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

"What's going on?! My neutron star—"

From the northeast, the commander of the third squadron of the Sakura Kingdom suddenly sent a communication.

However, before he could utter even half a cry of alarm, the communication was abruptly cut off.

Matsushiro stared intently at the three vanished signal points on the light screen, his pupils shrinking to their maximum size.

However, the matter is not over yet.

"Matsumoto-senpai! The fourth squadron has also lost contact! All seven neutron stars are out of service!"

"The Ninth Squadron has encountered an unidentified gravitational field and is being dragged along! They...they can't break free!"

"Squadron 15 is calling for help! They say they've seen something... something invisible! Gravity field detectors show something approaching, but optical detectors can't see anything!"

"Seventeenth Squadron reporting! Wait, the Seventeenth Squadron's signal has also disappeared!"

On the communication channel, panicked reports came one after another.

Matsushiro served as a neutron star observer for twelve years and fought for twelve years, and had never encountered such a situation before.

An unseen enemy.

An inescapable gravitational field.

A signal that is lost and can never be found again.

"Black holes...they're all black holes..."

……

"Matsumoto-senpai! Look towards the northeast—"

A startled cry pulled Matsushiro from his daze.

He suddenly raised his head and turned the probe to the northeast.

Then, he saw it.

In the pitch-black, empty starry sky, an extremely distorted region appeared.

As the light passed through that area, it bent and formed a faint halo.

Like a crumpled mirror, it refracted the light of the stars behind it into eerie arcs.

Having seen this, Matsumoto Jiro was completely certain.

Black hole!

This is a black hole!

A cold voice rang out over the communication channel: "Fang Yan, leader of the first group of the Great Xia Kingdom's Black Hole Legion, is ordered to intercept the Cherry Blossom Kingdom's neutron star formation!"

Matsumoto Jiro's blood seemed to freeze in that instant.

"Fang Yan... Fang Yan?!" His voice was filled with disbelief.

He recognized this person!

As a core member of the Amaterasu Society, Matsumoto Jiro studied the geniuses of various star regions in the Great Xia Kingdom.

In particular, this genius embarked on the neutron star path without any formal instruction.

This made it even harder for him to ignore.

"Aren't you from the 11th Three-Star District?! Weren't you on the neutron star route?! How did you become a black hole?!"

Fang Yan coldly replied, "What's it to you?"

The moment the words left his mouth, Fang Yan's black hole moved.

Its gravitational field was released without reservation, like an invisible net, enveloping the surrounding neutron stars.

The owners of those neutron stars are all veteran players from Japan, having immersed themselves in the neutron star route for at least five or six years, and their combat experience is undeniably rich.

But when Fang Yan's gravitational field touched their star, they realized that all their experience was worthless in the face of a black hole.

Their neutron star seemed to be held down by an invisible hand.

No matter how much gravitational field was activated, how the pulse frequency was adjusted, or how much resonance was attempted to break free, it was all in vain.

"No--!!!"

An observer from the land of cherry blossoms let out a desperate roar.

His neutron star was stretched, and its outer layers were easily stripped away, falling into the accretion disk of the black hole.

Then comes the deeper layer, which is crushed under extreme gravitational differences, turning into invisible streams of energy.

The whole process took less than thirty seconds.

[Announcement from the Will of the Universe: Observer "Fang Yan" (Great Xia Kingdom) has successfully devoured Observer "Koizumi Junichiro" (Sakura Kingdom)]

[Overall Strength Rating of the Great Xia Kingdom: +120]

[Overall strength rating of Japan: -120]

Immediately afterwards, a second announcement popped up.

The observer "Fang Yan" (Daxia Kingdom) successfully devoured the observer "Watanabe Kazuya" (Sakura Kingdom)

[Overall Strength Rating of the Great Xia Kingdom: +109]

[Overall strength rating of Japan: -109]

Then comes the third course.

The fourth one.

The fifth one.

……

Announcements came one after another, almost without interruption.

Each one represents the fall of a junior star observer from the cherry blossom country.

Each one represents an increase in the mass of the Fangyan black hole.

Matsumoto Jiro's face went from pale to ashen, and then from ashen to deathly ashen.

"The Great Xia Kingdom actually has more than one black hole! They've trained a group of black hole observers!"

"We're not facing ordinary stars, we're facing black holes! An entire army of black holes!"

"I must tell the president... I must—"

He frantically operated the communications panel, trying to connect to the encrypted channel at Amaterasu headquarters.

But in that instant, Fang Yan's black hole had already reached him.

The dark horizon of events expanded rapidly before his eyes, like a nightmare from which he could never wake up.

"Trying to leave?" Fang Yan's voice rang out coldly.

Matsushiro almost instinctively propelled his neutron star backward.

At the same time, it commanded the few remaining neutron stars in the vicinity to block its path.

"Stop him! All of you, get him! Block him!"

Those dozens of neutron stars were all elites of the Amaterasu Society. Although they were terrified when they heard the order, they still gritted their teeth and charged forward.

Fang Yan's lips curled up slightly.

Lin Tian had taught him that what a black hole fears most is not having too many enemies, but having too few enemies to swallow.

We'll swallow as many as they come.

His gravitational field surged again, dragging the leading neutron stars into the event horizon.

The accretion disk rotated faster and faster, and the light released by the friction illuminated the entire starry sky, while at the center of that light was eternal darkness.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Connect them into a line.

……

Matsushiro watched helplessly as his subordinates were devoured one by one, his heart aching so much it felt like it was bleeding.

These people are all elites he personally trained, a team he has cultivated over more than a decade.

But now, in the face of Fang Yan's black hole, they are as vulnerable as a flock of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

The gap is too big.

"Matsumoto-senpai—retreat! We can't hold them off any longer!"

"We'll buy you some time, you can go first—"

He didn't finish his sentence.

Because Fang Yan's gravitational field has completely swallowed his neutron star.

Matsushiro gritted his teeth.

He knew that if he didn't leave now, he really wouldn't be able to leave at all.

He abruptly activated his neutron star, fleeing towards the rear of the battlefield at maximum speed.

In addition, the suicidal delays of his subordinates meant that Fang Yan's gravitational field was unable to lock onto him for the time being.

"Stop him—don't let him catch up!"

As he fled, Matsumoto Jiro gave orders to his remaining subordinates without turning his head.

The subordinates felt a chill run through them when they heard the order.

They knew they had been abandoned.

But they did not resist.

At Amaterasu-sha, orders from superiors are everything.

It is only natural for subordinates to sacrifice themselves so that their superiors can survive.

As a result, the last twenty-odd neutron stars went berserk, simultaneously unleashing their strongest gravitational fields and crashing into Fang Yan's black hole.

Fang Yan frowned slightly.

The gravitational fields of these twenty-odd neutron stars are not enough to pose a threat to his black hole.

However, the gravitational wave disturbances caused by their simultaneous eruption did indeed interfere with his locking accuracy to some extent.

After all, his black hole has only recently evolved, and its gravitational field range is not large enough, far from reaching the level of Lin Tian who can ignore all interference.

Taking advantage of this momentary disturbance, Matsumoto Jiro disappeared into the depths of the starry sky.

"He got away."

Fang Yan murmured something under his breath, a hint of regret in his voice.

However, he quickly put this regret behind him.

They've run away, so be it. One Matsumoto Jiro can't cause any trouble.

"Continue to devour."