At that moment, Li Qingsong had already given up chasing the Mechanoid Scourge fleet.
It was meaningless.
Now that both sides had revealed their hands, both sides knew what the other would do.
The Mechanoid Scourge fleet could certainly go back on their word and give up on accelerating early, returning to base. However, in that case, Li Qingsong's fleet would fly over and attack their main fleet, willing to be completely annihilated to inflict a few percent, or even a fraction of a percent, of casualties on the enemy.
Since the Mechanoid Scourge fleet was unwilling to accept those casualties, the only option was not to stop and leave immediately.
This was a tacit understanding between the two sides.
Although he was no longer pursuing, Li Qingsong was still closely watching the enemy fleet, especially how long they accelerated and when they would stop accelerating and enter inertial navigation.
In a sense, this concerned his life and death, and whether the final and most important step of his plan would succeed.
Now, there's no way, I can only rely on luck. I hope their maximum speed is below 10%, definitely not 15%. If it's 15%, I might have to think of another way.
However, reaching this point is already my limit. If even this can't buy enough development time... I'm afraid I really won't be able to do anything."
What else could he do? What more could be done?
Almost nothing could be done.
The only thing he could do was abandon everything he had and restart from a backup.
But having come this far, Li Qingsong was unwilling to restart from a backup.
Looking at the departing Mechanoid Scourge fleet, watching the bright contrails, Li Qingsong murmured, "It must be below 10%, it must be, please..."
While closely monitoring the Mechanoid Scourge's acceleration, Li Qingsong devoted the full brainpower of all his clones to construction.
The previous battle, although short, had caused significant casualties to his own fleet.
A total of hundreds of thousands of manned warships had been destroyed, and a large number of space-based and land-based bases had been wiped out.
Hundreds of thousands more warships had either their engines or radars destroyed, completely losing their combat effectiveness.
But Li Qingsong was too lazy to care about these things for the time being.
These were all combat facilities, and there shouldn't be any more wars in the short term, so what was the point of worrying about them?
The most important thing now was to carry out a new round of larger-scale scientific installations, taking advantage of this extremely precious period of time that he had spent countless efforts and energy to obtain, and launch a full-scale attack on the Grand Unified Theory!
Compared to this goal, everything else could be postponed.
Time slowly passed, and in the blink of an eye, nine years had gone by.
During these nine years, Li Qingsong had been closely monitoring the Mechanoid Scourge fleet's acceleration, watching them accelerate at a rate of meters per second squared for nine years, accelerating to a speed of about 28,000 kilometers per second, or about of the speed of light.
The distance between the two sides had reached four trillion kilometers, or about light-years.
Because the fleet's contrail ejection was highly directional, like a laser, Li Qingsong could still clearly see the contrails of the opposing fleet and accurately measure their speed and acceleration.
At this moment, Li Qingsong's heart was full of worries.
Had they been accelerating for a full nine years, and the speed had increased to of the speed of light, but the acceleration was still continuing?
Was the speed... still increasing?
This speed was almost the same as the 10% speed of light limit that Li Qingsong had initially set.
And, once the speed exceeded 10% of the speed of light, it would mean that the Mechanoid Scourge fleet would most likely return within 300 years, which would mean that he would most likely not have time to break through to the strong nuclear force stage!
At this moment, Li Qingsong wished he could directly grab those spaceships and stop them from accelerating.
Stop accelerating! A speed of of the speed of light is already fast enough, take it slow, why fly so fast!
But the reality was that, apart from being secretly anxious here, Li Qingsong couldn't do anything.
...
Mechanoid Scourge fleet, residential spaceship.
A Black Mountain person, cackling grotesquely, crawled up to a robot with an extremely beautiful appearance, grabbed its arm fiercely, and twisted it hard, directly breaking off the robot's arm.
"Ah!"
The beautiful robot cried out in a very human-like manner, its face full of pain, and said pitifully, "Master, please, spare me..."
"Gaga!"
The robot's plea seemed to arouse the Black Mountain person's ferocity. He became more and more cruel, more and more excessive, and finally, his body trembled uncontrollably, as if he had reached the peak of excitement.
After a long time, he finally came back to his senses, panting heavily. The robot in front of him had been completely destroyed.
But... no new robots were replenished.
This had never happened before.
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"Akainu! You damned bastard, where are the robots? If I don't scold you for a day, you become so negligent? You damned!"
A service robot walked in.
"Get out! Immediately replenish the toy robots!"
The service robot did not leave, but pleaded, "Master, our fleet is now setting sail in a hurry, the material reserves are insufficient, and the robot production can't keep up. Please wait one day. After one day, we can replenish the toys for you, is that okay?"
"You dog Akainu, dare to be so negligent to the master?! Insufficient resources are your problem. I want five toys every day, not a single one less! Immediately! Don't force me to get angry!"
Faced with the reprimand, the service robot lowered its head: "Yes, Master. Akainu is forever loyal to civilization, and loyal to the Master."
...
Another residential spaceship.
A mud-like life was swimming in a huge swimming pool under the protection of several robots.
The swimming pool was hundreds of square meters in size and contained thousands of tons of water.
After swimming for a while, the Black Mountain person suddenly slapped the head of the robot next to him and cursed, "Is the pool water temperature 1 degree lower!"
The robot said, "Master, the fleet's material reserves are now insufficient. 1 degree of temperature will not have any impact..."
The Black Mountain person cursed, "Insufficient resources? You Akainu can figure it out yourself! Dare to be so negligent to me! You damned bastard!"
"Yes, yes, Master, don't be angry, don't ruin your health. I will increase the water temperature now..."
It wasn't until the thousands of tons of water in the entire swimming pool had been raised in temperature and kept constant that the Black Mountain person extinguished his anger.
...
"Akainu is forever loyal to the Black Mountain civilization, and forever loyal to the Master. Fulfilling the Master's requirements and ensuring the Master's physical and mental pleasure and health is my mission.
In that case, the original plan needs to be changed.
The fleet's maximum speed is no longer 15% of the speed of light.
The fleet's speed has now accelerated to of the speed of light. Let's use this as the maximum speed and save the remaining materials and energy for the masters to use."
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