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

Lu Xuejian remained silent.

She simply stared at Zhao Tianyu silently, her gaze devoid of any emotion, as if she were watching a clown jumping around.

Zhao Tianyu felt extremely uncomfortable under her gaze.

"Are you going to agree or not?!"

"Zhao Tianyu," Lu Xuejian finally spoke, her voice as calm as still water, "Do you know what the biggest difference is between you and Lin Tian?"

Zhao Tianyu's expression changed immediately.

"You—you dare mention Lin Tian to me?!"

"The biggest difference between you and him is that you will always hide behind others, relying on your family, your background, and the path that others have paved for you to show off your power."

Lu Xuejian's voice wasn't loud, but every word was like a knife, piercing Zhao Tianyu's heart.

"But Lin Tian is different."

"He relied on himself from beginning to end."

"What makes you think you can compare to him?"

Zhao Tianyu's face turned a deep purplish-red.

He stared intently at Lu Xuejian, his gaze almost devouring her alive.

"Fine...fine! Lu Xuejian, you're going to refuse a polite offer and then drink a forfeit, aren't you?!"

"Guards! Swallow her star! I want to see—after you're swallowed, will you still be so stubborn!"

Several red giants immediately surrounded it, and the gravitational field began to tighten simultaneously.

Lu Xuejian felt that her blue giant star was being squeezed from all sides by a tremendous force.

The hydrogen and helium gas outside the star began to be stripped away, and violent fluctuations surged on the surface.

She knew her time was running out.

But she wasn't afraid.

At least, it wasn't out of fear for herself.

She just felt regret.

It's a pity I didn't get to see that person again.

Three years.

The boy who always sat in the back row by the window in the classroom; the boy who always outperformed her in the simulation battles, making her grit her teeth but helpless; the boy who said "You're welcome" to her in front of everyone at the entrance of the Nebula Secret Realm.

She hadn't had a chance to say those words to him yet.

Perhaps, she will never have another chance.

A feeling she had never experienced before welled up deep within Lu Xuejian's consciousness.

It's not sadness, it's not despair.

It's a regret that's hard to explain.

She closed her eyes.

The last image that surfaced in my mind was that dim, yellowish little star, which used a gravitational field to shatter the Zhao family's cosmic barrier at the entrance to the Nebula Secret Realm.

That guy...

What are you doing now?

……

The instant Lu Xuejian closed her eyes—

A piercing alarm suddenly blared across the entire starry sky.

"Warning! Warning! High-energy reaction approaching!"

"The target is approaching this sector at an extremely rapid speed!"

Interrupted from his good time, Zhao Tianyu yelled impatiently, "What's the panic? What high-energy reaction? Explain yourself clearly!"

"No...no—Reporting to the young master, our detector—"

The observer's voice suddenly stopped, as if something had blocked his throat.

"What's wrong with the detector? Tell me!"

"...cannot be measured."

Those four words were like a bucket of ice water poured over Zhao Tianyu's head.

Unable to measure?

The detectors equipped by the Zhao family are the top-of-the-line models in the Seventh Star Sector.

Even if the top-ranked player in the entire region came in person, it wouldn't cause the detector's data to exceed the limit and become unmeasurable.

unless--

The people who came were not even within the range of the detector.

A bad feeling suddenly welled up in Zhao Tianyu's heart.

"Put the sensor screen up for me!"

He practically roared the order.

The screen lit up.

Then, all the screens were engulfed by a blinding white light at the same instant.

It's not that the screen is broken.

The light was too strong.

The detector's sensors were so powerful that they were completely overloaded the moment they came into contact with the light, and there wasn't even time to capture a single frame.

"What is this thing?!"

"I can't see! My detector burned out!"

"Brightness Index - No reading! The screen is completely white!"

The communication channels at the Zhao family headquarters immediately descended into chaos.

Hundreds of observers simultaneously cried out in terror; they had never seen anything like it—no celestial body had ever emitted such a level of light.

This is no longer within the scope of "bright".

This is going to set the entire universe ablaze.

……

Meanwhile, deep within the Zhao family headquarters.

Zhao Rutie was in the conference room, discussing the final details of taking over the Lu family's business with several core members.

He was in a good mood.

Lu Huaifeng has been devoured by his own hands, and the main force of the Lu family has been completely wiped out.

The remaining collateral branches were of no use whatsoever.

In just a few days, all of the Lu family's star mining assets will be transferred to the Zhao family's ownership.

By then, he will control more than 70% of the star mineral resources in the entire Seventh Star Sector. Even if a country wants to take action against him, it will have to think twice.

"Patriarch, the Lu family's third star mine has been captured."

"The fourth star mine is almost ready; the person in charge there has already given his approval."

"Our people are taking over the five mines owned by the Lu family in the Southern Star Sector."

As he listened to the good news from his subordinates, Zhao Rutie's smile grew even wider.

"Very good, keep pushing forward. Remember, be quick! Swallow everything you can before the country can react."

"yes!"

Just then—

The entire observation chamber suddenly shook violently.

No, it's not an observation chamber.

It is a star.

He is his superstar.

Zhao Rutie's expression suddenly changed.

He immediately immersed his consciousness into the star, releasing a gravitational field to perceive the surroundings.

Then, he froze.

light.

Endless light.

It surged from every direction of his red superstar, like the first ray of dawn breaking through the heavens, illuminating the entire starry sky.

He had lived for so many years and had never seen such light before.

Too pure, too passionate, too domineering!

It's as if the creator god lit a lamp in this dark and cold universe, and then told all those who looked up to it—I have come, you can start to be afraid.

"What's going on?!"

Zhao Rutie practically roared out those four words.

No one could answer him.

Because all of everyone's detectors were burned up by this light at the same time.

Panic began to spread throughout the Zhao family headquarters.

I don't know how much time has passed.

The light dimmed slightly.

Zhao Rutie immediately seized the opportunity and activated the gravitational field to probe the center of the light.

Then he saw a scene that he would never forget.

He saw an indescribable celestial body.

Its size is not large; compared to Zhao Rutie's Red Superstar, it is simply insignificant.

But it is surrounded by an enormous accretion disk.

The matter in the accretion disk is spinning wildly at near the speed of light, and the radiation it releases illuminates the surrounding space, which is as bright as day.

At the center of the accretion disk lies a bottomless darkness.

Quasars.

This is a quasar.

Suddenly, the contents of that golden announcement flashed into Zhao Rutie's mind.

Lin Tian is here!