Collapse Iron: I just transmigrated! You want me to save the Black Tower?!

The force was outrageously strong, so strong it defied logic, and it literally pulled him out of the black hole's gravity.

"Go away—!"

Aha's voice exploded in my ears, carrying that perpetually cheerful, carefree energy that never seemed to care about the consequences.

Then Jiang Jiu flew away.

...It really did fly out.

It wasn't the kind of flying where you're pushed away by some force, but rather being flung out like a thrown stone, tracing a messy arc before crashing heavily onto the surface of an asteroid.

boom--!!

A deep crater was punched into the surface of a planet, and cracks spread outward from the point of impact, causing debris to fly everywhere and dust to billow!

Jiang Jiu lay at the bottom of the pit, his back having smashed through countless layers of rock. A metallic taste churned in his chest, and he coughed violently as his throat tightened.

It doesn't hurt.

He couldn't feel the pain anymore.

But the impact was so severe that the air in his lungs was squeezed out, and his body's instinctive warning caused him to cough so hard that his shoulders were shaking.

Blood was seeping from the corner of his mouth; it was clear he had been hit hard.

He tried to sit up, his fingers digging into the gravel until his knuckles turned white. His arms suddenly gave way, and he collapsed halfway up. He coughed twice, each cough tasting of rust.

The starry sky above was still spinning, and the newly formed black hole was slowly shrinking. The power of nothingness, having lost its guidance, lazily retreated into the darkness.

He lay at the bottom of the pit, head tilted back, watching the starry sky slowly return to calm, panting heavily.

"cough......"

He coughed a few more times, then raised his hand, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and sat up, supporting himself on the ground.

Something is floating behind me.

Jiang Jiu glanced at it; it was a mask, the one that always wore a smile.

Ahha floated above him, upside down, his smile on his mask deeper than ever.

"Awake?" He asked.

Jiang Jiu remained silent.

"Get up if you're awake!" Aha's voice chuckled. "Lying on the ground is no fun. Get up, Aha will take you to have some fun!"

Jiang Jiu: "..."

Chapter 255 The Great Collapse of the Universe

Jiang Jiu's mood was like a rollercoaster.

It's going up and down, it's really exciting.

My mind is a mess, and I don't know what to say for a moment.

Aha circled around him with a grin, and when he didn't react for a while, he didn't urge him. Instead, he observed him with great interest for a while.

Jiang Jiu leaned against the pit wall for a while to recover, then looked at Aha with some confusion.

Why did you save me?

He didn't believe that Aha didn't know he could start over, and that death was just the beginning for him.

Why stop it?

"Save you?" He tilted his head, seriously considering the question. "Aha didn't save you. Aha just felt that if you died like this, you wouldn't get to see the fun that follows."

Jiang Jiu was silent for two seconds, a little helpless. He stood up, supporting himself on the ground, and asked.

"What kind of fun is this?"

Aha did not answer immediately.

He floated in front of Jiang Jiu, circling around him, somewhat like a cat that had discovered a new toy. He stopped after circling twice, and the smile on his mask suddenly deepened.

"you guess?"

Jiang Jiu: "..."

Jiang Jiu didn't guess, nor did he bother to guess.

He now prefers to reopen.

Aha waited for a while, and when he saw that he didn't respond, he couldn't hold back any longer.

"Oh dear, the little madman isn't responding! Ah-ha, what a loss of face!"

He said he was losing face, but he still continued talking.

"Before you killed that piece of scrap metal, did you ever think about this question?" His voice was deliberately lowered, as if he were revealing some incredible secret. "Why was He so cooperative?"

Jiang Jiu paused for a moment.

Aha moved even closer, so close that the mask was almost touching the tip of his nose.

“He wants to leave, but he can’t, because IX is there. He wants to fight, but he can’t, because Nanuk is there. He wants to hide, but he can’t, because Lan is there.”

Aha counted them one by one, his voice growing increasingly faint.

