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"The energy transmission line must conform to the Dimensional City standard interface!"

"Patrol team, be aware of the third sector area. Report any abnormalities immediately!"

The work is arduous, the environment unfamiliar, but a tenacity necessary for the survival of civilization sustains them. Earning contribution points to exchange for resources and a future has become their most practical motivation.

Remnants of the antimatter legion.

Several small groups of antimatter beasts were instinctively drawn to the powerful energy emanating from the dimensional city, howling as they charged, only to crash into the invisible spatial barrier or be easily annihilated by the suddenly appearing patrol fleet of the dimensional city. Their frenzy didn't even attract Feng Xi's attention; they simply became targets for the defense system's routine testing.

At the edge of the solar system, the company's massive fleet is about to collide head-on with the dimensional city's defense system.

The Star Train sent out friendly communication signals and awaited a response.

The Star Core Hunter's stealth ships are still trying to find vulnerabilities.

The people of Xianzhou are working hard to build a new home.

Meanwhile, within the Thousand Realms Prison, the Star Gods and their messengers continue to enact the myriad aspects of their captivity.

The storm has arrived, and Feng Xi, the player of the game, is calmly surveying the entire chessboard, waiting for each side to place their pieces, preparing to use Dimensional City as a base to start a new game of global strategy.

A week is but a fleeting moment on a global scale. But for Dimensional City and its objectives, it is enough to unleash a world-shaking wave. Under Feng Xi's will, Dimensional City's war machine has officially been activated, with the goal of taking over the world.

This time, it wasn't Feng Xi acting alone, but rather a display of the entire Dimensional City's power. A massive fleet, incorporating technologies from multiple dimensions, appeared simultaneously in major star systems across the universe through precise spatial jumps, like a torrent of steel.

**Fairy Boat Alliance**

When the Dimensional City fleet appeared in the airspace above Luofu, Yaoqing, and Fanghu, it did not encounter the expected fierce resistance. Fu Xuan, who was in charge on behalf of the army, had already learned some of the inside story and Feng Xi's will through information transmitted by Marshal Hua and others.

After Marshal Hua, Jing Yuan, Fei Xiao, and the other seven envoys (whose power had not been fully restored, but whose identities were of great symbolic significance) personally appeared and clearly announced that the entire Immortal Ship Alliance had joined the Dimensional City and become its autonomous star field, the will to resist within the Immortal Ship basically collapsed.

Fu Xuan, representing the alliance's high command, formally signed the surrender agreement. The Cloud Cavalry laid down their weapons and began assisting the Dimensional City fleet in maintaining order, while also learning the new regulations. Although some extremist factions were unwilling, the overwhelming power disparity and the consensus among the leadership prevented them from causing any trouble. The Immortal Ship's surrender was remarkably smooth, its profound civilization and discipline making it one of the first major forces successfully accepted by the Dimensional City.

Black Tower Space Station

The reception of the space station was almost a "welcome ceremony." Under the leadership of Station Master Estádio and Security Chief Alan (who had already received some vague instructions from the Black Tower doll), the space station voluntarily opened all its ports.

"Lady Black Tower is now an important member of the Dimensional City's Research Department, and the space station should naturally follow in her footsteps," Estádio announced. For the space station's members, who revere knowledge and Black Tower, this seemed to be the most reasonable explanation.

The engineering and research personnel of Dimensional City successfully moved in and began upgrading and modifying the space station, officially integrating it into Dimensional City's research network. The "peaceful evolution" of the Black Tower Space Station even attracted two members of the Genius Club who had been closely following the matter.

Ruan Mei, who had always been extremely curious about the technology of Dimensional City, submitted her application to join almost without hesitation after confirming that the Black Tower had indeed joined them and had access to some of their cutting-edge research. "There are more possibilities for life forms there," she explained to the Erudite Society.

Screw Gum, with his rational analysis, also considered the Dimensional City's spatial technology and power levels to be "the best way to observe and learn at present," and thus chose to join as well.

The addition of these two geniuses has undoubtedly greatly enhanced the strength of the Dimensional City Research Department and has also generated a huge demonstration effect.

Interstellar Peace Corporation

Unlike the smooth progress of the fairy boat and the space station, the company's resistance was the most intense, and also the most... futile.

