It's reasonable for me to have a two-way foil for a second-level civilization, right?

"so……"

"I know!" Su Yutong interrupted his words directly, staring directly at Lu Yongchang's eyes with a pair of beautiful eyes, "I will wait forever."

"Wait until the moment when human civilization is truly out of crisis."

Lu Yongchang's eyes were slightly absent-minded, and he subconsciously avoided Su Yutong's fiery gaze.

"thanks……"

he said softly.

Then, he lowered his head again and threw himself into the pile of documents in front of him.

With the familiar rustling of pens, the atmosphere in the office gradually returned to its original appearance.

……

After the breakthrough of single-photon control technology, the experiment entered another level.

They now need to simultaneously manipulate two photons in a quantum entanglement state to verify the possibility of long-distance communication.

then……

While waiting for the second single-photon control device to be manufactured, all relevant researchers were filled with restlessness.

A few days later, as usual, Lu Yongchang walked into the gate of the main laboratory for a routine inspection.

Looking at another single-photon control device that has been more than half built, his eyes were a little fiery.

As long as it is confirmed that two photons in a quantum entangled state can be manipulated and observed, the foundation of two-way long-distance communication will be completely laid!

"Professor Lu!"

There was a vicissitudes of shouting from the side.

"Old Tang?" Lu Yongchang hurriedly greeted the old man walking towards him, "Why did you come to the laboratory?"

"I remember that today is not a day of rest?"

Faced with Lu Yongchang's question, Mr. Tang showed a bitter smile on his face.

"rest?"

"Professor, I didn't say that, do you think this thing is placed in the laboratory, which researcher would like to rest?"

As he said, Tang Lao pointed to the single-photon control device in the center of the main laboratory: "Now, all the researchers are waiting for the second experiment!"

Lu Yongchang looked at the gray-haired old man in front of him dumbfounded: "Mr. Tang, I'm more anxious than you!"

"It's just that this thing is a high-precision device after all. Even if it is zero, it will take a certain amount of time to manufacture."

"Huh?" Just as the two stood there staring at each other, the door of the laboratory opened again, and a slightly familiar voice came, "Professor Lu? Mr. Tang? Are you all there?"

Lu Yongchang silently looked in the direction of the laboratory door.

Yes, another one.

Looking at Mo Zeyang who was walking quickly with a smile on his face, Lu Yongchang sighed silently.

All of them don't even need a vacation!

……

After ten minutes.

Because the experimental device has not been built yet, all work has come to a standstill.

So... the three of them could only sit quietly on the chairs and stare at each other.

"Professor, is there really no other research project?" Mo Zeyang twisted his body and asked awkwardly.

"So, the architecture of the new quantum computer you were originally in charge of has been completed?" Lu Yongchang asked softly.

"……not yet."

Facing Lv Yongchang's questioning, Mo Zeyang replied honestly: "Currently, the superconducting circuit quantum computer has encountered a bottleneck, and it should not be possible to simply increase the number of qubits in a short time."

"We're looking for a new solution, but it's going to be ... a bit difficult as it stands."

Hearing this answer, Lu Yongchang's eyes moved slightly.

The picture he saw a few days ago appeared in his mind.

or……

"Well, speaking of it, there is indeed a new research project." A faint smile appeared on the corner of Lu Yongchang's mouth, "But this project may be a bit difficult, you can think about it slowly."

"What project?!" Mo Zeyang's eyes lit up, and his expression suddenly became excited.

"Photonic computer."

Lu Yongchang pouted at the single-photon control device on the side: "It is the original optical quantum computer. I think this should be the next development direction of quantum computers."

Mo Zeyang nodded thoughtfully: "That makes sense...then I'll go back and think about it!"

With that said, he stood up and walked straight to the door of the laboratory.

"Professor Lu?"

Looking at Tang Wenshan beside him, Lu Yongchang couldn't help feeling a bit of a headache: "Mr. Tang, you are so old, why don't you take a rest?"

