This is an interstellar group of escapees who have endured untold suffering. Since leaving their capital planet, they have encountered countless difficulties in their interstellar travel. Energy supply is not a problem, but the lack of an industrial base prevents them from building a large number of instruments or increasing the number of ships. This means that they can only be crammed into crowded warships or industrial ships, and the slim future makes them under tremendous mental pressure at all times, and among the 10 billion people who have fled, there are people who go insane at every moment because they can't bear it.

And that's just the pressure of ordinary people, and as the top leader of this group, the pressure on the leader is undoubtedly even greater. He has to face anyone with confidence, he has to lead his people through one difficulty after another, the people can collapse, they can grieve, they can vent, they can drown their sorrows with wine, he can't. He must be optimistic, strong, and fearless. He must lead the last remaining people to find new hope.

But this blow almost made him collapse. The already weak base of heavy industry was completely destroyed by this disaster, half of the number of people and ships were lost, and most of the remaining ships were damaged, and the situation has reached the worst situation.

But he soon learned that worse awaited him.

After a violent vibration of the spacecraft, he quickly received a report from his subordinate scientists.

"Leader, I have very bad news to report to you...... We're in trouble, we're in big trouble. The current chief scientist said with a sad face, a painful look on his face.

The leader had a faint premonition of unhappiness in his heart, but he still maintained a calm expression. He said in a firm, unhurried voice, "What happened? ”

"A black hole." The Chief Scientist said in a deep voice, "Instability is too much energy for a supernova explosion. So much so that the black hole was affected, changed its orbit and came next to our fleet. And because of the effects of instability on supernovae, our observation instruments have not been able to give early warning. This black hole, which is about 37 times the mass of our parent star, came to our fleet without warning, and so far, it has swallowed more than 30,000 spaceships and killed more than 2.5 million people. ”

Hearing this, the leader's heart calmed down a little. More than 30,000 spaceships, more than 25 million people. Although this loss is large, it is not unaffordable.

However, the chief scientist's next words made the leader's heart sink to the bottom.

"If that's all there is to it, then it's nothing. The most important, the most important ......" the chief scientist covered his face with his hands. The voice began to choke: "For now." In our fleet, there are about a million ships of various types left, and now, more than 800,000 spaceships have been captured by the gravitational pull of this black hole. In the midst of the unstable supernova explosion, our ship was badly damaged, and the conventional propulsion system was barely functional. But the power is too low to break free from the gravitational shackles of the black hole, and although the curvature engine is barely intact, the gravitational pull near the black hole is too strong. We didn't have a way to use the curvature engine ......"

The leader only felt that his eyes were dark. He knew exactly what that meant.

The lack of various industrial bases, the existence of scientific and technological faults, the shortage of professionals, and the scarcity of materials make it basically impossible for them to repair the conventional propulsion engines of the spacecraft, and the conventional propulsion engines cannot be repaired, which means that these spaceships will not be able to break free from the gravitational pull of the black hole, and they can only fall into the black hole under the gravitational force of the black hole, in a circle of motion around the black hole.

"Those ships...... There are less than three days to go. After three days, the tidal gravity of the black hole will fully affect the ship's hull structure, the spacecraft will be distorted, it will be torn apart, all the instruments in the spacecraft will be destroyed, and all the people inside the spacecraft will die. The chief scientist said weakly.

The leader looked grim and did not say a word. He walked quickly to the large conference room and looked at the scene in the distance through the large screen.

"Fortunately, the flagship ship we were on was not affected too much, there were still some resource ships left, and the community of scientists did not suffer much damage......"

"But what about our people? Among the more than 800,000 spaceships captured by the gravity of the black hole, there are more than 3 billion people, what should they do, what should they do? The leader looked at the scene in front of him and muttered to himself.

What was presented to the leader was a terrible sight.

