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

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly changed.

The United States' black hole project did not start from scratch.

In fact, from the day Lin Tian's black hole route triggered the announcement of the will of the universe, the intelligence agencies of the United States had already begun to frantically collect all information about black holes.

They spent three months analyzing all the publicly available data they could find.

But they were never able to make this path work.

It's not that we lack theoretical knowledge.

The problem is, they don't have Lin Tian.

The black hole route is different from the giant star route; it's not something that can be created by simply piling on resources.

It requires observers to have extremely precise gravitational field control capabilities, to monitor the changes of dozens of parameters simultaneously during the star's collapse, and to make correct judgments with an accuracy on the order of one part per million.

This ability cannot be bought with money.

But William didn't want to wait any longer.

"No matter what, we must create our own black hole in the Land of the Beacon," William said resolutely. "We absolutely cannot allow the Great Xia Kingdom to use black holes to strangle us again!"

Upon seeing this, the adjutant picked up the encrypted communicator on the table, dialed the White House hotline, and then handed the communicator to William.

The call was answered quickly.

William gave a brief overview of the current situation and then went straight to his proposal.

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone.

Then, the president's voice slowly rang out.

"William, do you know how much funding it will take to launch Project Black Hole? At the very least, it'll cost trillions of stars. The Democrats in Congress have been watching our military spending closely, and your proposal—"

“Mr. President,” William interrupted him, “if we don’t launch Project Black Hole now, in five years, the United States may not even be qualified to sit at this table.”

The president remained silent again.

This time, the silence lasted even longer.

Finally, he spoke.

"Prepare the bill. I will submit it for discussion in Congress tonight. As for whether it will pass, that depends on whether your data is convincing enough."

"Thank you, Mr. President."

"Don't thank me." The president's voice sounded weary. "William, I just don't want the United States to lose on this path."

……

Three more days passed.

Over these three days, the war situation on Earth did not change significantly.

Countries are still vying for resource points, and sporadic conflicts are occurring one after another, but a major war of the scale of the Seventh Sector has not yet occurred again.

It's very quiet over there in the United States too.

The Quark Star reconnaissance team never approached the star sector of the Great Xia Kingdom again, and even its operations near the border decreased significantly.

Some speculate that the United States is building up its strength, while others guess that it has been scared by defeat.

Regardless of outside speculation, the atmosphere in the Great Xia Kingdom has become much more relaxed.

Especially within the Black Hole Legion.

Because in these three days, the Black Hole Legion reached a milestone.

Evolution of everyone.

All black hole observers who came from the crash course have completed the evolution from Schwarzschild black holes to Kerr black holes.

Although each person's mass is different, and the speed of evolution varies, even the worst one has reached more than 30,000 times the mass of the sun.

The strongest, Su Li, has even broken through the 100,000 mark.

This means that the Black Hole Legion no longer only has Lin Tian as a capable main force.

Every black hole observer possesses the strength to stand alone on the front lines.

more importantly--

The time-space freezer can no longer pose a threat to the Black Hole Legion.

To freeze a Kerr black hole, you would need an array of at least tens of millions of quark stars.

Even if all the Quark planets in the Lighthouse Kingdom were combined, they definitely couldn't come up with that number.

……

However, this rare period of calm did not last long.

That evening, Lin Tian's communicator rang.

It is a direct hotline to the highest levels of the government.

Lin Tian connected the call.

"Feed".

"Lin Tian, ​​it's me." A deep and steady voice came from the other end of the communication, it was Old Chen.

"Mr. Chen, is something the matter?"

"It's not a major issue, but we can't ignore it." Old Chen paused for a moment. "In the United States, Congress has already passed the 'New Manhattan' plan."

The New Manhattan Project.

Upon hearing this name, Lin Tian's gaze sharpened slightly.

He certainly knew the weight of that name.

In his previous life, the Manhattan Project was a secret program by the United States during World War II to develop the atomic bomb.

The success of that plan made the United States the world's number one military power, completely rewriting the history of human warfare.

And now, the United States has launched a "New Manhattan" project.

The fact that the name includes the word "Manhattan" is enough to demonstrate how much importance the United States attaches to this project.

"Are they also planning to create a black hole?" Lin Tian asked.

"Yes." Old Chen's voice carried a hint of solemnity. "According to intelligence, the United States has approved the first batch of special funds, amounting to 3.5 trillion star coins. They plan to create at least thirty black hole observers within a year."

"Three and a half trillion, that's really going all out."

"That's why I came to find you," Old Chen said. "Although we now have the Black Hole Legion and maintain an absolute advantage over the United States on the front lines, the United States is, after all, a century-old hegemon. Once they also successfully navigate the Black Hole route, the situation will become much more complicated."

"I'd like to know, what do you think?"

Lin Tian remained silent for a moment.

Then he smiled.

"Mr. Chen, you don't need to worry."

"Um?"

"If the US wants to work on black holes, let them!" Lin Tian said calmly. "The black hole route isn't something money can pave the way for, and even if they succeed, so what?"

"The worst thing about the black hole route is not that others also take this route, but that others travel it faster than you."

"The United States is only just getting started, and they have already lost their first-mover advantage on the path of black holes."

"Even if they do create a few black holes, it's just providing snacks for the Great Xia Kingdom."

He spoke his last words very softly.

But to Old Chen, it was like a reassuring pill.

"It's good that you're confident." Old Chen's tone was noticeably more relaxed.

……

Three more days passed.

Lin Tian's consciousness finally withdrew from the database of the Ayers relay station.

The data in the relay station was much more than he had expected.

Moreover, each of these items alone would be enough to advance the astronomical and physical research of the Great Xia Kingdom by several decades.

The technology of gravity shields, in particular, is of paramount importance.

However, this data still needs further processing and analysis.

"Let's take the things back first."

Lin Tian packaged all the data and stored it in the local database of the observation cabin.

After doing all this, he opened the Legion's communications channel.

"I'm done here."

As soon as the message was sent, Su Li's excited voice immediately rang out in the communication channel.

"Finally out? I thought you were going to stay in the dark matter halo until the New Year!"

"Su Li." Lu Xuejian's voice rang out, her tone tinged with a hint of helpless reproach, "Don't bother him, he must be tired after just coming out."

"Xuejian, I'm just showing concern! Understand?" Su Li declared confidently, "If you keep everything bottled up inside, you'll burn yourself out sooner or later!"

Lu Xuejian was too lazy to banter with her, and simply asked softly over the channel, "Lin Tian, ​​is everything going smoothly on your end?"

"Successfully." Lin Tian's voice carried a rare hint of relief. "I got everything."

"That's good."

Other members of the Black Hole Legion also sent messages one after another, reporting on the situation over the past few days.

After replying to each of these messages, Lin Tian issued a new order.

"Everyone, log out of the observation cabin immediately. I need to call an emergency meeting, and everyone must attend."

"In addition, contact the military and the national leadership and ask them to send people over as well."