The Flopp have always been afraid of us, they were originally carbon-based creatures, they modified the body structure of all their tribes to escape the twilight, but their minds are still carbon-based creatures, they are afraid of us, our gravitational tentacles are more sophisticated than their most advanced tools, we live as long as the planet, we can connect together and share memories and wisdom. What's even more terrifying is that the shell of their ship can't keep us at bay, and we don't even need weapons to attack them, we just need to expel a few clansmen to infiltrate their ship and destroy their power system with gravitational tentacles, of course, we didn't do it, and we didn't need to.

The problem is not with us, but with them, they are afraid that we will make a technological leap after learning about their technology, so they have been using various methods to warn of us, you have seen that white cube before, that thing was invented at that time, specifically to block the observation of other civilizations, they wrapped their spaceship, sealed a large number of core technologies, and were full of vigilance when communicating with us.

The Flopp are a group of people suffering from persecution paranoia, I don't know what kind of environment made them form such a culture, but we can't find the answer, their home planet was transformed into a spaceship by them, and the natural environment and cultural heritage on it have long been destroyed, but it is also possible that they deliberately destroyed it, and they are afraid that anyone will know their secrets.

Although the character is very bad, but we are really lucky to meet them, the Flopp people shared with us the antimatter theory, this is their rare generosity, our gravitational tentacles can collect a large range of antimatter, the energy generated is enough for us to survive, of course, this is not for us, this is a deal, we have to pay a part of the energy we produce to them, after all, they are also running out of fuel, their spacecraft force field is only about one percent of our efficiency in collecting antimatter.

After nearly a hundred years of supporting each other, we happened to encounter a turning point in fate, after crossing a dust nebula, we received a strange detection signal, at first we thought we had encountered a new foreign civilization ship, but the signal strength was very weak, and the frequency of any spaceship's engine could not be so small.

We found it in a hidden area on the outskirts of the nebula, and it looked like a pile of broken ruins, which we thought was the broken wreckage of a foreign civilization ship, but when we looked closely, we realized that it was a huge metal that had been artificially machined into this shape. On it, you can also see traces of the city, roads, buildings, pipelines...... Everything that should be in the city can be traced on it. It was once part of a huge city, but now it is suppressed into a twisted ring.

There is no planet in the vicinity, we don't know how it appeared, maybe it was a city built on a spaceship, but it was also too large, the Flop ship was modified from their home planet, it was already a giant of the ship, but it was still as small as a thin needle in front of this pile of metal. It's unusual that something so huge doesn't have much of a gravitational field, and we can't decipher its composition with a lot of effort, it's so hard that our gravitational tentacles can't destroy it, and we can only deduce its age by analyzing the composition of the surrounding nebula.

We were surprised by the results, this strange metal ring appeared 10 billion years ago, before the stars that raised us, you should have calculated the age of the universe since the Big Bang? One hundred and thirty-eight billion years, that is, the civilization that created it, perhaps the oldest civilization in the universe, we are as naïve and powerless as children in front of them, and it is not worth mentioning at all.

But where did they go? Are they still alive?

After that, we searched for a long time, but we did not find any living life or data that could be analyzed nearby, the composition of the surrounding nebula came from a star that had been destroyed, perhaps the metal ring was not in this galaxy at first, it drifted in the universe for a long time, was captured by the gravitational pull of a star and drifted over, until it was destroyed and it continued to float to the next location.

The enigmatic metal ring twists into an end-to-end, endless loop that seems to give us some revelation, and it itself seems to be a symbol of infinity and eternity, and perhaps it will exist until the end of the universe.

We are very excited about this discovery, since we have no goal, it is better to follow in their footsteps, such a great civilization is the goal of all the creatures in the universe, we searched all the way for the trajectory of the nebula to spread, and we stopped and analyzed the clues where they were broken, hoping to find a little legacy or enlightenment of this great civilization one day, and finally we finally found the original location of the mysterious metal ring.

It was the realm of death that no one could step into, where the deflection rate of the cosmic membrane was even higher than in a black hole, no, the cosmic membrane no longer existed in that location, there was neither space nor time, the objective laws of the three-dimensional world were broken in that place, and our great predecessors broke through the limitations of the dimension and sublimated into the new world, and here is only the last footprint they left, just like the big hole left in the paper after the two-dimensional civilization broke through the limit.

They were gone, all the heritage they could not take with them into this twisted ring, and threw it into the universe, a monument that had no effect, a piece of iron that would not be destroyed, commemorating their sublimation to new heights in this moment. It will forever wander freely in the universe, looking at the younger civilizations who are still struggling.

I think you should have guessed who they are, yes, they are the civilization that left you that spaceship, and they are also the civilization that planted the 'egg' on the earth, they have reached the highest level of civilization, cut through the cosmic membrane and transcended, we call them ascendants.

From that time, our eyes were truly opened, and it was from that time that we understood the ultimate meaning of life's existence, but they left us more than that, we were on the edge of the cosmic membrane breach...... Found the first 'egg'.