Crack.
Qin Yu's five fingers suddenly clenched tight.
The dark blue crystal in his palm erupted with a blinding light.
In mid-air, the Executive Officer's distorted human face instantly froze.
"You… you're insane!"
The Executive Officer's voice was no longer lofty and condescending, but filled with a deep, primal fear.
"You're all going to die! You have no idea what's inside that thing!"
Qin Yu sneered coldly.
He directly severed the data connection to the altar.
"Noisy."
Boom!
The face composed of code shattered like glass.
Completely and utterly erased from this world.
[Ding!]
[System Notification: Regional Administrator (Codename: Executive Officer) has been physically eliminated.]
[The underlying logic of this region is beginning to collapse!]
"Boss! The suppression is lifted!"
Elena's voice rang through the communicator, brimming with wild joy.
"My armor's power output is back to one hundred percent!"
Before Qin Yu could even speak.
The fragment in his palm suddenly began throbbing violently, as if it were alive.
Bzzzzzz—
A piercing hum penetrated the seawater.
[Warning! Warning!]
[Detected that the Ocean Soul Crystal Mother (Fragment) code is infected by an unknown virus!]
[The virus is frantically devouring the surrounding residual bio-magnetic fields!]
Qin Yu frowned.
He looked down.
Countless fine black tendrils had actually sprouted from the crystal in his palm.
These tendrils, sharp as steel needles, stabbed viciously toward Qin Yu's arm.
"Get the hell off me!"
Qin Yu flung his hand back, smashing the fragment directly onto the altar.
Boom!
The moment the fragment hit the ground, it became like a massive black hole.
The hundreds of thousands of Aberrant carcasses in the surrounding seawater—cooked and shattered by the Micro Star—were all violently dragged toward it by a terrifying suction force.
Even the scattered fragments of garbled code from the Executive Officer's explosion were not spared.
"What the hell is this thing?"
Li Ruobing gasped sharply.
She watched helplessly as the shredded flesh, bones, and mechanical debris twisted and writhed madly around the fragment.
In just a few seconds.
A terrifying behemoth, over five hundred meters in size and nearly filling the entire trench floor, rose from the ground!
This monster had no fixed form.
Its body was covered with countless eyes, tentacles, and even broken cannon barrels from human warships.
It was completely a nauseating patchwork abomination.
[Monster Name: Abyssal Stitch-beast (Fragment Mutated Form)]
[Monster Rating: Pseudo-Rule Tier]
[Characteristics: Immortal and Indestructible, Infinite Devouring.]
ROAR—!
The Stitch-beast threw back its head and let out an ear-splitting roar.
Strangely, the sound carried echoes of the Executive Officer's dying words.
"Qin Yu… give the fragment… back to me…"
"Give it back to your grandpa!"
Qin Yu cursed loudly.
"All units, scatter! Gain altitude!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Dozens of S-Class Armors erupted at full power.
The Valkyrie Corps instantly scattered like an exploding swarm of bees, rapidly climbing upward.
At that moment.
A burst of pure, static-free electric noise suddenly came through the communicator in Qin Yu's ear.
"Husband!"
"Brother-in-law! Can you hear us?!"
It was the voices of Yao Xue and Yao Qian.
The voices were crystal clear.
No longer hindered by any underlying magnetic field interference.
"Copy that, what's the situation up there?"
Qin Yu ascended while dodging the massive tentacles the abomination swung at him.
A tentacle scraped against his armor, sending a shower of sparks flying.
"All systems are back online!"
Yao Qian's voice was so excited it nearly cracked.
"The Area Anti-Magic Chains are completely shattered!"
"The President's SS-grade plasma thrusters are operating at full power!"
"Radar scanning range has returned to normal!"
"My Medical Cell Reconstitution Platform is also at full capacity."
Yao Xue's icy voice was laced with barely suppressed killing intent.
"I see that ugly thing below you."
"Bro! My Floating Fortress is fully charged too!"
Qi Chun shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Damn it, I've been holding back for so long!"
"We were getting pushed around earlier, now it's our turn to fight back, right?"
