The Quota Soars

They returned to the Main Base in a mighty procession. All combat equipment was immediately sealed away, and the clone bodies that had originally been assigned combat duties once again went back to their homes and found their mothers.

The clone bodies that could not yet be controlled returned to the dormitories to rest, while the 21,000 clone bodies that could be controlled immediately threw themselves into restoring production.

Although the Strange Bird War had brought enormous gains, it had also dealt Li Qingsong devastating losses.

Of the more than one hundred Outer Bases, only ten Core Bases had survived. Every other base had been wrecked beyond recognition.

Of the original total of 150,000 clone bodies, more than half had been lost in this war. Now, aside from the 21,000 clone bodies he could control, only around 40,000 remained in reserve.

Not only that, but the supplies he had painstakingly accumulated over decades—controlling clone bodies to mine, smelt, plant, and raise livestock—had originally been meant for when his control capacity increased and the number of clone bodies grew further. But this war had consumed every last bit of those reserves.

Li Qingsong might have fought to his heart's content earlier, but the several giant warehouses at the Main Base were now practically empty.

Fortunately, there were no rats on Luoshen Star. Otherwise, even the rats would have wept.

What Li Qingsong needed most urgently now was to restore production immediately.

Repair the Outer Bases, repair the Railway Line, repair the power grid, resume mining, resume planting, resume breeding, stockpile food...

At this moment, the disadvantage of insufficient manpower revealed itself once again.

It was not that there were too few clone bodies.

No matter how many clone bodies had been lost, there were still 40,000 in reserve.

The problem was that Li Qingsong could not control that many clone bodies at once. Thus, the large-scale effort to restore production could only proceed at a speed that Li Qingsong found hard to endure.

Tens of thousands of clone bodies were scattered among more than a hundred Branch Bases centered around the Main Base, fighting day and night without rest. Yet Li Qingsong's heart was filled with sighs.

Still too slow. It will take at least one or two years to restore production to its previous level. And before production is restored, technological development will be impossible.

Li Qingsong felt helpless, but he could only endure this situation.

After enduring it for a month or two, anticipation gradually began to rise in Li Qingsong's heart.

The first batch of clone bodies cultivated using Strange Bird Body Fluid as an additive was about to be born!

At this moment, dozens of clone bodies in the Reproductive Laboratory faced the situation as though confronting a formidable enemy.

Under Li Qingsong's control, they stared intently at the Instrument Panels on the Culture Pods, not daring to slack off in the slightest.

Any abnormal reading would bring Li Qingsong's direct intervention, with adjustments made at the fastest possible speed.

There was only one goal: to ensure the embryos could grow smoothly.

Under these circumstances, the day of the clone bodies' birth finally arrived.

After carefully draining the Culture Medium, the still-unconscious clone bodies were carried to the Rest Area.

Several hours later, the first clone body finally opened its eyes slowly and regained consciousness.

Li Qingsong, who had long been itching with anticipation, immediately extended his consciousness link toward it.

Li Qingsong instantly sensed a wondrous feeling.

It was an extraordinarily wondrous sensation, like a nearsighted person suddenly putting on glasses and seeing the whole world become clear, or like someone suffering from a severe cold, whose head had always been foggy, suddenly recovering their health and regaining the ability to think.

In that instant alone, Li Qingsong clearly sensed that after "moving into" this body, the fundamental capabilities of his brain—his thinking speed, logical reasoning, mathematical calculation, spatial perception, and more—had improved by at least 10%!

Do not underestimate that mere 10%; it meant that his consciousness-link quota had increased by more than four times!

Based on his previous experience, Li Qingsong carefully sensed it and discovered that his consciousness-link quota had soared to at least 90,000!

At least 90,000! He could not determine the exact number right now because he did not have enough clone bodies on hand to test it.

But even if it was only 90,000, that was more than enough!

At this moment, he only had a little over 60,000 clone bodies in total.

Those 60,000-plus clone bodies could finally all be put to use!

Overjoyed, Li Qingsong immediately extended his surplus consciousness-link quota to the clone bodies resting in the dormitories.

The next moment, the clone bodies lying blankly on their beds simultaneously sprang up full of vigor. They formed neat lines and arrived at the dormitory building's exit, where they collected their respective equipment before streaming out of the building like a surging tide.

Afterward, they split into different teams and headed in different directions.

Wheat Planting Base, Rape Flower Planting Base, Rice Planting Base, Pig Farm, Cattle Farm, Aquaculture Base, Steel Factory, Copper Smelting Plant, Foundry, Engine Factory, Power Plant...

At this moment, every clone body on Luoshen Star had been thrown into the work of restoring production. Not a single one remained idle.

Yet even so, Li Qingsong could clearly sense that he still had at least 30,000 consciousness-link slots sitting vacant!

Good stuff. This really is good stuff...

Li Qingsong looked with delight at the blocks of Strange Bird Body Fluid ice looted from the battlefield inside the vast warehouse, then at the captive strange birds recovering from their injuries inside iron cages...

Limited by my current purification and separation technology, the Strange Bird Body Fluid I'm using now isn't pure.

Once I improve those technologies further, perhaps even make some active adjustments, the quality of the clone bodies will definitely improve further. By then, I may be able to control 150,000, or even 200,000 clone bodies at once!

In that case, including clone bodies rotating through rest periods and reserve clone bodies, I'll need at least one million clone bodies in total.

Then... once the current production level is restored, I'll immediately build a larger-scale Clone Cultivation Factory! With a cultivation cycle of six months, each cycle must produce at least 50,000 clone bodies!

A cultivation factory producing 100,000 clone bodies a year would be unimaginably huge. It would likely need to occupy at least 100,000 square meters, and that was only after adopting a multi-story design.

The additional supporting facilities required—Nutrient Solution preparation plants, power plants, power grids, food, drinking water, oxygen, and other factories—would probably push the total area beyond ten million square meters, or ten square kilometers.

Only a massive square roughly 3.2 kilometers on each side, filled with buildings related to the Clone Cultivation Factory, could support such a factory.

But that did not matter!

Li Qingsong, who now controlled more than 60,000 clone bodies at once, was brimming with confidence.

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