283: Chapter 283 It's too noisy!

Chen Xi's voice seemed to ignore the barriers of physical space, echoing faintly directly in Garu's ear.

In the next second, Garu discovered to his horror that the youth in black, who had been floating outside the ship, was now strolling casually—completely ignoring the flagship's high-dimensional energy shield, which was claimed to withstand anti-matter cannon fire—and appearing out of thin air inside the heavily guarded command cabin as if passing through a curtain of water!

"Protect the Commander!!!"

The dozens of elite Raider guards remaining in the command cabin, after a brief moment of shock, roared and raised their high-energy beam rifles. Several silicon-based powerhouses above Lv.90 even drew high-frequency vibration blades and lunged frantically at Chen Xi.

"Too noisy."

Chen Xi didn't even spare a glance at these ants. He merely lowered his eyes slightly and gave a light tap with his right foot on the alloy floor.

Hum—!

An invisible and overbearingly powerful [Anti-Rule Field] instantly rippled outward with him as the center.

The Lv.90 silicon-based powerhouses charging at the front stiffened the moment they touched this field. Then, they discovered with horror that the high-dimensional energy circuits they took pride in were being forcibly 'formatted'!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

There was no blood splatter, nor was there a tragic struggle. Dozens of elite guards collapsed straight onto the ground like scrap metal machines that had their power suddenly pulled, turning into a pile of lifeless junk.

"You... what kind of monster are you?!"

Watching this scene, Garu's psychological defenses completely collapsed. He, the grand Commander of the Orion Interstellar Raiders, a cosmic overlord who had stepped onto the threshold of a Lv.110 god, actually felt a deep sense of powerlessness before this human youth, like a bug looking up at the starry sky.

"Who I am isn't important. What's important is that you are now my prey."

Chen Xi walked step by step toward Garu, who was slumped in the command chair, his lips curling into a cold arc.

He slowly raised his right hand, and a card emitting an eerie purple-black light, its surface flowing with countless complex spiritual runes, gradually took shape at his fingertips.

"You... what do you want to do?! I am a VIP of the Orion Black Market Alliance! If you dare kill me, the entire Interstellar Alliance will not let you Earthlings off!!!" Garu roared with false bravado, attempting to use the forces behind him to threaten Chen Xi.

"Interstellar Alliance? Heh, they will soon learn that provoking us Earthlings was the biggest mistake they've made in their lives."

Chen Xi gave a cold laugh and, without any nonsense, slammed the card he had just temporarily forged through [Miracle Creation] directly onto Garu's massive semi-mechanical head!

"[Miracle: Soul Analysis - Soul-Searching Soul-Seizing Card]! Open for me!!!"

AAAAAAAGH—!!!!!

Garu let out a blood-curdling scream a hundred times more wretched than any before!

This was not physical torture, but the extreme agony of a soul being crudely torn apart and memories being forcibly flipped through!

Under the overbearing rule-power of the [Soul-Searching Card], the high-dimensional memory blocks stored in Garu's brain, which were protected by the highest level of encryption, were like safes being smashed open by brute force. All his secrets flashed frantically through Chen Xi's mind like movie film.

The distribution of forces in the Orion Arm... the route maps of interstellar pirates... the power ratings of the myriad races in the universe...

Vast and complex interstellar intelligence was rapidly filtered and absorbed by Chen Xi's [Peak of Demigod] spiritual sea, which was comparable to a quantum computer.

Suddenly, Chen Xi's tightly closed eyes snapped open, and a terrifyingly sharp light burst from his crimson-gold pupils!

In the deepest memory fragments of Garu, he had captured a piece of information that made even his heart throb violently!

In the images:

It was an indescribably massive super space station built upon a dead white dwarf—the [Myriad Realms Black Market].

And within the black market's highest-level underground auction house, a damaged item sealed within layers of high-dimensional barriers was emitting a familiar, heart-palpitating fluctuation.

It was a metal cube fragment in a perfect cubic shape, its surface covered in ancient, mysterious runes identical to those on Earth's [Tower of Heaven]!

"This is..." Chen Xi stared intently at the images in Garu's memory, his breathing involuntarily becoming heavy.

"No... don't look at that... that is a taboo!!!" Garu twitched in the agony of the soul-search, yet still tried to cover up the secret. "That is something the Star God Race personally requested... if you touch it, you will die without a place for burial!!!"

"Shut up."

Chen Xi snorted coldly and increased the intensity of the soul-search.

More information flooded into his mind.

[imperial treasury key: god-creating cube fragment]!

Legend has it that this was one of the supreme legacies left behind hundreds of thousands of years ago by the "Ancient Human Ascension Empire" that once ruled this universe!

It was said that by gathering the entire cube, one could find the ultimate treasury hidden by the Ancient Empire in the deepest reaches of the universe. Within that treasury lay the ultimate technology capable of allowing ordinary carbon-based organisms to achieve a "dual mechanical and psionic ascension" and [mass-producing gods]!

It was precisely the appearance of this item that had caused tremors among several surrounding high-level galactic civilizations.

And Garu's pirate fleet had originally intended to take advantage of the fall of the [Star Abyss Tyrant] in the "ownerless land" of Earth to make a fortune before heading to the Myriad Realms Black Market to attend this century-defining auction that could change the structure of the universe!

"god-creating cube... mass-producing gods... so that's how it is."

Chen Xi released his hand from the top of Garu's head.

The soul-search ended, and the purple-black card turned to ash and dissipated. As for Garu, the once-unrivaled alien commander, his eyes were now rolled back, his electronic brain completely fried. He slumped in the command chair like a pile of mud, already a soulless empty shell.

"The thing you alien bandits dream of obtaining turns out to be a legacy left by my ancestors?"

Chen Xi looked at Garu's corpse, his lips slowly curling into an extremely arrogant smile. With a casual wave, he turned Garu's body into pure energy and absorbed it, then turned and walked out of the command cabin.

Meanwhile, on the interstellar battlefield outside, the battle was nearing its end.

Under the suicidal, locust-like plundering of the "fourth calamity" and the dimensional-reduction strikes of Su Xiaoxiao and the other two girls, the massive alien fleet had been dismantled until not even a single intact warship remained.

The Earth Players were excitedly carrying various pieces of high-tech alien armor and weaponry, lining up to return through the portal to the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] to count their spoils of war.