The Mine

AKI Aoke, had to suppress his curiosity.

He just realized it too.

The desolate landscape beneath our feet is due to the presence of numerous Source Matter Ore.

Upon closer inspection, one can see many human miners digging and working inside the mine.

At the same time, a new question arose in my mind: How would the Ao Council obtain Source Matter?

Are they going to just rob them from the miners?

But to his surprise, what followed was surprisingly simple.

At this moment, the Ao Council's spaceship hovered above a blue warehouse. A blue 'teleportation beam' emanated from the bottom of the spaceship, and the top of the blue warehouse slowly opened, after which various black boxes slowly floated into the air. Inside these boxes, a large amount of Source Matter that looked like white crystals was stored.

It only lasted 3 minutes.

The Source Matter, with a total mass of 1.5 tons, was transferred from the warehouse to the Ao Council spaceship.

"I know our spaceship has cloaking technology; the residents here can't see us."

"But."

AKI Aoke puzzled, "Why is obtaining the Source Matter matter so simple?"

"Simple?"

The Core Aoke slowly shook his head. "Before this, we did a lot of work to get the residents here to willingly gather their source Source Matter here."

"Willingly?"

AKI Aoke looked at the miners on the ground; they were all exhausted, both physically and mentally, gritting their teeth to endure the high-intensity work.

Are you familiar with the 'gold conspiracy theory' in Physical Earth?

The Core Aoke slowly began, "In the Physical Earth, everyone reveres gold. Among 'treasures,' gold ranks first. People are willing to expend a great deal of labor to obtain just a few grams of this metal."

"What are the uses of gold, actually?"

"Wear it on your body, or embed it in an object?"

What is its significance?

"I'm afraid the only solution is to flaunt one's wealth."

"But who established this value system?"

"People are just blindly following along; nobody is questioning the issue."

The Core Aoke suddenly laughed and said, "Perhaps, humanity was originally a species dropped onto Earth by extraterrestrial life, its only purpose being to mine gold for them."

"Then, once the gold reserves reach a certain level, extraterrestrial life will come to collect it."

"Gold is soft, has a low melting point, cannot be used as an energy source, and cannot generate any valuable chemical reactions, making it useless to humans. However, with extraterrestrial technology, gold might be a material of immense value."

"Of course, extraterrestrial life would need to give humanity a motive before manipulating all of this."

"They will implant an idea in these 'Earth's laborers'."

"Gold—precious, rare, and extremely valuable; it looks beautiful when worn and provides peace of mind when stored at home..."

"But in reality, gold is utterly useless."

AKI Aoke suddenly realized something, "You've controlled the minds of these humans beneath your feet? To them, Source Matter is equivalent to gold, and you're equivalent to aliens?"

The Core Aoke tilted his head slightly, "This is all thanks to the Society Ao influencers."

now.

A figure appeared on the virtual screen in front of them; it was a Aoke with black-rimmed glasses and an equally large head.

"Society Ao and socialites are two different things."

"He is an expert in human sociology and designed and developed Human Sociology Computation System."

The Core Aoke smiled contentedly, "Society Ao has been subtly and accurately disseminating a lot of information in this universe beneath our feet, such as ' Source Matter is extremely rare,' 'The value of Source Matter will continue to rise,' 'Ancient emperors used Source Matter as ornaments,' 'In today's ordinary families, having more than 1 kilogram of Source Matter means entering the wealthy class,' 'So-and-so's marriage—oh, I mean, the wedding dowry was a whopping 1.5 kilograms of Source Matter,' etc. These messages are found in books, rumors, news, and even their films and television dramas, all conveying similar values."

Five years.

"In just five years, these people's values will be enslaved."

"After they discover the Source Matter, they will deposit it all in the central bank, and they will only have virtual property certificates in their possession."

"And we only need to periodically remove the actual Source Matter."

AKI Aoke, having already grasped the underlying principle, said with a distorted expression, "No matter where you go, humans are always so foolish, forever enslaved by those above them, their entire lives reduced to being someone else's 'tools'."

At this point, the Society Ao chuckled, "They're just a bunch of uneducated rabble, blindly following the crowd. They have no brains, only a herd mentality."

The Core Aoke, observing the spaceship's storage data, calmly stated, "The Source Matter in this Metaverse beneath our feet has been completely exhausted; it has no value anymore."

After taking a slow breath, the Core Aoke said, "Activate the Gravity Well."

At the same time.

A circular technological device, approximately 5 meters in diameter, detached from the Ao Council's spaceship, shimmering with a blue light, and flew tens of kilometers into the sky.

The circular device floated silently in the air.

Immediately, the light intensified, and a blue beam of light shone straight down onto the ground.

And beneath this beam of light lies a vast ocean in this Metaverse.

However, the seawater, after being illuminated by the beam of light, suddenly underwent a compression phenomenon, with large areas of seawater beginning to shrink and the coastline rapidly receding.

In just a few dozen seconds, the seawater dried up.

