Chapter 2

2. 【Natural Disaster or Evil Act? Do Not Slander the Innocent Without Cause!】

"Hmm?" Zhou Xuan blinked gently, finding this report somewhat familiar.

The Eternal Freeze, the Amber Lord, the Supreme Guardian, the Level 2 energy entity affecting the shipping lanes...

Familiar, far too familiar!

Some already blurred memories began to clear in Zhou Xuan's mind.

He remembered a certain six-character turn-based game he had played in his previous life...

"Honkai: Star Rail?" Zhou Xuan murmured softly.

The pre-light-speed civilization on the planet before him, judging by the report alone, was almost exactly Jarilo-VI from the game *Honkai: Star Rail*.

That shelter city surviving the Eternal Freeze was Belobog, the Amber Lord was the Preservation Aeon Qlipoth.

That Level 2 energy entity affecting the shipping lanes was the Stellaron sealed by the Astral Express crew.

Just as a flash of memory crossed Zhou Xuan's eyes, the swarm of nanobots controlled by Xiao Hui transmitted the scene on the planet over.

The nanobots wove into an arc-shaped screen around Zhou Xuan, presenting a 360-degree video, as if Zhou Xuan were personally standing on that snow-white planet.

Zhou Xuan's gaze swept over the thick snow accumulated over six hundred years, landing on the heavy city forged from steel and mountain stone before him.

On the city streets, the heat-radiating Geomarrow crystals shone brightly, maintaining the city's temperature at a relatively livable level.

Ding-dong—

The sound of a bell rang out as a tram glided across the street, carrying a full load of passengers toward the street not far away.

Although this city looked like a civilization that had just experienced an industrial revolution, it merely possessed a little extra technology left over from before the Great Decay of civilization.

The thick cloud layers covering the planet drifted slightly, revealing a few patches of azure sky.

It also revealed the Horizon Needle suspended above the planet.

Although the Horizon Needle utilized dimensional folding technology, allowing it to contain infinite space within a relatively small volume,

"Small" was only relative; the Horizon Needle was still as massive as a planet.

Some residents walking on the streets noticed the massive hull looming between the clouds and behind the sky.

They pointed at the needle-like hull in the sky with some panic and surprise, discussing it fervently.

The exterior of the Horizon Needle resembled a needle dragging a black hole.

The streamlined shell and the black hole surrounded by a dazzling accretion disk gave this most miraculous creation of the empire a unique aesthetic beauty.

It was no wonder the residents of Jarilo-VI felt shocked.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xuan turned his head to look at Xiao Hui beside him: "Take me to see that Supreme Guardian."

"Do you really want to see her?" Xiao Hui asked, her eyes wide.

"Hmm?" Zhou Xuan raised his eyelids: "Of course I want to see her."

"Oh..." Xiao Hui agreed softly, her tone drawn out long, not knowing what bad idea she was brewing.

The scene before Zhou Xuan shifted rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it landed within the administrative district of this civilization—inside an ancient fortress.

But what made him feel somewhat surprised was that Xiao Hui did not manipulate the perspective to turn toward the Supreme Guardian's office,

but instead turned around and headed toward... the bathroom?

Zhou Xuan blinked gently, only to see a tall, silver-haired woman with spiral braids standing in the bathroom's changing area.

The silver-haired woman stood somewhat wearily beside the locker in the changing room.

She gently took off her boots and socks, pulled off her black silk gloves, and used her onion-white fingers to take off her coat, revealing the shirt under her dress.

The silver-haired woman then unbuttoned her shirt, revealing skin glistening with fragrant sweat.

Zhou Xuan looked at the silver-haired woman's face and those gray eyes, feeling past memories surge like a tide.

"It really is Bronya." His eyes could not help but carry some nostalgia...

"Your Excellency Supreme Guardian! Something has happened!"

Just as Bronya was about to take off her shirt, a short girl with a round face, symmetrical features, and glasses ran quickly into the bathroom changing area.

"What is it? Pela?" Noticing Pela's panic, Bronya hurriedly fastened her shirt buttons and draped the dress she had just taken off back over herself.

"An unknown warship has appeared in the sky, hidden in the clouds; it is so massive that it blocks the sky and sun, and it is dragging a black hole," Pela said, trying her best to organize her words.

"Warship? Starship?" Bronya was stunned, frowning as she said: "Is it the IPC fleet? Or some other faction from the universe?"

"I'm not sure, the other side hasn't sent us any messages." Pela shook her head.

"Then we will send them one. Let's go!" Bronya put on her boots, not caring about the bath anymore, and turned to walk out of the bathroom.

