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

Lin Tian shook hands with her.

"Hello there."

"Hello, that's it?" Su Li blinked, looking disappointed. "Lin Tian, ​​you're going to kill the conversation like that!"

As she spoke, she laughed to herself.

Several researchers in the conference room who knew her well couldn't help but shake their heads.

This little devil is at it again.

At the Black Hole Research Institute, Su Li's reputation is second to none.

She is only 24 years old this year, the youngest professor in the entire institute, and the only female professor.

Having been in the research institute for less than a year, he has already demonstrated a talent that has impressed everyone.

She followed the dense star route, but she was different from Lin Tian—she did not venture out of black holes, but instead made many groundbreaking theoretical integrations in the two branches of neutron stars and white dwarfs.

Before joining the research institute, many theories about the Secret Star route were fragmented.

The study of neutron stars is separate from the study of white dwarfs, and there is almost no overlap between the two.

But after Su Li arrived, she used a completely new mathematical model to connect these scattered theories and proposed a unified "compact star evolution framework".

How valuable is this framework?

Simply put, it can help observers of the dense star path avoid taking at least half the detours when choosing an evolutionary direction.

It's important to understand that before Lin Tian appeared, the biggest problem with the Zhimi Star route was that no one knew how to navigate it.

Although Japan successfully navigated the neutron star route, their experience was almost entirely built on massive spending and lacks universal applicability.

Su Li's research happens to fill this gap.

That's why, although she had the least seniority in the research institute, her status was by no means low.

"Xiao Su," Zhou Haiming said with a hint of helplessness, "Professor Lin just arrived, can't you give him a chance to catch his breath?"

"No way, Professor Zhou? Look how calm he is, he didn't even frown."

Looking at her like this, Lin Tian couldn't help but smile slightly.

This personality trait reminded him of someone.

In his previous life, he had a similar colleague at his astronomical observatory.

He's always very outgoing and talkative. He always rambles on and on when he doesn't want to talk, and then veers off into completely unrelated topics before he even realizes what's happening.

That person later went to another observation station.

He hadn't seen her in a long time.

"What are you thinking about?" Su Li suddenly leaned closer. "You seem quite engrossed!"

Lin Tian shook his head, a rare hint of a smile in his voice: "No, I was just thinking of an old friend."

"An old friend?" Su Li blinked. "Male or female? How old? You're not thinking of me as a substitute for some ex, are you? It's not impossible, but it'll hurt my feelings!"

"Su Li!" Zhou Haiming finally couldn't help but raise his voice.

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything more!" Su Li quickly raised her hands in surrender. "But Lin Tian, ​​I used to be the most popular person in the research institute, but now that you're here, my position is in jeopardy! You have to take responsibility for me!"

Lin Tian looked at her and suddenly found her to be quite interesting.

To be able to develop such a personality after being pampered in a greenhouse is itself a kind of strength.

……

The welcome party lasted for about two hours.

The senior professors from the institute took turns coming up to greet Lin Tian, ​​introduce themselves, and discuss their research directions.

These people all have very solid academic foundations, and they are all incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to astrophysics.

However, for most of them, this was the first time they had truly encountered the theory of black holes.

After all, before Lin Tian, ​​the black hole route only existed in theoretical deductions within the research institute and had never been actually verified.

Therefore, when Lin Tian talked about the evolutionary path of black holes, everyone present listened very attentively.

From Schwarzschild black holes to Kerr black holes... every word Lin Tian spoke was something they had never heard before in their lives.

What shocked them even more was that all of these theories had been verified in practice.

Lin Tian made it happen on his own.

……

After the welcome party, Chen Wang took Lin Tian and Lu Xuejian to a detached building behind the research institute.

"This is your dormitory." Chen Wang pushed open the door. "The building next door is your private observation station. Inside, there is an S-class observation chamber, the same model as the one you had in Lancheng."

Lin Tian nodded.

