Chapter 188 This is clearly an ascension for everyone!

"Player? I'm the administrator."

Lin Yuan sneered and ignored the mysterious bloody text prompt on his retina. He had seen too many of these pretentious tricks.

Compared to that "Big Eye" hiding behind the scenes playing ghost, he cared more about the spoils he had just "extorted" in his hand.

The drop of golden liquid at his fingertips did not lose its activity after leaving the host. Instead, it seemed to have a life of its own, trying to burrow into Lin Yuan's pores.

The analysis progress bar on the system panel had just finished, popping up a string of enviable data.

【Item: titan Blood (Nano Source Liquid · Primitive State)】

【Purity: 99.9%】

【Description: The crystallization of the highest biotechnology of the Titan Civilization, possessing the characteristic of "Reconstruction of All Things." That unlucky Rust Lord swallowed a drop of this stuff, got indigestion, and turned himself into a pile of trash that only proliferates cancer cells.】

【Suggested Use: Don't drink it, give it to your broken ball. It is the best "Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic."】

"So this thing really was the one causing trouble." Lin Yuan's eyes lit up.

The reason the previous rust virus was so difficult to deal with was that they were essentially uncontrolled nanobots. And this drop in his hand was their "matrix" and "antidote" in one.

"Chen Weiguo, notify the surface, open all the ventilation shafts and atmospheric circulation valves in all the underground cities." Lin Yuan connected to the communication channel, his tone as relaxed as if he were inviting someone to dinner. "Also, tell Academician Wang to open up all those dying planetary engine nozzles."

"Open them?" Chen Weiguo's end had a lot of noise, clearly still busy with emergency repairs. "The outside is full of that red fog that gets into every crack. Isn't opening them inviting the wolf into the house?"

"It was poison gas before, but now it's a tonic." Lin Yuan didn't explain much, his fingers exerted force suddenly, directly crushing the energy membrane wrapping the golden liquid. "gaia, take over atmospheric control, prepare for artificial rain!"

"Received, Commander."

Lin Yuan waved his hand, and Void Energy, carrying the drop of golden source liquid, rushed directly into Earth's murky atmosphere.

"Give the Earth a scrub!"

The next second, a miracle occurred.

The moment the golden liquid touched the clouds, it immediately fissioned and spread at a terrifying speed. The rust clouds that had originally shrouded the Earth, gray and heavy like dead skin, instantly boiled and dissolved, as if encountering hot butter.

Immediately after, the rain came down.

It wasn't acid rain, nor was it black rain.

It was a pattering rain with a pale golden luster.

The rainwater fell on the armor plates covered in dark red rust, making a "sizzling" sound. Those rust patches, hard as iron and uncuttable even by laser knives, melted like snow poured with hot water, quickly turning into black water and flowing down, revealing the brand new, shiny original metal color underneath.

"This... how is this possible?"

In the underground city control center, Academician Wang's eyes were about to pop out. He watched helplessly as the red alarms on the screen, representing "severely damaged," turned green one after another, like dominoes.

"That air filtration pump with three broken main shafts... it self-repaired? And the efficiency increased by 20%?"

"The strength readings of the outer armor are skyrocketing! What kind of material science miracle is this? Metal fatigue has been completely cleared?"

It wasn't just inanimate objects.

The rainwater drifted into the underground city through the ventilation ducts, falling on the faces of the terrified residents. There was no burning sensation; instead, it felt like a warm current burrowing into their bodies. The elderly, who had been coughing incessantly due to long-term inhalation of trace rust dust, suddenly felt their chests lighten. That old phlegm that had been stuck for over a decade was actually coughed out smoothly.

"A miracle... this is a miracle!"

Some knelt in the rain, others wept with joy.

"Don't just stand there crying, get to work!" Lin Yuan's voice came through the broadcast, pouring cold water on these inexperienced folks. "gaia, what's the self-check status?"

"Commander, system reconstruction complete."

What came out of the speakers was no longer that rigid, stiff synthesized female voice, but a mature, authoritative, and somewhat ethereal voice with a hint of "humanity."

gaia, having absorbed the titan data, evolved directly from an artificial idiot into an "Intermediate Star Spirit."

"All logic viruses have been cleared, firewall strength increased by 500%. Also..." gaia's voice actually carried a hint of seeking praise. "I optimized the ignition programs for the 12,000 planetary engines while I was at it. The current fuel efficiency is 1.3 times what it was before."

