Qin Yu withdrew his hand and turned, leaping into the sea.
With a few pushes, he landed steadily on the deck of the President.
"Brother-in-law!"
Yao Qian was the first to rush forward, ignoring the smell of gunpowder and blood all over Qin Yu, and clung tightly to his arm.
"Well done."
Yao Xue walked over, handing him a clean towel, her eyes filled with unreserved tenderness.
Li Ruobing threw the blood-stained pipe wrench onto the deck and wiped the seawater from her face.
"Damn satisfying!"
"I've never fought such a rich battle in my life!"
In the air, Qi Chun's Floating Fortress also descended, hovering over the sea surface.
"Brother! Battlefield cleanup is complete!"
"The brothers from the Huaxia Zone have already taken their compensation supplies and left. They said they won't disturb us while we divide the spoils!"
Qin Yu wiped his face.
He walked to the main control screen in the cockpit.
"Divide the spoils?"
"What's outside is just scrap metal. That's not the real loot."
"The real prize is in the System."
Qin Yu sneered and directly opened the Plunder Store, which had gone live after the version update.
"Beep—!"
The screen lit up.
In the upper right corner, Qin Yu's Plunder Value balance was emitting a dazzling golden light.
[Current Plunder Value: 85,000,000 points!]
Eighty-five million!
Killing Solomon, ranked second on the global leaderboard, plus the crystals from his legacy.
Add to that the destruction of one hundred and twenty-seven foreign main warships.
This enormous sum, in the current Wasteland Era, was absolutely an astronomical figure that would make anyone's brain short-circuit!
Keep in mind, an ordinary player killing someone would only earn a few dozen to a hundred points.
Qin Yu's current purchasing power had completely shattered this world's economic system!
"Open the exchange list for S-Class and above items."
Qin Yu tapped the keyboard.
Whoosh.
The screen lit up with a dark golden glow.
[S-Class·Deep Sea Nuclear Reactor: Exchange price 500,000 points.]
[S-Class·Adaptive Liquid Armor (100 square meters): Exchange price 100,000 points.]
[SS-Class·High-Energy Plasma Main Cannon Blueprint: Exchange price 1,500,000 points.]
[SS-Class·Targeted Gene Enhancement Serum: Exchange price 2,000,000 points.]
Looking at these prices.
The three women behind Qin Yu all gasped sharply.
"So expensive?"
Yao Qian widened her eyes.
"At this stage, besides us, who can afford this?"
Qin Yu curled his lips.
"That Executive Officer set the prices so high precisely because he doesn't want ordinary players to get their hands on high-level resources."
"He wants to monopolize all resources in the hands of 'lackeys' like Solomon."
"Unfortunately."
"He didn't account for me."
Qin Yu directly pressed the purchase button.
"Ten S-Class Deep Sea Nuclear Reactors!"
"S-Class Liquid Armor, max it out! Buy as much as possible!"
"SS-Class main cannon blueprint? Buy it!"
"SS-Class enhancement elixir? Take them all!"
"Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!"
The System's crisp deduction notifications rang out like a machine gun, echoing wildly in the cockpit.
Qin Yu didn't even glance at the prices.
He clicked frantically!
No matter if it was tactical supplies, upgrade materials, or special items.
As long as it was S-Class or above.
Clear them all out!
Just thirty seconds into Qin Yu's frenzied shopping spree.
The System's page suddenly froze for a moment.
Then.
The entire screen flashed with a blinding red light!
[Warning! Warning!]
[Extremely abnormal data flow detected!]
[Plunder Store inventory is rapidly depleting!]
[Highest-level Circuit Breaker Mechanism triggered!]
"Oh?"
Qin Yu stopped what he was doing and raised an eyebrow.
"Getting desperate?"
In a distant, unknown space.
The Executive Officer sitting before the control console of the Arbitration Tribunal had completely lost his mind.
"Stop! Stop it now!"
He frantically smashed his keyboard.
Watching the inventory of S-Class and SS-Class supplies plummet like a waterfall in the backend data.
His heart was bleeding!
These supplies were originally his bargaining chips to control the global situation across all regions!
Now.
They were all fucking ending up in one person's pocket!
"Change the prices!"
"Change the prices immediately!"
"Increase the price of all S-Class and above supplies by tenfold! No! A hundredfold!"
The Executive Officer screamed hysterically.
His hands flew across the backend code, making rapid alterations.
