So, with hesitance and numbness yet determination, he reconstructed Scarlett and saw the possibility of restoring communication.
Once communication was restored, the fog shrouding the Orion Arm human civilization due to information isolation would be lifted, and he would quickly determine whether people like Nora Camp, Daniel Thompson, Needham Brown, Martha Owen, and Bernal Connor still existed.
He anticipated it and was worried about it.
This feeling was like spending a fortune on scratch-off lottery tickets, getting nothing after scratching a bunch of them, and placing the last hope on the last ticket to be scratched.
What frightened him was that after scratching the last ticket, he would still see "Thank You for Your Patronage".
That would be utterly disappointing.
