Deep Space Scavenging, Hand Over Alien Warships at the Beginning

Chapter 162 You want to leave without money? Leave Earth behind first!On the communication screen, after a distorted burst of static, a face that extremely violated human aesthetics crowded the entire frame.

It was an outlier with gears and pistons embedded in half of its head. In place of the left eye was a constantly zooming infrared camera, each focus emitting a slight motor hum. The normal half of the face on the right was covered in dark brown patches, resembling burn marks from some corrosive liquid.

”The frequency of a primitive civilization?”

The guy calling himself the Black Shark King spoke with a voice as raspy as if it had been rubbed against sandpaper. He exhaled a puff of smoke with a metallic tang, which echoed through the speakers in the command room of the Heavenly Palace.

”Did I hear that right? A wandering civilization driving a dirt clod in flight actually dares to turn around and ask me for a toll?”

The background behind the Black Shark King was a cluttered hangar. Several burly men covered in exoskeletons were holding cutting torches, skillfully dismantling a scrapped small spaceship. An insignia of an unknown civilization was printed on the side of the ship, which was now being hacked into pieces like a pig in a slaughterhouse.

”Which mountain do you hail from? Do you understand the rules of this star sector?”

Lin Yuan leaned back in his command chair, carelessly playing with the casing of a scrapped Dimensional Reduction Grenade. Although the void engine was still cooling down, it didn’t stop him from putting on the air of a debt collector at the door.

”Rules? In Great Xia, my word is the rule. You’re blocking my sunlight, you know?”

Lin Yuan pointed to the pitch-black Earth behind him.

”This ball of mine is big, and the brake pads aren’t working very well. If I can’t stop and happen to smash your pile of scrap metal to pieces, where are you going to go cry then?”

Chen Weiguo broke out in a cold sweat as he listened. He whispered a reminder: ”Regimental Commander Lin, the scale of the opponent’s roadblock is not small. The radar alone scanned three thousand electromagnetic railguns, and that’s not counting the gravity traps hidden in the debris piles.”

Lin Yuan ignored him, his eyes still fixed on the Black Shark King on the screen.

The Black Shark King suddenly burst into a tooth-aching laugh.

”Interesting. I’ve been hanging around the Oort Cloud for three hundred years, and this is the first time I’ve seen such an arrogant prey.”

His infrared eyeball spun rapidly, as if scanning Earth from the South Pole to the North Pole.

”Earth civilization? Stop pretending. A new slot just refreshed on the ’Red List’ of the Orion Arm, saying a little place called Earth killed a Cardinal. Although I don’t believe you crawlers have that kind of ability, this ball’s power system is indeed worth some money.”

The expression on the Black Shark King’s face instantly became ferocious.

”Listen up, fugitives. I don’t care how you stole titan technology, since you’ve entered my toll station, you have to play by the rules.”

”The toll: First, hand over all the technical blueprints for that planetary engine of yours; second, 50% of the high-energy minerals inside Earth, including those cheap heavy fusion fuels of yours.”

”Short me by even an ounce, and I’ll tear this ball into parts and sell them as junk to the second-hand dealers at Sin Starport.”

As his words fell, rows of red lights suddenly lit up on the metal Great Wall that spanned tens of thousands of kilometers ahead. That was the sign of fire control system locking.

Earth was like a cocoon wrapped in countless red threads.

”Lin Yuan, there’s no time to dawdle with him.”

Academician Wang rushed in, drenched in sweat, clutching a red alarm sheet in his hand.

”Fuel red line! To coordinate with your ’Stealth Mode’ just now, we shut down the main reactor. Now, if we want to restart the engine for braking or perform a curvature test jump, the remaining fuel won’t even last ten minutes.”

”Worse yet, the biosphere’s heating system has dropped to the critical point. If you don’t find a way to get some fuel supplies, the people in the underground cities will freeze into icicles before the other side even fires.”

The pressure suddenly intensified.

This wasn’t a junkyard on Earth. This was deep space. Without material replenishment, this truly would be a cold grave.

Lin Yuan’s eyelid twitched, and he immediately put on a smiling face in the communication.