Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 367: Only One Of Us Will Live!

Tom’s massive fleet was still traveling at 85% of the speed of light.

This interstellar voyage had already lasted for decades, and the dark red star ahead was no longer distant.

Through the telescope, Tom could already observe the situation inside the solar system in quite detail.

He saw an extremely massive, giant star with a radius of a full fifty million kilometers—this meant its volume was more than three hundred thousand times that of the Sun, but its mass was less than three times that of the Sun;

He saw intense stellar activity unfolding on this red giant, saw violent stellar winds constantly blowing from the star’s surface, stripping away large amounts of stellar material, sweeping across the entire solar system;

He saw gigantic solar prominences, like "starry sky gates," constantly extending, breaking, and combining on the star’s surface, driven by the stellar magnetic field;

He saw that next to the massive red giant, there was another small, dazzling white pinpoint of light.

The entire massive star, due to the gravity of this comparatively insignificant small point, had deviated from a spherical shape and become an ellipsoid.

He saw an endless stream of stellar material being forcibly torn from the star, extending out like a small tail, and then rotating around this small bright spot, like a cradle carrying a baby.

At the two poles of this cradle, there were also two extremely bright, very straight jets spewing out, extending tens of millions of kilometers away before slowly dissipating.

That was the white dwarf’s accretion disk.

Numerous stellar materials, under the immense gravity of the white dwarf, began to rotate rapidly around it, constantly losing speed in this high-speed rotation, and finally falling onto the white dwarf, merging with it.

But there was also a portion of stellar material that gained higher energy during the rotation process and also gained enough speed to escape the white dwarf’s gravity. Thus, under the control of the white dwarf’s magnetic field, they reached its two poles and were ejected at speeds of tens of thousands of kilometers per second.

A red giant and a white dwarf, separated by only tens of millions of kilometers, pulled at each other, revolved around each other, performing a graceful and magnificent duet in this vast starry sky.

Such a peculiar scene was presented before Tom.

"The environment of this solar system is truly harsh..."

Watching this scene, Tom sighed softly.

The white dwarf’s accretion and jets, the red giant’s stellar activity, violent stellar winds, flares, mass ejections, and so on—all these factors combined to give this solar system a background radiation tens of thousands of times higher than that of the Solar System.

It was fortunate that his current technological level had already reached the peak Strong Nuclear stage.

If it were during the Electroweak period, if he accidentally intruded into this solar system, he wouldn’t need any enemy attacks; this environment alone would be enough to wipe out his entire army.

Even Tom felt a bit numb at the thought of having to work in such an environment for the next few hundred years.

But there was no other way; what needed to be done must be done.

When still 4 light-years away from this red giant, Tom completed the fleet’s attitude adjustment. Then, all engines were activated simultaneously.

Amidst fierce tail flame jets, the speed of this massive fleet began to slowly decrease.

Time passed bit by bit, and in the blink of an eye, several years went by.

The red giant grew increasingly massive, and the detected interstellar radiation became stronger and stronger. It was at this moment that Tom suddenly discovered something abnormal.

In the depths of the distant starry sky, Tom discovered a faint bright spot.

It was not a star, but rather like... a tail flame.

Hmm?

Tom immediately mobilized observation forces to focus on that direction. After some observation, a faint smile appeared on Tom’s lips.

"So it’s you, Purple Moon Civilization..."

...

Spaceship, Conference Room No. 1. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

"...According to our detailed observation and analysis, it has now been confirmed that the fleet currently decelerating and approaching the Pegasus G76 star is indeed the Bluetoth Fleet!"

This was originally bad news. But at this moment, after their Gravity Cannons had been widely deployed, this had turned into good news.

At this moment, even Purple Moon Leader could not help but show excitement on his face.

"Very good, very good, exceedingly good..."

He murmured with emotion: "Originally, you could have continued for a while longer. But now... let’s destroy you first, completely eliminate the threat, and then fully commit to the project.

The grievances between us should also come to an end..."

...

Tom had originally prepared himself for the possibility of losing track of the Purple Moon Civilization.

After all, even if this mission was ultimately successful, it would take several hundred years. After the mission was completed, they would face a supernova explosion, and he would have to desperately escape. Furthermore, a supernova explosion would wipe out all navigation tracks within a hundred light-years, making it almost impossible for him to track the Purple Moon Civilization again.

He never would have thought that such a miraculous thing could happen in this universe.

The Purple Moon Civilization had actually also arrived in this solar system!

Moreover, calculating from their speed, distance, and deceleration rate, the Purple Moon Civilization’s entry into the solar system would almost coincide with their own!

Given that the Purple Moon Civilization had already been infected and transformed into the Demonic Eye Civilization, and that both the Red Star Alliance and the Demonic Eye Nation were currently restricted by the Destroyer Civilization, it was obvious what the Purple Moon Civilization was doing here.

They must also be here to try and detonate a supernova to rescue that Space-level Demonic Eye!

When triggering a supernova explosion, the orientation of the white dwarf’s two poles is crucial.

Orienting towards this direction would rescue the Red Star Alliance. Orienting towards the other direction would rescue the Space-level Demonic Eye.

Then...

The smile on Tom’s lips grew even wider.

"New grudges and old hatreds, let all these grievances be settled here...

Red Star Alliance, Space-level Demonic Eye, only one can be saved.

Of me and your Purple Moon Civilization, only one can leave this solar system..."

At this moment, Tom knew very clearly that when he observed the Purple Moon Civilization fleet’s tail flame, the Purple Moon Civilization had a high probability of also observing his tail flame.

But... it didn’t matter.

This time, neither side had a retreat, and neither side would ever choose to escape.

...

Before the deceleration maneuvers were completed, the various probes launched by both sides had already entered the solar system ahead of time and began to erupt in small-scale conflicts.

More detailed information regarding the internal situation of the solar system was also presented to Tom one by one.

"A total of five planets. The innermost one is too close to the star, the environment is too harsh, and its value is not high.

Of the remaining four large planets, two are rocky and two are gaseous.

Calculating based on the speeds of my fleet and the Purple Moon Civilization fleet, when both of us enter the solar system, these four large planets happen to be split evenly, with each side occupying two.

Very good, very good. This time, no one has a resource advantage, nor a defensive advantage.

Then let’s have a fair and just war, one that relies entirely on true strength, without any reliance on luck."

Amidst intense deceleration maneuvers, the Purple Moon Civilization fleet finally docked next to the outer gas giant, and immediately dispatched a fleet to occupy the rocky planet on the same side.

On their side, Tom similarly occupied two planets.

Separated by the star, the two sides subtly confronted each other.