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

Old Lu was already covered in cold sweat.

"The navigation brain larva means it has its own consciousness, no wonder our spaceship was interfered with seven thousand years ago."

Qin Meng stared at the silver-white key.

Its surface is very quiet, so the black hole engine cannot scan its internal structure.

The reason it can't be detected isn't because of special materials, but because something inside actively absorbs the detector.

Li Ming's image continued, "This larva will wait for the Reaper mothership to approach, then resonate with the mothership's mainframe to open a stable channel."

"If it is forcibly destroyed, it will wake up prematurely and send its complete coordinates to the mothership."

"If we leave it alone, once the mothership arrives, Earth's defenses will be breached from the inside."

In the video, Li Ming coughed a few times, and blood gushed from the corner of his mouth.

"I locked it with residual neural waves, but the lock didn't last long."

"The newcomer, find someone who can withstand the pollution of higher dimensions, let him take over the chains, and don't let the key wake up."

The screen flickered a few times.

Li Ming looked at the camera one last time, his smile weary.

"If there are still people alive on Earth, go home and visit them for me."

The images have completely disappeared.

Chu Feng stood still for a long time.

Seven thousand years of guerrilla warfare, escape, and waiting all choked up in his chest at this moment.

Qin Meng did not offer any words of comfort.

He walked over and patted Chu Feng on the shoulder.

Chu Feng wiped his face and cursed, "The old bastard is dead and still leaves us with problems. He's really something."

Hu Biao whispered, "What do we do now? We can't touch it, and we can't leave it alone. This key is really good at shirking responsibility."

Qin Meng looked at the twelve dimensional chains.

Each chain was connected to the residual nerve waves of Li Ming's corpse.

Seven thousand years have passed, and the corpse has long since lost its life. Only the lingering consciousness, forcibly fixed by the royal court's technology, remains to maintain the seal.

Jiang Nuonuo accessed the data via remote communication; her voice sounded urgent.

"Qin Meng, don't act rashly. I just finished analyzing the records. Once the key awakens, it will send precise jump coordinates to the Reaper mothership."

Qin Meng asked, "Could we take the key back to Earth for research?"

Old Lu immediately shook his head: "The transport process will break the chains, and bringing this thing back to Earth is like bringing a bomb into the kitchen."

Hu Biao muttered, "What did the kitchen do to deserve this?"

Qin Xiaoman stared at the key, her face growing paler and paler.

Qin Meng noticed something was wrong with her and immediately asked, "Xiaoman, what's wrong?"

Qin Xiaoman covered her temples, her voice soft yet clear.

"Brother, it's calling me."

Qin Meng's eyes instantly turned cold.

Fine lines lit up on the surface of the silver key, and the rhythm of the lines resonated with the high-dimensional energy within Qin Xiaoman's body.

She was once modified by the parasite numbered 0002, and some of the royal court's high-dimensional pathways still remain in her body.

The key larva sensed her and regarded her as a more suitable host.

Qin Meng blocked her way and said coldly, "Calling you 'Grandpa' won't help."

The texture on the key's surface suddenly accelerated.

The twelve chains tightened simultaneously, and a piercing cracking sound came from Li Ming's corpse's chest.

Jiang Nuonuo's voice came through the communicator: "The chain's integrity has dropped to 62%, it's forcibly reviving!"

Qin Meng raised his hand, preparing to lower the dimension and seal.

Old Lu hurriedly shouted, "We can't suppress it directly! It will interpret the dimensional reduction wave as an attack and will immediately send a signal!"

Qin Meng's hand froze in mid-air, his face grim.

This thing is even more disgusting than the Northwest Central Hub.

It can't be hit, it can't be moved, and it will wake up if left unattended.

The mental waves of the key larva began to spread, and a large number of royal court symbols lit up on the warehouse walls.

The piece of paper was jolted out of Qin Meng's pocket, its mouth automatically retracting as it screamed in terror, "It's taking over warehouse access! Run!"

Hu Biao grabbed the piece of paper: "Can't you say something that doesn't go wrong?"

Carl cried out, "It has higher authority than me! I can't even say a few words!"

Chu Feng suddenly spoke up: "I'll take over the chains."

Everyone looked at him.

Chu Feng pointed at Li Ming's corpse, his voice hoarse: "I am a descendant of the scientific expedition team, and I have the neural recognition code left by the captain back then in my body. I should be able to reconnect."

Old Lu's expression changed drastically: "You will die."

Chu Feng smirked: "The people on that wrecked ship should have died seven thousand years ago."

Qin Meng pressed down on his shoulder.

"Don't steal the spotlight, I haven't agreed yet."

Chu Feng retorted angrily, "Fellow villager, this is not the time to show off!"

Qin Meng looked at the chains, then at Qin Xiaoman.

He already had a plan in mind.

"Li Ming said he wanted to find someone who could withstand high-dimensional pollution, but he didn't say that only one person could bear it."

Jiang Nuonuo immediately realized: "You want to share the burden of the chains?"

Qin Meng nodded.

His own physique exceeds 10,000, and the Mk5 black hole engine can withstand the main lock.

Qin Xiaoman can sense the frequency of the key and is responsible for calibration.

Chu Feng has the neural coding skills of the scientific expedition team and is responsible for inheriting Li Ming's recognition permissions.

