Deep Space Scavenging, Hand Over Alien Warships at the Beginning

He certainly knew about these unspoken rules, but he never expected these things to be laid out so clearly on the table.

”This is forged.” Platinum said in a deep voice. ”As a low-level civilization, you have no authority to collect evidence against high-level civilization officials. This so-called evidence has no validity in the Order Court.”

”I don’t know about court validity, but I know that if this were sent to the Galactic Public Network, that ’righteous and noble’ skin of your Order Bureau would probably be ripped right off.”

Lin Yuan crossed his legs leisurely. ”Inspector Platinum, you didn’t come here to uphold justice; you came here to silence witnesses and take back that ledger, right?”

Exposed, Platinum stopped pretending to be a gentleman.

He slammed the table, his eyes sinister. ”So what if you know? Lin Yuan, look at your current situation. Can those ragged frigates of yours withstand the investigation team’s crystal railguns?”

”I have a bad temper and no patience to play these legal games with you. Now, hand over Zeta and the evidence immediately, then commit suicide. I can guarantee that half of the ants on your planet will be allowed to live as slaves.”

Platinum waved his hand, and the three high-level patrol ships simultaneously lit up with purple charging energy, the gravitational field within a ten-thousand-mile radius beginning to fluctuate violently.

Chen Weiguo clenched his fists nearby. Although he was prepared for battle, the pressure of this level of suppression still made him feel suffocated.

”You want the people, you want the evidence, and you want our lives?”

Lin Yuan chuckled, his voice growing louder. ”Inspector Platinum, have you been a high official for so long that your brain has grown mold?”

”You just listed a bunch of crimes, so now I’m going to settle the score with you.”

Lin Yuan pulled a scrap of paper he’d torn from somewhere out of his pocket and read it with great seriousness. ”First, due to your Order Bureau’s poor supervision, pirates intercepted Earth, causing us extremely serious mental distress. Calculated by headcount, one hundred star coins per person—that’s not much, right? Two billion people, that’s two hundred billion.”

”Second, to clean up this star sector you dirtied, I wasted a lot of ammunition and fuel. You need to pay for this too. It’s not much, let’s call it fifty billion.”

”Third, you scared me just now. I’m timid, and when I get scared, my hands tend to shake. And when they shake, I accidentally press the wrong button.”

Platinum laughed as if he’d heard the biggest joke in the world, his body trembling with laughter.

”Mental distress? Trying to extort the Order Bureau? Lin Yuan, do you know who you’re talking to?”

”I know.”

Lin Yuan’s smile grew cold, and he lightly tapped the control console. ”I’m talking to a pile of walking metal ingots.”

”Old Man Wang, don’t hold back. Say hello to this Inspector Platinum.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the thousands of planetary engines at the base of the Earth, which had been drifting by inertia, suddenly lit up with blinding blue light.

But this time they weren’t propelling the Earth; instead, using the lens array temporarily installed by Academician Wang, they forcibly compressed and refracted the terrifying fusion energy.

Over twelve thousand thick, high-energy plasma beams converged in space to form a massive halo.

Those ten thousand-plus engines were now ten thousand-plus super-heavy cannons aimed at the investigation team!

”What... is that?”

Platinum’s laughter stopped abruptly.

The alarm on the investigation team’s flagship instantly turned from yellow to a blinding crimson.

”Warning! Planetary-level energy fluctuation detected! Target locked!”

”Warning! Shield capacity has reached its limit, unable to withstand this attack!”

”Inspector! The enemy’s thrusters... the enemy’s thrusters have all turned into cannon barrels!” The radar operator’s voice was filled with desperate screaming.

The color drained completely from Platinum’s face.

He had originally thought it was just a moving planet, at most equipped with a few decent anti-aircraft guns.

But he hadn’t expected these lunatics to have converted the entire planet’s propulsion system into weapons!

Ten thousand-plus ”engines” capable of vaporizing asteroids—if they fired simultaneously...

Never mind these three patrol ships; even a regular fleet formation here would be instantly erased.

”Inspector Platinum, look at how badly my hand is shaking.”