Boötes Void, Former Human War Zone.
Several modified [Glutton] Supply Reserve Ships traveled through the wreckage-strewn expanse.
The enormous bay doors on their undersides slowly opened, and several guidance beams shot out, shining directly onto the shattered wreckage.
Under the influence of the grand unified field, the wreckage slowly drifted toward the open bay doors.
There were still too few Zero-Point Energy Wells, and the energy and matter they produced could barely meet the Human Fleet's expansion needs.
At a time like this, salvaging battlefield resources became a high-priority task for Human Civilization.
Never mind starship wreckage.
Lü Yongchang now wished he could collect even the "corpses" left behind by dead dimensional beings!
In fact, that was exactly what he did.
Besides the [Glutton] ships responsible for salvaging starship wreckage, vast numbers of Carrier-Based Drones used grand unified fields to collect the light and heavy particles scattered throughout space.
There was no other choice.
In a place as impoverished as the Boötes Void, it was only right to make every resource count.
Ten years later.
Earth calendar year 15595.
Research on the hypercube information-recording device officially concluded.
The Cleaners and the Neutral Faction also reached a conclusion with an extremely high degree of certainty-as Human Civilization had stated, the Gardener Faction's predecessor was an advanced civilization from another universe!
Most importantly, the logs recorded in the hypercube revealed something that grew more terrifying the longer they considered it.
The Troy Civilization, which had mastered five dimensions, had very likely transformed itself into a five-dimensional being!
This five-dimensional being had remained hidden within the universe all along, never once revealing itself!
Whatever it intended to do, the fact that it had lain dormant for hundreds of millions of years was terrifying enough!
Without a doubt, this directly jolted the Cleaners