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

Three days passed just like that.

Over these three days, the war landscape on Earth has been quietly changing.

The United States, Russia, the British Empire, and the Gallic Empire—these top-ranked powers are locked in a fierce battle for resource points.

Taking advantage of its technological edge on the Quark Star route, the United States seized more than a dozen strategic resource sites in one fell swoop, one of which was a rare dark matter mineral with a density a thousand times that of a standard star sector.

The Russian bear country was not to be outdone.

With the help of a massive army of red supergiants, they seized two high-density nebula veins from the British Empire.

Although the casualty ratio isn't great, its sheer size makes up for it.

The British Empire and the Gallic Empire fought a tug-of-war that lasted a full day.

As for the land of cherry blossoms, it was unusually quiet.

Amaterasu lost 1,600 neutron stars, and Murakami Ryu was also swallowed up. The president is said to have been hospitalized.

The entire upper echelons of Japan felt as if their spines had been broken.

There were no major military operations for three consecutive days, and even diplomatic channels were relatively quiet.

The situation in the Great Xia Kingdom, however, is peaceful and calm.

Apart from occasional sporadic small-scale conflicts in the border star sectors, there have been no other large-scale wars in the entire Great Xia Kingdom.

Even the Quark Star reconnaissance team from the Lighthouse Nation avoided the Great Xia Nation for the past three days.

As a result, many people started to make fun of it.

"What's going on? It's been so quiet on the border lately, like it's on holiday. Where have all the enemies gone?"

"Where else could they go? They're scared of being beaten by Father Lin."

"The four-nation alliance barely showed its face before losing 3,800 men, and 1,200 of their antimatter bombs turned into snacks. Who would dare come after that?"

"To be honest, I have a very strange feeling right now, as if we are not being surrounded and attacked, but watching other people fight."

"Don't get too cocky, the war has only just begun, and there are still five years to go! I don't need to elaborate on the principle that pride comes before a fall, do I?"

In contrast to the calm outside world, the Black Hole Legion was bustling with activity inside.

Within the super dark matter halo, waves of black holes are constantly moving back and forth, frantically devouring matter.

The brilliance of the 10 billion-year acceleration card has almost never faded.

……

Su Li was the first to complete the evolution of the Kerr Black Hole.

She was immersed in the dark matter halo for only two days, and her mass soared to 80,000 times the mass of the sun.

"Eighty thousand times! Eighty thousand times!"

The moment she completed her evolution, cheers erupted in the communication channel.

"Lin Tian, ​​did you hear that?! My black hole now has 80,000 times the mass of the sun!"

"I heard you." Lin Tian's voice came through the communication channel, with a hint of amusement. "Not bad."

"Just one 'not bad'?" Su Li was clearly dissatisfied with the evaluation. "I was the first to complete the evolution! Shouldn't you have said a few more words of praise? Like, 'Su Li, you're amazing!' or 'I'm so proud of you' or something?"

"That's a bit cheesy."

"Then find one that isn't cheesy!" Su Li persisted. "You have to praise me!"

"...You did a very good job."

"Hehe, barely passed!"

Lu Xuejian was the second to complete the evolution.

Her Kerr black hole has a mass of 53,000 times that of the Sun.

Although not as good as Su Li, this achievement is still quite remarkable.

She didn't say as much as Su Li on the communication channel, only whispering, "Lin Tian, ​​I'm done."

"Yes, that's good." Lin Tian's voice was slightly softer than before. "How are you feeling?"

Lu Xuejian paused for a second, then said seriously, "I feel... a little closer to you."

……

Fang Yan, Li Changying, and Zhao Zheng also completed the evolution of the Kerr black hole one after another.

Fang Yan's mass is stable at 61,000 times the mass of the sun, Li Changying's at 58,000 times, and Zhao Zheng's at 53,000 times.

These three individuals were among the most talented in the black hole crash course, so their evolution into Kerr black holes is not surprising.

In addition, seven other trainees also completed their evolution.

Most of them are between 40,000 and 50,000 times the mass of the sun.

"It seems the dark matter halo is working even better than expected," Lin Tian thought to himself. "At this rate, the Black Hole Legion will soon be able to form combat capability... At that time, the matter with Japan can be put on the agenda."

……

Meanwhile, in the fifteenth star region of the Great Xia Kingdom.

This place is also on the edge of the Great Xia Kingdom's star sector, one of the dozen or so star sectors where the Black Hole Legion has deployed its forces.