General Clough's massive expeditionary force met its match at the very edge of the solar system. The Dimensional City's defenses were not formidable fortresses, but rather a labyrinthine spatial maze, energy deflection fields, and omnipresent dimensional attacks. The company fleet's seemingly powerful firepower was often diverted into the void or deflected back to hit its own forces. The Dimensional City's fleet, on the other hand, was elusive, using spatial jumps to precisely cut and annihilate its forces.

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"Report! Left flank fleet has lost contact!"

"Energy shield deactivated! Attacks cannot hit the target!"

"Space stabilizer overloaded! We're locked out!"

Inside the flagship "Final Destination," alarms blared, and loss reports poured in like snowflakes. General Clough was deathly pale; he couldn't comprehend what kind of warfare this was, as if the enemy were waging an unequal battle on a different dimension.

They were forced into a complete retreat! They were utterly powerless to fight back!

The company's fleet didn't even get a glimpse of the dimensional city itself before being gradually dismembered, devoured, and annihilated on the outskirts of the solar system. Their ambition for revenge crumbled into cosmic dust in the face of overwhelming technological and power disparity. The surviving ships attempted to escape, only to find that even space jumps were blocked and disrupted.

The company's demise is inevitable. Its vast territory and resources await the takeover by Dimensional City.

Pinocchio

The decision-makers of the "family" observed the devastation of the company fleet throughout the entire ordeal via a special dream channel. The silent destruction and the incomprehensible tactics sent chills down everyone's spines.

There was almost no hesitation.

"Immediately! Send a communication to Dimensional City! Express Pinocene's... goodwill and submission!" A family member's voice trembled.

"Highlighting our unique dream services and pursuit of joy can add color to the new order of Dimensional City!"

"Open all dream portals, welcome the Dimensional City's... scrutiny and takeover knife."

Chapter 275 The Destruction of the Company

The Dimensional City's military might has dramatically altered the global landscape. However, the process of destroying the Interstellar Peace Corporation was not entirely smooth sailing; it was imbued with the last tenacity and tragedy of the defenders of the old era.

When the Dimensional City fleet appeared like a ghost in the airspace surrounding the company headquarters—Amber King's City—they were not met with surrender, but with General Clough's hoarse and resolute roar:

"For the sake of preservation! For the sake of King Amber! All troops, meet the enemy! Fight to the death, never retreat!"

The company's remaining fleet, orbital defense platforms, and even the modified asteroid fortress erupted in a final frenzy. Energy beams rained down on the dimensional city's fleet like a storm, attempting to defend their crumbling faith with steel and fire. Soldiers shouted slogans of preservation, piloting their fighters in a desperate charge, knowing it was futile, yet still relentlessly charging forward. "Foolish loyalty."

The fleet commander of Dimensional City coldly assessed the situation. An absolute technological gap could not be bridged by courage. The spatial deflection field caused most of the company's artillery fire to miss, while the Dimensional City fleet carried out a precise and efficient harvest. The company's warships exploded and disintegrated one after another in space like fireworks.

The battle quickly spread into the interior of Amber King's City. The company's Iron Guard, relying on the familiar steel corridors and fortifications, engaged in fierce street fighting. They used their bodies to halt the advance of the Dimensional City warriors, resisting with the most primitive explosives and energy weapons.

Among them, the battle fought by Oswald Schneider, the Minister of Expansion, was the most fierce and futile. He was not a traditional warrior, but as a pioneer in expanding the company's territory, his will was equally unyielding, and his belief in preservation was ingrained in his very bones. When the Dimensional City's assault team broke through to the outer perimeter of the core temple, Schneider did not retreat. He activated the office's emergency defense system, grabbed a symbolic, ceremonial, rather than combat-ready, Pioneer Power Axe, and stood in front of the final corridor leading to the temple.

"This is the end of the defense of our territory! Retreat!"

He roared, charging like a trapped beast guarding its lair. His power axe slashed down, but only futilely sliced ​​through the spatial afterimages left by the dimensional city warriors. He tried to charge with his body, but was easily repelled by the invisible spatial barrier.

The battle was brief yet brutal. Schneider's power axe was twisted into scrap metal, his pioneer uniform torn apart, and his limbs were precisely and cruelly severed one by one by an invisible spatial force, leaving a horrifying trail of blood on the corridor bridge. But even in death, his eyes remained wide open, roaring his oath of preservation and pioneering, trying to writhe with his mangled body to block the way forward, until finally he was completely annihilated by a cold spatial slicing ray, leaving no trace of his body, his death extremely gruesome.

