Seeing he wasn’t inclined to elaborate, Khalil refrained from pressing further.
He trusted they would board in ti.
For Amalia, this was her first attempt at rging with such a massive planet—one hundreds of tis larger than Regnum Tellus.
Yet, it likely contained less energy than Regnum Tellus did.
The spaceship soon lifted off, soaring into the sky.
Amalia and Kenny Lin’s figures grew smaller and smaller until they were no longer visible to the naked eye.
Only the spaceship’s instrunts could track them now.
"Lieutenant, shouldn’t we wait for them?" a soldier couldn’t help but ask.
"They probably have so unfinished business. We’ll wait in outer space. If the aliens’ battleship arrives while we’re still here, no matter how fast this spaceship is, it won’t outrun their ship," Khalil replied, his attention split between monitoring the ship’s systems and responding to the question.
At that mont, Tariq suddenly slapped Khalil’s shoulder forcefully.
Khalil thought he was about to rebel, but when he looked up, he saw the most shocking scene he’d ever witnessed.
"Shadron is collapsing?"
Shadron was a perfectly spherical shape, appearing like a gray glass orb when viewed from outer space.
For so unknown reason, the center suddenly began to cave in, as if an enormous force beneath was pulling it inward.
Typically, such phenona occur due to a decrease in the planet’s gravity, which marks the beginning of a planet’s demise.
A collapsing planet eventually becos a black hole, a harbinger of death and destruction.
"Boss, shouldn’t we start running?"
"No, wait. Amalia and Kenny Lin are still on the planet. Shouldn’t we quickly call them back and then imdiately leave this place?"
"Look!"
Tariq suddenly pointed at the image on the screen.
Amalia and Kenny Lin were hovering mid-air, and the center of Shadron’s collapse appeared to be directly beneath them.
"I rember Kenny saying they had sothing to do. Could it be... could their ’business’ be causing Shadron to collapse?" Tariq swallowed his saliva hard.
The two benefactors possessed a level of power so imnse that they could slaughter alien forces with ease.
That was sothing he could accept—if aliens could be that strong, then it stood to reason humans could be equally capable.
But making an entire planet collapse into a black hole with their bare hands?
What kind of logic was that?
It was utterly incomprehensible—such a feat shouldn’t be achievable through sheer human effort.
However, the feared black hole never appeared.
Half an hour later, the shrinking Shadron had diminished into a single black dot, and in an instant, it vanished completely.
"Huh? No black hole?"
When Amalia and Kenny Lin returned to the spaceship, Khalil imdiately voiced their confusion.
"You might need to go inside and help settle Shadron’s residents again. You’ll understand once you’re there," Amalia said, without directly answering the question.
With a wave of her hand, she transported everyone into her small world, including Tariq and the others.
It wouldn’t hurt for them to take a look as well.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of people found themselves standing on a solid expanse of land.
The surroundings were barren, and a gust of wind swept by, feeling incredibly real.
Then, the ground began to rumble loudly.
What followed was a sight so astonishing that it left everyone speechless.
The earth was expanding—yes, expanding.
In the distance, they could see mountain ranges stretching farther and farther away, their view gradually obscured by newly rising peaks.
Dense vegetation sprouted tenaciously at their feet, as if ti itself had accelerated.
In re monts, the grass had grown to ten centiters high, covering the landscape in a vibrant green carpet.
"Lieutenant... This can’t be real, right? Are we dreaming?"
Tariq rubbed his eyes, unable to believe what he was witnessing.
The world was expanding—yes, expanding.
It was enormous, and while the universe itself constantly expands, this wasn’t the sa concept.
A world suddenly growing larger?
That was entirely unheard of.
Khalil couldn’t believe it either. "If we’re all seeing the sa thing, then it’s not a dream—it’s real. This world truly is growing larger."
He suddenly recalled what Amalia had said when she sent them inside.
Her words about why Shadron collapsed and that they would understand the reason once they entered began to make sense.
A suspicion ford in his mind.
Perhaps Shadron hadn’t truly collapsed—it had been absorbed into this small world.
The fact that no black hole ford after Shadron’s collapse was evidence of this.
At that mont, a middle-aged man, who seed to have been waiting for them, hurried over.
It was Nazir, a forr mayor of a city on Shadron.
Before leaving, Khalil had tasked his subordinates with entrusting the small world’s managent to him.
"Lieutenant Khalil, did you see it? This world is expanding!" Nazir said excitedly, his eyes filled with both exhilaration and a faint trace of fear.
Humans naturally harbor fear of the unknown.
"I saw it. The expansion is a good thing—it ans everyone will have more space to move around," Khalil replied.
"But... is it safe? This situation seems to defy all logic," Nazir said hesitantly.
Khalil chuckled. "Everything we’ve experienced so far has defied logic."
The ergence of a creature from higher-dinsional universe?
Illogical.
The invention of Cosmorite chas?
Illogical.
And Amalia and Kenny Lin’s ability to effortlessly kill tens of thousands of aliens?
Also illogical.
What people called "logic" was often just the limits of their understanding of unknown forces.
As the saying goes: ignorance doesn’t negate existence.
Nothing in the universe is absolute.
"You’re right, Lieutenant. In this vast universe, we’re but a drop in the ocean. Having a safe place to live should be more than enough to satisfy us," Nazir said.
The sudden outbreak of war had stripped even the most arrogant of their pride.
"Enough talk about this. The world seems stable for now. You could organize a group to explore the area and see if there’s anything useful. I recall so people brought wild animals inside. Don’t kill them—who knows? They might thrive here."
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