As soon as Qin Yu finished speaking.
"Hum—"
The metal dome in the sky suddenly ceased its rumbling.
The red purification beam, which had been firmly blocked by the Shield, extinguished without warning.
Oppression.
Extreme oppression.
Within Glass Sphere No. 09, the sea water stopped churning, and even the wind fell still.
As if a pause button had been pressed.
Immediately after.
From the deepest part of the dome, an ethereal yet utterly emotionless electronic voice sounded.
"Underlying Rules in Zone 09 have suffered irreversible damage."
"Purification Protocol, terminated."
Qi Chun collapsed onto the deck, gasping for breath.
"Brother... are they scared? Did those bastards stop?"
Qin Yu stared fixedly at the sky.
The [World Heart] in his hand was frighteningly hot.
"Scared?"
Qin Yu sneered.
"This is the real master showing up."
The massive metal pipelines in the sky began to churn violently.
A virtual projection, enormous enough to cover the entire sky, slowly descended.
It was not a human face.
But five humanoid silhouettes composed entirely of blinding white light.
Lofty and aloof.
Looking down upon the sea area where Qin Yu stood.
[Warning! Detection of Higher-Dimensional Lifeform intervention!]
[Target identity: Supreme Matrix: Five Great Administrators!]
"Zone 09 administrator, step forward."
The central white light silhouette slowly spoke.
The voice was not loud, yet it instantly caused countless cracks to appear on the deck of the [President].
The air behind Qin Yu twisted violently.
A mass of fragmented code was forcibly condensed into form.
It was the Executive Officer who had been blasted apart by Qin Yu with a single shot in the depths of the sea!
The Executive Officer now had none of his previous arrogance and bluster.
His data body trembled wildly as he directly knelt in mid-air.
"Great Administrators!"
The Executive Officer's voice was filled with extreme terror.
"Let me explain! This experimental subject mutated! He exploited an unknown underlying vulnerability..."
"Useless."
The white light silhouette coldly uttered two words.
"Concealed anomalies in the experimental zone, resulting in the loss of the World Core."
"You, have no value for existence."
"No! Great One! Give me one more chance!"
The Executive Officer kowtowed frantically, his Data Stream on the verge of collapse.
"I can retrieve it! I can erase him!"
"Your will, is too redundant."
The white light silhouette raised a finger.
"Strip."
There was no explosion.
Nor any sound.
The Executive Officer didn't even have time to let out a single scream.
His twisted face instantly froze.
The fear, despair, and cunning in his eyes were completely erased in that moment.
Turning into a pair of dead-gray Electronic Eyes.
[Notification: Zone 09 administrator's personal will has been completely destroyed.]
[Downgraded to: Illogical Cleaning Program.]
A living, higher-dimensional consciousness.
Just like that, right in front of everyone, directly formatted.
Worse than even a dog.
On the deck, everyone gasped in shock.
Yao Qian clutched Yao Xue's arm tightly, trembling all over.
"Sis... they even kill their own people like this..."
Having done all this, the white light silhouette finally turned its gaze upon Qin Yu.
"Carbon-Based Experimental Subject. Designation: Qin Yu."
"Hand over the World Heart."
"I can grant you a painless death."
Qin Yu laughed.
A laugh of utter madness.
He stuffed the [World Heart] into his pocket and drew [Kiss of Death] with one hand.
The barrel aimed directly at the five beams of white light in the sky.
"Grant me death?"
Qin Yu spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.
"What the hell do you think you are!"
"You've been toying with me for months, and now you come here acting all high and mighty?"
"If you want it, get your ass down here and take it yourself!"
The white light outlines fell silent.
As if evaluating the logic of Qin Yu's words.
Two seconds later.
"Judgment complete."
"Experimental subject refuses command. Threat level elevated to: Absolute Erasure."
"Five Chief Administrators protocol activated."
"Execute direct erasure."
As the words fell.
The five white light outlines in the sky simultaneously raised their hands.
No beams.
No artillery fire.
Qin Yu only felt his scalp instantly explode.
An unprecedented sense of mortal danger choked his neck!
[Warning! Warning!]
[Detecting Dimensional Reduction Strike!]
[This attack ignores physical defense! Ignores Energy Shield!]
[Target: Directly erase the spatial coordinates you occupy!]
The Five Chief Administrators had no intention of wasting words.
They wanted to uproot him, shield and all, from this universe!
"Crack, crack, crack—"
The translucent shield Qin Yu had just raised using the [World Heart].
Before this terrifying erasure force.
Didn't even hold for half a second.
Instantly covered in dense, web-like cracks!
"Brother!"
Qi Chun roared, trying to charge over.
"Don't move!"
Qin Yu's eyes nearly burst, letting out a furious roar.
He poured all the Spiritual Energy in his body madly into the [World Heart].
"Want to kill me? Dream on!"
The moment the shield shattered.
Qin Yu violently twisted his wrist.
Slammed the [World Heart] hard onto the center of the [President]'s deck!
"Activate Spatial Leap!"
"Target: Random! Scatter, damn it!"
[World Heart command received!]
[Forcibly tearing Spatial Barrier!]
"Boom!"
The entire deck of the [President] instantly collapsed.
Five massive black Spatial Rifts tore open right beneath everyone's feet!
"Qin Yu!"
Li Ruobing was the first to react.
She lunged toward Qin Yu, trying to grab his hand.
But the suction from the Spatial Rift was too strong.
It dragged half her body inside.
Li Ruobing clung desperately to the edge of the rift, her eyes red.
"I'm not leaving! If we die, we die together!"
"Let go!"
Qin Yu kicked hard at Li Ruobing's armor.
