4.2 light years away from the earth.

In the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, a planet named Proxima Centauri b is "quickly" orbiting a red dwarf.

The orbital period is only 11.2 Earth days Proxima Centauri b, which is very close to the red dwarf!

The red dwarf is called Proxima Centauri, with a mass of 0.123 times that of the sun, and its luminosity is only 1.55% of that of the sun.

Thanks to this, Proxima Centauri is still in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri.

The lens is pulled closer.

The dense atmosphere and ozone layer that is several times larger than the Earth block high-energy rays from Proxima Centauri, which laid a solid foundation for the emergence of life.

On the surface, countless dark black, round cake-shaped artificial buildings stand on the flat surface.

Such a structure is also to absorb the high-energy rays emitted by stars as much as possible and protect the fragile biological organisms.

As the camera approached again, a smart creature with three pairs of narrow visual organs and thick limbs sat on a chair and silently looked at the monitor in front of him.

In Proxima Centauri civilization, his name is Atoka, which means the recipient.

The name gave him a mission.

Therefore, since his birth record, his range of activities has been limited to this empty building.

His task is very simple, monitoring information from various detectors.

Atoka held his thinking organ with his thick forelimbs, and three pairs of narrow and long visual organs narrowed into an almost invisible gap.

"call……"

He slowly opened his breathing hole and exhaled a rich breath of waste gas.

Just like when I first walked into this building 100 years ago.

(For the sake of easy understanding, time is the standard of the earth)

Nothing changed.

The monitor in front of me was replaced several times, but it still looked the same.

I heard from the previous generation that the development of their civilization has stagnated for hundreds of years.

The purpose of launching so many detectors... is ridiculous to say, it is actually to find extraterrestrial civilizations!

Thinking of this, there were a little fold on the top of Atoka's thinking organ, which in their culture means mocking.

It is ridiculous that the upper class actually pinned the hope of civilization development on the help of other civilizations!

They actually wanted to use several detectors with the highest speed of only one-tenth of the speed of light to detect the intelligent life of the surrounding star system!

The result can be imagined.

Hundreds of years of hard work have gained nothing.

Thinking of this, the folds on the top of the Atoka thinking organ became deeper.

He looked at the dark window beside him.

In the sky, next to a huge fireball, there are two very small spots of light.

Those are the other two stars, Centauri alpha and Centauri alpha.

Proxima Centauri and these two stars form a triad system.

However, unlike ordinary Samsung systems, the two stars Centauri α-a and Centauri α-b form a stable binary star system, while Proxima-Centauri operates 13,000 astronomical units away from them.

Therefore, the movement patterns of these three stars are not as chaotic as expected.

And Proxima Centauri survived.

Atoka looked at the dim light spot next to the fireball, and countless messy thoughts flashed through his thinking organs.

"Hu..." A ball of hot air spurted out from his breathing hole again.

Just as he was about to stand up and rest, a dazzling white light lit up at the corner of the wall made of a monitor in front of him!

White light, which is the same color as the Proxima Celestial flare burst, in their culture, means the highest level of alerts and crises!

After seeing the color that symbolized warning and danger, Atoka couldn't help but stand there.

The three pairs of narrow eyes on his thinking organ suddenly widened, and the folds on the top of his thinking organ dissipated and became extremely smooth!

He quickly swung his thick and short forelimbs and started operating on the console in front of him.

"The detector 45 years ago..." Atoka looked at the monitor in front of him in a daze and murmured to himself.

He quickly called out the information from the detector.

4.22 light years!

Very close!

When he saw objects in the video, his thinking organs trembled involuntarily.

In the image, Voyager 2 is quietly floating in the vast universe.

This is an artificial object!

The following scene made the tremor of his thinking organs become more and more intense.

A blue planet and a silver-white satellite.

The detector quietly landed on the silver-white satellite.

High-precision cameras capture images of intelligent creatures on the blue planet.

So ugly.

Atoka looked at the image in front of her and curled her lips.

They actually only have a pair of eyes!

With so weak limbs, I don’t know how they lived...

Unbelievable!

Atoka muttered to himself while looking at the images on the monitor.

The video data came to an abrupt end.

Atoka knew that this was the detector's return.

He suddenly stood up and walked towards the communication equipment beside him.

He needs to report this incident to the upper level.

...

When it comes to alien civilizations, the work efficiency of the upper class is suddenly much higher.

Just as Atoka finished reporting and put down the communication device, the next second after he put down the communication device, the reminder of the communication device sounded.

“…”

Atoka silently picked up the communication device and placed it next to his auditory organ.

"Are you sure?"

“…Okay, I get it.”

After putting down the communication equipment, Atoka's breathing holes opened and closed, and balls of hot air gushed out from it.

The upper class speaks so badly.

I just confirmed it and got scolded.

A wave of wrinkles appeared on the top of the Atoka thinking organ and he walked silently to the console beside him.

There is no way, I am just a low-level recipient. One Atoka is gone, and there are still thousands of Atokas to take over his job.

Thinking of this, the folds on the top of the Atoka thinking organ have become much less.

Just do what the upper class said!

While thinking, he pressed a button on the console "expressively".

The electromagnetic wave signal passes through the dense atmosphere and reaches an artificial device outside the atmosphere.

The next second, the signal amplified by the device flew towards the solar system!

…………

Decipher the timeline.

In 1980, Proxima Centauri b probe was launched.

In 2025, while Earth Voyager leaves the solar system, the detector arrives in the solar system and then sends a signal.

In 2030, Proxima Centauri received a signal from the detector and sent the above signal in the same year.
Chapter completed!