Heavenly Star
Near the event horizon of Black Hole, gravitational redshift and time dilation explode exponentially. From the outside, it appears that the energy of photons drops to zero the instant they fall in, making them undetectable even by the most sophisticated instruments.
Black Holes are the best trash cans. In fact, sometimes even the Tracing Light throws some difficult-to-handle garbage into Black Holes, which is rather uncivilized.
In short, after studying Black Holes for so long, Tracing Light has not found two people inside, since light cannot escape at all.
Su Luo pondered for a while, then activated her Gravity Vision, but still couldn't find it.
In his perception, the surrounding spacetime had become a distorted net, with the Black Hole being the ridiculously deep hole in the center of the net, and the surrounding matter being the powder scattered on the net.
The Survivors vary greatly in mass. Su Luo's own weight is uncertain, while A Mu Yingdou's mass is only about three million tons, which seems insignificant among the massive debris surrounding the Black Hole, not to mention the interference from the Black Hole itself, which is at the center and has a mass equivalent to that of Fixed Star.
What do we do now?
After spending more than half a month near the Black Hole, Xiao Xiao Luo suddenly sent back a question.
"Don't rush."
Su Luo reviewed and analyzed the scene that Xiao Luo had recorded at the time. Among them was a set of compressed photon information that recorded the distortion of light near the event horizon of the Black Hole.
Based on the changes in the wavelength and deflection angle of those photons, the relative position of the Fixed Star can be deduced. Finally, by combining this with the Gravitational Perspective, the location was found.
"You go to this position first."
Su Luo began to give instructions, and the time difference due to the high flow rate meant that after Xiao Xiao Luo arrived at the location, she had to wait for another two days.
"What's next?"
"Bring the Tracing Light Warship over here and flood it with high-energy lasers. That's your next mission."
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Xiao Xiao Luo was puzzled, but still did as instructed.
The Warships approached—three Capital Ships, fully loaded with high-energy laser emitters, arranged in a triangular array around the Black Hole. Their cannons were aimed at the edge of the accretion disk, awaiting the order to fire.
"Emission."
Three laser beams shot out simultaneously, creating a silent, fireless void in the Vacuum. Only three beams of light, invisible to the naked eye, pierced through the Void and plunged into the swirling sea of death.
The energy injected by the laser exploded in the plasma, causing the intensity of the ray burst to surge instantly. The light pierced through the darkness surrounding the Black Hole, only to be swallowed up by the darkness once again.
Are you trying to harm or save someone?
"Of course it's to mess with them!"
In that galaxy-shattering sea of Zerg, various powerful Zerg and their Hives silently gestated. High-level Zerg devoured weaker Zerg without restraint, turning them into their own nourishment.
Unlike the Zerg's rudimentary early development, the Swarm no longer confined itself to resource-scarce asteroids or planets in space. Instead, it set its sights on the Civilization Development Sites of various civilizations, collecting all sorts of extraordinary resources. Then, it built a dense network of Zerg structures in space to collect Sun and capture resources from the Void.
Those buildings, like the skeletons of some ancient creature, densely covered the entire star field, even forming orderly ecological chains.
Low-level Zerg are everywhere in the Zerg -designated territory, surviving on Sun and a little water. They have their own energy-gathering systems and are the most basic energy units in Zerg society.
Higher-level Zerg capture and eat these lower-level Zerg, evolving various abilities, and then are consumed by higher-level Zerg to select genes and bloodlines.
They devoured one layer after another, sifting through another, like a pyramid of blood and flesh, with the intelligent Zerg rulers at the apex.
The resource model of production at the bottom, processing at the middle, and harvesting at the top, with value flowing unidirectionally upwards, is the most common form of socialization.
Analogical economics is that laborers and grassroots service providers produce, business owners and investors process and reap the benefits, and monopoly capital and the power elite take all the spoils.
Analogous to love, it's like honest people, those who take the fall, and unconscious ATMs are the bottom line of support, while playboys and relationship gurus hunt for prey, and the top players get to conquer all.
