Chapter 27

The old man noticed Acheron's silence. He looked up at Acheron and asked: "What's wrong with you?"

The voice was hoarse and erratic.

Acheron looked at the old man's face under the bamboo hat, shook her head gently, and said: "Nothing."

Under the old man's bamboo hat was a pitch-black face composed of shadows, erratic and uncertain.

It was exactly the same as the ghostly shadows crawling on the cold sea outside the cave.

Acheron moved her gaze away from the old man's face and continued to look at the light screen.

She rarely felt some curiosity and some impulse.

She was curious about whether the Disaster Empire could really mine minerals from a black hole.

Although this was far from decompressing things from IX, Acheron still looked forward to seeing this scene...

She saw the Disaster Empire's engineering ships had built that massive megastructure.

It was an inverted cone-shaped building, with the sharp end aimed at the black hole surface, and three auxiliary space stations hanging beside it, also aimed at the black hole.

Gravity distorted a little bit on the drill bit of the matter uncompressor, and the light scattered around was absorbed onto it, producing a burst of brilliant floating light.

The three auxiliary space stations hanging near the drill bit also burst out with similar light.

A brilliant and slender beam of light pierced into the surface of the black hole, and the other three dimmer beams followed...

39. 【Why Don't You Go Talk to the Company About the Eight-Hour Workday】

Four brilliant beams of light formed by distorted gravity pierced into the event horizon surface of the black hole from the matter uncompressor.

The accretion disk on the surface of the black hole trembled slightly, and cracks that were difficult for the naked eye to describe, overflowing with light, appeared on the surface of the black hole.

On the surface of the black hole, where light should not exist, a dazzling spot of light actually appeared.

Bursts of dust flashing with floating light were extracted from the inside of the black hole, turning into a torrent and flowing into the matter uncompressor along the beam of light...

It was as if a pair of invisible giant hands were squeezing juice from a lemon, flowing into the cup along a straw.

Seeing this scene, the sentient beings of the universe couldn't help but widen their eyes.

"It can actually be done? Extracting matter from a black hole?!"

"This doesn't conform to the laws of physics at all!"

"You talk to the Disaster Empire about the laws of physics?! Why don't you go talk to the company about the eight-hour workday?!"

The scene in front of them looked very monotonous.

It was just extracting ionic matter from a pitch-black sphere.

It was just like extracting juice from a lemon and letting it flow into a cup along a straw.

It was just that this pitch-black sphere was a black hole that compressed half the universe.

But even such a monotonous scene still caused endless waves in the hearts of the sentient beings.

They saw the matter extracted from the black hole flowing into the matter uncompressor.

These substances, extracted from the black hole and resembling thick flowing light, were the initial form of all matter.

Under the action of the smelters and processors in the matter uncompressor, they quickly settled into various useful minerals.

A fleet of barges, like a swarm of bees, moved in and out of the matter uncompressor, and countless minerals were transported to all parts of the Empire.

The shock brought by the light screen was no less than the scene of the Disaster Empire adjusting the speed of light for the sentient beings of the universe.

The Colossus hanging high in the sky, the Void Realm power that instantly eliminated all Prethoryn Scourge, and the astonishing technology that reshaped the laws of reality—

all had proven what kind of destructive power the Disaster Empire had on the universe. They could almost burn the entire universe to ashes.

Instead, the matter uncompressor showed another kind of power of the Disaster Empire.

They could burn everything to ashes, and they could also reshape everything from the wreckage and ashes.

If before, in the eyes of the sentient beings of the universe, the Disaster Empire was more similar to roles like the Swarm, Emperor Rupert, and the Antimatter Legion,

then the current Disaster Empire was closer to a civilization that was far ahead of the sentient beings in the eyes of the sentient beings of the universe.

"General, do you have anything else to say?"

Lord Fu Xuan stared at Hearing Jing Yuan and asked:

"You have already seen what kind of massive productivity the Disaster Empire's method can create and what kind of great weapons it can manufacture."

"Why can't we learn a little? Not asking to touch their technology, just asking to promote our own technology."

