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

After saying that, the Primordial Black Hole began to drift deeper into the Nebula Secret Realm.

A nebula fifteen times denser was waiting for him ahead.

Seeing this, the novice observers around them also came to their senses and hurriedly urged their stars to swarm in.

Just moments ago, they were blocked from moving an inch by the cosmic barrier, but now the gates to the secret realm are fully open, and no one wants to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Lu Xuejian, however, did not rush to make a move.

She watched the small, yellowish star gradually receding into the distance, her eyes swirling with a complex mix of emotions.

What kind of person is this guy?

He didn't take the Hegemon Guild seriously at all.

But because of this inherent arrogance, she was somewhat unsure what kind of person he really was.

She couldn't see through it.

Once Lin Tian's star had completely disappeared into the dense substance of the Nebula Secret Realm, Lu Xuejian withdrew her gaze and gently exhaled.

The relationship between the Lu family and the Hegemon Guild is likely to be completely severed from now on.

However, she has no regrets at all.

Even if time could be reversed, she would still make the same choice.

As for Lin Tian—

She felt a strong sense of curiosity.

She really wanted to know just how much more trouble this person could stir up in the Seventh Star District.

……

Meanwhile, in Tianhai City, at the headquarters of the Hegemony Guild.

In a conference room that was so spacious it was almost unbelievable, a middle-aged man sat expressionlessly in the main seat.

The four walls of this conference room are all projection screens, currently displaying star maps of various regions in the Seventh Star Sector in real time.

Directly opposite him, a huge light screen was playing a video of everything that had just happened at the entrance to the Nebula Secret Realm.

The middle-aged man tapped the handrail lightly with his fingers, one tap at a time, at a steady, unhurried pace.

But everyone else standing in the conference room had their heads down and didn't dare to breathe.

They were all too familiar with the head of the family's state.

The calmer you are, the more terrifying you are.

After a long silence, the head of the Zhao family finally spoke.

"A combat power index of 12,800."

"Zero brightness, zero volume, black hole trajectory, announced personally by the will of the universe... On the first day of the newbie protection period, it swallowed six observers, five of whom were red giants."

"Today, in front of hundreds of people, the barrier I personally set up collapsed again."

"Can any of you tell me, just who is this newbie named Lin Tian?"

No one dared to answer.

According to the intelligence they currently possess, this Lin Tian is someone who appeared out of nowhere.

Orphaned, destitute, and without any special background.

It is precisely because it is so ordinary that it seems even more incredible.

How could someone like that accomplish all of this?

"Investigate," the Zhao family head uttered only one word.

The people below immediately responded in unison, "Yes!"

"I don't care what path he takes, I don't care how high his combat power is. In this Seventh Star District, no one can make my Zhao family lose face without paying the price."

The head of the Zhao family spoke very slowly, each word seemingly squeezed out from between his teeth.

"In short, I need to know everything about him."

"Then, I will personally tell him what it means to offend the Zhao family in this star sector."

……

The turmoil in the outside world had nothing to do with Lin Tian at this moment.

He has already driven the Primordial Black Hole into the depths of the Nebula Secret Realm.

Upon entering the secret realm, he sensed a completely different aura.

Nebula matter.

An overwhelming amount of nebular material.

This nebula secret realm is like a vast ocean.

His primordial black hole, at this moment, is like a whale, devouring everything in this vast ocean.

The dense nebular matter, as if finding its home, surged wildly toward the primordial black hole.

Under the powerful gravitational field of the black hole, these substances formed a giant vortex.

The vortex was spinning at an extreme speed, and the temperature at its center had soared to a level high enough to melt an ordinary star.

High-energy radiation burst forth from the accretion disk, illuminating the surrounding nebula material.

However, before these rays of light could escape very far, they were drawn back into the black hole's event horizon.

From the outside, the place appears calm and undisturbed.

The primordial black hole was like a bottomless pit that could never be filled, continuously swallowing the nebulous matter that poured in.

To the average observer, absorbing nebula matter is a skill-based activity.

You have to adjust the gravitational field, you have to calculate the absorption rate, and you have to guide the nebulous matter that's drifting around everywhere little by little onto your star.

If things go wrong, not only will we fail to absorb much matter, but we might also scatter the already insufficient nebula matter.

But for black holes, these techniques are completely unnecessary.

A black hole is itself a gravitational vortex.

You don't need to adjust the gravitational field, because the gravitational field is right there on your face.

You don't need to calculate the absorption rate, because the substance will naturally enter your mouth.

The only thing you need to worry about is whether there's enough matter in this nebula for you to eat.

