Wandering Meteor

The neutron star, after collapsing, turned into a blue-violet celestial body merely a few thousand kilometers across, much smaller than the hundreds of thousands of kilometers a neutron star typically measures.

This indicates that the internal structure of the neutron star has changed, at least no longer balancing by the neutron degeneracy pressure but has transformed into another type of degeneracy pressure.

"Could this be a Quark Star?"

As a Level Three Civilization, the scientists from Earth Core Civilization immediately guessed it.

Because quarks are the main particles making up neutrons, when neutrons can no longer withstand the intense gravitational collapse and their structure is completely crushed by the pressure, the smaller and more stable quark particles naturally become the main material support structure. It is under such gravitational pressure that only the quark particle form can exist, hence this type of celestial body comprised entirely of quark particles is called a Quark Star.

However, what’s confusing is that Quark Stars are extremely rare in the universe.

Even in the long history of Earth Core Civilization, they had not observed any Quark Stars.

However, now in this situation, one suddenly appeared before them, which was somewhat unexpected for Earth Core Civilization.

Initially, scientists from the Earth Core Civilization aboard the Planet Flying Device intended to seize the opportunity to study the Quark Star and collect enough data. After all, Quark Stars are the closest celestial bodies to Black Holes. If they could comprehensively deconstruct the formation and evolution of a Quark Star, it might help unravel the mystery of Black Holes.

Regrettably, before the scientists of Earth Core Civilization could act,

the newly formed Quark Star from the collapsed neutron star once again underwent a shocking transformation.

The Quark Star devoured the surrounding material constantly, and as its gravitational strength increased a notch, even distant material rapidly got drawn in. Much of the material was torn into atomic states by gravity before even touching the Quark Star, and when these atoms contacted the Quark Star, they were immediately crushed into quark particles by the immense gravitational force. This led to the Quark Star only existing for a brief moment before its internal structure changed yet again.

The originally blue-violet Quark Star collapsed inward once again, turning into a black celestial body—a Black Hole.

The size of the Black Hole, judging by the sparse accretion disk material around it, was only about two thousand kilometers, a reduction to a quarter of the Quark Star’s size.

The rapid transformation of the Quark Star into a Black Hole shows that the structural form of the Quark Star is not very stable, which may explain why Quark Stars are so rare in the universe?

As the Quark Star evolved into a Black Hole, the situation within the Star Zone underwent another chain reaction.

As the powerful gravitational force of the Black Hole spread, vast amounts of material within the Star Zone began to rotate and fall towards the Black Hole, and this rate of devouring was more than a hundred times faster than the previous Quark Star, truly justifying Black Holes as one of the most terrifying celestial bodies in the universe.

Materials within a half-light-year radius were influenced by the Black Hole’s gravity at this moment, slowly starting to rotate around the Black Hole and gradually falling towards it, ultimately forming a massive accretion disk around the Black Hole.

From afar, it resembled a massive material grinding disc spanning half a light-year within the tranquil Star Realm Ball, tremendously shocking!

Moreover, this was just the beginning. One could imagine that as the Black Hole devours more mass, both its size and mass will definitely increase, and eventually, the range of the accretion disk will not be just half a light-year, but possibly one light-year, ten light-years, or even a hundred light-years.

After all, there’s so much dense material within the Star Zone, surely accelerating the growth of the Black Hole.

It can be said that with the Black Hole entering the Star Zone, it’s like a wolf entering a flock of sheep, able to voraciously and wantonly devour various materials.

"Damn it, the distance between the two neutron stars is not far, and after evolving into Black Holes, they are about to merge due to mutual influences!" Earth Core Civilization expressed their outrage.

Constant Star certainly knew what would happen next. If two nascent Black Holes merged, they would surely become a Black Hole of even greater mass, which would then devour even more distant materials, continuously evolving until no more material is left nearby.

Black Holes are such greedy and powerful celestial bodies.

Without intervention, the Black Hole could devour all the material in the Star Zone, meaning it would create an unimaginable huge hole in the Star Realm Ball, possibly even consuming the entire Star Realm Ball, causing the barrier between the Sky Zone and the Star Zone to completely disappear.

As the Guardian of the Star Realm Ball, Earth Core Alliance of course did not want to see such an event occurring on their turf.

Thus, Constant Star immediately ordered the Earth Core Civilization to try and destroy the Black Hole or prevent the fusion of the two nascent Black Holes.

Unfortunately, after several attempts, all technological means proved ineffective, only granting the Black Hole a bit more mass.

After all, Earth Core Civilization is just a Level Three Civilization; with Level Three technology, they can barely destroy a neutron star, having no means to deal with Black Holes, as any form of attack or material technology, upon entering the Schwarzschild radius of a Black Hole, is instantly destroyed into its most basic particle state; thus no form of attack would be effective.

Unless there was a way to counteract the gravitational force of the Black Hole.

But this key technology relates to unified force, far beyond what a Level Three Civilization like Earth Core Civilization could achieve, leaving no hope.

"Wandering Alliance, you dare to disrupt our governed Star Zone; this enmity is irreconcilable. Even if we have to chase you to the Cosmic Center, we will eradicate all of you from your alliance, ensuring not a single beast survives!" Seeing the Black Hole’s devouring in the Star Zone as inevitable, Constant Star roared furiously, his stellar body shaking and the core area’s nuclear fusion suddenly increasing, bursting forth with a surge of intense white light and Constant Star Storm.

However, when mentioning their enemy, the Wandering Alliance, Constant Star then realized that the Wandering Alliance had already taken advantage of their attempts to stop the three neutron stars and charged into the Star Realm Tunnel, now not even a shadow to be seen.

"Chase them, the Wandering Alliance has entered the Star Realm Tunnel. We must eliminate them before they reach the Star Zone, and let them know the consequences of angering Earth Core Alliance!" Huang Xing furiously ordered.

Earth Core Civilization’s main forces asked, "What about the two nascent Black Holes in the Star Zone?"

"With our current technology, we can’t resolve it; even if we waste our forces here to guard, it won’t improve anything. We can only let it develop on its own, let’s focus on what we can do. The Wandering Alliance has offended us, Earth Core Alliance, multiple times; if we don’t wipe them out completely, our resentment won’t be quelled!"

Holding deep resentment, Constant Star then instructed, "Right, immediately notify the forces stationed at the end of the Star Realm Tunnel to set an ambush to kill the Wandering Alliance!"

After the order was given, Constant Star immediately led over two thousand Planet Battle Stars grandly into the Star Realm Tunnel...