Another cylindrical creature voiced its question.
[Then what do we do?]
[The alliance has searched every region in the Laniakea Supercluster where four-dimensional cavitation bubbles might exist, but...]
[Continue the expedition.]
As a new electromagnetic wave arrived, the orange mist parted once more, and an even taller intelligent being drifted out.
[The empire has decided to restart the Galaxy Leapfrog Plan and move toward the Centaurus Galaxy Cluster and the Hercules Supercluster.]
[Follow the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall and continue searching for four-dimensional cavitation bubbles.]
[If the Cleaners Civilization can find four-dimensional cavitation bubbles, so can we.]
The electromagnetic waves slowly dissipated, and silence returned to the starship's interior.
The orange-yellow mist flowed more and more slowly until it came to a standstill.
The tall, cylindrical intelligent beings vanished into the thick mist once again.
A long time passed.
With a flash of light, spacetime around the Great Attractor underwent a violent distortion.
Amid the intense flashes, the enormous fleet disappeared without a trace.
Meanwhile.
Human Civilization officially entered the Milky Way-Andromeda Intergalactic Bridge, embarking on its expedition to the Andromeda Galaxy.
In the vast universe, a tiny fleet of five hundred starships sailed quietly through the silent darkness.
The starlight arriving from infinitely far away was so faint that it could not illuminate the fleet's path at all.
One year... two years...
Time slipped by, moment by moment.
For the quasi-level seven Human Civilization, intergalactic travel was exceedingly long and dull.
The surrounding scenery barely changed. Only an artificial intelligence like Zero could avoid growing weary of such a monotonous journey.
Earth calendar year 5303.
The fleet dropped out of faster-than-light curvature navigation for the first time-the Kuafu's Warp Drive had malfunctioned.
It was not just the Kuafu. Under time's invisible, razor-sharp blade, the five hundred or so