Everyone's playing Red Giant? I, Black Hole, devour everything!

The core area of ​​the cherry blossom defense line.

The deployment of the 78 superneutron stars in a ring array has been completed.

Their arrangement is extremely regular, like a necklace of pearls inlaid in the starry sky.

The distance between each superneutron star has been precisely calculated.

The gravitational fields superimpose and couple with each other, forming an almost impenetrable gravitational network.

At the center of this net, a slightly larger neutron star is suspended.

That is Yamamoto Ichiro's celestial body.

His neutron star is old.

Having spent too many years in the observation chamber, his nervous system could no longer withstand the feedback from the high-intensity gravitational field.

The doctor said he could only hold on for a few more months at most, and if he went back into the observation ward, he might collapse inside and never come out again.

But he still came in.

Because this is the last battle for the Sakura Kingdom.

If he, the president, isn't there, what right do those young observers have to die?

Why should we face a quasar that even an antimatter bomb can't destroy?

"President," Vice President Kameda's voice came through the comms, "The Black Hole Legion of the Great Xia Kingdom... has begun its retreat!"

Yamamoto Ichiro's brow furrowed sharply.

retreat?

Retreat at this critical juncture?

He immediately pulled up the detector's data, and then he was completely stunned.

It's not fake.

The black hole of the Great Xia Kingdom is indeed retreating.

They retreated quickly and neatly, not at all like they were feigning a retreat to lure the enemy, but rather as if they were actively making room for the Cherry Blossom Country.

"Why...why did they retreat?" Kameda's voice was full of confusion. "Our superneutron star was just fully deployed. They could have attacked before we could fully array ourselves—why did they retreat?"

Yamamoto Ichiro did not answer.

A sudden, uneasy premonition welled up in his heart.

This wasn't the first time he had dealt with Lin Tian.

He knew better than anyone that the most terrifying thing about this young man was not how strong his quasar was, but how sharp his combat instincts were.

He never makes mistakes.

Every decision he made, seemingly mundane, was in fact a step-by-step push towards the enemy's doom.

What does it mean that he's now making the Black Hole Legion retreat?

This means he doesn't need to attack at all.

This means that, in his view, these superneutron stars do not require his intervention at all.

Yamamoto Ichiro's heart clenched suddenly.

"No...no!" His voice suddenly rose, "Did he know that superneutron stars have a fatal weakness?! Has he already—already—!"

He didn't finish his sentence.

Because at that very instant, his detector captured an extremely faint gravitational wave signal.

That was a gravitational pulse.

It was emitted from the direction of the primordial quasar.

The energy is not large; in fact, it can be described as very weak.

But its frequency is so precise it's chilling.

Ichiro Yamamoto has spent over a decade studying the neutron star path and his sensitivity to gravitational waves far exceeds that of ordinary observers.

He realized how terrifying the signal was almost the instant he caught it.

That frequency is exactly the same as the internal oscillation frequency of a superneutron star.

"Gravitational resonance..." Yamamoto Ichiro's lips began to tremble violently. "He's using gravitational resonance—!"

Gravitational resonance.

When the frequency of an external gravitational wave perfectly matches the oscillation frequency of a celestial body, the amplitude will be amplified dramatically.

There is a well-known example of this phenomenon in the macroscopic world.

If a well-trained army marches in unison across a bridge, the resulting resonance could cause the entire bridge to collapse.

For superneutron stars in a critical state, gravitational resonance is the final straw that breaks the camel's back.

Its internal structure was already teetering on the edge of the Oppenheimer limit.

The balance between neutron decompression and gravitational collapse is extremely fragile; any tiny external disturbance could push this star across the critical line.

The gravitational pulse that Lin Tian fired hit its most vulnerable spot.

It was like a needle, precisely piercing the thinnest part of the heart valve.

Then, everything became irreversible.

The internal balance of the first superneutron star was disrupted.

Its core began to collapse at an unprecedented rate under the influence of gravitational resonance.

The neutron decompression was completely crushed, and the quark decompression could not hold either. All matter was falling toward the center at near the speed of light.

The collapse process lasted less than three seconds.

Three seconds later, this once radiant superneutron star completely disappeared.

Instead, a miniature black hole was created.

Its mass is about four times that of the Sun, and the diameter of its event horizon is less than twenty kilometers.

However, the gravitational field it releases is many times stronger than that of the superneutron star from before.

Because this is no longer a celestial body in a critical state.

This is a real black hole.

And this chain reaction has only just begun.

After the first superneutron star collapsed into a black hole, the gravitational field it released immediately began to disturb neighboring superneutron stars.

Those superneutron stars were already teetering on the brink of collapse.

The internal balance was disrupted almost instantly after being disturbed by the gravitational field of this newly formed black hole.

The second superneutron star began to collapse.

Then came the third one.

The fourth one.

The fifth one.

The sixth one.

The collapse happened so fast that it was impossible to react.

The core area of ​​the Cherry Blossom Defense Line instantly transformed into a terrifying gravitational hell.

Seventy-eight superneutron stars collapsed into miniature black holes in less than a minute.

The gravitational fields they release overlap and pull on each other, distorting the entire starry sky beyond recognition.

Space itself is distorted, bent, and torn apart in the gravitational fields of these newly formed black holes, forming spacetime rifts that are invisible to the naked eye but powerful enough to shatter everything.

But that's not the scariest part.

The most terrifying thing is that these miniature black holes are so close together.

They are so close that their gravitational fields simply cannot remain independent.

The gravitational pull between black holes begins to take effect.

The smaller, microscopic black hole is dragged along by the larger one, and the two event horizons merge into one the instant they come into contact.

merge.

Merge again.

Merging again and again.

Every black hole merger releases an extremely powerful gravitational wave.

Wherever the shockwave passed, all the struggling Sakura Kingdom planets were shattered into fragments.

Red giants, blue giants, neutron stars—they are all utterly vulnerable to gravitational wave tsunamis.

Those celestial bodies that were lucky enough not to be directly shattered were captured by the gravitational field of the newly formed black hole and dragged into the event horizon.

All the remaining celestial bodies in the Sakura Kingdom were largely destroyed by the gravitational waves of the chain collapse.

More than three thousand stars were swallowed or torn apart within minutes.

The endpoint of these black hole mergers is an intermediate-sized black hole with a mass approximately 150 times that of the Sun.

It floats silently in the very center of the Cherry Blossom Kingdom's territory, like a bottomless pit that can never be filled.

The surrounding starry sky was filled with debris torn apart by gravitational waves.

On the public channel, a deathly silence lasted for a full ten seconds.

Then, it exploded.

"What...what happened?! Where are all those superneutron stars?! So many superneutron stars, how come there aren't a single one left?!"

"They collapsed! They all collapsed! They became black holes! They became uncontrolled miniature black holes! And then they merged together!"

"Our planet—our planet has been swallowed! The Third Regiment is completely wiped out! The Fifth Regiment is also completely wiped out! Those black holes don't distinguish between friend and foe; they've swallowed our entire position!"

"How could this happen?! Wasn't Project Amaterasu our last resort?! How did it become a weapon used to attack our own people?!"

"Where is President Yamamoto?! Where is President Yamamoto?! Make him come out and explain! Make him come out—!"