Lü Yongchang turned toward the voice, a smile in his eyes.
A young man with yellow skin and black hair wore an expression of sheer amazement.
Lü Yongchang's gaze shifted slightly.
He Bilin.
One of the leading figures of the new generation.
His name, naturally, came from Proxima Centauri.
According to statistics, names such as Bilin, Sidi, Siyang, and Xingchen appeared with particularly high frequency among the new generation born on Proxima b.
Clearly, environmental factors played a major role.
He Bilin was one of those born into this new generation.
With intelligence far beyond that of ordinary people, he had gone from an ordinary citizen to a member of the Academy of Sciences in just forty years, becoming an interstellar astronomer.
"That's right. If there's nothing wrong with the primary star, this planet will be our future home."
"Unfortunately, since Ross 154 is a powerful source of X-rays, humanity will probably still have to live in enclosed urban complexes." Lü Yongchang shook his head regretfully as he spoke.
He Bilin shrugged without saying a word.
He found it difficult to understand how Lü Yongchang felt.
After all, he had lived in vast enclosed urban complexes since the day he was born.
He had only seen Earth and its so-called blue skies and white clouds in Holographic Image archives.
Apart from those recordings, most of the scenery he saw consisted of cold-toned metal structures.
That was true of both the urban complexes and the various starships.
Beyond those, there was only the scenery of Proxima b's surface shown in exterior projections.
But... ever since He Bilin could remember, Proxima b had been in another "ice age."
With its murky yellow sky and equally murky yellow snowscape, it looked like an enormous ball of mud from a distance.
He genuinely could