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

Meanwhile, to the northeast.

When Li Changying's black hole slowly emerged from the dark matter halo, the commander of the Hans Kingdom's Iron Cross Legion didn't even have time to react.

He was directing his Red Superstar squadron to pursue a group of novice observers from the Great Xia Kingdom, and the communication channel was filled with his subordinates' excited reports of their achievements.

"Reporting, Commander, they've swallowed three more!"

"This batch of new players from the Great Xia Kingdom is of good quality; my Red Giant has increased by at least two points!"

"Keep pushing! We need to take down at least five hundred today—wait, what's that strange signal on the detector?"

The source of that signal was a miniature black hole with a diameter of only a few tens of kilometers.

The commander of the Iron Cross Corps frowned.

He doesn't know what a black hole is, but he knows what a gravitational field is.

The gravitational field strength of that miniature black hole caused his red supergiant to tremble involuntarily.

"What is that?"

No one could answer him.

Because in the next second, Li Changying's gravitational field had already locked onto his red superstar.

The red giant star formations of the Hansinian Empire are first-class in terms of size and brightness, but in terms of gravitational field strength—they don't even have the right to struggle in the face of black holes.

Within minutes, all seven squadrons of the Iron Cross in the northeast lost contact.

……

Due north, slightly east.

Zhao Zheng's fighting style is different from Fang Yan's and Li Changying's.

He doesn't like direct confrontation, but instead hides his black hole under the guise of gravitational lensing.

Like a hunter lurking in the deep sea, quietly waiting for its prey to come to it.

The pulsar formations of the British Empire's Royal Hunter Corps were swallowed up one by one in this way.

The owners of those pulsars were unable to locate Zhao Zheng until the very last second before they were dragged into the event horizon.

"Enemies! Which direction?!"

"Undetectable—gravitational field signals are coming from all directions simultaneously!"

"Retreat! Everyone retreat!"

But it was too late to retreat.

Zhao Zheng's black hole was like an invisible cage, firmly locking the dozen or so pulsars of the Royal Hunters Group in place.

……

Due north.

Su Li's achievements were the most exaggerated.

Her black hole mass is second only to Lin Tian's in the black hole legion, reaching 2,800 times the mass of the sun.

When her gravitational field was unleashed without restraint, the three neutron star formations of Amaterasu-sha in the north of the Sakura Kingdom were crushed almost simultaneously.

"They're so weak." Su Li looked at the disappearing signal points on the star map and pouted in disappointment. "Lin Tian said to be careful, but in my opinion, these guys wouldn't even be enough to fill my teeth."

She tilted her head and thought for a moment, then opened her private channel and called out with a smile, "Lin Tian—I've got it all sorted out here! I swallowed about forty neutron stars, and my mass has increased quite a bit! Don't forget the meal you owe me!"

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the line, then a faint voice said, "I remember."

Su Li's eyes immediately curved into two crescent moons.

……

On the other side of the battlefield, Lu Xuejian was also fighting.

A combined force of Hans and British Empire is besieging a newbie gathering area of ​​Great Xia Kingdom, and many newbie observers have already been devoured by them.

When Lu Xuejian arrived, he saw a novice observer being locked into the gravitational field by three red giant stars.

She didn't hesitate at all.

The black hole's gravitational field was released immediately, tearing the three red giants apart from the center.

The novice was stunned.

"Th...thank you! You are—"

"Get out of here quickly." Lu Xuejian's voice was cold, but there was a hint of tenderness in her tone that she herself did not realize.

This is not directed at this novice.

Instead, she recalled her most desperate moment.

She, too, was once like this person, waiting in despair for someone who would never come.

Then, that person arrived.

Now, it's her turn to be the one who comes.

In this way, she's even closer to that person, isn't she?

……

The battle lasted for about four hours.

In the context of a war on a cosmic scale, four hours is but a fleeting moment.

But in that fleeting moment, the battlefield situation on the outskirts of the entire Seventh Star Sector was completely reversed.

The Black Hole Legion, with its force of thirty-four miniature black holes, intercepted and annihilated more than two thousand enemy celestial bodies within four hours.

And the losses suffered by the Great Xia Kingdom—

It is zero.

Two thousand to zero.

Such a kill ratio has never been seen in the history of space battles.

……

Northwest of the Seventh Star Sector, approximately seventeen light-years from the core of the battlefield.

A small reconnaissance squadron consisting of twelve quark stars is concealed in a sparse interstellar cloud.

It was the fleet from the United States, the "beacon of light".

At that moment, Carter was staring at the light screen in front of him, his face ashen as if he had eaten a whole lemon.

The screen displayed data on the losses of the four-nation coalition infiltration force over the past four hours.

Two thousand one hundred and thirty-seven.

This is the total number of enemy celestial bodies swallowed by the Black Hole Legion.

The losses suffered by the Great Xia Kingdom were zero.

zero.

Carter stared at the number for a full ten seconds.

Ten seconds later, he took a deep breath and said to his adjutant beside him, "Send the data back home, copy the White Eagle Secret Service and the Department of Defense, and raise the encryption level to the highest."

"Yes, sir." The adjutant immediately began operating the equipment.

"Also, get me to the command post."

The communication was quickly established.

A middle-aged man's face appeared on the screen.

William Harrison, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Beacon of Space Conquest Frontline Command.

"Colonel Carter, what findings have your reconnaissance team made?"

"Discovered?" Carter practically spat out the words. "William, tell me, in the briefing the intelligence department gave me before, how many black holes were mentioned in Great Xia?"

William paused for a moment: "One, of course there's only one! Lin Tian, ​​a quasar, with 5.8 million solar masses, that's something the whole universe knows."

"One?" Carter repeated the word, then suddenly laughed, a cold laugh. "Then guess how many black holes I've seen on the battlefield in the last four hours?"

William's expression changed slightly: "How many?"

Thirty-four.

"impossible!"

"Impossible?" Carter's voice rose sharply. "I saw it with my own eyes! Thirty-four! Genuine black holes! They're devouring our formation one by one!"

He spoke faster and faster, becoming more and more agitated, until finally slamming his hand on the control panel.

"Now tell me what's going on?! What are the intelligence agencies doing?! Such big news, and there's absolutely no intelligence back home?! Do they think our lives, the lives of those risking their lives on the front lines, are worthless?!"

William remained silent for a long while before slowly speaking: "Colonel Carter, I will report what you've said to my superiors immediately. But before that, I need you to confirm—are you sure you've seen thirty-four separate black holes, and not some kind of clone or illusion of the same black hole?"

"I'm certain that the gravitational waves from every black hole are different; I've personally verified it three times."

"Where are their owners?"

"I don't know." Carter's tone revealed a hint of fatigue. "The owners of these black holes have all concealed their identities. We have only detected gravitational wave signals, but we cannot obtain the identity of the observers."

"But one thing is certain: this Black Hole unit is a complete system, with organization, command, and tactical coordination. It is definitely not a temporary cobbled-together unit."