Qin Yu pointed at the cold, dark starry sky outside the viewport.
"But Li Ruobing is different."
"Have you forgotten? In Zone 9527, I'm number one. Who's number two?"
Yao Xue was taken aback and blurted out, "It's Ruo Bing."
"Right." Qin Yu snapped his fingers.
"To become the second in Raft area within a major zone."
"What do you think she relied on? Her love for wearing hot pants and sexy tank tops?"
"Or her pretty face and great figure?"
A glint of admiration flashed in Qin Yu's eyes.
"She relied on the ruthlessness in her bones and that rabid-dog spirit of biting anyone she sees."
Qin Yu ruffled Yao Xue's hair, patiently analyzing for his two wives.
"When others encounter pirates robbing them, they hand over supplies to save their lives."
"When Li Ruobing encounters pirates, her first reaction is to smash through the enemy ship's hull, then skin the pirates and hang their hides on the mast to dry."
"That woman is a born predator."
"You think she's hiding in some corner trembling right now?"
"Bullshit."
Qin Yu patted the armrest of his throne, his voice firm.
"I bet some clueless space pirate gang is probably being pinned to the deck by her right now, getting bled dry."
Yao Xue and Yao Qian exchanged glances.
With Qin Yu's words, their image of the "weak and helpless Li Ruobing" instantly shattered.
Replacing it was a female demon wearing hot pants and a tank top, covered in blood, laughing maniacally while stepping on an enemy's head.
"But..." Yao Xue was still somewhat worried.
"The world has changed now. There are Higher-dimensional beings and Interstellar warships."
"No matter how strong Ruo Bing's individual combat power is, can she withstand Ship-borne cannon bombardment?"
Qin Yu snorted coldly.
"If she can't win, can't she run?"
"That woman's instincts are sharper than a wild beast's. Once she realizes she can't bite through, she flees faster than anyone."
Qin Yu looked down at the two sisters in his arms.
"In the Wasteland, kindness is a death warrant, cruelty is the pass."
"You two were captured by the Bloodblade Alliance because you weren't strong enough and your personalities were too soft."
"If it were Li Ruobing being targeted by One-Eye and those trash..."
Qin Yu paused, his eyes turning extremely icy.
"One-Eye's head would have been twisted off and used as a chamber pot the moment he touched her."
Just then.
The piercing alarm in the main control room suddenly shattered the calm.
"Beep beep beep! Warning! High-intensity Spatial interception field detected!"
"Course forcibly cut off! The Tyrant will be forced out of Jump state!"
Su Tian's hands became a blur on the keyboard as she loudly reported the situation.
"Boss! We've entered the Buffer star sector of the central zone!"
"A large interception fleet detected ten thousand kilometers directly ahead!"
"The enemy has activated a Wide-area spatial jammer and locked down our Jump channel!"
The smile instantly vanished from Qin Yu's face.
Replacing it was a suffocating, cold killing intent.
He didn't stand up, still sitting steadily on his throne, not even loosening his arms around the two sisters.
"Numbers, scale, affiliation."
Qin Yu's voice was as cold as ten-thousand-year-old ice.
Su Tian quickly pulled up the optical Radar images and projected them onto the main screen.
"Enemy fleet total: one hundred twenty vessels!"
"Including five A-grade Heavy Cruisers, thirty B-Grade assault ships, the rest are all High-mobility fireboats!"
"Hull markings are black and yellow, radar signature identifies as... the Raider Alliance from the outer Central District, the 'Wild Sand Fleet'!"
Old K scrambled up from the lower decks into the main control room, sweating profusely.
"Boss! The Wild Sand Fleet is a notorious mad dog gang in the Central District!"
"They specialize in setting up checkpoints on this main route, intercepting survivors who've just arrived from the outer Regional Merger!"
"Men get thrown directly into the Reaction furnace as fuel, women get sold to the slave masters in the Central District!"
Old K was hopping with anxiety.
"They have over a hundred ships! Our newly commandeered vessel, we haven't even familiarized ourselves with the fire control system yet..."
"Shut up."
Qin Yu uttered two words flatly.
