In less than a minute.
Hundreds of Mechanical Slayers that had plunged the survivors into despair were reduced to piles of scrap metal.
Not even a single red beam managed to fly into the sky.
The survivors were utterly dumbfounded.
Their jaws hung open as they stared blankly at this group of men and women who had descended like divine soldiers, their minds completely blank.
How could human strength be so overwhelming in this Testing Ground where the rules were so strictly enforced?
Qin Yu paid no attention to the survivors.
He strode over to a Mechanical Slayer that wasn't completely dead yet, its half-body still crawling on the ground.
Qin Yu raised his foot and stomped on its head.
"Zzz... Illegal intrusion... The Administrator... will not... let you go..."
The mechanical monster emitted a fragmented, synthesized voice.
Qin Yu bent down and tore off the vocalizer from its neck.
From the wrecked machine, he forcefully pried out a faintly glowing red chip.
[Ding! Rule Fragment (trace amount) detected!]
[Automatically converted to Starburst Points: 1000 points!]
Qin Yu sneered, crushing the chip into powder.
He raised his head, looking up at the layer of gray, toxic mist in the sky.
His gaze seemed to pierce through the toxic fog, directly seeing through the glass dome and into the depths of the universe where the Law Council was hidden.
Qin Yu took a deep breath and suddenly raised a middle finger.
His voice, amplified by the System, rumbled like thunder, echoing not only over Testing Ground No. 7.
It also forcibly cut into the communication frequency of the Law Council headquarters!
"You five old bastards, listen up!"
"I, Qin Yu, am here."
"From now on, you're the ones trapped in this fishbowl."
"You won't be able to pluck even a single leek!"
Space Station Headquarters.
The five Holographic projections around the round table trembled violently with rage as they watched the arrogant middle finger on the screen.
The First Administrator smashed his fist through the virtual desktop.
"Arrogant! Utterly arrogant!"
"What does he think Testing Ground No. 7 is? The Underlying Rules there are irreversible!"
The Second Administrator's Electronic Eyes flickered frantically, yet they were filled with deep terror.
"But... our rules truly didn't suppress him! His System directly blocked the Underlying Code!"
The Effeminate Woman gnashed her teeth, her crimson nails digging deep into her palms.
"So what if we can't suppress him? He only brought in those few people!"
"In Testing Ground No. 7 alone, there are millions of various mutants and Mechanical Scavengers!"
"Activate the Ultimate Erasure Program for Testing Ground No. 7!"
"Release all the 'Beast tides' and 'Arbiters'!"
"I refuse to believe that millions can't overwhelm his hundred or so people!"
Inside Testing Ground No. 7.
Just after Qin Yu finished his bold declaration, the entire ground suddenly began to tremble violently.
From the end of the dilapidated streets in the distance came spine-chilling roars and the heavy grinding of mechanical treads.
From all directions, dense black shadows surged forward like a tide.
Mutant Zombies, Giant Lickers, heavy armored mechanical war vehicles...
Their numbers were so vast that they stretched beyond sight.
All the monsters in the Testing Ground had been mobilized by the Law Council, their target directly aimed at Qin Yu in the square.
The survivors, who had just ignited a sliver of hope, once again let out cries of despair.
"It's over... It's a Zombie horde and the Arbiter Legion..."
"Run! If we don't run, we'll all die!"
The survivors tried to flee like headless flies, but every direction was blocked.
Yao Qian's face turned pale with fear as she tightly clutched Qin Yu's sleeve.
Yao Xue, however, remained unusually calm, a scalpel flipping deftly between her fingers.
"Qin Yu, there are too many of them. If it comes to close combat, the Valkyries will suffer casualties."
Qin Yu pulled out a cigar, placed it between his lips, and lit it with a windproof lighter.
He took a deep drag and exhaled a thick cloud of smoke.
"Casualties?"
Qin Yu sneered.
"In my dictionary, there's no such word as 'casualties.'"
He pulled Yao Qian into his embrace with one arm, while his right hand materialized the dark golden spear once again.
With a powerful stomp, Qin Yu shot into the air like a cannonball.
He hovered fifty meters above the center of the square, looking down at the endless tide of Zombies and the mechanical legion swarming in from all directions.
"Elena, gather the survivors and keep them out of the way."
