Chapter 1594

As the words fell, the laboratory was deathly silent.

Even Zhang Tie, upon hearing the danger described by Klein, couldn't help but shudder all over.

Even light would die!?

He couldn't really grasp what it was, but such a perverse monster—if they ran into it, wouldn't it be instant death? How the hell are they supposed to survive?

After a long silence, Lin An took a deep breath.

If the enemies after Fifth Stage are like this, why would anyone still want to advance to Fifth Stage?

These things aren't necessarily something we'll encounter, right?

Indeed.

The three events described by Klein were extremely terrifying, but the problem was that Lin An keenly realized that, no matter how frightening these things were, they might not necessarily be encountered by himself.

Just as in the Alien Species world, it's basically hard to give birth to a Meme—at least not in the later stages.

The disasters described by Klein were all already there.

Unless...

The system forcibly issued a mission, demanding they get close!

This is the reason fugitives would flee!?

Suddenly, Lin An seemed to think of something, realizing why the fugitives chose to flee.

However, contrary to Lin An's expectations, Klein first nodded, then shook his head.

His gaze toward Lin An carried a hint of pity—not pity for Lin An alone, but more as if he pitied them all.

Right, not necessarily will we encounter it.

Generally, only very strong Fifth Stage or Sixth Stage individuals have a chance to forcibly come into contact with such an event. After all, once this event occurs, the surrounding area is basically dead.

In theory, you, Lin An, shouldn't need to worry about this crisis.

But do you think after Fifth Stage there are only these dangers? Do you think you can avoid them just by not getting close?

Klein let out a low laugh, and the image in his hand changed again.

Lin An.

You should know that Earth, or rather the solar system including the galaxy, is racing through the universe under the influence of the super gravitational source.

The Earth you inhabit is moving toward the great gravitational source at a speed of 2,257,200 kilometers per hour.

Two million kilometers per hour... that's a distance of fifty-four million kilometers per day.

Hitting something along the way is actually quite normal...

It's like a car speeding on a highway; you haven't yet encountered a celestial disaster, which is actually extremely fortunate...

Of course, if you did encounter it, you couldn't possibly survive.

In the image, Klein's simulated diagram of the solar system's movement looked like a ball of light dragging a group of small light balls.

Amid the dense stars, it moved extremely fast in a spiraling arc.

Like a necklace falling into a vortex, the final destination of its spiraling descent is the unimaginable Laniakea Supercluster great gravitational source (greatattractor).

Looking at Zhang Tie, his mouth agape, completely unfamiliar with this knowledge.

Klein chuckled lightly and said slowly:

What makes you think you won't encounter a stellar disaster?

Under the influence of this great gravitational source, over a trillion celestial bodies are falling together with you into the great gravitational source. Just grazing a dangerous region, that horror would be no less than the three major events.

Take, for example, a low-level stellar disaster: a neutron star burst.

As far as I know, within your recent six thousand light-years there is a neutron star that is erupting.

The gamma-ray burst it emits is powerful enough to release, in 0.1 to 10 seconds, more energy than the total energy output of the solar system over ten billion years.

If hit by the burst, its power is roughly equivalent to 10*10 to the 13th power Fifth Stage all-out strikes.

130 billion Fifth Stage?

Tsk tsk, in the face of such a disaster, all life within roughly six to ten light-years would die instantly, and the affected range at both ends reaches a terrifying tens of millions of light-years!

In the image condensed by Klein, a neutron star emitting gamma-ray bursts from both ends is frantically spinning at extreme speed.

Like a top wielding a flashlight.

This neutron star is rotating at thousands of times per second, sweeping the light of death across the entire universe!

Wherever the light shines, it is death!

Lin An, tell me.

If right now a neutron star's jet were aimed at Earth, what would you do?

Don't think it's impossible; there are far too many of them, so many that they have unintentionally destroyed countless civilizations... It's like a death ray—any galaxy it sweeps over is utterly annihilated.

Looking into Klein's eyes, Lin An also couldn't utter a word.

He knew about this, but he had never considered it before.

This is... a stellar crisis!?

It seemed he could see that Lin An now realized how brutal the Apocalypse he spoke of truly was.

Klein shook his head, not minding to add more fuel.

Anyway, Lin An.

If, after you advance to Fifth Stage, the system immediately issues a similar crisis, such as a solar helium flash,

Even if it's the lowest difficulty stellar disaster, tell me, what way do you have to let everyone survive?

In an extremely short time, the sun would directly expand in a helium flash, swallowing the whole Earth.

Even if it lasts only a few seconds, at that instant the Earth would be equivalent to suffering an attack from over sixty-six million Tsar bombs.

Besides the core, the entire Earth's surface land within 1,200 kilometers would melt.

Facing this crisis, Lin An, what can you use to resist?

Even if luck is good and the difficulty is a bit lower, your first mission is a catastrophe, a battlefield of death.

Can you resist an insect swarm army numbering in the hundreds of billions?

Can you lead humanity to victory over intelligences that proliferate exponentially?

The lowest-level heavenly disaster insect swarm: each insect is equivalent to third rank.

Each time they appear, the quantity is calculated in the hundreds of billions.

Mechanical intelligences expand themselves exponentially. As long as they find a planet, they can decompose and absorb all matter within twenty-four hours, copying themselves.

And each mechanical intelligence's combat capability is about the same as yours. Moreover, they can learn from each other, evolve...

In a sigh, Kèláiēn gave a bitter smile, looking at the stiffened Zhang Tie standing in place, and at the silent Lin An.

Lin An, you will die.

The difficulty after Fifth Stage is the true Apocalypse.

Doomsday Game...

Do you know why the system says that?

It's simple.

What you are currently experiencing is nothing but a game. It is a game the system gives us all to play, to familiarize ourselves with the 'plot'.