"Screech—Boom!"
The final layer of armor plating on the starship's right wing completely shattered.
The massive metal fragment didn't hold for even a second, instantly torn into the black hole below by the violent gravitational force, reduced to dust in an instant.
The red alarms in the main control room had merged into a continuous, deathly drone.
"Sixtyfold gravity!"
Su Tian's hands were clamped tightly on the edge of the control console, all ten fingernails cracked, blood flowing down the keyboard.
"Boss! Thrust has completely zeroed out! We're in free fall!"
"Thud!"
Old K was directly pressed flat against the metal floor by the invisible gravity.
"Ugh—!" He violently spat out a mouthful of blood, the ribs in his chest emitting the sound of unbearable fracture.
"I... can't... hold on..."
Monkey couldn't even scream, his eyes bloodshot and bulging, directly passing out.
From the lower decks came wave after wave of bone-crunching sounds and desperate wails.
Five thousand scavengers were being crushed into pulp under this overwhelming physical force.
Only eighty meters remained to the center of the spacetime vortex below.
"Damn it!"
Qin Yu's eyes were bloodshot, his teeth clenched tight.
He abruptly pulled out the [Kiss of Death] plugged into the control console.
"Ten-fold Zero-Gravity Field! Open it to the max!"
"Hum—!"
The gun muzzle erupted with a blinding dark blue light, an anti-gravity field instantly enveloping the main control room.
However.
"Crack!"
It lasted only half a second.
That ten-fold zero-gravity field shattered like glass under a hydraulic press, crushed to pieces by the external sixtyfold violent gravitational force!
[Warning! Weapon energy level insufficient to counter current spatial collapse!]
[Forced hibernation countdown initiated!]
The gun's light suddenly dimmed, turning directly into a piece of scrap metal.
The weapon had failed.
In the sewer where over a dozen regions had merged and physical laws had completely collapsed, tenfold gravity was indeed insignificant.
"Boss... we're going to be crushed..." Su Tian closed her eyes in despair.
Qin Yu gripped the captain's chair tightly, every bone in his body creaking wildly under this terrifying pressure.
Fine beads of blood began to seep from the surface of his skin.
"Die here?"
Qin Yu stared at the flesh-devouring vortex below, an extremely fierce, ruthless light bursting from the depths of his eyes.
"Those cheating dogs like Bai Ze aren't dead yet, why should I die!"
At this life-and-death moment.
"Thump!"
An extremely deep, yet soul-shaking thumping sound suddenly emanated from deep within Qin Yu's chest.
Immediately after.
An indescribable burning sensation instantly swept through Qin Yu's entire body.
[Ding! Extreme rule collapse environment detected!]
[Host facing physical erasure crisis detected!]
In his mind, the System's originally mechanical synthesized voice now carried a trace of inviolable authority.
[Fusion progress activated!]
[World Heart, awakened!]
"Boom—!!"
A pillar of pure, ultimate dark blue light shot directly out from Qin Yu's chest!
This was not the light of a firearm.
This was not the fluctuation of energy.
This was an "order" that transcended all physical laws, representing the absolute origin of this world!
Qin Yu suddenly raised his head, his eyes completely filled with flowing blue light.
"World Heart..."
Qin Yu felt the vast, ocean-like power within his body, a ferocious, wild grin twisting at the corner of his mouth.
"I almost forgot, I've long since planted an anchor point of this world within my body!"
[System Notification: Host has forcibly activated the "World Heart" protection!]
[Current regional rules are in extreme chaos. Deploy "Absolute Order Domain"?]
Qin Yu took a step forward, forcefully straightening his body under the sixtyfold gravity.
"Deploy! Cover the entire ship for me!"
"Hum—!!"
Qin Yu abruptly spread his arms wide.
The blue pillar of light at his chest instantly exploded, transforming into a translucent blue ring of light that swept across the entire Black Rhino-class Transport Ship with overwhelming force!
Wherever the ring of light passed.
The distorted Space was instantly forcibly smoothed out.
The collapsing flow of time was directly forced to a standstill.
That sixtyfold gravity, powerful enough to crush steel into pulp, upon contacting the blue ring of light, disintegrated like ice meeting fire, as if mice seeing a cat!
"Whew—!"
Inside the control room, that suffocating sense of oppression vanished abruptly.
Old K gasped for breath in great heaves, greedily inhaling air.
"My... my ribs don't hurt anymore?" Old K touched his chest, his face wearing an expression of utter disbelief.
Su Tian snapped her eyes open, staring at the screen where all the data had returned to normal green readings, completely stunned.
"Boss... what did you do?"
"Gravity readings back to zero! Spatial Constant restored to normal!"
"We... we've stopped right at the center of the vortex!"
Su Tian's voice trembled with excitement.
Qin Yu did not look back.
He strode to the massive viewport, coldly gazing down at the madly roaring black hole below.
Within this blue "Absolute Order Domain," the Black Rhino-class Transport Ship was like a steel nail firmly driven into the edge of a cliff.
No matter how fiercely the vortex below tore at it, the ship remained utterly motionless!
"Bai Ze treats this place like a sewer for dumping waste."
Qin Yu extended his right hand, pressing it against the viewport glass as if against empty air.
"He thinks shattering all the rules and throwing them in here will cover his tracks?"
The blue light in Qin Yu's eyes grew increasingly intense, radiating a mad ambition.
"Too bad he doesn't know I'm carrying the key to this sewer!"
[Ding! Detected massive amounts of unclaimed Rule Fragments!]
[System Notification: The World Heart can perform Self-repair by devouring these collapsed rules!]
[Initiate devouring?]
Qin Yu grinned, revealing his stark white teeth.
