[Earth].
An alarm came from the Universe Listening Plan's Self-Replicating Probes: the Cleaners had dispatched vast numbers of fleets from the Peacock-Indian Supercluster to the battlefield.
As a result.
The already busy Command Center became even more frantic.
One order after another went out from the commanding officers, bound for the front lines in the distant Shapley Supercluster.
Under those orders, the combined fleets of the Neutral Faction and Human Civilization, numbering over a hundred billion vessels, slowly advanced toward their designated areas.
Their objective was clear-cut off the Cleaners' reinforcements!
"Beep! Beep! Beep!"
A crisp alert sounded, and a bright red icon automatically appeared in the upper-right corner of the Holographic Projection.
"Nus?" Zhao Zijie frowned slightly.
At this point, [Nus] and the Lost Insect Swarm under its command were Human Civilization's trump card.
Anyone else could run into trouble, but not them!
Zhao Zijie hurriedly set aside his work and reached out to open the warning message.
"This is..."
Zhao Zijie's eyes widened as he watched the images in the Holographic Projection.
Although he did not understand the precise functions or operating principles of those megastructures, the spectacular sight of their internal structures continually unfolding gave him an ominous feeling.
Something's gone wrong!
The Cleaners Civilization is up to something again!
"Quick! Notify Professor Lü!"
Zhao Zijie shot to his feet and shouted urgently.
A dozen or so seconds later.
Countless fluorescent green points of light passed through the Command Center's tightly shut doors, then coalesced into a human figure as everyone watched with familiar ease.
"Professor..." Zhao Zijie instinctively breathed a sigh of relief when he saw who had arrived. "Nus sent a warning. The Cleaners..."
"The Cleaners are preparing to launch the universe-spanning acceleration plan!"
Before his quantum-state figure had fully solidified, Lü Yongchang's voice