Seeing Mr. Tang's stubborn expression, the corners of Lu Yongchang's eyes twitched slightly.

"Okay, one more little project."

"If the next experiment is successful, we have to establish a new algorithm to adapt to quantum long-distance communication."

Hearing this, Tang Lao suddenly showed a smile on his face.

"You've found the right person."

"The original quantum communication algorithm was created by me alone."

"Wait, I'll go back and think about it first!"

With that said, Tang Wenshan also walked out of the laboratory excitedly.

Suddenly, only Lu Yongchang was left in the main laboratory.

He shrugged, ready to go back to the office to finish the rest of the chores after checking.

Suddenly, the holographic image automatically turned on beside him.

Zero's avatar had a serious expression on his face: "Professor, there is one thing you need to see."

Before Lu Yongchang could react, the holographic image changed quietly.

A signal band appeared in front of him.

"This is……"

Lu Yongchang frowned instantly.

"Professor, this is a signal received by Yuanxia's sky eye system."

"The source of the signal is Proxima Centauri."

Chapter 178 Proxima b

4.2 light-years away from Earth.

In the Proxima Centauri star system, in the habitable zone, a planet named Proxima Centauri b orbits a red dwarf star "fast".

Proxima Centauri b, which has a revolution period of only 11.2 Earth days, is extremely close to the red dwarf!

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

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

Zoom in.

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

On the surface, countless deep black, round pie-shaped man-made buildings stand on the flat surface.

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

As the camera zoomed in again, an intelligent creature with three pairs of long and narrow visual organs and thick limbs sat on a chair, silently looking at the monitor in front of it.

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

The name gave him a mission.

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

His task is simple, to monitor the information from various detectors.

Atoka used his thick forelimbs to support his thinking organs, and the three pairs of long and narrow visual organs narrowed into an almost invisible gap.

"call……"

He slowly opened the breathing hole and exhaled a mouthful of rich exhaust air.

It's the same as when I first walked into this building 100 years ago.

(For the convenience of understanding, the time is the earth standard)

Nothing has changed.

The monitor in front of me has been replaced several times, but it still looks the same.

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

And the purpose of launching so many detectors... It's ridiculous to say that it is actually to find extraterrestrial civilizations!

Thinking of this, Atoka's thinking organs showed a little wrinkle at the top, which in their culture meant irony.

It's ridiculous that the upper class actually pin their hopes for the development of civilization on the help of other civilizations!

They actually want to detect intelligent life in the surrounding galaxies with a few detectors whose top speed is only one-tenth of the speed of light!

The result can be imagined.

Hundreds of years of hard work have yielded nothing.

Thinking of this, the folds at the top of Atoka's thinking organ became deeper.

He looked to the dark window aside.

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

Those are two other stars, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B.

Proxima Centauri and these two stars form a triple star system.

However, unlike ordinary three-star systems, the two stars Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B form a stable binary system, and Proxima Centauri orbits at a distance of 1.3 AU from them.

Therefore, the operation laws of these three stars are not as chaotic as expected.

And Proxima Centauri b survived because of this.

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

"Huh..." Another cloud of hot air spewed out of his breathing hole.

Just when he was about to stand up and take a rest, a corner of the wall made up of monitors lit up a dazzling white light!

White light, which is the same color as Proxima Centauri flares, in their culture, means the highest level of alert and crisis!

After seeing the color that symbolized warning and danger, Atoka couldn't help but froze in place.

The three pairs of long and narrow eyes on his thinking organ suddenly widened, and the folds on the top of his thinking organ disappeared completely, becoming extremely smooth!

He quickly swung his thick and short forelimbs, and began to operate on the console in front of him.

"The detector from 45 years ago..." Atoka stared blankly at the monitor in front of him, and muttered to himself.

He quickly called up the information from the detector.

4.22 light years!

So close!

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

In the video, Voyager [-] drifts quietly in the boundless universe.

This, this is a man-made object!