He doesn't have any particular requirements for where he lives.

Lu Xuejian's dormitory was right next to his.

"Student Lu," Chen Wang turned to look at her, "from today onwards, you are an official member of the Black Hole Research Institute."

"Your position is Professor Lin's private secretary and assistant researcher. Your main job is to assist him in handling the institute's daily affairs and to record the research data of all the black hole routes he proposes."

Lu Xuejian nodded, but her heart was not at peace.

She knew better than anyone what this identity meant.

She can stay by his side forever.

Unlike others, she didn't have to watch him shine from afar—she could be very close, close enough to feel the warmth of that light.

"I will do my best." Her voice was soft, but her tone was firm.

……

The next morning, Lin Tian arrived at the Black Hole Research Institute early.

This was his first day officially joining the research institute, and as is customary, he was required to give a report on his research direction.

In the institute's conference room, all thirty-plus researchers had arrived without exception.

Lin Tian is the pioneer of the black hole route, and no one wants to miss his research reports.

After entering the conference room, Lin Tian looked at the more than thirty faces below and slowly began to speak.

"Gentlemen, as is customary, there are many things to discuss in the first meeting. But today, I only have two things to say."

The conference room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"The first thing is the theoretical basis of black hole trajectories."

Lin Tian raised his hand and brought up a set of data on the holographic projection screen.

That was the evolutionary path of black holes that he had outlined—from Schwarzschild black holes to Kerr black holes, and then to quasars.

He used the most concise and clear language to annotate the formation conditions, parameter requirements, and gravitational field configuration for each stage.

"I will gradually share this data with everyone in the coming days; I will not keep it to myself."

"The Black Hole Route is a path that the Great Xia Kingdom spent more than 30 years and countless people's efforts to pave. It is not my achievement alone."

"Therefore, I shouldn't be the only one walking this path."

Everyone present was stunned.

They didn't expect Lin Tian to bring up these core data in the very first meeting.

It's important to know that the black hole route is his exclusive property, his trump card for survival in the future of the universe online.

But he just casually took it out.

He didn't even blink.

Su Li sat in the crowd, the playfulness in her eyes had disappeared, replaced by a serious expression.

"The second thing," Lin Tian's tone suddenly turned a little lower, "is about a race you may never have heard of—the Ayers."

The air in the conference room seemed to become a little heavier for a moment.

Without much preamble, Lin Tian recounted everything he had seen at the dark matter collection station.

The history of the Ayrs people.

Their exploration of the route to the dense star.

The power they possessed at their peak.

as well as--

Massive elimination.

When those three words were uttered in the conference room, everyone felt an indescribable chill.

"Is...is all of this real?!"

Someone couldn't help but speak, their voice trembling noticeably.

It's not that he doesn't trust Lin Tian.

He couldn't believe it.

If all of this is true, then wouldn't everything they've done over the past hundred years have become a joke?

They thought they were participating in a game.

In reality, they were just worms thrown into a jar.

"It's true."

"I don't know how long it will be before the major shakeout comes, but I do know that from today onwards, we must be prepared."

A long silence fell over the conference room.

After a long while, Zhou Haiming slowly stood up.

"Professor Lin, we'll listen to you... We've endured so many years, one last step won't make a difference. Whatever you say, we'll do."

The others remained silent, but their gazes spoke volumes.

Lin Tian didn't keep everyone silent for long.

He raised his hand and brought up a new set of data on the holographic projection screen.

"What I just mentioned was the crisis," Lin Tian said calmly. "Now I'm going to talk about how to deal with the crisis."

"Deepest in the quasar incubation field, the Ayrs left behind a gift. They used the last of their civilization's wisdom to deduce a theory—the wormhole construction theory."

Wormhole.

The moment those two words landed in the conference room, several senior professors gasped in shock.

Zhou Haiming's pupils contracted sharply: "Wormhole? You mean... an Einstein-Rosen bridge?"