Ultimately, the wave of resistance was ruthlessly crushed. The company headquarters was completely occupied.

Feng Xi issued a clear instruction to the company's top board members: no trial required, public disposition as a warning to others.

The surviving board members, including the previously cautious Dr. Sorenson and the radical and belligerent General Clough, were dragged from their hiding place by the soldiers of Dimensional City. They had lost their former dignity and were pale-faced, but many of them still had a burning resentment and a kind of twisted piety in their eyes.

They were taken to the central plaza of headquarters, where a massive amber-colored energy tower, a symbol of the company's power, stood. Soldiers used specially made chains to suspend them one by one from the towering, lamppost-like auxiliary energy conduits surrounding the energy tower.

The cold metal dug into their necks, their bodies swaying helplessly in the breeze. The fear of death gripped them, but in these final moments, many directors, including General Clough, struggled to raise their heads and, with their last ounce of strength, hoarsely proclaimed their lifelong beliefs:

"Preserve...forever..."

"King of Amber...witness..."

"Faith...will never die..."

Their voices, faint yet persistent, echoed in the deathly silent square, as if a final farewell to the imprisoned star god. Then, the chains tightened, and all signs of life vanished. Their bodies hung there, a chilling and direct warning from the new order to those who resisted the old.

The company's demise ended in the most brutal way. Its vast legacy was swiftly seized, and its belief system collapsed completely in the face of absolute power and harsh reality. The glory of its preservation, along with the gradually dimming light of the headquarters' energy tower and those former rulers hanging from the "streetlights," were all swallowed up by the dust of history...

This scene quietly spread through the network of Dimensional City, greatly deterring all forces that were still observing or harboring illusions. The arrival of the new era was not a gentle transition, but rather accompanied by the blood and lamentations of the old rulers, ruthless and unstoppable.

Pinocchio made the choice most in line with their survival philosophy—unhesitatingly siding with the victors. They even began meticulously preparing a grand "dream-entering" welcome ceremony, attempting to integrate into the new order as quickly as possible and maintain their detached status.

The remnants of the antimatter legion continue to wreak havoc in various places, but they have degenerated from a unified force of destruction into "background noise" in the universe, and are being wiped out one by one by the dimensional city's cleanup forces and local civilizations (with the dimensional city's tacit approval or even support).

The Star Train and the Star Core Hunter's spaceship, like two small boats in a storm, cautiously remained at a relatively safe distance, observing the earth-shattering changes and reassessing their next move.

In just one week, the global landscape has been completely transformed.

The celestial ship surrenders, the space station integrates, geniuses come to join, the company is destroyed, and Pinocchio submits...

The banner of Dimensional City was planted at an unprecedented speed in one once glorious civilization and world after another.

Feng Xi sat at the central command, coldly observing everything. The progress was in line with expectations, even slightly faster than calculated. The giants of the old era had been swept away (5.6), and the forces willing to cooperate were consolidating.

The tide of a new era is surging and sweeping across the entire universe, with Dimensional City at its core. And the one who holds the chessboard at the source of this tide has already begun to plan the blueprint for the new world after the tide recedes.

The steel torrent of Dimensional City did not cease with the submission of the major powers; instead, it spread to every corner of the universe with even greater efficiency. Takeover, integration, and reshaping—these three words became the themes of the new era.

Immortal Ship Autonomous Starfield

Under the coordination of Marshal Hua, Jing Yuan, and others, the transformation of the Immortal Ship Alliance was the most rapid and thorough. Each Immortal Ship established a temporary management committee, directly responsible to the Dimensional City's central command. The Cloud Cavalry was reorganized, with some units incorporated into the Dimensional City's defense force and others becoming internal security forces. They began to be equipped with Dimensional City standard equipment and learn new tactical regulations.

Chapter 276 Changes in the Iron World

A large influx of Xianzhou technicians and scholars flooded into the Dimensional City's database, eagerly learning a knowledge system far exceeding their imagination. Simultaneously, incentivized by the "contribution point" system, they uploaded and exchanged knowledge unique to Xianzhou, such as biotechnology, alchemy, and talisman formations. One after another, floating cities in the Xianzhou style began construction in designated airspace, becoming a unique and beautiful landscape under the Dimensional City's banner. Past pride and pain were temporarily buried; the practical needs of survival and development took precedence.

