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

Warp drive.

These four words struck Murakami Tatsuya like a thunderclap.

He had been with Amaterasu for over a decade and had come into contact with countless cutting-edge theories of gravity, but he had never heard of these four words before.

That is knowledge that the Japanese cannot access, or even knowledge that should exist in this era.

But Lin Tian did just that.

"So that's how it is... So I had no chance of winning from the very beginning..."

Tatsuya Murakami's voice grew increasingly calm, to the point of being chilling.

"Lin Sang."

"Um?"

"Could you tell me exactly how big the difference is between a neutron star and a black hole?"

Lin Tian was silent for two seconds. There was no need to hide this kind of thing.

After all, the black hole route isn't something you can just follow by knowing how to do it; otherwise, the Great Xia Kingdom wouldn't have only produced thirty-four in the past three months.

"A neutron star is a semi-finished product formed when a star collapses but its mass is insufficient to form a black hole."

Semi-finished product.

Murakami Tatsuya's lips trembled slightly.

The neutron star route, which took the entire Sakura Kingdom ten years and countless resources to complete, was, in Lin Tian's words, only a half-finished product.

He should be angry.

But he found that he couldn't get angry at all.

"Understood."

Murakami Ryuya took a deep breath.

Then he turned on full-channel communication.

"Attention everyone! This is Tatsuya Murakami! We have nowhere to retreat now. The black hole is right in front of us. To run is to die."

"But—we are observers of the Land of Cherry Blossoms, we are the elite of the Amaterasu Society! Even if we are to die, we will die like citizens of the Land of Cherry Blossoms!"

His voice carried an almost frantic resolve.

"I command! All neutron stars, at all costs, collide with the quasar! Even if we can only leave a tiny scar, our lives will not have been in vain!"

"Gentlemen! This is the moment to showcase the spirit of our Cherry Blossom Country!"

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"

The moment the words left his mouth, 1,600 neutron stars exploded simultaneously.

This is Amaterasu-sha.

This is the neutron star legion that the Sakura Kingdom spent ten years building.

Sixteen hundred neutron stars, like moths to a flame, simultaneously crashed into the primordial quasar from all directions.

"Boring." Lin Tian's voice was completely emotionless.

He didn't even use the relativistic jet; he simply amplified the gravitational field of the primordial quasar by one level.

Those neutron stars hurtling towards us were like crashing into an invisible wall.

Their outer layer of material was easily peeled off by tidal forces, forming thin streams of material that swirled and fell into the accretion disk.

One, ten, fifty, one hundred...

Just as Lin Tian was about to increase the gravitational field to harvest, his movements suddenly stopped.

Murakami Tatsuya was also stunned.

Another gravitational field suddenly appeared at the edge of the battlefield.

That gravitational field was completely different from the gravitational fields of all the stars present.

Murakami Ryuya recognized the source of the gravitational field almost immediately.

"Quark Planet...the Quark Planet of the Lighthouse Country!"

An uncontrollable surge of ecstasy instantly welled up in his eyes.

In the void, one quark star after another appeared.

They were densely packed and neatly arranged in an extremely orderly circular array.

One thousand two hundred.

At the very front of the ring array, a slightly larger quark star floats.

James Carter.

Tatsuya Murakami's eyes immediately reddened.

"Mr. Carter! It's Mr. Carter! The United States hasn't abandoned us—they've come to rescue us!"

Murakami Tatsuya connected to the communication channel incoherently.

"Mr. Carter! We're trapped in Lin Tian's quasar's gravitational field and can't escape! Please help us hold him off! Just three minutes! No! One minute will be enough!"

However, Carter did not reply to his communications at all.

He simply locked his gravitational field onto Lin Tian's quasar, then coldly spoke: "Lin Tian."

Lin Tian's voice remained as calm as ever: "Who are you?"

"Colonel James Carter of the White Eagle Secret Service, Commander-in-Chief of the Quark Planet Reconnaissance Team."

"He is also the frontline leader of the US Supernova Program."

Supernova Project.

These four words touched Lin Tian's mind, causing a slight stirring in his heart.

Of course he remembered the name.

"So what? You've come here to declare war?"

"Declare war?" Carter sneered. "No, Lin Tian, ​​I'm here to give you a chance! If you evacuate this resource point now, I can order your life."

"Hehe..." Lin Tian's laughter came from the void.

Carter's face immediately turned ashen: "What are you laughing at?"

Lin Tian's tone remained nonchalant. "I say, Colonel Carter, I'm quite curious, what gave you the courage to speak to me in this tone?"

Carter's forehead vein throbbed.

His Quark Star suddenly took a step forward.

Behind them, twelve hundred quark stars simultaneously unleashed their strongest gravitational fields, causing the entire starry sky to buzz and vibrate.

"This is it! Each of these 1,200 Quark Stars behind me carries an antimatter bomb, a total of 1,200!"

"Do you know what an antimatter bomb is? The energy conversion rate of matter-antimatter annihilation is 100%! Just one is enough to blast a star into elementary particles!"

"Twelve hundred detonated simultaneously, Lin Tian, ​​can you withstand it?"

Antimatter bomb.

Upon hearing those four words, Murakami Ryu, who was standing next to him, also gasped.

He had been with Amaterasu for over a decade, so of course he had heard of such things.

The United States is at the forefront of the world in its research on antimatter weapons.

However, the manufacturing cost of antimatter bombs is outrageously high; it is said that the cost of one is equivalent to the annual military expenditure of a medium-sized country.

Now, Carter has brought 1,200.

This is not war; this is to wipe this starry sky from the universe.

An indescribable excitement welled up in Murakami Tatsuya's heart.

It seems the United States still values ​​its ally, Japan!

Otherwise, why would they use such terrifying weapons to save them?

However, the next second, this excitement was doused with a bucket of cold water.

Because he heard a laugh.

It wasn't Lin Tian's smile.

It was Su Li's smile.

"Pfft—hahahahahaha!"

Su Li couldn't hold back any longer.

"Antimatter bomb?! An antimatter bomb to blow up a black hole?! My God—hahahaha! I can't take it anymore, I'm dying of laughter! It's worth it to hear such a funny joke before I die!"

Lu Xuejian didn't laugh out loud, but her tone was unusually lighthearted: "Su Li, mind your image, we're at war."

"I can't resist! Antimatter! That's antimatter! They're going to use antimatter to blow up a black hole!"

Su Li laughed louder and louder.

If she were outside instead of inside the observation chamber, she'd probably be laughing so hard she'd be pounding the table.

Lu Xuejian coughed lightly, her tone carrying a hint of helpless amusement: "Maybe they think black holes are made of ordinary matter."

Su Li's laughter echoed through the communication channel.

Carter's face turned from green to white, then white to green again, and finally as black as the bottom of a pot.

"That's enough!"

"Lin Tian, ​​is this all the confidence you have? Two miniature black holes that don't even qualify as intermediate mass dare to laugh in front of me? Let me tell you, even if your quasar had three heads and six arms, it still couldn't withstand the simultaneous attack of 1,200 antimatter bombs!"

Lin Tian remained silent for two seconds.

"Colonel Carter, I only have one question for you."

"...What's the problem?"

Do you know what black holes are made of?