Edge of the Central District, Chaotic Star Belt.
K-76 Wasteland Mining Planet.
This planet, perpetually shrouded in crimson sandstorms, was once a shared fencing ground for three second-rate plunderer legions.
But today, the rules here have been completely shattered.
Thud!
A headless corpse clad in a Heavy Exoskeleton was hurled from the third-floor window of the lord's mansion.
It crashed heavily onto the street slick with engine oil and blood, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Immediately after, a pair of long, shapely legs clad in tactical combat boots stepped directly onto the windowsill.
Li Ruobing spat out a mouthful of blood-tinged saliva and casually ejected the empty shotgun magazine.
Click.
A fresh magazine was slid home with one hand.
Her upper body was clad only in a sweat-and-blood-soaked, figure-hugging tank top, while below she wore a pair of faded denim shorts.
A fierce wind whipped past, sending her short, sharp hair flying wildly.
Large expanses of pale, explosively powerful skin were exposed to the air, yet not a single person dared to steal a second glance.
Because those who had looked at her had already had their eyeballs gouged out by the woman behind her.
"Ruo Bing, the third floor is clear."
"The mansion's defense System has been severed by me."
A cool, metallic-tinged voice came from behind Li Ruobing.
Elena shook her golden hair and stepped out of the shadows.
On her S-Class Mechanical Prosthetic, which gleamed with an eerie blue light, the High-Frequency Vibration Blade was still dripping blood.
Li Ruobing turned her head and flashed Elena a grin.
"Your speed with that blade is faster than me cutting a watermelon."
"Foreigner, I never would've guessed that under that delicate face of yours hides a living King of Hell."
Elena expressionlessly retracted the arm blade, her prosthetic emitting a faint, mechanically beautiful hum.
"In the Wasteland, a face is the most useless thing."
"That's what he taught me."
Hearing the word "he," a strange glint flashed in Li Ruobing's eyes.
She walked over to Elena's side. The two stood shoulder-to-shoulder before the shattered floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the lord's mansion square below, which had been reduced to ruins.
In the square, over three thousand regional thugs knelt densely packed, hands clasped behind their heads.
Surrounding them were over a hundred Valkyrie warriors, uniformly clad in form-fitting combat uniforms, their figures rivaling supermodels.
They held Gauss Rifles, the muzzles trained unwaveringly on the heads of these thugs.
This was Elena's core force.
And beyond the Valkyries, there were over two thousand survivors exuding fierce, menacing auras.
This was the band of desperadoes Li Ruobing had forcibly recruited here, relying on nothing but a gun and two machetes.
Who could have imagined that this easily defended, hard-to-attack K-76 mining planet would be forcibly taken by two women in just three short hours!
"Still not talking?"
Li Ruobing looked down at the former lord of the mining planet, bound tightly and kneeling below the windowsill.
The Fatty's face was covered in blood, one of his mechanical eyes shattered.
"Two great ladies! I've truly handed over everything!"
"The Plunder Points are all in the warehouse Terminal! One hundred and twenty thousand! I didn't keep a single one!"
The fat lord cried, snot and tears mingling, desperately kowtowing.
"Please, spare my miserable life!"
"My boss is the 'Stinger' syndicate from the central district! If you kill me, Stinger won't let you off!"
"Stinger syndicate?"
Li Ruobing sneered coldly, stepping directly on Fatty's face and grinding his head hard against the floor.
"I don't give a damn about Stinger or hornets."
"This place belongs to me now."
Elena stepped forward, her S-Class prosthetic hand pressing against Fatty's skull.
"Hand over the password for the Interstellar Coordinate Radar."
"Otherwise, I'll pull out your neural fibers one by one and connect them to a generator."
The fat lord trembled violently, his pants instantly soaked.
He had no doubt about the blonde woman's words.
Just moments ago, he had watched this woman charge alone into his mecha guard, tearing apart three heavy mechas with her bare hands!
"I'll give it! I'll give it! The password is 7758258!"
"The Terminal is under the desk!"
The fat lord screamed frantically.
"Bang!"
Li Ruobing pulled the trigger without hesitation.
At point-blank range, the shotgun blasted the fat lord's head into a pulpy mess.
Brain matter splattered all over Li Ruobing's leg, but she didn't even flinch.
"So much useless talk."
Li Ruobing slung the gun over her shoulder and turned toward the desk.
Elena showed no pity either, bending down to wipe the blood off her combat boots on the headless corpse.
Three days ago.
As soon as she landed, she encountered the Valkyrie Corps, who had also been teleported here.
Li Ruobing looked at the lord's mansion on the mining planet not far away.
"If you want supplies, go rob them. If you can't rob them, kill the original owner."
Elena flexed her mechanical arm, a red light flickering in her eyes.
"My radar shows there are ample Plunder Points and energy sources there."
