"Boom—!!"
The main thruster of the Black Rhino-class transport ship let out a piercing, agonized shriek, as if pushed beyond its limits.
The battered hull, trailing a long, ghostly blue tail flame, resembled a completely enraged, blind beast as it plunged headlong toward the Bloodblade Alliance starport five hundred kilometers away!
At the same time.
Bloodblade Alliance headquarters, central control tower.
"Beep! Beep! Beep! Alert! Unidentified vessel detected approaching at high speed!"
The shrill alarm shattered the debauched atmosphere in the control room.
Third Boss of the Bloodblade Alliance, "One-Eye," was drinking with two scantily clad women in his arms.
Hearing the alarm, he impatiently shoved the women aside and kicked the operator's chair.
"What's all the racket! What blind fool dares to come here?"
The operator stared at the screen, sweating profusely, and swallowed hard.
"Third Boss... it's a Black Rhino-class transport ship. And... its damage rate exceeds forty percent!"
"Forty percent damage? A piece-of-junk garbage hauler?"
One-Eye was stunned for a moment, then erupted into a burst of maniacal laughter.
The dozen or so pirate captains in the control room joined in, laughing uproariously.
"These days, even the lowest scum dares to come cause trouble in Bloodblade territory!"
"Go on, activate the outer defense cannons. Give him a fireworks show and teach him the rules of the new world!"
"Third Boss, something's wrong!" The operator's voice suddenly changed, tinged with panic.
"He's not slowing down! Not a single sign of deceleration!"
"Shield energy at maximum, engine overloaded to one hundred twenty percent... He's going to ram us!"
The smile on One-Eye's face instantly froze. He lunged toward the main screen.
In the dark expanse of space, the battered transport ship wasn't slowing down—instead, its speed was skyrocketing madly!
This wasn't an attempt at negotiation; this was a suicide run!
"Is he insane! A broken transport ship ramming a starport? He'll be torn to shreds too!"
One-Eye roared hoarsely: "Open fire! All anti-aircraft guns, open fire! Blast him to pieces!"
Too late.
Five hundred kilometers was merely a few breaths' distance for an overloaded Jump-class engine.
The outer anti-aircraft cannons had just begun to swivel their barrels, not yet warmed up or charged.
The ghostly blue fireball already filled everyone's field of vision!
"Boom—!!"
An indescribably terrifying impact sound erupted violently on the A-section loading dock of the starport.
The entire massive artificial space station shuddered violently at that moment.
Blinding flames shot skyward as the hardened alloy deck was torn and crumpled like paper.
The bow of the Black Rhino-class transport ship was completely crushed, but its unstoppable momentum forcibly plowed a death trench nearly a kilometer long through the interior of the starport!
Over a dozen moored raider skiffs along the way were directly flattened into scrap metal.
The screech of twisting metal mixed with the agonized screams of pirates.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Thick smoke and leaking coolant filled the hall.
Large numbers of fully armed Bloodblade pirates swarmed from all directions, surrounding the crashed transport ship.
The dark muzzles of guns and high-energy laser cannons were all aimed at the shattered hatch.
One-Eye charged down from the control tower with his men, furiously drawing the Gauss pistol from his waist.
"Surround it! Don't let a single fly escape!"
"I want to see what mad dog from which district dares to pull Blood Blade's whiskers!"
"Hiss—"
The twisted airlock door of the transport ship emitted a grating, teeth-chilling screech.
Slowly, it swung open to both sides.
The entire area fell dead silent. Every pirate's finger rested on the trigger, their eyes fixed intently on the hatch.
Amid the thick smoke.
A tall figure stepped out, unhurriedly walking over the scattered metal debris littering the ground.
Qin Yu was bare-chested, his muscles covered in bloodied scabs torn open earlier by the high-voltage electric arc.
In his hand, he held a blood-dripping tactical alloy combat knife, a freshly lit cigar clenched between his teeth.
No Mecha, no heavy firepower, not even a bulletproof vest.
Just one man, with a single blade, walking into an encirclement of over a thousand people.
One-Eye took a clear look at the newcomer, first stunned, then bursting into furious laughter.
"I thought it was some legendary powerhouse, but it's just a penniless wretch who can't even afford gear!"