Black Tower Space Station and Genius Club Joint Research Center

The space station has become a forward outpost and important branch of the Dimensional City's research department. Estella and Alan are working together efficiently to take over the operations. With the formal addition of **Ruan Mei** and **Screw Gum**, it has become a gathering place for geniuses.

Ruan Mei immediately gained access to the highest-level biological laboratory and began using the resources of Dimensional City and the new knowledge she obtained from the database to conduct bolder experiments in creating life forms. 17

ScrewGumm focuses on analyzing the core spatial technology of Dimensional City, attempting to fully understand its operation from a logical perspective, and trying to optimize and replicate it.

The Black Tower puppet also resides here. Although she devotes most of her energy to researching the Memory Makers in the Thousand Realms Prison, she occasionally comes to exchange a few words with Ruan Mei and Screw Gumu. The interaction of these three geniuses has led to rapid progress in scientific research here, with astonishing results constantly being incorporated into the Dimensional City's database and transformed into tangible power.

Interstellar Peace Corporation Estate Management

The company's demise was swift and complete. With its main fleet destroyed, its vast territory was virtually undefended. Wherever the Dimensional City's takeover fleet went, most of its subordinate civilizations surrendered without a fight, while the few die-hards were easily crushed.

The company's resource warehouses, production lines, and financial networks were completely taken over and transformed. Its "Guardianship" belief system, upon which it depended for survival, utterly collapsed in the face of the fact that both the Guardian and Kripper's true form were imprisoned. After the initial panic, countless employees and believers, in order to survive, began to try to adapt to the new rules of the Dimensional City—the "Contribution Points" system replaced the old credit points as the new hard currency.

The company's headquarters, the Amber King's City symbolizing its preservation, has been completely sealed off and marked as a "situation awaiting research." The massive amounts of data and special materials accumulated within are being carefully sorted and extracted by experts from the Dimensional City.

Pinocone Dream Minister

The "family" demonstrated extremely high efficiency and...survival instinct. They not only fully opened up the dream world, but also voluntarily offered up the most magnificent and comfortable "dream" area as a (theoretically) leisure and recuperation place for the upper echelons of the dimensional city.

They even meticulously planned a grand "Dream Symphony" in an attempt to demonstrate Pinocone's "value" and "harmlessness" to Fengxi and the higher-ups of Dimensional City. Although Fengxi herself was unlikely to attend, the gesture was quite convincing. Pinocone successfully positioned itself as a "high-end service provider" under the new order, temporarily maintaining its aloof status, while Albeit remained under the absolute control of Dimensional City.

Suppression and Reconstruction of Order

The remnants of the antimatter legion became the best "training targets" for the newly formed fleet and ground forces of Dimensional City. Incentivized by clear contribution point rewards, cleanup squads were dispatched to various chaotic star systems, efficiently eliminating these out-of-control destructive creations, while also testing and refining their new weapons, equipment, and tactical systems in actual combat.

The laws of Dimensional City were forcibly imposed on every planet it took over. The hatred and strife of the old era were forcibly suppressed, and any act that dared to challenge the new order would be met with thunderous retribution. However, those who abided by the rules could also obtain relatively fair development opportunities and resource allocations under the "contribution point" system. A ruthless but efficient order was replacing the chaos of the past.

Observer and Prospector

The Star Train remained at a safe distance. Himeko and the others witnessed the earth-shattering changes in the universe, their feelings complex. They sent out multiple communication requests, finally receiving a formulaic reply from the newly established Dimensional City Foreign Affairs Department: "Welcome law-abiding travelers, please abide by Dimensional City regulations." This seemingly open response carried an undeniable sense of alienation. The train crew still hesitated about whether to engage in further contact.

The Star Core Hunters' ships operated with even greater secrecy. Kafka attempted to send messages through certain channels, expressing her willingness to "join them," but received no immediate response. Dimensional City seemed to be still assessing their value and risks.

Feng Xi sat at the center, as countless streams of information converged and diverged before him. The integration progress of the universe rose coldly as a percentage. Old obstacles had been cleared away, and a new system was being built.

His gaze would occasionally drift toward the Prison of a Thousand Realms, where the "gods" and "messengers" of the old era were imprisoned. They were the source of their power and also the "parts" or "weapons" that might be needed in the future.