[Beep!]
On Qin Yu's screen, the item prices suddenly flickered.
The [S-Class Liquid Armor], originally priced at 100,000 points per unit.
Instantly became 10 million points!
The [SS-Class Main Cannon Blueprint], originally 1.5 million.
Skyrocketed directly to 150 million!
"Fuck me!"
Qi Chun cursed loudly over the communicator.
"That bastard has no shame?! Isn't this blatantly targeting us?!"
Li Ruobing was so angry she kicked the console.
"This is fucking disgusting!"
"Can't win fair and square, so they change the code!"
Qin Yu looked at all those extra zeros on the screen.
He wasn't angry at all.
Instead, he laughed.
"Trying to out-speed me?"
"Do you really think I wasted my time at Blue Star University?"
Qin Yu turned to look at Yao Qian.
"Qian Qian."
"Here!"
"That 'Auto-clicker' Macro Program you used for gaming in high school, can you still write it?"
Yao Qian was taken aback.
Then her eyes instantly lit up.
As a seasoned shut-in and gaming pro, she knew exactly how to deal with this kind of system!
"Yes!"
"This crappy system's underlying logic isn't complex. Give me a minute!"
Yao Qian directly pushed Qin Yu aside and plopped down in front of the main control console.
Her White Silk Stockings-clad legs wiggled excitedly.
Her hands became a blur as she typed furiously on the keyboard.
"The system is changing prices, which means the data is constantly being repackaged and resent."
"As long as I squeeze into that 0.01-second delay when its data refreshes."
"And forcibly inject the purchase command!"
"Let it change its prices, we'll keep buying ours!"
Thirty seconds later.
"Done!"
Yao Qian slammed the Enter key.
"Brother-in-law, the purchase command is locked onto all S-Class and above items."
"The frequency is ten thousand clicks per second!"
"Start now?"
Qin Yu patted Yao Qian's head.
"Crush him."
Click!
Yao Qian pressed the start key.
The next second.
The entire Plunder Store interface completely crashed!
[Purchase successful! 100,000 points deducted!]
[Item price has been updated to 10 million points!]
[Purchase successful! 100,000 points deducted! (Latency Exploit active)]
[Item price has been updated to 150 million points!]
[Purchase successful! 1.5 million points deducted! (Latency Exploit active)]
The notification messages on the screen became complete gibberish.
Red and green characters flashed chaotically.
The Executive Officer desperately added zeros in the backend.
But Yao Qian's Auto-clicker could send tens of thousands of purchase requests per second!
Squeezing into the tiniest gaps of network latency.
Before the new prices set by the Executive Officer could be fully locked in on the server side,
Qin Yu had already forcibly purchased the goods at their original prices!
His purchasing power was simply too terrifying, directly causing the shop's price system to plummet!
"It's crashing! It's all crashing!"
In the Arbitration Tribunal, the Executive Officer stared at the backend data.
His eyes were bloodshot, and he was nearly tearing his hair out.
The high-level supply inventory he controlled was originally priceless.
Now,
in the face of Qin Yu's over eighty million Plunder Value,
it was like discount cabbage about to expire in a supermarket!
"Clank! Clank! Clank!"
On the deck of the President,
one crate after another of dazzling Supply Crates materialized out of thin air!
It was a physical distribution that the System couldn't intercept!
"Thud!"
With one final dull thud,
the shop interface turned completely into a dead gray [Sold Out] status.
Not even a single S-Class screw remained.
[Current Plunder Value Balance: 21,000 points.]
Qin Yu's massive fortune of over eighty million was spent clean.
In exchange,
was a mountain of top-tier supplies piled up on the deck!
"Whew—"
Yao Qian let out a long sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"Brother-in-law, drained dry."
"We even snatched three copies of the SS-Class Deep Sea Escort Blueprint!"
Qin Yu nodded with satisfaction.
He walked over to the communication console.
Cleared his throat.
And directly cut into the world-wide forced broadcast.
This function was from the [Megaphone] Item he had just bought for ten thousand Plunder Value.
It ignored all System blocks.
"Testing, testing."
Qin Yu's voice rang out simultaneously in the ears of all players and within the backend of that Arbitration Tribunal.
"Hey, that grandson called the Executive Officer in the System backend."
"Can you hear me?"
In the Arbitration Tribunal, the Executive Officer stared fixedly at the screen, trembling all over.
