Giving You a Black Hole to Play With

"When in doubt, use quantum mechanics."

Qin Luming felt that the divine particles Fairy Jiang mentioned should be similar to certain concepts in quantum mechanics. Or rather, if he could understand quantum mechanics better, he could better understand what Fairy Jiang was talking about.

Qin Luming decided to go back and buy some books on quantum mechanics to read... While it hadn't been long since he graduated from high school, he hadn't completely forgotten his science foundation yet.

It didn't matter if he couldn't understand them. Reading books was never a waste of time; one could always gain something. Even occasionally reading erotica could regulate the endocrine system, relieve stress, and then allow one to feel the heart of a sage.

"Since we've already signed a contract, does this contract have any other uses besides allowing you to come here?" Qin Luming didn't want any benefits, but he felt that since it was a contract, it should be between two parties. It shouldn't just provide convenience for her without any other use for him.

"No more," Fairy Jiang eyed Qin Luming suspiciously. "Do you want me to become a broodmother who only plays gacha games all day, like in your stories?"

As she spoke, Fairy Jiang put down her staff, brought her hands together, straightened them, and leaned forward slightly. Then, as if giving up on doing something, she picked up her staff again and sat there silently.

Qin Luming suspected she had just tried to imitate the natural movements of the "bug" she mentioned, but perhaps she felt the imitation wasn't accurate, or for some other reason, she gave up.

"It's not like you get nothing. I can give you this ball to play with," Fairy Jiang pointed to the tip of her staff.

Qin Luming looked at the sphere doubtfully. It didn't look like a perfect sphere; it distorted unstably from time to time, as if it didn't reflect any light. Bound to the tip of the staff, it still gave the impression of containing an indescribably vast amount of energy.

"What is this thing?" Qin Luming didn't dare to touch it rashly. She was a God-King. Something brought out by a powerhouse of this level might be just a toy to her, but to an ordinary person... Qin Luming felt he was undoubtedly an ordinary person in her presence. Such a toy might be fatal to him.

"Primordial divine particle ball," Fairy Jiang extended her hand, and the primordial divine particle ball left the tip of the staff, floating in front of Qin Luming.

Qin Luming examined it. At this moment, it gave him an even greater sense of immense energy, as if it could provide endless energy.

Staring at it, Qin Luming even recalled the feeling of seeing worlds floating in the void in his dreams. It seemed that the primordial divine particle ball before him was also a compressed world.

"According to the fluctuations of the divine particles, your world experienced endless explosions at its birth. Some of the matter absorbed the energy of these explosions, causing their material structure to collapse and be destroyed, forming the primordial divine particle ball," Fairy Jiang reached out and touched it, gesturing for Qin Luming to touch it too. "See, it's soft like a fluffy little animal."

Qin Luming was startled, kicking his feet wildly and hitting the edge of the tent. He reached out and pressed against the canvas. If he hadn't been in the tent, he would have already fled.

Fine, I can't escape Earth anyway.

"This thing... this is a black hole, isn't it?" Qin Luming stammered, his teeth chattering. He should have realized it when he heard her say "primordial."

Black holes in modern general relativity are formed by the gravitational collapse of stars massive enough to have exhausted their nuclear fusion fuel and died.

Primordial black holes are different from these black holes. They are high-density matter from the early universe's big bang. They can be as small as one-tenth of a milligram or as heavy as a billion tons, but their volume is not large.

Because they are matter from the Big Bang era, they are very mysterious. Recently, Jacob from Durham University and James from the University of Illinois published a paper suggesting that the signs of the ninth planet in the solar system might be caused by a primordial black hole.

"It might be what you call a black hole. That description is quite vivid, but I still prefer to call it a primordial divine particle ball. When I descended, my first landing point was the outer edge of the solar system, and then I encountered it. I exhausted almost all my divinity to quell its resistance," Fairy Jiang stroked the primordial divine particle ball, which she described as soft to the touch. "If not for that... I wouldn't have fainted earlier due to confused will."

Qin Luming's eyes slowly blinked, his neck involuntarily twisting left and right, his gaze unfocused. He slapped his thighs a few times before asking with lingering fear, "Will this thing... will it swallow this area?"

"How could it? It's a collection of divine particles with self-awareness, very docile," Fairy Jiang continued to stroke it. "You can think of it as me catching a pet. In fact, it's no different from me signing a contract with a bug."

