After the order was issued by the Giant Turtle Rock Platform, exploration drones throughout the universe responded one after another. A massive superluminal data chain began taking shape at an astonishing speed. Tens of thousands of drone swarms turned back from their wandering. Some had been charting star maps billions of light-years away, some had been building bases on desolate dark planets, and some had been setting up outposts and factories in space. Now they suspended their current work. Apart from the individuals needed to maintain the swarms' functions, countless drones gathered from the depths of the universe and laid out a vast transmission system across the boundless void.
Because the exploration drones themselves had limited bandwidth, they all switched to "Nest-Weaving" mode, which allowed superluminal communication. In this mode, the communication distance between drones was reduced somewhat, but communication efficiency increased dramatically. Countless drones were deployed like a relay between the Crystal Core Research Station and Zhuom. In the cold, silent universe, they unfolded their silvery antenna systems one after another, answering each other from afar as they waited to transmit the souls of 1.6 billion people.
Above Zhuom, the drone motherships that had just arrived were urgently and methodically constructing a massive antenna array. The large, ship-shaped probes gleaming with silver-white light hovered along the extension of the line between the star and Zhuom. They assembled the large antenna components brought from the swarm bases into a giant ring one kilometer in radius. Countless small drones darted around the array, securing the antennae and power systems in place. Whenever a section was completed, they fixed themselves into the slots in the antennae as well. The swarm consciousness controlled this complex, precise work. Under its command, the "ships" of all sizes were more agile and accurate than any human