"An expansion method that spread at lightspeed and came with other characteristics, while the matter inside it still retained mass and gravitational effects—what the hell was going on?"
After retreating three thousand light-years, the leaderships of the civilizations gathered in the Virtual Auditorium once more. This time, the six Characteristic Technology civilizations had invited the other civilizations as well, making it a gathering of sixty civilizations, each able to voice its own views.
They shared probe data while trying to rely on that information to analyze the specific conditions inside the Catastrophe Zone. Many civilizations also shared their own experimental or observational results there.
A representative from one civilization said, "We once launched many probes into the Catastrophe Zone and conducted many impact experiments. We found that any probe that entered the Catastrophe Zone seemed to vanish into thin air. We could no longer detect its existence at all, and we didn't know whether it had been destroyed or still existed."
Another civilization clearly had stronger detection capabilities than they did, so it stepped forward to explain. "It still exists. It's just that optical instruments can't capture their information. We once conducted similar experiments, and the results were much the same as yours, but we were able to detect its faint gravitational response."
The Silver Heart Civilization representative also stepped forward and said, "Yes. We detected those objects that entered the Catastrophe Zone from the perspective of Strange Tachyon and found that they had not disappeared, though whether their shapes had changed was impossible to know. Our preliminary speculation is that they were all damaged. All equipment built on the basis of our technology was damaged; otherwise, we would absolutely have received feedback information."
Starry Sky Defenders: "What kind of nonsense are you all spouting? Stop talking. That region is