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

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire conference room fell into a deathly silence.

Star nucleus bomb.

A weapon made by compressing a large amount of nebulous matter to the extreme, based on the core of a star.

Once detonated, the chain reaction will instantly release enough energy to destroy all celestial bodies within a radius of billions of kilometers.

This weapon is classified as a weapon of mass destruction in space.

The Blue Star Alliance has clear regulations that these resources should not be used lightly.

But now, Zhao Rutie is actually going to bring this thing out just to deal with a novice.

"Master, this—" The middle-aged man finally couldn't hold back any longer and whispered, "Using the Star Core Bomb once will cause us a lot of trouble..."

"Trouble?" Zhao Rutie turned to look at him, his gaze so calm it sent chills down one's spine. "What do you think Lin Tian would mean to us if he really grew up?"

The middle-aged man immediately shut his mouth.

He got it.

Zhao Rutie is trying to nip the threat in the bud.

To completely and utterly eliminate it.

……

The dense matter within the Nebula Secret Realm surged toward the Primordial Black Hole at an almost frenzied speed.

The massive accretion disk rotates at high speed around the black hole, and the friction generates enough light to eclipse any star.

But before these rays of light could escape far, they were swallowed back into the event horizon, leaving not a trace.

From the outside, it remains eerily quiet here.

Lin Tian calmed his mind and felt the ever-increasing mass data inside the Primordial Black Hole. An indescribable sense of security welled up in his heart.

Black holes are such things.

You don't need to do anything fancy, you don't need to study any advanced tactics, and you don't need to worry about being targeted by others.

All you need to do is swallow.

Swallow everything you can, make yourself heavy enough that even light can't escape.

By then, any enemy that comes will be nothing more than easy prey.

This is the source of confidence in the black hole route.

This is also the real reason why Lin Tian dared to slap Zhao Tianyu in the face in front of hundreds of people.

He was not unaware of the Zhao family's immense power.

The number one guild in the Seventh Star District, the number one family in Tianhai City, and the top three big shots in the entire district—any one of these titles is enough to give ordinary observers a run for their money.

But so what?

The growth curve of a black hole is on a completely different dimension from that of a red giant or blue giant.

Red giants need to increase their volume, while blue giants need to increase their brightness. Both of these approaches face an insurmountable bottleneck: the absorption efficiency of nebulous matter.

The larger the volume, the more dispersed the gravitational field on the surface of the star, and the lower the efficiency of absorbing nebula matter.

The brighter the star, the more intense the thermonuclear reaction inside, and the faster the matter is consumed.

This leads to an awkward situation: the growth rate of observers on the superstar path actually slows down as they progress.

But black holes are different.

The larger the mass of a black hole, the stronger its gravitational field.

The stronger the gravitational field, the more efficient it is at absorbing nebula matter.

Once the snowball starts rolling, it can never be stopped.

Lin Tian knew very well that given enough time, not to mention the Zhao family, even the entire Seventh Star District combined wouldn't be enough for him to devour.

Of course, the prerequisite is time.

"The Zhao family definitely won't give me much time."

Lin Tian silently calculated in his mind.

He slapped Zhao Tianyu's face so hard in front of so many people at the entrance of the Nebula Secret Realm. It would be a miracle if the Zhao family didn't retaliate.

But what he didn't expect was that Zhao Rutie would react so quickly and be so determined.

……

Zhao Family Observation Base, Tianhai City.

"Master, Chen Wuye has arrived."

A middle-aged man spoke cautiously.

Zhao Rutie didn't turn around, but simply asked, "What about the star core bomb?"

"Chen Lie's side is also ready and can connect at any time."

"Um."

Zhao Rutie nodded, his gaze still fixed on the star map, as if he were looking at something incredibly distant.

"Notify Chen Wuye that once he emerges from the secret realm, there should be no further words, just take action."

"Push the Star Core Bomb up as well, don't hold back."

"I want Lin Tian's black hole to be reduced to nothing, not even a trace."

The middle-aged man immediately nodded: "Yes!"

……

Nebula Secret Realm.

Time passed by, second by second.

The mass of the primordial black hole has exceeded four thousand times the mass of the sun.

This number, when considered among the newcomers in the entire Seventh Star District, is already a precipitous first.

But Lin Tian still felt it wasn't enough.

A black hole with four thousand times the mass of the Sun can be considered an intermediate-mass black hole, but it is still far from being a true supermassive black hole.

Not to mention supermassive black holes that have masses of hundreds of thousands or millions of times that of the sun.

"Not enough."

Lin Tian murmured something under his breath, activating the gravitational field to continue devouring the surrounding nebula matter.

Just then, a communication call came in.

It is Lu Xuejian.

Lin Tian was slightly taken aback, then answered the call.

"What's up?"

Lu Xuejian's voice was somewhat urgent: "Lin Tian, ​​are you in the secret realm right now?"

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"Listen to me, I just received news that the Zhao family has sent people to block the teleportation exit of the secret realm."

Lin Tian frowned slightly, but his tone remained calm: "And then?"

"And then? Do you even know who the Zhao family sent?" Lu Xuejian's voice carried a clear hint of anxiety. "It was Chen Wuye! Chen Wuye, ranked ninth in the entire district!"

"And...and I also heard that the Zhao family seems to have acquired a star core bomb."

Upon hearing the words "Star Core Bomb," Lin Tian's expression finally became more serious.

He certainly knew about the Star Core Bomb.

A weapon made by compressing a massive amount of nebulous matter to its limit, based on the core of a star.

Once detonated, the chain reaction will instantly release enough energy to destroy all celestial bodies within a radius of billions of kilometers.

This weapon is classified as a weapon of mass destruction in Universe Online and should not be used lightly.

The Zhao family actually resorted to such measures just to deal with a novice like him?

"Is the news confirmed?" Lin Tian asked.

"Ninety percent certain." Lu Xuejian paused. "Lin Tian, ​​I'm not joking with you. The power of the Star Core Bomb is something we beginners simply cannot withstand."

"Don't come out now. Stay in the secret realm a little longer and wait for the Zhao family to feed Lin Tian. Are you even listening to me?!"

"I'm listening," Lin Tian replied calmly. "Thank you for the news, I understand."

"That's it?" Lu Xuejian's voice suddenly rose.

"Otherwise what? I can't just hide in the secret realm and never come out." Lin Tian's tone even carried a hint of amusement. "Besides, the Star Core Bomb is indeed difficult to deal with, but it has a flaw—it doesn't distinguish between friend and foe."

Lu Xuejian was stunned: "What do you mean?"

"It doesn't mean anything," Lin Tian said. "Don't worry, black holes aren't that easy to shatter."

The call was disconnected.

Lu Xuejian stared blankly at the darkened screen for a long time.

Is this guy genuinely confident, or just pure arrogance?

A star-core bomb!

That's a star core bomb!

Even many of the top 100 on the leaderboard don't dare to take it head-on, so why is he, a newbie, so calm?

No, I can't let this guy gamble with his future.

Lu Xuejian gritted her teeth and opened her phone again. This time, she dialed a number she had never contacted before.

The communication was quickly connected, and the face of a middle-aged man appeared on the screen.

It was the head of the Lu family, her father—Lu Huaifeng.

"Dad, do me a favor."