Chapter 3370: Please Don't Misunderstand

Close the prompt for Genesis Paradise, the reward Su Xiao accepted; as for this matter, he truly couldn't handle it.

Helping Genesis Paradise win this world contention battle? Absolutely impossible; as an invader, Su Xiao knows his exposure is only a matter of time.

The coordinates are now confirmed, located within the Sun Fortress, which has become a geographical advantage for the defense battle, but it's not without drawbacks—before the world coordinates are generated, the Sun Fortress remains in an immovable state, and only after the world coordinates form can it regain mobility.

The defense battle will begin in 27 hours, giving the contractors of Holy Light Paradise and Watchtower Paradise time to rush there.

After 27 hours, the half World Core Su Xiao obtained will be in an immovable state, forcibly fixed at the world coordinate formation point in the top-level control room of the fortress.

Looking at the half World Core in his hand, Su Xiao weighs his subsequent plans in his mind.

First, he needs to acquire a large batch of heavy melee weapons in a short time, prioritizing long blades and war hammers, as these weapons require no training and are deadly upon pickup.

Previously, he bought 140,000 various cold weapons from Brigadier General Leiz, which have already been distributed, but it's still not enough.

Developing the boar warriors' numbers to 200,000 within 27 hours is not difficult, but nearly 60,000 of them lack weapons—this is the biggest problem.

Having them use mining picks would yield some combat power, but the standard cold weapons forged by the beastfolk armory provide a significant boost to combat power.

Assuming a boar warrior's base combat power is 10, fighting with mining picks yields 16–20, while using beastfolk standard weapons raises it to at least 150–160.

Recently, Caesar and Li Xiniwei have been trying to buy secondhand standard weapons retired by the beastfolk alliance, but either they're too outdated or the officers aren't greedy for money.

The war between beastfolk and humans has only recently subsided; on the beastfolk side, both soldiers and officers are of high caliber, unlike Brigadier General Leiz, who was mistreated—such officers are rare.

Aside from the beastfolk side, only humans and numerous small nations can produce this batch of weapons.

According to Benny's exploration, this continent has three dominant powers: humans, beastfolk, and mutated beasts.

Su Xiao has contacted the first two; on the mutated beasts' side, high-intelligence mutated beasts inhabit the Eastern Great Forest, separated from the borderlands by a vast plain where boar warriors hunt low-intelligence mutated beasts.

The beastfolk side will not be contacted for now—they do not develop technology but focus on breakthroughs in physique and soul.

They reject technological creations, believing technology makes spirits lazy and evil, and confuses young beasts whose minds are not fully developed—this feeling is like parents not letting their children play games.

On the beastfolk side, in forging, they exist at two extremes: quality and quantity. For quality, visit the beastfolk; for quantity, a beastfolk artisan would take years to forge one weapon, and it's for beastfolk use only.

According to Benny's observations, the surrounding archipelago of this continent is scattered like stars, with at least hundreds of islands.

These islands range from large ones housing hundreds of thousands to small ones of just a few square meters; this terrain results in a total of 106 small nations in the surrounding area.

Commissioning weapons from these small nations is feasible, but don't expect quality or efficiency.

After elimination, Su Xiao realizes that besides purchasing these weapons from humans, there is no other option; though relations with them seem friendly for now, neither side knows how long it will last.

Su Xiao takes out a contactor resembling a satellite phone from the drawer, dials it, and hears a hoarse voice from the earpiece—the black-robed man he met when selling the 【Mutation Solution】.

The black-robed man in the communicator asks: "What's the matter?"

"I want to buy a batch of beastfolk standard weapons from your side."

Su Xiao wants beastfolk standard weapons because human soldiers mostly use "metal substitutes" for weapons and armor, and in standard weapons, beastfolk are superior.

After years of human-beastfolk warfare, captured beastfolk cold weapons are plentiful; the old ones are melted into special-grade steel, while well-preserved ones retain value due to forging craftsmanship plus special-grade steel—once melted, their value drops significantly.

"When did you become interested in this? As friends, I'll give you a friend's price: 5 kilograms of active ore per weapon—how many do you want?"

The black-robed man's quote is high; last time, buying from Brigadier General Leiz cost only 1.3 kilograms of active ore per weapon.

Purchasing 60,000 beastfolk cold weapons requires 3,000 units of active ore; with a hard bargain, and by transferring some active ore from Caesar, it can be done.

Su Xiao cannot produce weapons here and urgently needs them; unable to enforce "resource allocation," he can only buy at high cost. Thinking this, he says:

"I need 60,000."

"60,000— which small nation do you plan to sell them to?"

"For my own use."

"You're using them yourself?"

After the black-robed man finishes speaking, he falls silent, carefully pondering Su Xiao's words.

"Bai Ye, our friendship is very fragile."

