Chapter 972: A Split Galaxy |
“I am Xiao Yu. I am here. Hurry over, hurry over…” Xiao Yu sent out a call. In the place where Xiao Yu was stationed, tens of billions of warships had already arranged their formation, like an honor guard, welcoming the return of Xiao Yu’s old friends.
Several million warships had already set out ahead of time to welcome this point of light. If they had anything that urgently required help, Xiao Yu could also resolve it for them in time.
Only a moment after Xiao Yu sent out the call, Xiao Yu received a response filled with excitement. “Xiao Yu, is it really you? You really did come to save us?”
Xiao Yu recognized this voice as soon as he heard it. This was Ares. Beyond Ares, there were also several disorderly voices. “Let me speak, let me speak!”
Those were the voices of Xiao Yu’s only kin, Zhang Shengya, as well as the leader of the Arrow Beast Race, Lorna. Xiao Yu responded with a smile in his heart. “You are all here? Good, that is wonderful. Come to my base first. I still have some things to do…”
Xiao Yu was still closely observing all kinds of phenomena in the Central Black Hole region. Xiao Yu saw that after this point of light containing the Divine Ark and Pegasus Civilization left the black hole, the volume of this black hole almost immediately stopped shrinking, then very quickly returned to its original size. This meant that in the Central Black Hole region, the speed of light had already returned to normal. And amid this extreme and violent change in the speed of light, even more intense events occurred there, but Xiao Yu had no interest in those matters.
Decades of painstaking planning had harvested results in these short few hours. The Dark Star Civilization was still in chaos, but without Xiao Yu’s influence inside the Radiance, this chaos was rapidly being quelled. And because the organization leader had already issued the relevant command to the Logic Weapon, at this moment, the Logic Weapon was still firmly in Xiao Yu’s hands. Any living being of the Dark Star Civilization had no way to enter before obtaining Xiao Yu’s permission.
“So what if you have the Logic Weapon? So what if you prepared for tens of thousands of years in advance? So what if there was a Level 7 Alien Beast helping you? You are only losers, merely losers.” Xiao Yu thought with great pride. “Now, this matter should come to an end.”
That point of light had already fled to a safe distance from the Central Black Hole. At this moment, Xiao Yu no longer had any concerns. Thus, an order was issued by Xiao Yu and transmitted into the control modules of the countless supermassive chain-reaction Spatial Bombs arranged in the space around the Central Black Hole.
In this instant, the Central Black Hole vanished out of thin air from all of Xiao Yu’s observation instruments, as if there were merely a stretch of nothingness there and nothing had ever existed there at all. Yes, if one looked through optical equipment, it was indeed like this. There was nothing there, because the chaos and shattering of space isolated the transmission of all light. But other equipment saw different things. Xiao Yu detected extremely violent energy fluctuations spreading through space. This energy fluctuation was so fierce that even if the Human spaceship were inside the explosion, it would be mercilessly destroyed.
This was the might of Xiao Yu’s strategic-class weapon.
The destruction of the Central Black Hole meant that the struggle between the Spokesperson and the Rebels had come to an end. Xiao Yu had finally not failed the expectations that the music civilization and Chen Mo had placed upon him. He had finally completed this mission.
The Dark Star Civilization, meanwhile, was the complete loser, defeated so thoroughly that there was nothing left to say. At this moment, Xiao Yu had not yet had time to deal with the Dark Star Civilization, and those landing robots had merely occupied the Logic Weapon. They had not affected any other places. At this moment, the Dark Star Civilization had already completely quelled the chaos, and the leaders of the Dark Star Civilization had regained control over the civilization.
“Xiao Yu, in the end, you still succeeded. In the end, you still succeeded…” Xiao Yu received a message from the Dark Star Civilization, filled with a deep sense of powerlessness. The leaders of the Dark Star Civilization seemed to not even have the emotion of anger left. All that remained was fatigue, and a sense of powerlessness at having made all efforts, yet still being unable to change the situation.
“I am too lazy to pay attention to you right now.” Xiao Yu said coldly. “Now, stay there obediently. Do not try to resist, and do not try to escape. If you do, I will destroy you without hesitation.”
Xiao Yu heard a deep sigh. After this sigh, the Dark Star Civilization indeed became much more obedient, because the situation gave them no choice but to lower their heads. At this moment, the warships Xiao Yu had deployed beside them already exceeded ten billion.
