Chapter 348: Black Hole Rumors

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“…Alright, next, everyone turns to page 3712. Today, we are going to study the Black Hole…”

In class, an ‘Ancient River People’ teacher was holding a ‘New Era Electronic Teaching Materials’ compiled by the Alliance, guiding the students to learn that day’s knowledge.

According to the Alliance’s statistics, almost all the civilizations in the ‘Lower Three Spiral Arms’ had arrived at the ‘Upper Three Spiral Arms’ through the wormhole. Only a portion of the native civilization had yet to arrive.

Most of the civilizations that came were influenced by the purpose of the ‘United Explorer Alliance’ and joined the Alliance.

Right then, the Alliance was a huge organization that had influence over the entire Upper Three Spiral Arms. There were countless civilizations and races that interacted with each other. It was a scene of life and vitality.

As the Alliance grew stronger, they first noticed the difference in education levels among the various civilizations within the Alliance.

Some civilizations had already developed for a long time but were only stuck at the speed of light. Their infrastructure was extremely developed, and all kinds of outstanding talents emerged like leeks.

On the other hand, some civilizations had not been able to get rid of the aura of ‘natives’ since they had just ascended to the sky. There were even slums and industrial pollution areas on their mother planets.

To resolve that fundamental gap, the Alliance naturally came up with a series of related policies to support those relatively backward civilizations.

Education was naturally an important part of it. Although the Alliance was still supporting education through the most basic ‘precepts and deeds,’ a ‘compulsory education technology’ that was widely used in interstellar civilization was, in fact, already assigned to those less advanced civilizations.

That technology would allow one to quickly skip the learning of basic subjects through the direct insertion of memories. Although higher education still needed to rely on the lifeforms’ understanding, it would undoubtedly greatly reduce the time needed for education.

In those civilizations, universities were for ‘primary school students,’ while high school students and university students of the respective ages would go to research institutes and laboratories in various fields. Once they graduated, they would immediately enter the workforce as talents.

The Alliance was working hard to shorten that ‘fundamental gap’ to balance the possible ‘civilization discrimination’ within the Alliance.

“Teacher! Is there someone living in the Black Hole? I’ve recently seen a lot of rumors about the Black Hole on the Internet. Some people even seem to hear the Black Hole calling them. Does this mean that Black Holes are livable?”

A student’s sudden question almost made the teacher, who was still drinking water, choke on his saliva. He immediately tensed up and said seriously, “We can have ideas, but we have to combine them with reality. Ordinary things will be torn apart as soon as they approach the Black Hole. How can we then talk about surviving in the Black Hole? That is the Darkness Domain that even light cannot escape from!”

“But…” The student asked curiously, “Didn’t many explorers claim they heard a voice from the Black Hole? Then what’s that?”

“Stop browsing videos of unscrupulous internet celebrities!” The teacher explained helplessly, “There is scientific evidence that shows that what they heard is actually the sound of the spaceship. It’s just that in that celestial body environment, their brains mistook it for the voice from the Black Hole…”

The teacher ended the rumors circulating on the Internet for the students while explaining to them about Black Hole.

During that process, he was also curious about where the ‘Black Hole rumors’ circulating on the Internet recently came from.

At that moment, in a Black Hole Galaxy thousands of light-years away from the school, a space adventurer was also conducting his ‘Black Hole exploration.’ “My family, I’m here again today! Last time, we didn’t manage to see the mysterious object hovering near the Black Hole. This time, we’ll definitely do it! Everyone, please don’t stop…”

He was the source of the ‘Black Hole message’ that was currently popular in the Upper Three Spiral Arm Civilization. That adventurer had prepared a script in advance to gain the world’s attention. His goal was to make himself famous.

He made up the lie of ‘hearing a voice from the Black Hole’ and spread it on the Internet, successfully attracting a wave of attention. Now, he only needed to find a way to end that script, and he could change his career with that popularity.

He had already designed the script for this time. He only needed to find the damaged spaceship he had placed in advance at the right time and uncover the mystery of the ‘voice coming from the spaceship’s transmitter.’ Then, he would be able to end it successfully.

Therefore, he began to search for the ‘mystery’ bit by bit under the audience’s anticipation.

“…My family members, my spaceship detector just detected an abnormality. What could it be? Is it the nightmare that has been bothering me?”

The adventurer’s terrified voice, coupled with the dim lighting environment inside the spaceship, immediately infected the audience with a sense of urgency. Everyone was looking forward to the result.

The adventurer also operated the spaceship to approach the ‘abnormality’ he had detected. After continuously laying the foundation, he arrived at the place he had set.

“My family, I see it! That’s where-” His voice stopped abruptly, and the audience’s curiosity peaked, urging him to reveal the mystery quickly.

However, the adventurer’s mind was in a mess at that time. He didn’t even care about the live broadcast.

Because the spaceship he had prepared in advance had disappeared! His brain was rapidly thinking about the cause of that situation.

“Did I not calculate the position properly, and gravity pulled it away? Or did I come to the wrong place?”

While he was thinking, he glanced at the Black Hole, and his pupils suddenly constricted. He seemed to have seen something disappear into the Black Hole, but when he returned to his senses, he saw nothing.

That feeling of paranoia made him want to retreat because he remembered the real ‘rumors’ about that Black Hole.

That was what his father, a scientist involved in the ‘Public Opinion Research of the Skywalker Empire,’ had told him. It was rumored that the Black Hole named ‘Gigantic Ancient Dust’ was not like that.

The original Black Hole was even larger, and its event horizon was several times larger than it was now. But one day, the Black Hole suddenly became inexplicably smaller.

According to the research of the scientists of the ‘Skywalker Empire,’ they believed that ‘something’ had entered the Black Hole, causing that phenomenon.

However, it was well known that nothing could remain intact from the huge gravity of a Black Hole. What exactly entered the Black Hole became one of the mysteries of the ‘Skywalker Empire.’

After that incident, all kinds of rumors spread in the ‘Skywalker Empire.’ The most widely spread rumor was that a scientist heard a voice ‘summoning’ him when he passed by the Black Hole.

It was said that everyone who heard the ‘summoning’ went crazy, which made many people avoid that Black Hole.

The adventurer was naturally completely dismissive of his scientist father’s ‘charlatan’ remarks. However, this time, he seemed to have really encountered an accident.

After thinking about it, he eventually gave up on his ‘adventure’ and fled the place dejectedly.

At that moment, the thing that had mysteriously disappeared into the Black Hole before the adventurer also revealed its true appearance.

It was a spaceship with only its back view. It only left a shadow for the outside world when it fell into the horizon.

That was the anti-gravity spaceship that Li Wenyuan had used to explore that Black Hole. This time, he finally lived up to his expectations and discovered the ‘existence’ inside the Black Hole.

It was an extremely large mechanical sphere, which was still amazingly working inside the Black Hole Horizon as if it was performing a never-ending calculation..