The black-robed man's words leave people slightly puzzled.

"Oh."

"So, don't let this fragile friendship break—confirm, these weapons are for your own use? Not for resale? If you resell them, my situation will be very awkward."

"Sell to whom? After those small nations consume these weapons, can their finances survive this winter?"

Hearing Su Xiao say this, the black-robed man also falls silent for a moment; after ten or so seconds, he says:

"Alright, I'll sell this batch of weapons to you at friend's price—1 kilogram of active ore per weapon. Bai Ye, remember, our friendship is very fragile."

After saying this, the other end hangs up the communicator.

As a high-ranking human faction member, why did the black-robed man suddenly lower the price? The reason is simple: with this world's technology, when Su Xiao first received this communicator in Free City and brought it back to the Borderlands' main base, the human faction could locate his position.

Su Xiao doesn't care about this; human-beastfolk hatred cannot be resolved in decades, and in this era, humans are very willing to see beastfolk suffer.

The black-robed man knows Su Xiao is in the Borderlands but doesn't know what he does; upon learning Su Xiao wants to buy weapons and use them himself, he conducted multiple probes and explicitly stated that if Su Xiao resells the weapons, they would immediately turn hostile—this is a probe.

After the probe ends, the black-robed man immediately reduces the price of that batch of beastfolk cold weapons from 5 kilograms of active ore per weapon to 1 kilogram.

The reasoning is very simple: stationed in the Borderlands, Su Xiao, capable of using tens of thousands of beastfolk cold weapons, at minimum controls a small-to-medium force,

Under this premise, selling Su Xiao a large batch of weapons cheaply is a good choice—unless his forces all fly away, he cannot cross beastfolk territory to reach humans.

That is, by selling weapons cheaply, the black-robed man lets a force grow strong at the edge of beastfolk territory.

Originally priced at 5 kilograms of active ore per weapon, Su Xiao could at most offer 2 or 1.5 kilograms per weapon; using future 【Mutation Solution】 sales as leverage, bargaining down to 1.5 kilograms is no problem.

Overall, the black-robed man sacrifices 300 units of active ore to let beastfolk borderlands gain a major hidden threat.

It can be said that those who climb to high positions are never fools—either they have heavenly connections, or they are old schemers.

With the most pressing problem solved, Su Xiao feels much lighter; he lets the just-awakened Benny and Caesar go to the human side—this matter must be resolved quickly.

The previous channel used to conceal the pig-headed people's whereabouts—pretending to sell pig-headed people to humans—is now being used; that bastard Caesar is willing to spend heavily to build a teleportation array in Free City connecting to human territory "Luther City," precisely for this reason—he anticipated Su Xiao would trade with humans and set this up in advance.

In this world, Caesar does nothing else but earn intermediary fees from his established network, easily making a fortune.

Su Xiao doesn't mind this; Caesar brought him convenience, and on this basis, the other party profiting is only natural—like making a donkey grind grain, you still have to feed it, especially Caesar, this hair-plucked swallow of a guy.

Having solved the weapon issue, Su Xiao lights a cigarette, rises, and stands by the arc-shaped window, gazing at the outside scenery, pondering the contractors of Genesis Paradise.

After the defense battle began, the contractors of the Dawn Paradise side would certainly come rushing, to jointly guard the World Core—this is a very strong force, with numbers as they stand.

But there is a problem: once cooperating with the Dawn Paradise contractors, those contractors must necessarily use the Sun Fortress as their stronghold, relying on it to hold firm.

If during this period, Su Xiao's disguise reaches its limit and is detected by Dawn Paradise, the Dawn Paradise contractors inside the Sun Fortress will immediately receive a notification, learning that they are inside an enemy fortress.

Imagine being inside an enemy fortress with 200,000 wild boar warriors—some contractors who failed to buy life-saving items would immediately despair. Though the Dawn Paradise contractors are timid compared to the madmen of the Reincarnation Paradise, they are still contractors.

When despair strikes, someone will surely choose mutual destruction. Given the wealth of Dawn Paradise contractors, they can produce powerful mutual-destruction items, and Su Xiao would not be surprised.

At that time, even if I survive, the Sun Fortress cannot be saved. Su Xiao cannot recreate a second Sun Fortress—its appearance involved both coincidence and a bit of luck.

If the fortress is destroyed, all previous efforts will come to nothing.

Moreover, Dawn Paradise contractors generally like to eat teammates. If they knew Su Xiao could command 200,000 wild boar warriors, upon arriving at the Sun Fortress, they would certainly hide inside, refusing to engage until the wild boar warriors are all dead.

As for not revealing the wild boar warriors—that would be even worse. The contractors of Holy Light Paradise and Watch Paradise are not decorations. Without the wild boar warriors forming a defensive line to hold the Sun Fortress, even if victory is eventually achieved, the fortress would likely suffer severe damage, impairing multiple functions. If the evolution nest encounters problems, it could crack open.

