The command was issued, and the square outside the lord's manor instantly turned into a slaughterhouse.
Without wasting a single word, Elena's S-Class Mechanical Prosthetic suddenly shot out a brilliant blue high-frequency electric whip.
Crack!
The whip lashed hard against the ground, carving a half-meter-deep charred fissure into the hard alloy floor tiles.
"Everyone, grab your tools and get down the mine shaft!"
"If the first batch of Crystal Cores isn't produced within ten minutes, you'll be executed on the spot!"
Over three thousand thugs were scared out of their wits, scrambling and stumbling toward the entrance of the underground mine shaft.
Old K led five hundred elite guards, holding Gauss Rifles, tightly guarding all major exits of the mining area.
"Hurry the hell up! Master Qin has spoken. If you don't dig it out, your whole families will end up in the ore crusher!"
Old K roared, borrowing authority from a higher power, and kicked a slow-moving Fatty into the elevator.
Three hundred meters underground, the High-Energy Crystal Core vein.
The temperature here soared to sixty degrees Celsius, the air thick with the pungent smell of sulfur.
Three thousand thugs, stripped to the waist, swung Plasma Pickaxes, frantically smashing them against the rock walls.
With every swing, A-grade High-Energy Crystal Cores the size of a baby's fist tumbled out.
They dared not stop.
Because behind them, Valkyrie warriors stood with their guns aimed directly at the backs of their heads.
Even if they coughed up blood from exhaustion, they had to swallow it and keep digging.
In less than half an hour.
The first batch of a full ten thousand High-Energy Crystal Cores, packed into over a dozen heavy metal crates, was delivered to the top-floor operations room of the lord's manor.
As the crate lids were thrown open.
An intense, almost tangible blue energy glow instantly illuminated the entire room.
"Damn, such pure energy."
Li Ruobing casually picked up a Crystal Core, feeling the furious energy within, and couldn't help but swallow hard.
Qin Yu sat on a large leather sofa and, without hesitation, raised his right hand.
A spear, entirely dark gold and radiating a terrifying aura of destruction, materialized in his palm.
It was precisely the [Extinction · Void Grasp].
"System, devour them all."
Qin Yu coldly issued the command.
The dark gold spear seemed to come alive, countless fine black vortices swirling across its surface.
[Ding! Detected a large quantity of A-grade High-Energy Crystal Cores!]
[Weapon "Extinction · Void Grasp" activating Devour Mode!]
The Crystal Cores in the crates visibly dimmed at a rapid pace, eventually turning into piles of grayish-white powder.
Meanwhile, the dark gold glow on the spear grew increasingly dazzling, even causing subtle distortions in the surrounding Space.
Batch after batch.
For a full three hours, a hundred thousand High-Energy Crystal Cores were delivered in their entirety.
Qin Yu didn't even blink, letting the spear devour them all.
The moment the final crate of Crystal Cores turned to powder, a long-awaited System prompt echoed in Qin Yu's mind.
[Ding! Devour complete!]
[Weapon "Extinction · Void Grasp" foundation has been fully restored!]
[Forced dormant state has been lifted!]
[Remaining uses: 3/3 (Energy fully loaded, no longer consumes vehicle Energy Core)]
[Unlocked branch trait: Spatial Oscillation Wave. Can physically shatter Space within a large area, ignoring any Shield!]
Qin Yu abruptly tightened his grip on the spear's shaft.
An unprecedented raging force surged through his arm, rushing directly into every corner of his body.
"Intense!"
A cruel smile curled at the corner of Qin Yu's lips.
With these three trump cards of absolute erasure, forget the Council of Laws—even if the creator of this universe showed up, he'd dare to knock out two of its front teeth.
Yao Xue handed him a glass of ice water and sat down beside him.
She lifted her head, gazing out through the holographic floor-to-ceiling window.
At that moment, the three thousand ships of the joint fleet had completely shut down their weapon systems, obediently hovering beneath the Tyrant.
After the Spatial Blockade Forcefield was lifted, the red sandstorms in the sky gradually dissipated.
Revealing the pitch-black night sky that should have been filled with countless stars.
But now, the sky was no longer the sky.