Xiao Yu did not intend to let the Dark Star Civilization go. Xiao Yu had never forgotten what this civilization, which could almost be said to have grown up alongside him, had done. The destroyed Tianyuan IV, their constant pressure on him, the several times he had escaped death, and even now, they had thrown the Divine Ark and Pegasus Civilization into a black hole in order to threaten him. The Dark Star Civilization had already committed unforgivable sins.
But beside Xiao Yu right now, there was still an even more powerful enemy, as well as an even more serious threat. Before handling these matters, he would temporarily allow the Dark Star Civilization to survive a little longer.
Xiao Yu quietly waited for the situation to develop.
Explosions at the spatial level had one thing in common. Although their destructive power was enormous, and could even destroy a galaxy, after they lost their driving force, their speed of subsiding was also exceptionally fast. After all, the main universe’s self-healing ability was not merely something spoken of casually. After the Central Black Hole of the Feiyuan Galaxy was destroyed, the fluctuations there shrank rapidly at a speed almost visible to the naked eye. After these fluctuations completely calmed down, the Central Black Hole had already vanished without a trace.
For a galaxy to lose its Central Black Hole was equivalent to losing the foundation of its existence. There was a very vivid and simple analogy. It was like a person continuously spinning a chain hammer, so the hammerhead of the chain hammer would inevitably fly around. But during this spinning process, the chain of the chain hammer suddenly snapped. What consequence would occur?
The phenomenon happening at this moment was very similar to the phenomenon after the chain of a chain hammer snapped. The Central Black Hole was equivalent to the person swinging the chain hammer, the gravity of the Central Black Hole was the chain of the chain hammer, and the hammerhead of the chain hammer was the billions upon billions of stellar bodies in the Feiyuan Galaxy. After suddenly losing the Central Black Hole, they would also fly out like a chain hammer whose chain had snapped.
However, because of the existence of the upper limit of the speed of light, this process did not happen instantly. It was a comparatively slow process. Xiao Yu saw that the asteroid closest to the Central Black Hole was the first to perceive the change of the Central Black Hole disappearing, and it immediately flew out along the tangent line of its previous orbit. The next stellar body behind it flew out slightly later.
After that, a vast star flew out like a maddened giant beast, then came some other stellar bodies. Irrepressible panic was spreading through this galaxy at the speed of light. This vast galaxy, with a diameter of one million light years, was being destroyed at the speed of light.
This galaxy would be split into pieces. It would split into many, many small galaxies, as well as numerous single stars. The final result depended on the movement speeds of these stellar bodies. Some stellar bodies with higher movement speeds would directly leave this place and step toward the endless depths of the distant universe, with nothing able to stop them. Meanwhile, some systems whose mutual distances were comparatively close and which had already formed star cluster structures would still not have their connections severed. They would flee together.
Then came the stellar bodies with slower movement speeds. After this change, they would still remain here like creatures attached to their home. Because within this galaxy, apart from the Central Black Hole, the galaxy itself also possessed vast gravity. They could not break free from this gravity.
Most of the stars would continue to remain here. But over the long evolution of the future, they would belong to different groups and form numerous different small galaxies. These small galaxies would not have a black hole as their stable core at the beginning, so they would be chaotic. But just as heavy things would ultimately sink to the bottom, the many small black holes in these small galaxies would also settle toward the core of the galaxy, then merge with one another, ultimately forming a black hole sufficient to dominate the galaxy once again.
The small galaxies would also interact with one another. They would either orbit one another, or merge with one another, ultimately gathering together once again. On the original site of the Feiyuan Galaxy, a vast galaxy was destined to form once more, but that was at least something that could only be completed through evolution over tens of billions of years in the future. Just in terms of the present, the destruction of the Feiyuan Galaxy would continue for more than five hundred thousand years.
As for matters tens of billions of years later, who knew what they would be like? At least, Xiao Yu’s thoughts still could not cross such distant time and go to such a distant future.
“The Feiyuan Galaxy is finished. Then, it is time to think about my own affairs…” Xiao Yu silently thought.
Just after the Central Black Hole was destroyed, Xiao Yu once again received information from the universe civilization.
“Xiao Yu, very good, very good. You finally completed this mission and did not fail our expectations. But there is one very unfortunate point we need to tell you, which is that even though you ultimately completed the mission, we still do not intend to let you go. Destroying a Level 7 Civilization is something whose consequences we can still afford to bear. That is right. Just as you said, our civilization’s impression of you has already been decided. No matter what, we will put you to death…”