For three consecutive days.
The Bailan super research ship had been worked to the bone. More than a million researchers affiliated with Bailan, protected by an entire attack group, conducted all kinds of research on the Lombard Arm.
However, according to Wei's research, Knox Particles would continue to exist for at least ten thousand years within the area affected by the Doomsday Bomb.
In other words, the Lombard Arm, now filled with Knox Particles, would remain completely barren for the next ten thousand years, and humanity likewise would be unable to enter it during that time.
Although the Federation had dealt with Aliya and the other main Zerg races.
That did not mean the war was over. After all, countless low-ranking Zerg still remained across Neumann's five major spiral arms, and the fleets would need a long time to thoroughly clear them out.
Of course, these low-ranking combat Zerg posed little threat. All that was needed was time.
Just as the Federation's ten attack groups reentered the Neumann System and launched a cleansing operation against the leaderless, chaotic swarms of low-ranking combat Zerg, the Bailan—a ship comparable in size to a battle star—approached an area just over ten thousand light-years from the Lombard Arm under the protection of an escort fleet the size of a fleet group.
"Director, the small unmanned research ship will arrive at the Lombard Arm in one minute!"
"Tell the operators to be gentle. Those are all precious research materials!"
"Understood, Director!"
One minute later.
Neumann System, Lombard Arm.
There were no living things left here. The void was steeped in an atmosphere of utter silence, while intact Zerg corpses filled the entire starry sky.
Suddenly, not far from where Aliya and the Emperor Zerg had been located, a deep-blue Hyperspace Window opened without warning in