CHAPTER 369: CHAPTER 225: BEING THE ORIOLE BEHIND

Shen Shi also hadn’t forgotten his core purpose.

Investigate the hidden information between the B-level civilization and the high-level forces within the Mude System.

To achieve this goal, it is crucial to have a certain position and an acknowledged value.

In reality, his time was very limited.

Before the Daike Civilization attacks, he must return with this elite troop, otherwise...

After deducting the time spent on the road back and forth, there’s only about sixty to seventy years left.

To establish a certain status in Gus Land within these sixty to seventy years.

Frankly, if it weren’t for Shen Shi possessing future information, having certain "prophetic" abilities, this plan would be nearly impossible to achieve.

The history of Sage Saint Shen Shi during this journey itself is sufficient to indicate this.

However—

Shen Shi still has hope of finding an opportunity within this.

"Gus Land, on the surface, never refuses any visitor, always extending an invitation to all ships or civilizations within certain zones, and openly guaranteeing the right to life safety of each guest, only when one cannot afford the high ’residence fee’ and refuses to leave, it is possible for them to be taken away to be made into a Primordial Energy Battery... However, all these rules are just the surface."

At this moment, Shen Shi was also analyzing this information provided by the Collector from the two future lines.

It described another side of Gus Land different from the legends.

Indeed, Gus Land pays extreme heed to rules.

But beneath the rules, there are various ways to bypass them.

If you are targeted, the opponent might not act directly, but can easily use methods within the rules to bankrupt you, or even make you owe a large amount of "money."

There is only one outcome for being in debt in Gus Land.

And... it is not impossible to act directly.

The materials submitted by Collector No. 2 clearly indicate that he encountered over fifty armed assaults, thirty-six of which were outside the rules, with more than twenty within the rules. Those within the rules need no explanation. For those outside, he found evidence and used rules for counterattacks only six times, and the remaining thirty cases ended inconclusively.

If not for the sufficient cards he left behind, maintaining a high level of vigilance, along with a degree of luck and his outstanding talents, it would’ve been impossible to reach his current position.

But even now, Collector No. 2 still faces a certain degree of danger.

And after perusing all the materials, only one thought remained in Shen Shi’s mind.

"A perfect place for a Prophet."

Indeed, Gus Land is simply the soil most favored by prophets.

What do prophets fear the most?

It’s random actions that disregard rules and have no patterns.

But in Gus Land, rules are everywhere, even the disorderly parts are within the rules.

Just unknown parts within the rules.

"The travel route is still too lengthy, let’s use overclocking transition to save time." Shen Shi made a decisive decision.

Although overclocking transition would cause some damage to the Jump Engine, he was somewhat eager to make his mark in Gus Land. Instead of wasting time en route, every saved moment could possibly yield benefits in Gus Land greater than the damage to the Jump Engine.

Under his decision, the travel time of Grotto Heaven was further reduced.

Without sustaining loss, it would take about twenty-six years to meet Gus Land.

"Collect further historical information on Gus Land." Shen Shi again ordered the Collector from the second future line.

With the reduction of travel time, other related preparations also became urgent, including fabricating memories, internal falsification within Grotto Heaven, and the processing and calculation of information, etc.

Shen Shi also became busy.

Time flew by.

During this long twenty-six-year journey, not everything went without incident. Even in a concealed state during transitions, Grotto Heaven encountered three instances of being discovered. That was two top-level C civilizations and a hidden node base of the Es Civilization. The most dangerous moment was facing the hidden node base of the Es Civilization.

That was not even a publicly disclosed hidden base in future information.

If Shen Shi hadn’t checked the future line’s information every time before deciding to transition, he might have been restrained from transitioning, investigated by a B-level civilization node base, Shen Shi recalled, leaving still a slight lingering sense of fortune at the changes that occurred at that time.

Though, under the constraint of the world, he personally hadn’t sacrificed, yet in that future, humanity’s development was greatly thrown back.

Grotto Heaven was destroyed!

This further affirmed that the threats from the Mude System and the Es Civilization — such a civilization that monitors and assaults from node ambush bases — would really find it hard to be kind enough to offer unsolicited technological support to C-level civilizations.

In any case, after timely ceasing the transition and swiftly avoiding the Es Civilization node base’s chase through detour, humanity was considered to safely pass through this hurdle.

And now, they finally approached the destination.

But before heading to Gus Land, there was still one other thing to do.