The Essence of All Things is Science

A sudden change.

An entirely unanticipated, panoramic transformation, and absolutely not the scene that Chen Jin wanted to see. It even disrupted his original plan, introducing infinite amounts of flux.

However…

This was an established fact, and was bound to occur.

Since the dawn of the interstellar era, scientists on Earth had spent more than 50 years in launching a multitude of high-precision scientific instruments into deep space to find traces of alien civilizations. But, whether in the Milky Way or the other galaxies, no signs of civilization had ever been detected.