The Zerg liked this model very much, believing it contained the ultimate truth of the universe.
The Zerg, numbering over a trillion, are rampant predators above the mid-level. They will join the battlefield, fighting alongside various Zerg war structures. However, in recent years, the Zerg have been engaged in internal warfare.
If the Zerg civilization is recognized by the temporary panel, then the Zerg civilization is undoubtedly the strongest civilization, even the Tracing Light would find it difficult to catch up, after all, the size of the Zerg is just too, too huge.
They occupied a small portion of the Fixed Star's radiation range, using it as a habitat for the Zerg civilization.
Because there are so many Intelligent Zerg, the internal power dynamics within the Zerg are extremely complex, with various civilizations clashing within them. Therefore, there has never been a stable and reliable sociological division, but the highest-ranking groups have always been the Intelligent Zerg and the Hive.
It is mainly divided into three major forces and many minor forces. The names of the three major forces are: Heavenly Sun, Heavenly Moon, and Heavenly Star. The naming is very systematic.
On this day, a Warship arrived in the territory of the Heavenly Star Zerg. It was entirely silver-white, with simple and smooth lines, without any markings or numbers, and looked very much like the Silver-White Fleet of the Mechanical Civilization.
The Intelligent Zerg of the Heavenly Star Zerg immediately prepared to exhale.
The signal indicated it was the same group of people who usually came, but instead, Warship from Mechanical Civilization entered.
What's the point of even playing anymore? The Mechanical Civilization has already invaded our home base. What follows is a continuous barrage of high-intensity fleet attacks. Those lifeless, silvery-white monsters are more troublesome than any other creature.
But soon, a group of people disembarked from the Warship, which relieved the ruler of the Heavenly Star Zerg.
It's the same group of people as before, but this time they're no longer concealing their identities; instead, they're openly revealing that they're from Mechanical Civilization?
I've heard the Mechanical Civilization has been acting strangely lately, and now flesh-and-blood life forms are coming after us. Could it be that something happened to those beings whose consciousnesses were uploaded, and they want to return to reality?
The leader smiled and said:
"In our past collaborations, we haven't yet revealed our identities. Tracing Light — Frontier Academy of Sciences."
The Heavenly Star Zerg remained silent for a moment, as if they were processing the information.
Soon, a 100-meter-tall Zerg slowly lowered its head. The fleshy carapace behind its head began to writhe and coalesce into a naked female body, its flesh and veins exposed. It had no face, only smooth skin, and slowly walked forward, each step landing on the Void.
"It's so astringent."
In this solemn setting, this whispered remark was clearly heard by everyone present.
Everyone turned around and looked at the last person in Tracing Light's group.
The leader, startled, raised his hand and tossed the man into the Warship, then said to those around him:
"Damn it, don't let Furyk come next time. They're Zerg like Fiji."
"I am Heavenly Star." He showed no anger, paused for a moment, and carefully sensed the Warships behind everyone.
They really look like the Warships of Mechanical Civilization. Is it the technology of Mechanical Civilization? Or is it simply a convergence of Technology Side development?
"I wonder what brings you all here today? Usually, these are secret transactions, and only a few people come."
The leader smiled.
In the past, the usual transactions involved a few Crossing from the Transmigrator Project coming to provide the Heavenly Star Zerg with technology, or directly support various high-tech equipment, and guide their civilization construction, Hive cultivation, and Industrialization. The terms of the trade were extremely easy, merely involving attacking and restraining other Intelligent Zerg forces, and occasionally harassing other Zerg.
The Industrialization Zerg are indeed terrifying. The number of Heavenly Star Zerg is only twenty trillion, but their strength behind the scenes far exceeds that of other Zerg forces such as Heavenly Moon and Heavenly Sun. They have just been hiding it, just like Tracing Light before.
They are clearly of the same lineage; you can tell which one they are just by looking at their setup.