Capítulo 1057: Chapter 1055: One Hundred Years
“Snap! Snap!”
The sound rang out as Pandora grabbed both ends of Tin Wood, preparing to break it once more.
“Wait!” Tin Wood shouted in despair and helplessness, directing his plea at Richard, “Wait, kid, I… I agree to your demands! I’ll work exactly the way you want, isn’t that enough?”
“Click!”
Richard, who hadn’t walked far, stopped, raised a hand to stop Pandora’s further actions, and looked at Tin Wood, “If you agreed earlier, we could have saved a lot of ti.”
“What’s the point of saving ti, it’s still for you to work anyway.” Tin Wood grumbled, looking at Richard irritably, “Hmph, kid, I get it now. You are exploiting without a limit because you know I value my life a lot, right? You’re very cunning!”
“Cunning?” Richard didn’t quite agree, “Actually, not really. I’m openly negotiating with you right now. I know you want to stay alive, so I’m openly using that to coerce you, it’s not cunning because it’s all on the table.”
“Hmmph…” Tin Wood was at a loss for words, only letting out a disgruntled nasal sound.
“Clap!”
Richard clapped his hands lightly and said, “Alright, since you’ve agreed to my demands, let’s have a good talk. The work’s content has been determined, now we need to determine the duration of the work.”
“Kid, how long are you planning to tornt ?” Tin Wood asked quickly, very concerned. To him, a slightly worse work environnt or more work isn’t a big deal. As an immortal species, it’s almost impossible to work himself to death, what’s important is that he needs assurance he won’t have to do this indefinitely.
In his eyes, doing this for three years would be about enough, five years he could endure. Seven years would be pushing it, and if Richard dared to say ten years, as long as he could ensure his survival, Tin Wood would definitely use all his wits to oppose Richard.
So, just how long?
Tin Wood looked at Richard with piercing eyes.
Richard smiled slightly, unfazed, and said, “First, there are about six months left in the previous contract term, you’ll need to complete that, do you agree?”
“Alright.” Tin Wood replied, as expected, he could accept that. After all, it’s only six months, the key is what happens afterward.
“After completing it?” Tin Wood voiced his question.
“Once completed, considering your poor performance during this contract term, we need to sign and carry out a second contract. The content of the work won’t change much, but in terms of ti, I think—” Richard spoke slowly.
Tin Wood couldn’t wait anymore and interrupted Richard, pressing him, “Exactly how long, kid?”
Richard gave a light chuckle and said, “How about a hundred years, what do you think?”
“What?” Tin Wood’s eyes widened suddenly, his expression turned blank, as if he hadn’t understood.
“One hundred years.” Richard repeated in a serious tone.
Tin Wood finally reacted, and his expression turned even more blank and incredulous.
One hundred years?
One hundred years!
Richard’s words continuously echoed in his consciousness, making him feel the world was blank.
You’re kidding, right? One hundred years?
It must be a joke, one hundred years!
After being dazed for a good five or six seconds, Tin Wood opened his mouth, glaring at Richard, shouting, “One hundred years? That’s impossible!”
“Why is it impossible?”
“Do you even know how long a hundred years is! I doubt you can even live until then!”
“That’s not sothing you need to worry about. Even if I accidentally die, my successor can supervise you to complete the contract—after all, I highly value the spirit of contracts.”
“And what about ? Am I really supposed to stay here for a whole hundred years? For my life, that’s an extre waste!”
“Is it?” Richard raised an eyebrow, asking oddly, “Aren’t you always claiming to be an immortal species, a high-level life? You are the Immortal Guardian— ‘Yuketrahill Alhaydon Ximu’. Your life span is incredibly long, a hundred years shouldn’t be too long for you, so how is it a waste?”
“I…” Tin Wood was at a loss for words once more, holding it in for a while before finally finding a reason to refute, “You can’t just say how long I work for! You need evidence, a standard!
Previously, I was killed, captured, and revived by you, and all in total I worked for you for just a year. The current situation is almost the sa, logically it should be the sa one-year service, at most three years. As for a hundred years, there is no reason for it.”
His reasoning is really quite targeted… Richard raised an eyebrow, not surprised, nodding, “According to what you said, it does seem more reasonable to have you work a few more years. However, you’ve overlooked one thing.”
“What is it?”
“Your escape has caused quite a significant loss to my property,” Richard said, pointing to the side, “Look over there, that used to be your place, Research Room No.3, and now it’s completely unusable. The equipnt inside is likely damaged and needs repair or complete rebuilding.
That’s not all; look at the surrounding buildings, they’ve been affected by the energy wave from your escape and suffered incalculable impacts. For safety reasons, massive checks, and repairs are necessary, and that’s no small investnt.
Most importantly is the ground, you see quite a lot of craters caused by you…”
“Aren’t they just a few craters!” Hearing Richard’s words, Tin Wood got anxious, “At worst, I’ll fill them in for you. You can’t just make work for decades, or a hundred years, over that, right?”
“It’s not that simple,” Richard said, looking deeply at Tin Wood and shaking his head seriously, “You need to understand one thing, destruction is always easier than construction. Sotis, it takes decades or centuries to build sothing, but destruction only needs a second.
Take the ground, for instance, you see it as simple ground, but it is the basic part of the entire space. All buildings and equipnt are built on top of it. Your attack on the ground can lead to imperceptible shifts, the values are minimal, but during delicate research and experints, these errors can be fatal.
It might seem like I’m lying, so let give you a real example. There was once a powerful country that gathered its entire strength to create a chanical construct known as Apollo One. This construct was incredibly precise, with hundreds of thousands of components. However, because of a problem with one tiny component, the construct failed upon use, causing not only nurous losses but also injuring three operators.
In summary, the smaller sothing seems, the greater its impact. So, you now have two choices: either restore everything in this space item to its original state, with no difference compared to before. After you complete this contract, work for for one more year, and then you can leave.
Or, compensate for the great loss you caused to my property by converting it into work ti, which is roughly a hundred years.”
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