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

The cold, cosmic announcement, like a pebble thrown into a lake, stirred up ripples throughout the entire Seventh Sector.

And these ripples are spreading outwards at an astonishing speed.

The first group to erupt in discussion was naturally the class group of Class 5, Grade 12 at Lancheng High School.

At this moment, the group chat was in complete chaos.

"My God! Did you guys see the announcement? Lin Tian swallowed Wang Hao!"

"Not just Wang Hao, there are five other red stars! Five!"

"I just checked, and those five people are all core members of the Haotian Alliance. The least experienced among them has been involved for over five years, and one of them has even been involved for eight years!"

"An eight-year veteran player, just like that, swallowed up by a newbie? This is fucking outrageous!"

"What exactly is Lin Tian's black hole? Red giant stars look like paper in front of him?"

"I didn't understand it, but I was deeply moved."

Messages came one after another, almost without interruption.

Everyone was frantically discussing everything that had happened in those few short minutes.

But one name never appeared in the constantly scrolling messages.

Lu Xuejian.

She didn't participate in any discussion; she simply stayed quietly in her observation chamber, staring at the light screen, and remained silent for a long time.

The scene she had just witnessed through her detection skill was still replaying in her mind's eye.

The five red giant stars, like five lambs to the slaughter, were dragged, stretched, and torn apart by an unseen force, and finally disappeared completely into that dark abyss.

Not a single crumb was left.

What exactly is that thing?

Lu Xuejian took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

She comes from the Lu's Star Mine Group and has been in contact with various top observers since childhood.

She had seen supernova weapons capable of detonating ordinary stars, gravity bombs capable of distorting space, and even super-strong individuals who dominated national battlefields.

But she had never seen such a bizarre, domineering, and unreasonable power.

That wasn't a battle.

That was simply...eating.

It's like a whale opening its mouth and swallowing the surrounding seawater, along with the fish and shrimp within it.

"Lin Tian..." Lu Xuejian murmured the name, a complex look flashing in her eyes.

Three days ago, she only regarded Lin Tian as a talented competitor.

Although he consistently outperformed her in simulated battles, Lu Xuejian never felt that Lin Tian could truly threaten her.

After all, behind her is the Lu's Star Mine Group, which has dozens of star mine mining chains and resources that ordinary people can't even imagine in their lifetime.

Once she enters the Universe Online, she can easily widen the gap between herself and Lin Tian in a short period of time.

But now, she doesn't think that way anymore.

The gap has indeed widened.

However, the one who was pulled away was herself.

"The guaranteed admission spot at Xinghua University..." Lu Xuejian shook her head slightly, a bitter smile appearing on her lips. "It seems I can only compete for second place."

Meanwhile, in the principal's office of Lancheng High School, Principal Zhang Changming was facing the communication screen with an extremely complicated expression.

Just minutes before, he was thrilled by the proactive contact from the admissions office of Sing Hwa University.

But in the blink of an eye, things took a turn in a direction he had never anticipated.

Wang Hao was swallowed up.

On the very first day of the Star Sector Conquest, the eldest son of the Wang family had his star swallowed up.

This means that he will be directly expelled by the will of the universe and will not be able to awaken again for ten years.

This was a complete shock to the Wang family!

Sure enough, before Zhang Changming could sort out the matter, his communicator rang.

Caller ID: Wang Mingyuan.

Wang Hao's father is the current head of the Wang family and the vice president of the Lancheng Star Mine Chamber of Commerce.

Looking at this name, Zhang Changming felt a headache coming on.

He connected the communication, and an extremely gloomy face immediately appeared on the screen.

"Principal Zhang, I need an explanation."

Wang Mingyuan's voice was deep and cold, like a wild beast suppressing its rage.

"President Wang, about this matter..." Zhang Changming began, wanting to say something.

But before he could finish speaking, Wang Mingyuan interrupted him.

"My son, at your school, had his star devoured by a student named Lin Tian! Principal Zhang, do you know what this means?"

"Wang Hao's observer status has been revoked! For ten years! He cannot awaken again within ten years!"

"Do you know what these past ten years have meant to the Wang family? Do you know what these past ten years have meant to Wang Hao?"

Wang Mingyuan's voice was almost a roar.

Zhang Changming took a deep breath, trying to keep his tone calm: "President Wang, I understand your feelings. However, the rules of the Star Sector Domination are set by the will of the universe, and Lin Tian's actions have not violated any rules—"

"Rules?" Wang Mingyuan sneered. "Rules are made by the strong! Principal Zhang, I'm not talking to you about rules right now, I'm giving you a chance!"

"Send me all of Lin Tian's information, including his home address, social connections, and observer panel information!"

"This grudge must be avenged by my Wang family!"

Zhang Changming's expression changed.

"President Wang, please calm down! Lin Tian's information is a matter of personal privacy, and as the principal, I have no right to—"

"Then don't blame me for being impolite." Wang Mingyuan coldly interrupted him. "Principal Zhang, you should know the power the Wang family wields in Lancheng."

"Since you are unwilling to cooperate, I will have to resort to my own methods."

The call was disconnected.

Zhang Changming stared at the darkened screen, his face extremely grim.

He knew that the Wang family was truly enraged.

A furious Wang family member is capable of anything.

Thinking of this, Zhang Changming couldn't help but sigh: "Lin Tian, ​​Lin Tian... you've dug a huge hole."

The outside world was already in an uproar because of that announcement.

However, Lin Tian, ​​the person involved, was not affected by these disturbances at all.

He was focusing all his attention on the panel in front of him.

[Devouring complete]

[Mass increase: +890 solar masses]

[Gravity coefficient increase: +42]

[Detection indicates the primordial black hole has absorbed five red giants; it now gains an additional angular momentum boost.]

Current mass: 1890 solar masses

[Spacetime curvature unlocked: Current level 1]

Lin Tian's gaze swept over the rows of data, and an indescribable excitement welled up in his heart.

One thousand eight hundred and ninety times the mass of the sun!

Keep in mind that just three days ago, his primordial black hole was only a thousand times the mass of the sun.

But after absorbing just the six stars that Wang Hao brought, his mass almost doubled!

The efficiency of this growth is simply terrifying.

Especially those five red giant stars, each containing a massive amount of matter, have now all become nourishment for the primordial black hole.

More importantly, he also unlocked the core property of spacetime curvature.

[Spacetime Curvature Level 1: Event horizon range increased by 10%, gravitational field binding ability increased by 15%]

This is only the effect at level 1.

If it continues to improve, its black hole will become even more powerful and unsolvable.

"No wonder so many people like to devour other people's stars," Lin Tian couldn't help but mutter to himself. "It's much faster than slowly absorbing nebula matter yourself."