277: Chapter 277 I'm too lazy to do it

Su Xiaoxiao, who was by his side, recognized the symbol at a glance. Her long purple-silver hair fluttered despite the lack of wind, and the destructive aura of [Void Thunder Punishment] faintly danced upon her staff.

"I saw it in the top-secret files Wu Tian left behind... These are Cosmic Scavengers wandering the edge of the Orion Arm, also known as Interstellar Pirates! They specialize in looting, plundering civilizations that are in decline or have suffered disasters."

"It seems the energy tide produced when the Star Abyss Tyrant fell still attracted these wild dogs who came sniffing for blood." Li Murou curled her lip, as the [harp of time reversal] in her arms already emitted resonant notes of battle.

"A mere thousand pirate ships, and they dare to run wild in human territory?"

From the communication channel came the overbearing and furious roar of Commander-in-Chief Lei Zhentian. This veteran general was now clad in a set of Lv.95 [Star-Glory War God Armor] personally enchanted by Chen Xi, holding a door-sized Star-Slaying Great Blade in his hand.

"All forces, hear my command! First Fleet, Second Fleet, preheat main cannons! Full shields! Blast this cosmic trash into dust for me!!!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

With Lei Zhentian's command, the tens of thousands of new-model Magiteck Warships of the Earth Expeditionary Force stationed in orbit turned their gun ports in unison. Ice-blue high-dimensional energy gathered frantically at the muzzles, ready to deliver the most enthusiastic "Earth-style greeting" to these uninvited guests at any moment.

However.

Just as the fleets were about to enter range.

"Zzt... crackle..."

All communication channels and radar screens of the Earth Expeditionary Force, and even the magiteck lighting systems inside the warships, were suddenly hit by an extremely powerful high-dimensional electromagnetic pulse, emitting ear-piercing static and showing snow on the screens!

Immediately following, an alien broadcast filled with extreme arrogance, sounding stiff and heavily synthesized with a metallic quality, forcefully cut into every loudspeaker of the Earth fleet with an undeniable, domineering posture:

"Kacha... kacha... Lowly, pathetic carbon-based monkeys, greetings."

Accompanying this voice, an image was forcefully projected onto the main control screen of the Expeditionary Force.

It was a terrifying alien over three meters tall, its entire body composed of dark purple fluid metal and unknown silicon-based crystals. On its lip-less mechanical face, a single massive eye emitted a chilling, crimson glow.

[Target Locked: Grand Commander of the Interstellar Raider Fleet — Garu]

[Life Form: Silicon-based/Carbon-based Cyborg Hybrid]

[Level Assessment: Lv.110 (First-Order God-Tier Threshold)]

Upon seeing "Lv.110," a desperate number representing entry into the realm of the gods, the breathing of the originally impassioned Earth soldiers involuntarily hitched for a moment.

Lv.110! That was a star-space hegemon who truly grasped the fundamental rules and laws of the universe, far more terrifying than the former Star Council Grand Elder!

"I am Garu, Grand Commander of the Orion Interstellar Raiders."

The cyborg alien looked down from a height at the screen, his tone filled with extreme contempt for Earthlings:

"It is truly surprising. Ten thousand years have passed, and this graveyard that once sealed the Star Abyss Tyrant has actually been occupied by a group of low-level insects who haven't even reached Lv.100. It seems that old thing, the Tyrant, ultimately died from the backlash of the Void Abyss, which ended up benefiting you scavengers for nothing."

"Shut your filth-spewing mechanical mouth!"

Lei Zhentian's eyes widened in anger as he shouted back into the communicator without hesitation: "This is the interstellar territory of human civilization! Take your cosmic trash and get out of the Sirius Sector immediately, or I'll dismantle your warships and sell them as scrap metal!"

"Hehehehe... Ignorant monkeys, you seem to have no realization of what kind of existence you are facing."

Garu let out a harsh, synthesized mechanical laugh, and his crimson singular eye suddenly lit up with a destructive red light:

"Your proud Magiteck Warships are nothing more than ridiculous toys in the face of my high-dimensional technology."

"I do not wish to waste time with a group of low-level organisms. Now, I give you one last ten seconds."

"Hand over the high-dimensional Godhead left by the Tyrant! Disable your weapon systems and proactively deactivate all defensive shields!"

"All carbon-based monkeys, voluntarily put on electronic shackles and board my slave transport ships! As long as you obediently serve as mining slaves on my mining star for a hundred years, I can show mercy and leave your pathetic home planet a way to survive."

"Otherwise..."

Garu abruptly raised his right hand, and the main gun ports of the over a thousand Raider warships behind him simultaneously lit up with desperate, dark-red beams of destruction:

"I will activate the 'Anti-Psionic Field' and 'Gravity Collapse Cannon' to completely erase your proud fleet, along with this outpost, from this three-dimensional universe within one minute!!!"

"Ten!"

"Nine!"

"Eight!"

Garu's voice, filled with the countdown to death, echoed across the stars.

Inside the command cabin of the Earth fleet, the atmosphere was suppressed to the extreme. All soldiers gripped their weapons tightly, veins bulging on their foreheads.

Surrender? Become slaves?!

To hell with that! Earthlings would rather die standing in the stars than live on their knees!

"All forces, hear my command! Even if we must self-destruct, we'll take these bastards down with us!!!" Lei Zhentian was already prepared to activate the warship's final self-destruct sequence to perish together with these pirates.

However.

In the final second before the countdown to the imminent battle reached zero.

"Snap."

A very faint, yet somewhat casual and lazy snap of fingers suddenly overrode Garu's forced broadcast through a higher-priority [civilization seed editor] signal, ringing clearly throughout the entire Sirius Sector.

Then.

Chen Xi's young face, looking somewhat drowsy as if he had just woken up, domineeringly replaced Garu's holographic projection, appearing in the center of the screens of all Raider warships and the Earth fleet.

Chen Xi yawned, not even looking directly at the Lv.110 Commander Garu, but merely waved his hand to Lei Zhentian and the others, saying in an extremely disdainful tone:

"Commander-in-Chief Lei, you all step back. This level of trash isn't worth letting our main legion risk their lives."

Lei Zhentian was stunned: "Major General Chen, you plan to act personally? But the opponent is Lv.110..."

"Me? I'm too lazy to lift a finger."

The corners of Chen Xi's mouth slowly curled into a brilliant, extremely twisted smile that would make anyone familiar with him feel their skin crawl.

He turned his head, his deep gaze looking toward the massive fortress of the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] floating in the universe.

There, over ten million Earth Players who had been "grinding" day and night for ten whole years in the Divine Domain were now red-eyed and in a state of extreme irritability because the aliens had interrupted their mob-farming rhythm!