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Li Haotian hummed a catchy tune he'd picked up from some short video and swayed as he walked out of the gates of Donghai University.

Behind him, he could faintly hear the screams of students and the whistles of security guards. Several police cars sped past with their lights flashing, but he didn't even bother to turn his head.

He hopped on a shared bike that required scanning a QR code and slowly pedaled toward the Cloud Top Villa.

Sunlight shone on him, making his faded T-shirt look particularly old. He looked like an ordinary college student who had just skipped the first class of the afternoon and was heading back to his dorm to play video games.

No one could have imagined that just minutes before, this person had used a broken cell phone to turn a top-tier global underground organization upside down.

The villa gate slid open slowly.

Liu Hu stood like an iron tower at the door, his eyes filled with tension and awe.

Hearing the noise, Su Wan quickly ran out of the living room. Seeing Li Haotian's nonchalant appearance, she felt half relieved.

"Haotian, are you alright? The news says something big happened at the university town, it seems to be a terrorist attack!"

Li Haotian casually parked his bicycle and waved his hand.

"It's nothing. A few young people got into a fight over the last serving of braised pork in the cafeteria, and things got a little out of control."

He took out the S-class space crystal core from his pocket and waved it in front of Su Wan and Liu Hu. The crystal core shimmered with a mesmerizing light in the sunlight.

"The business deal is finalized, the final payment has been settled, and the cooperation has been very pleasant."

Su Wan and Liu Hu looked at the crystal, which was clearly no ordinary item, and then at Li Haotian's relaxed expression, and swallowed hard.

They were quite certain that the "cooperation" with some unfortunate fellow was anything but pleasant.

Ignoring their shock, Li Haotian walked straight to the gaming pod room next to the master bedroom.

"I've been teaching all morning and I'm a little tired, so I'm going in to catch up on some sleep."

He waved without turning his head.

"Don't wake me up even if the sky falls when I'm 'sleeping'."

Su Wan looked at the closed door and sighed helplessly.

She knew all too well that every time Li Haotian "slept," it meant that an 8.0 magnitude earthquake was about to occur in some corner of the world.

Inside the gaming pod, light and shadow danced.

Li Haotian's consciousness reconnected, and he once again descended upon that desolate planet that belonged to him.

Deep within the lair, the colossal alien queen lay dormant, like a black mountain range.

He opened the system panel and went directly to the gene tree interface.

The S-class space crystal core, which would be priceless in the real world, was now lying quietly in his system backpack.

Li Haotian selected the new branch on the [Alien Queen] gene tree that had always been locked in a gray state—[Voidwalker].

Without the slightest hesitation, he dragged the spatial crystal core into the evolution groove.

[System notification: High-purity S-grade spatial energy source detected, meeting the activation conditions for the 'Void Walker' branch. Begin absorbing and evolving?]

"confirm."

[System notification: Devouring command confirmed. 'Alien Queen' has begun unlocking her genetic lock and is evolving into the 'Voidwalker' form. Estimated time remaining: 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds.]

Looking at the long countdown, Li Haotian curled his lip.

"Twenty-four hours? By then, the daylily will be cold."

He opened his personal attributes and his eyes fell on the long string of astonishing numbers after the "Survival Points" column.

This was all thanks to the generous "sponsorship fee" from the second-ranked "Scorpion" sister.

"System, don't you guys have any kind of 'money power' channel here?"

Li Haotian asked lazily.

[System notification: The system has detected that the host possesses a large number of survival points. These survival points can be consumed to accelerate the evolution process at a rate of 10000 survival points per hour.]

"That's outrageous, it's practically robbery."

Li Haotian was cursing, but his hands betrayed him, directly clicking on the "Speed ​​Up All" option.

[System notification: 240000 survival points have been consumed, evolution accelerated...]

[Remaining time: 10, 9, 8...]

The numbers are scrolling by rapidly.

next second.

"roar--!"

A roar that seemed to pierce through the ages suddenly exploded throughout the entire nest.

The sound seemed not to travel through the air, but to directly shake the soul.

The entire cave trembled violently, and countless fragments of stone fell from the ceiling.

All the aliens in the lair, whether raiders or corruptors, prostrated themselves on the ground at this moment, their bodies trembling violently from the fear that originated deep in their genes.

The sleeping alien queen suddenly arched her massive, mountain-like body.

"Click...click..."

Its seemingly indestructible black shell was cracked from the inside.

But that wasn't an injury; it was a more terrifying rebirth.

Strange silver patterns, as if they were alive, spread out from the cracks and quickly covered the empress's entire body.

The patterns were intricate and mysterious, resembling a cosmic star map or the code of some higher-dimensional being, shimmering with a cold and dangerous light.

The space around the Empress began to visibly distort.

The air, like red-hot glass, became viscous and blurry.

Some nearby rocks were pulled and squeezed by an invisible force, disappeared into thin air, and then reappeared in another place, eventually turning into dust.

Within the space, even fine black cracks, as thin as hair, appeared, behind which lay a deep, absolute void that devoured all light.

Li Haotian stood at a distance, admiring the grand performance he had personally directed.

"The special effects of this skin are much better than those that cost thousands of dollars in the game store."

He nodded in satisfaction.

[System Notification: Evolution Complete! The Mythical unit 'Alien Queen' has successfully unlocked the 'Voidwalker' form!]

[System Notification: New abilities have been unlocked—'Spatial Rift', 'Void Blink', and 'Miniature Dimension'.]

Li Haotian clicked on the description of the new ability.

Spatial Rift: Tearing open space to launch long-range attacks.

Void Blink: Short-distance teleportation, ignoring physical obstacles.

Miniature dimension...

"A portable interdimensional warehouse? Not bad, this will make raiding houses much easier from now on."

Li Haotian looked at the new empress before him, whose form had drastically changed and whose body was surrounded by spatial ripples, and laughed maliciously.

"I wonder who should get to try out this first expedited 'cross-industry delivery' package?"

As he was pondering, a unique system notification suddenly rang in his mind.

It wasn't the "beep" of a private chat with a friend, nor the roar of a world announcement.

It was a golden pop-up window that carried the implication of some kind of irresistible law.

[Cross-server encrypted communication request, from: Mythical Emperor.]

[Additional information: Alien, I'm very interested in your "live-streaming sales" in the cafeteria this afternoon. Name your price for what you're holding.]

Mythology, Indra.

On the power rankings, there's a nickname for the person who's ranked number one and so high up.

Li Haotian's smile deepened as he looked at the name.

"Hey, the village finally got internet? The top donor is only showing up now, that's a bit underwhelming."

He typed on the virtual keyboard and replied to a message.

"Want to cut in line? Pay me 50 first, then let's see what you're capable of."