Even if the dreadful crisis passed, would the Adventure King world survive? Economic collapse is a minor issue. The real concern is that these equipnts are essentially transford 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 ans it’s just the beginning.
Not even half the ti 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 ntion the existence of nurous 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 ans players cannot enter that world for a period, typically happening in worlds consud 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 ti, 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 ti. 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 experintal temp players without semi-digitization had, and he also obtained corresponding data. Although he did not bring back all the data, he did have so fragnted records.
A group of adventurers, escorting equipnt, appeared numb, yet they were thinner than before.
With the approaching crisis and changing world, food and water had beco 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 environnt 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 thods required the world to be normal.
Without even a place to plant, he was helpless. Even suggested soilless cultivation depended on a viable environnt.
Otherwise, with temperatures sotis imbalanced and gravity occasionally collapsing or even spatial rifts appearing, preserving one’s own life was already quite an accomplishnt, let alone farming.
The arriving adventurers did not speak but silently unloaded their cargo, then went aside to rest tightly.
They knew their ti 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 sa string, none more noble than the other.
Gu Shanhai didn’t chat with them either. In such an environnt, 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 so anomalies. A few months ago, these anomalies would have alerted the adventurers imdiately.
But now, they rely glanced up, then turned over and continued resting.
They transported this batch of equipnt day and night without rest, where would they find the energy for anything else? Now, their attitude seed to be, "If we die, we die—it’s no big deal." Dying sooner could an transcending sooner.
Gu Shanhai observed this change and could only comnt on their utter desperation.
This ti, due to the requirent of one hundred million pieces of equipnt, more ti 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 equipnt away, and Gu Shanhai said nothing.
"Ah, the workload keeps increasing. Luckily, this ti 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 equipnt entries definitely had its costs. The Heart Demon Dao Soldiers were derivatives of Gu Shanhai, and naturally, their energy had to co from him.
"The volu 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 environntal conditions, I can’t even set up an assembly line machine."
In the mutated environnt he currently resided in, several different regional anomalies had already overlapped. The equipnt ant 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 ergence of other anomalies, they could withstand them and continue working.
As for equipnt, it would be scrapped imdiately. 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 so, 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 equipnt 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 beca 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 taphorically, 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 movent 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 comnt. 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?
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