Chapter 186 Stand Up! Fight for Me!

"Static—Warning! Gravitational wave peak has exceeded the threshold!"

"Space curvature is folding… This old thing is really trying to compress itself into a black hole!"

A Ji clung to the console railing, his entire body nearly floating horizontally. The hull of the great xia dragon sparrow emitted a teeth-grinding sound of metal fatigue, like a soda can gripped in the hands of a mischievous child.

The starry sky outside was in total chaos.

That originally bare core sphere now seemed to have swallowed all the surrounding light. The red glow turned into a deathly pale white, and countless fragments of wreckage, meteorites, and even the ghost warships that had just stood up were forcibly dragged away by that extremely tyrannical gravity.

"Trying to drag others down with you?"

Lin Yuan withstood the terrifying gravity that threatened to tear out his internal organs, his figure advancing instead of retreating.

The energy shield on the surface of his mecha was torn apart, sending sparks flying everywhere, and the system alarms in his brain were as noisy as a disco, but the greedy blue light in his eyes only grew brighter.

In his eyes, how could that be a world-destroying black hole?

That was clearly a pot of premium broth reducing over a high heat!

"Such a high-density energy reaction… If I let it explode, it would be a crime against resources!"

Lin Yuan cursed, but although his "appetite" was huge now, trying to swallow such a soon-to-erupt "supernova" in one gulp would likely cause him to burst before he could even swallow it.

He needed to find a pot.

He needed a high-pressure cooker to seal this energy in before he could take a bite.

Lin Yuan suddenly looked down at the depths of the disintegrating ruins beneath his feet.

When he woke up those tens of thousands of warships earlier, he had sensed it. At the very bottom of this graveyard, a real big guy was buried. Its energy fluctuations were very weak, like a pile of dying embers, but its sheer size…

It was terrifyingly large.

"Stop playing dead!"

Lin Yuan dispersed the thousand-meter-long void greatsword in his hand, turning it into the purest dark blue energy, and slammed it fiercely onto the thick metal crust beneath his feet.

"The underlings above have all been wiped out, and you, the boss, are still sleeping down there?"

"Get up!"

Boom!

This loud noise didn't travel through the air; it exploded directly on the level of everyone's souls.

The ruins, which had been shaking crazily due to the gravitational collapse, suddenly and eerily stilled for an instant.

Immediately after, a sky-covering bow, carrying an ancient desolation and dominance, crashed through the billions of tons of crust.

What kind of existence was that?

It was over a hundred kilometers long, its hull completely pitch-black. There wasn't a trace of rust on its surface; instead, it was covered in a layer of self-repairing armor that looked like flowing mercury. The moment it broke through the ground, the surrounding gravitational waves that threatened to tear space apart were forcibly suppressed by the force field it emitted!

"This… this is…"

A Ji let out a blood-curdling scream over the communication channel, "titan… Spirit-class! Dauntless! That's the flagship of the 33rd Legion from back in the day!"

As the giant ship ascended, Lin Yuan felt as if he were standing on a moving continental plate.

A thick beam of blue light shot up into the sky from the bridge position.

Within the beam, countless streams of blue data converged into a ten-meter-tall giant of light. It was the image of a veteran clad in heavy titan armor. Although it was just a holographic projection, the battle-hardened, iron-blooded aura made everyone present feel their breath hitch.

That was the long-deceased commander of the 33rd Legion, the last remnant of his obsession lingering in this ship.

The giant of light slowly lowered its head.

Those pupil-less eyes swept over the devastated battlefield, finally fixing on the tiny Lin Yuan.

It did not speak.

Because on a data level, it could read that Lin Yuan was not a member of the Titan Race, and his carbon-based structure was even incredibly fragile.

But this did not prevent it from understanding what Lin Yuan had just done.

Waking the spirits, striking the traitor.

That was enough.

Under Lin Yuan's gaze, this veteran who had spanned tens of thousands of years slowly raised his right arm and performed a standard titan military salute to Lin Yuan.

The movement was heavy, yet incredibly powerful.

【33rd Legion, flagship Dauntless.】

【System self-check complete… Weapon systems offline… Engine power remaining 3%…】

【Shield generator… Full capacity!】

An ancient and vicissitudinous electronic voice echoed in the void.

"Awaiting orders."

As soon as these four words came out, Lin Yuan felt goosebumps all over his body.

This was truly top-tier equipment! This was a man's romance!

Compared to this real war machine, that Rust Lord who cobbled together toys with corpses was simply a moron playing with mud.

"Good!"

Lin Yuan didn't stand on ceremony, raising his hand to point at the blindingly white gravitational orb in the sky.

"See that thing shining like a lightbulb?"

"Trap it for me! Don't let a single drop of oil leak out!"

The giant of light did not hesitate at all.

It waved its hand abruptly, and the hundred-kilometer-long Dauntless flagship beneath their feet emitted a low hum. The armor plates on both sides of the hull popped open instantly, and hundreds of huge hexagonal emitters lit up simultaneously.

Hum—!

A layer of pale gold, semi-transparent barrier with a regular dodecahedron structure instantly opened in the void.

Its speed was astonishing; in the blink of an eye, it tightly encased the collapsing and erupting Rust Lord core.

【Absolute Void Domain · Deployed.】

【Physical laws… Isolated.】

The terrifying suction that had threatened to tear the great xia dragon sparrow apart stopped abruptly the moment the golden light closed.

