Chapter 955: The Best Outcome for All Three |
The balance between the pressure of the light and heat produced by a star’s own nuclear fusion and the star’s own gravity is the most crucial factor in maintaining the stable existence of a star. The Dark Star Civilization and this Level 7 Alien Beast undoubtedly understood this very well. That was why the Dark Star Civilization could formulate a star that still remained viable despite containing so many heavy elements, and why this Level 7 Alien Beast could recklessly devour stellar mass without worrying that the star would explode inside its stomach.
What was more, a Level 6 Alien Beast was already no longer afraid of a supernova explosion. A Level 7 Alien Beast, which was worlds apart from a Level 6 Alien Beast, had even less reason to fear one. Even if a star exploded inside its body, how much damage it would suffer was a matter worth considering, but in any case, the injury definitely would not be severe.
There were two normal situations. First, thanks to its rich experience in devouring stars, the stars it swallowed generally would not explode inside its body. Second, even if a star did explode, it could not cause it too much damage, and would be very unlikely to have an overall impact on it. At most, it would be like a person getting an upset stomach.
But now was not a normal situation.
The current Level 7 Alien Beast was not in its healthy state. Its injuries had already become so severe that if Xiao Yu had been given another half hour to launch a fatal attack on it, he could have completely killed it. Also, in Xiao Yu’s estimation, even if the injuries from overproducing Alien Beast offspring could heal within half a year, then at the very least, it was still extremely weak right now.
Under this series of coincidental circumstances, the oversized star swallowed into its body, with the explosion of the star that the Dark Star Civilization had destroyed with its own hands as the starting point, was finally reached by a long-range effect jointly produced by many other stars and the Central Black Hole. Then a new round of changes began inside this oversized star. The influence of the external gravity caused some deviations in the internal structure of the star. Under normal circumstances, this would have been nothing serious. But unfortunately, what was affected this time happened to be certain critical parts of its stellar core. Once these critical parts were affected, they immediately transmitted even greater effects to the rest of the star…
And it was precisely at this moment that this weakened Level 7 Alien Beast detected these abnormal conditions. It instantly understood what was about to happen next, so it panicked and tried to expel this oversized star from its body. But the fluctuations it caused once again affected the star, and so the star exploded violently…
This was not an ordinary supernova explosion, but one of the most violent pair-instability supernova explosions in the universe. This type of supernova explosion could only occur in a giant star of around two hundred solar masses. A star undergoing this kind of explosion would be completely blasted to pieces. It would not leave behind an extreme celestial body such as a neutron star or black hole in its core, but would instead completely explode and disintegrate, be utterly blown apart, and at the same time release the most violent explosive energy.
At this moment, the energy released by this star could even rival that of the Central Black Hole of the Feiyuan Galaxy. One had to know that the Central Black Hole of the Feiyuan Galaxy belonged to an active galactic nucleus. The energy it released was equal to the combined energy released by all the other stars in the entire Feiyuan Galaxy…
Originally, even though a pair-instability supernova was one of the most violent forms of energy release in the universe, killing a Level 7 Alien Beast would still not have been so easy. But the added heavy elements further intensified its power. Originally, even a pair-instability supernova with added heavy elements would only amount to so much. Though violent, it still would not have been enough to kill this Level 7 Alien Beast. But this Level 7 Alien Beast at this moment had already been attacked by Xiao Yu, and because it had been overproducing Alien Beast offspring, it had become exceptionally weak and severely injured.
If one kept tracing the matter backward, even more coincidences could be found. For example, it just so happened that when this Level 7 Alien Beast was exceptionally weak, the Dark Star Civilization, in order to let it obtain resources as quickly as possible, brought it this new oversized star. For example, when this oversized star showed signs of instability, this Level 7 Alien Beast did not choose to calmly respond to the emergency, but instead panicked and tried to expel it from its body, which further accelerated the speed of its explosive disintegration. Also, those gravitational influences just happened to affect the critical parts of this star…
If one traced even farther back, even more and even more unbelievable coincidences could be found. The starting point of all these coincidences was that star which the Dark Star Civilization had chosen to destroy rather than let Xiao Yu obtain, triggering its supernova explosion. Taking this as the beginning, under the operation of causality hidden in the universe, under the precise governance of the laws of physics and the participation of chaos theory, these coincidences became like dominoes. Once one fell, it pushed the next to continue falling. In this process, not a single link went wrong, and in the end, the matter was pushed to its conclusion, triggering the final consequence, this unstable star underwent a pair-instability supernova, and in the end blew this Level 7 Alien Beast to death.