The canvas of a new era has been unfurled, painted by the Dimensional City. The final form of this canvas rests entirely on the whim of that indifferent artist. All beings in the universe, whether conformists, observers, or potential challengers, are striving to find their new place in this immense torrent of change.

Beneath the starry sea, there is no more peace, or perhaps... no more of the old days.

The smoke of battle had not yet completely cleared from the headquarters of the Interstellar Peace Corporation 390. The former giants hanging beneath the amber-colored energy tower had become the coldest and most glaring footnotes of the new era. The shadow of the Dimensional City did not fade with the collapse of the main resistance force. Instead, like an infinitely extending night sky, it enveloped every corner of the known universe in an absolute and undeniable manner.

Central: The Silent Will

Deep within the Dimensional City, Feng Xi's figure seemed to merge with the city's cold structure. He no longer needed to be on the battlefield; his will was spread throughout the universe through an invisible, vast network called the "Cardinal's Council."

The Cardinal Institute has no physical form; it is a hyperdimensional intelligence composed of endless data streams, spatial sensing nodes, and cold logic, a direct extension of Feng Xi's will. Every day, massive amounts of information—from the resource production of peripheral star systems to the abnormal emotional fluctuations of a resident in a core star city—flow into the Cardinal Institute, where they are instantly processed and analyzed, transformed into instructions accurate to the micrometer, quietly altering the fate of countless worlds.

There are no arguments, no compromises, only the optimal solution based on absolute efficiency and the stability of governance. The bureaucratic system and political games of the old era have become a distant and laughable joke in this world.

Chapter 277 Changes

Star sector: Gear positioning

The universe has been reshaped, fragmented, and reorganized. The former Immortal Ship Alliance is now the "Immortal Ship Sector"; the Black Tower Space Station and its radiation zone have become the "Knowledge-Seeking Sector"; even the subjugated Pinocene has been incorporated into the "Dream Star Sector"...

The appointment of each sector "governor" is like a cold, formal investiture ceremony. They may have been native heroes or sages, or perhaps newly appointed officials from dimensional cities, but without exception, their path to promotion is meticulously calculated by the Cardinals—ability, contribution points, and the ever-evaluated "loyalty." Marshal Hua and Jing Yuan, among others, received their official appointment letters and a massive, tens-of-thousands-pages-long implementation guide to the "Universal Basic Law" in their makeshift command post above Luofu. They possess a degree of autonomy, but every major decision must be synchronized with that cold network.

Law has replaced faith. The code's provisions are as cold as iron, imposing extremely high demands on production efficiency, resource remittance, and technological contributions, while the punishments for "rebellion," "sabotage," "espionage," and "spreading harmful ideas" are suffocatingly severe. Occasionally, footage of public trials and executions of saboteurs is shown on the holographic screens in the square; there is no cheering, no anger, only a deathly silence of fear and submission.

Economy: Contribution is everything

The term "contribution points" has become the rhythm of the new era. Each person's wristband or implanted "dimensional mark" serves not only as identification but also as the umbilical cord connecting this entirely new economic system.

On the mining planet of Tarasa-III, miners operate automated drilling rigs provided by the Dimensional City. Their daily ore extraction is converted into contribution points in real time, which are deposited into their accounts. More points can be exchanged for better synthetic food rations for their families or extended energy supply to their living quarters.

At the newly built "Hope" starship dock, engineers worked through the night debugging the engines. For every technical problem they solved, the Cardinals would instantly reward them with contribution points, which could be exchanged for an opportunity to learn from the advanced database.

Even the dream weavers of Pinocene are no longer purely for "pleasure." Their meticulously crafted dreams require applications and approval before being used to appease the emotions of workers on certain important industrial planets in exchange for valuable contribution points.

All free markets have vanished. Resources are centrally allocated by the Cardinal Council, and production is centrally planned by the Cardinal Council. The accumulation of wealth no longer relies on business acumen or family inheritance, but on the amount of sweat, wisdom, and even blood one contributes to the colossal machine of Dimensional City. It is fair, yet ruthless.

Military: Iron Fist and Hawkeye

The fleet of Dimensional City patrols the former frontier, uniformly painted and silent as an abyss. They no longer need to fire frequently; their very existence is the strongest deterrent. Occasionally, some foolish space pirates or die-hard remnants of the old corporations will venture out, but often, before they can even see the attackers, they are instantly annihilated by assault ships that appear from bizarre angles.