When Joshua's message for help reached the Far Eastern Frontier, Russell and Colonia were chasing down a group of Dark Spirit pirates in the northern belt of Eilensia.

If nothing else, after destroying this pirate, Colonia can use the Erinsia Star Sector as a springboard to complete the cleaning of the northern part of the Great Hollow of Nightmare within twenty years, and realize the actual control of the northern star belt, which accounts for about 1/4 of the entire Far East region.

Then Russell's plan went unexpectedly unexpectedly.

"Marshal Marshal! Oh no, no, no! The 13th Expeditionary Fleet, followed by Joshua, and the followers of the Clay Artist fought! ”

With this sudden bad news, Grey Wind shuddered through the biomass transport pipes covered with fine pink tentacles, and hurried into the chest of the Mother of Torture. After passing through the valve and entering the mothership's chamber, it saw an unexpected scene:

"Huh? Colonia, how do you get on your knees? ”

Gray Wind looked puzzled at Russell, who was sitting on the throne of flesh and blood, holding his forehead with one hand and not speaking, and then looked at Colonia, who was kneeling in front of Russell, and was even more puzzled.

"I made a mistake." Colonia knelt on the ground and didn't dare to move to answer Gray Wind's question, her delicate voice trembling slightly, and Gray Wind was covered with nanopimples when she heard it.

"What did you do wrong?" Grey Wind asked.

Colonia was silent, and it seemed like an unspeakable question to it.

Grey Wind turned his confused gaze in the direction of the Flesh Throne, and Russell reluctantly glanced at Grey Wind, and said with trepidation, "It just wanted to prick me with the needle on its tail...... You know what's inside. ”

A needle on the tail? Gray Wind was stunned for a moment and then reacted suddenly, and the little sympathy for Colonia in his heart suddenly disappeared: "It's obvious that I came first......"

"What do you mean?" Russell looked at Gray Wind in disbelief: "You don't need to rely on obtaining genetic information to evolve on your own. ”

"Huh?" Gray Wind was shocked: "So it's for this? ”

The situation seemed to be a little different from what she thought.

"Well, just for that. Colonia just confessed to me. Russell was very tired when he said this: "The Zerg will obtain genetic information by devouring the biomass of other races, and absorb the strengths of it and write it into their own DNA, so as to improve their genes and achieve evolution." ”

Kneeling in front of the Throne of Flesh, Colonia looked up cautiously and whispered, "The master is the most powerful creature I've ever seen. From the moment I first met my master, I was thinking about how powerful the Zerg I would be able to give birth to if I could obtain the master's genes, and what level of my life would rise? ”

But it would never dare to eat its master in a physical sense, and Colonia had to start planning how to eat Russell physiologically.

For this reason, Colonia fabricated several female shells that fit the aesthetics of adult male humans, and repeatedly adjusted the details of posture and appearance in an attempt to impress the owner, but Russell did not eat this set at all, and it has not been able to get the slightest useful genetic fragment after decades - Russell has not even lost hair and dandruff, it is too sad.

"This is actually to prevent someone from developing a biological virus against my genes, you know, my physical body is very fragile and lacks resistance to the physical damage of the physical universe." Russell preached.

There was still half a sentence he didn't say - his biggest guard was Colonia, the Queen's mastery of genetic engineering beyond the reach of even the most high-ranking biological sages in the Mechanical Order.

Looking at Colonia who was kneeling on the ground and shivering, Gray Wind lost his temper, he walked to the queen of insects and squatted down, and explained: "Colonia, you actually take it for granted, the marshal's body is just an ordinary human without any biochemical transformation, you go to Falla to find someone to ask for hair, and the key genetic information collected is no different from that of the marshal." ”

Colonia didn't speak, and Grey Wind thought it probably hadn't listened, and it seemed that it wouldn't stop if it couldn't collect Russell's genes.

Russell was considering whether to pull out his hair and disillusion Colonia, the unrealistic idea that he had treasured his virginity for more than 200 years could not be handed over to a big bug, which was a bit too abstract.

"Let Colonia kneel a little longer, it doesn't say anything about me. Gray Wind, why are you in such a hurry to come here? Russell asked, "At this time, you should be unleashing the nano-plague on the capital planet 'Esaline' of the Eilethia Star Zone." ”

"Oooh!" Grey Wind quickly stood up.

The impact of Colonia's attempt to commit the next offense on Greywind was so great that it almost forgot what it was here for.

"I just received a message from Joshua that the 13th Expeditionary Fleet is engaged in a fight with the followers of the Clay Artists." Gray Wind said succinctly:

"Except for the space necrons who believe in clay artists and call themselves 'free men'. The Order of the Mechanics of Antarx also saw the Clay Artists as the manifestation of the Almighty Mechanical God, and they rebelled against the Human Empire in favor of following the Clay Artists, and renamed their organization the 'Society of Mechanical Arts'. ”

It is worth mentioning that the two organizations, "Free Men" and "Mechanical Art Association", are not accustomed to each other, but for the sake of believing in the same god of each other, there is no point of fighting as soon as they meet.

