Chapter 434: Chapter 257: Hunter and Prey Swap_2
But now things are different.
As soon as Shen Shi takes charge, he can concentrate the power of the entire civilization and maximize the potential of the trading market.
Currently, the trading market has only one hundred initial slots.
The efficiency of new individual terminal slots appearing is decided based on the population of the entire civilization or the abundance of Primordial Energy.
Therefore, while continuously enhancing the strength of civilization, each slot becomes extremely important.
Waste is not an option!
After Shen Shi made his statement, these people before him all suppressed their extremely excited and dreamlike emotions and turned to researching how to fully utilize this powerful weapon!
Everything seems unchanged.
However, Shen Shi still vaguely sensed a certain shift in the mindset of these councilors.
This was also expected. In the past, although humanity had defeated one enemy after another under Shen Shi’s leadership, and reached their current level in an unimaginably short time with rapid development, when it came to confidence and pride in human civilization, it was still not comparable to Shen Shi during the Earth Star Period.
The reason is simple.
In this interstellar space, human civilization is ultimately still incredibly weak.
Whether it’s history, talent, strength, or even culture, compared to other powerful civilizations, none of it is noteworthy. Even the only thing they could showcase, their development speed, was also reliant on their councilor Shen Shi seeking aid from the "Star Sea," and they even had to submit to so-called "tests"...
This weakness is an undeniable reality!
So where does confidence come from, where does pride come from?
They are fundamentally different from Shen Shi, who from the beginning possessed the Time Crystal, a power that surpasses imagination, surpasses all civilizations, surpasses the Mude System and the Pasture Master.
But now things are different.
The trading market has given them this confidence!
This is a power that even the Mude System, even the Pasture Master, does not possess!
"Cultural confidence, it seems, can be gradually built from the top down." Shen Shi thought to himself in the end.
After clarifying the means by which B-level civilizations, and even higher civilizations, devour other civilizations, Shen Shi had a stronger understanding of cultural confidence. Why wouldn’t his avatar become part of the assimilators like some councilors? Naturally, it is because he has sufficient confidence, confidence that human civilization’s achievements are far beyond a B-level, confidence that one day human civilization will surpass the entire Mude System. This confidence is the best weapon in the war of cultural invasion!
In the following years, Shen Shi continuously adjusted the development direction of the entire human civilization based on the emergence of the trading market and the complete mastery of the power it brought.
Especially in establishing the initial Pirate System.
This is not a simple matter.
Because the establishment of the Pirate Alliance requires the participation of other civilizations, coupled with the heavy involvement of the trading market, the entire system becomes quite complex.
Currently, Shen Shi can only continue to use the facade of "Star Sea," attributing the ability to perform traceless transitions of vast amounts of material to Star Sea, which managed to fool some people and barely set up the system.
And when the earliest pirates started to approach the Mude System, Shen Shi finally refocused his attention on the remaining future timelines.
It’s important to note that the new direction brought by the Pirate System is not only limited to the present and the third future line; the benefits brought by the remaining future lines are also substantial!
The trading market exists in every future line!
Which means every future line can be plundered!
"Let’s start with the second future line," Shen Shi seemed fueled with ambition.
In the long past, including himself, the entire human civilization, when faced with the immensely powerful Es Civilization, could only act subserviently, hiding when possible, smiling when necessary. Even knowing the Es Civilization’s ambitions, they could only let the wolves inside, especially in the second future line, bringing in the whole pack, hoping they would fight over their prey and allow a brief respite.
Is it suffocating?
For a weak civilization, it’s not actually suffocating.
In the Mude System, the number of civilizations feeling as oppressed or even more miserable than human civilization is countless.
But for Shen Shi, who possesses the Time Crystal, it indeed feels suffocating!
But now, the roles of hunter and prey are about to reverse.
Shen Shi’s mindset has also changed drastically!
The Es Civilization wants to swallow human civilization, then Shen Shi will make the entire Es Civilization, and even the entire Mude System, the fertilizer for human civilization to ascend the throne!
After dealing with present matters, Shen Shi moved his mind and directly entered the second future line.
And swiftly entered the trading market using the identity of the "Thirteenth."
The supreme authority of the trading market can not only be used in new future lines but can also be used in these past future lines. This is Shen Shi’s primary confidence in the second future line now.
And his second confidence is naturally the third future line, which already possesses B3 and is close to B4 strength.
Post-trade with the Three-Day Civilization can be settled.
"Gong Chu, come see me, don’t let anyone find out." Shen Shi contacted Gong Chu directly in the trading market.
Gong Chu arrived quickly.
After seeing Shen Shi’s new appearance, he was also momentarily stunned, but Shen Shi slightly released some Primordial Energy aura, and Gong Chu, who possessed the Primordial Energy Steel Seal, confirmed Shen Shi’s identity, and even further, guessed a lot of things.
"This identity of mine will represent Star Sea." Shen Shi said this in his first sentence, "And next, I will give you a batch of B3 level weaponry for free. You need to arm all our people. By the way, what percentage of our people remains?"
"About only thirty percent remains," Gong Chu said, feeling rather dispirited.
The plans promoted by these B-level civilizations have never stopped, with a large number of humans choosing to abandon their human identity and completely join these civilizations every day. Quite a few even turned against their former compatriots, helping these civilizations in cultural warfare after joining them.
This truly yielded significant results.
However, it wasn’t the benefits these people touted that played the crucial role, but rather the fact that so many people chose surrender, chose to forsake human identity.
Nowadays, more and more people begin to believe that human culture has reached its limit and can no longer support the civilization’s continuous development.
This reality is a more severe blow than defeat for people like Gong Chu.
"This number is already not bad." Shen Shi, however, was quite optimistic, "You have to understand, this war didn’t just start; we have been invaded by the Es Civilization for thousands of years and resisted for thousands of years. Despite the enormous disparity in power, to still retain such a large proportion already proves our resilience, ranking us among the top in the entire Mude System."
"...I was wavering," Gong Chu’s demeanor gradually sharpened.
Because what Shen Shi said was indeed the reality he knew.
He was mostly influenced by the desperate environment just now.
"Master Sage Saint!" Gong Chu suddenly exclaimed, "Merely providing B3 level devices is not enough to change the strength, though starting with B1 level and now reaching B3 level, the speed of such enhancement could perhaps give our remaining people the precious confidence, may even buy us more time."
Even though in a very short time, human civilization lost as much as seventy percent of its population.
However, unlike cultural invasion, cultural decay does not collapse faster the further it goes. Instead, the opposite is true; the further it goes, the stronger the defense becomes!
This final thirty percent may not all be steadfast supporters of human civilization, but at minimum, they are upholders unwilling to forsake human identity so easily!