Chapter 2386: The Preserved Past Time! A Blurred Back View
Everyone nodded in agreement. After all the effort to endure here until now, they finally caught the black hole crossing the accretion disk! It would be a real shame to go back without recording something. Such a spectacular cosmic sight wasn't something you could see anytime!
According to the operational cycle of this supermassive black hole, it only crosses the accretion disk twice per cycle!
The position Mountain Cat and the others were currently at was far enough from the supermassive black hole that they wouldn't be affected! All they had to do was wait for the black hole to collide with the accretion disk. The waiting time was long and tedious!
Martin said with a sigh: (͡°ก͡°) "It's a pity we won't get to see the jet stream of the Absolute Final Black Hole. Otherwise, it could have provided some reference for Boss Nan!"
Blood Platelet shuddered violently:
(☍﹏⁰。) "The jet stream of the Absolute Final Black Hole? How much matter would it need to devour to form a large enough accretion disk for that?"
"I'm afraid it would need to swallow over half of the entire universe's matter, wouldn't it? I won't live to see that in my lifetime!"
Everyone shuddered violently just imagining it!
If an Absolute Final Black Hole of that size were to jet stream, wouldn't it pierce through the entire Starry Sky World? That would be the true apocalypse of the starry sky, damn it!
However, Liu Mang rubbed his eyes and looked toward the Event Horizon!
(●•̌～•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "What the hell? Is it a mirage? Why are there things existing above the Event Horizon? What kind of thing can remain intact on the Event Horizon?"
"Tsk... we're too far away to see clearly!"
Following Liu Mang's gaze, they could see blurry planet lights, wreckage of starships, and even the image of an ancient Star God running at full speed on the Event Horizon!
But they were all extremely distorted, appearing incredibly unreal and illusory, like bubbles!
Moreover, the Event Horizon was shrouded in a layer of golden light. Mountain Cat and the others were too far away from this position to see clearly!
Martin rolled his eyes:
(꒪ั～꒪ั*) "What kind of mirage do you think this is? Since when do black holes have mirages? Those lights have long ceased to exist!"
"Time is frozen on the Event Horizon, and so is light! Those lights are all from the distant past, pulled over by the Absolute Final Black Hole, frozen on the Event Horizon, and preserved until today!"
"They are past times preserved until now. Who knows how many billions of years ago, or even several eras ago! Perhaps, many years from now, the lights reflected by us will also be pulled over by the Absolute Final Black Hole, preserved into the distant future, and seen by later generations!"
Liu Mang's eyes widened:
(●⁰̷̴꒨⁰̷̴) "Oh wow? Past times preserved until now? That's so cool, isn't it? Not bad, Brother Ma? You really know a lot!"
Martin curled his little mouth:
(︶⇀︶〃) "Of course! Don't you know what my specialty is?"
He majored in gravity, so naturally, he had conducted in-depth research on black holes, after all, black holes are the ceiling of gravity!
This time, coming here to explore, Martin hadn't come back empty-handed either!
If Boss Nan could further master time dilation and the use of the Event Horizon, it was hard to imagine how powerful that would be!
Just then, Mountain Cat urgently said: "It's about to collide! Everyone, be careful!"
All eyes were fixed on the supermassive black hole!
The next moment, the black hole crashed into the accretion disk of the Final Black Hole!
"Boom!"
At the moment of collision, the accretion disk of the Final Black Hole was compressed and squeezed by the strong gravity emitted by the supermassive black hole!
This produced expanding hot gas bubbles, i.e., flares. These bubbles offset and evaporated the accretion disk, emitting extremely intense light!
The intensity of this flash was even more violent than the total light output of all the stars in the Milky Way combined!
And the supermassive black hole directly entered its blazar form!
If under normal circumstances, a black hole is a gentle cosmic beast, and a black hole in jet stream is a god of destruction and creation!
Then a black hole that directly offsets and evaporates the accretion disk is a demon rampaging to its limit!
A black hole blazar phenomenon occurred!
That extreme flash was enough to crush everything! Accompanying it was also an ultra-strong gravitational wave, radiating in all directions!
