Deep Space Scavenging, Hand Over Alien Warships at the Beginning

Chapter 203 Live Broadcast Across the Universe: A Responsible Statement Regarding the Theft of the Sun”Remnants of the Great Xia Expeditionary Force?”

Lin Yuan stared at the glaring red text on the screen, his fingers tapping unconsciously on the armrest.

The communication channel was deathly silent; even A Ji, usually the most boisterous, didn’t dare to breathe loudly. The weight of those few words was too heavy—heavy enough to crush the nerves of every Earthling present.

”Boss, should we reply?” Alita’s voice was somewhat low. ”The signal source has been cut off, but I’ve locked onto the approximate transmission sector. It’s... very far from here, on the other side of the Orion Arm.”

”Reply, my ass.”

Lin Yuan snorted coldly, swiping away the line of code. His eyes regained their habitual, slightly ruffian-like clarity. ”They want us to stay silent, and you want to hold a megaphone and shout ’I’m here’? That’s just asking for death.”

He stood up and stretched, his joints popping like firecrackers.

”Keep this matter to yourselves; no one is allowed to leak it. The priority right now is dealing with these tag-alongs.” Lin Yuan walked to the massive floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the row of figures bound and kneeling on the vacuum deck outside. ”Besides, we just got a new territory. If we don’t set off a few firecrackers to make some noise, how will anyone know this place belongs to the Lin family from now on?”

A Ji immediately perked up, thumping his chest loudly. ”Boss, how do you want to handle them? Steam them or boil them? I’ll go preheat the reactor right now!”

”Tacky.”

Lin Yuan shot him a look of disdain, straightened his slightly damaged coat, and adjusted his hair in the reflective glass.

”We are civilized people, a proper interstellar demolition squad... oh wait, the Earth Defense Force. We need to follow procedure; we need to be open and transparent.”

He snapped his fingers, a playful curve forming at the corner of his mouth.

”Alita, connect to the full-band communicator we just snatched from the Mechanical Papacy. Send out a live broadcast link to the entire universe. Title it...”

Lin Yuan paused, thinking of a name explosive enough to give every major interstellar civilization a brain hemorrhage.

”《A Statement of Responsibility Regarding the Blazing Sun Star System Sun Theft Case》.”

Half an hour later.

For the many civilizations on the edge of the galaxy, this day was absolutely one where their worldviews collapsed.

All screens that had been playing interstellar news, entertainment programs, or even certain black market transaction lists suddenly flickered without warning.

Immediately after, the broadcast was forcibly cut.

Replacing it was a scene that was incredibly shocking, even terrifying.

The background was a massive star, burning with raging golden flames. The terrifying heat seemed to rush out through the screen; the distorted light gave the entire image an unreal, dreamlike quality.

In front of this star hovered a massive metal platform.

Two rows of people were kneeling on the platform.

The row on the left wore tattered mechanical red robes—they were the cardinals of the Mechanical Papacy, who made countless low-level civilizations tremble in fear; the row on the right, with faces full of fat and bodies covered in prosthetic limbs, were the rampant interstellar pirate leaders.

At this moment, these big shots who usually threw their weight around were shrinking their necks like quails, trembling like chaff.

In the center of the screen, a smiling face that made people want to punch it leaned close to the camera.

”Hey, hey, hey? Can you hear me? Hello, folks.”

Lin Yuan waved at the camera, his tone as relaxed as if he were doing a food livestream. ”Thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedules to watch my broadcast. I am the Commander-in-Chief of the Earth Defense Force, and also the current... um, security administrator of this star sector, Lin Yuan.”

Countless interstellar bigwigs watching the broadcast nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Security administrator?

You call that a security administrator?

Lin Yuan ignored the potential abuse in the barrage comments. He stepped back, revealing the massive sun behind him, and reached out to pat it as if he were showing off a cabbage grown in his own backyard.

”First, I want to clarify a small misunderstanding that just occurred.”