"What a pity..." Xiao Hui said with some regret: "Should I grab her and let her continue taking it off?"

"You little girl." Zhou Xuan laughed and scolded... He gently raised his eyebrows.

Zhou Xuan sensed a powerful psionic signal suddenly sweeping across the entire star system, even spreading to this entire universe...

【To protect the living beings of the myriad realms, maintain multi-dimensional peace, and assist the development of various civilizations, starting today... exposing and taking stock of the Ten Great Evil Acts of the Disaster Empire!】

"Damn it, someone is trying to slander my innocence!"

3. 【Colossus Looms, Shocking Bronya】

Zhou Xuan could not help but widen his eyes, shouting: "Damn it, someone is trying to slander my innocence."

"Is this a psionic signal?" Xiao Hui, standing beside Zhou Xuan, could not help but be stunned: "The Void Realm is now under our control; who can bypass us to mobilize such a large-scale psionic power to send a signal?"

Zhou Xuan sat back on the throne wrapped in cables, the psionic essence lurking beneath the flesh shell floating, reaching out to the psionic signals pulsing all around.

He savored it, tasting the flavor from this psionic signal.

Twisting and writhing flesh, the debauchery of fallen lust, cunning and treacherous conspiracies, bloody and cruel slaughter, puppets of intertwined metal and iron, and the reincarnation of the end-time moment.

Six unique psionic characteristics that made Zhou Xuan feel very familiar echoed in the signal, along with some scattered and weak characteristics mixed in.

"It is the gods of the Void Realm."

The Void Realm is a pure psionic domain that has existed since the beginning of time, hanging high above different realities, containing near-infinite energy, and harboring many ancient and powerful beings.

The empire called them the Void Gods. In an earlier era, Zhou Xuan had once represented the empire and signed contracts with the six most powerful ones simultaneously.

It was just that now the Void Realm had been captured by the empire, and most of the Void Gods had also been contained or killed by the empire.

"Void Gods? Weren't they all contained or killed?" Xiao Hui asked with wide eyes.

Her clearance was not enough to know the specific status of the gods, but she vaguely knew that the gods no longer posed a serious threat to the empire.

"This is a psionic signal released before they were contained or killed. At that time, the imperial fleet and they were fighting fiercely; they probably didn't notice that such a signal had slipped away."

Zhou Xuan tugged at his loose pajamas and stood up from the throne, saying:

"Didn't I just extort some of their power in my early years, and then kill them all before I had to pay the price? Is it necessary to hate me so much?"

"Not even considering the old feelings of living together back then, they really are a group of heartless gods."

"Do you want to disrupt this psionic signal?" Xiao Hui asked.

"I reckon it has already spread throughout the myriad realms—don't disrupt it; let's listen to the last words of old friends before they die." Zhou Xuan waved his hand and said.

Then his eyes turned, and he looked at Xiao Hui, saying: "Prepare yourself, and accompany me to visit this pre-superluminal civilization below."

"Ah?" Xiao Hui blinked, saying in disbelief: "You are visiting in person?"

Zhou Xuan smiled without saying more, and listened intently to this so-called "Taking Stock of the Ten Great Evil Acts of the Disaster Empire"...

Bronya put on her coat and walked quickly toward the outside of Qlipoth Fort.

Through the floor-to-ceiling window, she had already seen the massive starship looming behind the clouds.

The official in charge of technological research was incoherent, saying many things to Bronya that made her head ache just hearing them.

Things like such a massive ship would permanently change the orbit of Jarilo-VI, the terrifying disasters brought by tidal effects, or how such a massive ship would collapse due to its own gravity...

But at least Bronya had not yet discovered any disaster happening to Jarilo-VI because of that ship—

【To protect the living beings of the myriad realms, maintain multi-dimensional peace, and assist the development of various civilizations, starting today... exposing and taking stock of the Ten Great Evil Acts of the Disaster Empire!】

A voice suddenly rang in Bronya's ear.

A floating light screen appeared before her eyes, on which a large title was presented: "Taking Stock of the Ten Great Evil Acts of the Disaster Empire."

"This?" Bronya stopped in her tracks abruptly.

It was not just Bronya; Pela, standing beside her, also stopped.

"Supreme Guardian?" A light screen was reflected in Pela's round-framed glasses.

"Pela? You saw it too?" Bronya looked at the light screen before her with a strange expression: "Taking stock of the Ten Great Evil Acts of the Disaster Empire?"

"Taking stock of the Ten Great Evil Acts of the Disaster Empire?"

Inside the Herta Space Station, almost all researchers raised their heads in confusion.

It was not just the researchers; even the eyes of Herta's puppets reflected a light screen.