At the bottom of the universe bubble.
[Membrane] stared at the hyperspace membrane before it, as thin as a cicada's wing, its eyes filled with anger and resentment.
Damn it!
The number of fleets the Cleaners Civilization had hidden far exceeded its expectations!
Without its intervention, the Gardener Faction's dimensional beings simply could not break through those successive defensive lines.
Should I intervene?
[Membrane] watched the increasingly fierce battle, murmuring silently to itself.
As long as it intervened, the Cleaners Civilization's cosmic particle acceleration experiment would inevitably fail!
But...
Conversely, once it became bogged down in the war, the Gardener Faction's annihilation plan would be postponed indefinitely.
Under the combined effects of such a massive war and the Universe-Spanning Particle Acceleration Experiment, the universe bubble had already reached the brink of collapse!
The effects of excessive vacuum zero-point energy extraction had begun to manifest-the universe bubble was about to stop expanding.
Before long, the universe bubble would even begin an irreversible collapse!
Remembering the collapse and disintegration of the mother universe countless years ago, it could not help showing a trace of fear.
No! I will never go through that again!
It suppressed its anger and terror, focusing all its attention on the hyperspace membrane before it.
Since the Cleaners' Universe-Spanning Particle Acceleration Experiment could no longer be halted, and the universe bubble was about to stop expanding, it could only make the best of a bad situation!
As long as it "broke through" this hyperspace membrane before the universe collapsed, the annihilation plan would not fail!
After a brief fluctuation, the bottom of the universe bubble fell silent once more.
Nineteen years later, Earth Calendar year 15822.
Laniakea Supercluster, Virgo Cluster, M87 Galaxy.
Amid the fiery explosions of warships and the particle storms unleashed by the deaths of