In just an instant, the world in Mountain Cat's eyes was filled with white-hot light, followed by endless darkness!
Everyone's eyes were blinded!
Martin: !!!
੧੧(*口*|||) "Oh, shit! Motherfucker! What the hell? Domain Expansion: Universal Gravitation!"
"Gravitational Polarization!"
At this moment, Martin went all out, using his own gravity to deviate the extreme flash generated by the black hole blazar as much as possible!
But even so, everyone was severely injured!
Remember, Martin and the others were extremely far from the supermassive black hole, not even within its gravitational capture range!
Yet, even from such a distance, they were almost wiped out by the blazar flash!
The power of this black hole blazar was no weaker than a black hole jet stream!
One is a long-distance longitudinal strike penetration, the other is a full-map mass explosion?
When everyone, scorched black and severely injured by the flash, regained their vision, due to the effect of the ultra-strong gravitational wave, space was as chaotic as an underwater undercurrent!
The warp engine had been forced to shut down. Everyone had been thrown out of warp navigation and was now drifting towards the Absolute Final Black Hole!
Martin roared with blood flowing from his seven orifices: "Hurry! Restart the engine! If we go any further in, even the time dilation resistance potion won't be able to withstand it, and it'll all be over!"
Tieniu and the others hurriedly restarted the engine. But unlike Jiangnan's warp bubble, which could be activated at any time, the warp engine required a startup cooldown!
Mountain Cat made a prompt decision. The glass curse mark on the back of her hand flickered as she tried to break through space and retreat into the dimensional gap!
In this situation, not retreating meant death!
However, it was far from as easy as imagined. Due to the gravitational waves, space was as tangled as a ball of twine!
The spatial nodes were completely chaotic as well. The space she had just smashed open instantly deviated from Mountain Cat and the others, becoming unreachable!
This happened several times in a row!
Under the influence of the gravitational waves, even retreating into the dimensional gap was a luxury!
Fortunately, the warp engine completed its startup, and everyone re-entered warp navigation!
But at this distance, it was already impossible to escape the gravity of the Final Black Hole!
Mountain Cat's gaze turned ruthless: "Tieniu! Change course! Head straight for the supermassive black hole!"
Liu Mang exclaimed in shock: ∑(°口°●) "Huh? Isn't that suicide? It's still undergoing a blazar over there! What if..."
Martin's expression turned fierce: "Mountain Cat is right! This is the only choice. Being captured by a supermassive black hole is better than being captured by the Absolute Final Black Hole!"
"If we try our luck, there's still a chance. We'll use it as a gravitational slingshot to fling ourselves out! Hurry!"
The warp navigation instantly changed direction, heading straight for the supermassive black hole!
They entered its gravitational capture range and began to orbit around it!
At this point, Mountain Cat and the others had penetrated deeper than the limit of the time dilation resistance potion's effectiveness!
It had already caused a small-scale time warp!
But fortunately, the potion was still taking effect!
Martin was calculating the perfect timing for the ejection!
However, because of this, everyone was even closer to the Absolute Final Black Hole. The recent black hole blazar had also cleared the mist blocking the view on the accretion disk!
Their view of the Event Horizon of the Final Black Hole was clearer!
But Liu Mang was dumbfounded!
☚(●⁰口⁰●|||) "Look! Wha... what is that?"
At this moment, everyone followed Liu Mang's pointing direction and was completely stunned!
They saw a blurry back figure standing on the Event Horizon. It wasn't tall, but its spine was straight and upright!
One hand was behind its back, the other waved its sleeve, and it was walking forward, facing the pitch-black Final Black Hole!
Everyone was dumbfounded. A human figure?
Remember, due to the time-freezing property of the Event Horizon, it could preserve parts of the past!
Who was this figure? It was too blurry to make out any physical features!
But the only thing that was certain was that this existence wasn't panicking at all!
All the preserved light images on the Event Horizon were running outward. The ancient Star God's image, the starship wreckage, everything!
Except! Except for this one existence! It was facing the Absolute Final Black Hole, walking forward!
