My whole family was brutally murdered? I awakened the thug system and went on a killing spree.

Qin Meng pulled a piece of paper from his pocket and slammed it on the table.

"Then let the alien contractor make the most of his remaining time."

Karl's mouth was temporarily restored by Qin Meng, and as soon as it was restored, he began to beg for mercy: "Don't cut me, I'll cooperate, I'll cooperate very well."

Qin Meng pointed to the seven royal court seeds and said, "Log me into the seed network."

Carl's mouth trembled: "I don't have enough permissions; I can only access the Vanguard Project interface."

Qin Meng picked up the scissors.

Carl immediately shouted, "But I can forge an engineering maintenance request!"

Hu Biao gave a thumbs up: "Those who know how to adapt to the times are just pieces of paper."

Karl was forced to vomit a string of royal keys within the gravity seal.

Chu Feng led the research team's engineers to access the captured warship's database and began setting up camouflage nodes.

This process is very troublesome.

Wangting Seed Network uses biological quantum encryption, and each seed requires the host's neural waves as a key.

If the system is forcibly broken, the host will suffer brain death.

Qin Meng attempted to suppress the seed using a dimensional reduction seal, but discovered that the seed contained a self-destructing interlayer.

Applying too little pressure is useless, while applying too much pressure can damage the host's nerves as well.

In the medical room, seven hosts lay on the operating table, their vital signs fluctuating constantly.

Hu Biao looked at the data and felt a chill run down his spine: "This thing is even more insidious than a parasite. The royal court really has no martial ethics."

Qin Meng stared at the seed structure and suddenly remembered the gravitational field membrane he used when he performed surgery on Qin Xiaoman.

"If you can't press it from the outside, then trick it into opening the door by itself."

He had Chu Feng forge the Royal Court project maintenance signal, then had Karl provide the advance force format, and finally used Mk5's dimensional capabilities to compress the signal into an extremely thin two-dimensional code chip.

The two-dimensional code burrowed into the seed's shell through the cracks, without touching the self-destructing interlayer.

A few minutes later, the first seed lit up with a green light.

Black Hole Engine hint.

"Successfully gained access through spoofing, gaining low-level maintenance visibility."

On the projection screen, countless red dots appeared.

Globally, at least 1,700 royal seeds are currently dormant.

Jiang Nuonuo's expression changed completely.

Hu Biao immediately started swearing.

Qin Meng stared at the map, his gaze fixed on the deepest part of the Northwest Plateau.

There was a huge purple dot of light there, with royal inscriptions next to it.

Carl glanced at it, and his mouth trembled even more violently.

"That is the central hub for the domestication of surface civilizations."

"It's not an ordinary base station."

"It can turn all seed hosts into royal soldiers when necessary."

Qin Meng stood up.

"Then let's take it apart first."

The wind on the Northwest Plateau was harsh, carrying the smell of crushed ice when it hit one's face. As soon as Hu Biao got off the aircraft, he pulled his collar up to his nose.

"Old Qin, I take back what I said before. Outer space isn't necessarily colder than this place."

Qin Meng stood on the wasteland, looking at the distant, snow-capped mountains.

Jiang Nuonuo also came this time, bringing a data team responsible for locking onto the seed network in real time.

Chu Feng sent ten engineers from the scientific expedition team to accompany him, each carrying old equipment that jingled as they walked.

Qin Meng didn't want Jiang Nuonuo to take any risks, but she only replied, "You're in charge of dismantling it, and I'll make sure you don't dismantle the wrong thing."

Qin Meng had no way to refute it.

The location of the Northwest Central Hub is quite peculiar.

It is not inside a mountain or in an underground city, but three thousand meters below an uninhabited salt lake.

This salt lake has long since dried up, and the surface is covered with cracks, from which dark purple mist occasionally rises.

The black hole engine issued a warning after scanning.

"A large neural network structure exists underground, covering a radius of 120 kilometers."

Hu Biao's expression changed: "Does this mean we're standing on alien brains?"

Qin Meng stomped his foot on the ground and said, "That's about right. Don't stomp your foot, or you'll be the one to blame if the person gets a concussion."

Hu Biao immediately pulled his foot back.

