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What? My "Information Club" is Actually an All-Knowing Secret Society?
Genre : Apocalypse, Fantasy, Superpower, Action
Tag : Misunderstanding, Secret Organization, World-Freezing, Super power
Chapter 38 : White Hole
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Aria gritted her teeth, her breathing fast and shallow. The freezing air rushed into her lungs, doing very little to cool the burning sensation in her head. A thick drop of dark blood leaked from her left nostril, trailing down her pale upper lip. The playful, energetic persona she maintained completely evaporated, leaving behind a highly exhausted, deeply pained administrator.
She wiped the blood from her nose with the back of her heavy neon pink sleeve, leaving a dark red smear across the bright fabric.
"The Architect is always a blind spot for me," Aria hissed, her voice tight with the lingering pain of the mental backlash. She kept her eyes focused on the ground, waiting for the throbbing in her temples to subside. "I cannot look at his future. The moment I try to perceive his timeline, it burns my mind. It is like trying to stare at the sun without any protection. The sheer density of his variables scrambles my precognition completely."
Celine held her sister firmly, her eyes filled with quiet concern behind her rectangular glasses. She pulled a clean cloth from her tactical pouch and gently wiped the remaining blood from Aria's chin.
"Did the timeline change again?" Celine asked, her tone entirely focused on the operational security of their organization. "Do we need to adjust the evacuation routes for the civilian sectors?"
Aria nodded heavily, leaning against Celine for physical support. The headache throbbed fiercely, a sharp reminder of the heavy toll her supernatural ability demanded.
"My localized predictions for the next seven days are completely scrambled," Aria complained bitterly, staring at the glowing white tear in the distant northern sky. "I cannot calculate the crossfire parameters in Cikarang. Any future involving that entity burns my sight. I have to scrap our short-term expansion plan and focus entirely on our own internal survival protocols."
Aria pushed herself away from Celine, standing steadily on her own two feet. She took a deep, shuddering breath. She looked at the crushed lollipop resting on the ice. She reached into the deep pocket of her oversized military jacket and pulled out a fresh, unwrapped high-calorie chocolate bar. She bit into it aggressively, chewing the dense chocolate to force her dropping blood sugar levels back to a functional state.
"We are pulling all Recollection personnel completely out of the northern island," Aria commanded, her tone returning to the cold, calculating leader of a national shadow organization. "We will not engage with the other factions, and not even gonna observe the conflict at the warehouse. We gather our people, secure the perimeters, and hide in the deep-earth shelters."
Celine picked up her tablet from the floor, ready to distribute the new, high-priority orders across their encrypted network. "Are we hiding to avoid the collateral damage from the major factions?"
Aria shook her head slowly. She swallowed the dense chocolate, her dark eyes locking onto her sister with heavy gravity.
"We are hiding because the conflicts happening on the surface are completely irrelevant," Aria said quietly. "The factions fighting over territory is just a small cause. Because, something gonna appear that's gonna make the entire earth ecosystem preparing to undergo a catastrophic reset."
Aria walked back to the edge of the rooftop. She raised her hand and pointed her small finger directly at the glowing white crack stretching across the stratosphere.
Celine stood in silence, processing the scale of the impending threat. Her fingers paused over her tablet screen. She knew her sister's visions regarding celestial mechanics were flawless.
"A White Hole will open completely in three days," Aria continued, her eyes fixed on the distant, blinding glow. "Earth is located four planets away from the epicenter of the anomaly. The distance provides us with a critical buffer zone. The planets closer to the center, like Mars, will face a radiation wave so dense their atmospheres will ignite and burn making a new Evolution. Our planet will only catch the outer edge of the radiation wave."
Aria crossed her arms, shivering slightly despite the heavy thermal insulation of her neon jacket. The cold seeping into her bones was intense, but the chill from her own apocalyptic vision was far worse.
"Five hours after the crack fully opens, the edge of the radiation wave will hit our atmosphere and undergo a rapid chemical condensation," Aria said, tracing the exact sequence of events with grim precision.
"It will trigger a planetary precipitation event. A Blood Rain. The crimson drops carry a specialized, highly aggressive mutagenic cell. The liquid is dense and heavy. It will melt straight through the remaining layers of black snow. It will seep deep into the frozen ground. It will Flow the ruined cities, the collapsed subway tunnels, and the mass graves."
Celine's eyes narrowed slightly behind her glasses, her grip tightening on her digital tablet. "What does the mutagen do?"
"It forces dead biological systems to restart," Aria answered bluntly, her voice dropping to a harsh whisper. "The billions of people who died from the volcanic ash, the earthquakes, and the freezing temperatures over the past month. The Blood Rain will resurrect them. Their decaying hearts will pump the crimson mutagen through their veins, replacing their dead blood. They will claw their way out of the ice as mindless, highly aggressive necrotic mutants. The entire planet will be overrun by the resurrected dead in a matter of hours."
Aria looked down at the ruined, dark city streets below them. She could already visualize the frozen asphalt cracking open, revealing the rotting hands of the dead pulling themselves up from the dark ice to hunt the living.
"The mutagen will also affect the living apex predators," Aria added, detailing the full scope of the biological disaster. "The Gore-Maws, the Hive-Hounds, and the feral packs currently roaming the wasteland will absorb the red rain. It will trigger a massive, violent hyper-evolution. Their bone carapaces will thicken into impenetrable armor. Their muscle density will double. Their speed and lethality will increase exponentially. The baseline difficulty of survival on the surface will spike beyond human capability. Anyone caught fighting outside will be swallowed by the horde."