"Take it down. Wait for him to come pick us up."
And so.
These two madwomen joined forces.
With their subordinates, they cut through the mining planet's defenses like two sharp blades, slaughtering their way from the wilderness.
The lord's mansion's three thousand guards couldn't even hold out for two hours against them.
At the desk.
Li Ruobing kicked the table aside and pulled a silver metal briefcase from a hidden compartment.
Palmprint unlocked, password entered.
"Beep—"
A holographic screen popped up.
It displayed a balance of 120,000 Plunder Points and the highest control authority over this mining planet.
"Foreigner, we've struck it rich."
Li Ruobing licked her lips, her eyes gleaming.
Elena walked over, her gaze falling on an interstellar radar next to the briefcase.
She quickly typed on the keyboard, linking the lord's mansion's authority with the radar.
"Save the Plunder Points for upgrading weapons."
"I'll establish a regional coordinate broadcast first. If Qin Yu's ship enters the nearby star sector, he'll be able to pick up our signal."
Li Ruobing plopped down on the leather sofa, crossing her legs and resting them on the coffee table.
"Where do you think that heartless bastard is now?"
Li Ruobing pulled out a crumpled cigarette from her pocket, lit it, and took a deep drag.
"It's been so long since we split up. With his personality, he's probably already gone on a killing spree."
Elena's fingers kept moving, but her eyes softened for a rare moment.
"He's more ruthless than us."
"We only robbed a planet. Right now, he's probably tearing apart some gang's stronghold."
Li Ruobing burst into laughter.
"I believe that."
She stood up, walked to the shattered window, and pressed the loudspeaker button, facing the square below.
"Listen up, you trash down there!"
Li Ruobing's voice thundered through the plaza's speakers.
All the captives and mercenaries looked up, gazing in awe at this female demon wearing a fiery tank top.
"From today onward, K-76 Mining Planet has a new master!"
"There are only three rules!"
"First, my word is law! And so is this blonde foreign mare's!"
Elena stood behind Li Ruobing. Though she didn't understand the exact meaning of "foreign mare," she knew it wasn't a compliment and shot a cold glance at her.
Li Ruobing pretended not to see it and continued shouting.
"Second, the daily mineral output and protection fees must be delivered on time to the lord's mansion! Anyone who dares to hide even a single piece, I'll shove your entire family into the ore crusher!"
"Third!"
Li Ruobing's voice suddenly rose, brimming with extreme arrogance.
"Repair all the planet's defensive cannons! Load them and ready them for action!"
"We're here waiting for a man."
"When he arrives, this planet will be my dowry to him!"
The plaza fell dead silent.
The bloodthirsty thugs exchanged bewildered looks.
These two terrifying female demons were just securing territory as a dowry for a man?
What kind of monster must that man be!
"Are you all fucking deaf?!" Li Ruobing roared.
"Understood, Boss!"
Thousands of voices roared in unison, kowtowing as the sound shook the heavens.
Li Ruobing turned off the microphone with satisfaction.
"Exhilarating."
She turned to Elena.
"Come on, let's check out the armory in the lower levels. Fatty said there are still a few B-Class Mecha there."
But Elena suddenly froze.
She whipped her head around, staring intently at the newly activated Interstellar Radar.
On the radar screen, a glaring red alarm light suddenly began flashing wildly!
"Beep beep beep beep!"
"Warning! Large-scale fleet Warp Jump signals detected!"
"Coordinates locked: Outer atmosphere of K-76 Mining Planet!"
Li Ruobing's expression changed. She threw away the cigarette in her hand.
"What's going on? Did Fatty's reinforcements arrive?"
Elena's hands became blurs on the keyboard as she quickly pulled up the surveillance feed from the optical satellites.
On the Holographic Screen, the Space at the edge of the atmosphere was forcibly torn open.
Fifty Heavy Assault Ships, painted with crimson skull insignias, surrounded the small mining planet like a pack of hungry sharks!
The flagship's communication channel forcibly hacked into the lord's mansion's Terminal.
"Zzzzt—"
On the screen appeared a bald man covered in mechanical tattoos.
The commander of the Blood Skull Fleet, a second-rate raider faction from the central zone.
"Dead Fatty, you haven't paid this month's protection fee..."
The bald man's words cut off abruptly.
Because what he saw wasn't the fat lord, but two stunningly beautiful women with fierce, murderous auras.
The bald man was stunned for a moment, then burst into extremely vulgar laughter.
"Well, well, Fatty's changed his taste? Got himself two such feisty little wildcats?"
"Where is he? Tell him to get his ass on the comm!"
Li Ruobing stared at the screen and spat directly.
"Comm my ass."
"That dead Fatty's head was just smashed in by me. If you want to find him, I'll pack up his brains right now and shoot them into space for you!"
The bald man's laughter died instantly.
