279: Chapter 279 A joke? You'll find out soon enough.

"Protect the Commander-in-Chief!!!"

At this critical moment of life and death, just as the flagship was about to be torn apart by the gravitational vortex!

"Roar-aaaaah—!!!"

A majestic dark-red figure, like an ancient demon god, suddenly shot out from the flagship's hatch like a cannonball, recklessly blocking the path of the dozens of black light beams!

It was Lin Shan!

The strongest shield of the Nirvana Battle Team!

"[Absolute Martyr · Causality · Indestructible Wall of Sighs]!!!"

Lin Shan's muscles bulged high, and the dark-gold [Indestructible Blood Core] surged wildly within his chest, letting out a deafening roar. He didn't raise any physical shield; instead, he spread his arms wide, using his own flesh and blood and the origin of his soul to forcibly manifest a dark-red Causality shield covering thousands of kilometers in the vacuum!

"Chichi-chichi—!!!"

The [Gravity Collapse Cannon], capable of tearing a chunk out of a star, slammed violently against Lin Shan's Causality shield.

The terrifying rules of gravitational collapse, under the forced inversion of Causality, poured all the destructive tearing sensation 100% onto Lin Shan alone!

"Ugh-aaaaah!!!"

Lin Shan let out a heart-wrenching roar. Under the bombardment of this high-dimensional technological weapon, which far exceeded his current level's endurance limit, fine cracks actually began to appear on the indestructible dark-gold bones of his body! His flesh was instantly torn into a bloody mist by gravity, only to regenerate crazily under the passive effect of [Masochistic Frenzy], repeating in an endless cycle!

In just three seconds, Lin Shan had turned into a man of blood burning in the vacuum. Blood sprayed wildly from his seven orifices, but in those eyes staring deathly at the alien fleet, there wasn't a single step of retreat, only a near-manic persistence and ferocity!

"Lin Shan!!! Fall back, quickly! You'll die!!!" Behind him, Su Xiaoxiao and Li Murou saw this scene, and tears instantly welled up in their eyes. They wanted to rush forward to help, but were pinned down on the deck, unable to move, by the terrifying gravitational aftershocks.

"Retreat? There's no such word in my dictionary! If you want to touch the brothers behind me, you'll have to crawl over my corpse!!!" Lin Shan spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, but that dark-red shield protecting the entire flagship held firm against the tearing force of gravity!

"Oh? A Causality-based scapegoat rule? To actually withstand my Gravity Collapse Cannon with a physical body?"

In the crimson electronic eye of Garu, the Great Commander of the Interstellar Pirates, a flash of intense surprise and greed flickered:

"Truly perfect experimental material! With such physical strength, if I take him back, strip his genetic sequence, and implant it into my mechanical legion, it will be a great achievement!"

"Increase output power! Capture him alive for me!!!"

Following Garu's command, the main cannons of over a hundred raider warships simultaneously lit up with an even more blinding black light.

Facing the impending tenfold fire coverage, Lin Shan's legs, now reduced to nothing but white bone, finally let out a crisp sound of being overwhelmed, yet he still gritted his teeth, prepared to burn his soul for a final martyrdom.

In this absolute desperate situation where the Earth fleet was facing imminent destruction and Lin Shan's soul was about to be extinguished.

Snap.

An extremely crisp, lazy, and even somewhat nonchalant finger snap, as if someone had just woken up, suddenly rang out in everyone's minds and within the enemy fleet's highest-level encrypted public channel.

Then, a familiar voice, carrying three parts disdain and seven parts arrogance, echoed leisurely throughout the entire Sirius Sector:

"That's enough, Lin Shan. Step down."

"Since these alien scavengers love playing with technological suppression and acting so high and mighty..."

"Then for this kind of dirty work, let's not have our main aces risk their lives."

Along with this voice, the terrifying gravitational vortex that had been suppressing the entire Earth fleet suddenly vanished without a trace, like a popped soap bubble, under the interference of an even more overbearing and irrational high-dimensional spatial law!

Chen Xi's tall and slender figure appeared in front of Lin Shan at some unknown point.

He casually took out an SS-rank healing card emitting a dense aura of life and slapped it onto Lin Shan's broken body, pulling him back from the brink of death. Then, he slowly raised his head, his crimson-gold eyes shimmering with a cold smile as if looking at a dead man.

"Commander-in-Chief Lei, Minister Li, have our regular army step back a bit."

Chen Xi turned around and held high above his head that Mythic-grade card shimmering with ethereal blue data streams—[The Fourth Calamity: Advent Network].

"Next..."

"Let's let our Earth 'rookies' out for some fresh air."

"Rookies? Fresh air?"

Hearing Chen Xi's nonchalant words, not only were Lei Zhentian and the other high-ranking generals of the Earth Expeditionary Force stunned, but even Great Commander Garu, in the command center of the [Orion Interstellar Raiders] fleet suspended in deep space, couldn't help but let out a burst of extremely piercing, mechanically synthesized laughter.

"Hahahaha!!! Stupid low-dimensional carbon-based lifeform, has your brain been shattered by the gravity cannon just now?"

Garu's massive semi-mechanical body shook arrogantly at the command console, his crimson single eye staring fixedly at the seemingly frail Chen Xi on the holographic screen:

"Even your main fleet, equipped with the most 'advanced' Magic-conduction weapons, is powerless before my [Anti-Psionic Field]. You actually think you can turn the tide with some so-called 'rookies'?"

"Do you intend to have those low-level refugees, who can't even survive in a vacuum, line up to ram my interstellar warships with their bodies?! That would truly be a magnificent cosmic joke!"

Faced with Garu's mocking laughter, the expression on Chen Xi's face didn't change in the slightest.

He didn't even bother to waste another word.

In this universe, the best way to deal with arrogance is to use the most extreme madness to thoroughly grind their proud common sense into the dirt!

"Whether it's a joke or not, you'll find out very soon."

A cruel and eerie arc curled at the corner of Chen Xi's mouth. He slammed his raised right hand down, and the Mythic-grade card—[The Fourth Calamity: Advent Network], which contained the subconscious network of eight billion humans on Earth and fused a hundredfold time acceleration with the laws of immortality—shattered with a bang in the vacuum of space!

"[Miracle · Hyper-Dimensional Authority Deployment]!"

"[Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] Warp Gate... open for me—at full power!!!"