One-Eye pointed his gun at Qin Yu's head, his gaze icy.
"Kid, no matter which star sector you're from, today I'm going to slice your flesh piece by piece!"
Qin Yu halted his steps.
He exhaled a plume of bluish-gray smoke, tilting his head slightly as his narrow eyes swept over the dense, dark crowd around him.
"Is this all you've got?"
Qin Yu's voice wasn't loud, but it carried a bone-chilling disdain.
"What the hell did you say?" One-Eye frowned.
"I said, are you sorry lot of rotten potatoes and stinking eggs even worthy of being called pirates?"
Qin Yu yanked the cigar from his mouth, casually flicked it to the ground, and crushed it under his combat boot.
"Where is my woman?"
"Your woman?" One-Eye burst into laughter, nearly tearing up from amusement.
"So it's a lovesick fool looking for a woman!"
"I've captured plenty of women today! Which one are you talking about?"
"Forget it, you won't need to know anyway. Open fire, turn him into Swiss cheese!"
"Bang bang bang bang—!"
Hundreds of high-energy lasers and electromagnetic bullets instantly engulfed Qin Yu's position.
Blinding flames and dust erupted once more.
"An overconfident fool." One-Eye spat in contempt and was about to turn away.
"Thud!"
An extremely faint, yet unmistakably clear sound of flesh tearing suddenly rang in One-Eye's ear.
The thick flesh on his face twitched violently as he turned his head.
Through the lingering smoke, he saw that the two-meter-tall heavy machine gunner beside him had lost his head.
Qin Yu, like a phantom, had somehow appeared behind the machine gunner.
The alloy combat knife in his hand was dripping with a red-and-white mixture of fluids.
All the bullets and lasers around him were forcibly deflected by a faint blue glow half a meter from his body.
"You..." One-Eye's eyes widened instantly.
Before he could pull the trigger, Qin Yu moved.
Too fast.
Far too fast for these outer-sector raiders to follow.
Qin Yu used no flashy moves—only lethal techniques aimed at vital points.
In one step, he closed in on a pirate to One-Eye's left, his left hand clamping down on the man's throat.
"Crunch!"
The throat bones shattered.
With his right hand, he smoothly withdrew the combat knife, sweeping it backhand to sever another pirate's carotid artery.
Blood sprayed like a fountain, splattering Qin Yu from head to toe.
He didn't even blink.
These pirates from the outer sectors had always preyed on the weak and avoided the strong—looting supplies, picking easy targets, and throwing their weight around with sheer numbers.
They had never seen someone so utterly ruthless.
Qin Yu had weathered true storms.
He had clawed his way up, one step at a time, from the brutal struggle for survival!
He was a monster who had waded through Formatting Storms and devoured the rules of worlds!
These outsiders had no idea what true, blood-soaked ferocity looked like.
"Fire! Forget our own men! Open fire!"
One-Eye stumbled backward, screaming hysterically.
The pirates snapped out of their daze and frantically pulled their triggers.
But Qin Yu gave them no chance to create distance.
He was like a starving wolf charging into a flock of sheep—every move a killing blow.
Thud! A bayonet pierced through a chest.
Crack! A whip kick shattered ribs.
Rip! He tore off an enemy's mechanical prosthetic with his bare hands and drove it back into its owner's eye socket.
Blood, severed limbs, screams.
Qin Yu's face showed no expression—only absolute coldness.
His efficiency in killing was terrifyingly high, high enough to drive men to despair.
In less than two minutes, over a hundred corpses lay scattered in pools of blood.
"A monster… he's a monster!"
The remaining pirates broke. Some threw down their guns and turned to flee.
"Run?"
Qin Yu sneered, his eyes blazing with blue light.
"Tenfold Gravity Field. Kneel."
Hum—!
The Origin Rules of the World Heart erupted instantly. Centered on Qin Yu, the gravitational constant within a fifty-meter radius was brutally overwritten.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Dozens of fleeing pirates felt as if a mountain had suddenly crashed down on them.
They were slammed face-first onto the steel deck.
The crisp sound of snapping bones echoed everywhere.
Internal organs couldn't withstand the horrific pressure. Blood mixed with shredded viscera gushed from their mouths.
Silence fell over the scene.
