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

On the detector's screen, the curve representing the spacetime tunnel fluctuated violently before abruptly breaking.

Immediately afterwards, a powerful aftershock of gravitational waves was released, sweeping outwards at the speed of light in all directions.

Gravitational field monitoring points within a radius of two hundred light-years simultaneously issued piercing alarms.

The energy surge at that moment caused hundreds of black holes to tremble slightly.

Fortunately, Lu Xuejian's safety warning line was extended to ten light-years away in advance, and no civilian celestial bodies were within the affected area.

The Black Hole Legion's emergency response team was activated immediately, absorbing the energy of the gravitational wave aftershocks layer by layer, without causing any casualties.

But the wormhole still collapsed.

Lin Tian analyzed the cause of the collapse almost immediately.

Su Li's quasar mass is insufficient.

More than a million times the mass of the sun, while his mass is tens of millions of times greater, there is a difference of orders of magnitude.

This magnitude difference means that the intensity of gravitational wave resonance cannot reach the minimum threshold required by the Ayers family of theories.

At the instant the two singularities come into contact, the gravitational field of the one with the smaller mass cannot provide enough constraint to maintain the stability of the spacetime tunnel.

It's like an adult and a child playing tug-of-war.

When Su Li came out of the observation chamber, her eyes were red.

She stood in the corridor of the rest area, head down, her hands unconsciously twisted together.

When Lin Tian came out, she didn't even greet him with a smile as usual. She just said softly, "I'm sorry... I held you back."

She knew what this experiment meant for Lin Tian.

She knew how long he had prepared for this day, how long he had traveled to the United States, and what those sleepless nights in the observation cabin were for.

But in the end, the wormhole still collapsed.

She wondered if things would have turned out differently if she had tried harder, swallowed more dark matter, and used more acceleration cards.

Would things have gone much more smoothly if his partner had been someone else?

Lin Tian's reaction surprised everyone.

He simply walked up to Su Li, raised his hand, and gently ruffled her hair.

The movement was so casual, it was as casual as if he were petting a cat.

But it was this casualness that almost brought tears to Su Li's eyes again.

"You almost reached the threshold on your first try, which is much better than expected." His tone was calm. "You've only recently evolved into a quasar, so the mass difference is there. This isn't your problem."

"Keep trying, and next time—we'll let you use a 10 billion-year acceleration card to stack the mass to 5 million, and then we'll try again."

Su Li looked up and stared at him blankly.

"You...you don't blame me?" Su Li's voice was a little hoarse.

"What's it to blame you for?" Lin Tian retorted. "Is it because you evolved too fast?"

Su Li was taken aback by what he said, then burst out laughing, and as she laughed, tears streamed down her face again.

This person is really something, even when trying to comfort someone, they can be so stiff, but she just falls for it.

"It's a deal." Su Li wiped away her tears haphazardly with the back of her hand, regaining her usual mischievous glint. "When my quasar reaches a mass of five million, you have to personally help me with the tuning. You're not allowed to ask anyone else for help."

"Besides me, who else can help you?" Lin Tian said, and then left.

Although the experiment failed, the data is still available.

The process of this collapse, the energy fluctuations at the moment of singularity contact, and the decay curve of the gravitational wave aftershocks are all accumulations for the next experiment.

He won't waste a single thing.

Su Li watched his retreating figure, and the corners of her mouth slowly curved into a smile.

Then she quickly caught up with him: "Lin Tian, ​​did what you just said mean that you can't do without me as your partner?"

Lin Tian paused for a moment, but didn't turn around, only uttering a casual "Guess."

……

Three days after the wormhole collapsed, the atmosphere at the Black Hole Research Institute remained somewhat somber.

Experimental failure is not shameful; there has never been a smooth journey in the history of science.

But this result still left many people feeling uneasy.

Su Li has been noticeably quieter these past few days.

She wasn't depressed.

Given her personality, she can cheer herself up in no more than half a day when she's feeling down.

She was just working harder than usual.

She spends more time in the observation chamber than Lin Tian does every day, and she has drawn the progress chart of the super dark matter halo densely.

Fang Yan once passed by her observation chamber and noticed a sticky note on the control panel with only three words written on it: "Five million".

"This girl is really pushing herself to the limit," Fang Yan remarked to Li Changying.

Li Changying shook her head and didn't reply.

However, no one expected that the somber atmosphere would be broken by Zhou Haiming himself.

After the wormhole collapsed, most people in the research institute were busy analyzing the reasons for the failure.

Only Zhou Haiming sat alone in the research room, going through all the detection data from the day of the experiment from beginning to end.

He couldn't explain why, but he vaguely felt that there were some things in this experiment that hadn't been noticed.

Late on the third night, when he was the only one left in the research room, Zhou Haiming finally found him.

His gaze lingered on a set of unremarkable dark energy data.

Dark energy affinity.

This is Lin Tian's unique hidden attribute, and it is one of the highest-level classified information within the Black Hole Research Institute.

Its function is to sense the distribution of dark energy and, to some extent, use dark energy to influence the structure of the surrounding spacetime.

Lin Tian had already made preliminary verification of the value of dark energy affinity in his previous research on gravity shields.

But that attribute is too special!

It was directly bestowed upon Lin Tian by the will of the universe when he passed the test; no one else can learn or replicate it.

But the data in front of him made Zhou Haiming frown even more.

During the budding stage of the wormhole, Lin Tian and Su Li's dark energy fluctuation curves showed a significant synchronization phenomenon.

To what extent should it be synchronized?

The two curves follow almost identical trends, with the time difference between the peak and trough not exceeding 0.001 seconds, and their amplitude ratios are also highly consistent.

Even more bizarrely, this synchronization lasted for a very short period of time, which coincided perfectly with the time window of the wormhole's emergence.

After the wormhole collapsed, the two curves quickly returned to their independent states.

Zhou Haiming stared at the two curves for a long time.

System error of the detector?

No.

Background noise in dark matter halos?

Nor is it.

Coupling interference of gravitational resonant arrays?

Not like.

Those interfering factors do exist, but they are insufficient to explain this level of synchronization.

"If that's the case..." Zhou Haiming murmured to himself, then pulled up another set of data.

This is Su Li's record of dark energy fluctuations before the experiment.

He had reviewed this set of records many times before, and the results were always the same.

Su Li has no dark energy affinity attribute; her dark energy fluctuation curve is always an almost flat straight line.

But now, in that less than three-second window of wormhole germination, Su Li's dark energy fluctuation curve seemed to be ignited!

It changed from a nearly flat straight line to a fluctuating curve that was highly synchronized with Lin Tian's.

What does this mean?

This means that for those few seconds, Su Li briefly "gained" dark energy affinity.

"Dark energy affinity can be transmitted through quasar resonance..."

Zhou Haiming murmured, his voice trembling slightly without him even realizing it.

He knew what he had discovered.

If this discovery is true, then the strategic value of the entire Black Hole Legion will have to be reassessed!

Previously, everyone believed that the affinity of dark energy was Lin Tian's unique trump card.

But things are different now; it may be "replicable".