My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 343 - 302: Interstellar Corps 27th Squad (3)

Xue Dili saw everyone in the archive, those who once belonged to Uncle’s squad, nearly a hundred people. Some of them had bizarre appearances, some had alien heads, and a few stood less than half a meter tall.

But a group of dozens happily distributed supplies and equipment on a planet, and finally, they optimistically suggested, "Let’s take a photo!"

"Alright!" Everyone in the team laughed as they set up ancient magical devices, and then captured this photograph together.

"Click!"

A black-and-white photo was captured on a page of the archive, on which it was written.

[The year 91211 of the First Era, members of the 27th squad of the Interstellar Corps went to handle the Andromeda cosmic void disaster, with all perishing. Survivors: 0]

Looking at this black-and-white photo, Uncle Kreber was in the top left corner. He smiled, raising the sword in his hand, laughing like a child.

And in the photo, everyone was smiling, with faces seemingly full of hope and anticipation for the future. Then, after capturing this item left in the world by their squad, they all resolutely stepped into the Andromeda cosmic void.

Xue Dili turned to the next page, where it was the proposal of a young man and a young lady from this 27th squad. They stood together, smiling, holding hands with fingers intertwined, showing blissful happiness.

[On the same day, Anna and Lanoff among the members of the 27th squad confirmed their relationship.]

The scene froze at this moment, and Xue Dili saw what was behind.

[Anna, confirmed dead. Lanoff, confirmed dead.]

[Anna’s father, the maintenance master of the squad, Kreber, confirmed dead.]

...

Xue Dili silently looked at one old photo after another. In this archive, every photo would move upon opening, as if conveying stories of the past.

"Cosmic void..." Xue Dili asked Senior Olivia.

"That is a very rare cosmic disaster, but one of the hardest to deal with," the senior said. "The so-called universe can be understood as an ever-expanding bubble."

Xue Dili nodded, having some understanding of the bubble theory of the cosmos.

"And outside our universe, there are actually many other universes, but that’s another story. The so-called cosmic void is a small hole opened up in our existing universe bubble," Senior Olivia explained.

"That hole might connect to an external universe, or directly to the void. But from our universe’s perspective, it’s like a void more greedy than a black hole. Before the original 27th squad went to handle it, a whole fixed star system had already been devoured by that hole."

"And at that time, the members of the 27th squad thought of a way to fill that void..." Olivia paused, seeming somewhat silent as well, but continued, "Using a black hole to fill the void, combatting natural disasters with natural disasters. They succeeded. To this day, the black hole at the center of Andromeda is from here..."

"The 27th squad had no survivors, and not a single soul returned among the Mimic Venerable King. Today, the only soul of the 27th squad member, Maintenance Master Kreber, has returned home. Thank you, Xue Dili; on behalf of all the members of the Interstellar Corps, I sincerely express my gratitude to you."

Senior Olivia bowed deeply, and Xue Dili was not modest this time. He simply continued to browse the archive in silence.

These were magical photo records, and every time a photo was opened, it would move, as if telling the stories of those days to future generations.

He saw that tens of millions of years ago, an enormous Divine Tree under the control and supply of magic power, stood firm against the black hole’s gravity, pushing it toward the cosmic void.

Suddenly, Xue Dili felt an unparalleled sense of absurdity and disbelief.

The gravity of a black hole can capture even light, and now, those dozens of people from the 27th squad were taking turns injecting magic power into the Divine Tree, letting it push the black hole little by little toward that cosmic void, and even their distance from the black hole was less than tens of thousands of kilometers.

"They were fighting the black hole’s gravity with their bodies. It’s hard to believe truly upon knowing," Senior Olivia explained.

"At this distance, each of them had to withstand about ten thousand times the gravitational pull, and that Divine Tree exhausted all energy and the magic power infused into it, continuously regenerating, relying on life force to withstand the black hole..."

"Here, none of them could survive longer than half an hour. Even just standing there, they would be torn to shreds by gravity, so they divided into three groups, each group holding on for twenty minutes before rotating to inject magic power until the black hole was filled into the cosmic void."

After Senior Olivia finished speaking, it was eerily silent here.

Xue Dili solemnly watched the scenes within.

Even though the planet-sized Divine Tree had countless roots covered with magic arrays and magic power barriers, just coming into contact with the black hole, it would instantly be distorted, then absorbed by the black hole as materials for its growth.

It was those members who forcibly twisted the Divine Tree’s instinct with magic power, making it push the black hole in.

And as time passed, visibly, the bodies of those 27 squad members were distorted by gravity, their skin torn by invisible hands, bones producing chilling sounds.

The true terror of a black hole had been brought out in all its detail.