Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 329: Dilemma

If they hadn’t suddenly gained their own lives, how could they have actively detached from the main fleet? How could they still fight in a unified manner even after losing their communication equipment?

Damn it, if that’s the case, then the reason they attacked him was to... to... rescue their compatriots who were still being ’oppressed’ by him?

This is too absurd, isn’t it?

Tom couldn’t accept this deduction no matter what, but at this moment, no matter how he looked at it, this seemed to be the only plausible guess at this stage.

"Never mind, I’ll capture a warship first for inspection!"

After a battle, an "enemy" warship had its thrusters and weapon systems destroyed, losing its mobility and attack power.

After dragging it back to the dock, Tom immediately began the most detailed inspection.

The results of the inspection seemed to once again corroborate Tom’s previous conjecture.

Tom found no equipment that was not of his own manufacture within this warship.

There was no external communication equipment, no external invasion facilities, nothing at all.

As for the long-range communication or electromagnetic wave communication equipment he had manufactured, it had overloaded and overheated due to some unknown reason, subsequently burning out.

This should be the reason why he lost contact with these warships.

And... apart from the damaged facilities, the remaining facilities could still operate completely normally.

Normal operation here meant operating according to Tom’s will.

Just like the main control computer.

After Tom restored its communication, the tactical version of Primal in the main control computer could still normally receive his commands and complete the corresponding operations.

There was no sign of it being controlled by any other entity!

In fact, there was no sign at all that these warships had "come alive"!

It was completely and utterly a normal warship, damaged in battle!

Perhaps... precisely because it was damaged, it "died" and then returned to normal, allowing him to control it again?

And at this moment, the warships still fighting him were still "alive"?

Why? What caused them to suddenly "come alive"?

Tom still hadn’t figured these things out. But Tom also roughly realized that this didn’t seem to be some advanced civilization playing tricks on him, but rather an accidental encounter with some phenomenon he hadn’t yet understood, or some event.

"This universe is truly full of dangers. I can’t believe I’ve encountered something so incredible... Never mind that for now, let’s destroy these warships first!"

At this moment, the total number of warships that had "come alive" was only 400,000, with only about 350,000 warships among them. Meanwhile, in the main fleet, there were still over 1.6 million warships that Tom could control and had not "come alive."

Especially since he still had Flying Star as a supply. And the "enemy" had no supplies whatsoever, apart from their transport ships.

No matter how he looked at it, dealing with these warships that had betrayed him should not be a problem.

After determining his strategy, Tom no longer hesitated and immediately intensified his offensive.

For a time, in the vast and deep space, artillery fire roared, and a large number of warships, unmanned combat forces, etc., were rapidly consumed.

In the past, Tom would only complain that his warships’ defensive and offensive capabilities were not strong enough. But now, this was causing Tom immense trouble.

"Damn it, why is it so hard to hit? It’s like this and the energy shield still hasn’t broken?"

"This maneuverability... are these really the warships I built?"

"No way, my energy cannons are already this powerful?"

At this moment, Tom finally experienced what it was like to be his own enemy.

But there was no choice, he had to fight even if it was difficult.

The battle continued like this.

Soon, Tom discovered something else was wrong.

He had expended a great deal of effort, losing tens of thousands of warships, and finally reduced the enemy’s warship count to about 300,000, but unexpectedly, tens of thousands of his own warships suddenly "defected" and joined the enemy’s ranks.

The enemy’s ranks still maintained a number of around 350,000 warships!

This time, Tom lost a total of nearly 100,000 warships, both internally and externally.

"What exactly is going on!"

After fighting for a while longer, estimating that the enemy’s supplies were almost exhausted, he originally thought it would be easier next, but unexpectedly, some transport ships fully loaded with various supplies also "came alive" and defected!

The total number of ships that could "come alive" due to this phenomenon or event, whose principle was unknown, seemed to have an upper limit. Tom observed that whenever the total number of enemy ships fell below 400,000, some ships from his own fleet would "defect," replenishing the enemy’s total number of ships to around 400,000.

As for the type of "defected" ship, it seemed to be related to which type of ship the enemy had lost.

If warships were lost, his own warships would defect. If transport ships were lost, or the supplies within the transport ships ran out, his own transport ships would defect.

Those transport ships that had run out of supplies would "die" and no longer be controlled by the enemy.

No matter how many enemy ships he destroyed, the enemy would always maintain around 400,000 ships.

"How can I fight like this!"

Tom’s heart was heavy.

If he couldn’t figure out why these ships "came alive," he wouldn’t be able to prevent his own ships from joining the enemy’s ranks, which meant it was almost impossible for him to eliminate the enemy.

However, not fighting was also not an option. The enemy had been continuously launching fierce attacks against him. Was he supposed to just sit back and wait for death?

After fighting for a while longer, Tom had no choice but to initiate large-scale shipbuilding operations in space.

There was no other way; the rate of warship attrition was simply too fast. If he didn’t start building ships, Tom would soon be unable to hold on.

But very quickly, another situation arose that infuriated Tom.

Relying on Flying Star, he had painstakingly built a hundred warships, and in the blink of an eye, all of these warships "defected" and joined the enemy’s ranks.

On average, for every two warships built, one defected.

This made Tom’s shipbuilding efforts almost meaningless.

Am I working so hard to build warships for myself, or for you guys?!

However, even so, Tom had no choice but to continue building warships.

If he didn’t continue building, he wouldn’t even have warships to resist the enemy’s attacks...

"This can’t go on."

Tom thought rapidly: "Enter the solar system, deploy the Electric Disaster, and let the Electric Disaster use the power of the star to help me fight?

No, it’s probably too late for that.

Then... activate the Unified Force Field?

But, will the ships carrying the Unified Force Field equipment, or even... the Unified Force Field equipment itself, also defect?"

Tom was in a dilemma.