Chapter 755: Chapter 715: The Late Guest
The expanding black hole easily devoured the concealed room, then began to slowly but unstoppably consume the entire High Energy Physics Institute.
Dark cracks emerged in the air, making it seem as if space itself was being torn and shattered.
All players inside the High Energy Physics Institute felt a strange distortion in gravity before being pulled towards the black hole.
Buildings collapsed, the earth split apart, and everything within sight was sucked into that dark sphere.
Outside the High Energy Physics Institute, passing players stopped in their tracks, astonished at the mysterious gravity tearing everything apart, and it seemed about to reach beyond the Institute!
But after completely destroying the Institute, the expanding gravity unexpectedly hit an invisible but indestructible barrier, unable to advance any further.
This invisible barrier confined the black hole’s astonishing destruction within the boundaries of the High Energy Physics Institute without spilling a speck.
Even standing right before the main gate, while everything inside was completely torn to shreds, the street just a step away remained unaffected.
Under such strong constrains, the black hole could not acquire more matter, and expansion finally stopped.
However, it did not stay still, it began to fiercely eject particle streams from both ends!
The furious particle streams hit the invisible barrier. Their speed was so fast and their energy level so high that a massive amount of light and heat erupted, causing a violent explosion.
But even so, that invisible barrier remained indestructible!
Under the constraint of the invisible barrier, all light and heat were confined within this small area. From a distance, it looked like a constantly flashing beacon had suddenly appeared within [Virtual Xiajing].
If it wasn’t daytime in the virtual world, the entire city would have been illuminated.
However, these phenomena only lasted a short time.
Suddenly, the black hole “vomited” all of the energy and matter it had swallowed, resulting in the end of the explosion, the dispersion of the light, and the “box” once again becoming invisible.
Looking now, the former High Energy Physics Institute had completely disappeared, leaving behind a blank space.
On the ground laid only a thin layer of very fine dust — all that was left of the High Energy Physics Institute after the black hole’s “digestion”.
All players who were previously inside the Institute, without exception, all died instantly.
There were no injuries, only deaths, because anyone within the area of the black hole’s gravity was tightly gripped by it. By the time you realized you should run, it was already too late.
Players from far and near gathered, rushing into the ruins, coming to the edge of the explosion’s huge pit, and excitedly theorize about what happened.
…
The instigators of the event—the players who gathered in the hidden room before the appearance of the black hole—simultaneously received a system prompt:
‘Achievement: [The Darkest Color in the World].’
An ordinary Bronze Trophy.
Xu Yong, who had been revived, looked at the completely destroyed Institute and recalled the spectacular “astronomical phenomenon” he had witnessed. He suddenly felt a little disdain for the achievement he received—
“Such a huge event just for a Bronze Trophy? This is a bit stingy, isn’t it?”
His friend put away the trophy, calmly replied, “We only found a hidden room and pressed a button, we didn’t put in that much effort. It’s nice to get a trophy.”
“The big scene is the credit of Cloud Dream, not ours.”
Another teammate agreed, but then added, “It’s just that the barrier was a bit annoying. Shouldn’t the black hole have swallowed the entire Virtual Xiajing?”
“Indeed, that would have been spectacular!” Xu Yong nodded in agreement.
——
“What nonsense are you guys imagining!” Lincoln derisively commented from behind the screen.
In fact, the entire Easter egg, from the birth of the black hole, to its expansion by swallowing matter and energy, and finally its disorderly gravity, eruption, and fading away, was all unscientific.
Even this High Energy Physics Institute, he himself had never personally visited.
The environment inside wasn’t completely modeled after reality. Workers from the city’s construction department only recorded some areas that were open to the public and suitable for science education.
The remainder was completely made up from the imagination of the Cloud Dream Works staff.
The hidden room was also deliberately inserted by Lincoln as an Easter egg, which didn’t exist in reality at all.
Speaking of which, if a player enters that room and manages to refrain from pressing the button, they would receive a silver achievement upon leaving the room—
[Heeding Advice Like A River]
It’s just a question of when someone will finally get this achievement.
It’s amazing how this Easter egg can be scientific without any involvement from scientific researchers at any point.
This also led to another interesting occurrence. Before dawn broke, many diligent scholars took this opportunity to enlighten netizens with knowledge about black holes and colliders.
As for players’ reactions—
Many of them were scrambling in different mirrors, looking for hidden rooms, activating colliders one by one, and creating black hole explosions.
But they soon discovered that the “hidden room” is not available in every mirror, but rather a probability event.
After all, Lincoln must consider the feelings of ordinary players. Even though few people frequently visit the Physics Research Institute, mirrors with the “red button” would still be the minority, at most one in ten.
The mirrors that do contain hidden rooms, all had their red buttons pressed by players within an hour.
The same scene played out again and again, providing satisfying entertainment for the players.
*
As Lincoln and Xiaomeng were lounging in bed “watching videos”, Camille Victoria was also lying in bed, holding Little Lolita in a satisfied embrace and giggling incessantly.
She had waited for a long time in her virtual house after ending her broadcast yesterday, but Connar never showed up. She was disappointed when she logged off.
But when she opened her eyes in the morning and checked her mobile phone out of habit, she found a message from the Cloud Dream app at 1:16 am—
[There is a new tenant in your house.]
“?!” Camille Victoria sprung upright from under the covers, immediately grabbing and putting on her headband.
Direct launch!
The next moment, she found herself in another bed—her bed in the virtual house.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the tiny Connar; with loose hair, curled up under the covers, deeply asleep.
‘Ahhh, Connar!!’ Camille Victoria screamed in her heart with joy.
But she clapped her hand tightly over her mouth not wanting to wake the little one up.
First, she carefully took a cute photo of Connar, then gently laid down next to her, feeling incredibly satisfied as she watched the little girl’s face from a close distance, feeling extremely excited.
She even wanted to have a daughter of her own!
However, thinking about still being single, needing to find a boyfriend, get married, have a kid, then raise it until Connar’s age and cuteness…all that seemed a Herculean task.
Raising a ready-made kid is far better!
Camille Victoria looked at the little girl, finding her more and more adorable.
She badly wanted to kiss her little face but was afraid of being sanctioned by the system for being obscene.
In the end, she could only carefully extend her index finger, gently touching Connar’s soft face.
Connar sleepily opened her eyes a slit, saw it was Camille Victoria, then closed them again and snuggled knowingly into Camille Victoria’s arms.
Camille Victoria felt she was on the verge of fainting from happiness.
‘I can’t take this anymore! If it goes on like this, I really want to have a child!’
She longed to sleep with such a cute child every night! Isn’t that more comfortable than any pillow?
Now that intimacy is possible in the virtual world, when will it be possible to have children?