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

Qin Meng brandished the scissors.

Karl added, trembling, "But I've heard rumors that the royal court keeps a key in each of its key ranches to open the final harvest passage."

The room fell silent.

The phrase "final harvest channel" sounds ominous.

Qin Meng asked, "Where does the passage lead?"

Karl's voice trailed off: "Inside the Reaper Mothership."

Hu Biao's eyes widened: "So, the mothership hasn't even arrived yet, but there's already a door on the edge of Earth?"

Carl quickly explained, "It's just a key, it doesn't necessarily mean there's a door."

Qin Meng slapped the table: "Go and see for yourself."

He doesn't plan to bring too many people this time.

The situation on the far side of the moon is unclear, and bringing a regular team would be more troublesome.

In the end, only Chu Feng, Lao Lu, Hu Biao, and Qin Xiaoman traveled with them.

Jiang Nuonuo was originally supposed to go, but the base cleaning and warship dismantling couldn't do without her, so she had to stay behind to oversee the work.

Before leaving, Qin Xiaoman ran to the tarmac with a large bag on her back.

Qin Meng looked at her bag, stuffed full of snacks and canned braised pork, and said with a headache, "Are you going to the moon or on a spring outing?"

Qin Xiaoman said matter-of-factly, "Brother, you get hungry easily when you're fighting. I'm doing strategic logistics."

Hu Biao immediately gave a thumbs up: "Xiaoman is sensible and more generous than the base's finance department."

Jiang Nuonuo handed a data ring to Qin Meng.

"Inside are the coordinates of the far side of the moon, the seed residual signal model, and a backup of the Wanxiang Chamber of Commerce's ledger."

Qin Meng took the ring and asked, "Why are you giving me the ledger?"

Jiang Nuonuo said, "If you happen to find Jin Wanlou's secret stash of money on the moon, just take it back with you."

Qin Meng smiled: "This is a task I'm good at."

They took off aboard a restored Royal Court small landing ship.

This ship originally belonged to Karl's advance force. Its interior was extremely lavish, with seats made entirely of purple leather and armrests inlaid with high-dimensional crystals.

After sitting down, Hu Biao remarked, "The alien contractor is living a more comfortable life than I imagined."

Chu Feng was adjusting the system in the driver's seat, muttering under his breath, "This Royal Court's interface is so anti-human; the confirm button is right next to the cancel button."

Carl mumbled weakly from his pocket, "That's to filter out low-IQ operators."

Chu Feng patted the control panel: "Say one more word, and I'll stick you on the windshield to ward off evil spirits."

Karl shut up.

The landing ship quickly reached lunar orbit.

The dark areas on the far side of the moon were silent, with only grayish-white craters filling the view.

The coordinates are located at the bottom of a huge crater.

As the landing ship approached, the instrument panel suddenly went completely black.

Chu Feng cursed, "Interference's here! Just like it did seven thousand years ago!"

The spaceship began to plummet out of control.

Hu Biao gripped the handrail tightly and shouted, "Old Qin, is all your extraterrestrial travel this thrilling?"

Qin Meng raised his hand and pressed it against the bulkhead, instantly deploying a gravity field that firmly stabilized the landing ship.

He towed the entire ship out of the interference zone and hovered it directly above the crater.

The Black Hole Engine scan prompted this message.

"A dimensional folding barrier was discovered, which absorbs electronic commands and in turn interferes with mechanical systems."

Qin Meng looked down.

If machines don't work, then we'll do it manually.

He opened the hatch and led everyone to jump off the moon.

With Qin Meng's gravitational shield protecting her, Qin Xiaoman was having a great time bouncing around on the lunar surface, almost jumping into a crater.

Qin Meng pulled her back.

"Be careful, there are no traffic police here, but it will still hurt if you fall."

At the bottom of the crater, a black metal plate is exposed beneath the dust.

The metal plate was engraved with royal script, which Karl translated: "Ancient Ranch Key Vault. Unauthorized personnel are not permitted to enter; otherwise, they will be archived."

Hu Biao asked, "What does 'archiving' mean?"

Carl hesitated, then said, "It's probably about slicing and preserving it."

Hu Biao cursed, "Why does Wang Ting always have to slice things up no matter what he does?"

Qin Meng stepped forward and placed his palm on the metal plate.

The metal plate immediately lit up with dark purple patterns, and a scanning light swept across his body.

The next moment, the entire crater began to shake.

The metal plate opened in the center, revealing a vertical passage leading underground.

There were no stairs in the passage, only constantly rotating black cubes.

The black hole engine issued a warning.

"The passage contains a spatially folded maze; taking the wrong path will teleport you to unknown coordinates."

Chu Feng's face darkened: "Seven thousand years have passed, and the royal court still has this same maze-like decor. It's really unoriginal."

Qin Meng laughed: "It's okay, I'm the best at demolishing renovations."

As soon as they entered the passage, the space began to rotate.

Constantly shifting in all directions, the direction of gravity fluctuated wildly, and Hu Biao was hanging upside down from the ceiling after only two steps.

Qin Xiaoman suddenly stopped.

She closed her eyes and sensed for a moment before pointing to a black cube on her left.

"Brother, there's a very familiar fluctuation over there. It's related to the energy that parasite in my brain used to consume."

Qin Meng's expression shifted.

Qin Xiaoman once possessed an extremely high concentration of high-dimensional energy within her body, and her perception of the royal court's biological system was more acute than that of instruments.

Following her directions, Qin Meng used his dimensional reduction ability to flatten the cube.

The spatial maze suddenly stopped, revealing the true passage.

Old Lu exclaimed, "This girl is even better than a GPS navigator!"

Qin Xiaoman proudly raised her head: "I charge very high prices, starting from one hot pot meal."

The group descended to a depth of fifty kilometers underground.

It was a huge black warehouse.

A silver-white key floats in the center of the warehouse, surrounded by twelve dimensional chains.

Beneath the key lay a human corpse.

The body was dressed in the uniform of a 7,000-year-old scientific expedition team, and the badge on its chest was damaged.

Chu Feng froze when he saw the corpse.

His voice trembled: "That's Captain Li Ming's uniform."

Qin Meng also fell silent.

Some traces of Li Ming's capture by the royal court remain here.

Just as they approached, the recorder next to the body suddenly lit up.

A weak holographic image appeared.

In the video, Li Ming was covered in blood, but he was still smiling.

"Those who come after, if you see this record, it means that the royal court's harvest has begun again."

"Don't touch the keys."

"What's locked in the key woke up even before the mothership."

There was no air in the warehouse, yet everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

Li Ming's holographic image was intermittent and the image kept flickering. Seven thousand years of time meant that the recorder could be completely destroyed at any moment.

Chu Feng took two steps forward, his eyes reddening.

"Captain, it really is you."

The video, of course, did not respond to him.

Li Ming simply continued playing the program as it had been left behind.

"After marking Earth as a pasture, the royal court left a key vault on the far side of the moon to connect to the Reaper mothership."

"After we broke through, we tried to destroy the key, but we failed."

"The key is not an inanimate object; it is an embryonic form of the mothership's navigation brain."

Hu Biao's face turned green when he heard this.

"A key can give birth? Wang Ting's design department needs to get medical help."