Starfall Era: The Civilization Devourer

When humanity's deep-space probe captured the first unnatural pulse signal in the Silent Abyss, no one knew it was the opening whistle of a hunt on a cosmic scale. During a hyperspace accident, starship engineer Lin Xia stumbled upon the secret of the Star Eaters: they were not an intelligent civilization, but “cancer cells of civilization” that wandered between dimensional rifts, multiplying by devouring the life and laws of star systems. To stop Earth from becoming their next prey, Lin Xia was forced to ally with Zero, a rogue Star Eater. But she discovered that the Human Federation had already been infiltrated, and even the supposedly impenetrable Star Dome Defense Line was bait laid by the Star Eaters. From dismantling thought nebulae that devoured memories to planting antimatter bombs inside collapsing white dwarfs, they had to find the Star Eaters' “origin brood nest” before civilization was eaten away completely: a terrifying entity hidden in the folds of time, feeding on the entire universe.