"Qin Yu, look up there." Yao Xue's voice carried a hint of suppressed shock.
Qin Yu stood up, strode to the window, and tilted his head back.
No stars.
Only an endless, colossal metal dome!
The dome was like an overturned iron pot, tightly sealing everyone beneath it.
Covering its surface were enormous metal pipelines as thick as mountains, intertwined like blood vessels.
And at the ends of those pipelines.
Hung countless faintly glowing "glass orbs."
The K-76 mining planet was merely a scrap world beneath one of these countless orbs.
Yao Qian hid behind Li Ruobing in fright, clutching her arm tightly.
"Brother Qin Yu... what's inside those orbs?"
Qin Yu narrowed his eyes, his gaze sharp as a blade.
"Su Tian!"
Qin Yu roared into the communicator.
"Tyrant's optical radar, maximum power! Lock onto those glass orbs! Sync the feed to the command room!"
"Yes, boss!"
On the holographic screen, the image began to zoom in frantically.
The optical radar pierced through millions of kilometers, locking directly onto the nearest "glass orb."
When they saw what was inside, all four women in the command room gasped simultaneously.
It was an apocalyptic city blanketed in ice and snow!
Within the city, countless survivors in tattered cotton clothes were tearing into each other like wild beasts over half a moldy biscuit.
Blood stained the snowy ground.
But the moment those bodies fell, an invisible force would drain them of flesh and blood, transforming them into a faint red light that was sucked away through the massive pipelines above!
"Switch feeds! Next one!" Qin Yu barked sharply.
The screen flickered.
Inside the next orb was a vast, turbulent ocean.
Countless rafts struggled against raging waves, the sea teeming with mutated sea beasts never seen before.
Survivors were torn apart by the beasts, and the same red light flashed again, mercilessly siphoned away by the pipelines above.
"Switch again!"
A world of molten lava.
An endless desert.
A wasteland overrun with zombies.
Each glass orb was an independent survival zone!
Within each orb, the most extreme slaughter and death played out every single day!
"Goddamn it!"
Li Ruobing slammed her fist against the tempered glass, her knuckles bleeding.
"What is this? What are we?!"
Yao Xue's face was deathly pale, but she remained calm.
"Not just insects. It's a farm."
She pointed at the red lights constantly being drained on the screen.
"They're extracting some kind of energy. The potential humans unleash in extreme despair, or the Rule Fragments released as life fades."
Qin Yu switched to the joint fleet's channel.
"Raymond! Get your ass out here!"
In the corner of the holographic screen, Raymond's figure immediately appeared, his face filled with reverence.
"Master Qin, your orders!"
Qin Yu pointed at the densely packed glass spheres above his head, his tone icy to the extreme.
"What the hell are those old farts sitting in the council smoking?"
Raymond glanced along the screen, a deep flicker of fear flashing in his one eye.
He swallowed hard, his voice somewhat dry.
"That is… 'High-Dimensional Nutrient.'"
Raymond lowered his head, not daring to meet Qin Yu's eyes.
"The five Administrators are not actually real humans. They are powerful artificial intelligences left behind from the previous era."
"They require extreme 'emotional value' and 'death rules' to maintain the operation of the space station, in order to break through the current dimension."
"So, they pulled in all the living beings from the entire universe."
"Divided into countless major zones, and threw them into those 'Testing Grounds.'"
Raymond pointed at those giant pipelines.
"By constantly merging zones and altering rules, they force you to kill each other."
"The more people die, the more Rule Fragments they extract."
"Once everyone in a glass sphere is dead, they will throw in a new batch of clones, or pull people in from other low-dimensional planets."
"Over and over, endlessly."
The operations room fell into a deathly silence.
Only Li Ruobing's heavy breathing could be heard.
So, all the pain, despair, and life-and-death separations they had experienced—
In the eyes of those Administrators, it was just a harvesting game to extract energy!
"Good. Very good."
Qin Yu suddenly laughed.
He laughed with extreme calmness, but to Raymond's ears, it was even more terrifying than the deafening, maniacal laughter from before.
Qin Yu took out a cigar, lit it, and took a deep drag.
"Treating us like chives to be harvested."
"I just wonder if their scythes are hard enough."