Deep Space Scavenging, Hand Over Alien Warships at the Beginning

Chapter 160 Taking the Earth on a Wandering Journey, Anyone Who Stands in My Way Will Be Tear Them Apart!The explosion in the Boulder Starfield, bright enough to blind half the galactic arm, finally extinguished.

The great xia dragon sparrow lay askew in the void, its hull covered in metallic lumps that had melted under high heat and then solidified. Of the more than three thousand warships, less than half could still keep their lights on. Most of the frigates that hadn’t survived were shattered by the aftershocks of the divine punishment’s main cannon, turning into twinkling debris in the sea of stars.

Chen Weiguo stood before a porthole with a hairline crack, his hands shaking so much he couldn’t hold a cigarette. He used to think that war was just about risking one’s life, but today he had witnessed that in front of a planetary-level monster, risking one’s life was sometimes a luxury.

”We won, but we’re tapped out.”

Chen Weiguo’s voice was terribly hoarse. A briefing had just arrived from the Proxima Centauri base; to withstand that world-destroying red light, ninety percent of the half-finished surface fortifications had collapsed.

Just then, a figure resembling a tattered sack was pulled steadily through the hatch by a gravity beam.

It was Lin Yuan.

His current appearance was simply unbearable to look at. His clothes had long since been burned to ash, and a listless dark gold luster shimmered through his translucent flesh. Even his eye sockets had sunken in considerably.

”Old... Old Chen, give me a hand.”

Lin Yuan stumbled the moment he landed. Academician Wang rushed over like mad with a group of medics. While injecting various glowing blue potions into him, Academician Wang muttered, ”My dear ancestor, you can’t die! Your body is worth more than the core of the divine punishment right now!”

Lin Yuan slumped on the stretcher, his consciousness not yet fully clear, as a constant dinging sound echoed in his head.

[Ding! System mission settlement complete.]

[Battlefield cleanup in progress... Since the ’divine punishment’ is in a self-destructed state, it is judged as giant space junk.]

[Performing forced recycling! Due to the excessive volume, the core module will be extracted first.]

[Congratulations to the host: Obtained complete schematics for ’planetary engine’ technology; obtained blueprint for ’Strong Gravity Deflection Device’.]

[Key achievement reached: Godslayer.]

[System Upgrade: Current Level — Intermediate Scavenger.]

[New permissions unlocked: Everything Can Be Scrapped! Current recycling range limit increased to ’stellar-class’.]

Hearing that last announcement, Lin Yuan’s eyes, which were about to close, suddenly snapped open.

stellar-class?

Did this mean that if he didn’t like the look of a certain sun in the future, he could just bag it up and sell it for points?

As soon as this thought surfaced, Lin Yuan passed out in satisfaction.

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Half a month later.

Lin Yuan woke up in a specially designed nutrition pod aboard the great xia dragon sparrow. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Academician Wang’s wrinkled old face pressed against the glass, with a pair of glasses as thick as bottle bottoms perched on the tip of his nose.

”He’s awake! This kid is as strong as an ox; he took an antimatter bomb and didn’t even die!” Academician Wang excitedly slapped the glass.

Lin Yuan pushed open the pod cover, took the metallic robe handed to him by gaia, and moved his arms with some effort. He found that his body was now incredibly heavy; every step felt like he was stomping a hole into the floor.

”How’s the situation outside?” Lin Yuan’s first words were about business.

Chen Weiguo walked in, his face as dark as the bottom of a pot. ”Our reputation is through the roof, but so is the trouble.”

He pointed to the holographic star map on the wall. The gray area representing the Mechanical Papacy was flashing frantically, and countless red dots representing high-energy signatures were converging toward the Solar System from deep within the Orion Arm.

”The one you killed the other day was just one Cardinal. That fanatical organization, the Papacy, has twelve monsters of that caliber. They view the destruction of the divine punishment as a desecration of a miracle. Now, the Heresy Tribunals throughout the galaxy are on the move,” Chen Weiguo said worriedly. ”It took us a year to scrape together three thousand ships. If three more like ’wrath’ show up this time, we’ll really have to take our whole families and jump into a black hole.”