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"Main guns charging, ready to crush it."

These eight words crashed down in the control room, carrying a chilling, murderous aura.

Wang Hu didn't even bother wiping the blood from his chin. He casually tossed the glass box filled with the rotten flesh of the Key of Despair onto the ground and kicked it into a corner under the control panel, where it got stuck. Then, he slammed his hands down on the physical firing lever of the 400mm main gun.

The blue flame fusion core roared as it tore through the air. At 100% energy capacity, the energy circulation pipes shone with a blinding white light.

Tang Lan's movements were so fast they were just afterimages. She wedged the heavy sniper rifle into the firing port pre-drilled in the car window, and the fire control radar lock-on network was fully activated.

Su Yuan hovered his hands above the control panel, his ten fingers flying across the keyboard as he took control of the power distribution to the Devourer's chassis.

No nonsense, no threats accepted.

"Fire."

boom--!

The 400mm main gun spat out a blue-white plasma high-explosive shell with a diameter of over one meter. This shell drained 10% of the blue flame core reserves, and its speed exceeded Mach 6. It left a straight vacuum trail in the air and headed straight for the pale giant hand that was holding the ceramic doll.

This is the pinnacle of pure physical and energetic destructive power. Enough to blast a heavily fortified fortress to smithereens.

The puppet didn't even lift its eyelids.

Its two pure black eyes, without any impurities, reflected the blazing ball of light crashing towards it.

Just as the cannonball was about to hit the edge of the bone hand's palm.

There was no explosion. There was no fire. There was no shockwave.

That shell, with its earth-shattering kinetic energy, was like a drop of water falling into an endless arid land.

Inch by inch, it vanished into thin air.

It disappeared completely, not even a trace of high-temperature exhaust gas escaped.

The energy fluctuation value on the main control screen plummeted from its peak to zero in an instant, drawing a vertical drop line down a cliff.

Wang Hu's eyes widened, and he instinctively reached out to tap the control panel.

"Missed it? That's impossible!"

Tang Lan fired three shots in quick succession, the specially made armor-piercing rounds following the trajectory of the main cannon. They were also silently annihilated one meter away from the giant hand, leaving not even a speck of metal dust behind.

"Physical erasure".

The mechanical sound of the small fire engine revealed a serious logical lapse.

"No defensive force field detected in the target area. Determined to be suppression by underlying rules. Conventional physical attacks and high-energy particle attacks are all ineffective."

In mid-air, the ceramic doll's voice once again penetrated everyone's brainstem.

Cold and arrogant.

"An ignorant metal box."

Its hands, which were clasped together on its abdomen, were slightly open.

"This is the 'ranch.' I am the enforcer of the rules."

"My domain is absolutely immune to physical attacks. Your attacks are nonexistent here."

The puppet had barely finished speaking.

The other six pale, gigantic hands hovering around it moved simultaneously. Their massive, mountain-like bodies stirred up terrifying air currents, their joints twisting as they converged on the Devourer from all directions towards the center.

Five bone fingers, each three meters in diameter, descended from the sky, pressing down like a cage.

This hand has no nails, and its smooth, bony surface radiates a deathly aura. Once caught, this armored train would be crushed into a pancake on the spot.

Su Yuan's eyes were sinister.

A head-on confrontation is completely hopeless. The opponent isn't even playing on a physical level.

"Step down."

Su Yuan roared at Wang Hu.

The Paradox Armor on his left arm erupted with a dense, eerie blue light. The character "Cloud" hidden on the gauntlet was fully illuminated, forcibly drawing energy from the Blue Flame Core.

Su Yuan raised his left hand, his five fingers spread, facing the pale, bony hand pressing down from above.

"Since physics doesn't work, let's change the rules."

His fingers clenched suddenly.

"Conceptual distortion. Infinite expansion!"

Blue light burst through the roof of the car and spread out in a fan shape.

The oppressively pale, skeletal hand slowed its descent abruptly the moment it came into contact with the blue light.

No, it didn't slow down.

The space between it and the Devourer was stretched.

To outsiders, the skeletal hand was still pressing down at an extremely high speed, but it couldn't touch the roof of the car no matter what it did. Every inch of space it passed through was folded into hundreds or thousands of times greater distances due to the paradoxical nature of the situation.

