A few days later.
The universe membrane enveloping the four-dimensional cavitation bubble dissipated completely, finally exposing this region of four-dimensional space to the three-dimensional universe.
Under the intense assimilative forces, dimensional reduction followed.
A brilliant flash blazed forth, bright enough to drown out the light of a quasar!
Alongside the violent burst of energy, vast quantities of matter in the form of elementary particles were blasted outward.
As they traveled, these elementary particles combined with one another. Gradually, atoms of different masses began to emerge in succession-they would bring an unprecedented feast to the surrounding barren galaxies.
Seventy million light-years from the four-dimensional cavitation bubble.
A surge of turbulent waves suddenly swept across the once-calm spacetime ocean.
Then a vortex slowly formed in the spacetime ocean-a stable wormhole had appeared.
A long, slender, almost invisible thread emerged from the wormhole.
Behind Thread came a flat scroll.
The waves on the spacetime ocean surged farther outward, generating dense tachyon fluctuations.
[Thread, these fluctuations seem to be coming from the fragment's direction.]
[Ant] was the first to speak.
[Thread] carefully sensed the fluctuations, then sent a message filled with shock and confusion: [The fragment ruptured? How could it happen so soon?!]
[That fragment back then lasted at least several hundred years!]
[Ant] remained silent for a long time at [Thread]'s words before offering a tentative answer.
[Perhaps it drifted through five-dimensional space for too long?]
Although still somewhat puzzled, [Thread] considered it carefully and accepted that explanation.
[Then what do we do now...]
[Ant] pressed.
[Thread] fell silent.
The purpose of their journey was to ensure that the four-dimensional cavitation bubble did not fall into the hands of another advanced civilization, but...
Before they had even arrived, the cavitation bubble was already gone.
While [Thread] and [Ant] wrestled with their dilemma, a