Deep Space Scavenging, Hand Over Alien Warships at the Beginning

His completely energized palm penetrated the core’s shell without resistance and grabbed the trembling soul data inside.

He squeezed hard.

Snap.

Just like crushing a real bug.

The entire core hollow instantly fell silent.

The once-unrivaled mechanical giant god’s eyes dimmed rapidly. Its massive body lost all power and collapsed with a thunderous roar.

[Ding! Successfully killed ’Cardinal · wrath’.]

[Points gained: 50 million.]

[Recycled top-grade material: Divine Mechanical Core (Shattered).]

Lin Yuan panted heavily, looking at the still-steaming fragment in his hand.

He had won.

But he knew it wasn’t over yet.

Without wrath’s control, the energy balance inside the divine punishment had been broken. The sea of liquid alloy beneath his feet began to churn violently, and the surrounding rock walls were collapsing.

This artificial battle star was about to explode.

”Perfect, I’ll add a little something for you.”

Lin Yuan glanced at the antimatter energy nearly overflowing within him. He didn’t plan to take this energy with him because there was too much—so much that he couldn’t possibly digest it.

If he didn’t discharge it, he would become a walking nuclear bomb even if he returned to Earth.

”Lucky you, let’s put on a firework show for the whole universe.”

Lin Yuan pressed both hands onto wrath’s gradually cooling wreckage. He funneled all the divine energy he had devoured, along with the shattered core, back into the divine punishment’s power furnace in one go.

Overload.

Absolute overload.

The alarm sound instantly changed from ear-piercing to a sharp, continuous drone—the sign that the critical point had been breached.

”System, return home!”

[High-energy explosion imminent, initiating forced extraction... Spatial anchor locked: Periphery of the great xia dragon sparrow.]

Lin Yuan’s figure flickered in the void.

Exactly 0.01 seconds after he disappeared.

A ball of light ten thousand times brighter than the sun lit up deep within the planet’s core.

...

In space.

Chen Weiguo and all the Great Xia soldiers held their breath, staring intently at the black giant ship suspended in the void.

A few seconds ago, all the gunfire on it had suddenly stopped.

Then, the massive cross-shaped hull began to tremble, and countless glowing cracks appeared on its surface.

”That’s...” The thermos in Academician Wang’s hand fell to the floor.

BOOM—!!!

No sound can travel through a vacuum, but at that moment, everyone heard a world-shaking roar in their souls.

The divine punishment.

That planetary-class battleship representing the supreme majesty of the Mechanical Papacy exploded from within.

It didn’t shower fragments like a normal ship explosion; instead, it was like a collapsing supernova. First, it contracted violently, then it suddenly expanded outward.

An exquisitely brilliant blue-violet firework bloomed in the center of the Boulder Starfield.

The smaller warships that had been surrounding it didn’t even have a chance to escape. They were directly caught in the destructive energy tide and instantly vaporized.

The light illuminated half of the Milky Way’s spiral arm.

Amidst that rain of light, a tiny figure tumbled out of thin air, floating in space.

Lin Yuan’s current appearance was wretched.

His Void Body was nearly exhausted, and he had reverted to a bloodied human form. He was like a tattered rag, tumbling through the vacuum with the aftershocks of the explosion.

”Cough...”

Even though no sound could be heard, he instinctively wanted to cough.

He struggled to open his swollen eyes, watching the magnificent destruction he had personally wrought.

Truly beautiful.

Much more beautiful than the flames of burning trash in the junkyard.

Just then, the long-silent system notification sound rang out in his fading consciousness.

This time, there was no flashy broadcast of rewards.

Only a simple, spine-chilling pop-up floated on his retina.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the hidden achievement: God Slayer.]

[Extracted a unique God-tier item clue from the core data of ’wrath’.]

[Clue Name: Universe Reset Button (Fragment 1/3).]

[Item Description: Don’t press it randomly. It really will shut everything down.]

Lin Yuan looked at those words, and his mind, which was about to pass out, suddenly cleared for a moment.

The corners of his mouth quirked up into a silent, bitter smile in the vacuum.

”Reset button?”

”Is this universe... just some broken computer that hasn’t been fixed yet?”