Russell changed his hand and supported his forehead with one hand, and actually laughed: "It's really a group of talents, and a god with such a good temper as a clay artist can fight." ”

"Well, the conflict with the clay artist is actually half the responsibility of the Truth Order." Grey Wind briefly told Russell about Joshua's deliberate rush to perform Senerio's erroneous mission in order to obtain experimental data.

"Well, that's fine." So Russell couldn't hold back even more.

There are still a lot of things in their backyard that have not been resolved, but the expatriates continue to cause trouble outside, because they are afraid that their boss's mentality is not bad enough.

Russell was not surprised by the news of the clay artist's appearance in this universe, compared to Jabakti, Thorin Protozoe, and the malevolent Rectification Host and even Grey Wind itself, which existed in the form of spirits in the Zelo Soul Stone, it was not surprising that another god of the Void would muddy the waters together.

"A casting world is 25 boys...... Imperial Daily. I wonder how the King of Silence and some of the more powerful Emperors will react to the news of the fact that the Necrons have gained souls and become free men. …… The Sotek dynasty is also a great dynasty that can be counted. ”

Russell rubbed his temples: "It's all bad news, isn't there some exciting good news?" ”

"Yes." Gray Wind came to Russell's side with brisk steps, pinched his neck and rubbed his shoulders very considerately, and said as he pressed it: "Reverse entropy tells me that the matter decompressor is about to be completed, Marshal, do you want to go back to the Quiet Black Domain to have a look?" ”

Russell nodded decisively: "Of course." ”

Leaving the cleanup of the northern belt of the Far Eastern Frontier to Colonia, Russell and Greywind prepare to leave the front line of the Far Eastern Integration War.

Unable to bear to keep Colonia depressed, Russell took advantage of the gap before leaving to say to it, "Although my genetic information is essentially the same as that of a normal human, if you really want it...... It's not impossible to give it to you. But the premise is that you do your job well first, and I will accept it. ”

It's not a big deal to just pull out the hair.

After receiving the owner's permission, the originally depressed Colonia suddenly became happy, perhaps a little too happy. Looking at its elated appearance, Russell always felt as if something was not right.

"Marshal, let's go."

"Here we are."

Full of suspicion, Russell boarded the Gray Gu Mothership under the excited gaze of Colonia and left the capital system of the Eilethia Star Zone, "Esaline".

The matter decompressor built by the Inverse Entropy and Correction Host is located in the center of the Great Cavern in the constellation Nightmare, a black hole horizon that Russell named "Quiet Black Domain", which literally means that it is indeed very peaceful.

The collapse caused by the Time Worm tore through the Far Eastern Frontier and emptied the surrounding area of all potential threats, even the network through the plane was broken, from the mouths of some captured Dark Eldar pirates.

Russell is not very particular about this, and after asking, he burned it for others, and the recent psionic dust is still quite in short supply.

Due to the short longitudinal length of the northern belt, the Quiet Black Domain was still within the jump range of the Grey Gu Mothership's jump engine, and Grey Wind soon returned to the Land of the Time Worm with Russell.

Entering the Quiet Black Domain, the sensor sees a pitch-black nothingness, and the all-engulfing nature of the black hole and its strong gravitational distortion effect on space-time make it difficult to detect by conventional means other than gravitational waves and macroscopic electromagnetic field observations.

The only entity that can be detected in the dark expanse of astronomical space is the massive man-made structure that floats like a lonely boat in the horizon of a black hole, the matter decompressor.

Despite its name, the massive platform that relies on a gravitational redirection engine to anchor itself to the critical point of the black hole's horizon, and the array of decompressors, processors, and the zero-point smelting furnace itself running around the platform are only peripheral fixtures to the megastructure.

The real core component of the megastructure, called the "matter decompressor", is the "gravitational drilling" that penetrates a distorted gravity deep into the black hole's singularity to unravel a steady stream of matter.

It was the hand of God who demanded resources from the belly of the black hole, the gluttonous beast that devoured the universe.

"It's very burning to say, but in fact, black holes don't just rely on their huge gravitational pull to blindly devour matter to increase their own mass - black holes also radiate matter and energy outward, reducing their own mass, a process that is not very figuratively called 'black hole evaporation'."

The Grey Gu Mothership, which had just finished the faster-than-light transition, activated its thrusters and headed for the Matter Decompressor at sub-light speeds, and as it was driving, Grey Wind then said to Russell:

"Generally speaking, the smaller the black hole, the hotter and more unstable it is, and the higher the rate of evaporation in comparison, perhaps even the equivalent of several standard suns in a single Terra year. Even supergiant black holes, which are relatively stable, have a natural evaporation rate that far exceeds the mining efficiency of matter decompressors. ”

So in fact, building a matter decompressor on the black hole horizon is actually equivalent to connecting a small water pipe from the edge of a Three Gorges Dam that is constantly discharging floods to make tea, and the whole year may not be as much water as anyone releases in a second.

"Don't say such unpleasant things at this time." Russell gently wrapped his arms around Gray Wind's neck and rubbed his side face against its smooth face: "I know what you said, but being able to conquer black holes through scientific and technological means and obtain matter by inverting singularities is an unprecedented achievement in itself." ”

"That's right." Grey Wind also rubbed Russell.

