Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 332 Free Fall
In an instant, all of their fleet's creations possessed a gravitational acceleration roughly equivalent to half that of Earth, which was astonishing enough and far beyond Li Qingsong's imagination.

After all, even if Li Qingsong actively accelerated, the overall acceleration of the human fleet would only reach a maximum of about 0.9 meters per second squared, which is only about one-sixth of that number.

Through long-range communication equipment, Li Qingsong also discovered that just a few seconds earlier, his own warships, located at the edge of the battlefield and about 900 million kilometers away, had detected an acceleration of about 2000 meters per second squared in an instant!

The most maneuverable warship built by Li Qingsong had a maximum acceleration of only 1000 meters per second squared, which is about 100 times the Earth's gravity.

At this moment, this number is approximately 200 times the Earth's gravity!
Under such high gravity, even warships made of high-strength nuclear materials would be instantly damaged and crushed.

Moreover, even closer to the heart of the battlefield, Li Qingsong's warship detected an even higher acceleration.

From the edge of the battlefield, extending inwards to a depth of approximately 100,000 kilometers, the warships there detected an acceleration of about 3100 meters per second squared, a full 316 times the Earth's gravity. Further inwards, the gravitational acceleration value climbed again. When they were only 10,000 kilometers from the core of the battlefield, Li Qingsong detected a gravitational acceleration value of several hundred kilometers per second, tens of thousands of times the Earth's gravity, comparable to the gravity on the surface of a white dwarf!

But at this moment, despite such high gravity, not a single warship was damaged.

Four words suddenly appeared in Li Qingsong's mind.

Free fall!

The Earth's gravitational acceleration is approximately 9.8 meters per second squared.

So how can one experience weightlessness within Earth's gravitational field?
The method is simple: just fall towards the Earth with an acceleration of 9.8 meters per second squared.

At this moment, everything in Li Qingsong's fleet was experiencing different accelerations towards the core of the battlefield depending on the distance, but no overload was felt. The only possibility was that everything in his fleet was undergoing free fall.

However, free fall can only occur within a gravitational field. And how massive would a planet need to be to create such a high gravitational field?
With a simple calculation, Li Qingsong figured that at this moment, the mass of the celestial body located at the core of the battlefield, which he could not see at all, should be about 3.75 times the mass of the sun.

A full 3.75 suns placed in such a small area create such a powerful gravitational field, yet you can't see anything at all?
This seems to imply only one possibility.

A black hole appeared out of nowhere there!
Only black holes can possess such high mass and such small volume, and emit no detectable radiation!
But there was nothing there before. Why has such a massive black hole suddenly appeared?

Li Qingsong instantly recalled the unknown civilization he had seen before, which was highly suspected of having reached the gravitational stage, and the tens of thousands of interstellar missiles launched by that unknown civilization.

Could this black hole have been created by that gravitational civilization?

For what?
Regardless of the reason for this, let's accelerate first and then try to counteract this gravitational pull.

Those warships on the battlefield are destroyed, so what? They're just remotely controlled warships anyway, and besides, not all of them belong to us, some belong to the enemy.

But if his main fleet were to be drawn away, the losses would be enormous. All his creations, all races, all clones, including that flying star, would be destroyed.

At this moment, every space carrier, transport ship, habitation spacecraft, industrial ship, and warship, including the flying star, activated its propulsion power to maximum. They no longer cared about maintaining formation; their priority was escaping this gravitational field.

However, some smaller spacecraft can generate enough thrust to escape this gravitational field. Some larger spacecraft, especially space carriers, even with their engines running at maximum power, can only accelerate at a rate of no more than two meters per second, which can only buy them a temporary boost. In the long run, they will still be sucked into that seemingly invisible black hole.

But... we can't worry about that now, let's just escape as many as we can.

Li Qingsong's main fleet began to advance at full power, while the warships located in the middle of the battlefield were directly abandoned by Li Qingsong.

Even at the edge of the battlefield, the warship, which is least affected by gravity, still experiences a gravitational acceleration of 2000 meters per second squared, while its maximum maneuverability is only 1000 meters per second squared. It is impossible to break free, and Li Qingsong is too lazy to waste his energy.

But his opponents didn't seem to think that way.

Li Qingsong saw that the instant the invisible strong gravitational source appeared, all of the approximately 40 warships under the control of the opponent simultaneously activated their maximum propulsion power, doing everything in their power to escape from this gravitational field.

Those warships were all built by Li Qingsong himself. He knew their performance very well and how powerful they were.

In the vast starry sky, the exhaust plumes from the tails of numerous warships and spaceships have gradually changed from bright white to bright blue—meaning that the engine's jet and propulsion power has now exceeded its original design limits.

With such immense thrust, those spaceships were like raging beasts with boundless power struggling with all their might.

but……

That invisible force of gravity was like an incredibly thick and strong chain, firmly holding back all these raging behemoths.

No matter how hard they struggled, they couldn't break free from the gravitational chains and were still being pulled back by them.

One force surged forward with all its might, while the other pulled with all its might. Under the combined force of these two forces, the ship's hull, constructed from extremely advanced high-strength nuclear materials, collapsed instantly and was completely destroyed, as if it had experienced an implosion.

But... even the wreckage that had been destroyed couldn't escape the pull of those gravitational chains. Those bright fireballs were still mercilessly dragged to the heart of the battlefield.

In just over ten minutes, this vast battlefield, where the battle was raging fiercely, was as clean as if it had been swept by a powerful vacuum cleaner, leaving nothing behind.

Except for one thing.

A perfectly smooth sphere, emitting a bright blue light, almost perfectly sized, with a radius of only about 20 meters.

(End of this chapter)