Celine typed the information rapidly into her encrypted, offline server. She categorized the impending biological threats, tagging the Blood Rain event as an extinction-level scenario.
"And that is only the first phase," Aria continued, looking back up at the star-filled sky. "After the Blood Rain saturates the surface, the Second Impact begins. The White Hole will violently eject physical matter from deep within its core. Thousands of massive, super-heated meteorites will cross the solar system and bombard Earth. The resulting craters will destroy whatever infrastructure the earthquakes left behind. Entire cities will be leveled in minutes."
She pulled another piece of chocolate from her pocket, eating it quickly to maintain her focus against the rising headache. She needed to deliver the final piece of the puzzle.
"The meteorites are carrying White stones," Aria finished, her eyes gleaming with a mix of deep dread and intense anticipation. "The white stoneI are highly condense fragments of the White Hole power itself. When a human comes into physical contact with a White stones, the radiation forces a rapid, aggressive genetic mutation. It awakens new, terrifying powers in the host. The Second Impact will completely rewrite the biological hierarchy of the human race. The people who survive the meteor strikes and claim the shards will evolve."
Celine finished typing the sequence of events. She understood the strategy perfectly. Recollection needed to survive the Blood Rain and the meteor bombardment to secure the evolutionary items.
"We have a three-day preparation window," Celine noted smoothly, securing her tablet against her hip. She adjusted her glasses, her mind shifting into full logistical overdrive. "I require the specific duplication parameters, Sis."
Aria turned to face her sister, the cold administrator firmly in control. Recollection was a national power, and they needed to prepare on a massive scale.
"We elevate our defense grid to maximum capacity," Aria commanded, listing the high-tier assets. "Duplicate the high-density geothermal plasma cores for all our underground servers. We cannot risk a power failure during the bombardment. I need you to duplicate the tungsten-carbide reinforced plating to seal the primary blast doors. We need heavy railgun artillery and automated anti-air defense systems stationed at the entrance of every surviving base to repel the hyper-evolved mutants."
Celine nodded, her mind already organizing the massive duplication schedule. Her supernatural ability to perfectly copy any non-living object allowed Recollection to deploy military-grade technology that other survivor factions could only dream of possessing. She would spend the next three days continuously duplicating advanced weaponry and impenetrable building materials until her hands bled.
"The logistics will be handled," Celine confirmed, her voice steady and reliable. "We will fortify the shelters to withstand the meteor strikes."
Aria smiled. The heavy, exhausted tension vanished from her face. The energetic, hyperactive girl returned, masking the stressed administrator perfectly. The rapid shift in her demeanor was her flawless defense mechanism against the crushing weight of the future. She clapped her hands together with a loud smack, the sound echoing across the quiet rooftop.
"We are prepared, Celine!" Aria cheered, skipping toward the heavy steel rooftop access door. Her oversized pink bunny ears dragged loudly on the concrete, bouncing with her steps. "We only need to hide underground during the falling rocks. We sit back, eat lots of candy, and watch the hyper-mutants eat everyone else."
Aria pushed the heavy metal door open, stepping into the dark stairwell. She turned back to look at her sister, her bright eyes shining with a calculating, ambitious light.
"When the Second Impact stops falling from the sky, we open the doors," Aria declared cheerfully, humming an upbeat tune. "We will be the first ones to run outside and grab the shiny rocks!"
Celine followed closely behind her sister, her mind entirely focused on executing the massive survival strategy. Far behind them, the torn sky continued to glow, silently preparing to unleash a sequence of cosmic horrors upon a completely unprepared world.
›› To Be Continue ‹‹
—KS
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Trivia : The Cosmic Mechanics of a White Hole
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You are all probably familiar with the concept of a black hole, right?
To understand what is actually happening in the sky above Cikarang, we first need to talk about black holes. A black hole is a region in space where the gravitational pull is extremely strong. The gravity is so dense that nothing escapes its grasp. If a star, a planet, or even a ray of light crosses its boundary—known as the event horizon—it gets swallowed completely. The black hole crushes the physical matter and traps it inside forever. It acts as a cosmic vacuum, consuming everything that wanders too close to its center.
Now, think about the exact mathematical reverse of that phenomenon.
That is a White Hole.
In astrophysics and the theory of general relativity, a white hole is a theoretical celestial object that operates in complete opposition to a black hole. It possesses an event horizon, just like its dark counterpart. However, the rule of entry is entirely flipped. The event horizon of a white hole physically prevents anything from entering it. You can never go inside a white hole, no matter how fast you travel. It acts as an impenetrable cosmic fountain.
A white hole continuously and aggressively ejects matter, light, and raw energy outward into the universe. It spits out physical mass and dense radiation from its core into the surrounding space.
This scientific concept explains exactly why the anomaly in the story is a massive extinction threat.
The tear in the sky over the ruined capital is bleeding the contents of a white hole directly into the solar system. It is pushing cosmic material into Earth's atmosphere. This process releases the heavy, unfiltered radiation that vaporizes the black snow. This process generates the highly corrosive Blood Rain carrying the mutagenic cells to resurrect the dead. And finally, during the Second Impact, the white hole will physically eject massive meteorites carrying the White Stones straight toward the ground.