CHAPTER 386: CHAPTER 233: RAID OF THE PHASE BOMB_2

Shen Shi’s judgment was indeed spot on.

Ever since they entered, everyone eyeing the potential benefits from the Human Civilization started using various means to frantically probe.

Not all of these probes would be evident in the future, as even Sage Saint Shen Shi was unaware.

However, Shen Shi could clearly see the key turning points of fate.

Before the official opening of the trade fair, the Human Civilization had suffered a major setback at the hands of Sage Saint Shen Shi.

This was two years before the trade fair began, in the sixth year of Grotto Heaven’s arrival in Gus Land.

The rapidly developing trade market that had even attracted many for long-term settlement was completely destroyed at its vulnerable section, under a deafening roar.

This was an absolute military attack.

An offense that Gus Civilization’s explicit rules absolutely prohibited!

Yet, it still happened.

The Review Department of Gus Civilization easily identified the mastermind behind it—a faction that had lost everything in gambling and nearly reached a dead end, making a last ditch effort to gain some final benefits from the factions dealing with Human Civilization, and then flee Gus Land.

Frankly speaking, the occurrence of this event completely exceeded Sage Saint Shen Shi’s expectations; he originally believed that even the hidden rules would unlikely permit such an incident.

But it did happen.

It can only be said that Sage Saint Shen Shi underestimated the risks behind the interests.

Even in the end, while all the open participants took substantial interests out, the Human Civilization’s trade fair still utterly failed; without this foundation, sufficient benefits couldn’t be provided to Gus Land, nor could they truly establish themselves and withstand wave after wave of disputes that followed.

Therefore, since Shen Shi learned of this future, he paid extreme attention to it.

As the time approached, he could almost feel the initial pressure faced with Worren Civilization.

"It’s a Phase Bomb, extremely small in size, and with our technology, it’s simply undetectable. My only advantage is knowing the future, therefore the future cannot be easily altered..."

Shen Shi was still staying on Grotto Heaven.

For in history, Sage Saint Shen Shi also stayed on Grotto Heaven.

He didn’t even change the protection layout for the market, or alter any other arrangements.

The reason is simple, in such matters, as long as the other side changes the person to detonate at the last moment, everything would be too late.

"Aside from the limitations of the Prophet, one’s own strength is the true adjustment, but winning this time allows us to somewhat establish ourselves." Shen Shi’s mind was racing.

He was very aware that this probe was indeed a supplement following the previous failure with Tolan Civilization.

It involved an alliance of several factions.

Because until now, Tolan Civilization hadn’t figured out the cause of their failure; they simply didn’t know how Shen Shi precisely discovered their probes.

If this attempt failed again, and they could still not figure it out, it could be assumed that Human Civilization possessed unknown technology.

The term "unknown" is sometimes both a source of danger and of profit.

The Collector from Second Future Line also possessed such "unknowns," but few expended great effort to investigate; the reason is simple, the Collector brought substantial profits with the "unknowns" from trade markets, and outweighed the threats.

But this method was not suitable for Shen Shi.

Because Shen Shi desired greater interests than any single Collector could achieve, which required even greater threats and profits.

"Everything is ready... Fortunately, this round won’t be a complete loss, if truly losing, package all acquired interests and carry away, that’s a great profit... "

With Shen Shi’s intense vigilance, certain things were proceeding according to the predetermined fate.

At present on the Human Trading Planet, over a billion intelligent life forms had already gathered.

The civilizations included even exceeded three thousand.

So to speak, among all known places of humanity, only in Gus Land could one witness the true "harmony of intelligent life."

Walking through the city, one could see all sorts of peculiar intelligent life forms, each with their own origins, technologies, cultural customs, and even thinking modes, yet all living in the same place following unified rules and striving for the same purpose... If they hadn’t encountered the Mude System initially, such an environment and atmosphere in Gus Land is a place humanity had anticipated and wished to encounter.

As for the dark rules behind?

If there weren’t such elements, everything here would seem overly utopian.

Instead, it would give a surreal and unrealistic feeling.

Regardless, there’s brilliance belonging to the small characters here, rather than being merely cultivated Primordial Energy Batteries.

At this moment.

In the largest city on Human Trading Planet, Zigong City, there was a small character harboring aspirations for a beautiful future.

This was a life form from what was phonetically translated as Babi Civilization, named Lair.

Babi Civilization was a C-level Civilization within the Mude System; it entered the C-level merely a few hundred years ago, just finding its freedom and being allowed to have its culture. In such civilizations, Gus Land was equally an alluring legend, thus when the ship Lair was on received an invitation from Gus Land, everyone aboard, including Lair, was overjoyed.

At this point, it was the twenty-third year of their arrival at Gus Land.

As a visitor from a C-level Civilization, their ship happened to carry a substantial amount of Primordial Energy Batteries, spoils of war, which became the cornerstone of their foothold in Gus Land. Over the past twenty-three years, they’ve profited and lost, barely understanding Gus Land’s rules, which is why upon hearing of the new trade market opening, they hastily rushed over—for people like them, there were indeed extremely tempting opportunities here.

Just with reduced taxes alone, they were bound to earn a tidy sum.

"I decided to purchase this batch of Primordial Energy Training Devices; though the profit is small, they never lack buyers. Buying them here and transporting them to the primary market, after thirteen trips, the profit would suffice for purchasing the C7 Level medium warship, returning to Babi, that warship alone is enough to gain noble status..." Lair was enthusiastically describing a beautiful future to his companion.

His Primordial Energy Mastery wasn’t particularly high, but his tenacity was firm. In fact, individuals like him were the most likely to profit in Gus Land.

Not greedy and possessing a firm goal.

Before coming to Gus Land, Lair was just a minor character, an ordinary crew member, but if his plan encountered no unusual setbacks, upon returning from Gus Land he would become a distinguished captain with a private, advanced warship, thus earning another Gus Land tale.

However, surprises are characterized by their possibility of occurring under seemingly impossible circumstances.

Indeed, within Lair’s body lay a Phase Bomb, adequate to create another "vulnerable zone" on the trade star.

More importantly, Lair himself was unaware of this, and the Phase Bomb, equipped with B7 technology, continued flowing within his cyborg core, coupled with its own concealment technology, makes it difficult to detect even within some B-level Civilizations.

In weaponry realms, even at equivalent levels, offense often exceeds defense in sophistication.