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

Lin Tian couldn't help but sigh to himself.

This Ayrs tribe is indeed something else.

He slowly activated the primordial black hole, flying along the outer wall of the collection station while scanning its internal structure with a gravitational field.

The internal space of the collection station is extremely large, a ring with a diameter of tens of millions of kilometers, large enough to hold countless Earths.

However, most of the area is empty.

Because almost all of the dark matter has been collected, only a small amount remains.

What really caught Lin Tian's attention was a spherical cabin located at the core of the collection station.

The gravitational signature signal in that compartment was much denser than in other areas.

If there is still well-preserved data in this collection station, it must be there.

Without further hesitation, Lin Tian activated the Primordial Black Hole and moved closer to the core chamber.

……

The process of entering the collection station went much more smoothly than Lin Tian had expected.

Lin Tian could sense that the spacetime structure here was different from other places.

The spacetime here is clearly highly compressed.

The most direct evidence is that the diameter of the outer dark matter halo is 100 light-years, but the diameter of the inside of this collection station is only tens of millions of kilometers.

If calculated according to conventional spatial scales, the inside of the collection station simply cannot hold much dark matter.

But Lin Tian could sense that the space here had been stretched.

Einstein's theory of general relativity has long demonstrated that mass can bend spacetime.

The greater the mass, the greater the spacetime curvature, and the smaller the space will be compressed.

The Ayrs clearly took advantage of this.

They created a highly compressed miniature space that can hold and store massive amounts of dark matter.

This technique is far superior to any skill Lin Tian currently possesses.

However, he could also tell that this miniature space had been abandoned for a long time.

Although the spacetime compression structure still exists, very little dark matter remains inside, leaving only some sparse remnants.

Lin Tian observed his surroundings as he approached the core cabin.

The core compartment is a spherical space with a diameter of approximately 100,000 kilometers.

In the very center of the cabin, a cube floats.

The side length is approximately one meter.

On a cosmic scale, this is almost negligible.

However, the gravitational wave signal it emitted made Lin Tian involuntarily hold his breath.

That's a database.

A database that has been preserved for hundreds of millions of years and is still in operation.

Lin Tian directed the Primordial Black Hole to approach the cube, enveloping it with a gravitational field. After confirming that no traps or defense mechanisms had been triggered, he began to attempt to analyze the data inside.

The data was stored in a format unlike any encoding method he was familiar with.

However, the will of the universe seems to have a built-in translation mechanism—the moment Lin Tian's consciousness touched the database, lines of translated text appeared before his eyes.

[Ayr Gathering Station - Third Era - Data Backup]

[Backup Date: Late Third Era, approximately 300 time cycles before the start of the apocalypse.]

[Access Level: Public.]

……

Lin Tian read through the database line by line.

There is a lot of information, but much of it is about the daily operation of the data collection station.

What really caught Lin Tian's attention was the content of the second half of the database.

That place records the history of the Ayrs people.

The Ayers, a civilization of cosmic observers that existed hundreds of millions of years ago.

They were chosen by the will of the universe billions of years before humans, becoming the observers of the universe in their generation.

Like humans, they also started from a small star, constantly consuming nebula matter, evolving and growing, and eventually building a vast civilization spanning the entire star sector.

But they are different from humans.

They followed the route of the Intricate Star.

From the very beginning, the Ayrs chose to collapse inward, pursuing higher density and stronger gravity.

Moreover, they went extremely far on this road.

According to the database, at the height of their civilization, the Ayrs were able to control multiple black holes simultaneously.

These black holes are linked together by a technology called "gravitational arrays" to form a giant gravitational network.

Through this network, they can precisely control the curvature of every inch of spacetime at a sector-level scale.

That's nothing compared to what's to come.

What truly shocked Lin Tian was the record that followed.

The Ayrs were even able to use black hole singularities to warp spacetime, achieving faster-than-light travel.

The specific principle is that when a singularity of a black hole is subjected to a specific gravitational pulse, the spacetime around it will be highly compressed and stretched—compressing the space in front and stretching the space behind.

In this way, the black hole itself is equivalent to moving forward in a compressed spacetime, thus achieving an equivalent superluminal speed.

There was a very famous theory in the geophysical community of the previous life—the warp drive.

The core idea of ​​the warp drive is to circumvent the limitation that the speed of light cannot be exceeded by distorting spacetime.

The speed of light limit only applies to the movement of objects within spacetime. However, if spacetime itself is compressed or stretched, the effective forward speed of an object can far exceed the speed of light.

Of course, all of this is just theory.

In their past lives, humans claimed to be able to control black holes, but they couldn't even escape the solar system!

Not to mention using black hole singularities to warp spacetime.

But this civilization from hundreds of millions of years ago has already turned theory into reality.

"Gravity array...faster-than-light travel..."

Lin Tian felt an indescribable surge of excitement.

I never imagined the Ayrs would go so far down the path of black holes!

In the records of the Ayrs, the black hole route is merely the starting point.

The Kerr black hole is only an intermediate form.

The true goal is to use black holes as the foundation to build a gravitational network that spans the scale of the universe.

The Ayers have already traversed this path.

Their experience is an invaluable treasure for Lin Tian.

However, as Lin Tian's gaze swept over the last few paragraphs of the database, his expression gradually became serious.

Those records are about the extinction of the Ayrs race.

[The end times begin in the late Third Age.]

The will of the universe no longer responds to our calls; the gravitational array begins to resonate abnormally. We don't know what's happening; we only know—everything is wrong.

We sent distress signals to other observer civilizations, but received no response. We searched all known star sectors and found no trace of any other civilizations. It's as if we're the only ones left in the entire universe.

We are beginning to wonder if, from the very beginning, the will of the universe was not what we imagined.

We're starting to wonder—what exactly is it filtering?

We began to wonder—what its true purpose was.

But it was too late.

We will pay the price for our spying.

[The Third Era ended, and the Ayr race entered a period of flight.]

[Final note: Do not trust... the will of the universe... it is filtering... it is eliminating...]

Its real purpose is—