Qin Yu sat on the tattered captain's chair.
He had just taken a puff of his cigar.
In his mind, the System's notification sounds erupted like a machine gun, ringing frantically.
[Ding! Detected that the host has annihilated a regional-level raider faction: Bloodblade Alliance!]
[Killed (Big Boss), obtained 100,000 Starburst Points!]
[Killed (Second Boss), obtained 50,000 Starburst Points!]
[Destroyed the Bloodblade Alliance's core control tower, obtained 300,000 Starburst Points!]
[Eliminated a total of 3,124 armed thugs in the starport, obtained 450,000 Starburst Points!]
[Chain achievement triggered: Uproot the Weeds! Additional reward of 500,000 Starburst Points!]
A series of blood-red numbers flashed wildly before Qin Yu's eyes.
He glanced at the balance in the upper right corner.
[Current total Starburst Points: 1.42 million!]
Qin Yu exhaled a thick cloud of smoke.
Killing and arson bring riches.
The ancients truly did not deceive.
In this damned Wasteland Era, honestly scavenging trash will only keep you at the bottom forever.
But wiping out a pirate den can make you rich overnight.
"Boss! Something's wrong!"
Su Tian suddenly jumped up from the console, her face pale.
"The Keel of the Black Rhino-class is broken! It was already overloaded when we crashed into the starport!"
"The backup reactor's energy output is unstable, and the hull armor is peeling off on a large scale!"
"At most ten minutes, this ship will disintegrate right in space!"
As soon as she finished speaking.
"Screech—"
The metal walls of the entire main control room emitted a grating, twisting sound.
A large alloy panel fell from the ceiling, landing right beside Qin Yu's feet.
Old K rushed in from outside the door, covered in blood, slapping his thigh in panic.
"Boss! The lower decks can't hold any more!"
"The Bloodblade starport's warehouses are too loaded! Just S-Class High-Energy Crystal Cores alone number over twenty thousand!"
"And there are mountains of rare metals, all kinds of artillery Blueprints, life-support equipment!"
"Our Black Rhino-class simply can't fit it all; even the corridors are packed!"
Old K was on the verge of tears.
"Seeing mountains of gold and silver we can't take, and the ship is about to blow."
"Boss, what do we do? Quickly pick the most valuable stuff, take it, and escape in the life pods!"
Yao Xue and Yao Qian tightly gripped Qin Yu's arms.
They didn't understand starship piloting, but they could see that this ship couldn't hold on much longer.
"Qin Yu, listen to them, staying alive is what matters," Yao Xue softly urged.
Qin Yu didn't move.
He leaned back in his chair, taking a deep drag from his cigar.
There wasn't a trace of panic in his eyes; instead, they radiated absolute arrogance.
"Run?"
"Not a single screw of what I've taken from these dead men will be left behind."
Qin Yu tapped the console with a finger.
"Can't fit it all? The ship's about to blow?"
"Then we'll change ships."
The main control room fell dead silent.
Su Tian and Old K exchanged bewildered looks.
"Boss... where are we going to change it?" Su Tian swallowed hard.
"Within thousands of kilometers around here, aside from Bloodblade's scrap metal, there isn't even a decent shipyard."
Qin Yu wasted no words.
He directly accessed the System's [Starburst Point Exchange Mall] in his mind.
His permissions were already maxed out.
A dazzling array of Blueprints and supplies scrolled before his eyes.
Qin Yu skipped right past those Blueprints that required materials and time to synthesize.
There was no time for that now.
He needed a ready-to-fire warship within ten seconds.
Qin Yu set the filter to the highest tier.
[Category: SSS-Grade Interstellar Battleship (Complete Finished Product)].
The interface flashed.
Only three massive ship models remained, glowing with a dark golden light.
Qin Yu's gaze instantly locked onto the one in the center.
[Name: Tyrant Star-Annihilator (Basic Form)]
[Rating: SSS-Grade (Upgradable)]
[Price: 1.2 million Starburst Points]
[Dimensions: Length – 120,000 meters]
[Armament Configuration: Three Antimatter Annihilation Main Cannons, eight hundred High-Energy Particle Secondary Cannons, Full-Coverage Rule-Grade Shield]
[Special Attributes: Built-in Folded Space Warehouse (Capacity: Infinite). Equipped with AI Fire Control System, operable by a single person.]
"This is the one."
Qin Yu looked at its domineering form, pitch-black like ink and resembling a sharp sword cutting through the stars.
