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

After reading the intelligence, Lin Tian remained silent for a moment.

Everyone thought he would immediately order the Black Hole Legion to split into thirty-four groups to intercept the detonation points scattered throughout the Great Xia Kingdom.

However, Lin Tian's next order stunned everyone.

"Since they want to play with supernovae, then I'll let them experience what real cosmic-level radiation is like first!"

After he finished speaking, the Black Hole Legion's command channel remained silent for a full three seconds.

Fang Yan was the first to react: "Teacher Lin, you mean—we shouldn't intercept the detonation point?"

"I'm not going," Lin Tian replied without hesitation.

"Then let's—"

"Let's go straight to the British Empire!"

Lin Tian raised his hand and marked a location on the holographic star map.

The capital star sector of the British Empire.

"The anti-black hole alliance was spearheaded by the Russian bear, but the real driving force behind the Supernovalink project was the British Empire."

"Their pulsar navigation system is the core technology of the entire project. Without their navigation, the artificial supernova would be blind."

He paused, a hint of coldness creeping into his voice.

"Since they like playing with fire so much, let them experience what it's like to be roasted by fire first."

The Black Hole Legion made no stop after leaving the Moscow Sector.

One hundred and twenty black holes, guided by primordial quasars, flew at top speed toward the London sector of the British Empire.

With the warp drive fully activated, the light of the billion-year acceleration card simultaneously shone in the accretion disks of every black hole.

Spacetime is compressed in front of them and stretched behind them.

The entire formation was as if being pushed by an invisible hand, speeding toward its destination at a speed far exceeding that of normal navigation.

……

The intelligence system of the British Empire did not disappoint Lin Tian.

Long before the Black Hole Legion entered the London Sector Identification Zone, their gravitational wave detection array had already captured those profound signals.

Those were 120 signals.

They have no volume, no brightness, only an unfathomable gravitational field.

And at the very forefront of these signals, there is an even larger entity.

The alarm lights at the London Star District Defence Command turned a blinding red at that moment.

"Report! A massive gravitational signal is approaching the outer edge of the London Sector! Number—over one hundred!"

"Signal characteristic analysis complete—it's a black hole! It's the Black Hole Legion of the Great Xia Kingdom!"

"That signal at the very front—good heavens—its gravitational field strength is hundreds of times greater than the upper limit of our detector's range! What is that?!"

The officer on duty had beads of cold sweat on his forehead.

He almost instinctively grabbed the encrypted communicator and connected to the Imperial Council as quickly as possible.

"Emergency! The Great Xia Kingdom's Black Hole Legion is approaching the London Sector! Leading it is—a celestial object we cannot measure! Estimated arrival time—less than three hours!"

……

The British Empire Parliament.

This centuries-old circular conference hall is now packed with people.

Hundreds of members of parliament sat in tiered seating, each with the same expression on their face.

Shock, and fear.

On the high platform in the center of the conference hall, Prime Minister Charles Winston was giving a speech.

"Fellow members of parliament, just a few hours ago, the Russian nation announced its withdrawal from the Anti-Black Hole Alliance."

"Their president, Novikov, said in a public statement that the gap between the black hole route and the giant star route cannot be made up for by quantity."

A low commotion arose in the council chamber.

Winston raised his hand, signaling for everyone to be quiet.

"President Novikov is a realist; he saw the gap, so he chose to back down."

"But the British Empire is different!"

"Our history has never been written in retreat!"

"A hundred years ago, when the will of the universe descended upon Earth, everyone thought that the British Empire would fall behind in this new competition."

"But our scientists have successfully navigated the pulsar route, allowing the British Empire to once again stand at the forefront of the world!"

"Today, we are facing a black hole."

"But we have Supernova Chain! We have the Anti-Black Hole Alliance! We have all the technology and will we've accumulated over the past century!"

"We will fight to the end! We will fight in the cities! We will fight in the skies! We will fight in outer space! We will fight using pulsars! We will fight using supernovae!"

"We will never surrender!"

As he finished speaking, a burst of enthusiastic applause erupted in the council chamber.

Many lawmakers even stood up in excitement.

Winston nodded in satisfaction.

He knew his speech had worked.

Fear is temporary; once people are instilled with enough confidence, they will stand up again.

However, before he could savor this brief victory, the side door of the parliament was suddenly pushed open.

A staff officer from the Ministry of National Defense stumbled in, his face completely pale.

"Your...Your Excellency the Prime Minister!" His voice trembled. "The Great Xia Kingdom's Black Hole Legion—has entered the outer reaches of the London Sector! They're less than three light-years away!"

The entire parliament hall fell into a deathly silence in that instant.

Winston's smile froze.

He turned around, his gaze fixed intently on the staff officer: "What did you say?"

"The black hole army has arrived! Leading it is—a celestial object we've never seen before! Its brightness... its brightness data is unreadable! All detectors are overloaded!"

Winston's lips moved slightly.

Before he could utter a second word, a beam of light suddenly pierced through the dome of the council hall.

Winston looked up almost instinctively.

Then, he saw it.

Under that light, the entire London star sector was illuminated as if it were daytime.

That light was much brighter than his pulsar.

It is countless times brighter than all the stars of the British Empire combined.

"What is this... what is this...?" Winston's voice was extremely hoarse.

No one answered him.

Because everyone else was just like him, completely dumbfounded.

……

Winston didn't know how long he had been stunned.

Then a voice rang out from a public communications channel.

"Observers of the British Empire, I am Lin Tian, ​​commander of the Black Hole Task Force of the Great Xia Kingdom."

"Your artificial supernova technology is indeed quite advanced. If thirty-four of them were detonated simultaneously, it could indeed cause a brief period of disruption to the Great Xia Kingdom's communication network."

"But you made a mistake."

"You think that artificial supernovae are the most extreme sources of radiation in the universe."

"Unfortunately, it isn't."

"True cosmic-level radiation comes from the polar jets of quasars."

"Its essence is that high-energy particles are accelerated to near the speed of light in the powerful magnetic field generated by the rotation of a black hole, and then ejected from the poles."

"On a cosmic scale, this jet could penetrate tens of thousands of light-years of space, evaporating everything in its path."

"And my primordial quasar has a mass that exceeds 30 million times that of the Sun."

"You can imagine what would happen if I aimed the bipolar jets at the London star sector."