not be solved with the current Technological Level still could not be solved even with 2,000 more brains.

Even so, Li Qingsong was more than satisfied.

After all, with 2,000 additional brains, his ability to study and conduct research had likewise increased by the equivalent of 2,000 brains.

Whenever he encountered technology or knowledge he had yet to master, he could learn it and research it himself.

With so many brains, what knowledge could he not learn?

Yet at the same time, these 2,000 newly added brains gave Li Qingsong a sensation he had never experienced before.

It was like an empty vehicle suddenly having a heavy steel plate loaded onto it. He could immediately feel the weight.

And a vehicle's carrying capacity was limited.

As he carefully experienced that feeling, a realization arose within Li Qingsong.

"Although I don't know where this ability of mine comes from or what principles it operates on, it seems that the number of brains my consciousness can connect to simultaneously is limited. It isn't limitless as I previously believed.

Perhaps this can be considered a limited 'Consciousness Capacity.'"

He had not noticed it before, perhaps because the number of clones under his command had been too small, and the number of connections too few.

It was like a vehicle carrying only a little cotton. You would not feel the weight at all.

But now, with 2,000 brains connected all at once, it was like suddenly placing a steel plate in the truck bed. The limit became perceptible.

Still, Li Qingsong could only vaguely sense that this limit existed. He could not yet determine exactly what it was.

It seemed he was still far from reaching it.

"In that case, I'll leave it alone for now."

Li Qingsong made up his mind. "I'll deal with it once I feel the capacity limit. By then, I may have enough population and technology to find a way to increase that capacity."

Setting the matter aside for the moment, Li Qingsong controlled the 2,000 new clones and had them leave the cultivation center.

The dormitories prepared for them nearby had already been built in advance. Not only that, but food, drinking water, daily necessities, clothing, spacesuits, and more had also been prepared in sets of 2,000.

Even 2,000 new jobs had been prepared for them.

After just one day of adaptive training, the 2,000 clones immediately began working.

Time passed swiftly, and Luoshen Star Base changed with each passing day.

In only four years, the scale of Luoshen Star Base had expanded by more than tenfold.

On Luoshen Star, the total length of the railway routes laid by Li Qingsong had surged to more than 2,000 kilometers, linking over 200 Branch Bases and Mining Centers.

Every day, hundreds of Heavy-Load Trains raced across Luoshen Star's cold, lifeless land, transporting tens of thousands of tons of various minerals into this canyon.

Within the industrial base, Li Qingsong had built ten steel plants alone, and daily steel production had surged to more than 20,000 tons.

Beyond that, the numbers of various machinery plants, foundries, chemical plants, agricultural bases, and more had also skyrocketed.

The total population under his command had also broken through the 20,000 mark for the first time, reaching 20,156 clones!

But at this moment, Li Qingsong finally clearly sensed where the limit of his Consciousness Capacity lay.

With perhaps another thousand brains connected at most, his Consciousness Capacity would be filled, and he would no longer be able to connect to new clones.

An extra chapter today. There will still be two updates at noon.

Three updates today, please keep reading!!!!!!