Qin Yu looked down at the colossal creature frantically climbing below.
A cruel smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
"Yao Xue, Yao Qian."
"Qi Chun."
"Push all main cannons to the red line for me!"
"Aim at the bottom of the trench."
Qin Yu hovered in the deep blue seawater.
Raising the Kiss of Death with one hand.
"Today, I'm going to give this beast a three-dimensional sea-air-land send-off!"
On the sea surface.
The once deathly silent solid ice had melted over a large area.
The President resembled a steel behemoth that had fully awakened.
Yao Xue adjusted her gold-rimmed glasses.
She directly pulled open the safety lock on the main console.
Her long legs, sheathed in black silk stockings, were crossed, her gaze extremely cold.
"Main cannon preheating complete."
"Energy conversion rate operating at 200% overload."
Yao Qian kicked her chair aside and stood up.
Her white silk-clad calves were taut, her fingers a blur as they flew across the keyboard.
"Fire Control Radar has locked onto target coordinates!"
"SS-grade High-Energy Particle Annihilation Cannon, ready!"
"Brother-in-law, you guys move aside, don't get blood on you!"
In mid-air.
Qi Chun's Floating Fortress also lowered all its gun ports.
Countless cannon muzzles glowed with a terrifying red light.
"Target locked! Ammunition chain feeding complete!"
At the seabed.
Qin Yu suddenly waved his hand.
"Ruo Bing, Elena!"
"Drive that beast towards the center for me!"
"Understood!"
Li Ruobing shouted excitedly.
The Berserker Pipe Wrench in her hand erupted with a dozen-meter-long beam of high-temperature red light.
"Take this wrench, you bitch!"
Li Ruobing swung head-on at a massive tentacle the abomination lashed out with.
"Clang—!"
Sparks flew everywhere.
The Pseudo-Rule Level monster's defense was extremely high.
But Li Ruobing's pipe wrench no longer suffered a ninety percent reduction in power.
It forcefully knocked the water-vat-thick tentacle off course.
"High-frequency Light Blades, cut off its retreat!"
Elena led the charge.
Dozens of Valkyries unleashed the full firepower of their weapons.
Dense energy beams formed a large net.
Firmly pinning the massive abomination in the very center of the trench.
Preventing it from getting anywhere near Qin Yu.
"Roar!"
The abomination was thoroughly enraged.
The cannon barrels formed from warship wreckage on its body began frantically gathering black Energy Spheres.
The surrounding seawater was drained, forming massive whirlpools.
"Fire!"
At the very moment the abomination prepared to counterattack.
Qin Yu roared through the comms channel.
"Boom—!!"
On the sea surface, the President's main cannon let out a sky-shattering roar.
A blue energy beam over twenty meters in diameter pierced straight through the deep sea.
Followed by hundreds of red lasers from Qi Chun's Floating Fortress.
The seawater was forcibly torn open, creating a vacuum channel several kilometers long.
The absolute fury from the sea surface struck the amalgamation creature's head with pinpoint accuracy.
"Roar—!"
The Pseudo-Rule Level amalgamation creature was directly smashed into the seabed mud by this terrifying firepower.
Countless eyes on its body burst open.
Green blood instantly stained the surrounding seawater.
"It's not dead!"
Li Ruobing shouted.
"This beast is using shredded flesh to repair its wounds!"
Under the astonished gazes of everyone.
The amalgamation creature's shattered body actually began to writhe frantically.
Debris from the seabed was once again absorbed by it, and its wounds healed at a visible rate.
"Immortal and indestructible?"
Qin Yu snorted coldly.
He tightened his grip on [Netherworld: Death's Kiss].
"The Executive Officer is dead, so this fragment is now ownerless."
"Since it likes to stitch things together."
"I'll just erase its coordinates along with it."
Qin Yu took a deep breath.
"System!"
"Activate ultimate form: Extinction · Void Grasp!"
[Ding!]
[Host command detected!]
[Weapon form reconstruction in progress... Reconstruction complete!]
[Note: This form can only be used once. After use, the weapon will enter a 72-hour dormancy period and drain the vehicle's backup energy.]
