I Don't Agree to the Terms-Chapter 601 - 326: One Hundred Million Pieces of Equipment, The Mad Saint!_2

Even if the dreadful crisis passed, would the Adventure King world survive? Economic collapse is a minor issue. The real concern is that these equipments are essentially transformed from Divine Power; consuming the world itself.

To truly break free from the dreadful effects, at least a year is needed after it passes by. This means it’s just the beginning.

Not even half the time has been weathered.

Did you really think there would be no consequences after intersecting with the crisis? Surely, we must undergo it in reverse, as the original great pull gradually dissipates. That’s the process.

Although it is possible to gradually decrease the intensity of rewards, Gu Shanhai doubted whether they could really hold out for the sequel?

Expanding rewards repeatedly has indeed made the players work harder, but it has also inflicted irreparable damage on the entire world and civilization.

Not to mention the existence of numerous abnormal regions.

"If we really get past this crisis, I fear the server will be shut down," Gu Shanhai said with a grave look.

When a server is shut down, it means players cannot enter that world for a period, typically happening in worlds consumed by the "First Era."

These worlds are mostly too severely damaged, much like lands that need crop rotation, waiting to be recovered enough to throw players back in to mine.

The situation in Adventure King world fits this, for indeed, it is both overdrawn and damaged; if pushed further, the world would shatter.

It’s just that now is not a suitable time, otherwise, the server would have been shut down at the earliest opportunity.

However, Gu Shanhai is a temp worker. If he stays within, he wouldn’t be kicked out of the closed server, but he also wouldn’t be able to leave, waiting until the server reopens to apply for departure.

Actually, encountering a server shutdown can naturally bring significant benefits.

Firstly, there is composting; if the world hopes to recover on its own, it would take a long time. The "First Era" would provide aid.

In his past life, Gu Shanhai had not experienced it, as he was a semi-digitized official player, but his subordinates who were experimental temp players without semi-digitization had, and he also obtained corresponding data. Although he did not bring back all the data, he did have some fragmented records.

A group of adventurers, escorting equipment, appeared numb, yet they were thinner than before.

With the approaching crisis and changing world, food and water had become major issues, thanks to players bringing supplies from other worlds; otherwise, everyone’s concern would not be how to face the crisis but how not to starve beforehand.

The shortage of food along with the harsh environment kept the death rate high; many would even prefer suicide over facing this despairing world.

Gu Shanhai had no good solution for this. Though he had notable planting techniques, those methods required the world to be normal.

Without even a place to plant, he was helpless. Even suggested soilless cultivation depended on a viable environment.

Otherwise, with temperatures sometimes imbalanced and gravity occasionally collapsing or even spatial rifts appearing, preserving one’s own life was already quite an accomplishment, let alone farming.

The arriving adventurers did not speak but silently unloaded their cargo, then went aside to rest tightly.

They knew their time was limited. Even though Gu Shanhai was a Saint, they didn’t want to say too much. What could a Saint do? Now, everyone was just grasshoppers on the same string, none more noble than the other.

Gu Shanhai didn’t chat with them either. In such an environment, building relationships was pointless. If they couldn’t survive and everyone died, could good relationships make the crisis disappear?

Heart Demon Dao Soldiers were already wriggling and growing on the ground, then they began their tasks.

During this process, the world occasionally showed some anomalies. A few months ago, these anomalies would have alerted the adventurers immediately.

But now, they merely glanced up, then turned over and continued resting.

They transported this batch of equipment day and night without rest, where would they find the energy for anything else? Now, their attitude seemed to be, "If we die, we die—it’s no big deal." Dying sooner could mean transcending sooner.

Gu Shanhai observed this change and could only comment on their utter desperation. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

This time, due to the requirement of one hundred million pieces of equipment, more time was also needed.

However, on the fifth day, the manufacturing was completed. The higher the quantity, the longer it took. Given the need to collect and verify the goods among other tasks, it naturally wasn’t easy. Otherwise, if it were actually five minutes per item, a hundred thousand Heart Demon Dao Soldiers could have finished in three and a half days.

The adventurers silently escorted the equipment away, and Gu Shanhai said nothing.

"Ah, the workload keeps increasing. Luckily, this time the reward isn’t issued every five days, but every ten days instead," Gu Shanhai felt relieved. If it were every five days, he would have nothing else to do but supply power to the Heart Demon Dao Soldiers to ensure work was done.

Altering and refining equipment entries definitely had its costs. The Heart Demon Dao Soldiers were derivatives of Gu Shanhai, and naturally, their energy had to come from him.

"The volume is expected to increase a lot over the next two or three months. We need to think of a way to solve this—solve nothing, under these environmental conditions, I can’t even set up an assembly line machine."

In the mutated environment he currently resided in, several different regional anomalies had already overlapped. The equipment meant for assembly lines could not be preserved.

The reason the Heart Demon Dao Soldiers could work so swiftly was their strength. Regardless of changes in gravity or the sporadic emergence of other anomalies, they could withstand them and continue working.

As for equipment, it would be scrapped immediately. Moreover, even if he wanted to build, he couldn’t, as the necessary resources and materials simply couldn’t be brought in.

He himself had some, but paying out of his own pocket just didn’t make sense when the labor costs of the Heart Demon Dao Soldiers were much more economical.

Besides, if equipment broke, he would have to repair it, but it was different with the Heart Demon Dao Soldiers—replacing one would suffice.

Otherwise, why would large companies, which could rely on technological automation, still opt to use manpower?

Not only was it cheaper, but also more convenient.

Gu Shanhai soon dismissed these thoughts and subsequently focused on observing Shanhai.

"This Shanhai seems to be enveloped by a terrifyingly powerful force field, interfering with my observation of the core."

"From what I can see, the body of Shanhai is not large."

"It looks a bit like a brick?"

"Or maybe a book?"

As Gu Shanhai drew closer to Shanhai, his observations became increasingly vivid.

"To confirm further, I can only wait until the world intersects with Shanhai to gain clarity." Gu Shanhai had no choice, mainly because the force field generated around the body of Shanhai was far too terrifying.

"The distance between the world and Shanhai is actually not close; without these force fields around, Shanhai wouldn’t impact the entire world at all."

To put it metaphorically, Shanhai is like a train. As long as you don’t foolishly go onto the tracks, you generally don’t have to worry about anything; but the issue is that the airflow produced by the train’s movement creates a gravitational pull. If you get too close, you’ll be sucked in.

The relationship between Shanhai and Adventure King World is just like that. Moreover, facing such a vast train as Shanhai, the stature of Adventure King World isn’t even comparable to a human, at most a tiny ant. If it were a human, there might be a chance to resist, but an ant shouldn’t even think about it.

"The world beyond is too terrifying," Gu Shanhai couldn’t help but comment. Even in his past life, he hadn’t ventured much beyond the world.

He was no fool; the world beyond was dangerous. Why would he explore it unnecessarily when the systems and knowledge within the world were enough to make him stronger? Why risk his life unnecessarily?