"Live, damn it!"
"Wherever you're thrown, keep yourselves alive!"
The moment Li Ruobing was kicked into the rift.
Tears streamed from her eyes.
"Husband! I'll wait for you! You must come find me!"
The rift closed.
Li Ruobing vanished instantly.
On the other side.
Yao Xue, holding Yao Qian's hand, was swept into the second rift.
Yao Xue didn't cry.
She stared fixedly at Qin Yu, her gaze terrifyingly resolute.
"I'll wait for you to come get us."
"If you dare die, I'll haunt you even as a ghost."
Yao Qian cried her heart out.
"Brother-in-law! Waaah..."
The two disappeared.
"Brother!"
Qi Chun was already half-fallen into the third rift.
He clung tightly to a backup energy canister.
"I'll definitely master the cannon! I'll wait for you to lead us back for revenge!"
"Boss!"
Elena led the remaining Valkyries.
They were collectively swallowed by the fourth rift.
Before leaving, she left only one sentence.
"The Valkyrie Corps stands ready to return at any time!"
Five seconds.
Just five seconds.
Qin Yu forcibly shoved everyone into the spatial rift.
Sending them out of this locked dead end.
On the deck.
Only Qin Yu remained.
And at his feet, the dimly glowing [World Heart].
"Now."
Qin Yu drew the military dagger from his waist and raised his head.
Facing the annihilating force about to descend from the sky.
"It's my turn."
"Meaningless struggle."
The white light outline in the sky emitted a cold sneer.
"They cannot escape. You, too, must die."
"Go to hell!"
Qin Yu grabbed the [World Heart].
The surrounding space had already been completely sealed off by the power of the five overseers.
He couldn't leave.
[Warning! Annihilation force has descended!]
[Countdown: 3…]
[2…]
Qin Yu's eyes were bloodshot.
He stared fixedly at the five lofty white lights.
"Remember this face!"
Qin Yu's voice carried a bone-deep ferocity.
"Wash your necks and wait."
"The day I return will be the day you beasts die!"
"1!"
The invisible annihilation force instantly crushed the [President] into dust.
That was a max-level S-Class fortress.
Before this power, not even debris remained.
Just as the annihilation force was about to touch Qin Yu's body.
Qin Yu suddenly opened his mouth.
And directly swallowed the [World Heart] whole!
"Boom—!!"
[Warning! Test subject forcibly fusing with core code!]
[Triggering uncontrollable spatial collapse!]
The annihilation force of the five overseers.
And the spatial turbulence from the [World Heart]'s self-destruction.
Violently collided upon Qin Yu's body.
For the first time, the white light outline in the sky fluctuated.
"Damn it."
"Immediately seal off the surrounding cosmic quadrant!"
But it was already too late.
Qin Yu's body was instantly torn into a blinding black hole.
Then.
Completely and utterly vanished from this sea area.
...
Pain.
Soul-rending pain.
Qin Yu felt as if he had been stuffed into a giant meat grinder.
Bones, flesh, nerves.
All were being frantically crushed, reassembled, and crushed again.
He didn't know how long it had been.
"Thud!"
A dull sound.
Qin Yu crashed heavily onto a hard ground.
"Cough, cough, cough…"
Qin Yu violently coughed up a large mouthful of black blood.
He struggled to open his heavy eyelids.
His vision was somewhat blurry.
But he could still make out the scene before him.
This was no sea area.
Nor were there any rafts or seawater.
This was a boundless junkyard of scrap metal!
The sky was a dark red.
Two enormous crescent moons hung overhead, emitting an eerie red light.
All around were mountains of wrecked warships.
And the massive skeletons of countless unknown monsters.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of machine oil and blood.
[Ding—bzzzt—]
In Qin Yu's mind, a series of intermittent electric currents suddenly sounded.
It wasn't the previous lottery system.
This voice was more mechanical, colder.
[Host life signs detected.]
[Fusing with World Heart underlying code…]
[Fusion progress: 1%…]
[Warning: Current Space coordinates detected at: Exile Star Sector (Trash Star-77).]
[Warning: Host's Spiritual Energy depleted. Tactical equipment destruction rate: 99%.]
Qin Yu rolled over, lying flat on his back on the cold metal plate.
He gasped for air in ragged breaths.
Yet, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curve into a mad grin.
"Didn't die."
Qin Yu chuckled, spitting out a piece of bloodied metal shard from his mouth.
"Good that I didn't die."
He slowly sat up.
Lowering his head, he glanced at his own body.
That supposedly indestructible tactical coat was now shredded into tattered strips.
His right arm was covered in wounds deep enough to reveal bone.
But at the wounds, a faint, ghostly blue light was flickering.
That was the [World Heart] forcibly repairing his flesh.
Qin Yu clenched his fist.
His fingernails dug deep into his palm.
"Wait for me."
He stood up, staggering a couple of steps through this metallic junkyard.
"The five Chief Administrators, right."
Qin Yu raised his head, his gaze fixed dead on the dark red sky.
The killing intent in his eyes was colder than the icy waters of the polar seas.
"The game has restarted."
Just then.
"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."
A series of faint, dense scraping sounds suddenly came from a pile of junk to Qin Yu's side and rear.
The sound was light.
But in this deathly silent place, it was exceptionally piercing.
Qin Yu abruptly halted his steps.
His eyes instantly turned as sharp as a beast's.
"Who's there?"
Qin Yu's voice was hoarse, devoid of any warmth.
"Come out."
"Crunch."
A huge piece of starship steel plating was pushed aside.
Three men, wearing tattered Exoskeleton Armor and with gaunt, skinny builds, slowly walked out.
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