[Confirm?]
"Confirm!"
Qin Yu did not hesitate.
The heavy sniper cannon in his hand instantly dissolved and transformed.
Finally, it turned into a black glove with no physical form—only a twisted void—attached to Qin Yu's right hand.
A heart-stopping aura of deathly stillness instantly enveloped the entire trench.
Qin Yu raised his right hand.
Through hundreds of meters of seawater.
He aimed remotely at the amalgamation creature, still struggling frantically and attempting to reassemble itself.
The amalgamation creature seemed to sense an extremely lethal threat.
It abandoned its resistance to the surface artillery fire.
Countless tentacles shot toward Qin Yu like mad.
It wanted to stop this man.
"Too late."
Qin Yu spread his fingers.
His eyes were icy cold to the extreme.
"This strike isn't aimed at your flesh."
"Nor is it aimed at your energy."
Qin Yu suddenly clenched his fist.
"It targets the very space you exist in."
"Extinction."
There was no deafening explosion.
Nor any blinding light.
The moment Qin Yu clenched his fist.
The coordinates where the amalgamation creature was located suddenly resembled a shattered mirror.
Countless fine black spatial cracks appeared.
Then.
"Crack."
Space shattered.
The over-five-hundred-meter-tall, supposedly immortal and indestructible Pseudo-Rule Level amalgamation creature.
Instantly froze in place.
The next second.
It was as if an invisible giant eraser had wiped it directly from the painting.
Not a single drop of green blood or a shred of debris remained.
Completely reduced to nothingness.
At the bottom of the trench, an absolutely smooth spherical pit appeared.
Only a single deep blue [Sea Soul Crystal Mother (Fragment · Final)].
Lonely and suspended at the center of the pit.
Having lost all its ferocity and resistance.
This core code finally quieted down.
Gently flickering with a soft glow.
"Huff..."
Qin Yu gasped for breath heavily.
The black void glove on his right hand quickly faded away, reverting to a dull, lifeless sniper cannon.
The hibernation period had arrived.
"Brother-in-law?"
Yao Qian's tentative voice came through the communicator.
"The red dot on the radar... it's gone?"
Qin Yu put away his sniper cannon.
His body slowly descended, and he tightly grasped the final fragment in his hand.
Feeling the warm, smooth texture transmitted from his palm.
Qin Yu smiled.
"It's gone."
Qin Yu pressed the communicator, his voice weary but filled with absolute arrogance.
"Notify everyone."
"The alert is lifted."
The channel remained dead silent for a full three seconds.
Then.
An overwhelming roar of cheers erupted.
"Beautiful!" Qi Chun excitedly slammed the control console in the sky.
"Mission accomplished! Bro! You're my real brother!"
Elena quickly gathered the Valkyrie Corps around Qin Yu.
The dozens of stunning beauties looked at Qin Yu with an expression beyond mere fanaticism.
It was as if they were gazing upon their sole faith.
"Boss."
Elena leaned in, her mechanical arm gently resting on Qin Yu's shoulder.
"That move you just pulled was so cool it made my legs weak."
Li Ruobing pushed Elena aside.
Carrying a pipe wrench, she squeezed her way in front of Qin Yu.
"Cut it out."
Li Ruobing shot Elena a glare before turning to Qin Yu.
"Husband, we've got the thing. Shouldn't we head home now?"
Qin Yu looked at the final piece of the puzzle now complete in his hand.
The System Panel flashed frantically, with notification sounds ringing out one after another.
[Ding!]
[Congratulations, Host! Successfully collected all five fragments of the "Ocean Soul Crystal Mother"!]
[World Bottom-Layer Anchor reconstruction commencing...]
Qin Yu raised his head.
Gazing at the ocean above, now restored to its clear and profound state.
"Ruo Bing, Elena, assemble the team."
"We're heading back to the surface."
Qin Yu stored the fragment in his Storage Space.
Brushing off the seawater on his body.
"Tonight, we feast."
"Tomorrow morning, I'm going to see what this world's Truth really is!"