I Don't Agree to the Terms

Chapter 854 453: Special Physique ≈ Special Gene Fragment_2

Moreover, it's even more important that the village chief actually doesn't know that there's a sealed Black Stone Demon beneath Zhen Shi Village.

It seems that due to the age being too long, it has led to a discontinuity in the heritage.

Gu Shanhai also performed a Soul Search on others and found that no one was bewitched by the so-called Black Stone Demon, and Gu Shanhai had also checked the seal, which was very sturdy.

He even thought about reinforcing it casually. With his reinforcement methods differing vastly from the native seal, even if the other side cracked their heads open with thinking, they wouldn't be able to open it.

Regarding this seal, Gu Shanhai did some research. It's considered a kind of special martial technique.

"The development of cultivation civilization should have reached a very high level, but in terms of livelihood, it's not very good."

One can see from Zhen Shi Village that the division between the top and bottom is really too severe. Presumably, because the upper class is all strong, it has led to issues of direction.

After all, everything is beneath cultivation; only high-level cultivation is considered valuable. No matter how well other things are done, they don't bring as much benefit as cultivation, and thus, all trades naturally wither away.

Gu Shanhai didn't bother with these things too much since he didn't plan to change anything.

"You're back. Why so fast today?" Gu Shanhai noticed Lan Qiushui and Base Station Old Liu returning to the safe house.

This safe house was created by Base Station Old Liu, whose profession combined with bloodline, can completely rival a small civilization. Whether it's producing troops or infrastructure, it's not a big issue.

"How's the situation?"

After the people returned, Gu Shanhai opened his mouth to ask, he had to show some concern after all.

"The harvest was okay, completed a few side quests, but there's still no progress on the main quest." Base Station Old Liu said with a frown.

For ordinary players, triggering side quests, hidden quests, and so on has a certain level of difficulty, but these two, as first-tier players with extremely experienced insights, can easily judge how to obtain quests.

At their current strength, the first-tier players ensure at least an S-grade evaluation; getting an A-grade evaluation would be considered a poor performance, warranting some reflection.

"So what do you think?" Gu Shanhai asked.

"We initially suspect it might be a third-party force, namely the Demon Race." Lan Qiushui spoke straightforwardly.

"You mean that the Demon Race will come to rescue this Black Stone Demon?" Gu Shanhai instantly understood what the other meant.

"Exactly, so I've already placed monitoring facilities throughout Zhen Shi Village. Every move can't escape my intelligent brain." Base Station Old Liu's idea was simple: better wrongful execution than letting anyone slip.

As for how they learned about the Demon Race, it was quite simple; it had to be from the village chief's mouth.

The village chief, as the strongest in Zhen Shi Village, is both a target for these two to ally with and a suspect.

Actually, the two of them have another thought, which is to max out the village chief's favor and make him their follower, taking him away from this world.

These two are not driven by lust but are true power enthusiasts.

They wouldn't despise the village chief just because he's an old man and insist on getting a beautiful, young woman.

In their eyes, taking the village chief back to the "First Era" would be equivalent to gaining battle power slightly inferior to their own, which would be worth it.

The potential would certainly drop significantly, but as long as they enter the "First Era," potential is never a problem, as long as it's somewhat digitized, you just need to spend money.

Of course, the premise is that it doesn't interfere with their main quest, because they need to complete the main quest to take the rewards away. Otherwise, if the main quest isn't completed, everything else is in vain.

So besides the village chief, they've also set their sights on some of the young adults in the village, raising their favor, albeit with slightly lower priority.

"With such a commotion, this Black Stone Demon definitely isn't a nobody." Gu Shanhai understood one thing: the Black Stone Demon must have a high status, likely the offspring of some higher-up of the Demon Race; otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to enter here.

Did they really think the Demon Race could freely enter the territory of the Human Race? From the village chief's memory, Gu Shanhai knew that the Human Race wasn't some weak force; instead, it exerted influence so that other Demon Races didn't dare to cause too much trouble.

Zhen Shi Village is not a tiny village located at the edge of the Human Race's territory.

However, within the territory, there are actually roaming Demons, mostly due to various reasons strayed in or simply spies and infiltrators. Hence, they either hide in the mountains or blend into human society and hibernate.

"Who knows? I don't care much about this. If the speculation is correct, then perhaps we'll have to unite the entire Zhen Shi Village." Lan Qiushui said with some helplessness.

The "First Era" should have given them enough time to gather sufficient strength. Otherwise, with their capabilities, they might not be able to deal with the Demon Race coming to unseal.

"Preliminarily suspected to be around level 600, otherwise it wouldn't be this troublesome." Base Station Old Liu provided an answer from his intelligent brain.

If they could indeed take the village chief and other young adults from the village, the level at which they could barely win in a hard-fought battle would be around level 600 to 610, certainly not below level 600.

Otherwise, how could the "First Era" possibly let them pass so easily?

"Then good luck to you all. I can only give you some aura support and at most a little healing spell." Gu Shanhai stated his limited strength, and then added, "By the way, the stuff you wanted has been crafted, it's in the corner, just go and get it."

Gu Shanhai pointed to the two boxes in the corner, placed very casually.

"So fast?!" Lan Qiushui was a bit surprised, then opened a box to check his equipment's attributes and couldn't help but marvel, "Your craftsmanship is truly remarkable."

"If you were to open a small shop exclusively for business in the player city, I assure you all players would come to give you money." Base Station Old Liu also exclaimed after checking the attributes.

The "First Era" clearly presents the attributes, effects, etc., of the equipment, and this set is better than what they wear themselves.

"Come, take whatever you like; if I even frown a little, consider me stingy." Saying so, Lan Qiushui took out a pile of items from his inventory.

They certainly understood Gu Shanhai's rule, a markup, but considering the value, they felt they gained even with the markup.

"Then I won't be polite." Gu Shanhai accepted all the items handed over by the two without hesitation, not displaying any pretense.

The two really didn't mind, these items indeed had value, but for them, they weren't particularly useful. If it was useful, it would've been used long ago, and it wouldn't be kept.

"By the way, I am accepting custom items, consumables, like these items, are you interested?" Gu Shanhai took out pills, talismans, arrays, magical treasures, and other items from his bosom.

Especially those pills with effects like increasing permanent attributes and permanent states, which made the two people's eyes turn red with desire; it was unbelievably valuable.

These two knew that if Gu Shanhai was willing to bring them out, it was definitely because they were of no use to him anymore, and he was bringing them out for exchange.

"If you want custom effects, prices will be much higher, but if you want these, I'll give you a 30% discount, but I only accept bartering." Gu Shanhai was clearing out his inventory. He didn't consume it anymore, and Little White ate even better ones, so keeping them was pointless, better to liquidate with these two.

"We want it, however much you have. If it's not enough, do you support credit?" Base Station Old Liu said without hesitation.

"Yes, we both want it all." Lan Qiushui hurriedly echoed.

"On credit, it's possible, but I must state in advance, I might come to collect after a century or more, so don't think of defaulting on me." Gu Shanhai wasn't concerned about it, to be honest, he didn't intend to liquidate his entire inventory with these two; they genuinely couldn't afford all the stock, and Gu Shanhai just capped it to their current level at its limit.

The two naturally patted their chests, indicating they definitely wouldn't default, as they still wanted to trade with him in the future; how could they ruin it as a one-time deal?