In 283 years, the virtual world "Divine Enlightenment" has seen the addition of a top cultivator at the God-realization stage, a white-robed swordsmith famous in the rivers and lakes, a black-robed sorcerer who lives in a tower, a silver-armored knight who leads ten thousand armies into battle, a wise lord who sweeps through the eight directions, a top assassin who lurks in the darkness, the chief adventurer in the Adventurer's Guild, a wizard capable of summoning thunder, a courageous warrior who kills dragons, and a great priest who evokes the power of the ancient totems! The Great Priest of the Ancient Totem ...
Everything was both real and unreal.
Jon detached himself from all of this when he opened his eyes.
"What a fulfilling 283 years."
It was much more rewarding to spend these wasted hours in a virtual world than it had been, somehow sleeping through centuries.
He sat up, white breath beginning to come out of his nostrils and mouth.
The robot standing next to the hibernation chamber for 283 years spoke, "The liquid in the hibernation chamber evaporates at temperatures over 50 degrees, turning it from liquid to gas."
"This helps to expel the body."
"Welcome back, Jon."
Looking at the robot in front of him, Jon had a huge drop.
After all, the Ella in the virtual world was so well-behaved and cute and pampered.
Jon ignored Ella as she left the hibernation pod, then put on her clothes and walked towards the cockpit.
"Jon, why don't you answer me?"
"Has all this time together made you tired of me?"
"Or has that liquid damaged your vocal cords?"
"..."
Ella followed him, asking questions all the time, it was obvious that it knew everything.
With Ella's current intelligence, it was easy to deduce that Jon just didn't want to talk to it.
Only instead of choosing that answer, Ella made a more human-oriented decision - to keep asking questions to the end.
Entering the cockpit, the screen was already showing what Jon wanted to see.
Two huge stars, one slightly larger than the sun with a spectrum similar to that of the sun and nearly golden in color, the other slightly smaller than the sun and orange in color.
These two stars were the "South Gate Twins", South Gate 2A and South Gate 2B.
This means that they have entered Centaurus at the same time.
Neighbor B is not a planet of any of the stars in this binary system, and Jon's target is now under the light of both stars.
It was a red dwarf star of only 12.2% of the mass of the sun that rotated around the center of mass of Southgate II A and Southgate II B. It was this star that was called Proxima, and it could also be called Southgate II C.
In terms of the view Jon was looking toward at the moment, Southgate IIA and Southgate IIB were holding hands and spinning in the middle of the playground, while the star Proxima was running around the two of them in a playground that was just a little closer to a circle.
The distance between the two big stars is only 23 astronomical units, a distance equivalent to having a star in our solar system in orbit between Uranus and Neptune.
Proxima, on the other hand, is 0.2 light-years away from the centers of mass of the two stars, and it has three companion stars, Proxima b, Proxima c, and Proxima d.
One of them, Proxima c, is a huge rocky planet with 7 times the mass of the Earth, but is 1.5 astronomical units away from Proxima.
This distance wako is just about right in our solar system, but the surface temperature of Proxima, a red dwarf star, is too low at 2,800 degrees Celsius, well below the Sun's 6,000 degrees Celsius.
So the temperature on Proxima c is as low as -230 degrees Celsius, almost as low as the surface temperature of Hundred Eyes, and it is estimated that it would be difficult to form a civilization without an abundance of geothermal heat.
Neighboring star d although ranked lower, but in fact is the closest planet to Neighboring star, only less than 5 million kilometers, repair a railroad to take the earth in the early 21st century high speed railroad only need a year and a half to the surface of Neighboring star.
Its surface temperature may be close to 100 degrees Celsius, especially the mass of only 26% of the Earth, too small, but also difficult to form a civilization.
The only other planet that was most suitable for human survival and for the birth of a civilization was Proxima b, which was within the habitable zone of Proxima, a red dwarf star system.
"Let's stop here."
Jon did not intend to reach the surface of Proxima b directly.
After all, it wasn't certain if a civilization existed on it.
"Send the Falcon to scout around, make sure to be stealthy and not approach the surface of the planet."
A planet that had a high civilization would have so many buildings on its planetary surface that it would only need a high magnification telescope to see them.
"Ella, analyze the Bighorn Star b. What do you think is the probability of this planet giving birth to a civilization?"
A planet like Hundred Eyes could give birth to a level 1 civilization.
Then the probability of this planet, which was incomparably suitable for the birth of living beings, was at least ten thousand times more than that of the Hundred Eyes Star.
"13.72%."
"Proxima b is 1.52 times the size of Earth under our close observation, a bit larger than originally predicted."
"Such mass creates a denser atmosphere, which is tidally locked in too close to Proxima though, making it too cold on one side and too hot on the other."
"But the atmosphere distributes the heat more evenly across the planet's surface, allowing the heat to be shared throughout the planet, which results in a predicted temperature of only 46 degrees Celsius on the front side of Proxima that should be only 46 degrees Celsius, and -82 degrees Celsius on the back side."
"The average temperature in its twilight zone is around 10 degrees Celsius, making it most suitable for survival."
"Coupled with the fact that the centrifugal rate of Proxima b is only 0.17, and its orbital resonance ratio is only 3:2, which is generally more stable, the probability of civilization birth on its surface may be a little higher than this."
In a word, it's very big.
The Peregrine Falcon flew for 12 days, spanning a distance of 57 astronomical units finally only 4 astronomical units away from the planet Proxima b.
Here, the head of the Falcon scout began to peel off and a 3-meter diameter telescope was pointed at Proxima b. It took 3 days to take humanity's first ultra-high-definition photo of Proxima, with 70 trillion pixels.
After another 19 minutes, Hope received the photo.
Ella processed it and then maximized the photo.
On the dark side of Proxima B, a large number of points of light occupied its evenly distributed.
Jon instantly felt his scalp tingle.
If each point of light was equivalent to a building complex, then the degree of development of Planet B was too, too high.
"The Falcon is sending back a second photo."
Ella spoke up at this moment and released the second photo for the Big Neighbor Star c.
Only to see a large amount of light on top of Proxima c as well.
At this point, it was already completely certain that the civilization level on Bighorn Star b was no less than level 1.
"Ella, line up all interstellar dust within 10 astronomical units of the surrounding area, and dispatch scout planes 30 astronomical units away to make sure there are no battleships of that civilization."
"All warships prepare to activate their defense systems and enter combat mode."
"Retract the Falcons, do not act rashly."
"All of the fleet remain silent for 1 month, make sure that the civilization on the planet Bibi has not discovered us."
A series of orders were given.
Jon had to be careful, as they observed the civilization on the planet BiNi, they also had to anticipate that the civilization on BiNi might have observed them.