The once-arrogant Blood Blade Pirates were now reduced to a field of moaning wrecks.
One-Eye was forced to his knees by the gravity, his kneecaps completely shattered.
Terrified, he watched Qin Yu stride toward him through the blood, his pants instantly soaking wet.
"Who… who are you…?"
One-Eye's voice trembled violently, his eyes fixed on Qin Yu as if staring at a death god.
He had never seen such a fighting style.
Utterly reckless, completely indifferent to pain, killing as calmly as crushing ants.
This extreme ruthlessness, forged in mountains of corpses and seas of blood, shattered his mental defenses completely.
Qin Yu stopped before One-Eye, looking down at him from above.
The bayonet in his hand still dripped blood.
"I'll ask one last time."
Qin Yu leaned forward slightly, his voice icy and piercing.
"A woman in a white lab coat, wearing Black Silk Stockings, with an icy expression, holding a scalpel."
"Where is she."
One-Eye shuddered violently, his mind racing.
He finally remembered.
Just half an hour ago, their Raiding Boat had indeed captured an exceptionally cold and aloof beauty in the outer reaches of space.
They had planned to deliver her to the Big Boss for his enjoyment tonight!
"She… she's…"
One-Eye's eyes darted, trying to use his last bargaining chip to save his life.
"You want to see her? Fine! Let me go first, lift this damned gravity!"
"This is the headquarters of Bloodblade Alliance! The Big Boss has three thousand elites! No matter how strong you are, you won't walk out of here alive!"
"As long as you let me go, I promise—"
"Thud!"
No nonsense, no hesitation.
The military spike in Qin Yu's hand turned into a flash of cold light, piercing straight through One-Eye's left shoulder and pinning him firmly to the metal floor.
"Ahhhhh—!"
One-Eye let out a heart-wrenching scream, the muscles on his face twitching violently.
Qin Yu gripped the handle of the spike expressionlessly, slowly twisting it.
The sound of the blade grinding against bone was enough to make one's scalp crawl.
"You lowlifes on the outskirts, do you have some kind of misunderstanding about the apocalypse?"
Qin Yu grabbed One-Eye's hair, forcing him to look up at him.
"You think you're tough just because you have a few guns and rob some newbies with no supplies?"
"Do you know what it really means to devour people?"
Qin Yu's eyes were blood-red, filled with suffocating brutality.
"When I was fighting the Zerg bare-handed in the wasteland, you were still dividing the spoils."
"When I was swallowing Spatial Collapse alive, you were still playing house."
Qin Yu pulled out the spike and aimed it at One-Eye's right eye.
"I only have three seconds of patience."
"Three."
One-Eye completely broke down.
He wasn't facing a human—this was a living demon who played by no rules and had no bottom line!
"Don't kill me! I'll talk! I'll talk!"
One-Eye screamed frantically, tears and snot mixing together.
"In the second underground floor! The slave auction house!"
"The Big Boss and Second Boss are both there! They're holding a 'Dismantling Assembly'!"
"Dismantling Assembly?" Qin Yu frowned slightly.
"It's… it's where they publicly dismantle the organs and System abilities of captured high-level survivors in exchange for high Plunder Value…"
One-Eye finished trembling, looking at Qin Yu in despair.
"I've told you… I've told you everything… spare me…"
"Crunch."
Qin Yu stomped directly on One-Eye's throat, crushing it.
The grating noise instantly stopped.
He pulled out the spike, casually wiped the blood on a nearby corpse, and sheathed it at his waist.
Turning around, Qin Yu looked toward the tightly sealed alloy door in the direction of the control tower.
Second underground floor.
Qin Yu took a deep breath, the blue light in his chest faintly pulsing once more.
He cracked his blood-stained neck, producing crisp popping sounds.
"Dismantling Assembly?"
The corner of Qin Yu's mouth curled into an extremely cruel arc.
"Perfect."
"Today, I'll teach you what dismantling on a physical level really means."
Qin Yu pushed off the ground with explosive force, his entire body shooting forward like a cannonball.
"Boom!"
The indestructible alloy door of the underground passage was smashed inward and shattered by his impact!
Alarms echoed wildly throughout the starport.
The headquarters of Bloodblade Alliance welcomed the most terrifying nightmare since its establishment.
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