"Complimentary nourishment delivered to my doorstep, it'd be a waste not to take it."
"Devour!"
"Drain it dry for me!"
As soon as the words left his mouth.
The World Heart in Qin Yu's chest erupted with a terrifying suction force!
"Rumble—!!"
The spacetime vortex that had been violently pulling at the ship suddenly jolted to a harsh halt.
Immediately after, the entire vortex actually began to rotate in reverse!
All the flesh fragments, temporal chaos, and spatial storms mixed within the vortex, born from the collapse of over a dozen merged regions.
Now, they were all forcibly stripped away by the World Heart within Qin Yu's body, transforming into the purest blue points of light that surged madly into him!
"What the hell is he doing..."
Old K pressed against the viewport, watching as the vortex below, capable of swallowing planets, visibly shrank.
The way he looked at Qin Yu now was completely like looking at a monster.
"He's eating it!" Old K swallowed hard, his voice trembling.
"I'll devour this damn black hole alive!"
Su Tian stared intently at the Radar screen, her hands flying across the keyboard once more.
"Boss! The vortex's energy is rapidly decaying!"
"The underlying Spatial Barrier is thinning!"
As a massive influx of Rule Fragments surged into his body, the System notifications in Qin Yu's mind cascaded like a waterfall.
[World Heart restoration progress: 5%... 8%... 12%!]
[Host's cells undergoing rule reconstruction!]
[Physical limit broken!]
[Mental limit broken!]
Qin Yu felt as if all the blood in his body was boiling.
He no longer needed to rely on the [Kiss of Death] to apply gravity.
As long as he stood there, he was the "god" within a hundred-meter radius.
He was the sole rule!
"Roar—!"
The black hole below seemed to possess a life of its own, letting out a roar of unwillingness.
It desperately tried to contract, to sever this one-sided plunder.
"Trying to escape?"
Qin Yu snorted coldly.
He abruptly raised his right hand and clenched it fiercely toward the black hole below.
"Hold it still!"
The blue halo of order instantly transformed into an invisible giant hand, gripping the vortex's throat with a deathly squeeze!
"Crack— Crack—"
The surrounding Space emitted a series of crisp, glass-shattering sounds.
The wreckage of the Floating Island, crafted from pure ice crystals, was directly crushed by the power of the World Heart, turning into a sky full of icy dust.
The cyberpunk-style warship wreckage also disintegrated instantly, becoming countless metallic particles.
All matter, all rules, were forcibly purified at this moment and poured into Qin Yu's body!
[World Heart restoration progress: 15%!]
[Remaining rules in the current region have been exhausted!]
[System Alert: Imminent local Space collapse, evacuate immediately!]
As the last trace of blue light vanished into Qin Yu's chest.
The massive spacetime vortex below actually emitted a sound like a deflating balloon—"Pfft."
The originally bottomless black hole completely shriveled into a fist-sized, dim point of light.
Immediately after, that point of light began to flicker violently, radiating an aura of destruction.
"It's going to explode!"
Su Tian exclaimed in alarm.
"This junkyard has completely lost its balance!"
Qin Yu withdrew his hand, the blue light in his chest gradually fading.
He turned and strode back to the captain's chair, grabbing the half-smoked cigar from the table and stuffing it into his mouth.
"Su Tian, how much power does the main Engine have left?"
"The World Heart's energy just fed back into the ship, the reactor is at full capacity now!"
Su Tian gripped the main thrust lever with both hands, her eyes brighter than ever before.
"Ready to ignite at any moment!"
Qin Yu spat out a mouthful of residue and waved his hand sharply.
"Full throttle ascent!"
"Follow the Spatial Rift above, charge the hell out of here!"
"Yes, Boss!"
Su Tian let out a sharp roar, pushing the main thrust lever to its limit.
"Boom—!!"
The tail of the Black Rhino-class Transport Ship erupted once more with a blinding, ghostly blue flame.
This time, without the violent gravitational pull.
The fully-loaded transport ship surged like a frenzied black dragon, charging straight toward the Spatial Rift above that was about to close!
Just as the ship shot out of the rift.
"Boom—!!"
The spacetime junkyard behind completely lost all its rule support, triggering a cataclysmic collapse.
Endless darkness swallowed everything, not even a sliver of light escaping.
Yet the terrifying shockwave from that collapse became the final push that propelled them forward.
Boom!
Riding that force, the Black Rhino-class Transport Ship shattered the last Spatial Barrier like a cannonball.
The surroundings instantly brightened.
No more chaotic meteors.
No more distorted spacetime.
No more repulsive insectoids or lurking assassins.
Outside the viewport lay a tranquil, vast, and even faintly beautiful cosmic sea of stars.
Distant nebulae emitted a soft purple glow.
Everything seemed so peaceful.
Inside the control room, a deathly silence prevailed.
Only the steady beep-beep of various instruments operating normally.
"We… made it out?"
Old K stared blankly at the starry sky outside the viewport, his eyes suddenly reddening.
"We survived… Boss, we crawled out of a pile of corpses!"
In the lower decks, after a prolonged five-minute silence, the five thousand scavengers erupted into earth-shaking cheers and sobs.
They had survived.
They had followed a madman and stubbornly trudged through a death zone even The Administrator dared not tread lightly.
Su Tian slumped in the pilot's seat, her clothes long soaked through with cold sweat.
Tears streamed from her eyes as she looked at the clearly blinking green coordinates on the Radar screen.
"Boss…"
Su Tian pointed at the screen, her voice hoarse from overwhelming emotion.
"Coordinates match confirmed! The Spatial Anchor is fully stabilized!"
"Straight ahead, twelve thousand kilometers away."
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