Chapter 941: Unchangeable |
The violent changes brought by the ultra-strong gravitational source were still continuing.
One had to know that this was the enormous energy released when all the mass of several hundred stars had been compressed into a release period of only a few hours.
It was like an efficient cosmic vacuum cleaner. All matter existing within this sector had begun hurtling madly toward it. The space bases, transport ships, transmission apparatuses, communication bases, and so on that Xiao Yu had deliberately left here as camouflage instead of taking away were all destroyed at this moment. The enormous quantity of stardust that had originally existed in this region of space also began gathering here like seawater stirred by a whirlpool.
At this moment, the ultra-strong gravitational source was like a real black hole, displaying its might. Because matter was converging too violently, these materials underwent extremely fierce collisions while orbiting around it. As a result, some portion of the matter happened by chance to gain the qualification to escape, and so they shot away from the vicinity of this balloon black hole at extremely high speeds.
This was another form of jet.
Black hole jets erupt from their poles, even spraying out as far as several million light years, possessing an unimaginable energy level. But balloon black holes were different from those black holes. Balloon black holes had no poles, so these jets could not be gathered together. Instead, they were ejected chaotically from the surface of the balloon black hole.
The range of influence of this balloon black hole was spreading at the speed of light. It was the center, and its range of influence was a sphere centered on it. The radius of this sphere increased by three hundred thousand kilometers every second.
Of course, that was only for this three-dimensional universe. Xiao Yu had calculated before that because they were in different three-dimensional universes, the interaction between the ultra-strong gravitational source and the Central Black Hole of the Feiyuan Galaxy would be instantaneous and would not require any time.
This was a very interesting scene.
In this contest, three possibilities could occur.
First, the Central Black Hole could be pulled by the ultra-strong gravitational source into the current three-dimensional universe. This was the result Xiao Yu had always hoped for.
Second, the ultra-strong gravitational source could be pulled by the Central Black Hole into that three-dimensional universe. After all, according to the principles of mechanics, however much force the ultra-strong gravitational source exerted on the Central Black Hole, however hard it was pulling on the Central Black Hole, was equal to how hard the Central Black Hole was pulling on it. This result was something Xiao Yu could not accept.
Likewise, there was the third result. Neither side would win, and neither side would move the other. Xiao Yu could not accept this result either.
But Xiao Yu held an advantage in this tug-of-war. Because Xiao Yu had had ample time to prepare for this war, while the Dark Star Civilization had been forced to fight in haste, they were unlikely to have made many preventive arrangements within the Central Black Hole.
In fact, of all the energy from those several hundred stars, at least the total energy of one hundred stars had not been used by Xiao Yu to convert into gravity, but had been diverted to other uses. That diverted portion was used to ensure that the ultra-strong gravitational source would not be pulled away by the Central Black Hole, while also ensuring that the ultra-strong gravitational source could pull the Central Black Hole over.
It was like two tug-of-war contestants originally being evenly matched, except that a rocket had been installed on one of them. Then, who would ultimately win and who would lose went without saying.
And the development of events was proceeding just as Xiao Yu had planned.
In the confrontation between these two ultra-powerful existences, space began to undergo some unimaginable changes. It was constantly shattering and being repaired, constantly trembling and fluctuating. In Xiao Yu’s detection instruments and mathematical models, in the invisible fourth-dimensional direction, some bizarre changes were also taking place.
Before Xiao Yu, in a region of space outside the balloon black hole formed by the ultra-strong gravitational source, another black dot suddenly appeared. This black dot was a black dot in the purest sense. It emitted no light at all, and light from outside could not illuminate it in the slightest. It seemed like a black hole, yet it did not display some of a black hole’s characteristics. For example, it had no gravity. It seemed to be nothing more than a simple point of spatial rupture.
But this point of spatial rupture was never repaired by space’s own healing ability. Instead, it showed signs of growing larger and larger. At this moment, a trace of understanding arose in Xiao Yu’s heart. Xiao Yu knew what this thing was. It was a naturally formed transmission channel connecting different three-dimensional universes. And because Xiao Yu had no ability to transmit anything into that three-dimensional universe through this channel, it had not been destroyed by the restrictions of the Logic Weapon.
In fact, Xiao Yu would have been very happy for this transmission channel to be destroyed.
If Xiao Yu’s speculation was correct, then at this moment the galactic Central Black Hole had already left the three-dimensional universe where it had originally been and entered a place like a passage traveling through infinite three-dimensional universes. And if this transmission channel could be destroyed at this moment, then the Central Black Hole, like Xiao Yu’s probe ships, would become lost in the endless and infinite three-dimensional universes, thus completely severing its connection with the current three-dimensional universe. In that case, although the Central Black Hole would not have been destroyed, Xiao Yu could still be considered to have completed the mission.
