Chapter 418: Chapter 249: The Last Resort for Buying Time_2
"We must try our best to contact some powerful civilizations, have them send people to integrate into our culture, and then let these people inherit the market terminal, letting them know the existence and strength of the market terminal..."
Over the past three hundred years, Shen Shi has secretly conducted experiments.
Using technology from the Primordial Energy World to transform, letting some outsiders become "humans," to test whether these humans could obtain the market terminal and enter the trading market.
The experiment succeeded.
Even easier than imagined.
These outsiders do not need to be one hundred percent integrated into humans; a partial integration, like Iwen, is sufficient. Shen Shi did not have to transform his own physical material body; integration only at the Primordial Energy level was enough.
Now Iwen can also use the terminal for trading.
What Shen Shi needs to do is use the trading market’s power to attract these powerful civilizations, drawing their attention away from the destruction or perhaps annexation of humanity, shifting their perspective to how to use and annex the trading market.
He believes the trading market definitely possesses this allure.
This action is indeed dangerous and helpless.
Any slight mistake could destroy human civilization instantly.
However, if balance can be achieved, human civilization may hope to gain unprecedented benefits.
And these benefits will become the foundation for Shen Shi to reverse reality!
"So, which civilization do we start with?" someone asked.
Everyone understood the danger of this task, and for those unaware of Time Crystal, succeeding would be nothing short of a miracle. But they also knew that following Shen Shi was humanity’s last hope.
"The Gus Civilization." Shen Shi gave a definitive answer.
The Gus Civilization, a mighty civilization independent of the Mude System, whose strength isn’t specific, but one thing is clear: even if it isn’t enough to be rated as an A-level civilization within the Mude System, it far exceeds a B-level civilization like the Es Civilization.
Achieving a good balance first requires a center.
The Gus Civilization is the center Shen Shi has chosen.
The dispatched personnel quickly set off.
Even though human civilization was under Es Civilization’s tight surveillance, the trading market was something the Es Civilization couldn’t monitor.
With the Collector, who possesses a market terminal and has long been stationed in Gus Land, humans could easily transmit messages.
The Collector, upon learning Shen Shi’s plan, didn’t hesitate at all and directly used his privileges to contact the Gus Land’s high-ranking officials, conveying a clear attitude.
"Humans are willing to integrate into Gus Land and offer an absolutely confidential item in exchange for Gus Land’s protection." The Collector’s posture was very humble.
In the cosmos, the weak have no room for arrogance, and even though humanity is now much stronger than three thousand years ago, their weakness has been exposed, lacking the status they once held.
"You should know, Gus Land does not wish to interfere in Mude System’s internal affairs." Facing the Collector’s request, Gus Land’s response was expected, "Human civilization indeed holds tremendous wealth, but unfortunately, all the benefits brought by humanity don’t match the losses from breaking the rules, hence we will not intervene."
If Gus Land would easily intervene, human civilization wouldn’t be in crisis. Shen Shi could fully choose to integrate into Gus Land and in the lengthy integration process amass power.
But, as the response indicates, this typically won’t happen.
Gus Land is indeed strong, but currently, the B-level civilizations within the Mude System seemingly have consolidated into one entity.
An incredibly powerful, extraordinarily zealous, and dangerous entity.
Gus Land wouldn’t break this entity’s rules for a human civilization.
However—
That’s in the absence of a trading market.
"Please believe, the benefits human civilization can bring absolutely exceed the risks," the Collector said.
"This requires proof." Gus Land remained unmoved.
Thus, the Collector provided proof.
Very simple.
Ignoring the distance with instant teleportation!
The market terminal’s restrictions prevent anyone with it from disclosing any information related, but do not restrict displaying basic storage. Shen Shi did precisely this when he first arrived at Gus Land three thousand years ago: in front of the Gus people, he directly took away a human warship and demonstrated the power of "Traceless Transition," stunning them significantly.
So, this ability was already known to Gus Land.
When the Collector demonstrated it again, it did not cause surprise.
"You must have used a powerful relic device to achieve this, not as previously mentioned, with a powerful civilization’s backing." The Gus people said, "If you are willing to trade this relic device, we can make a deal, promising to protect part of humanity."
"Not enough," the Collector replied, "and you actually know nothing about it. I also need you to choose a person of sufficient significance to integrate into human culture."
"..." The Gus Civilization’s reaction finally changed.
They felt the Collector’s unabashed confidence.
Eventually decided to send some people to try.
This doesn’t cost anything.
With the Gus Civilization’s advanced technology, converting some people’s Primordial Energy World traits is not difficult and hardly takes time.
When these Gus people entered the trading market, they were plunged into immense shock.
"Limitless personal space!"
"Completely distance-ignoring teleportation and communication!"
"Absolute confidentiality?"
"Can it truly not be detected?"
"This isn’t a relic! Its technological level far surpasses any relic ever discovered; with our technology, researching it might be impossible."
"Even if it can’t be researched, it can form the foundation for our strength! We will become a true Interstellar Social System! Far surpassing any Interstellar Social System’s powerful system!"
"..."
Clearly, anyone can feel the strength of this trading market, needless to say, for civilizations like Gus Land, they can better perceive its terror.
In the vast cosmos, space and time are always the greatest constraints on civilization development.
Yet in the face of such unimaginable technology, these constraints are easily eliminated!
In reality, only in the hands of truly powerful civilizations can it unleash its terrifying potential.
Imagine if the Pasture Master possessed this device, he wouldn’t need to rely on hierarchical levels to manage these nine star systems, and could directly establish a vast empire, a massive civilization, continuously consuming every newly-born civilization while maintaining high control!
This is why Shen Shi has confidence in achieving balance through its allure.
As long as it’s impossible to research this device enough to separate it from human civilization, they can’t easily act against humanity.
Know that existing research indicates the number of terminals it distributes is likely related to the size of human civilization.
And its admission criteria must be based on human culture!
When this group of Gus people left the market terminal, their response made the Gus Civilization pay even more attention.
Bound by restrictions, they couldn’t reveal what they saw or knew.
They could only repeatedly emphasize "humans must not be destroyed," "must bring humans to our side," "this is Gus Land’s once-in-a-billion-year hope," among other things.
Yet in Primordial Energy Detection, even through consciousness invasion, nothing was discovered.
The Gus Civilization clearly realized there is a Primordial Energy Technology beyond their imagination guarding this secret and only by integrating into human culture, changing their racial identity, can they learn about it.