323: Chapter 324 This shovel strike might kill you.

Physical formatting.

When Lin Qi uttered these five words, whether it was the Federation high-ranking officials watching the live broadcast, or Instructor Su Qing and Zhang Wei standing behind him, they all felt their brains couldn't quite keep up.

Physical... they understood.

Formatting... they also understood.

But, what did it mean when these two words were combined?

Formatting using physical means?

How did that sound like anything other than a drunk programmer talking nonsense?

However, the next second.

Everyone understood.

The moment Lin Qi swung the entrenching tool in his hand.

The whole world seemed to have been muted.

No sound.

No light.

No energy fluctuations.

Nothing at all.

It was just that...

On the other side of the "Star Gate", on the battlefield of Sector S-17.

That huge, twisted, arrogant shadow monster, along with the area it had shrouded that was suffering from "Law Pollution", within a radius of several dozen kilometers...

Just like that... disappeared.

Yes, disappeared.

Not blown into fragments, not burned into Ashes, not decomposed into elementary particles.

It was just so abruptly, so unreasonably, "erased" from the world.

As if that place had been an empty lot to begin with.

As if that hideous monster, that chaotic battlefield, had never existed.

In its place was a huge, incredibly smooth... hemispherical crater, like a mirror.

The edges of the crater were smooth as if cut, even reflecting the blood-red moon in the sky.

The Federation soldiers who had been struggling in despair moments ago were all stunned.

They stared blankly at the empty space before them, then looked at the weapons in their hands that could still fire normally, and then touched their own unharmed bodies...

"I... we... survived?"

"What about that... monster?"

"What... just happened?"

No one could answer them.

Because even the Federation bigwigs in the Eagle-7 Conference Room, who had watched the whole process through top-level monitoring equipment, were now all wearing expressions as if they had seen a ghost.

Their mouths were wide enough to fit a goose egg.

Their eyes were wide as copper bells.

Their minds were completely blank.

A long, long time passed.

Only then did someone break this deathly silence with a dreamy, trembling voice.

"That... what was that?"

"One swing of the entrenching tool..."

"And... and it was gone?"

"That was a 'Law Pollution' unit..."

"That was a disaster that left the entire Eastern Theater Command helpless..."

"It was just... flattened by one swing of the entrenching tool?"

General Luo Zhenbang did not speak.

He just stared fixedly at the huge, smooth crater on the screen.

As the supreme commander of the Federation, his strategic vision was far beyond that of ordinary people.

He saw more, and deeper, than others.

He saw that with this one swing, Lin Qi had erased not just a monster and a piece of land.

He had erased all the tactics, all the strategies, and all the response plans of the Federation army when facing such "Law" enemies.

He used the simplest, most direct, and most violent way to tell everyone a cruel fact—

In the face of absolute power, everything you have is a joke.

He was not solving a problem.

He was... setting one.

He had given the entire Federation an unsolvable problem.

—When my power has already transcended your scope of understanding, how should you... get along with me?

General Luo Zhenbang slowly sat back in his chair.

He felt as if he had suddenly aged twenty years.

And at this moment.

Above Tianhai City.

Lin Qi, having finished his "teaching", casually slung the entrenching tool back over his shoulder.

He looked at the Federation soldiers on the screen, who had survived and were wearing expressions of confusion and ecstasy, and at that excessively clean "new plot of land", nodding with satisfaction.

"Alright, students, that's all for today's open class."

"Did everyone understand the solution to this problem?"

"It doesn't matter if you didn't understand it; you wouldn't be able to learn it anyway."

Lin Qi's words were clearly transmitted to the Eagle-7 Conference Room via the public channel.

The tone was as infuriating as could be.

But at this moment, no one thought he was arrogant.

Because he had the capital to be arrogant.

"Finally, I'm assigning some homework."

Lin Qi's gaze seemed to pierce through the screen and land on everyone in the conference room.

"Sector S-17 now has an extra piece of good 'fertilizer' and a clean 'plot of land'."

"I need you to deliver them to the D-3 Region for me, intact, within one week."

"Any questions?"

The conference room remained silent.

Any questions?

There were huge problems!

That was a piece of land several dozen kilometers in radius! And it was a fucking hemispherical crater!

How do you transport this thing?

Pull it with trucks? Or tow it with aircraft carriers?

Do you think you're packing up a takeout order?!

Everyone was frantically complaining in their hearts.

But they couldn't say a single word.

Because they knew this wasn't a discussion; it was a notification.

It was that man collecting the "tuition" for this "open class" in his own way.

"Oh, right, I forgot to add a reminder."

Just as everyone was so stifled they were about to suffer internal hemorrhaging, Lin Qi's demonic voice rang out again.

He glanced behind him at the fat man who had been keeping his eyes tightly shut and trembling from start to finish.

"Next time, if my 'Teaching Assistant' is afraid of heights again and too scared to open his eyes..."

A warm, spring-breeze-like smile appeared on Lin Qi's face.

"Maybe it will be the Federation's turn to send a 'Teaching Assistant' to stand here."

"I am very strict when it comes to teaching."

"If the student doesn't listen..."

He shook the entrenching tool in his hand and smiled innocently at the camera.

"If I swing this entrenching tool, you might die."