It was as if someone had stuffed a violent typhoon into a glass bottle.

Outside the bottle, it was calm, but inside, it was world-destroying.

The core finally erupted.

A terrifying torrent of energy crazily slammed against the golden barrier, making the regular dodecahedron flicker, as if it were about to shatter in the next second.

"Hold on!" Chen Weiguo watched the soaring energy level readings on the screen, his heart nearly jumping out of his chest, "If this leaks out, we'll all turn to ash!"

However, just as everyone was thinking about how to save their lives, Lin Yuan moved.

He did not run away.

He piloted the xingtian mecha, which had turned dark red in the previous battle, with its thrusters fully engaged, like a retrograde meteor, charging straight toward that "golden high-pressure cooker" that could explode at any moment.

"Lin Yuan! Are you crazy?!"

A Ji's voice cracked from shouting, "That's a singularity eruption! The temperature inside is higher than a star's core! What are you going in there for? To take a sauna?"

"Sauna?"

Lin Yuan's voice held an indescribable excitement and madness, "This is ten-thousand-year-aged high-energy fuel! If I don't pack this up and take it with me, I'd slap myself in the face tonight when I sleep!"

Before he finished speaking, he had already rushed to the front of the golden barrier.

The phantom of the commander of the Dauntless seemed to understand his intention, and the golden barrier split open with extreme precision, creating a gap just wide enough for one person to pass through.

Lin Yuan dove in headfirst.

The gap closed instantly.

As soon as he entered, Lin Yuan felt as if he had jumped into the Taishang Laojun's alchemy furnace.

Even with the mecha reinforced by the system, the outer armor began to melt instantly. His vision was a vast white, and he couldn't see anything, only the extremely violent gamma-ray stream wildly scouring every inch of his nerves.

Pain.

Pain to the depths of his soul.

But what followed were the system's continuous notification sounds.

【Warning! Ultra-high energy level reaction detected!】

【Warning! host's energy capacity limit has exceeded 200%…】

【Pure void energy detected… Converting…】

【Verdict: S+ grade supply!】

"Absorb… for me!"

Lin Yuan hovered in the center of the explosion, thrusting his hands violently into that most dazzling ball of white light.

The 【Star Core Furnace】 in his chest completely overloaded, turning into a greedy vortex. The explosion energy that should have expanded outward and destroyed everything was forcibly dragged back by his suction.

"Since you've come, don't leave!"

"All of you, turn into experience bars for me!"

Lin Yuan grit his molars, and the blood vessels all over his body bulged.

This feeling was like swallowing a sun alive.

Scalding, scorching, but also maddeningly exhilarating.

The white light that was originally expanding began to shrink visibly to the naked eye.

The violent aura within it was forcibly stripped away, shattered, and purified by the system, finally turning into streams of extremely pure dark blue energy that poured wildly through Lin Yuan's limbs and bones.

His mecha began to reorganize.

The dark red biological armor gradually faded, replaced by a texture of black crystal as deep as the night sky. Lines of purple-gold patterns appeared on the surface of the armor; that was the embodiment of energy overflowing to the extreme.

This process did not know how long it lasted.

Perhaps a minute, perhaps a century.

Chen Weiguo and the others outside were already dumbfounded.

They watched helplessly as that golden ball of light, which was originally going to blow the Land Abandoned by Gods to pieces, became smaller and smaller, dimmer and dimmer.

Finally, it was like a popped balloon.

Pfft.

A very slight muffled sound.

All the light vanished.

That terrifying gravitational source was gone.

Replacing it was a small black shadow suspended in the void.

The barrier slowly dissipated.

Lin Yuan floated there, the mecha on his body completely changed, exuding a heart-palpitating pressure.

He slowly raised his hand and patted his belly, which was clearly a size larger.

"Burp—"

A belch loud enough to echo in the public channel broke the deathly silence.

"A bit full."

Lin Yuan smacked his lips, seemingly still unsatisfied with that "big meal" just now, "A bit salty, remember to put less radiation next time."

"…"

On the bridge of the great xia dragon sparrow, there was dead silence.

Everyone had their mouths wide open, their jaws nearly crashing through the floor.

That was a black-hole-level explosion!

Just like that… he ate it away?

Lin Yuan ignored everyone's reaction and looked down at his right hand.

In his palm, a thumb-sized diamond-shaped crystal was floating.

It was blood-red all over, as if a churning sea of blood was sealed inside.

This was the last trace left by the Rust Lord in this world.

It was also the only "hard bone" that wasn't digested by Lin Yuan in the explosion just now.

【Item: Lord's Heart (Compressed State)】

【Quality: Legendary】

【Description: The control hub containing the core logic of the entire mechanical undead legion. With it, you are the new ranch owner of this graveyard.】

【Remark: Although it's a bit hard on the teeth, whether you use it as a backup battery or embed it in a weapon, it's incredibly prestigious.】

Lin Yuan closed his fingers, gripping the red crystal tightly in his palm.

Feeling the still-unwilling pulse coming from inside, a cold sneer curled up at the corner of his mouth.

"Now."

He looked up at the Dauntless flagship quietly floating in the distance, and the tens of thousands of ghost warships waiting for orders.

"I think we can have a good talk about the issue of 'demolition compensation'."