"That crazy discount sale just now, I'm quite satisfied."
"Thanks for the freebies."
"But next time you modify the code, be quicker."
"If you don't even have the speed of someone single for twenty years, what are you doing playing with underhanded tricks?"
"Waste."
"Pfft!"
In the Arbitration Tribunal.
The Executive Officer, overwhelmed with rage, spat a mouthful of old blood directly onto the control console.
"Qin Yu—!!"
A shrill roar echoed through the unknown Space.
But Qin Yu couldn't hear it at all.
Even if he did, he'd only treat it as a joke.
"Mic off."
Qin Yu casually turned off the broadcast.
Turned and walked toward the deck.
Looking at the mountain of top-tier supplies.
Qin Yu waved his hand grandly.
"Divide the spoils!"
"Ruo Bing!"
"Here!"
Li Ruobing stepped forward.
Qin Yu kicked out a dark golden, elongated crate from the supply pile.
"SS-Class · Berserker Exoskeleton Armor."
"Comes with a Hypergravity Output Module."
"Paired with your heavy alloy pipe wrench, from now on, when you encounter S-Class monsters, just smash them like dogs for me."
Li Ruobing's eyes went wide.
She hugged the crate, her fiery gaze intense enough to melt someone.
"Thank you, hubby! Tonight, I'll show you my new moves!"
Qin Yu's old face flushed slightly, and he coughed dryly twice.
"Yao Xue."
"Here."
Yao Xue stepped forward, her Black Silk Stockings-clad legs straight and poised.
Qin Yu handed her a silver medical case.
"SS-Class · Cellular Reassembly Surgical Table."
"Plus a full set of S-Class Nano-Dissection Scalpel Sets."
"Your old scalpel can retire. With this set, as long as the person isn't completely dead, you can bring them back."
"Even capable of directly severing the enemy's genetic chain."
Yao Xue took the box.
An astonished smile appeared on her icy face.
"Very sharp."
"I like it."
"Qian Qian."
Qin Yu turned to look at his sister-in-law.
"You have no combat ability, so wear this [SS-Class Quantum Stealth Field Generator] at all times."
"Together with that [S-Class Omniscient Radar Array], connect them all to the cockpit."
"From now on, you will be our Battlefield Omniscient Eye."
Yao Qian obediently nodded.
"I'll complete the mission!"
Finally.
Qin Yu looked at the Floating Fortress hovering in mid-air.
"Qi Chun."
"Bro! I'm here!"
Qi Chun's voice trembled.
Qin Yu kicked open three massive heavy-duty containers.
"Three SS-Class Plasma Thrusters!"
"Plus one SS-Class Dome Energy Shield!"
"Install these."
"Fly up above the clouds for me!"
"From now on, you'll be our Absolute Firepower Platform in the sky!"
"Holy shit! Holy shit!!"
Qi Chun was so excited he couldn't even curse properly.
"Bro! You're my real brother!"
"I'll go modify it right now!"
Distribution complete.
The entire team's combat power, in just five short minutes.
Had directly leaped an entire era!
Ordinary players were still fighting desperately for a mouthful of fresh water or a piece of S-Class sheet metal.
Qin Yu's team.
Had already fully entered the era of SS-Class high-tech dominance!
Qin Yu looked at the massive amount of construction materials and weapon modules remaining on the deck.
"System."
"Invest all remaining resources into the reconstruction and upgrade of the [President]!"
[Ding! Command received!]
[Detected massive amounts of high-grade materials!]
[The President is entering a state of deep evolution...]
A brilliant blue light instantly enveloped the massive warship.
The grating sound of metal restructuring echoed continuously over the sea.
Qin Yu stood at the center of the light.
Raised his head.
On the sea surface not far away.
The enormous Dapeng was resting on the water.
After that battle, its injuries had recovered somewhat.
"Dapeng."
Qin Yu called out.
The giant bird lifted its head, its deep blue vertical pupil looking over.
"Rest period over."
A sharp gleam flashed in Qin Yu's eyes.
"Time to find the remaining fragments."
"Once we gather the Ocean Soul Heart."
"I'll take you."
"To smash that Executive Officer's skull open!"
"Screech—!"
Dapeng let out a piercing cry that tore through the clouds.
Spreading its wings, it stirred up a raging gale.
Above the sea.
A new storm was brewing.
And this time.
The roles of hunter and prey.
Were completely reversed!