32 years after Jon's hibernation.
The first Absolute Zero weapon was created, which was much faster than before, as the Hope itself already carried a small industrial system on board.
It only took 10 years to expand on the asteroid.
The next 22 years were spent on the development of the weapon.
Ella's own theory was strong enough that it was based on a complete system, and Absolute Zero weapons were not a very difficult technology to realize, but the most important thing was actually the quantity.
As a "planetary weapon", its size was extremely terrifying.
The length of the first Absolute Zero Weapon reached meters, its diameter was 945 meters, and its weight reached a terrifying 40.7 billion tons.
Among them were 35.4 billion tons of iron and 5.3 billion tons of aluminum.
This was already a third of the Earth's crustal iron reserves (pure iron not iron ore) and 1.13 times the aluminum reserves, and just one weapon was created, so you can imagine the horror.
This is all resources derived from probing the surrounding asteroids.
Resources that are scarce on Earth are readily available in the universe, and if iron is a metal resource, an iron asteroid may have several or even dozens of times the iron resources of the entire planet.
However this was just the beginning.
The manufacturing time for the ten weapons had also been extended linearly to 162 years.
"Jon, wake up."
Jon opened his eyes.
It was already the year 3021 AD.
Ella's holster remained unchanged, and she stretched her head and looked at Jon with a smile, giving Jon the feeling that he had been reborn into a secondary world.
He got out of the dormant pod and then looked around.
There was no change from before, which made him more or less relieved.
Because the technology Ella brought with her would always give him the feeling that he couldn't catch up.
"Waking me up means something has been made, right?"
Ella nodded.
At the same time a robot came in pushing a food cart.
It uncovered the cloth of the food cart, and inside was surprisingly a beef burger.
"This is ...."
Ella explained.
"The farm was destroyed before due to the conflict with the alien civilization, after rebuilding it I built a more perfect farm and also perfected the food manufacturing process in these almost 200 years."
"I queried the information to reproduce the dish with mastery."
"Here Jon, try it, we'll talk about the weapons later."
Jon brought the beef burger to his mouth.
He chewed the burger and a tear ran down from the corner of his eye.
It was a familiar flavor.
"Where did this meat come from?"
Ella replied, "It's artificial meat, using vegetable protein."
"You can't eat it can you, I've upgraded the artificial meat technique for the data to simulate the texture of meat on a molecular level."
"As a human you can't tell the difference, it looks like my research has succeeded as well."
Jon took a big bite of his meal.
It was the best meal he'd had in nearly 1000 years.
"Can I add more?"
Who had enough for such a serving of burgers.
After adding two more beef burgers, Jon was full.
After he finished eating he went to the restroom and washed his face with a towel, he froze when he saw himself in the mirror.
It was at this point that he recalled that it had been too long, too long, ah.
He was losing more and more strength and his body functions were declining over time.
As a human who could only survive a maximum of 130 years and might actually only be 80-90 years old, he was already entering middle age.
"Ella, is there a means for me to break through the bottleneck of my current lifespan?"
Ella nodded.
"Of course, Jon you have two available programs."
"One, consciousness uploading."
"After years of development, Ella has mastered the technology of consciousness uploading so that Jon you can do the same as Ella."
"The advantage is that you no longer need to worry about your lifespan afterward, the disadvantage is that there's still a lack of experimental subjects, and there's no guarantee that you'll still be the same person you are now after the consciousness uploading, instead of a consciousness replica."
"Just like the original file and the replica file 01, the code is the same although the content is the same, but it is two files."
"Two, genetic modification."
"Human genes prevent the possibility of a longer lifespan, the only way to extend your lifespan is to carry out a genetic level modification to make you inhuman, then you can extend your lifespan."
"However right now Ella does not have this technology, the field of biology lacks enough physical research for Ella and only exists in theory."
"Biology is different from physics and chemistry, it possesses too many influencing factors, so what exists in theory may deviate tremendously in reality."
