A cold, synthesized mechanical voice echoed in the warehouse.
Immediately after, menacing turrets emerged from the surrounding walls, their crimson muzzles uniformly aimed at the two.
Lin Mo's heart instantly leaped into his throat.
He instinctively wanted to hide behind Saitama, but it seemed it was already too late.
"Ah, it seems I accidentally triggered something."
Saitama scratched his bald head, a hint of apology on his face, as if he had merely broken a cup while visiting someone's home.
The next second, dozens of turrets fired simultaneously!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—!"
Dense energy beams poured down like a torrential rain, and the violent energy instantly sealed off all their escape routes.
However, Saitama merely made a simple gesture.
He waved his hand.
It was such a simple movement, yet it stirred up an incredibly powerful wind pressure!
The dozens of energy beams were completely annihilated in mid-air the moment they touched this wind pressure, as if they had never been fired.
Immediately after, the wind pressure continued unabated, rushing towards the turrets.
The turrets were instantly crushed into twisted scrap metal, clattering to the ground.
The entire process took less than a second.
The alarm sound abruptly ceased.
Silence, like that of death, once again enveloped the warehouse, with only the lingering scent of scorching in the air.
Lin Mo opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
He knew Saitama was strong, but every time he witnessed this strength, it redefined his understanding of its limits.
Meanwhile, Saitama, the instigator, looked down at the "beef jerky" in his hand, found some dust on it, and casually tossed it away.
"Sigh, it got dirty," he sighed.
Just then, an arrogant voice directly sounded in both their minds.
"Oh? To be able to resolve my security system so easily, it seems you are not ordinary planetary natives. You exude the aura of a strong individual... No, to be precise, it's you, the tall, blond man."
This sudden telepathy made Lin Mo tremble.
He followed the source of the mental energy and saw a figure slowly floating out of the shadows at the end of the warehouse.
It was an alien resembling an octopus, with a massive head and four waving tentacles, its body covered in eerie blue patterns, and its eyes gleaming with intelligence and cruelty.
"I am Geryuganshoop, one of the three highest-ranking combatants of the Dark Matter Thieves, the universe's number one esper."
Its voice carried a sense of condescending judgment, its gaze fixed on Lin Mo.
"I can feel the immense roar within you, like a collapsing planet! What is that? The outward manifestation of your surging power? Interesting... Too interesting! Only a strong individual like you is worthy of being crushed by my own hands!"
Geryuganshoop had clearly mistaken Lin Mo's rapidly accelerating heartbeat due to nervousness—the "Emperor Engine"—as a symbol of his strength.
And Saitama, standing by, with an aura as ordinary as a passerby, who was just fretting over the "beef jerky," was completely ignored by it.
Lin Mo's cold sweat instantly poured down.
Being targeted by a top executive under a cosmic overlord was not a pleasant experience.
He could only feign composure, his face, naturally inscribed with "I am strong," coldly staring at the opponent.
"Universe's number one?"
Saitama, beside him, repeated the phrase with rare excitement in his tone, "Really or fake?"
Geryuganshoop then spared a sliver of attention for Saitama, his eyes filled with disdain:
"Shut up, you small fry. The conversation of the strong is not something you are qualified to interrupt. After I deal with your leader, you will be next."
With that, it ignored Saitama and concentrated all its mental energy, aiming it at Lin Mo.
"Come, blond strong one! Let me show you what true power is! What the universe's strongest psychokinesis is!"
"Killer Move: Psychic Stream of Stone Wave!"
As it shouted, all the metal fragments in the entire warehouse, even the debris of the turrets on the ground, floated into the air!
They spun at high speed under Geryuganshoop's psychic power, forming a terrifying torrent of metal, each fragment shooting towards Lin Mo at a terrifying speed.
Lin Mo's pupils contracted to pinpricks; under such a dense attack, he wouldn't last even a millisecond before being instantly torn to shreds.
It's up to you, Mr. Saitama!
Just at this critical moment, the bald man, who was considered a "small fry," moved.
He just found these flying objects stirring up a lot of dust, a bit annoying.
So, he bent down and casually picked up a small pebble from the ground, left over from the turret explosion.
"Hey."
Saitama lightly called out to the formidable psychic storm.
Geryuganshoop was immersed in the pleasure of unleashing his ultimate technique, having already foreseen Lin Mo being torn to shreds, and sneered:
"Useless! In front of my psychokinesis, all resistance is meaningless! Be reduced to cosmic dust!"
"Is this all you've got...?"
Saitama shook his head in disappointment, flicking the small pebble away with his finger.
That tiny pebble flew out just like that.
It easily passed through the psychic storm composed of countless high-speed fragments.
Geryuganshoop's smile froze on his face.
His psychic power couldn't even track the pebble's trajectory.
He could only watch as the unremarkable pebble passed through his proud killer move, through the layers of psychic barriers he had set up.
Then, it precisely struck his forehead.
"Pfft."
A soft sound.
The universe's number one esper, Geryuganshoop, had his massive head split cleanly in half from the brow, a straight crack appearing first, then cleanly divided by a powerful force.
His eyes, from extreme arrogance, instantly turned to extreme shock and incomprehension.
He seemed to want to say something, but could no longer make any sound.
The next second, his body lost all psychic support, and along with his head, which was split in two, he crashed to the ground, completely losing consciousness.
The small pebble continued its flight unabated, piercing through layer after layer of alloy walls, eventually flying out the other end of the spaceship and disappearing into the sky.
Inside the spaceship, a straight passage, less than a centimeter in diameter, was left behind.
The entire world fell silent.
Only a cold system notification sounded in Lin Mo's ear.
"[Extreme astonishment and unwillingness from Geryuganshoop, Energy Points +5000!]"