A few minutes ago.
At the very moment when all six two-dimensional fragments exploded simultaneously.
Inside the artificial planet located in the region of the central black hole in the Milky Way, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded!
"What's going on?!"
Cleaner 9527, abandoning its previous lazy demeanor, straightened up and looked at the miniature light screen that was constantly issuing alarms.
As its tentacles moved, the miniature light screen rapidly expanded until the information was clearly presented to everyone.
"Is the numbered detector damaged?"
Cleaner 9527 was stunned for a moment. As the indicator light on the memory storage device outside its thinking organ flashed rapidly, memories slowly surfaced in its mind: "This is... the detector that was sent to retrieve the two-dimensional fragments?"
"Yes, sir."
The subordinate's voice was filled with tension.
This task was assigned to him by Cleaner 9527. Since the task failed, as the person in charge, he would naturally be punished accordingly.
Putting everything else aside, at the very least, its bonus is probably gone.
"What exactly happened?" A hint of doubt flashed in Cleaner 9527's eyes as he said in a deep voice, "A mere low-level civilization could never destroy our probe."
The subordinate did not respond immediately; its tentacles moved rapidly back and forth across the light screen in front of it.
As he moved, a large amount of data flashed rapidly on the light screen.
Suddenly, the subordinate stopped moving.
"Sir, there's been a slight mishap."
"Hmm?" Cleaner 9527's tone rose slightly. "The Pastoral School tampered with it? The [painting] didn't result in any deaths?"
As he spoke, he used his tentacles to open a light screen, preparing to report this unusual situation to the mother civilization.
"No, no," the subordinate denied repeatedly. "It's a problem with human civilization."
"They are not a low-level civilization."
"According to the mission records transmitted back by the detectors, human civilization has mastered the application technology of antimatter, and they have transcended the realm of low-level civilizations."
Upon hearing this, Cleaner 9527 looked surprised.
"Having mastered antimatter... that does indeed present an opportunity to damage that dim-witted detector."
“But… the speed of development of this human civilization seems a bit abnormal…” As he spoke, Cleaner 9527 narrowed his eyes and stretched out his tentacles to “pull” the light screen in front of his subordinate to his side, carefully examining the mission records.
"Um?"
"Two-dimensional fragments? Dimensional reduction attack?"
Upon seeing these key mission records, Cleaner 9527 couldn't sit still any longer: "Sure enough, [The Painting] has tampered with human civilization!"
At this moment, in the eyes of Cleaner 9527, the reason why human civilization has been able to develop so rapidly in such a short period of time is that [Painting] is "guiding" it from behind!
As for the wide-area tachyon broadcast I received some time ago...
Just kidding, who in a proper, civilized society would believe in this kind of nonsense?
Can people who believe in this stuff be considered truly civilized?
"What exactly does it want to do?" Cleaner 9527 thought quickly.
Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed in its mind.
"Could it be..."
"Are the pastoral faction trying to use this opportunity to infiltrate our ranks?"
The more Cleaner 9527 thought about it, the more likely it seemed. So it raised its tentacle and entered information into the light screen next to it.
After a short wait.
As Cleaner 9527 looked at the reply from the Mother Civilization on the light screen, a glint flashed in its eyes, and it gave an order.
“Send three Alpha-type warships to the 3TCS0O26B4 (Gliese 555) star system.”
"Three Alpha warships?" The subordinate was slightly surprised. "Those are our main warships, and they're currently on defensive missions near the star bridge. Is that really necessary?"
Cleaner 9527 had already narrowed his eyes to slits.
"Of course it's necessary!"
"This is an order directly issued by the mother civilization!"
In one sentence, he immediately dispelled everyone's concerns inside the planetary fortress!
Just as the subordinate turned to relay the orders, Cleaner 9527 spoke again: "Wait!"
"Even with wormhole teleportation technology, the alpha warship will still need a certain amount of time to reach the target star system..."
"inappropriate."
Are there any affiliated civilizations of our kind in that area?
"Yes!" The subordinate quickly checked and said with certainty, "The Bosa civilization."
"We have just advanced to the fifth level of civilization and have gained a preliminary understanding of the theory of the Great Unification."
"Let them go too," Cleaner 9527 issued the order directly, "to delay human civilization as much as possible."
...
the next day.
Since most of the gamma-ray bursts caused by the antimatter flood were "absorbed" into the two-dimensional starry sky, the radiation protection layer on the surface of the human starship almost perfectly blocked this man-made small gamma-ray burst.
This also gave Professor Wilson, who was researching new weapons, some inspiration.
A completely new architecture for the Gamma Ray Cluster Cannon has been developed.
By utilizing the rapid annihilation reaction between positrons and electrons, the Gamma Ray Cluster Cannon can briefly release extremely strong high-energy gamma rays.
This is extremely damaging to organisms, at least to carbon-based organisms.
When an enemy starship is not equipped with a sufficiently strong radiation shield, any life forms inside the ship that is directly hit by the Gamma Ray Cluster Cannon will die within minutes.
However, the successful development of the new weapon did not attract the attention of Lü Yongchang, nor did it even spark discussion among researchers.
The reason, of course, is the Cleaner Civilization Detector.
Although humanity has solved the problem of that probe, it has paid an extremely heavy price.
Not only did they lose their only 150 siege rams, but the number of 2D fragments was also reduced to 41.
Aside from weaponry, the biggest loss should be in energy – the antimatter flood has depleted a large portion of humanity's antimatter reserves.
"This has had an extremely negative impact on our future plans."
Sitting in the command center of the Earth, Lü Yongchang said with some helplessness, "Fortunately, the Dyson Cloud has not been completely recovered yet."
"We just need to wait a while for our antimatter reserves to increase significantly."
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