The Silver Heart Civilization did indeed receive everyone's flowers and applause. Their experiment could be called a failure, but it could also be called a success.
Because they truly had managed to make use of the Vacuum Zero-Point Energy they had extracted. It was just that when they used it, they could not withstand the Quantum Tide from the mechanisms of the universe.
The attack on their laboratory had not come from the macro level, much less from the universe producing a cannon in space and firing a shot at them. It had come from the laboratory itself.
When they completed the extraction of Vacuum Zero-Point Energy, took it for use, and had no intention of returning it to the universe, a Quantum Tide from the universe's underlying mechanisms appeared out of thin air within every related microcosmic component. It swept in from the microscopic level, then turned everything connected to it into part of the Vacuum Zero-Point Energy.
The birth and damage mechanism of the Quantum Tide was like the lightning calamity, fire calamity, and wind calamity in cultivation legends. When a lightning calamity descended from the heavens to strike you, you had to perceive your true nature and clarify your mind, dodging it in advance. If you dodged it, your lifespan equaled the heavens; if you failed, your life ended there. When a fire calamity descended from the heavens to burn you, this fire was not heavenly fire, nor was it mortal fire. It was called "yin fire," and it burned up from beneath your Yongquan acupoint, straight through to the Niwan Palace, turning the five viscera to ash and rotting all four limbs, making a thousand years of bitter cultivation into illusion. When a wind calamity descended from the heavens to blow upon you, this wind was