The player is playing like a god, and has already advanced to Space Marine level at the start.

Lu Xiao is in a very bad mood right now.

As soon as he leaped out of the void, the dizziness caused by the spatial distortion hit his stomach.

He stared at the red alarm flashing on the control panel and casually stuffed the half-finished synthetic coffee into the side slot.

"All ships disengage from the warp jump, hold steady!"

Lu Xiao's voice boomed through the communication channel.

"Whoever manages to stall the engine has to jump out and row!"

The staff officer gripped the control panel tightly with both hands, his knuckles bulging from the excessive force, and veins bulging across the back of his hands.

Due to inertia, his body leaned forward, and his forehead almost hit the edge of the alloy.

Outside the window, the starlight, which had been stretched into thin lines, suddenly receded.

Those rays of light exploded into countless flying sparks on the retina.

The massive metal slab of the "Imperial Blade" smashed through the spatial barrier.

The ship plunged into this gray and desolate star field.

Directly ahead, the main planet of Origen is tightly encased in countless metal pipes.

The silver-gray ground was covered with knots of pipes.

A faint blue, logical light flickered between the pipes at an extremely high frequency.

"Commander, those iron lumps on the other side have gone mad."

The communications officer looked up abruptly, his voice rising eight octaves.

"The radar screen is completely red; the crimson warning dots cover the entire scanning sector!"

Lu Xiao was deeply engrossed in the command position.

The combat boots clattered loudly on the deck.

He stared at the screen, the crimson dot in his eyepiece locked onto the center of the sphere.

"They forced their way into our conversation, saying they wanted to talk to us about the 'philosophy of code'," the communications officer added.

"Ignore it."

Lu Xiao sneered, speaking very quickly.

"Listening to this kind of electronic noise too much can easily cause neurasthenia, so just block it."

He pressed the button on the weapons bay channel.

"Lei Zhan, is your 'lighter' ready?"

"The manual push lever is fully extended!"

Lei Zhan's voice was accompanied by the clicking sound of gears meshing.

"The rotor speed has exceeded the critical value; the gears are almost sparking!"

Lei Zhan chuckled, sounding like he was chewing on a piece of metal.

"Those lumps of iron are begging for mercy, sending a whole bunch of characters, saying they're willing to share some underlying logic, begging us not to open fire."

Lu Xiao let out a cold snort, her face clearly showing her refusal.

"Underlying logic?"

"The empire has only one logic: those who don't obey are all formatted."

He suddenly stood up, pointing his right index finger sharply at the planet.

"Activate the Cyclone torpedoes and aim for its core energy zone."

"Fire!"

"Three seconds left, let's go!"

The weapons officer lifted the safety cover and pressed his thumb heavily on the red button.

boom!

A violent tremor came from the bottom of the flagship.

The long black shuttle spewed out dark red ionic sparks, tearing through the vacuum.

It rampaged through the dense laser defense network.

The laser beam from the intelligent civilization struck the terracotta shell, leaving only a few insignificant black marks.

puff.

The torpedo was precisely positioned and driven vertically deep into the earth's crust.

one second.

two seconds.

Lu Xiao stared at the energy readings on the screen.

The reading instantly spiked.

Intense white light burst forth from the cracks in the earth's crust.

The entire planet collapsed completely during the expansion.

Lava mixed with broken metal parts splashed in all directions.

The star core, which was originally filled with pipes, was burned into a transparent glass sphere by the high temperature of tens of thousands of degrees.

"Target cleared."

The staff officer stared at the zeroed-out data bar, his fingers still twitching.

"The intelligent civilization has been taken offline, without even leaving a backup."

Lu Xiao sat back down in her seat.

The nail plates rubbed against the leather, producing a harsh sound.

He waved calmly.

"Next one, we're in a hurry."

"Commander, we have received a joint communication request from the Triangulum constellation."

The adjutant quickly manipulated the interface, projecting a distorted image onto the main screen.

That was Sar, the Grand Marshal of the Kachin Civilization.

Hundreds of its compound eyes bulged outwards at the same time, and green mucus dripped from the corners of its mouth onto the ground.

Lu Xiao stared at the trembling alien on the screen, her lips pursed.

"What is it saying?"

"It's screaming, Warlord," the adjutant replied. "It's asking us why we 'formatted' Mainframe Zero."

Lu Xiao leaned forward, staring at Sal's bloodshot compound eyes.

"Tell it because I don't like that pile of scrap metal."

"And tell it to lay out all its assets and wait in the inner ring waterway."

Lu Xiao cut off the communication.

"Lei Zhan, did you hear that? Get ready to receive guests."

"Alright! I'll go sharpen the brothers' chainsaws right now!"

Three days later, the inner ring waterway.

Lu Xiao looked at the screen filled with countless alien ships.

The Kachin's biological warships are spewing purple slime.

The Crystal Man's prism spaceship refracted cold, dispersed light.

Tens of thousands of spaceships were crammed together, forming a thick wall.

"Commander, the radar is glowing red."

