Could they have been scared off when they saw that we were unaffected?
Unable to spot Lyra, the Harvesters aboard the Electron Warships began searching for the reason. Yet the more they searched, the more something felt wrong.
"Th-this is... this is... an Electron Warship? How could there be another Electron Warship? Wait, no, there are so many of them!"
The detection systems that had seemingly malfunctioned suddenly recovered, but what appeared before the Harvesters were Electron Warships, one after another.
"No, this isn't right. It's an illusion!"
"It's not an illusion. We're seeing ourselves!"
The Harvesters quickly realized what they were looking at. They were aboard their Electron Warships, looking ahead and seeing the backs of their own Electron Warships.
The Harvesters were well-informed. They knew this was an issue with spatial structure. This region of space had been warped to the point that they could see their own backs.
Yet the distortion seemed strangely miraculous. They soon discovered that looking from different directions gave them entirely different perspectives.
Looking toward the front of the Electron Warships, they could see their rear.
And when they looked upward from the Electron Warships, they did not see their undersides, but the reflections of their own cockpits.
What chilled the Harvesters even more was that the Macro-Photons from before had become long, thin lines. From the perspective of the Electron Warships, those lines of Macro-Photons resembled ironworms writhing in the distance. This world seemed utterly distorted.
"Mm... it seems Human Civilization struck us while we were completely unresponsive and unaware."
The Harvesters soon analyzed the correct answer from what they saw before them, though it was only partially correct.
"Yes!"
The Harvesters inside the Electron Warships continued their analysis. "That's right. This must be Human Civilization's Characteristic Technology attack method. Hmm... from