Chapter 456: We

The Riekong Commander was somewhat incredulous.

Only Qin Zheng remained calmly seated on the fishing platform, even wanting another sip of tea.

Of course, he wouldn't tell these people that the so‑called dimensional turbulence just now

was merely his old man tinkering a bit with a string of this star region using the system.

"See? I told you, it's very dangerous."

Qin Zheng spread his hands.

"To prevent this disaster from affecting the entire Alliance branch, this arbitration has to make a difficult decision."

He cleared his throat, and his expression suddenly became solemn.

"Given that the Lanjing and Riekong civilizations lack the ability to safely mine star marrow, and their dispute has severely degraded the stellar environment, in order to preserve universal peace and ensure Alliance security…"

"I hereby declare that the Starry Sea is, effective immediately, designated as an extreme‑danger control zone!"

"The area will be taken over by the Yanhuang Civilization, which will impose an indefinite blockade and maintenance until the crisis is completely resolved!"

"During this period, any ship that intrudes without permission will be deemed a provocation against the Yanhuang Civilization and the Universal Alliance's security, and we will … resolutely destroy it!"

The communication channel fell into a death‑like silence.

The two commanders gaped, their minds buzzing.

They had imagined the Yanhuang Civilization might favor one side, or split evenly, or even extort a hefty fee.

But they never expected that this newcomer would outright flip the table and even cart away the pot!

"You… are you crazy?!"

The Lanjing Commander finally snapped back, roaring.

"This is robbery! Bare‑knuckle robbery! The Alliance Council will never approve it!"

"We will file a complaint! We will impeach you!"

The Riekong Commander also screamed.

"Whatever."

Qin Zheng shrugged, a look of indifference on his face, "File your complaint yourselves; I have disaster relief to attend to and no time for idle chatter."

Having said that, he gave them no chance to retort.

"Uncle Zhou."

"Activate the Heaven Net Blockade Protocol and enclose this sector for me."

Qin Zheng said to Zhou Yunhai.

"Got it!" Zhou Yunhai's face flushed with excitement.

The next moment, an unprecedented strange device rose from the Pangu Ship.

An invisible ripple swept outward, enveloping the entire Starry Sea.

Meanwhile, far away, Wo Xiling, watching the scene via remote monitoring, felt her brain glitch.

She had originally intended to pose a problem to the Yanhuang Civilization to see how they would balance the various forces.

But...

These guys not only failed to solve it, they also seized the problem‑setter and the entire examination hall?

"This guy…"

Wo Xiling muttered to herself, a smile curling at the corner of her mouth.

"Indeed… they play by no script! Offending two civilizations outright, there must be a good show to watch."

Sure enough, the commanders of the two civilizations watched the scene, seething with anger.

"Yanhuang Civilization! You are violating Article V of the Alliance Charter! This is illegal occupation!"

The Lanjing Commander's roar blasted across the public channel.

Qin Zheng sat on the bridge of the Pangu, leisurely crossing his legs,

the holographic screen before him displayed countless red dots of the two civilizations' fleets, each unwilling to step beyond the danger line.

"Lanjing Commander, you may eat carelessly, but you must not speak carelessly."

Qin Zheng replied in a leisurely manner, his tone dripping with an innocence that could make one's blood boil.

"You saw the data model just now—dimensional redshift, constant fluctuation, spatial fissure—none of which isn't a prelude to a big bang?"

"Our Yanhuang Civilization, risking the annihilation of our entire fleet, voluntarily took on the 'bomb‑defusal' duty; you don't even present a banner, yet you still argue?"

"You—"

The Lanjing Commander was incensed.

"And who was that, the Riekong civilization, right?"

Qin Zheng turned to another screen, "Your fleet's retreat speed is a bit slow. To prevent a secondary collapse, our engineering ship will commence wide‑area dimensional reinforcement in ten minutes,

and if any of your ships happen to be squeezed into a four‑dimensional crevice, don't blame me for not issuing a warning. After all, it's a construction zone—no idle hands allowed."

"Retreat! All units withdraw a hundred light‑years!"

The Riekong Commander, though his teeth ached with hatred, was indeed frightened by that terrifying tremor.

Life is more important than resources.

Watching the two fleets retreat in disgrace, Zhou Yunhai laughed so hard he nearly choked:

"Brother Qin, you really know how to play. This isn't arbitration; it's like robbing a bank with a seal and forcing the manager to open the door for you."

"That's called strategic resource control."

Qin Zheng corrected, his gaze sharpening, "Alright, the miscellaneous crowd has cleared; the buffet can now open for business."

Heaven Palace Microcosm Center.

After Qin Hao finished absorbing those black holes, he arrived here at the Starry Sea.

"System, activate directed absorption mode."

【Command confirmed. Target: Starlight Sea, estimated absorption time one year.】

In an instant, drastic changes unobservable to outsiders occurred inside the Starlight Sea.

If the previous mining of the two civilizations was like scooping water from the sea with a spoon, then Qin Hao has now pulled the plug out of the bathtub.

The violet-gold nebulae sealed within the barrier began to collapse wildly toward the center.

The originally violent high-dimensional energy ore—Star Marrow—was decomposed by the System into Energy Points.

【Detected high-purity dimensional energy injection……】

【Energy units +100,000……+5,000,000……+20,000,000……】

The numbers on the System panel began to jump wildly at a dizzying speed.

This growth speed is ten thousand times faster than devouring those few wild black holes before!

"This is the real treasure!"

Qin Hao felt ecstatic inside, yet he maintained absolute calm.

"These level-seven civilizations are simply wasteful of heavenly riches; they only know to use raw ore as fuel, not understanding how to extract the underlying principles within."

The energy concentration of the Starlight Sea is sharply declining.

The originally brilliant nebula began to dim, those flashing high-energy reaction points like extinguished lamps,

disappearing one after another.

And to the outside world, this is the Yanhuang Civilization using some unknown means to quell the dimensional storm.

Time, meanwhile, flowed on in this environment.

One month later......

"Report, Commander! Monitoring shows that the energy readings inside the Starlight Sea are……plummeting off a cliff!"

An officer of the Blue Crystal Civilization transmitted a report.

"A decline?"

The leader of the Blue Crystal Civilization, 【Mu De】, stared for a moment, "Could it be that they are actually governing?"

"No……wrong! This decline speed is too fast! It's as if something is eating it up!"

At the same time, the alliance outpost, the Nüwa Civilization's station.

Wa Xiling watched the real-time data charts being transmitted back, their eyes containing the birth and death of stars narrowing slightly.

"In such a short time, the total energy value of the star field has dropped by 10%……"

"So-called dimensional governance, is this really the way to govern? What a gluttonous fellow."

However, she did not stop it, nor did she expose it.

On the contrary, her interest grew ever stronger.

"To be able to so efficiently transform the violent energy within Star Marrow, the technology of the Yanhuang Civilization has probably reached the threshold of an eighth-level civilization; just how many more secrets are you hiding?"

As the final wave of energy surge surged into the System, a prompt tone also followed.

【Energy reserves sufficient. Current energy units: 10^20.】

【Should we immediately consume energy to parse the ultimate information of the "Zero Catastrophe"?】

Qin Hao's eyes lit up, and he calmed his excited emotions a bit.

"Parse."

【Deducted 6,666 × 10^20 energy units, parsing completed】

The next second, his consciousness was forcibly pulled by the System into a pure white space.

Countless tangled streams of information exploded in his mind, a grand scroll vast enough to overturn everyone's cognition slowly unfurled.