Old K immediately covered his mouth in fright, not daring to breathe loudly.
On the Holographic Screen, a communication request from the Wild Sand Fleet forcibly cut in.
A man with a mohawk, his face covered in Mechanical implants, appeared in the center of the screen.
He looked at Qin Yu in the Holographic projection and laughed arrogantly.
"Black ship ahead, listen up!"
"This is the territory of the Wild Sand Fleet!"
"No matter what backwater hole you crawled out of, shut down your Engine and lower your Shield immediately!"
"Hand over all supplies on board, and those two prime bitches in your arms, to me right now!"
The mohawked man stuck out a crimson tongue, licking his lips.
"I'm in a good mood, maybe I'll grant you a whole corpse!"
Yao Qian shrank back into Qin Yu's embrace in fear.
Yao Xue's face also turned cold, her hands gripping Qin Yu's arm tightly.
Qin Yu ignored the mohawked man's bluster.
Instead, he lowered his head to look at the two sisters in his arms.
"Xue'er, Qian Qian."
"You just asked me what Li Ruobing would do in this situation, didn't you?"
The corner of Qin Yu's mouth curled into an extremely cruel arc.
"I'll give you a live demonstration right now."
"Li Ruobing's survival rules."
Qin Yu raised his head, his gaze like two sharp swords piercing the mohawked man on the screen.
He showed no anger, no roar.
Only a lofty, contemptuous disdain.
"Su Tian, cut the comms."
"Yes!"
The screen instantly went black.
The mohawked man's arrogant laughter cut off abruptly.
Leaning back on his throne, Qin Yu slowly raised his right hand.
"Old K, open your damn eyes wide and watch."
"This SSS-grade Planet-annihilator ship I spent 1.2 million Starburst Points on isn't for decoration."
Qin Yu's eyes instantly turned intensely tyrannical.
"Full ship Fire control system, I'm taking over."
"Tyrant."
[Command confirmed. Highest authority commander connected.]
A cold mechanical female voice echoed through the main control room.
"Open forward armor."
"All eight hundred High-Energy Particle Secondary Cannons, charge."
"No target lock required."
"Give me full-coverage indiscriminate bombardment across that star sector!"
Qin Yu's right hand clenched fiercely into a fist.
"Kill them all."
"Not a single lifeboat escapes."
"Hummm—!!"
The 120,000-meter-long Tyrant Planet-annihilator ship fully awakened at this moment.
The black armor on both sides of the hull unfolded layer by layer like dragon scales.
Eight hundred cannon barrels, each over a hundred meters in diameter, slowly extended from the vacuum-sealed compartments.
Blinding azure high-energy particle light gathered frantically within eight hundred cannon barrels.
The energy field of the entire star sector instantly plunged into terrifying chaos.
Ten thousand kilometers away.
Inside the flagship of the Wild Sand Fleet, the Mohawk man's smile froze on his face.
The alarm on the control console was screaming at an unprecedented frequency.
"Warning! Detecting immeasurable high-energy reaction!"
"Energy level has broken through S-Class! Breaking through SS-grade now!"
The operator was so terrified he wet his pants, his voice shrill.
"Boss! That's no ordinary black ship! That's a… Planet-annihilator ship!"
"The caliber of its secondary cannons is larger than our main ship's!"
The Mohawk man felt as if he had fallen into an icy abyss, his blood freezing in his veins.
"Escape! Now! Scatter the formation!"
"Overload the Spatial fold engine! Get us out of this star sector now!"
Too late.
In the face of absolute firepower superiority, any tactical maneuver was a futile struggle.
"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!"
There is no sound in space.
But everyone in the main control room felt as if they had heard a cataclysmic thunderstorm.
Eight hundred azure high-energy particle beams wove together into an impenetrable net of death.
Crossing the ten-thousand-kilometer distance at the speed of light in an instant.
They slammed mercilessly into the center of the Wild Sand Fleet's formation!
There were no explosive flashes.
Because the moment of contact, the A-grade and B-grade warship armor was instantly vaporized by the high-temperature particles.
One hundred and twenty warships.
In just three seconds, they vanished like snowflakes under a blazing sun.