Taking over the management with three people together will significantly reduce the risks.

Hu Biao immediately asked, "Then what should I do?"

Qin Meng glanced at him: "You're responsible for not fainting."

Hu Biao retorted, "I can help too!"

Qin Meng shoved the piece of paper at Karl: "Okay, you're in charge of watching over this alien pancake."

Carl was too upset to speak.

After the plan was finalized, Lao Lu began to set up the transfer device.

Jiang Nuonuo remotely and synchronously calculates the chain frequency.

This step is extremely difficult.

Each of the twelve dimensional chains is constantly changing, locking not only energy, but also the consciousness boundaries of the key larva.

If the wrong key is connected, it will travel along the neural pathways and invade the receiver's brain in reverse.

Qin Meng is least afraid of physical injury, but it would be a huge loss if his brain were used as a house by an alien key.

Qin Xiaoman stood next to Qin Meng and held his wrist with her small hand.

"Brother, I can hear its pulse."

Qin Meng looked down at her: "Are you scared?"

Qin Xiaoman said seriously, "I'm scared, but the fact that it wants to get into my head makes me even angrier."

Qin Meng smiled.

"It's good that you're angry. I'll take you to beat it up later."

Chu Feng stood on the other side and pressed the expedition team badge to his chest.

Lao Lu started the adapter.

The first lock connects to Chu Feng.

Chu Feng's body trembled violently, his face turned pale instantly, and a large number of fragments of memories from seven thousand years ago rushed into his mind.

He saw Li Ming lead the team to break through the encirclement, saw the royal warships in pursuit, and saw the research vessel plunge into the cold depths of space.

Chu Feng groaned, but he managed to hold on.

The second to seventh locks connect to Qin Meng.

The black hole engine within Qin Meng's body roared into operation, and the dimensional power suppressed the backlash from the chains.

The key larva immediately sensed a stronger host and its mental waves rushed towards Qin Meng.

It releases countless alluring images.

Royal technology, interstellar coordinates, immortality transformation, and the authority of civilization.

Qin Meng glanced at it for two seconds and sneered, "That's it? Not even braised pork."

The black hole engine directly swept these mental images into the furnace, instantly turning them into energy.

The eighth to twelfth chains need to be checked by Qin Xiaoman.

She closed her eyes, and the remaining high-dimensional pathways in her body lit up, beginning to adjust the frequency of the chains little by little.

Upon discovering her, the key larva immediately changed its strategy.

It sends out a gentle spiritual call, attempting to disguise itself as Qin Xiaoman's memories of being separated for three years.

Qin Xiaoman's expression changed, and her eyes reddened.

Qin Meng immediately noticed and shouted, "Xiao Man, those aren't your memories!"

Qin Xiaoman suddenly opened her eyes and shouted angrily, "How dare you imitate my mother's speech!"

She raised her hand and pressed it against the chains, causing the high-dimensional energy within her body to surge back.

The patterns on the key-shaped larvae instantly became disordered.

Jiang Nuonuo seized the opportunity and shouted, "Open the frequency window, Qin Meng, take over the master lock!"

Qin Meng suddenly clasped his hands together.

The twelve chains simultaneously detached from Li Ming's body and were transferred to the gravitational loop formed by the three people.

The silver key vibrated violently, and the warehouse walls began to crack.

Unwilling to be locked again, it actually tried to forcibly launch the warehouse coordinates.

Two-dimensional runes lit up in Qin Meng's eyes.

Instead of attacking the key itself, he compressed the signal it emitted into a thin sheet of invalid code.

The signal lost its thickness as soon as it left the key's surface and fell to the ground.

Hu Biao stared in disbelief: "This works? Old Qin, you can even flatten spam text messages now?"

Qin Meng didn't have time to reply to him.

The key larva unleashed a powerful mental shock, and the blurry shadow of the Reaper mothership appeared in the center of the warehouse.

It was a massive, suffocating black mothership, its surface covered with eyeball-shaped cannons.

Deep within the mothership, a cold consciousness gazed over from across the distant stars.

"Earth Ranch, Abnormal Entity Confirmed"

"Key takeover failed."

"The harvesting process has been brought forward."

The communication was interrupted instantly.

The silver key fell silent and was sealed again by the twelve chains.

Qin Meng and the other two released their grip at the same time.

Chu Feng sat down on the ground, panting heavily.

Qin Xiaoman's face was pale, but she remained standing.

Qin Meng patted her head: "Well done, you'll get extra chicken legs when we get back."

Qin Xiaoman immediately perked up: "Two."

Qin Meng nodded: "Okay."

After checking the key's status, Lao Lu said, "It's locked, but it has made brief contact with the mothership."

Bad news also came from Jiang Nuonuo's side.

"Strong gravitational perturbations were detected outside the Oort cloud."

"The Reaper mothership has accelerated."

"The estimated arrival time has been reduced from one month to fifteen days."

No one spoke in the warehouse.

After holding it in for a long time, Hu Biao finally cursed, "These alien couriers are rushing us way too much."

Qin Meng stared at the locked key, his eyes hardening.

fifteen days.

There's even less time left.

But they got the key, and also a part of the Royal Court passageway structure.

They won, but the trouble has gotten even bigger.

Qin Meng turned to look at the crowd.

"Back to Earth."

"We should convert all those warships into gun emplacements."