"I'm sorry, but I dare not equate myself with a black hole," Qin Luming cupped his hands, his mind in chaos. This was too mind-boggling... How could a black hole have consciousness? And be kept as a pet?

Perhaps primordial black holes weren't as terrifying as imagined, and it was just humanity's innate fear of the unknown?

Fairy Jiang looked at Qin Luming for a moment, then reached out and grasped her staff. The tip of the staff attracted her primordial divine particle ball, and then the entire staff disappeared in front of her.

"Do you feel a little safer now?" Fairy Jiang tilted her head slightly, looking down at the pitiful bug with pity.

"A little better." Qin Luming knew this wasn't like putting a primordial black hole in a bag, but some kind of spatial storage. This meant the black hole was now in another space, and if it were to lose control, it shouldn't affect Earth's space, right?

"It seems you don't think giving you the particle ball to play with is a very beneficial thing," Fairy Jiang was somewhat disappointed, but she could understand. After all, he was just a bug from a remote corner of this universe.

Qin Luming nodded. It really wasn't beneficial at all... If he were a physicist or an astronomer, he might feel that dying after hearing the truth in the morning would be acceptable. But he just wanted to live well and had no interest in playing with a black hole.

Curiosity could be controlled in the face of the great terror between life and death.

He originally thought that Ma Shilong, that damned author who abandoned his novel, letting Zhou Nan descend was already a major crisis for this world. Little did he know that compared to that, the trouble Ma Shilong had caused was child's play.

A black hole on Earth sounded like the end of the world, the kind that would annihilate everything before anyone could even comprehend the great terror, leading to the complete extinction of the world.

Even if Zhou Nan summoned the Zhou Kingdom's army, she wouldn't destroy all life on Earth and blow up the planet, would she?

Now, he could only hope that the primordial black hole, which no one had truly studied, wasn't as terrifying as people imagined when they thought of black holes, but was instead a conscious, controllable, and docile substance, just as Fairy Jiang said.

"Considering I still need you to continue creating divine particle fluctuation effects and provide assistance when I'm weak, I can teach you how to write novels as compensation," Fairy Jiang continued.

"Ah?"

Qin Luming looked at Fairy Jiang with suspicion. This Aizen King was unpredictable in every way. Normally, shouldn't she be giving him some divine artifact, like an immortality fruit, or some cultivation technique from the divine realm?

"It seems you don't quite understand what divine particle fluctuation effects mean," Fairy Jiang continued to look at Qin Luming with pity. "It is said that most bugs do not have brains or nerves. They act through physiological hormones secreted by parasitic worms."

"Bugs have brains, and bugs have nerves. A simple calculation process requires the participation of hundreds of nerve cells. This means that a few thousand nerve cells are enough to support animals in developing consciousness," Qin Luming shook his head. Perhaps the bugs in the divine realm didn't have brains.

"Oh, then it seems you are a bug that doesn't even have a few hundred nerve cells."

"I... Fine, explain your requirements in a way I can understand." Qin Luming was a little disappointed. He had gotten excited for nothing today... As expected, novels were just novels. The Fairy Jiang he imagined in novels, appearing before him in reality, made him wish she would turn into a bug herself.

"I've already told you, the reason we can establish a summoning contract is because of the divine particle fluctuation effect. Since your writing of novels can affect my current state and create fluctuations with me, it can certainly affect other states of me as well. For example... in the plot of your next novel, if you describe me more accurately and in a way that orderly increases my abilities based on the particle fluctuation effect, the resulting divine particle fluctuation effect might enhance my future state," Fairy Jiang said, clapping her hands. She then took out her staff again and pointed it at Qin Luming. "You must have understood by now."

Qin Luming retreated in a fluster, quickly saying, "Understood... Understood. Please put away that black hole first... Yes, the primordial divine particle ball. I get it. I'll keep writing novels, portraying you as heroic, divine, and incredibly powerful, and that will be beneficial to you."

Qin Luming understood, but he was incredibly annoyed. His fate was to be forced to write novels, either by Zhou Nan or by Fairy Jiang.

While he didn't want to continue writing someone else's novel, seeing Fairy Jiang in her current state, how could he still have that warm, swelling, sweet feeling to write?

Sigh, let's just consider it saving the world. I hope that after finishing this novel, Fairy Jiang recovers, gets better, and becomes stronger, and then quickly takes that black hole back to her divine realm.