Cutting-edge Technology: I Provide the Brains, the State Provides Everything

”What matters is that from this second on, you need to remember this name.”

The image slowly rotated. Lu Chen turned around, his heterochromatic eyes—one gold and one white—seeming to gaze through the screen at every living creature in the Milky Way Galaxy.

”Just a moment ago, the ’Star Devourer’ that had entrenched itself in the Galactic Center for billions of years and swallowed countless civilizations has been erased by me.”

”And in four hundred years, a more powerful enemy—’the cleaners’—will arrive.”

”This is a war concerning the life and death of everyone; there is no neutrality, no escaping.”

Lu Chen stretched out a finger and pointed at the void beneath his feet.

”To cope with this crisis, the old order must be broken.”

”Those parliamentary debates that squabble over petty profits, those wars that kill each other for resources, are all prohibited from today on.”

”I announce that the Earth Federation officially takes over the supreme defense and administrative power of the Milky Way Galaxy.”

”All resources, all technology, and all populations must serve the same goal—that is to survive!”

Speaking of this, Lu Chen’s eyes suddenly became sharp as knives.

”I know that many of you will not be convinced, and will think that I am a tyrant, a dictator.”

”That is fine, you can resist.”

”But I want to remind you of one thing.”

Lu Chen snapped his fingers lightly.

The screen switched instantly.

It was a replay of the previous ’Dimensionality Reduction Strike.’ That two-dimensional painting that spanned several light-years and buried billions of Star Devourers was presented to the entire Milky Way Galaxy once again. Cruel, breathtakingly beautiful, and suffocating.

”In the face of absolute power, any opposition is nothing but a scrap of paper.”

”I have the ability to protect you, and naturally, I also have the ability... to erase you.”

”So, put away your ridiculous little thoughts and use your intelligence where it should be used.”

The screen cut back to Lu Chen’s face. His expression became calm again, but that aura of ruling the world had already been deeply imprinted in the hearts of every viewer.

”I do not want to say this a second time.”

”From today on, the Milky Way Galaxy...”

”Has only one voice.”

”And that is—the voice of Earth!”

The broadcast ended.

The entire Milky Way Galaxy fell into a long, deathly silence.

There were no protests, no parades, not even any insults on the network.

Because everyone was stunned by that absolute power and hegemony. When an existence that can casually crush a black hole and treat high-level civilizations like a drawing stands in front of you, what else can you do but submit?

Fear? Of course there was fear.

But beneath this fear, an emotion called ”hope” was quietly sprouting.

In this dark forest, weakness is the original sin. And now, they finally had a ”tyrant” strong enough to protect everyone.

For those low-level civilizations struggling at the bottom, this perhaps... was not a bad thing.

”He did it...”

Earth, Jinghai City.

Wang Peng stood on the top floor of the Future Technology Group building, looking at the crowd outside the window who were cheering fanatically because of this announcement, his eyes moistening unconsciously.

He remembered the young man who was eating instant noodles in a rented room a few years ago, the brother who said he would take him to the starry sea.

At that time, he thought it was just the young man’s wild talk.

But now, that young man really stood at the top of the Milky Way Galaxy, stepping on all those aliens that he could once only see in sci-fi movies!

”Chen Zi... you really are a monster.”

Wang Peng wiped away his tears, then grinned and picked up the phone on the table.

”Pass my order! All subsidiaries must immediately launch the ’Interstellar Expansion’ plan!”

”Since the boss has cleared the field for us, let us not be polite!”

”I want the game servers of ’oasis’ to be set up on the home planet of every alien civilization!”

”I want the entire Milky Way Galaxy to use our ’Golden Crow’ batteries!”

”This is... the ultimate form of a business empire!”

And on the distant ”expedition.”

Lu Chen ended the broadcast and rubbed his eyebrows with some fatigue.

Playing the role of a ”dictator” was actually not easy. But he had to do it because time waited for no one; he had to use the fastest and most violent means to twist the power of the entire Milky Way Galaxy into a single rope.

”Is everything arranged?” Lu Chen asked heavenly craft beside him.

[Yes, Master.]