It was a distorted mass of space, and there was no tangible presence in sight, only the distant starlight shining there. The leader knows that this is because of the gravitational lensing phenomenon caused by the black hole, which makes the black hole itself invisible.

The leader could no longer see the ships that had been captured by the gravity of the black hole, but the communication had not been interrupted for the time being, and through these communications, the ships could be positioned very clearly on the flagship ship. As a result, a simulated three-dimensional animated image appeared in front of the leader.

The pitch black in the middle represents the black hole, and around the black hole, the scattered dots of light represent the spaceships. At this moment, the ships have been accelerated to extremely high speeds, and they are frantically revolving around the black hole. But their orbits are not stable, and their orbit behaves, like mosquito coils, getting a little closer to the middle black hole every time they circle the black hole.

They are getting faster and closer to the black hole. And when this distance is reduced to a certain point, tidal gravity will tear these ships apart.

"Help me connect to the ship's communications......," the leader commanded.

The communication was quickly connected, and the leader saw what was going on inside the ships. They obviously knew what had happened to them and what they were in. Countless people are weeping there, some are praying silently, but many more are lying there with dead faces.

The leader's mouth squirmed a few times, trying to say something comforting or encouraging, but nothing came out. What else could he say at this time? Say we're going to come to your rescue? Everyone knows that this is impossible, and in this case, there is no point in rescuing, and rescuing will only put the spacecraft in danger if it is not captured by the gravity of the black hole.

"I don't have the power to save you......" the leader closed his eyes and said silently in his heart.

It was like a knife stabbing him in the heart. He knew what that meant, and he also knew that the Pegasus civilization was over.

After the loss of more than 3 billion people, the entire Pegasus civilization is left with less than 200,000 broken spaceships, and less than 600 million people remain. What is enough for this person, this spaceship? He has reached the situation in the future, the scientific and technological fault will appear on a large scale, even if he finds a habitable planet, the scientific and technological level of the Pegasus civilization will also regress on a large scale, and it is difficult to say whether it can maintain the scientific and technological level of the fourth-level civilization.

"weishenme, weishenme is going to make us encounter this ordeal...... "A huge sense of powerlessness swallowed the leader's mind, and the leader only felt that he had lost strength all over his body.

The events that had happened when he left the capital planet flowed through his mind one by one. The calls, the encouragements, kept echoing in his mind.

"We leave you the hope of survival, and you must pass on our civilization. No matter what kind of tribulation, danger, don't give up, don't give up. We are a member of the Pegasus civilization, and our civilization will eventually leave its name in the universe. ”

"I will give you the responsibility of leading the entire civilization, and you will not live up to my expectations." Before leaving, he still remembered the words of the previous leader clearly.

"But I can't help it, I can't help it...... I can't save our civilization, and I have failed your expectations. ”

"Issuing my order, all surviving ships immediately flee the area at maximum power. It's dangerous here, and if we stay here for a while, we'll take a little more of it. The leader said very coldly.

"But, what about the people who are bound by the gravity of the black hole!" The Chief Scientist shouted in horror.

"We don't have what it takes to rescue them! I cannot allow our surviving people to suffer another loss! Execute my orders now, immediately! The leader shouted.

In the face of successive blows, the leader still made the wisest decision. At this moment, he is not just himself, he represents the entire Pegasus civilization, and he must stand in the position of a leader to think holistically.

The atmosphere fell to a freezing point for a while. All of them are doing the most cruel inner struggle.

At this moment, a guard hurriedly walked up to the leader and whispered, "Leader, our detection system has detected that two moons away, a large fleet is heading in our direction, traveling at forty-seven times the speed of light, and is expected to meet us in thirty hours...... And through preliminary judgment, through the analysis of the estimation of the scientific and technological level of this fleet, the construction style of the spaceship, etc., we suspect that this fleet is the fleet of the Shenzhou civilization that destroyed our civilization......"

"In total, this fleet has about eighteen million warships, and a huge planetary ...... that can sail with curvature" (to be continued......