Everyone's scalp went numb! What was going on?
Which era's big shot was this? Did he go in?
Martin was bewildered: "We're about to die, and you're looking at... sss—"
What kind of existence would leave such a calm back view on the Event Horizon? Damn it!
But the light image gradually twisted, deformed, and elongated. In the end, it was just a fragment of past time preserved until now. It no longer existed!
"Damn! Almost missed the timing!"
"Super Gravitational Origin • Gravitational Slingshot!"
At this moment, Martin erupted with all his might, concentrating all the gravity he could control into a single point, reaching the pinnacle of mastery!
He directly flung everyone away, moving them away from the Absolute Final Black Hole and the supermassive black hole!
"Gravitational Suppression! Mountain Cat! Now!"
Martin, having reached his limit, roared. He used his own gravity to suppress the gravitational waves generated by the blazar, creating an extremely short window of opportunity!
Mountain Cat seized the opportunity to directly summon a dimensional creature and smash a void hole!
Tieniu's warp engine kicked in, leading everyone to charge straight into the dimensional gap!
They completely broke free from the two black holes. They were safe!
Mountain Cat, Liu Mang, and the others, covered in blood and breathing heavily, looked at each other and then burst into hearty laughter!
Black Crow cackled with joy: "We survived, escaped death! Brother Ma, you're awesome! You really pulled it off!"
Liu Mang wiped the blood off his face: "It wasn't all for nothing, was it? We saw the black hole blazar. We can show it to Boss Nan later. Maybe he can use it!"
"And that back view on the Event Horizon!"
Everyone's expressions stiffened, and they shuddered violently!
There are always people better than you, and there are always heavens above. They couldn't imagine what kind of existence could face the Absolute Final Black Hole so calmly!
Martin grinned: "That's not something we need to worry about. When we get back, we definitely need to ask Boss Nan for some benefits. I almost lost my life for him!"
"The Cosmos Grand Hunt... damn! Right! The Cosmos Grand Hunt! We went pretty deep just now, beyond the potion's resistance range! Let's check how much time difference there is with the outside world!"
Liu Mang jolted and quickly checked!
∑(°口°❢) "Sss— Damn! Just a moment ago, we still had over three weeks until the Cosmos Grand Hunt, and now there are only five days left!"
"We were out there for just a short while, and over two weeks passed in the outside world? Time warp... is this how it feels?"
"The time dilation effect is terrifying!"
Upon hearing that there were still five days left, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief. At least they hadn't traveled too far in time!
If they had skipped hundreds of years, that would have been disastrous!
Mountain Cat was startled: (•́_•̀٥) "Are you sure it's this edition? Did we not slip into the next one?"
Liu Mang swallowed and carefully checked the Thousand Stars calendar: "Whew, it's fine! It's just a difference of a little over ten days!"
Only then did Mountain Cat's heart completely settle. Thinking about the gains from this trip, a hint of excitement appeared in her eyes!
She hoped that the data collected this time would help Little Nan gain control over Black Hole Devouring Star as soon as possible!
Mountain Cat's team successfully withdrew and headed straight for the Lost Kingdom via the dimensional wind tunnel!
...
However, after Mountain Cat and the others left the Final Star Domain, it didn't return to calm!
No one would know that the gravitational origin point Martin released at the last moment became the final straw that broke the camel's back!
Originally, the supermassive black hole and the Absolute Final Black Hole maintained a state of balance!
But the released gravitational origin point caused an extremely tiny deviation in the trajectory of the supermassive black hole!
This triggered a series of uncontrollable chain reactions!
It was like a butterfly gently flapping its wings, stirring up a gentle breeze, which might form a storm in a distant tropical region!
Normally, the gravity released by Martin's strength wouldn't affect a supermassive black hole at all!
But the problem was that it was already struggling against the Absolute Final Black Hole. This tiny force broke the original balance!
A supermassive black hole that would normally take hundreds or thousands of years to be devoured by the Final Black Hole might, due to this small change, accelerate the time of its being devoured!
Perhaps a few years, or perhaps just a few months...
Who really knows...