Yes, the objective that Xiao Yu had put forth every effort to achieve against the Logic Weapon had been accomplished by a supernova. The final fatal blow that Xiao Yu had failed to deliver even at the cost of his life had been completed in his place by this exploding supernova.
Xiao Yu saw that before him, a boundless amount of light and energy suddenly appeared. This explosion completely illuminated this dark region of space. The things closest to it, such as warship wreckage and the corpses of Alien Beast offspring, certain natural celestial bodies, and interstellar dust, all vanished without a trace in that instant. Under the violent energy shock, they were blasted who knew where. And within this indescribably intense explosion, the body of that Level 7 Alien Beast was like a fragile sheet of paper wrapped around a grenade, turning into ashes and vanishing without a trace at that moment.
It died. It died completely, as dead as could be.
This sudden change left Xiao Yu dumbfounded. At that moment, Xiao Yu’s mind almost froze completely. When Xiao Yu had done everything in his power to achieve a goal, he had failed. When Xiao Yu had almost given up and become disheartened, that result was instead presented before him in such an unexpected way.
“This thing… just died for no apparent reason like that?” Xiao Yu murmured to himself, his heart full of an indescribably strange feeling. Xiao Yu always felt that something about this matter was wrong, but exactly what was wrong, he could not say.
“It really died? Was this some conspiracy by the Dark Star Civilization? It really just died like that? I spent so much effort and still failed to kill it, and it just died like this?” Xiao Yu thought in bafflement.
Xiao Yu was trying hard to calm himself and restore his rationality. Xiao Yu’s vast intelligence detection network once again went into full operation, gathering all relevant data with all its strength, then using Xiao Yu’s own computational power together with tens of thousands of Supercomputing Centers to perform full calculations on these data. A moment later, Xiao Yu seized upon a faint clue.
“So that is how it was, so that is how it was…” Xiao Yu murmured. At this moment, Xiao Yu felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted from him. “The Dark Star Civilization did indeed suffer the backlash of the Logic Weapon in the end, and after I acted as the executor several times, I finally received my reward as well. The universe itself achieved a balance among several different aspects in this somewhat sly manner.”
On the surface, the death of this Level 7 Alien Beast in such a strange way seemed to be caused by many coincidences occurring at once. But upon deeper investigation, many things hidden behind the scenes could be found.
First, the Dark Star Civilization had issued the command through the Logic Weapon, ‘Xiao Yu must not be allowed to kill this Level 7 Alien Beast.’ Then in the end, did Xiao Yu kill this Level 7 Alien Beast? No. Even after putting forth all his strength, Xiao Yu had still not achieved his goal.
And why was Xiao Yu unable to kill this Level 7 Alien Beast? It was because this Level 7 Alien Beast had obtained the ability to overproduce Alien Beast offspring at the cost of damaging itself. This method resisted Xiao Yu’s attack, but also injured itself, laying the groundwork for the later change.
Second, the Dark Star Civilization had used the Logic Weapon multiple times, and the backlash of the Logic Weapon then began brewing in the shadows in a way no one could have imagined. And the Dark Star Civilization had clearly formed an alliance with this Level 7 Alien Beast. Without the existence of the Level 7 Alien Beast, the Dark Star Civilization also could not last long. So taking revenge on the Level 7 Alien Beast was equivalent to taking revenge on them.
This was the Logic Weapon, or perhaps the hidden causality, retaliating against the Dark Star Civilization. And while retaliating against the Dark Star Civilization, it also gave Xiao Yu the reward for acting as executor. Xiao Yu knew that his Executor Trap plan had finally taken effect at this moment, and he had finally obtained what he most wanted to obtain.
The death of this Level 7 Alien Beast in this way was the best outcome for all three. It was killed by a pair-instability supernova, not by Xiao Yu, so the command of the Logic Weapon was not violated. At the same time, this event retaliated against the Dark Star Civilization and rewarded Xiao Yu.
The best outcome for all three, that was exactly what it meant.
“Huu…” Xiao Yu let out a soft breath. At this moment, Xiao Yu’s heart finally settled down.