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

A line of data popped up on Lin Tian's panel.

He glanced at it, his expression unchanged.

An increase of 420,000 solar masses is indeed insignificant for a quasar with a mass of over 5 million solar masses.

But this is not the point.

The key point is—the Zhao family is gone.

Those fragments of red giants that remained on the battlefield and had not yet been completely consumed were still slowly rotating in the accretion disk of the primordial quasar.

They were once someone's pride, someone's trump card, someone's trump card that they had painstakingly cultivated.

But now, they are just a mass of food about to be digested.

What domineering guild, what third place in the entire region, what Zhao family—all have become fleeting clouds in this starry sky.

This is the universe.

In the face of true power, everything is just data.

……

"Waaah..."

A soft sob came through the communication channel.

It is Lu Xuejian.

"Why are you crying?" Lin Tian's voice came, still somewhat indifferent.

For some reason, this calm tone made Lu Xuejian feel incredibly at ease.

"Thank you." She took a deep breath. "Really... thank you."

She knew that without Lin Tian, ​​she would surely die today.

Not only her, but the entire Lu family will be wiped off the face of the earth by the Zhao family.

"You're welcome... Xuejian, are you injured?"

"I...no, it's just that my father—" Her voice trailed off again, "...gone...and all the guards from the Lu family, they're all gone."

Lin Tian's voice was very soft, "I'm late."

Lu Xuejian's tears welled up again.

This man traveled a great distance from the 27th Star Sector to rescue her, forcibly pulling her out of the Zhao family's death trap.

Then, he actually told her that he was late.

What did he have to do to wrong her?

He doesn't owe her anything.

She pursed her lips, suppressing the urge to burst into tears: "No, it's not too late, it's good that you came... Your presence is already the best thing."

Lin Tian paused for a moment, seemingly considering what to say.

After a while, his voice rang out again.

"Xuejian, I have something to tell you."

"What's wrong?" Lu Xuejian asked, puzzled.

"I previously signed an agreement with Xinghua University," Lin Tian paused, "They gave me a position as a student and professor, and at the same time, I am also the head of the Black Hole Research Institute."

Lu Xuejian was stunned.

Xinghua University?

A position where a student also serves as a professor?

Or is he the head of some black hole research institute?

Lu Xuejian didn't know what to say for a moment.

"You...you're exaggerating too much." She couldn't help but laugh, but as she laughed, she felt a pang of sadness in her heart.

A month ago, they were classmates sitting in the same classroom.

A month later, her father was devoured, the Lu family was finished, and she couldn't even find a place to stand.

He had already reached a height that she needed to look up to.

"Xuejian." Lin Tian's voice rang out again, this time his tone was noticeably gentler than before, "I'm about to settle down at Xinghua University."

"Mm." Lu Xuejian's voice lowered. "Congratulations."

"Don't rush to congratulate me," Lin Tian paused, "I haven't finished speaking yet."

"Is there anything else?"

I want to take you with me.

Lu Xuejian's brain completely shut down in that instant.

Should we take her with us?

Go to Xinghua University?

She almost instinctively blurted out, "What...what should I do?"

"I'm the head of the Black Hole Research Institute," Lin Tian said seriously. "I can bring you into the Black Hole Research Institute."

"Are you—are you serious?" Lu Xuejian's voice was trembling.

"Seriously."

"But I... I didn't follow the black hole route, I followed the blue giant route. What can a blue giant like me do in the research institute?"

"It can be transferred."

Three words, a simple and understated description.

But to Lu Xuejian, it sounded like someone had gently touched the softest spot in her heart.

Change of route...

This is something that seems almost impossible to people in this world.

Because once you choose a certain path, your attribute allocation, skill system, and resource allocation will all be fixed in that direction.

The cost of changing course midway is unimaginable.

Moreover, the black hole route was pioneered by Lin Tian, ​​making it a unique existence in the century-long history of Universe Online.

No one but him knew which way to go.

But now, he told her personally—it's okay to transfer.

This means that he is willing to share the path he pioneered with her.

This means that he is willing to use his resources, his knowledge, and his time to help her start over.

This means—

Lu Xuejian suddenly felt her nose sting again.

"Why...why are you so good to me?"

"We've been classmates for three years, I can't just watch you end up homeless."

This reason sounds very ordinary.

But Lu Xuejian knew that what he had done for her had long exceeded the scope of what classmates should do.

He traveled thousands of miles from the 27th star sector to save her, shattered the Zhao family's gravitational cage in front of hundreds of red giant stars, and after devouring Zhao Rutie, he reached out to her, wanting to take her away.

This is hardly something a class reunion should be doing.

This is clearly—

Lu Xuejian's heart skipped a beat.

She didn't allow herself to continue thinking about it.

She was afraid that if she kept thinking about it, she would burst into tears in front of Lin Tian.

"I...I'm willing." Her voice was choked with emotion, but her tone was more resolute than ever before. "I'll go to Xinghua University with you, I'll join the Black Hole Research Institute, I'll switch to the Black Hole route—whatever you say, I'll do."

She was startled after saying that.

Lu Xuejian has always been a very opinionated person since she was a child.

She doesn't like being told what to do, doesn't like being led around, and even less like showing weakness in front of anyone.

But at this moment, she willingly handed her life over to this man.

Because she believed in him.

Because it was him.

On the other end of the communication, Lin Tian chuckled softly.

That was the first time Lu Xuejian had heard Lin Tian laugh.

But it was this laugh that made Lu Xuejian unable to hold back her tears any longer, and they streamed down her cheeks.

But she wasn't in pain.

On the contrary, her heart was warm at this moment.

From this day forward, she has someone to rely on.

……

The gravitational field of the primordial quasar slowly swept across the starry sky above the Zhao family headquarters.

The fragments of red giants that remained on the edge of the battlefield were sucked into the accretion disk piece by piece, becoming part of the mass of the primordial quasar.

The headquarters that the Zhao family had been operating for over a decade has now become a desolate vacuum.

All the stars disappeared.

All the star mining facilities were deserted.

Even the red supergiant that once stood in the center of the star sector is now reduced to a faint ring of interstellar dust, gleaming slightly in the light of the quasar.

The dust will soon dissipate.

Just like the Zhao family, they left nothing behind.

However, in the process of consuming these remaining substances, Lin Tian's gravitational field detected something.

It was hidden in Zhao Rutie's star debris, enveloped by layers upon layers of interstellar dust.

It's very inconspicuous.

However, Lin Tian's spacetime curvature has reached level eighteen, so no anomaly in this area can escape his perception.

He used the gravitational field to pull the thing out of the wreckage.

That was an encrypted data packet.

Zhao Rutie used at least five layers of encryption locks, each layer containing a different encryption algorithm.

Even if an ordinary observer found this data packet, they would have no chance of opening it.

But Lin Tian is different.

The S-class observation chamber provided to him by the Black Hole Research Institute has a built-in top-level quantum communication channel and data processing system.

Coupled with the data analysis skills he honed in an astronomical observatory in his previous life, this level of encryption was nothing more than a thin layer of paper to him.

He used a gravitational field to decipher the encoded signal of the data packet, and then peeled it apart layer by layer.

Five minutes later—

The contents of the data packet appeared completely before his eyes.

The document is titled "The 'Supernova Project' of the Lighthouse Nation - A Plan to Clear the Black Hole Route of the Great Xia Nation".