The person stationed here is a black hole observer who recently completed his career. His name is Wang Heming.

His black hole has a small mass, only about 500 times the mass of the sun.

Among all the official members of the Black Hole Legion, they are ranked last in strength.

This wasn't because he lacked talent, but because he switched majors the latest.

He was among the last batch of students to complete the accelerated course on black holes, almost a month later than the first batch.

According to the Black Hole Legion's training plan, all members who have completed their transformation need to take turns going to the Super Dark Matter Halo to devour and evolve.

However, because the star sector needs to be defended, the black holes cannot all be moved away at once, so they can only be moved away in batches.

Wang Heming was in the last batch.

"Once this rotation is over, it will be my turn."

Looking at the dark matter halo region on the star map, Wang Heming felt both anticipation and a touch of anxiety.

He is a strong-willed person.

Before joining the Black Hole Crash Course, he was among the top ten newbies in the 15th Star Sector, and was considered a locally renowned genius.

But after entering the crash course, he realized that his achievements were nothing compared to those of true geniuses.

Those guys with ridiculously high talent can switch majors as easily as drinking water.

And what about him?

We were stuck on the gravitational collapse hurdle for almost two weeks.

He finally succeeded in switching majors, but while his classmates have already evolved into Kerr black holes, he is still just a miniature black hole with a mass of more than 500 times that of the sun.

This feeling is like sitting in a classroom watching your classmates hand in their papers early, while you're still stuck on the first big question.

It would be a lie to say I'm not in a hurry.

Despite his anxiety, Wang Heming did not slack off.

He strictly followed Lin Tian's instructions and trained silently in the 15th Star District every day.

He practiced the fundamentals of gravitational field manipulation precision and gravitational lensing techniques more diligently than anyone else.

Because he believed that as long as he worked hard enough, he would one day be able to fight alongside those geniuses.

"We've been waiting for this batch."

……

The outer perimeter of the fifteenth star sector.

A reconnaissance team consisting of three quark stars is hiding in a sparse interstellar dust.

Their gravitational fields are precisely controlled to an extremely weak level, like three sharks lurking in the deep sea, quietly observing their prey in the distance.

This is the White Eagle Secret Service reconnaissance team.

Three days.

They have been lying in wait in this sector for three whole days.

The officer leading the team was named Jason, an old comrade-in-arms of Colonel Carter, who had been immersed in the Quark route for fifteen years and was extremely experienced.

Three days ago, he received orders from headquarters to find a "lone black hole" within the territory of the Great Xia Kingdom.

At that time, he still thought the mission was absurd.

After the Black Hole Legion achieved a record of 3,080 to 0 in the Seventh Sector, who would dare to cause them trouble?

But military orders are hard to disobey, so he still brought his squad.

However, the moment he discovered his target, he realized that the task didn't seem so absurd.

"Major Jensen," the adjutant's voice came through the encrypted channel, "Has the target been identified?"

"Confirmed." Jason's voice was low. "No other black hole signals in Sector 15."

The adjutant gasped, "What's this guy doing here all alone?"

Jason said coldly, "The main force of the Black Hole Legion is currently devouring dark matter halos in the Seventh Sector. It's not his turn yet, so he's currently alone."

The adjutant paused for a moment, then cautiously asked, "This operation... is it really going to succeed?"

"Absolutely!" Jason said coldly. "The spacetime freezer has locked onto him, three thousand quark stars are moving toward the target star sector, and the spacetime freezer will be deployed soon."

"This time—there is no room for error."

The adjutant remained silent.

But he knew that Jason was right.

The United States has suffered countless setbacks at the hands of Lin Tian.

They lost the Quark Star reconnaissance team, the antimatter bomb, and the intelligence network they had cultivated in East Asia for over a decade.

This series of failures has made the White Eagle Secret Service almost unable to hold its head high in front of the entire US leadership.

Some in Congress have even begun to question why the United States is spending so many resources targeting a teenager from the Great Xia Kingdom. Isn't this a waste of taxpayers' money?

Now, they finally have a chance to save face.

This lone black hole has a mass of only five or six hundred times that of the sun.

The time-space freezer was designed to deal with black holes of this magnitude.

Three thousand Quark Stars are enough to ensure absolute safety.

If this black hole can be brought back to the United States intact, scientists there will be able to obtain first-hand data on its internal structure.

By then, even the United States, the "beacon of light," will be able to follow the path of black holes.

"This time, we must succeed!"