255: The garbage dump of civilization, the paradise of lawless people!

The news exploded across the Universe, with countless people cheering his courage, and just as many sighing at his recklessness.

No one knew that while the world's attention was on the lifelike Incarnation, the true Su Lei had already, without anyone realizing, left the space station.

He was not alone; by his side was the silent killing legion of twelve Royal Guards.

They were not traveling in the famous wuguang no. 2, but in a Ghost Ship, unassuming in appearance, disguised as an ordinary interstellar freighter.

This was Su Lei's ultimate stealth and assassination vehicle, secretly built by fusing Valkyrie Empire technology with the knowledge from the crown of wisdom. It could simulate any spaceship signal and block all Law detection.

Piloting this Ghost Ship, he slipped out of the Solar System like a predator entering the darkness, silently approaching the Star Domain riddled with death traps.

Kuiper Belt, Asteroid Belt B-798.

The lawless frontier of the Solar System, filled with icy meteorites and cosmic dust, was a paradise for pirates and smugglers.

After weeks of silent travel, the Ghost Ship arrived in this chaotic region.

It was disguised as a dilapidated old freighter, its hull covered in fake scars, slowly entering the asteroid-dense Star Domain with an extremely clumsy posture.

The moment the bow passed through the first asteroid ring, an anomaly suddenly occurred!

Three massive fleets, painted with different insignias but acting with high uniformity, emerged from the Void Realm as if from nowhere, instantly completing a pincer movement from three directions! Nearly a hundred warships, with technology far surpassing the Federation, their flickering energy shields and the destructive light gathering at their muzzles all showcased their power.

“Warning! Unknown fleet detected approaching at high speed! They have locked onto us!”

Alarm bells rang throughout the bridge, but Su Lei, sitting in the captain's chair, calmly watched the three aggressive fleets.

“Shut down weapons, raise shields to maximum, maintain silence.”

He issued an order that all crew members found incomprehensible.

“Governor, sir?”

The weapons officer couldn't help but speak up.

“Execute.”

“Yes!”

The lights of the disguised turrets dimmed, and a seemingly thin energy shield covered the hull.

The Ghost Ship, like a startled prey, remained motionless, allowing the wolf-like fleets to surround it.

“Hahahaha! Look at that fat sheep, scared out of its wits!”

Arrogant laughter echoed on the pirate's public channel.

“Anyone who can come here alone won't be simple.”

A steady voice warned.

“Boss, you worry too much! Look at its dilapidated state, let's give it a couple of shots to test it!”

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Dozens of high-energy plasma beams poured down like a storm!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Violent explosions erupted repeatedly on the shield, which flickered wildly, its energy plummeting like a cliff dive, on the verge of shattering at any moment.

“Shield energy at thirty percent! Imminent collapse!”

The crew's hearts were in their throats, but Su Lei remained as steady as a mountain, as if the attack before him was nothing more than a fireworks display.

“Continue silence.”

His voice, like a stabilizing anchor, calmed everyone's hearts.

“Hahahaha! Easily defeated!”

The mocking laughter in the pirate channel grew louder.

“Boss, we've struck gold!”

“Transmit my order!”

The steady voice finally commanded: “Cease fire, prepare to board! Remember, capture them alive! Empty everything from the ship, and take the people as slaves!”

“Yes!”

The pirate warships' hatches opened wide, and hundreds of landing craft and thousands of fierce pirates, piloting their personal flight vehicles, swarmed like a beehive towards the nearly shattered Ghost Ship.

In their eyes, it was no longer a ship, but a super cake, stripped of its skin and cleaned of its meat, waiting for them to feast upon.

They didn't notice that just as they were about to touch the Ghost Ship's fragile outer shell, beneath its heavy armor, dozens of hidden hangars were silently sliding open.

At this very moment, Su Lei's calm, emotionless voice resonated through the bridge.

“The hunt begins.”

The instant his words fell, twelve phantoms, shimmering with an icy blue glow, shot out like unsheathed blades!

These were twelve single-person fighters, their designs futuristic to the extreme, their bodies like daggers forged from ice crystals and shadows, their tails spewing ripples that distorted space.

They were the Banshee Fighters, ultimate killing machines personally modified by Queen Astrea and specially equipped for the Royal Guards!

Ghosts capable of short-range, no-delay spatial leaps!

As soon as the twelve Banshees appeared, they transformed into twelve blue lines of death, too fast for the naked eye to track, instantly plunging into the enemy formation!

The next second, a one-sided, bloody massacre began!

The silhouette of a Banshee flickered like a ghost, its high-frequency particle blade silently slicing through, and a sturdy landing craft was split in two like hot butter, along with its pilot, exploding into a dazzling fireworks display in space.

This was an undeniable dimensionality reduction strike!

The pirates' pride in their numbers and ferocity was laughable and powerless before these twelve Incarnations of death; their attacks couldn't even touch a phantom afterimage.

In the public channel, only endless screams and desperate wails remained.

“Monsters! They're monsters!”

“Retreat! Retreat quickly!”

“Help me!!!”

Wailing brought no mercy.

The twelve cold killing machines continued to systematically harvest cheap lives.

In a mere five minutes, the aggressive boarding party was utterly slaughtered.

On the battlefield, only the twelve Banshee Fighters remained, silently hovering amidst the bloody wreckage, and the three pirate fleets, already terrified into stupor by the Hellish scene.

The entrance to Fractured Bone Town was a massive gate violently repurposed from a discarded starship engine, its surface covered in rust and grotesque shell craters, all testifying to the chaos and bloodshed that once reigned here.

“Screech!!!”

As the guard reverently pressed the switch, the heavy hydraulic arm emitted an ear-piercing groan, slowly raising this gate that separated two worlds.

The sight beyond the gate caused even the twelve Royal Guards, who had seen countless deaths and possessed hearts of iron, to experience a rapid flicker in their pupils' data streams.

This was no town at all.

The entire asteroid's interior had been hollowed out, forming a vast and unsettling three-dimensional hive city.

Countless rusty metal pipes and suspended walkways, like the tangled veins and nerves of a giant beast, connected various floating platforms and hive cells in a chaotic manner.

Below lay an abyss of darkness, with only the dark red glow of melting furnaces occasionally flashing, briefly illuminating the ghostly, unauthorized structures on the cliffs.

This was a graveyard of civilization, and even more so, a paradise for outlaws.

Su Lei led the twelve Royal Guards onto the main thoroughfare leading into the hive city's interior.

The uniform clang of metal boots sounded like the drumbeat of death, striking at the heart of every person.