CHAPTER 375: CHAPTER 228: CONVERSATION WITH THE COLLECTOR

As future information gradually leaks out, Shen Shi’s eyebrows grow increasingly tense.

After one hundred and eighty years in a high position, he rarely allows his expressions, especially those representing trouble, to casually show on his face. However, this time, he really couldn’t help it.

Indeed, with the help of future materials, Shen Shi can be called a "Prophet."

However, even prophets have levels.

After all, the future changes continuously with the alteration of the time line. A truly powerful prophet is not merely able to see one time line, but sees a "time tree" that changes with each decision point. Clearly, Prophet Shen Shi has not reached this level.

In other words, he can only see that he lost the Time Crystal at this moment and the future direction after becoming an avatar.

He cannot see the time options after he changed the future.

This implies that if he makes some change to the future and this change results in a more negative outcome, he can only remedy it in the future afterward without altering the impact.

At this moment, Shen Shi faces such a situation.

Yes, he changed the original future, allowing human civilization to earn substantially at this moment, and even allowed human civilization to accumulate considerable fame before entering Gus Land.

However, this also brought a crisis.

As current future reveals, once human civilization enters Gus Land, it directly faces a series of challenges, with hidden crises behind these situations, from the existence behind Shu Realm, a Gus People force with not insignificant strength. Although constrained by rules from directly destroying human civilization on the surface, they easily make humans lose everything through the rules behind.

Eventually, human civilization not only loses this harvest but also suffers heavy losses.

"From this future information, they only show the tip of the iceberg."

Shen Shi murmured to himself, realizing this is the true reason for his furrowed brows.

If it’s just this extent, he still has some confidence.

After all, he isn’t the avatar who lost the Time Crystal, but the subject that can trade and communicate with the future at any time.

However, what truly worries him is the crisis revealed behind this.

It’s crucial to know that, after all, this is their territory.

So should he choose to leave, or stay?

"I still need to properly communicate with the Collector," Shen Shi decided not to make a decision so early and ordered, "Follow along Gus Land, but do not enter."

In any case, certain time is needed to reorganize this harvest. Most importantly, he knows the specific time of Gus Land’s next leap, so there’s no concern that merely following without entering will cause missing this Gus Land’s arrival.

After instructing the remaining matters to others, Shen Shi once again entered the Future World.

Nowadays, his entry into Future World isn’t confined to the trading market.

After all, each Future World has his avatar.

Therefore, Shen Shi can directly enter his avatar’s body through the Time Crystal.

"This power, no matter how many times experienced, always gives an omnipotent illusion." Shen Shi slowly indulges in Sage Saint Shen Shi’s power. He needs some time to adapt to this avatar’s power, enabling more stable conversation ahead, and even without this talk, he would still proceed this way.

Because this minimizes the influence from Sage Saint Shen Shi’s power and consciousness.

An avatar is still an avatar, but if it’s too powerful, it similarly affects the body.

In short, once Shen Shi barely adapted to Sage Saint Shen Shi’s power, communication from the Collector has connected.

"Master Sage Saint, I am ready and await your arrival." Even in text-based communication, the Collector exudes indescribable excitement.

This inevitably reminds Shen Shi of the previous transactions altered by future line changes.

In this present future line, Sage Saint Shen Shi didn’t die, hence Saintly Items are no longer "relics," supposedly reducing their value.

Yet, this future line, apart from becoming stronger than during initial transactions, although seemingly merely some technology breakthroughs to B-level, actually reflects comprehensive enhancement in population base, equipment level and quantity, and governed Star Domain area... Although human civilization hasn’t reached the level of B-level Civilization, it far exceeds typical C-level Peak Civilizations.

Similar to Anan Civilization, which reached C9 Level in a particular technology as a "C-level Peak Civilization," even if a hundred gathered, they wouldn’t match human civilization on this second future line.

This is the difference.

Compared to the initial second line human civilization, current second line human civilization is at least ten times stronger.

Besides this factor, another aspect is the Collector being an enthusiastic follower of Sage Saint Shen Shi.

Yes, this is why even on this future line, it’s still possible to exchange a Sage Saint’s Manuscript for a mighty immigrant spaceship like the Grotto Heaven.