A brief stalemate ensued.

For the first time, the doll's empty eyes showed a slight change in focus. It "looked" at Su Yuan's left arm.

"A paradoxical quality. You thief, you've stolen quite a lot."

The doll's voice carried a dangerous chill.

The giant hand it was on began to descend. The six giant hands around it, trapped by distance, cracked at their joints as they forcibly squeezed the altered space.

Ten seconds at most.

Once computing power is exhausted, this forcibly created spatial distance will be crushed.

Su Yuan's gaze was fixed on the panoramic radar in front of him. When he obtained the first Key of Wrath, the Throne System had marked the locations of the other two keys in his mind.

One was in the desperate, rotting flesh lying on the ground, and the other was in the pile of 002's wreckage outside.

Only by gaining more permissions can one survive in this godforsaken place where even physical rules don't exist.

"Wang Hu! Get that box you kicked under the control panel out of there!"

Su Yuan's hands were pressed tightly on the steering wheel.

"Throw it into the refining furnace. Quickly!"

Wang Hu was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized what was happening. He yanked the explosion-proof glass box out; the clump of rotten flesh inside, containing nerve cords, was still slightly contracting.

"Boss, melt it directly? This thing will explode!" Wang Hu shouted as he ran towards the feeding port.

"It can't be blown up. What I want is the concept behind it."

Su Yuan slammed his foot down on the accelerator pedal. The massive body of the Devourer emitted a groaning, strained metallic sound.

The feed channel of the refining furnace is opened.

Wang Hu stuffed the lump of rotten flesh into the box along with the container.

"Little Fire, activate the forced concept analysis mode. Abandon all physical smelting steps. Directly extract the most core access data!"

"Command confirmed. Danger level: Red. Forced parsing initiated."

The refining furnace emitted a teeth-grinding buzzing sound. The high-frequency vibrations shattered the glass case. Under extreme energy pressure, the mushy mass of nerve cords and flesh erupted with a piercing scream.

despair.

An overwhelming sense of despair attempted to backfire on the refinery, spreading along the conduits towards the control room.

Su Yuan swung his left arm, and a portion of the eerie blue light on his armor split off, directly severing the channel of emotional backlash.

"Filter out the emotions! Uncover the underlying access codes!"

On the main control screen, the originally blood-red interface suddenly changed.

That ancient concept of a star map unfolds once again.

Beside the blood-red "Key of Wrath," a second dim pedestal suddenly lit up.

It was an extremely oppressive gray-black light, which condensed into a symbol resembling a closed eye.

[The Key to Despair (Returned)]

[Current authority level: Arbitrator candidate (2/7)]

The moment the throne's authority was upgraded, Su Yuan felt his mental power surge. The "Infinite Extension" spatial rules, which were on the verge of collapse, instantly stabilized. The several pale, gigantic hands that were about to crush the car roof were forcibly pushed back more than ten meters.

"Well done."

Su Yuan suddenly slammed the steering wheel shut.

The Devourer pulled out an extremely violent tail swing in place, its tracks carving a half-meter-deep trench in the metal ground.

"Hold on tight."

Su Yuan adjusted the energy output of the Blue Flame Core to above the critical value.

The chariot, like a cannonball, forced its way through the gaps sealed by the two pale, skeletal hands.

The direction pointed directly to the waste area two kilometers ahead.

There lay the remains of JIPIN-002. After the colossal beast that represented "hunger" died, its core remained in that pile of scrap metal, reassembling. That was the third key.

The puppet in mid-air stood up.

It had no feet, and its black skirt fluttered in the wind. It finally realized the intention of this "metallic insect".

"greedy."

The doll's voice betrayed a genuine emotional fluctuation. It was a stern expression of enraged anger.

"You have no right to touch them."

The puppet raised its hand.

The six skeletal hands that had been left behind suddenly turned into large amounts of bone dust and dissipated into the air.

The next second, the ground directly in front of the Devourer churned violently. Three thicker, more solid, pale skeletal hands burst from the earth, like three insurmountable bone walls, blocking its path.