Without hesitation, he pressed the exchange button.
[Ding! 1.2 million Starburst Points deducted!]
[Exchange successful!]
[SSS-Grade Battleship "Tyrant Star-Annihilator" is forcibly anchoring to current spatial coordinates!]
[Manifestation countdown: 3… 2… 1!]
"BOOM—!!"
Without any warning, the deep starscape outside the porthole suddenly tore apart as if an invisible hand had ripped through fabric!
A terrifying spatial rift, over a hundred thousand kilometers long, erupted without warning above the ruins.
Violent spatial turbulence instantly swept through the entire Blood Blade Star Harbor.
Nearby floating asteroids and wreckage of pirate skiffs turned to dust under its gravitational pull without even making contact.
"What the hell is that?!"
Old K was so frightened he fell flat on his backside, scrambling to hide under the control console.
Su Tian stared fixedly at the screen, trembling like a leaf.
"Spatial radar is off the charts… an ultra-massive object is crossing dimensions to descend!"
"Boss! Is it a top-tier fleet from the central zone coming for us?!"
The five thousand scavengers in the lower decks screamed in terror.
They had just survived the pirates, only to face this cataclysmic level of pressure.
A pure black metallic giant horn slowly emerged from the spatial rift.
Followed by a hull so immense it robbed everyone of speech.
120,000 meters.
A colossal entity stretching a full 120 kilometers!
In comparison, the Black Rhino-class Transport Ship Qin Yu and the others were on resembled an ant crouching beneath an elephant's foot.
There was simply no comparison.
The black hull surface flowed with crimson energy patterns.
Three exaggeratedly large antimatter main cannons pointed coldly into the void.
Merely hovering there silently, its overwhelming visual impact made everyone present hold their breath.
Despair.
Nothing but despair.
Faced with a battleship of this caliber, even the thought of escape felt impossible.
Yao Xue held Yao Qian tightly in her arms, her face pale as she looked at Qin Yu.
"Qin Yu… are we going to die here?"
Qin Yu stood up.
He casually stubbed out the finished cigar on the control panel.
Then, wrapping an arm around Yao Xue's waist, he curled his lips into a wild grin.
"Die?"
"No one in this universe can kill me yet."
Qin Yu pointed at the sky-obscuring black behemoth outside.
His voice wasn't loud, but it carried clearly throughout the main control room.
"Take a good look."
"That's my new ship."
Dead silence fell over the scene.
Su Tian's jaw dropped, nearly hitting the floor.
Old K rubbed his eyes, then slapped himself hard on both cheeks.
Slap! Slap!
His face swelled instantly.
"Boss... what did you say?" Old K's voice trembled.
"You mean... this carrier bigger than a planet... is yours?"
Qin Yu couldn't be bothered to explain.
He issued a command directly in his mind.
"Tyrant, receive the crew. Empty this ruin."
[Command confirmed. Highest authority commander: Qin Yu.]
A completely emotionless mechanical female voice echoed directly in everyone's minds.
The next second.
The underside of the Tyrant planet-killer battleship suddenly lit up with a blinding blue light.
A massive tractor beam over ten kilometers in diameter enveloped the entire ruin of the Bloodblade Starport!
Hum—!
A sense of weightlessness instantly washed over them.
The shattered Black Rhino-class transport ship, along with the mountains of supplies and Crystal Cores.
Even the hundreds of thousands of tons of alloy foundation of the Bloodblade Starport.
All were forcibly lifted by the beam, flying toward the bottomless docking bay in the belly of the colossal warship!
"We're flying! We're flying!"
The scavengers in the lower decks pressed against the portholes, watching themselves being sucked into the terrifying steel beast, descending into a frenzy of wild celebration.
"This is a miracle! Long live the boss!"
"Following Boss Qin, my life is complete!"
Five minutes later.
Tyrant planet-killer battleship, main control room.
The airtight door slid open as Qin Yu led the group inside.
The space here was hundreds of times larger than the previous broken transport ship.
No messy wiring, no pungent smell of machine oil.
A holographic projection of a star map covered the entire dome.
Beneath their feet was transparent, ultra-high-strength pressure-resistant glass, offering a direct view of the starry river outside.
At the very center of the main control room.
Was a pure black captain's throne.
Carved with menacing dark golden patterns, it emitted a cold metallic sheen.
Qin Yu strode over and sat down on the throne with an imposing air.
