195: Lu Chen's promise: I will expand the territory for human civilization!

When Lu Chen’s ultimate declaration of a “Newbie Protection Zone,” filled with an air of “Versailles” and “Dimensionality Reduction Strike,” clearly echoed in the control room of the Kunlun Mountain Underground Base, Long Weiguo’s heart, which had long been tempered by countless storms and made as firm as a rock, actually began to pound uncontrollably at this moment!

Newbie Protection Zone?!

What the hell does that mean?!

Could it be—

A terrifying thought that made his blood boil instantly popped into his mind!

Could it be that the so-called dark forest rules they were worried about before—

Don't exist at all in this godforsaken, impoverished place of theirs?!

“That’s right.”

On the other end of the phone, Lu Chen seemed to have seen through his thoughts and nodded calmly.

“According to the memories of that ‘Octopus’—”

“This Orion Arm we are in is extremely poor in resources.”

“It is jokingly called by the advanced interstellar civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy as—”

“‘God-forsaken Land’.”

“Apart from wandering civilizations like Scavengers who can’t even get enough to eat—”

“There is simply no decent civilization willing to come here to ‘alleviate poverty’.”

“Therefore—”

A confident and proud smile curled at the corner of his mouth!

“For at least the next thousand years—”

“We are safe.”

“Hahahahaha!”

Long Weiguo couldn't hold back any longer after hearing this!

He suddenly stood up from his chair, letting out a hearty, arrogant laugh!

“Excellent! This is just too damn excellent!”

“I thought we really had to live in fear every day!”

“Who would have thought—”

“After all this, we’re actually living in a ‘Newbie Protection Zone’?!”

“This is simply heaven's help!”

His face was flushed with excitement!

He felt like a chosen one, personally selected by God—

A Son of Destiny!

However—

Before he could recover from this immense, post-catastrophe euphoria—

Lu Chen’s cold, emotionless voice, however, was like a basin of liquid nitrogen at negative two hundred degrees Celsius!

Instantly extinguishing all the—

Flames in his heart!

“Safe?”

“Director Long, do you have some misunderstanding about the word ‘safe’?”

“Huh?” Long Weiguo was stunned.

“You, you wouldn’t really think that—”

Lu Chen’s voice was filled with the indifference and—

Disdain of a god looking down on ants.

“Hiding in a small ‘Newbie Protection Zone’ and barely surviving—”

“Is called ‘safe’?”

“No.”

He slowly shook his head, a trace of cold rationality flashing in his dark eyes, vast as the universe!

“That’s not called safety.”

“That’s called—”

“Waiting for death.”

“…”

The smile on Long Weiguo’s face instantly froze!

“Director Long, you must remember.”

Lu Chen’s voice became incredibly cold and cruel!

“In this universe, there has never been any absolute safe zone.”

“The so-called ‘God-forsaken Land’ is merely because those high and mighty ‘gods’ temporarily don’t fancy this barren ‘rotten flesh’ of ours.”

“Once, one day—”

“When they discover that this ‘rotten flesh’ of ours has actually grown a brilliant ‘diamond’ that could threaten their rule—”

“Do you think—”

“They will still ignore us as they do now?”

“No.”

“They will only be like a pack of sharks that have smelled blood!”

“Swarming from every corner of the universe!”

“Tearing us, along with our ridiculous ‘diamond’—”

“Into shreds!”

Boom!!!

This cold reality, full of the dark forest law—

Was like the sharpest scalpels!

Stabbing fiercely into Long Weiguo’s heart, which had just become somewhat lax due to “safety”!

Completely dissecting and crushing his ridiculous complacency!

He finally understood.

He was wrong.

Terribly wrong!

In this cold, cruel, dark universe!

There has never been any savior!

Nor any Newbie Protection Zone!

There is only!

That eternal, cold—

Jungle—

Law!

Weakness is the original sin!

Backwardness means—

Being beaten!

“I… I understand…”

Long Weiguo let out a long, turbid breath.

For the first time, his usually resolute face showed a complex expression filled with lingering fear and determination!

“Lu Chen, my boy!”

“Tell me!”

“Next—”

“What should we do?!”

“It’s simple.”

A crazy and ambitious arc curved at the corner of Lu Chen’s mouth!

“Before those high and mighty ‘gods’ discover us—”

“At the fastest speed!”

“Become stronger than them!”

“More—”

“Cruel!”

As soon as he finished speaking!

He slowly raised his hand and lightly snapped his fingers in the air!

“heavenly craft!”

[Here, Master.]

“Notify the ‘expedition’!”

“Prepare to set sail!”

[Yes, Master.]

Three days later.

An unprecedented interstellar—

expedition—

Departure—

Ceremony!

Was officially held at the Moon's “Heavenly Court” Interstellar Spaceport!

And this time—

Lu Chen no longer kept a low profile as before.

He wore a Earth Federation Supreme Commander—

Uniform, custom-made for him by the Number One Leader himself, filled with iron-blooded authority and majesty!

He slowly walked onto the chairman's stand, which symbolized supreme power!

Behind him stood the ice-cold—

Goddess, Su Qingying, also dressed in a silver-white captain's uniform.

And the hundred metamorphosed Superman—

Legion!

He looked at the faces below the stage, each filled with anticipation and longing, of different skin colors—

Faces.

In his dark eyes, vast as the universe, burned a mad—

Ambition that could make even gods and demons tremble!

His voice wasn’t loud, but it was like a divine oracle that opened up the heavens and earth!

Clearly echoing in the ears of every Earthling!

“My compatriots!”

“I know that for the past few millennia, we have lived in a beautiful, peaceful, blue—

“Cradle.”

“We thought this universe was wonderful, full of hope.”

“But!”

He changed his tone abruptly!

A cold, cruel glint flashed in his deep eyes!

“Today!”

“I want to tell you a cruel truth!”

“The universe is not a fairy tale!”

“Instead, it is a cold, dark place filled with death and slaughter—

“dark forest!”

“And we—”

“Are the weakest and most pitiful—

“Prey in this forest!”

“We could be mercilessly—

“Devoured at any moment by stronger ‘hunters’ hidden in the darkness!”

“Therefore!”

“We have no retreat!”

“We can only move forward!”

“Forward! Forward! And ever forward!”

“Until we become the most terrifying—

“Predators at the top of this forest!”

“Today!”

“I, Lu Chen!”

“Will serve as your navigator!”

“Leading you, the bravest warriors!”

“To carve a—

“Bloody path for our small, fragile civilization!”

“I promise you!”

He slowly raised his right hand and pointed towards the endless, profound, vast—

Starry sky!

“Wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever rivers flow—”

“Shall be our human—

“Territory!”