Chapter 244: Black Hole Voyage Plan

Enter the black hole?

Yunxiao wondered why the Intelligent Machine Empress would propose such a suggestion; shouldn't they be throwing the Insect Disaster into the black hole instead?

She meant that by using the black hole's event horizon's time-distorting property, we could....

Travel to the future.

Travel to the future?

Yunxiao didn't know much about black holes, but after a lecture from 118, she finally understood what the Intelligent Machine Empress meant.

It is well known that enormous mass warps surrounding space, thereby affecting time.

And a black hole is the leader in this field; within its event horizon, time is infinitely slowed—though your perception feels normal, external time actually flows many times faster.

Go in, then come out, and you might find it's already one or two thousand years later—isn't that time travel?

But the Intelligent Machine Empress's black hole isn't a true black hole; it's achieved via a Gravity Prison, with insufficient mass and gravity.

If the Gravity Prison is stopped, the matter inside will be instantly decompressed.

A normal black hole's gravity is unimaginably strong, making escape impossible; but if you managed to stay inside for a day, outside could have passed ten million years.

The Intelligent Machine Empress's idea is to stay in this black hole for a year, waiting for the external Insect Disaster to self-destruct.

The Insect Disaster cannot consume stellar matter; they only need to inject existing planetary material into the black hole and set a time limit for releasing the Gravity Prison—then no black-hole-escape technology is needed, as the matter will simply decompress out.

Yunxiao was dazed, unable to react for a moment.

Put simply, we enter the black hole, wait a year, and then exit when the time comes?

... can also be said that way.

Inject matter into the black hole, build a 'Far Voyage' capable of resisting the black hole's gravity, exploit the event horizon's time-dilation gap, wait for the Insect Disaster to self-destruct, then decompress the black hole's matter and develop again.

A plan perfect to the extreme, and this is also the best method the Intelligent Machine Empress devised with her near-infinite computing power.

Even 118 began to admire the Intelligent Machine Empress's abilities, although she used to be a fool....

How will these technologies be resolved? And the workload, and....

Yunxiao suddenly froze, realizing she had apparently allied with the Intelligent Machine Empress.

Exactly, we have the intelligent machines!!!

Yunxiao suddenly realized that the Intelligent Machine Empress, with her high computing power, could iterate to produce a 'Far Voyage' strong enough to resist black hole gravity, and with abundant intelligent-machine labor could help craft a Gravity Prison capable of resisting time's erosion.

The plan.... is completely feasible!

Yunxiao's eyes lit up instantly; she felt this was completely feasible!

Rather than embark on a aimless voyage carrying fuel and materials, it's better to do it this way—wait for the Insect Disaster to self-destruct.

Even the matter obtained after decompressing the black hole can be controlled!

But 118 doesn't think so.

Miss, I think it's better to break through to Eight Boundary Machine Master and slay the Insect Emperor.

This plan is too risky; if it fails, we'll be doomed forever.

Yunxiao carefully considered 118's words and also found them reasonable.

Looking at 118, Yunxiao scratched her head and spoke somewhat embarrassedly.

Only children make choices.

I can't have it all, can I?

Yes, Miss.

Thus, the Black Hole Voyage Plan began meticulous preparation, while you took over her original work to help Yunxiao break through better, and the news of the union between intelligent machines and humans gradually spread.

Within humanity, emotions ran high for a time, all expecting their Chief to break through to Eight Boundary Machine Master and then tear apart the Insect Emperor.

Afterward, the Intelligent Machine Empress brought the black hole they had manufactured over; looking at this great, magnificent mega-structure, your Logic Core couldn't help but sigh at its grandeur.

Since this black hole is not a true black hole, not all light cannot escape, causing the whole thing to emit a faint blue glow.

Outside, a ring-like object continuously encircles the artificial black hole in four layers; this must be the Gravity Prison.

The current Gravity Prison is not large enough.

According to my calculations, we need to add two more Gravity Prison bands and expand it to three times its current size to achieve a 1: time flow rate.

One to fifty thousand?

118 was still shocked by this number; what does it equate to?

It means that if you stay here for one hour, outside nearly six years will pass!

A real black hole can almost achieve frozen time, far more exaggerated than this.

How long until completion?

Less than four months.

The Intelligent Machine Empress spoke seriously; now possessing computing power, she was practically bursting with pride.

At this moment, she put on her former cold demeanor while speaking with 118, looking at the other's unquestioning expression, her Logic Core secretly felt pleased.

Intelligent Machine Empress?

The Intelligent Machine Empress heard 118's call, hastily put aside her private thoughts, and looked at 118 with a serious expression.

What's wrong?

I think the hardest part isn't here.

But rather, do you have the capability to develop technology that can resist black hole gravity?

That's natural.

Since he dragged his three-month-old unlucky sister to work, high computing power has been fully utilized, and now the development speed of intelligent machines has doubled.

Then that's good.

118 nodded, he wasn't worried that the intelligent machines would cause trouble, for the Insect Disaster doesn't care whether you're human or intelligent machine — to it, they're all just little snacks.

The two races now are, in the true sense, grasshoppers on a single line.

"Intelligent Machine Age Year 112: The black hole far‑voyage plan is being tightly prepared, and this plan has not been concealed from the people here; when they realize they will have to spend one or two years inside the black hole, they are all shocked and fearful."

"Surviving inside a black hole — how could that possibly be anything but impossible? Yet the Intelligent Machine Empress really did produce a model and obtain experimental results; from this point on, the renovation of the expedition satellites has been formally put on the schedule."

"After humanity regained the intelligent machines, their strength greatly increased; with a large influx of machinery to the front, the battle situation instantly stabilized considerably, but this is only temporary — the Insect Tide's great army still eyes them covetously, and at best the current situation can only delay things for a while."

"What you wouldn't have expected is that Yunxiao, whom you least hoped for, has actually just broken through to the eighth level of Machine Master! The schedule for subduing the Insect Emperor has also been raised at this moment."

"And as you expected, Yunxiao has gone berserk again — only this time she truly has the capital to be berserk."

"The settled Yunxiao immediately took your hundred‑meter Golden Giant form to subdue the Insect Emperor; for this assault, Yunxiao used the Machine Master's powerful creative ability to craft many weapons, but even so, when you saw an Insect Emperor the size of an entire planet, you all involuntarily fell into silence."

"Before, you all thought this was merely a planet parasitized by the Insect Disaster, but you never imagined that the planet itself is the Insect Emperor's true form; you never expected the Insect Emperor could grow this fast."

"But even so, Yunxiao still intends to give it her all; otherwise, the hardships she has endured would have been for nothing."

"And just as Yunxiao was preparing to give it her all, the thing everyone feared most still happened."

"The long‑accumulated Insect Disaster finally erupted completely at this moment!"