This is a method of spatial jump.

Within the boundaries of the "ranch," the puppets are the absolute controllers.

The Devourer was going too fast to brake in time and was about to crash into the three bone walls. This kind of bone defense, lacking any physical point of impact, would cause the entire vehicle to disintegrate during the extreme deceleration.

The distance is less than 300 meters.

Two hundred meters.

Wang Hu closed his eyes and gripped the fixed bar beside him tightly with both hands.

Just then.

Deep within the Devourer, the alarm in isolation pod Zero suddenly blared at the highest frequency without warning. It was a high-pitched shriek powerful enough to pierce eardrums.

"Warning! The external restraint matrix of Module Zero has completely collapsed!"

"An unidentified higher-dimensional entity has broken through the physical barrier!"

For the first time, Xiao Huo's voice displayed abrupt, garbled gibberish.

That black metal fragment snatched from the spatial singularity. That thing sealed beneath the JY-01 maintenance station, emanating an incomprehensible dark aura.

It completely went berserk.

With a dull thud, the special alloy armor at the rear of the Devourer's chassis was brutally torn open from the inside out by an invisible, immense force.

A piece of metal fragment with extremely irregular edges and an entirely black color slowly rose into the air.

It's small, only the size of a desktop.

But the moment it appeared, the gravity field at the bottom of the abyss collapsed.

All the scrap metal, debris, and even the shells of mechs weighing tens of tons in the Spiral Graveyard floated uncontrollably into the air.

The black fragment hovered in the area between the Devourer and the three bone walls.

There was no blinding light, no loud sound.

It unleashed a gravitational storm of pure, extreme purity.

Centered on the fragment, a pitch-black gravitational vortex materialized out of thin air. It was like a miniature black hole, indiscriminately devouring everything of mass around it.

"The False Throne"

A viscous, nauseating whisper, seemingly from the deepest abyss, exploded throughout the space.

This is not the voice of a puppet. This is the will that exists behind that fragment descending.

"Inferior creations... false crowns... all must be wiped out."

This higher-dimensional being, known as the "False King," judged everything in this space as garbage that had to be eliminated.

The first thing it faced was the three pale, skeletal hands that stood in its way.

The "absolute physical immunity" rule set by the proxy doll failed when faced with the gravity of this high-dimensional black hole.

Because black holes don't tear apart physical structures, but rather the most basic spatial coordinates.

The three arrogant, pale, gigantic hands couldn't even hold out for a second. Large cracks began to appear on the pale, bone-like surface. Bone dust flaked off in large quantities and was sucked into the dark vortex.

The giant hand emitted a teeth-grinding cracking sound as it was being slowly crushed by the vortex.

The skeletal hand that was holding the doll in mid-air was also affected. The skeletal hand suddenly sank more than ten meters, and a crack appeared on its surface that ran through the palm.

For the first time, an extremely dangerous glint flashed in the doll's empty eyes. It turned its head and stared intently at the black metal fragment.

"Those who cross the line."

The confrontation between the two terrifying forces erupted in an instant.

However, the Devourer, caught between these two, is on the verge of certain death.

The gravitational pull of the black hole also affects the armored train.

The vehicle, weighing hundreds of tons, was forcibly lifted from the ground and suspended three meters above the ground, slowly sliding towards the dark vortex.

The tracks spun freely, and the engine emitted a desperate scream as it approached its limit.

The outer armor began to peel off under this gravity, and the rivets flew off like bullets.

"Boss! We're stuck!" Wang Hu roared, his entire body pinned against the wall, unable to move.

Tang Lan's heavy sniper rifle was sucked out of the window and shredded into a pile of scrap metal in mid-air.

Jiang Yu had just woken up when he was once again overwhelmed by this oppressive force, causing his eyes to roll back.

Su Yuan's hands left afterimages as they typed on the keyboard. His eyes were fixed on the panoramic radar to his left.

The wreckage of JIPIN-002 is less than 600 meters away.

And that black hole vortex is expanding wildly. In less than ten seconds, the Devourer will be sucked in and torn into atoms.

Without any hesitation, with no way back.

