The entire laboratory suddenly fell into a deathly silence, and hundreds of Federation researchers were instantly plunged into panic. Several persistent scholars ordered the intelligent brain to conduct another self-check, and the result was still [No abnormalities detected, all programs running normally].
"Could it be that an alien civilization is observing here?" A researcher looked around in terror, stammering as he spoke.
Excluding experimental accidents, there was only one possibility left — the collapse of quantum probabilities and the observation by arthropods like mantises and spiders suggested that some intelligent life forms, invisible to them, were watching the experiment!
Although the Federation has been navigating the stars for hundreds of years, due to the lack of breakthroughs in curvature engine technology, they're still circling within the solar system without even a shadow of aliens.