(Still diligently filling plot holes while digging new ones. For the sake of all this integrity, convert it into an equivalent number of monthly tickets and throw them at me! Check what you've got, don't waste those monthly tickets, right? ※※)
After the matter of the "barrier" had temporarily come to an end, we dispatched a Boundless Love work team to move the Sumerian ruins the fox had discovered wholesale to Shadow City. As for the original site, we filled it in with local geological material. Human archaeologists would never imagine that a ruin which might have changed their understanding of history had once been buried there.
The appearance of those Sumerian ruins also served as a reminder. Back then, the operations of Boundless Love and the Imperial Agents apparently hadn't been thorough enough. Although we had dismantled all the ancient Imperial bases on Earth before humans could discover them, some creations of ancient civilizations that lacked Psionic Reactions yet recorded Imperial history had still been overlooked. Once these ruins were exposed to humanity, they could cause an unprecedented shock, perhaps even rewrite mankind's current worldview. How could they accept the fact that Earth had once been ruled by aliens, and that modern humans were the remnants of alien experiments? Though that speculation was horrifying, I had ample reason to believe that when those ambiguous ancient records were exposed before humanity, conspiracy theorists and rigorous scientists around the world would stand on the same side, questioning the meaning of human evolution on Earth. They might even dig up Darwin's ancestral grave. The situation was simply terrible.
The Empire tried not to interfere with Earth's current order. We could provide measured and beneficial guidance, but we could not destroy humanity's established worldview or the course of its civilization—this was the consensus