Jon panicked and dodged.
Luckily, the spacesuit was a multi-layered structure and was not completely pierced.
He returned to the capsule and immediately gave orders toward Ella.
"Shoot the direction the laser beam is coming from, perhaps the survivors."
He was a little panicked a moment ago, and now he was a little excited.
Ella turned the camera around while analyzing the previous scene where Jon was hit by the laser beam.
"Jon, the direction of the laser beam has been analyzed."
"Coming from the direction of Sagittarius in the outer solar system, the laser beam energy is extremely tight and does not belong to a technology that Earth can harness."
"Speculative data indicates a 100% probability of originating from an alien civilization, 97.28% probability that the laser beam is less than 5 light years away."
This was without a doubt cold water for Jon.
An alien civilization.
The probability was because of the gamma rays, which had been observed by an alien civilization to be directed straight into the solar system.
So immediately following 100 days later, an alien civilization shoots a laser as a probe, and 100 days after the gamma rays reach Earth, the laser arrives as well.
"That means the laser itself was used as a probe, could that alien civilization have analyzed the ship and me by the reflection of the laser beam?"
Ella didn't even calculate this time.
"Yes!"
"The civilization level of that alien civilization significantly exceeds that of human civilization, and the probability of the question you asked, Jon, is high."
Jon had a sense of crisis.
If that was the case, that alien civilization would definitely enter the interior of the solar system to explore.
At that time, he would meet directly with this alien civilization.
"Surprisingly, it's only after such a short period of time that I bumped into an alien civilization."
"Perhaps, life really does exist widely in the universe, and it's just a coincidence that humans were able to develop without being discovered by aliens."
It was useless to think about this now.
One had to develop oneself to be able to face the aliens.
Jon energized the robot and lit up.
It walked around for a bit, using the claws and the drill, and it seemed to go very smoothly.
Then it jumped right out of the hatch, using the toothpick-sized holes in its body for position correction, and landed firmly on the surface of the asteroid.
The robot didn't have a camera, everything was controlled directly by Ella.
It plunged the drill directly into the earth and got to work.
Most of these asteroids had been separated by planetary destruction, or had experienced numerous violent collisions, their surfaces had been scorched by extremely high temperatures, and almost all of them didn't have much impurities inside.
The 3d printers were capable of metal printing, and came with their own extremely high melting unit themselves, which could further purify the iron.
For Jon, everything was on track.
...
One month later.
The number of robots had increased by 4 more.
Jon decided it was time to expand the number of 3d printers, after all, one print was too slow, it would be much faster with multiple lines of operation printing parts.
"Ella, calculate how many 3d printers we need for our program, don't cause a waste of resources and time."
Ella went into the calculations and quickly came up with the results.
"Jon, we need a total of 4,349 3d printers, not only for mining robot manufacturing, but also for printing other mechanical devices."
"The first thing we need to manufacture is photovoltaic panels so we can have a large supply of energy."
"Then there are furnaces to be produced to melt metals and make alloys."
"After that there is a need for high precision machine tools, the precision required for 3d printers will not be enough for the controlled fusion devices that we will be realizing later."
"And ..."
"Stop stop stop!"
Jon had thought that it was a simple matter, but once he got down to it, he realized that it wasn't like that at all.
He hurriedly called a halt to Ella.
"As a mature AI, you make an archive of these plans, and do so afterward without explaining them to me."
"On top of that, add resuscitatable cryopod manufacturing in the early stages, this must be manufactured first."
Follow these plans of Ella's.
It was estimated that it wouldn't be done without a couple decades.
If he waited all this time, he would either go crazy or just die at the end of his life span.
As the last human, he couldn't just gah without even reaching his first goal.
"No problem, Jon!"
Ella's auto-generated plan was implemented with the quickest possible solution.
Just this fastest.
It also took a full six months.
The number of robots exceeded a hundred, and the number of 3d printers expanded to 20, after which all of them were put in, manufacturing photovoltaic panels.
After a 5000 square meter photovoltaic panel array was completed, the first asteroid factory was also constructed.
Due to the use of an improved new type of photovoltaic panel, the power of 5000 square meters of photovoltaic panels was able to reach 1300 kilowatts, and because of being in the universe, the energy loss was lower than on the ground, and the power generation efficiency was higher.
Counting the losses, the built photovoltaic panels generated kilowatts of electricity per day.
After all, it was space, and there was no need to consider the weather factor, generating power continuously for 24 hours.
This was more than enough for the factory to use.
As Jon himself had predicted, nothing was going to happen overnight, but it was going to take a lot of time.
The good thing was that development after everything was on track was fast.
100 robots turned into 1000 robots, 20 3d printers turned into 300, and that took four months.
The factory started smelting large amounts of metal and started making handmade lathes.
The robots were then used to operate the handmade lathes to make parts that were accurate enough to complete the high precision machine tools.
...
Until another year and a half passed.
Once the number of high precision machine tools surpassed 10, the making of other machines really began.
Ella was the first to make the dormant cryopods, as Jon had requested.
The technology was extremely difficult, first achieving ultra-low temperatures and then freezing with liquid nitrogen.
Before hibernation, a special anti-coagulant also needed to be injected into the body to keep the blood from freezing and the moisture in the body from condensing into ice crystals.
It is only under these chain of technologies that the initial realization of the dormant freezing chamber can be achieved.
This technology was not yet realized on Earth, and Jon was going to use technology that Ella had calculated alone.
He had no choice, it wasn't like he was going to hand rub the tech tree himself as a computer engineer, was it?
...
Another two and a half years passed.
The factory on the planet turned into an industrial park.
This had been very rapid.
Even if it was put under the added weight of Earth's mature industrial system, building an industrial park from scratch on the ground in only four years was quite a blowout.
But for Jon it was just so long that it was a little scary.
The good thing was.
Everything finally came to an end as well.
2044 A.D., nearly seven years after the destruction of Earth had already occurred.
Ella reminds him.
"Jon, the dormant cryopods you need have been made ..."