Deep Space Scavenging, Hand Over Alien Warships at the Beginning

Lin Yuan walked to the star map, looking at the mining planets already marked with the Great Xia flag.

”This is what you call waiting for a rabbit to hit a tree; sooner or later, we’ll be wiped out in one go,” Lin Yuan curled his lip. ”Old Chen, back when you were fighting guerrilla wars, what did you do if your home base was about to be taken?”

Chen Weiguo paused. ”Is that even a question? You take the troops and find another mountain. You head wherever you can win.”

”Exactly.” Lin Yuan pointed to the heart of the star map—the wealthiest yet most chaotic central region of the galaxy. ”We’re not staying here to waste away with them. Earth is right here, a sitting duck. We need to move.”

”Move? Are you joking?” Academician Wang jumped up. ”That’s Earth! A sphere weighing tens of billions of tons—you plan to put it in a sack?”

Lin Yuan gave a sly smile and pulled up a complex geometric structure diagram from the system panel.

”Old Wang, I recycled all the remaining scraps of the divine punishment. The core technology inside wasn’t anything else; it was this engine that can push a planet across the universe.” A hint of madness flashed in Lin Yuan’s eyes. ”Back when we were working on the ’South Heaven Gate Project’ in Great Xia, didn’t we always feel that Earth lacked resources? Let’s just take the planet on an expedition.”

”The Papacy wants to come and harvest us? Let them harvest nothing. We’ll take our home to the galactic center. It’s full of ruins and high-dimensional remnants everywhere. Over there, I’ll be the protagonist of scavenging.”

Dead silence filled the command room.

Wandering with the Earth? This idea wasn’t just bold; it was like ripping off the ancestors’ coffin lids to use as skateboards.

But on second thought, this was actually the only way out.

Great Xia wasn’t used to being a stray dog. If they had to leave, they would take every inch of land, every mountain, and every scrap yard they hadn’t dismantled yet.

”Let’s do it!” Chen Weiguo slammed his palm on the table. ”We’re just waiting to die if we stay here anyway. Might as well try a new way of living. This starry sky is so vast—why can the Papacy go there, but our Great Xia can’t?”

Three months later.

Solar System, Earth Orbit.

This was perhaps the most spectacular and tear-jerking scene in human history.

Tens of thousands of metallic towers, each over ten thousand meters tall, rose from every corner of the land. The Tibetan Plateau, the Sahara Desert, the Antarctic ice sheets... these engines were like pillars pinning down the sea, firmly rooted deep into the Earth’s crust.

”Attention all of humanity, I am Lin Yuan.”

Lin Yuan’s voice broadcasted globally, reaching every bunker and every factory.

”Because some self-righteous zealots want to turn our home into a pig farm, we’ve decided to move. Our ancestors always spoke of being deeply attached to the land and reluctant to move, but this time, we’re taking the land with us. Once we’ve established ourselves in the galactic center, we’ll come back and turn the Solar System into Great Xia’s back garden.”

”Now, everyone, hold onto your handrails.”

”Set sail!”

With Lin Yuan’s command, the bottoms of tens of thousands of planetary engines erupted with pillars of ethereal blue fire over a thousand kilometers long.

At that moment, the once-silent Earth let out a muffled roar.

The massive thrust passed directly through the mantle, acting upon every rock. The watchers left at the lunar base saw the azure planet, after a period of violent trembling, slowly break away from the orbit it had maintained for billions of years.

The Moon was not to be outdone. As Earth’s satellite, it had been fitted with even more powerful gravity-towing devices. These two celestial bodies, one large and one small, were like a pair of brothers depending on each other, carving two dazzling wakes in the pitch-black void.

Earth was accelerating.

The blue light generated by those planetary engines illuminated Earth’s atmosphere like a giant auroral sphere.

Thanks to the gravity control technology Lin Yuan had recycled, the people on the surface didn’t feel any overly violent tremors. They only noticed that the Moon seemed to have grown a bit larger, while the sun that had hung overhead for millions of years was shrinking bit by bit in their vision, eventually becoming an ordinary first-magnitude star.

Lin Yuan stood in the command room of the great xia dragon sparrow, watching the yellow dwarf star recede on the screen.