"Then what are we waiting for?" Lin Yuan stood at the bow of the Dauntless, looking at the blue planet below that had been washed clean and shiny, and waved his hand.

"Ignition! Let us hear the beating of the new heart!"

Boom—!!!

12,000 planetary engines roared simultaneously.

This time, what spewed out was no longer a monotonous dark blue plasma stream. In the center of that blue beam of light, there were even wisps of nether ghost fire from the undead fleet.

That was the combination of titan technology and Earth's heavy industry in a display of violent aesthetics.

A huge thrust erupted instantly. The originally clumsy and slow Earth, like a dump truck with a new racing engine, surged forward suddenly. The needle on the speedometer went straight into the red zone, and even had a tendency to continue shifting to the right.

In the control room, Academician Wang was so excited he slapped his thigh, and his dentures flew right out: "This isn't just repaired? This is a full-blown ascension! Our current thrust can smash those pursuers into meat patties!"

Lin Yuan looked at this scene with satisfaction and turned to look at Alita, who had been standing stupidly on the side.

This originally indifferent mechanical girl was now wide-mouthed, looking at the brand-new planet, her electronic eyes full of scrambled code.

"What? Never seen such a violent renovation team?" Lin Yuan casually threw her a bottle of lubricant he'd swiped from the pirates. "Don't just stand there, you're familiar with this place, come up and be a guide. Daily wages, room and board included."

Alita came back to her senses, looking at Lin Yuan's brazen face, her expression complex.

She had been struggling to survive here for so many years and had seen the wreckage of countless civilizations, but she had never seen a madman who could turn a "dead land" into a "blessed land."

"Deal." Alita took the lubricant, not being coy. "But I have one condition. I want to bring my database. It contains all my records of this graveyard over the past ten thousand years."

"Granted." Lin Yuan snapped his fingers. "As long as you're not coming with hundreds of millions in debt, I'll take you."

After handling the personnel issues, Lin Yuan turned his gaze to the 33rd Legion, which was so massive it seemed to block out the sky.

Although it was satisfying to incorporate such an invincible fleet, going out for a stroll with tens of thousands of warships was a bit too flashy. It was practically writing the words "I am a fat sheep, come raid me" on his forehead.

"A tree that stands above the forest will be destroyed by the wind. We're going there to demolish things, not to parade and demonstrate."

Lin Yuan rubbed his chin and directly used the system's 【Heroic Spirit Command】 authority.

"Except for those ten best-conditioned Heroic-class battleships left for escort, the others, all submerge for me."

As his thought stirred, tens of thousands of warships burning with ghost fire began to slowly submerge. They didn't sink into the ocean floor, but instead, as if merging into shadows, they sank into the Subspace shadow that had just formed around the Earth.

That was the titan Legion's unique "Phase Submerge" mode.

As long as Lin Yuan didn't nod, even if one searched with a microscope, they wouldn't be able to find the tens of thousands of ambushers hiding in the Earth's shadow, ready to strike and kill at any moment.

"Now it's all set."

Lin Yuan clapped his hands, just about to go back to the great xia dragon sparrow to catch some sleep, when gaia's voice suddenly became serious.

"Commander, while organizing the Rust Lord's memory fragments, I decrypted a top-level encrypted communication. This thing was hidden very deep; if you hadn't smashed it, I wouldn't have been able to dig it out at all."

"Play it."

A noisy audio clip, full of static and the sound of gears grinding, exploded in Lin Yuan's mind.

It was an extremely strange language, like countless mechanical parts colliding with each other. But under the system's real-time translation, Lin Yuan still understood its meaning.

【...The prey has entered the net... The Holy Sacrifice will be held as scheduled on "Blazing Sun Star"...】

【God... is hungry... needs to feed...】

【Save that blue planet... for last... its taste... is very special...】

Lin Yuan's originally lazy eyes instantly became sharp as knives.

Mechanical Papacy.

Blazing Sun Star.

And that so-called "God."

"Want to eat me?" Lin Yuan sneered, took out the hollowed-out Rust Lord's Heart from his pocket, and crushed it into powder with force. "Just as well, I haven't had my fill yet either."

He looked up at the coordinate marked "Blazing Sun Star" on the star map; that was deeper into the Land Abandoned by Gods, and also the only direction to the exit.

"Order the entire army, full speed ahead."

"Since someone has set up a banquet, if we don't go and flip the table, that would be so impolite."