Brother, just how powerful is our family?

In the Tianxuan Galaxy, the star collapsed and shrunk into a black hole.

The planet, inhabitable by life, began to be pulled apart by gravity. Buildings on the ground began to tilt, foundations cracked, and seawater surged onto the land.

People screamed, cried, and ran towards the spaceport.

But the spaceport only has so many spaceships and so many seats.

"Let the children go first!" someone shouted from the crowd.

Pregnant women first!

"Make way! Let me through! My child is up there!"

Chaos, despair, crying, screaming.

The boarding gate at the spaceport was packed with people.

The soldiers maintaining order were desperately trying to direct traffic, but there were too many people and too little time.

In the Tianji Galaxy, the star collapsed and shrunk into a black hole.

The black hole's gravity began to affect the entire galaxy.

The warships' navigation became unstable, the railguns' aiming became difficult, and it became even more challenging for space fighters to maneuver through the behemoth's anti-aircraft fire.

But the soldiers did not retreat.

They knew that retreat meant giving up.

Giving up means that hundreds of millions of our fellow human beings on this planet will surely die.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope, they will fight to the very end.

"Keep attacking! Don't stop!" Commander Tianji's voice echoed through the communication channel. "Shoot that damned behemoth down!"

The number of space fighters is decreasing dramatically.

The original fleet of hundreds of fighter jets has dwindled to less than a hundred.

But the remaining pilots did not back down.

They piloted their battered fighter jets, charging towards the behemoth time and time again.

Quantum foam bombs exploded, creating wound after wound on the behemoth's body.

The behemoth's exoskeleton was mostly shattered, and its dark red internal tissue was exposed to the vacuum, freezing into ice crystals.

Its beam-emitting organs were mostly destroyed, and its firepower density was greatly reduced.

But it persists.

Although its body was riddled with holes, the energy organ at its core that drives it to emit beams of light was still functioning.

"Its energy organs are in its abdomen! Encased in an exoskeleton!" A pilot discovered the behemoth's weakness during reconnaissance. "Concentrate your attack on that spot!"

The remaining fighter jets adjusted their direction and charged toward the belly of the behemoth.

The first fighter jet crashed into the exoskeleton in the abdomen, and the quantum foam bomb blasted open a one-kilometer-long breach.

A second fighter jet followed closely behind, widening the gap to two kilometers.

The third, the fourth, the fifth—one after another, fighter jets rushed toward the same spot, tearing the gap wider and wider.

Finally, the eleventh fighter jet crashed into the exposed energy organ.

The quantum foam bomb exploded inside the organ, quantizing the entire organ and transporting it to an unknown corner.

The behemoth's beam of light abruptly ceased. Its body convulsed violently before slowly losing its vitality.

But it did not die. Its other organs were still functioning, its shield was still in place, and its body was still trying to heal itself.

"It's not dead yet! Keep attacking!"

But there weren't enough fighter jets left. The few remaining jets weren't enough to inflict fatal damage on the behemoth.

Just then, the stargate lit up.

The reinforcement fleet emerged from the light.

They weren't Conqueror-class or Titan-class ships, but rather a group of civilian spaceships.

They lacked powerful weapons and heavy armor, but their cabins were filled with quantum foam bombs.

They came spontaneously. They were Chinese citizens who heard the urgent calls from the front lines and spontaneously organized themselves.

"We are the Tian Shu civilian fleet, here to provide support!"

"Tianxuan civilian fleet, requesting to join the battle!"

"The Tianji civilian fleet has arrived at its designated location!"

A civilian spaceship hurtled towards the behemoth. It was only a few kilometers in size, like a grain of sand before the monster.

Inside its cockpit, a citizen gripped the control stick, his expression calm.

He was not a soldier and had not received military training. But he was a citizen of the Chinese nation.

His home is in the Tian Shu star system. His grandson lives on that life-bearing planet that is being swallowed by a black hole.

"Grandpa went to save you."

The civilian spaceship crashed into the behemoth's body. The quantum foam bomb exploded. Another kilometer-long wound appeared on the behemoth's side.

The second, the third, the fourth. Civilian spaceships rushed towards the behemoth one after another, like a swarm of moths drawn to a flame.

Some of them are engineers, some are teachers, some are farmers, and some are businessmen.

They come from all walks of life and have different life experiences.

But at this moment, they share a common name—descendants of Yan and Huang.

The behemoth finally succumbed to the bombardment of countless quantum foam bombs.

Its body was blown to pieces, its exoskeleton was shattered, its internal tissues were exposed, and its energy organs were destroyed.

Its vitality was rapidly fading, and its body began to disintegrate.

"It's trying to escape!" the monitor shouted.

The giant beast dragged its battered body and slowly moved toward the crevice.

It was moving slowly, but it was definitely moving. It was trying to escape back into the rift, back into its lair.

"We can't let it get away! Chase after it!"

The Conqueror-class warships sped off, chasing after the behemoth.

The electromagnetic railgun fired wildly at close range, each bullet blasting a huge, bloody hole in the behemoth's body.

The laser array continuously irradiated the behemoth's tissues, burning them into charcoal.

The particle beam cannon tore open cracks in its body.

But the behemoth still managed to escape into the rift. A split second before entering the rift, its body shattered into several pieces.

But its core, the one that sustained its life, vanished into the darkness.

In the Tian Shu Galaxy, the behemoth has escaped.

But the black hole still exists.

The black hole's gravity has already torn apart the first, second, and third planets.

The fourth planet, the one with life, is being pulled towards the black hole by gravity.

Its surface is completely unrecognizable.

The Earth's crust cracked, magma erupted, the oceans boiled, and the atmosphere was stripped away.

Countless fragments flew up from the planet's surface, forming a band of light that swirled around the black hole.

Within the gravitational pull of a black hole, the navigation of space fighters and civilian spacecraft becomes extremely difficult.

The gravitational gradient is extremely large, and you could be pulled toward the black hole if you are not careful.

The commander had no choice but to order an evacuation.

"All units, evacuate the Tian Shu system! Retreat towards the stargate!"

"But there are still people on the planet with life..."

"It's too late." The commander's voice was hoarse. "We can't let more people die. Retreat."

Space fighters and civilian spacecraft began to retreat toward the stargate.

However, within the gravitational pull of a black hole, retreating is itself a life-or-death test.

Some spaceships were captured by gravity while turning, screams rang out on the communication channel, and then disappeared.

Some fighter jets, lacking sufficient engine power, were unable to escape gravity and were slowly pulled towards the black hole.

The pilots left their final message on the communication channel—

"Take good care of my family for me."

Tell them I love them.

"For the sake of the Chinese people—"

Then, silence.

On the escaping spaceship, people saw that unforgettable scene through the porthole.

That life-bearing planet is being torn apart by a black hole.

The earth's crust shattered into countless pieces, like a broken mirror.

The fragment was stretched into a thin ribbon of light by the black hole's gravity, swirling around the black hole before slowly falling into darkness.

Hundreds of millions of people, hundreds of millions of lives, vanished into nothingness in that instant.