Jiang Nuonuo opened the mobile command terminal, and the global seed red dots were slowly flashing.

"The central nervous system has sensed our approach, and the activity level of the dormant seeds has increased by seven percent."

"If the central nervous system is attacked forcibly, the global host systems may simultaneously go out of control."

This is the most troublesome part.

Qin Meng can punch through the ground, but he can't just send away 1,700 hosts as well.

Some of these hosts were traitors who voluntarily defected to the royal court, but many others were secretly implanted.

Bai Xuanzhen just sent a message that a weapon-refining elder from the Kunlun Sect also had a seed detected in his body. That old man usually only repairs swords and scolds his disciples, and has no idea that something has been planted in him.

Yin Jiuniang's side was even more outrageous; she discovered that all three Gu worms contained miniature seeds.

Yin Jiuniang was so angry that she cursed Wang Ting on the spot for not even sparing insects, saying that his professional ethics had fallen into a cesspool.

Looking at the data, Jiang Nuonuo said, "We need to cut off the central control from the outside world first, and then dismantle the core."

Chu Feng's engineer, Lao Lu, squatted on the ground fiddling with the equipment, shaking his head and saying, "It's difficult. The central control transmits commands through the geomagnetic layer, and the signal has already blended into the natural background. Ordinary shielding is useless."

Hu Biao asked, "Then did you turn off the magnetosphere?"

Old Lu looked up at him: "You have a lot of ideas. I suggest you go and discuss it with Earth."

Qin Meng suddenly spoke up: "I can use a gravitational field to build a reverse shell to enclose this area."

Jiang Nuonuo immediately calculated, then shook her head after a moment.

"A radius of 120 kilometers is too large. You can do it, but the central hub will send a forced activation command before it takes shape."

Qin Meng stroked his chin.

This thing is pretty good at hiding.

As they were discussing, a large bulge suddenly appeared in the middle of the salt lake.

The ground cracked open, and dozens of dark purple tentacles emerged, each tipped with a metal eyeball.

The metal eyeballs all turned to Qin Meng, then emitted a harsh royal court language.

Karl, whose paper was tucked into Qin Meng's pocket, translated it: "It says, number 0001, you have been included in the list of objects for civilization correction. Please give up resistance and accept formatting."

Qin Meng looked down at his pocket and asked, "What does 'format' mean?"

Karl whispered, "It's basically like they'll clean your brain and then stuff you with a royal loyalty package."

Qin Meng sneered: "That won't do, I still have the dinner menu in my head."

The dark purple tentacles suddenly launched an attack.

Instead of attacking Qin Meng directly, they burrowed towards Jiang Nuonuo and the engineering team.

The central nervous system is very intelligent.

It knew Qin Meng was difficult to kill, so it killed the support first.

Qin Meng waved his right hand, and hundreds of gravity needles shot out, pinning all the tentacles in mid-air.

But once those tentacles were pinned down, they immediately split off, and the fragments, after falling to the ground, burrowed into the salt crust and transformed into small signal worms.

These signal worms frantically crawled outwards; once they escaped Qin Meng's gravitational field, they could send out the forced activation command.

Hu Biao charged forward in his makeshift modified mecha, unleashing a furious barrage of fire from his two alien rapid-fire cannons.

"Don't run, uncle will treat you to a hot bomb!"

Bai Xuanzhen and Yin Jiuniang stayed behind to guard the base and did not come, but the elite troops they sent were not just for show.

Kunlun disciples used their swords to slay the insects, while Wugu Sect disciples released poisonous Gu to surround and block them.

But there were too many signal worms, and they kept emerging from the cracks in the salt lake. Killing one batch only resulted in another batch coming.

Jiang Nuonuo shouted, "The central government is stalling for time! Global seed activity is only 20%!"

Qin Meng's eyes darkened.

He can no longer be led astray by these insects.

"Chu Feng, could you give me thirty seconds of fake royal court broadcast?"

Over the phone, Chu Feng immediately replied, "Yes, but the signal strength isn't enough to suppress the central nervous system."

Qin Meng said, "Don't suppress it, let it get distracted."

Chu Feng chuckled: "Got it, send it scam calls."