Qin Yu's voice boomed through the air.
Elena immediately gave the order, and the Valkyries swiftly tightened their formation, encircling the thousands of survivors in the center.
As Qin Yu watched the sea of monsters drawing closer below, the ferocity at the corner of his mouth could no longer be restrained.
"After absorbing a hundred thousand Crystal Cores, let's see just how absurd your power has become."
Qin Yu gripped the handle of [Extinction · Void Grasp] with both hands.
On the spear's surface, the black patterns representing the "Spatial Oscillation Wave" instantly erupted with a piercing, eerie glow.
Qin Yu took a deep breath, channeled force into his waist, and hurled the spear like a javelin straight at the ground in front of the square.
"Break for me!!"
The dark golden spear transformed into a black bolt of lightning, plunging into the ground in an instant.
"Boom——!!"
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
Only a low-frequency hum that chilled the soul.
Centered on the point where the spear struck, the Space within a five-kilometer radius... collapsed in that very moment.
Like thin ice shattered by a massive hammer.
All Space began to violently distort, crack, and finally, completely shatter!
The tens of thousands of mutated Zombies and dozens of heavy armored vehicles at the forefront didn't even have time to scream.
Their bodies were instantly sliced into countless particles, invisible to the naked eye, as the Space around them disintegrated.
This wasn't an explosion in the physical sense.
This was erasure at the dimensional level of Space!
The oscillation wave spread outward at a terrifying speed.
Within the five-kilometer radius, all skyscrapers, abandoned vehicles, mutated monsters, and mechanical tanks...
Everything turned to dust the moment it came into contact with the wave.
What Zombie horde? What Arbiter Legion?
In the face of absolute rule-based power, they weren't even worth a fart.
In just three seconds.
The once deafening battlefield fell completely silent.
Within a five-kilometer radius, the area had become a flat, smooth, mirror-like expanse of absolute desolation.
Not even a speck of dust remained.
The spear transformed into a streak of light and flew back into Qin Yu's hand.
Qin Yu slowly descended to the ground, his military boots clicking crisply against the smooth surface.
He flicked the ash from his cigar and glanced at the remaining monsters in the distance, untouched by the blast but now fleeing in a panic.
"Is that all?"
Qin Yu scoffed.
Li Ruobing still held her twin blades aloft. She swallowed hard, staring at the empty, five-kilometer plain around her.
"Damn... you stole all my work."
The thousands of survivors who had been protected were now all kneeling on the ground.
They watched Qin Yu's back as if gazing upon an incomprehensible, dimension-descending demon god.
No one spoke; only the dull thuds of frantic kowtows hitting the ground echoed.
Qin Yu turned around and strode over to the group of survivors.
His gaze swept over these emaciated, mud-stained faces.
"Stop kowtowing."
Qin Yu's voice wasn't loud, but it carried absolute authority.
The survivors trembled all over, stopping their movements one after another, yet still not daring to look up.
Qin Yu blew out a smoke ring and pointed at the sky.
"I'm not here to save you. I'm here to claim territory."
"From now on, this Testing Ground changes its surname to Qin."
Qin Yu suddenly drew his pistol and fired directly at a concealed holographic surveillance probe in the sky.
"Bang!"
The probe exploded into fragments.
"Move out."
Qin Yu waved his hand grandly.
"Find a spacious spot and build me a base."
"I'm going to plant the Tyrant's flag in this fishbowl."
Li Ruobing wrapped her arm around Qin Yu's neck and planted a fierce kiss on his cheek.
"Now that's the man I fucking fell for!"
Yao Xue and Yao Qian exchanged a smile and followed closely by Qin Yu's side.
Elena raised her azure Light Blade high.
"Valkyrie Corps! Advance!"
Over a hundred people arrogantly marched deep into the Wasteland city.
Meanwhile, at the Law Council headquarters deep in the universe.
Five holographic projections before the round table stared at the surveillance feed from Testing Ground No. 7, which had instantly lost signal.
They fell into a dead silence lasting ten full minutes.
The First Administrator's virtual body flickered wildly with garbled code—a sign of the System being severely overloaded.
"He's not here to destroy..."
The First Administrator's voice carried unprecedented despair.
"Damn it... he's here to seize the nest!"