AKI Aoke widened. "That's at least tens of billions of tons of seawater compressed. That pressure must be at least 100,000 times atmospheric pressure. The hydrogen-oxygen bonds in the water molecules broke, forming solid water."

But the vast ocean before them had condensed into a small 'lake', and within the lake was a kind of blue gelatinous substance, not ice, but the solid water that AKI Aoke had mentioned.

But the device, known as the ' Gravity Well,' was still emitting a blue light.

Solid water undergoes another change, beginning to exhibit a metallic state, and the hydrogen within it transforms into metallic hydrogen.

AKI Aoke's eyes widened again. "That requires 40 million times the atmospheric pressure!"

However, the next moment...

The pressure ahead suddenly increased to 200 billion times the atmospheric pressure.

Hydrogen atoms began to undergo nuclear fusion, forming a new substance—helium.

To AKI Aoke's astonishment, that small Gravity Well device could continuously apply extremely high pressure.

The seawater, compressed smaller and smaller, first fuses helium into carbon, and then into oxygen!

At this moment, the pressure Gravity Well is eight times greater than when the sun collapsed, reaching the final product of nuclear fusion—iron.

In this process, the ' Gravity Well ' can also perfectly confine the enormous energy generated during nuclear fusion.

"The pressure is still increasing."

"The ferroelectrons have escaped into the atomic nucleus and combined with the positively charged protons... to form a neutron!"

AKI Aoke's expression had reached a point of terror; in his eyes, an extremely dazzling silver light flashed before him. "That's a very small neutron star!?"

The Core Aoke smiled calmly, "That's not enough. The limit of Gravity Well is ten quadrillion atmospheres."

AKI Aoke's body has been petrified; this is an astronomical figure, a technology he could not even imagine.

in the universe.

Neutron stars are already a dominant type of star.

Its extremely high density and mass cause it to exert a terrifying gravitational pull on its surroundings.

How strong is this gravitational force?

If humans get too close, even the basic atomic structure cannot be maintained, and it will break down at the microscopic level.

But as neutron stars continue to collapse, they will form the most terrifying demon in the universe—a black hole.

AKI Aoke knew very well that the ocean ahead, under pressure exceeding its limits, was about to form a black hole.

In this Metaverse beneath their feet, countless 'miners' looked up at the dazzling scene in the sky, completely unaware of what they were about to face, their faces filled with intense curiosity.

at the same time.

AKI Aoke sensed a strange gaze, unlike the others. This gaze wasn't directed towards the Gravity Well, but rather fixed on the Ao Council's spaceship.

However, this spaceship is invisible to the average person.

AKI Aoke looked at the figure and saw that it was a boy wearing rough blue overalls covered in dust, and on his face was a white, ceramic-looking rabbit mask.

The mask was torn at the edges, and the eye area was also broken, revealing a dark, empty eye beneath the mask, giving it an extremely eerie feel.

He stood on the wasteland, staring intently at the Ao Council.

AKI Aoke a chill run down his spine. "What is that thing?!"

The Core Aoke also lowered his head slightly, "A very strange resident, but... whoever he is, he will all turn to nothingness in 2 minutes."

A black hole forms.

Its size is very small, perhaps only 0.01% of that of a sesame seed.

But the gravity it releases is enough to destroy everything.

No matter how small it is, the consequences of a black hole falling on Earth would be far beyond what humanity could bear.

But then they saw the Metaverse beneath their feet begin to crumble, the earth completely disintegrating and turning into smaller dust particles, which in turn turned into even smaller particles, forming dazzling vortexes. In the end, they were all sucked into the black hole and became part of it.

The inhabitants here didn't even have time to react before their bodies shattered, turning into distorted rays of light that returned to the center of the black hole.

AKI Aoke glanced at the rabbit mask instinctively, only to see that he, too, could not escape destruction; his body crumbled along with the continent.

The Gravity Well had by then returned to the Ao Council ship.

The String of Jumping was activated, and the spaceship instantly took off, looking down from an 'extraterrestrial' perspective.

However, this Multiverse No. 14566 had completely disappeared, and the entire Matrix was missing a cell. In this empty space, there was only a barely perceptible black dot, with spacetime distorted around it, slowly rotating.

AKI Aoke was utterly shocked. "You've compressed an entire Metaverse into a black hole?!"

The Core Aoke remained calm. "Don't worry, we still have tens of millions of 'mines' like this under our control."

"Of course, our demand for Source Matter is enormous."

"Therefore, the Source Matter Ore will eventually run out."

"Now, this place has become a black hole."

"But before long, a phenomenon similar to a 'singularity explosion' will occur here, giving birth to a completely new Metaverse."

"A completely new Source Matter will also be born."

AKI Aoke's eyes widened. "This process is like sowing, harvesting, sowing again, and harvesting again."

But then the Core Aoke looked at him with a smile, "Aren't you curious about what we're going to do with all this Source Matter? Come on, I'll take you to find out."