Brother, just how powerful is our family?

Meanwhile, another research team is analyzing the spatial fissures.

The monitoring array in the Tian Shu galaxy recorded a massive amount of data during the emergence of the crack, including gravitational waves, changes in spatial curvature, energy fluctuations, and particle flows.

These data were sent to the Academy of Sciences for analysis by physicists and mathematicians.

"The crack didn't form naturally," the physicist reported to Qin Wanjuan. "It was forcibly torn open by some external force, like tearing a piece of paper in half with both hands."

"What is that 'external force'?"

"I don't know. But what we can be sure of is that the other end of the rift is connected to a specific spatial coordinate. It's not random; that coordinate is fixed."

Physicists pulled up a star chart and marked a red dot at the center of the Orion Arm.

"All the fissures point in the same direction—to the center of the Orion Arm, which is about six thousand light-years away from us."

Six thousand light-years.

Qin Wanjuan stared at the red dot, remaining silent for a long time. Six thousand light-years—even with the fastest spaceship currently traveling at thirty-nine times the speed of light, it would take over one hundred and fifty years to reach that place. That was a region the Yanhuang civilization had never set foot in.

"What's there?"

"I don't know. But it's definitely some kind of... source. The lair of those creatures, or the place where they started."

Qin Wanjuan nodded. He didn't press further, because he knew that with the current technological level of the Yanhuang civilization, it was impossible to conduct any form of exploration into a region six thousand light-years away.

Those creatures could tear through space and traverse vast distances, yet the Yanhuang civilization had no idea where they came from.

This is a huge gap.

While the Chinese Academy of Sciences is working intensively on biological remains and spatial rifts, another research team is undertaking a more macroscopic task: comparing these new findings with data collected in the past by the Yanhuang civilization.

This work was led by historians and anthropologists.

Their database contains myths and legends collected from various star systems over the past hundred years: the flood legend of the Scale Clan, the fire from the sky of the Armor Clan, the war of the gods of the Feather Clan, the rising sea of ​​the Fin Clan, the meteorite impact of the Claw Clan, the ancient destruction of the Beard Clan, the celestial rift disaster of the Gray Cat Clan... Every civilization has a similar story.

These stories were once considered myths. But now, they have a new perspective.

"Look at this." A historian pulled up an epic of the Graycat Clan: "'The sky split open, and enormous shadows poured out from the cracks, devouring the sun. The earth was plunged into darkness, flames fell from the sky, and the seas flooded the land.'—This is an accurate description of the spatial rift and the attack of the Beasts."

He turned to another passage, a stone inscription by the Scaled Clan: "Black behemoths descended from the starry sky, their bodies taller than mountains, their eyes brighter than the moon. Their flames burned cities, their hurled stones shattered the earth. Only a few survived."

Turning to the next page, one finds the legend of the Xu tribe: "Our ancient ancestors possessed magical powers, capable of flying and escaping into the earth. But they were too proud, angering the gods in the sky. The gods tore open the sky, sending giant beasts to destroy their cities and turn them back into barbarians."

Each legend corresponds to a scene of an attack by the Kujira beast.

The sky is torn apart—a spatial rift.

A colossal beast descends—the kumo-monster emerges from the rift.

Flames, stones—beams and projectiles.

Earth shattered, seawater flooded – a disaster caused by projectiles hitting the ground and ocean.

A few survived—after civilization was destroyed, the survivors started anew.

“It’s not a myth.” The historian looked up, his eyes filled with shock. “It’s history. It’s real history. Those civilizations had developed to a very high level before they were destroyed. Perhaps much higher than we imagine. Then, the beasts came. They destroyed them all. Leaving only a few survivors to start all over again from the Stone Age.”

"It's cyclical," an astronomer interjected. "The longest these civilizations have existed is no more than 70,000 years. Why aren't there any older ones? Because every tens of thousands of years, the 'Que Beast' comes and wipes out all the civilizations that have developed to a certain stage. Then, in the next cycle, a new civilization is born, develops, and prospers, only to be wiped out again."

"It's like harvesting chives," someone whispered.

Silence fell over the meeting room.

This conclusion has been vaguely mentioned in past discussions.

But at that time, there was no direct evidence.

Now, the attacks by the Kumo-monsters, the spatial rifts, and the comparison of myths and legends—all the evidence points in the same direction.

The Kumo-mon are the cleaners of the universe.

They appear periodically, traversing spatial rifts to galaxies that have developed interstellar civilizations, and destroying everything in their path.

Their purpose may be to eliminate potential threats, or it may simply be some kind of instinctive predation behavior, or they may be "gardeners" sent by a higher being.

Nobody knows. But one thing is certain: the Yanhuang civilization has developed to the point where it "needs to be cleansed."

"So, this isn't the first time," Qin Wanjuan said gravely. "Similar legends exist on Earth. A great flood, meteorites falling from the sky, and the gods destroying the world. We used to think those were myths. Now we know they are history."

He pulled up Earth's data: "Before the emergence of humans, did an even older civilization exist on Earth? Archaeology has discovered some questionable remains—nuclear reactors from hundreds of millions of years ago, precisely cut stones from hundreds of thousands of years ago, ancient batteries, and ancient airplane models. These things are considered by mainstream academia to be coincidences or forgeries. But what if we look at them within the framework of 'periodic cleanup'?"

"Perhaps there was once a glorious civilization on Earth. Perhaps their technology was even more advanced than ours now. Then, the beasts came. They destroyed everything. Only a few survivors hid in caves or underground and lived. Tens of thousands of years passed, and the descendants of the survivors forgot the history of their ancestors, leaving only some vague legends. Those legends were recorded by later generations as myths."

"And we—" Qin Wanjuan looked at everyone present, "are becoming the next target to be eliminated."

This news was like a bomb, exploding among the elites of the Yanhuang civilization.

But after the explosion, instead of panic, there was an even stronger determination.

At the meeting in the administrative center, Qin Feng listened to Qin Wanjuan's full report.

From casualty figures to the biological characteristics of the Kuku-monster, from the analysis of spatial rifts to the comparison of myths and legends, from the conclusion of "periodic cleanup" to speculations about prehistoric civilizations on Earth.

Each item has undergone rigorous argumentation, and each conclusion is supported by sufficient evidence.