"Just learning some of the advantages of the Disaster Empire, just scratching the surface."

Looking at Lord Fu Xuan in front of him, Hearing Jing Yuan shook his head slightly.

"Fu Qing, I am just worried."

Hearing Jing Yuan spoke slowly:

"If you start using the brains of Abundance monstrosities as nerve chips today..."

"... then further, can the Luofu Xianzhou people who have fallen into Mara-Struck also be used as nerve chips?"

"This..." Lord Fu Xuan was stunned for a moment.

"Essentially, there is no difference between the Mara-Struck Luofu Xianzhou people and Abundance monstrosities, and the Luofu Xianzhou tradition also recognizes those who have fallen into Mara-Struck as dead."

Hearing Jing Yuan said calmly:

"According to the efficient way of the Disaster Empire, using them as nerve chips is undoubtedly reasonable."

"But if we all use the Mara-Struck Luofu Xianzhou people as nerve chips."

"Then why not let the outsiders become nerve chips? There are many civilizations seeking immortality that are hostile to the Luofu Xianzhou."

"Can we also use their brains?"

"This..." Lord Fu Xuan felt a chill down her spine.

She suddenly realized what kind of abyss she wanted to touch.

She underestimated the path the Disaster Empire had taken.

The sea of corpses and blood that this path had to burn, and the cold values it had to possess, were far beyond her imagination.

"Do you understand? Fu Qing." Hearing Jing Yuan lowered his eyes and said: "The path of the Disaster Empire does not exist as scratching the surface."

"Once you choose to learn from them, there are only two possibilities: destruction or becoming them."

"Without qualified values, walking on this path will only lead to destruction."

Hearing Jing Yuan closed his eyes slightly and said after a moment of silence:

"If we fail to control our own hands and walk out of control on this path..."

"..... If one day, for the sake of efficiency, can we use criminal Luofu Xianzhou people as nerve chips? Fu Qing."

Hearing Jing Yuan leaned on the chair, his face full of fatigue.

Lord Fu Xuan's heart trembled violently.

Abundance monstrosities can, Mara-Struck Luofu Xianzhou people can, and the medicine-seeking civilizations hostile to the Luofu Xianzhou can...

Then why can't criminal Luofu Xianzhou people? Eliminating criminals is obviously beneficial to the Luofu Xianzhou...

But Lord Fu Xuan felt fear, bone-chilling fear, because if she went one step further, it would be...

"This... no, it's not possible..." Lord Fu Xuan couldn't help but step back and said: "This is falling too deep."

"Perhaps for a hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years, or even a thousand years, we can all hold on to our original intentions."

Hearing Jing Yuan paused:

"But just like a traveler walking on the edge of a cliff, a slight moment of negligence will lead to falling."

"I admire the Disaster Empire, this is the truth from the bottom of my heart."

"Not because of how many worlds they can destroy and how many things they can create."

"It's because after they stepped on a cold, efficient, and ruthless cliff path, they didn't fall into the abyss."

"That Emperor of the Disaster Empire must have lived for countless years on the throne. Perhaps he has been an emperor for a longer time than the history of the Luofu Xianzhou Alliance."

Hearing Jing Yuan slowly opened his eyes, looking at the bright starry sky opposite the window of the Divine Divination Commission:

"As long as he has a moment of negligence, willfulness, or madness, the entire Disaster Empire will fall into an irreversible situation."

"After bearing such massive responsibilities and walking alone for such a long time, this Emperor can still resist temptation, maintain rationality, and know who to be cruel to and who to be merciful to."

"I admire him for this."

"Although the spirit of the Luofu Xianzhou people is one of the most tenacious in the universe, we can't even hold on for a few hundred years before being entangled by the accumulated pain into Mara-Struck..."

"Without such willpower, one must never easily step on the path of the Disaster Empire and learn their ways."

40. 【Bronya's Purge List】

Bronya had been very tired recently, so tired that she almost fell asleep in the Supreme Guardian's office. ===== CHAPTER 28 =====