Su Yuan directly pulled open a hidden compartment at the very bottom of the control panel. Inside was a red lever that was physically locked.

"Red fire. Shut down all life support systems. Shut down all firepower preheating. Disconnect armor temperature control."

"Blue Flame Core Full Power Drain! Entering Overload Fuse Countdown."

"Overload mode activated. Warning: This operation will cause permanent core damage in three minutes..." Xiao Huo's mechanical voice trailed off amidst the violent vibrations.

Su Yuan grabbed the red lever.

"I can't worry about that anymore."

He pulled it down sharply to the bottom.

boom--!

The eight heavy plasma thrusters at the stern of the Devourer simultaneously spewed out crimson tail flames fifty meters long. It was a sign that the blue flame core was burning recklessly after being overloaded.

The violent thrust barely offset some of the gravity. The vehicle paused in mid-air for a moment.

But that wasn't enough to escape the vortex.

Su Yuan raised his left arm high, and the light from the Paradox Armor reached an unprecedented brightness. The "cloud" mark on it seemed to come alive.

He directly infused the "Key of Despair" permissions he had just acquired into the armor.

The fusion of these two forces under extreme conditions gave rise to an extremely crazy new set of rules.

"Conceptualization!"

Su Yuan's eyes were bloodshot, and his lips were bitten raw, blood flowing down his chin. He was wrestling with two forces beyond his comprehension.

"Define the current vehicle as... an 'unlockable' free state!"

Om-!

A layer of gray-blue interwoven light film instantly enveloped the entire body of the Devourer.

Within a thousandth of a second of the appearance of this light film.

The gravitational pull of the black hole, which was frantically tugging at the vehicle, suddenly lost its footing, as if it had grasped air. The oppressive force of the operative doll covering this space was also forcibly slid away.

The Devourer entered a brief, eerie state, detached from the rules of this space.

Although it only lasted for a short three seconds.

But for the Devourer, propelled at full power, three seconds is enough to transcend life and death.

The chariot traced an extremely twisted arc in mid-air, like a leaf falling in a gale, narrowly missing the edge of the black vortex.

It was so fast that even its afterimage couldn't be caught.

The bone wall ahead is collapsing, and the defenses are wide open.

The target was a pile of scrap metal 500 meters away. The wreckage of JIPIN-002.

"Wang Hu! Control the refining furnace's number one probe. Prepare to grab!"

Su Yuan shouted.

Wang Hu struggled to lunge back to the control position and gripped the joystick tightly.

The distance is rapidly decreasing.

Four hundred meters. Two hundred meters. One hundred meters.

This pile of debris is also within the gravitational pull of the black hole. Hundreds of tons of excavator tracks and scrap metal are flying backwards into the air.

In those waste centers where debris flies everywhere.

There was a fist-sized, extremely murky, yellowish-brown crystal. It was absorbing energy from the surrounding waste, constantly repairing its own cracks.

The Key to Hunger. The Third Key.

The black hole gravity of the false king has already enveloped this area, and the crystal is also moving towards the center of the vortex under the pull of gravity.

A ruthless glint flashed in Su Yuan's eyes. He was fighting with a higher dimension for something.

"Bite it down!"

The Devourer roared past over the pile of wreckage.

The armor at the bottom of the refining furnace suddenly burst open. A dark golden mechanical arm, like a venomous snake emerging from its hole, crackled with terrifying high-voltage electricity, and viciously grabbed at the yellowish-brown crystal in mid-air.

The will of the false king seemed to have sensed the ant's attempt to steal.

The suction force of the vortex surged instantly. The crystal accelerated backward.

The mechanical claw suddenly thrust forward, and three metal barbs firmly jammed the edge of the crystal.

Stab it--!

High-intensity electrical sparks flashed wildly between the mechanical claw and the gravitational storm.

The mechanical arm's metal shell began to twist and deform under the pull of gravity, emitting a piercing cracking sound.

"Stop!" Wang Hu shouted, his eyes red, as he desperately pulled down the control lever.

The robotic arm's hydraulic pumps went off the charts. Just before it completely snapped, it forcefully dragged the crystal into the refining furnace's compartment.

Bang! The gate is locked.

I've received the item.