Resting his wrist on the armrest, a sense of absolute control surged within him.
Yao Qian looked around at the luxurious surroundings, her eyes gleaming.
"Brother Qin Yu, this... this is like a palace in space!"
Yao Xue couldn't hide the shock in her eyes either.
As a head of surgery, she had seen countless precision instruments.
But the technological sophistication of any single panel here exceeded the limits of her understanding.
"Old K, Su Tian."
Qin Yu tapped the armrest of the throne.
"Yes! Yes! Boss, your orders!"
The two scrambled to the foot of the throne steps, kneeling on the ground, their eyes filled with nothing but pure fanaticism and reverence.
"Go to the lower decks, pick three hundred quick-handed individuals, and sort the supplies we just collected."
Qin Yu spoke coldly.
"Everyone else, assign them to the field assault teams."
"Anyone caught slacking off or hoarding supplies gets tossed into the incinerator as fuel."
"Understood! We'll handle it perfectly!"
Old K thumped his chest in assurance.
"Boss." Su Tian quickly operated on a holographic terminal.
"The Tyrant's AI system is too advanced; we don't need manual piloting at all."
"But... this ship is enormous. If we're going to conduct boarding actions or landing operations, five thousand people are nowhere near enough."
"We're desperately short of combat personnel!"
Qin Yu let out a cold laugh.
"What's the hurry."
"If we have no soldiers, we'll take them."
"If we have no territory, we'll seize it."
Qin Yu looked up at the holographic star map on the dome.
On it, a glaring red dot represented the absolute core of this sector.
It was also where those lofty Administrators and countless top-tier predators were entrenched.
The Central District.
"Qi Chun, that kid, and Li Ruobing and the others are probably struggling over there."
Images of those allies and women flashed through Qin Yu's mind.
Especially Elena of the Valkyrie Corps, that golden-haired beauty with the S-Class prosthetic limb.
He wondered if she was still alive.
"Su Tian, lock onto the coordinates of the Central District."
A fierce killing intent erupted in Qin Yu's eyes.
"Plot a direct course. Do not avoid any asteroid belts or neutral starports."
"Boss, should we test-fire the main cannon?" Su Tian asked, her face flushed with excitement. "I've been dying to see the power of this thing!"
Qin Yu gave a slight nod.
"There are still a few pieces of Bloodblade Alliance debris left in the periphery."
"Clean them up."
"Yes!"
Su Tian slammed her palm hard onto the virtual red firing key.
"Main cannon charging!"
At the very front of the Tyrant Planet-Killer Battleship.
A terrifying cannon barrel over a kilometer in diameter slowly extended from the armor.
Dark red antimatter energy wildly converged at the muzzle.
The surrounding space, unable to withstand this level of energy, developed large areas of black cracks.
"Targets locked. Fire!"
There was no deafening explosion.
In the vacuum of space, only an extremely thick crimson beam, like a blood-red spear piercing the heavens, instantly tore through the starry sea!
Wherever the beam swept.
Those kilometers-long asteroids, the wreckage of pirate starports, even abandoned space stations.
They did not shatter. They did not explode.
Instead, they were directly annihilated by absolute energy, reduced to a molecular state of nothingness!
An absolute vacuum channel tens of thousands of kilometers long was plowed out by this single shot!
"Gulp."
Old K swallowed hard, a large mouthful of saliva.
His legs went weak, and he slumped directly to the floor.
"This shot... could probably pierce right through a planet..."
Qin Yu looked on with satisfaction.
This was the dominance of an SSS-Class Battleship.
In the face of absolute firepower, all that bullshit sector rules, all those high-dimensional enhancers, were nothing but paper tigers.
Qin Yu pulled Yao Xue and Yao Qian into his arms.
Holding one on each side.
Feeling the softness of the women's bodies and their adoring gazes.
Qin Yu leaned back in the captain's throne, staring directly at the most chaotic, most dangerous region at the center of the star map.
"Engines to full power."
Qin Yu's voice was icy and overbearing, carrying the unquestionable will of a god of death.
"To the Central District."
"I want every living thing in this Wasteland to kneel the moment they hear the name 'Tyrant'."
"BOOM——!!"
Blinding dark-red exhaust flames erupted from the stern of the Tyrant Planet-Killer Battleship.
This 120,000-meter-long behemoth of the stars completely tore through the Spatial Barrier before it.
Carrying a terrifying pressure capable of crushing everything.
It charged ferociously toward the Central District.