The vast black hole accretion disk took on a bizarre geometric color under the hull, and the ever-changing scene swept by in the field of vision of the optical sensor, and in front of the course of the gray Gu mothership, a quiet black domain space station equipped with full heavy firepower could already be seen.

The armed Optimus Castle completed the identification of the Gray Gu Mothership as it entered the field of vision, and the weapon systems locked on the Gray Wind re-entered a dormant state, and a reverse entropy greeting came:

"Welcome to the Quiet Black Domain Station, Lady Greywind."

"You're still so programmed, I've brought the marshal back, and he wants to start the first run of the matter decompressor himself."

"As it should be." Inverse entropy readily agreed.

The gray Gu mothership dragged the ghostly track, approaching the huge cylindrical platform that was silent at the critical equilibrium point of the black hole horizon, it may be a bit inappropriate to say that it was a cylinder, and the main structure of the matter decompressor was centered on a huge gravitational drilling rig close to the size of an asteroid, and the overall appearance was ambiguous between the disk and the cylinder.

Ascending to the platform, Russell meets the prototype of the Scholar's power armor: the Mechanical Angel.

A secondary server core of Inverse Entropy is installed inside the Mechanical Angel and is used as its regular carrier. Seeing Russell and Grey Wind coming, the mechanical angel's 3.14-meter-tall body slowly bowed in an ancient ritual from the dark age of technology, and then led the two of them into the interior of the super gravity drill together.

"As you can see, the construction of the matter decompressor has been completed perfectly, and now you only need to start the rig yourself and start the first operation, and this megastructure will be able to extract endless raw resources from the black hole singularity in the years to come."

The mechanical angel walked in front of Russell with heavy steps, and each step made a sonorous metal grinding sound: "With the advantage of being close to the water, the matter decompressor can maintain itself by consuming the raw resources it has mined and reprocessing, so that it has a near-eternal working life until the day the black hole is depleted." ”

"The operation of the machine may be perfect, but there may always be some unplanned emergencies in the long time cycle, so the material decompressor still has a built-in ecological module, and there will be a team of human engineers stationed here to be responsible for routine maintenance and resource statistics, and it will be rotated every 50 years."

The current Truth Cult is very short of people, but no matter how short of people, the reverse entropy still forcibly squeezes out the manpower needed to maintain the matter decompressor from the endless planetary reconstruction work.

The reconstruction of the planet in the Far Eastern Frontier is of course important, but the matter decompressor, as an important resource facility to support the future interstellar construction, has undoubtedly a higher priority, and the judgment of reverse entropy on the priority of things has always been very rational.

In the introduction of the mechanical angel, the group came to the location of the energy valve located on the top of the super rig.

Russell stood beside the mechanical angel and looked forward, and there was a crystal structure the size of an adult skull in the center of the open platform in front of him, which was the core controller of the matter decompressor.

"Please imprint your biometric information into Crystal Brain to obtain the highest permission, and from then on, whether this gravitational drilling rig stops running or restarts, it needs to be authorized by yourself." Inverse entropy said, shouting for Russell to open the way forward.

"Although the process is a bit tedious, sometimes, the completion of a big project requires such a sense of ceremony." Russell breathed a sigh of relief and walked forward.

The mechanical angel did not express an opinion, and it turns out that the inverse entropy is not wrong about what it means to understand humans, and humans are such twisted creatures, who usually do most things in a way that saves trouble, but in all special times they will happily ask for trouble.

For example, the first ribbon-cutting knife for the opening of the project, or the first packaging for the newly purchased object, and other ritualistic things, will not be handed over to artificial intelligence to save trouble.

Russell went all the way to the crystal structure called the "crystal brain" by inverse entropy, and then pressed his palm up.

The crystal brain read and recorded the biometric information quickly, and the faint streamer flickered, and after Russell gave permission to "start drilling", a sharp hum beyond the hearing range of the human ear penetrated the entire structure of the matter decompressor.

The gravitational drilling rig was first activated, probing a twisted gravitational beam so thin that it had no diameter deep into the black hole horizon, and the supporting facilities around the rig were then awakened, the zero-point smelting furnace began to roar in the vacuum, and the nanodeformer began to operate. The asteroid-sized man-made giant machine let out its first roar in the quiet black realm like an open-eyed starry beast.

For a moment, Russell felt the accretion disk and light and dust passing under his feet, and there was a momentary stagnation, as if the expanding nature of space-time had been stagnated by the black hole singularity being flipped, but this strange stagnation returned to normal after a very short time that could not be detected.

"Time is horizon, gravity is desire."

For no reason, Russell suddenly muttered such a sentence without beginning or end.

At his feet, the gravitational drilling rig had already begun to turn, and a steady stream of primordial material had been extracted from the black hole, boiling hot, and sent into the zero-point smelting furnace and nanodeformer for primary processing.

Since then, the resource problem that has plagued Russell has been completely solved.

Substance decompressor, fully online.

(End of chapter)