Lei Zhan walked in carrying a chainsaw sword, his face full of fat, grinning wildly.

"I roughly counted over 50,000 ships. They're practically bringing their entire life savings with them."

Lu Xiao tapped her kneecap rhythmically with her fingertips.

"Playing with your life?"

"Do they even deserve to talk about this word?"

He turned his head to look at his adjutant.

"Where are the nearest stars? I feel like the night sky is a bit cold; I'd like to add some fire."

The adjutant quickly drew an arc.

"Three hundred thousand kilometers to port, a red giant star, is in the midst of a violent eruption."

Lu Xiao stood up, his bright red cloak swung out in an arrogant arc.

"Activate the Starstorm Algorithm".

"I'm going to use this sun as a broom to clean up this star field."

"Commander, this energy guide plate is under too much load; it might burn out!"

The adjutant's forehead was sweating and his fingers were trembling.

"That's your repair team's business. I just want the results."

Lu Xiao's voice was as cold and hard as steel.

The Imperial Blade unfolds its two wings with huge golden lenses.

A blindingly bright light flowed across the surface of the lens.

They frantically squeeze energy from the distant red giant star.

The void instantly distorted.

A large amount of plasma was forcibly pulled over by the gravity cable.

They converged into a towering golden pillar of fire in front of the fleet.

"Algorithm calibration complete."

"The angle is just right for them to take a hot bath."

Lu Xiao suddenly swung his hand down.

"Sweep!"

The golden pillar of fire moved.

It transformed into a scorching whip spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, lashing fiercely at the alien alliance.

That was the sound of matter exploding as it was instantly vaporized.

The moment the shells of the Kachin civilization's creatures came into contact with the fire whip, they were instantly carbonized and disintegrated.

Thousands of warships vaporized without even a spark.

The prism ship of the Crystal Man attempts to reflect energy.

But that's a plasma physical crushing force on the order of tens of millions of tons.

The hull quickly turned red and softened.

Finally, it turned into scalding hot quartz liquid and dripped into the vacuum.

"Commander, the enemy flagship is turning around."

The adjutant pointed to a point on the screen that was frantically fleeing.

"That's Sal's flagship; it's heading towards Kachin's homeworld."

Lu Xiao manipulated the lens expressionlessly, sending out the last wave of fire.

"Lei Zhan, take your men and go retrieve those few small fry who slipped through the net."

"Got it! I'm best at this kind of finishing blow!"

The fire whip went out.

The alien fleet that had just blotted out the sky is now reduced to scattered floating debris.

Lu Xiao straightened the armor.

"Keep up, don't keep the guests waiting."

A few hours later, on the Kachin home planet.

The planet, covered in purple fungal carpets, trembled violently in Lu Xiao's eyes.

A distorted roar came through the communicator.

"We surrender! We surrender!"

"I'll give you all the minerals and star maps! Please!"

Lu Xiao stared at the shrunken ball of flesh on the screen, speaking in a steady and cold tone.

"The empire has no need for oozing worms."

He turned his head to look at Lei Zhan.

"Push out the remaining Cyclone Torpedoes."

"Right, let's play something fun first."

"Commander, should we just burn it directly, or sprinkle some seasoning on it first?"

Lei Zhan grinned, revealing a set of white teeth.

"Deploy the virus bomb first."

"I want to see what the purple fungal carpet looks like when it changes color."

A green warhead pierced through the clouds and exploded in mid-air.

The once vibrant spore forest withered instantly.

Vast swaths of purple plants transformed into foul-smelling black water.

Through a high-magnification lens, Lu Xiao watched as the alien creatures on the ground melted in the black water.

That's degradation at the genetic level; there's no pain, only endless collapse.

Immediately afterwards, the cannons fired in unison.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Each shell that lands raises a cloud of dust thousands of meters high.

The surface of the Kachin home planet was blasted into countless deep craters.

Lu Xiao sat in the command position, playing with the medal in his hand.

"Next, where is the Crystal People's hometown?"

"Three light-years away, War General."

"jump over."

Lu Xiao closed the medal.

"There's a lot of work to do today, so I'll finish early and call it a day. I haven't had dinner yet."

Fifteen minutes later, Obsidian Star.

This entire planet is just a giant piece of quartz.

Looking at the glittering world beneath his feet, Lu Xiao sighed with genuine admiration.

"It's quite pretty."

The adjutant asked in a low voice, "Then... General, shall we continue fighting?"

Lu Xiao glanced at him sideways.

His eyes were so sharp they could cut through steel plates.

"Beautiful things are often fragile."

"Whirlwind torpedo, launch."

It's the same familiar routine.

The long black shuttle plunged into the crystalline strata.

A terrifying energy resonance erupted within the planet.

The entire obsidian star emitted a long and mournful hum.

That was the sound of a crystal shattering under high-frequency vibration.

First, there was a crack.

Then, countless cracks spread.

The once perfect sphere collapsed in an instant.

Trillions of tiny crystals shimmered with a cold light under the starlight.

Lu Xiao stood up.

"The Great Expedition is over, let's return home."