The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

Stepping onto the sand, feeling the rising tide filling my shoes, felt exactly like when Xue Law actually played at the beach.

Not far away, it seemed that members of the Starfleet were having a surfing competition, charging against the waves.

After wandering around for a while, he saw a house called "Confession Room".

Xue's Law: "?"

He became genuinely curious about the place, so he opened the door and went inside.

"Sister, I want to confess; I have sinned."

A familiar voice rang out; it was another acquaintance, the young general.

"What's the matter?"

"Last time I was on a mission, I was with a fish...you know, and now that fish is pregnant with my babies..." The young man hesitated, but finally said, "She's pregnant with 1145 babies in one pregnancy...what am I going to do..."

The nun: "..."

Xue's Law: "..."

At this moment, the nun's expression was as if she had seen a ghost, and she had to exert all her strength to keep it in place.

A single pregnancy costs over a thousand. Does that mean the mermaid was carrying a belly full of fish eggs when she was pregnant?

……

"You've finally arrived, please sit down..." The young general looked much more haggard than he had a few days ago.

It's estimated that the birth of over a thousand mermaids in one pregnancy was devastating for him. When he confessed to the nun, he was trying to determine whether he should have aborted those over a thousand children.

After all, the number was too astonishing. He never imagined that the mermaids in that world were not viviparous or oviparous, but rather gave birth to fish eggs! It is said that a pregnancy with a litter of a little over a thousand eggs is considered low, and some can have a litter of several thousand eggs!

It's a ghost!

Xue Dinglu could only offer a comforting look, adding fuel to the fire: "As a father, you can't be so cruel! Let her give birth, let her give birth!"

"Then you'll raise over a thousand children for me?"

"Farewell!"

Xue Dinglu immediately prepared to pack his bags and leave. It wasn't his child; whoever's child it was, they could raise it themselves.

However, the two were just joking. In reality, the young man could grit his teeth and manage to raise the child himself, but he might have to spend the rest of his life raising the child, and his current dream might have to come to an end.

He had been struggling with this issue, which is why he wanted to talk to the nun about it.

"Sigh!" the young general sighed.

"Young man, don't sigh. Look at me, I live such an easy life," Xue Dinglu said, patting him on the shoulder.

"Ugh……"

Xue Daolu naturally knew that this kid must be very conflicted right now. After all, if he aborted more than a thousand children, he would lose more than a thousand children all at once, which was hard to accept. But if he gave birth to them all and raised them, it would be even harder to accept.

It's simply a terrible tragedy.

Just as the two were chatting, a stranger in the distance said, "Songquan, throw my storage belt over here!"

"Can't you take it yourself?" the young general replied, immediately throwing a belt at him, creating a sonic boom.

The young man on the other side caught the belt steadily and said, "Thanks!"

Xue's Law: "..."

"Is your real name Song Quan?" Xue Dinglu asked.

"Didn't I tell you?" The young man immediately looked like he'd seen a ghost. So they hadn't revealed their real names during the seven days they were on the mission together?

"without……"

The atmosphere instantly became extremely awkward.

Just then, Olivia's voice came from afar: "Xiao Xue, come here."

"Oh!" Xue Dinglu responded, then patted "Little Quan" on the shoulder. "From now on, I'll call you Little Quan. It's much easier to say now. I'm going to go take care of my business now. When your child, who costs over a thousand, is born, just let me know and I'll come to the wedding banquet!"

The young man glared fiercely at Xue Luding, then immediately thought of a counterattack strategy, saying, "Of my more than 1000 children, at least 1000 are daughters. How about it? How about we arrange a marriage between our children right now, and all my more than 1000 daughters become your future wives?"

Xue's Law: "..."

He immediately ran away, as if he had gotten something dirty on his back.

The young general was right. If all the fish eggs were born, nearly a thousand of them would probably be female mermaids. This was what troubled the young general the most. Among the people of their race, the marriage of their daughters was the most troublesome thing.

Now, with over a thousand daughters suddenly appearing, he felt like he was about to have a mental breakdown. Just then, Xue Dinglu was making sarcastic remarks next to him, so he immediately retaliated.

However, this counterattack was too terrifying for Xue Dinglu. Before, the young man said that his daughter was still a primary school student, but now he wanted to get engaged while still in the womb, and the return was more than a thousand.

I'm leaving, I'm leaving. It was just too terrifying, the scariest episode ever.

……

Xue Dinglu hurriedly came to Olivia's side. However, unlike the young general, Olivia's expression was extremely serious, even carrying a deep sadness.

"What's wrong?" Xue asked.

“We found information about Senior Kleber. He was indeed a member of the Starfleet, and even one of the earliest members to join the Starfleet. That was tens of millions of years ago, too long ago… Let’s go take a look together…” The senior’s words were no longer as carefree as before, but full of seriousness.

"Mm," Xue Dinglu responded, silently following behind.

Olivia brought Xue's Law to a huge building with the words "Archives" written on it.

After entering, the senior placed his hand on the terminal, and the next moment, the old man's file appeared in front of Xue Dinglu.

"Kleber, a member of the original 27th squad of the Starfleet, was skilled in weapon forging and was a repairman and forger in charge of the squad's equipment at the time," Senior Olivia slowly revealed the old man's identity.

Xue Dinglu nodded. He had realized before that the old man was a swordsmith, otherwise he wouldn't know so much about magical sword forging. At the same time, the prototype of the holy sword that the hero uncle once had may have come from the old man.

As the old hero once said, his beloved Holy Sword was not his own Noble Phantasm; he inherited it from his predecessor.

Xue Dinglu saw all the people in the file, who were the old man's team, nearly a hundred people. Some of them had strange appearances, some had alien heads, and some were less than half a meter tall.

