Deprived of propulsion, the space continent could only drift through the endless universe along its predetermined course and at its preset speed. Fortunately, in such a vast expanse, a small celestial body drifting at low speed would probably not collide with anything else even over millions of years—but for the sake of more long-term considerations, Hao Ren still ordered the engineering drones to bring the floating landmass to a halt. Tens of thousands of drones were currently busy beneath the space continent, installing all kinds of conventional thrusters and superluminal jump devices. It was a massive project, but fortunately, the technical difficulty was not high, and there were plenty of drones available to deploy. If everything went smoothly, this celestial fragment that had drifted for three thousand years would be able to stop before long.
Meanwhile, as the engineering drones busied themselves installing thrusters on the space continent, the logistics drones had already cleared away the battlefield wreckage floating around the continent. This fulfilled Hao Ren's assigned task of "collecting samples" on the one hand, and prevented the wreckage from being captured by the space continent's gravity and threatening it on the other.
Hao Ren did not have the drones send the collected wreckage samples to the surface. Instead, he anchored a synchronized "stacking field" near the space continent to store the enormous quantity of samples. The reason was that those corrupted monsters all carried extremely severe contamination and mutations. The power of the Lord of Madness had accumulated within their bodies for who knew how many years, and they had themselves become highly dangerous sources of contamination. Therefore, analysis of the wreckage absolutely could not be conducted on the surface.
The stacking field was a loosely structured space facility. It relied on force fields rather than physical structures to