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

William's face darkened completely.

A well-organized black hole force.

He knew all too well what this meant.

Lin Tian alone was already giving them such a headache, and now the Great Xia Kingdom has produced thirty-four more black hole observers—although their mass is incomparable to Lin Tian's, a black hole is still a black hole.

Black holes have a natural and overwhelming advantage over red giants, neutron stars, and pulsars.

This is a gap that tactics cannot bridge.

This is a crushing defeat according to the laws of physics.

Even if you tied all the ants in the world together, you still couldn't defeat a destroyer.

What's more, there's a group of escort ships surrounding this destroyer.

"Colonel, what is your judgment?" William asked.

Carter took a deep breath and turned his gaze back to the battlefield star map on the light screen.

"My assessment is that, so far, all the tactics we've researched regarding black holes have been ineffective."

William remained silent for a long time.

It's not that I don't want to respond, it's that I really don't know what to say.

The mighty nation of the Beacon of Light, having sat in the position of the strongest nation on Earth for so many years, is now facing a completely new celestial body and cannot even come up with an effective tactic.

What is this if not a disgrace?

"And there's another critical problem," Carter said in a low voice, "It's been four hours, and we still haven't detected any movement from Lin Tian's quasar."

William's pupils contracted sharply.

He understood the subtext of those words.

These thirty-four miniature black holes are terrifying, but they are merely knives.

The person who actually wields the knife has yet to show up.

They have already lost more than two thousand elite troops in the face of the miniature black hole.

What if the person wielding the knife personally intervenes?

William dared not think any further.

Just then, an even sharper alarm sounded without warning.

In that instant, all the lights in the temporary command cabin turned a blinding red, and the light screen in front of the operator looked as if it had been splashed with blood, with dense streams of data jumping wildly.

"Sir! Seven o'clock! Three light-years away! Appearing—appearing—"

The operator's voice caught in his throat, as if he had seen something he shouldn't have.

William lunged at the light screen.

Then, he saw it.

light.

Endless light.

The light shone from the very center of the battlefield, as if someone had lit a lamp in this cold universe.

All the brilliance William had ever seen in his life combined couldn't compare to a fraction of it.

Quasars.

Lin Tian's quasar.

He finally arrived.

……

At the same time, Matsushiro Jiro, who was on the run, was stunned.

He also discovered the light.

In just a moment, his neutron star was engulfed by the light.

"Matsumoto-senpai! It's a quasar! Lin Tian's quasar! It's here!"

"Run! Run or it'll be too late!"

"Where is it? I can't see it! My detectors are all broken!"

Matsumoto Jiro's lips trembled, and his face was as pale as a sheet of paper.

He wanted to escape.

But it was too late.

……

The massacre began.

The gravitational field of the primordial quasar was released without reservation in that instant.

With the spacetime curvature fully activated at level 26, a gravitational field with a mass 13 million times that of the Sun descended from the sky like an invisible mountain, firmly pressing thousands of enemy celestial bodies on the battlefield to their original positions.

That feeling was completely different from the miniature black holes of the Black Hole Legion.

If Fang Yan, Su Li, and their black hole were like a pack of hungry wolves, agile and fierce, tearing their prey apart one by one.

Lin Tian's quasar is a blue whale.

Blue whales don't need to bite.

It only needs to open its mouth, and seawater will bring in fish and shrimp on its own.

"My celestial body—my celestial body can't move!"

"The gravitational field is too strong! We're completely locked in!"

"What is this?! This isn't a black hole! Black holes can't possibly have a gravitational field of this magnitude!"

"It's a quasar! Lin Tian's quasar! We're finished—we're all finished!"

Desperate screams echoed through the communications channels of the four-nation coalition.

Matsushiro Motohiro exerted all his strength to activate his neutron star, attempting to break free from that restraint.

But it didn't work.

His neutron star was as if it were frozen inside a giant piece of amber, and no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't move it even a fraction of an inch.

"Retreat—retreat for all!" he shouted almost hysterically.

But where to retreat to?

The entire starry sky was now enveloped by the gravitational field of the primordial quasar.

The first to be dragged into the accretion disk are the closest neutron stars.

Then comes the red giant.

Then there are pulsars.

One after another.

Ten after ten.

One hundred after another.

Lin Tian remained completely undisturbed.

He didn't even use any skills—gravitational lensing, relativistic jets, ergonomic rotation, none of them were necessary.

All he needs to do is spread out the gravitational field.

Then just wait.

……

"Colonel Carter, you must retreat immediately!"

On the US's communication channel, the adjutant's voice was almost shouted.

But Carter stood there like a statue, motionless and frozen in place.

He stared at the battlefield swallowed by light, watching those once invincible elite celestial bodies disappear one by one into the abyss of the black hole, his face expressionless.

It's not that I'm not afraid.

They were so terrified that they became numb.

"Twenty years." He suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse like two pieces of sandpaper rubbing together. "I have been an observer for twenty years, participated in two cosmic wars, seen the artificial supernova of the Russian bear country, the pulsar storm of the British Empire, and the neutron star resonance battle array of the Japanese nation."

"I've seen it all."

"But today I realized—I've never seen anything like this before."

The adjutant opened his mouth, unsure of what to say.

"Let's go." Carter turned around, his voice filled with an indescribable weariness. "Every one of us who gets back alive is a contribution..."

The mission to obtain quasar data was a complete failure.

Their biggest task now is to escape.

They escaped from the clutches of the quasar.

The Quark Star fleet from the Lighthouse Nation has begun its retreat.

They pushed their gravitational fields to their limits, streaking across the deep cosmic space like shooting stars.

However, in the face of quasars, all efforts are in vain.

Once the gravitational field of a quasar spreads out, countless quark stars disintegrate in a mere instant.

This is a quasar.

The most violent and unreasonable celestial body in the universe.

Carter's heart bled as he watched Quark Star fall one by one; these were all the elites of the Beacon of the Nation!

Even after cultivating the Quark Star route for so many years, the Beacon of the Nation has only trained tens of thousands of Quark Star troops, and now it has lost so many.

But he had no time to be angry, nor to be sad; he had to keep running.

Otherwise, even he himself would be in trouble!