However, the group of several dozen people were happily distributing supplies and equipment on a planet, and finally they optimistically said, "Let's take one last picture!"

"Okay!" Everyone in the group laughed as they secured the ancient magical equipment, and then everyone took this picture.

"Crack!"

A black and white photograph is captured on a page of this file, with the following text written on it.

In the year 91211 of the First Age, members of the 27th Squadron of the Starfleet went to deal with the Andromeda Void Disaster, and all perished. Survivors: 0.

Looking at this black and white photograph, in the upper left corner of the picture, Mr. Kleber is smiling and raising his sword, laughing like a child.

In the photo, everyone is smiling, and each face seems to be filled with hope and anticipation for the future. After taking this picture of the items their team left behind in the world, everyone stepped into the void of Andromeda without hesitation.

Xue turned to the next page, which showed a marriage proposal from a boy and girl in the 27th squad. They stood together, smiling and holding hands, their fingers intertwined, revealing happy and contented smiles.

On the same day, Anna and Lanoff, members of Squad 27, confirmed their relationship.

The scene freezes at this moment, and Xue Dinglu sees what's behind him.

Anna, confirmed dead. Lanoff, confirmed dead.

Anna's father, Kleber, the squad's mechanic, has been confirmed dead.

……

Xue Dinglu silently looked at the old photos. Each photo in the archive would move when it was turned on, as if it were telling a story from the past.

"The universe is empty..." Xue asked his senior, Olivia.

"It's an extremely rare cosmic disaster, but it's one of the most difficult to deal with," the senior said. "You can think of the universe as a constantly expanding bubble."

Xue nodded. He knew a little about the cosmic bubble theory.

“Beyond our universe, there are actually many other universes, but that’s another story. The so-called cosmic void is simply a tiny hole that has opened up in the cosmic bubble we inhabit,” Senior Olivia explained.

"That hole may connect to the outer universe, or it may connect directly to the void, but from the perspective of our universe, it is like a void that is even more greedy than a black hole. Before the original 27th Squad went to deal with it, a star system had already been swallowed up by that hole."

"And the members of Squad 27 came up with a way to fill that void..." Olivia paused, seemingly lost in thought, but continued, "...to fill the void with a black hole, using natural disaster to combat natural disaster. They succeeded. The black hole at the center of Andromeda that remains to this day is this..."

"The 27th Squad, no one survived, not even the souls of the Mimic Kings returned home. But today, the soul of the only member of the 27th Squad, the repairman Kleber, has returned home. Thank you, Xue Law. On behalf of the entire interstellar column, I solemnly thank you."

Senior Olivia bowed deeply, but this time Xue Dinglu didn't stand on ceremony; he simply continued to silently peruse the files.

These are magical photos. Each time you flip through one, the corresponding photo comes to life, as if continuing to tell the story of that time to future generations.

He saw that tens of millions of years ago, an enormous divine tree, under manipulation and supplied with magic, actually defied the gravity of a black hole and pushed it into the void of space.

Immediately, Xue Daolu felt only unparalleled absurdity and disbelief.

The gravity of a black hole can even capture light. Now, the dozens of people in the 27 teams are taking turns injecting magic into the divine tree, allowing the divine tree to push the black hole toward the void in the universe little by little. They are even less than tens of thousands of kilometers away from the black hole.

“They are fighting against the gravity of a black hole with their own bodies, and it’s hard to believe because we know that,” Senior Olivia explained.

"At this distance, each of them would be pulled by a gravitational force of approximately 100,000 times the strength of gravity, while that divine tree was constantly regenerating by exhausting all its energy and the magic power it was infused with, thus slowly relying on its life force to withstand the black hole..."

“Here, none of them can survive for more than half an hour. They would be torn to pieces by gravity just by standing there. So they were divided into three groups. Each group would take turns injecting magic power after twenty minutes, until the black hole filled the void in the universe.”

After Olivia finished speaking, the place became eerily quiet.

Xue Dinglu stared intently at the scene inside.

Even that planet-sized divine tree, with its countless roots covered in magic arrays and magic barriers, was instantly twisted upon contact with the black hole and absorbed into it, becoming material to strengthen the black hole.

It was those members who forcibly used magic to distort the instincts of the divine tree, causing it to push the black hole in.

As time went on, it was visible to the naked eye that the bodies of the 27 squad members were distorted by gravity, their skin was torn apart as if by an invisible hand, and their bones made a sound that sent chills down one's spine.

The true terror of a black hole has been fully demonstrated.

The terror of the cosmic void is on the other side, where another star system is swallowed up as if it were thrown into a toilet. If the universe is a pool, the cosmic void is the outlet, and what they have to do is push this black hole down to block that outlet.

Even though everyone is distorted by the black hole's gravity, using magic and physical bodies to fight against the black hole seems crazy to anyone, Xue Dinglu couldn't say anything sarcastic.

Because this might be their only option.

Everyone's expression and body were distorted under the pull of gravity. As Xue turned to the next page, he saw the person who seemed to be the squad leader speaking among the members who were about to change shifts.

"The rest of you, take your mana potions as soon as possible, Kleber! We need higher-level protective gear!"

The old man was constantly adjusting the structure of the armor. He heard the squad leader's words and asked in return, "This kind of gravity is beyond the power of magic to resist. I can only do my best, but even so, they will still be killed by gravity."

The squad leader paused for a moment, then looked directly at the old man and said, "Then I'll go myself."

He handed the short sword in his hand to Old Man Kleber. Xue Lude saw that the sword was the same one that the old man had given to Xue Lude before, a short sword of the same style as the Holy Sword of the Brave Uncle.