At this moment, Tom's previous excitement completely vanished, replaced by an incomparable solemnity.
The clone from the solar system had re-established its consciousness link with him, which clearly meant that the clone had been awakened.
His automated program would only awaken the clone when it detected unexpected situations, such as the arrival of an external fleet.
This seemed to indicate that something had happened in the solar system.
Indeed, after the connection was restored, some images seen and information received by the clone located in the solar system arrived in Tom's mind through a method of information transmission that Tom could not yet comprehend.
Tom saw a dim star appear on the telescope observation interface.
That star was unremarkable, like thousands of ordinary stars. But Tom knew that there had been no star at that location before!
Its identity was then obvious.