The moment the crystal fell into the refining furnace.

The blood-red conceptual star map in Su Yuan's mind exploded violently.

The third base, with its endlessly greedy, earthy-yellow light, suddenly shot into the sky and condensed into an emblem resembling the gaping maw of an abyss.

[The Key to Hunger (now in its place)]

[Current authority level: Arbitrator candidate (3/7)]

The moment when the three keys come together on the throne star map.

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change.

An extremely domineering, pure rule power belonging entirely to the bottom of the abyss flowed back from Su Yuan's mind into the various systems of the Devouring Wasteland.

The garbled text on the main control screen was instantly cleared. The various data points on the verge of collapse were forcibly stabilized by this force of rules.

This sudden surge in authority was like a depth charge, exploding in this space that had already been thrown into chaos by the false king and his agents.

midair.

A very fine crack appeared on the expressionless ceramic face of the proxy doll.

When the enormous, pale, skeletal hand beneath its grasp came into contact with this newly promoted Arbiter's authority, a brief conflict arose in its judgment.

For this system, Su Yuan went from being a simple "thief" to an internal entity that controlled nearly half of the permissions.

The doll's attack action paused for 0.5 seconds.

On the other side, there was that black fragment releasing a terrifying gravitational pull.

The false king's will was originally intending to completely shatter this space. But this newly generated surge of throne authority was like a slap in the face. It sensed a weak but extremely stubborn resistance.

An energy imbalance appeared at the center of the gravitational vortex. The surrounding spatial rifts began to spiral out of control.

Numerous spatial turbulences sliced ​​through the area like blades. Powdered bone hands and remnants of scrap metal were swept into the turbulence and vanished instantly.

This is the real abyss rampage.

Su Yuan had no interest in appreciating the confrontation between the two monsters.

He obtained three keys and gained three conceptual abilities. Now, there's only one thing he needs to do.

run.

Escape this mess that's about to collapse.

On the panoramic radar to the left front, a highly concealed rift passage, originally not present on the map, appeared due to the tearing effect of spatial turbulence. Deep within that passage, an extremely large fluctuation of metallic energy was hidden.

It is exactly where the other keys were located, as indicated by the star map.

"Low fire. Engine output locked. Roll cage fully deployed. Disconnect all external radar scans, activate physical vision."

Su Yuan gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, his eyes fixed on the spatial rift ahead, a rift filled with the unknown and death.

"Let's go."

The Devourer trailed a blinding crimson tail flame, its body covered in horrific scars left by the gravitational pull.

It lies in the gap between two opposing rules, each capable of destroying the world.

Like a wounded beast that tears open its hunting net at the critical moment of life and death.

He plunged headfirst into that pitch-black spatial rift.

Less than two seconds after the Devourer entered, the spatial rift suddenly closed due to the massive energy clash.

The spiral graveyard has completely collapsed.

In this sealed, dead land, the skeletal hand of the proxy and the gravitational vortex of the false king unfolded a final, unknown struggle.

And inside that unknown abyssal rift passage.

Inside the bumpy train carriage.

The warning lights are all flashing a dim yellow light. The system is undergoing a deep self-check and restart.

Wang Hu slumped down beside the chair, panting heavily, his chest heaving violently.

Tang Lan leaned against the corner, took out a medical bandage from her tactical bag, and wrapped it around her wrist, which she had twisted from the impact, with a blank expression.

Jiang Yu covered the wound on his severed arm and looked at the yellowish-brown crystal that sat quietly on the analysis table.

Su Yuan sat in front of the control panel.

He didn't lean back in his chair; his back remained ramrod straight.

His hands were covered in blood, and the Paradox Armor on his left arm was burning hot from severe overload. The "Key of Hunger" that he had just stolen was emitting a faint, earthy yellow glow in the analysis table.

Su Yuan reached up and wiped the blood from his chin.

His gaze pierced through the windshield, looking into the endless, deep darkness ahead.

In my mind, the three lit bases on the conceptual star map were like three eyes staring into the abyss.

And deeper within the star map.

There are also four points of light hidden in the thick fog, which are jumping at an extremely strange frequency.

The path to the abyss.

It has only just reached the bottom.