Thus, cooperating with Dawn Paradise contractors—aside from strong ones like the Golden Earl who can actually help—others are nothing but pig teammates.

How did Xi die originally? Wasn't Queen Xi strong in the World Contention Battle? Besides Xi, how did the Black Bee, brought by a single god to drag everyone into pits, die? All were killed by pig teammates.

Recalling the deaths of many Dawn Paradise powerhouses flashing through Su Xiao's mind, he immediately decided not to jointly garrison with Dawn Paradise contractors within this world.

"Bai Ye, it's finally about to begin."

The door was pushed open, as Morel pulled the Moon Apostle running into the room, wearing rabbit-ear pajamas, the Moon Apostle looked half-asleep, she was sleeping soundly when Morel dragged her out of bed, and moreover, Morel hastily put clothes on her—at this moment, one of her socks was stuck in the collar, looking particularly distinctive.

Su Xiao glanced at Morel, said nothing, he was considering how to prevent Dawn Paradise contractors from garrisoning, directly letting the wild boar warriors block them—though it's uncertain whether he would be warned by Dawn Paradise.

As an invader, plus the fortress has entered the development phase, it's better to do less than more.

His gaze turned to Bahar and Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang—after such long coordination, no verbal communication needed, Bahar and Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang understood.

Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang waddled over to the sofa, looking like he was waiting for a good show, while Bahar landed on the armrest of the sofa beside Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang.

Seeing this, Su Xiao sat on the single sofa, Bahar beside him wearing a stern expression.

"Key come!"

As Bahar spoke, due to his speaking rights in the World Contact Platform, Su Xiao had already transferred them to it—immediately, a virtual keyboard floated before Bahar.

Seeing this, Morel and the Moon Apostle both realized Bahar would speak in the World Contact Platform, both activated the platform to watch the show, among them Morel's expression was somewhat complex, after all, Bahar's speaking ID was "Morel's old father."

The offensive-defensive battle will open in over twenty hours, making the current contact platform especially lively—hundreds speaking, messages continuously scrolling. Under these circumstances, Bahar spoke:

Morel's old father (Lone Wanderer): "I have already obtained the World Core; the offensive-defensive battle will begin in 26 hours and 45 minutes."

Giant Crab (No. 6 Mining Squad): "The defenders have the advantage, but must simultaneously face contractors from Holy Light Paradise and Watch Paradise—then..."

Heroic Sister (Seal Heaven Guild): "You're just a miner, not even participating—why analyze this? Also, Morel's dad, strong strong strong~"

Morel (Battle Angel): "I'll beat you up sooner or later."

Morel's old father (Lone Wanderer): "For the upcoming defense battle, I hope everyone does not participate, to avoid chaos causing my defenses to fail."

Rain Guide (Lone Wanderer): "What?"

Deer Brother (Lone Wanderer): "Boss, you mean we don't need to help, you guard alone? We'll just hinder you?"

Morel's old father (Lone Wanderer): "Although I don't want to hurt everyone's self-esteem, literally speaking, that's exactly it—I alone can guard sufficiently."

Deer Brother (Lone Wanderer): "???"

Red Cage Fish (Ghost Adventure Group): "??"

Wo Ya (Lone Wanderer): "????"

Heroic Sister (Seal Heaven Guild): "??????"

【96> Hai Wu (Uncrowned Guild): "Is this even human speech?"

Sea Crow (Uncrowned Guild): "Is this human speech?"

Shanta Shan (Lone Wanderer): "Too arrogant—no one to rein him in?"

Giant Crab (No. 6 Mining Squad): "If I were a contractor, I certainly couldn't tolerate this."

……

Seeing these messages, Bahar looked triumphant—he deliberately provoked the anger of Dawn Paradise contractors.

Currently, whichever side first obtains the World Core will be besieged by the other two sides' contractors. In higher-level discussions, many Dawn Paradise contractors also suggested abandoning the World Core to become the two in a 2v1, rather than the current one.

Under these circumstances, if Bahar, speaking as "Morel's old father," is too arrogant and provokes all Dawn Paradise contractors' anger, likely many contractors will choose to watch the show, waiting for Su Xiao and Bahar to be beaten—after all, they don't want to be the first to guard the World Core.

Bahar knows the current level of arrogance isn't enough—he continues monitoring the platform's speech, which follows:

Golden Earl (War Leader): "Morel's old father, do you mean we are of no help in this contention battle?"

Morel's old father (Lone Wanderer): "Based on the current situation, yes."

Golden Earl (War Leader): "So you feel my previous preparations were meaningless?"

Morel's old father (Lone Wanderer): "Don't misunderstand—I'm not targeting you; I'm saying everyone here is a joykill."