But unfortunately, Xiao Yu did not have that ability.
That black dot was continuously expanding. Xiao Yu knew this was a good thing. Because it meant that under the pull of the ultra-strong gravitational source, the Central Black Hole was drawing closer and closer to this three-dimensional universe. When that black dot expanded to its limit, it would mean that the Central Black Hole had been dragged by Xiao Yu into this main universe.
In this gravitational battle, both sides had already used all their strength.
At this moment, Xiao Yu suddenly felt that the analogy he had made earlier about a tug-of-war match was not appropriate. He was not competing with another contestant. Rather, he alone was trying to pry loose a mountain.
It was like one person, pulling on a rope, trying to drag an entire mountain.
The power of the ultra-strong gravitational source had already been driven to its limit. Under these circumstances, every half minute, one star with a mass equivalent to the Sun would be completely consumed. Only through energy on this scale could Xiao Yu maintain this enormous pulling force.
Explosions and component collapses were already constantly occurring inside the ultra-strong gravitational source. That was because it could not withstand such an excessively immense energy intensity. Whenever a component collapse occurred, specially made robots would swarm over like bees to repair it. No matter what, it had to hold out through these few hours. That was Xiao Yu’s only pursuit.
By the time things had developed to this stage, after the ultra-strong gravitational source had been activated, Xiao Yu was confident that even if the Dark Star Civilization had a Logic Weapon in hand, it would be unable to alter the situation of the Central Black Hole being dragged into the current three-dimensional universe.
Based on Xiao Yu’s earlier various speculations about the intensity of the backlash from the Logic Weapon, Xiao Yu knew that the harder a goal was to achieve, the greater the backlash after using the Logic Weapon would be.
And based on the fact that the Dark Star Civilization had not issued commands such as ‘destroy Xiao Yu.’ Xiao Yu could infer that the backlash brought by the command ‘destroy Xiao Yu’ was something the Dark Star Civilization could not bear. Then it could be assumed that ‘destroy Xiao Yu’ was the upper limit of difficulty for the Dark Star Civilization’s use of the Logic Weapon. Any task equal to or exceeding that level of difficulty would not be completed by the Dark Star Civilization through the Logic Weapon.
So now a comparison could be made. Which command was more difficult?
‘Ensure the Central Black Hole’s gravitational dominion over the Feiyuan Galaxy while cutting off Xiao Yu’s current gravitational pull on the Central Black Hole,’ or ‘destroy Xiao Yu?’
One had to know that the Dark Star Civilization could not directly issue the command ‘destroy the ultra-strong gravitational source.’ Although this command would be very easy to accomplish, since only some tiny accident would be needed to achieve it, the Dark Star Civilization would not issue this command. Because if the Dark Star Civilization destroyed the ultra-strong gravitational source through such a command, then the Central Black Hole, including the entire Dark Star Civilization currently at the edge of the Central Black Hole, would very likely, note this, very likely, become lost in the endless three-dimensional universes and completely sever contact with the current three-dimensional universe. It was like two people straining with all their might in a tug-of-war, and then one of them suddenly letting go. What would happen then? The principles were all the same.
In this way, Xiao Yu’s objective had in essence already been achieved.
Do not forget that Xiao Yu wanted to destroy the Central Black Hole in order to destroy the entire Feiyuan Galaxy, and the consequence of the Central Black Hole becoming lost would likewise be the destruction of the Feiyuan Galaxy.
Then the Dark Star Civilization’s command would have to become: ‘Ensure the Central Black Hole’s gravitational dominion over the Feiyuan Galaxy while cutting off Xiao Yu’s current gravitational pull on the Central Black Hole.’
With only one extra condition added, the difficulty of this command had increased many times over. Based on Xiao Yu’s limited four-dimensional technology, the difficulty of this command would not be much lower than that of ‘destroy Xiao Yu.’ Since the Dark Star Civilization had not issued the command ‘destroy Xiao Yu,’ then naturally it was also impossible for the Dark Star Civilization to issue the command ‘ensure the Central Black Hole’s gravitational dominion over the Feiyuan Galaxy while cutting off Xiao Yu’s current gravitational pull on the Central Black Hole.’
In other words, the matter of the Central Black Hole being dragged into the current three-dimensional universe was already unchangeable.
This was the benefit Xiao Yu had gained from those earlier speculations about the Logic Weapon. Through the guidance of those outline-level conclusions, Xiao Yu could clearly know what things the Dark Star Civilization would not do and what things it had to do, and thus use that to better guide his own actions.