[Star quality +0.5]

[Star quality +0.3]

[Star quality +0.7]

[Star quality +1.2]

……

A dense barrage of system notifications flashed before my eyes like a waterfall.

Lin Tian could clearly sense that the mass of the primordial black hole was increasing at an alarming rate.

Nineteen hundred times the mass of the sun.

Two thousand times the mass of the sun.

Two thousand one hundred times the mass of the sun.

Two thousand three hundred times the mass of the sun.

Two thousand five hundred times the mass of the sun.

……

Such speed is unbelievable.

It's important to understand that for ordinary observers, even if a star's mass increases by one or two times the mass of the Sun after being swallowed up for several days and nights, it would already be considered a remarkable achievement.

What about Lin Tian?

From the time he entered the Nebula Secret Realm until now, only a few hours have passed.

The mass of the primordial black hole has increased to more than five hundred times the mass of the sun.

And this speed is constantly accelerating.

The larger the mass of a black hole, the stronger its gravitational field.

The stronger the gravitational field, the more efficient it is at swallowing nebula matter.

This is a completely positive snowball effect.

Once this snowball starts rolling, nothing can stop it.

"At this rate, by the time I finish devouring this secret realm, the mass of the Primordial Black Hole should exceed five thousand times the mass of the sun."

An indescribable excitement welled up in Lin Tian's heart.

A black hole with 5,000 times the mass of the Sun can be considered an intermediate-mass black hole.

Although it is still far from being comparable to those supermassive black holes with masses of hundreds of thousands or millions of times that of the sun.

But for the current Seventh Sector, such quality is enough to make him invincible in any battle.

He was confident he could even challenge those big shots in the top ten of the rankings.

Top ten on the list?

Head of the Zhao family?

Lin Tian suddenly smiled to himself.

In my past life, those quasars, with masses hundreds of millions of times that of the sun, silently devoured the universe for billions of years, never caring about how the outside world viewed them.

His primordial black hole, while not comparable to those super monsters deep in the universe, is sufficient for the Seventh Sector.

……

Time passed by, second by second.

The primordial black hole's devouring continues at an unreasonable pace.

Outside this nebula secret realm, a conspiracy against him has already begun in secret.

Tianhai City, Zhao Family Residence.

Zhao Rutie, the head of the Zhao family, sat in the observation chamber, with seven or eight light screens floating in front of him.

On each of the light screens, an investigation report about Lin Tian was displayed.

"Lin Tian, ​​eighteen years old, a student in Class 5, Grade 12 at Lancheng High School."

His parents died in a star sector accident five years ago, leaving him alone with no relatives.

"For the past three years, I have relied on scholarships and work-study programs to make a living, and my mock exam results have consistently ranked first in the entire school."

……

Zhao Rutie read through each message from beginning to end, his expression gradually changing from calm to serious, and finally back to calm.

"The initial star with 0.8 solar masses grew to 1,890 solar masses in just three days."

"Who else do you think can achieve this level of growth efficiency?"

The people in the conference room looked at each other and fell silent.

"Can't answer that, huh?" Zhao Rutie sneered. "It's simple. If this continues, in a month or two at most, his black hole will grow to a point where it can threaten us."

"Master," a middle-aged man standing beside him spoke up, "should we send someone now—"

"What's the point of sending them now?" Zhao Rutie interrupted him, his tone still calm. "He's holed up in the Nebula Secret Realm and won't come out. Are we supposed to just storm in and blow it up?"

The middle-aged man was speechless for a moment.

"The secret realm is protected by the will of the universe," Zhao Rutie continued. "Unless the people inside come out on their own, those outside cannot interfere."

"However, the secret realm only lasts for ninety-six hours."

"He will be automatically teleported out in ninety-six hours."

At this point, a faint smile appeared on his lips: "The moment he emerges from the secret realm, block him from entering."

"This time, Tianyu doesn't need to lead the team; let Chen Wuye go personally."

Upon hearing the name Chen Wuye, everyone present gasped in unison.

Chen Wuye ranked ninth in the entire Seventh Star District.

One of the five top experts of the Hegemon Guild.

A veteran player of the Red Giant Star route, with 15 years of experience and a combat power index of 1,148,000 points.

Such a person is already considered to be at the very top of the pyramid in the Seventh Star Sector.

Asking him to personally lead a team to ambush and kill a newbie is a bit too much...

However, no one dared to object.

Because everyone knows that Zhao Tianyu just made a huge fool of himself at the entrance of the Nebula Secret Realm.

Although Zhao Rutie appeared calm on the surface, he was already furious inside.

"Chen Wuye alone isn't enough," Zhao Rutie suddenly said again. "Go and bring over Chen Lie's star core bomb as well."