Silently evaporating into the cold void of space.
Not even a palm-sized piece of debris remained.
Tens of thousands of Wild Sand Fleet pirates were erased from existence without even having time to scream.
The space ten thousand kilometers away was completely cleared.
Leaving behind only absolute, dead silence.
The fleet that had been swaggering and threatening moments before seemed as if it had never existed.
In the main control room, a deathly quiet prevailed.
Old K's mouth hung open, drool dripping onto his chest unnoticed.
Su Tian gripped the edges of the control console with white-knuckled intensity, her entire body rigid.
Yao Xue and Yao Qian were utterly stunned, their beautiful eyes filled with disbelief and awe.
This… this was the power of an SSS-grade Planet-annihilator ship?
Without even firing the main cannon, just one volley from the secondary cannons had vaporized a fleet that had dominated the outer reaches of the central zone?
In Qin Yu's mind, the System's notification tones began to flood his consciousness.
[Ding! Detected host has annihilated raider fleet: Wild Sand Fleet!]
[Destroyed 5 A-grade Heavy Cruisers, obtained 250,000 Starburst Points!]
[Destroyed 30 B-grade assault ships, obtained 300,000 Starburst Points!]
[Eliminated 38,500 armed thugs, obtained 550,000 Starburst Points!]
[Current total Starburst Points: 2.52 million!]
Qin Yu looked at the skyrocketing balance and let out a cold, satisfied smirk.
He lowered his head, looking at the two sisters in his arms who hadn't yet regained their senses.
"See that?"
Qin Yu reached out a finger, lifting Yao Xue's chin, forcing her to meet his gaze.
"This is the law of the Wasteland."
"This is why Li Ruobing can survive."
"Don't go looking for trouble, but never fear it. Anyone who dares stand in the way, turn them directly to dust."
Yao Xue took a deep breath, her ample chest heaving violently.
She looked into Qin Yu's eyes, which radiated boundless dominance and ruthlessness, her heart pounding wildly.
This man truly had the law of the jungle carved into his very bones.
"Husband, I understand."
Yao Xue leaned in and kissed Qin Yu on the cheek.
"Qian Qian and I won't hold you back anymore."
"We'll learn to adapt to this world."
Yao Qian also nodded firmly, clenching her small fists.
"Brother Qin Yu, Qian Qian will become stronger too! I won't drag you down!"
"That's more like it."
Qin Yu laughed heartily, pulling both sisters into a tight embrace.
He lifted his head, gazing at the now unobstructed route displayed on the holographic screen.
That unknown central region lay like a star-devouring beast with its bloody maw wide open, silently lurking in the depths of the universe.
There, higher-level rules and more terrifying enemies awaited.
But in Qin Yu's eyes, there was only boiling battle intent and greed.
"Old K, go to the lower deck and notify those scavengers."
Qin Yu's voice echoed through the command center, carrying the unquestionable authority of an emperor.
"Tell them the easy days are over. Time to get to work."
"Yes, Boss!" Old K roared with fervor.
Qin Yu then turned to Su Tian.
"Su Tian, re-lock the coordinates for the central region."
"Maximize the power of the deep-space detection radar."
"Collect all regional intelligence while we navigate."
"I want to find Li Ruobing, Qi Chun, and that foreigner Elena's whereabouts in the shortest time possible."
Qin Yu's gaze turned ice-cold.
"Anyone who dares touch my people—whether they're pirates from the outskirts or the Administrator of the central region—"
"I'll rip out their spines and use them as lantern wicks!"
"Understood, Boss!"
Su Tian excitedly slammed the thruster button.
"Tyrant's jump engine restarting!"
"Destination: Absolute core star sector of the central region!"
"Let's move!"
"BOOM—!!"
The Tyrant Planet-annihilator ship roared once more, shaking the starry sea.
Its massive black hull transformed into a streak of dark red light, instantly tearing through the spatial fault ahead.
With the terrifying confidence of over two million Starburst Points.
With the absolute force to suppress an entire region with a single ship.
Qin Yu charged fiercely toward the most dangerous and insane place in the entire universe.
This time, he would make the entire central region tremble beneath his cannons.
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