90: A warning from above the clouds

"Ah? Are...are they people like us?" Gu Nianqiu's voice carried an indescribable complexity of emotions. There was tension, fear, but more than that, a primal sense of kinship with her own kind.

She hesitated for a moment, then whispered, "They...they don't seem to want to attack us. How about...how about we don't hurt them, okay?"

The Little Girl's words were like a fresh breeze, dispelling the last trace of murderous intent in Lin Mo's heart.

He glanced at the thunder dragon mecha beside him, filled with destructive aura, then thought of Gu Nianqiu, who was full of worry on the Natural Selection, and finally made a decision.

"We won't initiate an attack," Lin Mo's voice, clear through the communication channel, reached the two girls, "But, we need to let them know who's in charge of this island now."

Sometimes, displaying power can be more effective than direct action in deterring others.

"What do you plan to do?" Gu Zhixia asked.

"Go say hello."

Lin Mo's lips curved into a playful smile. He piloted Fafnir, its massive body performing an elegant turn in the air, its eyes burning with golden flames, precisely locking onto the hidden valley to the northwest.

The next second, this steel behemoth, dragging a long black shadow, like a demon descending from the heavens, slowly flew towards the valley...

Inside the valley, the five members of the "Bedrock" squad were still in a petrified state, their worldview shattered.

They stared blankly at the oppressive steel construct circling in the distant sky, their minds a blank.

"Cap...Captain, what do we do now?" The burly man with the giant axe asked, his voice trembling slightly, "Do we...do we run, or...?"

Run? Where to run?

Chen Jin's lips curled into a bitter smile. In front of such an existence, did running make a difference? It could burn half the island to ashes with a single breath of fire, and blow all the orc camps sky-high with a round of missiles.

Even if they ran as fast as they could, where could these few people go?

Just then, the scout Xiao Ma's terrified, high-pitched scream rang out again.

"It...it's looking at us! It's flying towards us!"

Everyone suddenly looked up.

They saw the black behemoth, like a mountain range, truly changing direction and flying steadily and directly towards the valley where they were!

The suffocating pressure, coming straight at them, was a hundred times more intense than when they had observed it from dozens of kilometers away!

"It's over! We've been discovered!" Ling Jie's face instantly turned pale, "We're dead!"

Fear, like a cold tide, instantly engulfed everyone.

They instinctively wanted to flee, but their legs felt like they were filled with lead, completely unresponsive. Under the gaze of those god-like eyes burning with golden flames, they couldn't even muster a hint of resistance.

Finally, under the desperate gaze of the five people.

The massive steel behemoth descended.

Boom—!!!

Fafnir's enormous body landed heavily at the entrance of the valley, raising a cloud of dust. The earth trembled violently, as if mourning the arrival of this deity.

It lay there quietly, its vast shadow enveloping the entire valley.

Chen Jin and the others stood before it, as tiny as a few ants that could be crushed at any moment.

They could even clearly see the black dragon scales shimmering with a cold metallic light, and the blue energy pathways, like flowing blood, in the gaps between the scales.

"Gulp."

Someone, they didn't know who, swallowed with difficulty.

Inside the valley, there was a deathly silence.

In this desperate silence, a calm, emotionless voice, as if from the heavens, boomed through some kind of amplification device, echoing throughout the entire valley.

"This place is now under my control."

The voice paused, seemingly giving them time to process, then continued:

"Mind your own business, don't do anything unnecessary, and don't entertain any improper thoughts."

"Otherwise, I don't mind having a few more barbecue pits on this island."

After speaking, the voice fell silent.

The massive steel behemoth slowly rose from its prone position. Its golden eyes took one last deep look at them, a gaze that seemed to regard them as insignificant ants.

Then, its black dragon wings behind it suddenly flapped, and its massive body shot upwards, stirring up a terrifying storm of air that blew the trees in the valley every which way.

In the blink of an eye, it vanished into the clouds, as if it had never appeared.

It wasn't until the suffocating pressure completely disappeared that Chen Jin and the others, as if exhausted, collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath. Everyone's back was completely drenched in cold sweat.

"We're...we're alive..." The burly man with the giant axe said, his voice filled with the relief of surviving a catastrophe.

Chen Jin didn't speak; he just raised his head, staring blankly in the direction where the behemoth had disappeared, his expression extremely complex.

He knew that from today onwards, the world's order would completely change...

Natural Selection, living quarters restaurant.

Lin Mo and Gu Zhixia had just changed out of their combat suits, and a table of steaming, enticingly fragrant dishes was already laid out before them.

It was dinner, freshly prepared by Gu Nianqiu and kept warm with her [Constant Temperature Jade].

"Brother Mo, big sister, you're back! Come eat!" The Little Girl, wearing her pink bear apron, smiled so brightly it could melt all ice and snow.

Looking at this warm scene before him, and then recalling the iron-blooded ruthlessness and absolute control he had just wielded while piloting Fafnir, Lin Mo felt a strange sense of dissociation in his heart.

On one side, there was absolute power capable of destroying the world.

On the other, there was the warmth of home, which needed to be protected with all his might.

He suddenly understood the meaning of his fighting.

"You worked hard," He walked to the dining table and sat down, picking up his chopsticks and taking a piece of glowing [marbled beef].

The beef was tender and juicy, and a warm energy instantly soothed all the fatigue in his body and spirit.

"Not at all! It wasn't hard at all!" Gu Nianqiu shook her head happily. She filled Lin Mo and Gu Zhixia's glasses with juice, her pure, large eyes full of adoring stars. "You two were so cool just now! Just like the great heroes in myths!"

Gu Zhixia didn't speak, just ate quietly, but the slight upward curve of her lips betrayed her excellent mood at the moment.

Outside the window was a deep and tranquil sea of stars.

Inside the ship, there was warm and peaceful lamplight.

Lin Mo looked at the two girls before him, and the heaviness in his heart, brought by Lan Yue's warning and unknown enemies, unknowingly dissipated a great deal.

The enemy was strong, the future was dangerous.

But so what?

He glanced at his hands.

These hands now held the power to change everything.