His eyes instantly turned extremely sinister.
"You killed Fatty?"
"You bitch, do you know this mining planet is our Blood Skull Fleet's territory?"
Elena coldly stared at the screen.
"Correction."
"Ten minutes ago, it was. Now, it's ours."
"Arrogant!"
The bald man laughed in extreme anger, slamming the command console violently.
"Two ants from the outer sectors, thinking that by killing a useless fatty with a few broken guns, you can establish yourselves in the central district?"
"All fleet units, hear my command!"
"Main cannons, charge! Level the lord's mansion to the ground for me!"
"Capture these two women alive! I'll have every brother in the fleet teach them, one by one, what the rules of the central district are!"
The communication was forcibly cut off.
On the radar screen, the cannons of fifty warships were already glowing with blinding energy light.
"Fuck."
Li Ruobing cursed, immediately grabbing the two High-Frequency Vibration Combat Blades from the table.
She felt not a trace of fear; instead, she excitedly licked her lips.
"Foreigner, are we doing this?"
Elena's S-Class Mechanical Prosthetic instantly transformed into a Miniature Particle Cannon, azure energy gathering at its muzzle.
"A Valkyrie never retreats."
The two had absolutely no intention of fleeing.
Even though the enemy consisted of fifty warships.
The mad dog spirit in their bones was displayed to the fullest at this moment.
"All troops, hear my command!"
Li Ruobing rushed out onto the balcony, roaring at the army below.
"Lock all anti-air Missiles! Bring down those iron turtles in the sky for me!"
Just as the air raid sirens blared across the entire K-76 mining planet.
Just as the Blood Skull Fleet's main cannons were about to fire in the next second!
A sudden anomaly occurred!
"BOOM——!!"
In the Space surrounding the mining planet.
That region of space originally blockaded by the Blood Skull Fleet suddenly emitted a terrifying tremor that even the vacuum could not block!
The radars of all fifty Blood Skull warships maxed out simultaneously.
"Warning! Warning!"
"Detecting an ultra-high-mass object exceeding SSS-grade forcibly anchoring Space!"
"Gravitational field collapsing!"
The bald man was greatly alarmed, his face turning pale as he stared at the main screen.
"What's happening!"
The next second, his eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets.
Behind the Blood Skull Fleet.
A black Spatial Rift over a hundred thousand kilometers long was torn open by an incomprehensible brute force!
Violent Spatial Turbulence instantly shredded three assault ships at the edge into metallic dust.
Immediately after.
An entirely black, star-spanning behemoth, one hundred and twenty thousand kilometers long.
Like a dark Tyrant descending upon the world, slowly squeezed out from the Spatial Rift.
Its terrifying volume was even larger than the K-76 mining planet below!
Three Antimatter Annihilation Main Cannons emanated an aura of despair-inducing death.
Before that colossal ship, the Blood Skull Fleet's fifty warships looked like fifty flies buzzing chaotically around an elephant!
The bald man was so terrified he collapsed to the floor, his entire body trembling uncontrollably.
"A... a Planet-annihilator ship!?"
"Which top-tier overlord from the central district has arrived!?"
It wasn't just the bald man.
On the ground, Li Ruobing and Elena on the lord's mansion balcony were also stunned.
They raised their heads, gazing at the black giant ship that almost blotted out the entire sky, their breaths completely halting.
"This... this is the military power of the higher-dimensional world..."
The combat blade in Li Ruobing's hand dropped powerlessly.
In the face of such absolute military supremacy, individual bravery seemed like a complete joke.
Elena's mechanical prosthetic emitted an overload warning—the System's instinctive fear when facing an unstoppable threat.
Just as tens of thousands of people fell into absolute silence.
A lazy, arrogant, yet utterly familiar voice.
Through the overwhelmingly dominant public channel, it exploded directly in the minds of everyone on K-76 Mining Planet and the Blood Skull Fleet.
"Hey."
"You little punks up in the sky."
"Did you just say you were going to teach my wife, Qin Yu's wife, a lesson about rules?"
The moment that voice rang out.
Li Ruobing shuddered violently, her two combat knives clattering to the ground.
On Elena's perpetually icy face, a breathtakingly beautiful smile instantly bloomed.
High above, inside the massive warship.
In the main control room of the Tyrant.
Qin Yu sat imposingly on the captain's throne, still holding Yao Xue and Yao Qian in his arms, one on each side.
He looked at the Holographic Screen, where a short-haired woman in a revealing tank top stood on a balcony, a wild, arrogant smile curling at the corner of his lips.
"Su Tian."
Qin Yu tapped the armrest of the throne, his gaze sweeping coldly over the fifty warships in the sky, now on high alert.
"Except for my woman's territory."
"All the other trash in this starry sky."
Qin Yu snapped his fingers.
"Clean it up."
"Boom—!!"