"Ella suggests colonizing geothermal civilizations after occupying them and using them as biological research material."
Still back.
This strengthened Jon's determination to fight the other civilization to the end.
...
Out of the bedroom.
Ella's holographic projection was in the lead, and he followed it all the way to the cockpit.
The huge screen was playing the scene of the starry sky outside.
A huge cylindrical shell loomed up, which were made in the shape of Earth's missiles, and even had decorative rudders at the end.
Above the grayish-white shell was sprayed large text, Chill 1.
That 1 alone was enough to stuff hundreds of soccer fields.
In front of this giant missile, even the Hope became a small thing in front of it.
It was important to know that the Earth's number one peak, Mount Everest, was only 8,848 meters.
Jon retracted his gaze in shock, then saw the coordinates where the spacecraft was now, and he was slightly puzzled.
"It seems we're no longer in our original position."
Ella responded.
"Good, in those years we have suffered a total of 5 attacks from enemy civilizations."
"And now they are still searching for us in that part of the stars."
It seemed that Ella had had her share of scares over the years.
Jon saw that the Hope still didn't seem to be carrying weapons and said.
"We already have Absolute Zero weapons, is it possible to apply small Absolute Zero weapons to the Hope?"
The role of the Absolute Zero Weapon itself was to be used to freeze the target's energy.
Its main purpose was to spread slow down the development time of the enemy civilization.
In this way, their development time would be able to surpass the other party's development time in order to crush them afterwards.
That's why the development afterward was the top priority.
With shipboard weapons, they would be able to drive their spacecraft directly to someone else's doorstep.
"It can be realized!"
Ella replied plain and simple, and had a program ready.
Drawings were sent to the screen, the original Hope shell loaded with eight launchers.
"The launcher can carry 36 missiles, each of which is sufficient to reduce the temperature of the surrounding 260 kilometers to -270 to -272 degrees upon detonation."
"Estimated completion time is 80 years."
Jon nodded, it was a bit shorter than he thought it would be, he had become numb to this kind of R&D time in terms of decades.
When he sat down, Ella reminded him.
"Jon, the space bar on the keyboard in front of you is the launch button, all the Absolute Zero weapons have been aimed at the target planetary coordinates."
"This part of the starry sky, because of its distance from the stars, only needs to consider the gravitational influence of the black hole at the galactic core, and the orbit is nearly flat."
"The missile uses the latest type of electromagnetic propulsion and can reach speeds of 1,000km/s, one 300th of the speed of light."
"The target is 471 astronomical units away, the estimated time to hit the target is 2 years and 3 months from now."
"This moment should be initiated by you."
Jon stared at the space.
He had pressed it an unknown number of times while playing the game, each time an unusual jump, and now he was concerning a civilization.
He placed his finger on it.
Took a deep breath.
"Inhale~hale~~"
A long exhale.
He pressed down.
There wasn't that much tedious mental construction, after all, the other party was already looking for them all over the stars at this point, since they were already enemies, they shouldn't be merciful.
An Absolute Zero missile completed its ignition the instant he pressed it, with a delay of only one second.
After ignition, the missile flew out almost instantly because it was not bound by gravity.
After about ten minutes, the missile had completely disappeared as far as the naked eye could see, and only the modeling sandbox Ella had built could observe the missile's coordinates at that point.
It had taken ten hours to accelerate to a thousand kilometers per second and a little more, reaching 1047km/s.
That fraction of a second would be enough to keep the original Earth civilization catching up for decades.
As for the other missiles, they would be launched at 39 year intervals until they were all gone.
Staring at the missiles disappearing.
Jon's expression was grave, with no hint of a relaxed posture.
At this moment, Ella also sent a message.
"The trajectory of our missile launch has been noticed by the enemy, they are approaching us in this direction."
"Requesting immediate movement to get rid of the enemy ships ..."