"But have you ever thought about... why He waited for you to come?"

Jiang Jiu didn't speak, he just looked at Aha.

“He could have left earlier! Before Nanuk came, before Lan came, before Aha came, before you called them, He had countless opportunities to leave. That clever piece of scrap metal is supposed to be all-knowing and all-powerful, how could he not have foreseen that you would come to kill Him?”

“…He did it on purpose,” Jiang Jiu said.

“Aha didn’t say anything!” Aha denied with a grin, but there was something else hidden in that smile. “Aha just finds it strange that someone who can calculate everything could not foresee his own death. Unless… He originally wanted to die.”

"Huh? Why would a Star God want to die? How strange! Aha finds this very interesting!"

Jiang Jiu didn't reply.

Actually, he had already realized it.

When the Venerable Master said in his last sentence that you couldn't do it, he didn't mean that you couldn't kill him, but rather that... even if you killed him, it wouldn't change the outcome.

"so what."

"Why did you pull me back? What do you want me to know?"

"Is there anything else I need to know about this line of investigation?"

Seeing that Jiang Jiu understood what he wanted to do, Aha grinned and moved closer to Jiang Jiu.

"Aha, let me take you to have some fun!"

"...?"

Jiang Jiu was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, the mask in front of him swelled up to a huge size, like a balloon getting bigger and bigger.

Jiang Jiu had a bad feeling...

He instinctively took two steps back.

In just two steps, the balloon-like mask exploded without warning!

A huge firework exploded right next to his face, the impact causing Jiang Jiu to instinctively squint.

For a brief moment, my view was obstructed.

When I opened my eyes again, it seemed like I was in a different place, but the starry sky was still the starry sky, and there weren't many landmark buildings.

"Where is this...?"

He stopped mid-sentence and didn't continue.

One second ago, celestial bodies in the universe were far apart and moving steadily in their own orbits... but for some reason, in an instant, they seemed to suddenly lose the force that propelled them outwards.

The force called gravity began to gather frantically without any hindrance.

The first to be affected is the asteroid belt in the vast universe. The billions of asteroids and meteorite fragments that were originally moving slowly along their established orbits instantly lost their stable rhythm.

The pull of gravity caused them to completely derail and crash wildly into nearby massive celestial bodies.

The asteroid belt instantly transformed into a storm of flying debris, with countless fragments colliding and shattering at high speeds in space, eventually turning into countless tiny dust particles that permeated the interstellar space.

"..."

Jiang Jiu also felt the gravitational pull, but it didn't affect him.

But...but...

What's happening here?

what is this?

The future? Or...

Before he could think it through, a star that had been burning for billions of years in the distance began to collapse rapidly under the intense pressure of gravity!

The gaseous matter in the outer layer of the star was pulled inwards violently, the originally stable nuclear fusion reaction was completely interrupted, and the pressure in the core instantly exceeded the limit.

In simple terms, the star's surface first violently distorts and expands, then suddenly contracts inward, causing the immense pressure to cause the star's core to collapse instantly...

The outer layers of the star were slammed into its core, triggering a devastating explosion. The light reached its peak in an instant before suddenly going out!

The massive star was crushed bit by bit, transforming from a gaseous behemoth into dense debris... Then, even this debris could not withstand the extreme gravity and continued to be compressed... torn apart... eventually turning into a clump of dust in the universe and dissipating into the cosmos.

Even stars cannot escape the fate of death, and so can planets. Rocky planets and gas giants orbiting stars first deviate from their orbits and then hurtle toward the center of the star or galaxy.

Finally, it vanished into nothingness in the endless collapse.

Jiang Jiu blinked.

After racking my brain and eyes for a long time, I finally pulled out a term from my knowledge base.

"Cosmic constant collapse"

This is a noun that only exists in... reasoning.

As is well known, the cosmological constant is never a constant number.

It expands and changes slightly as the universe changes.