Chapter 3469: Reimbursement

Inside the Dawn Paradise.

Everything here was composed of black, white, and gray colors. The flocculent substances drifting over made this place look desolate and dilapidated, without the strong and unique sense of security of being in a paradise.

Su Xiao didn't know how other paradise factions were, but after returning to Reincarnation Paradise, there was an extremely strong sense of protection there.

No matter what kind of life-and-death situations, or terrifying, horrific scenes one experienced in native worlds, as long as one returned to Reincarnation Paradise, there was a feeling of "finally safe." This wasn't an individual feeling, but all contractors felt the same way.

At this moment, walking into the Dawn Paradise from the breach in the black shell, Su Xiao didn't have this feeling. Besides being dilapidated, this place had nothing else.

Through a large amount of mission information, Su Xiao learned many things. If one were to talk about the characteristics of contractors from each paradise, they would be:

Reincarnation's lunatics, Apocalypse's miners, Death's rangers (barcode bald killer), Sanctuary's god-stickers, Holy Light's soft girls, Watcher's tank system, and... Dawn's rule-breakers.

Dawn Paradise was indeed a big daddy once, but what was most famous here was the large number of rule-breakers. At its peak, the ratio of contractors to rule-breakers in Dawn Paradise could reach 1:1.

Those rule-breakers were exceptionally united. They rarely harmed the native worlds belonging to their own Dawn Paradise, but specialized in harming worlds belonging to other paradises. The most common thing they did was world invasion, causing heavy losses to Apocalypse Paradise, Holy Light Paradise, and Watcher Paradise.

At that time, the relationships between contractors of the seven paradise factions were exceptionally interesting: Reincarnation's lunatics, Death's rangers, and Dawn's rule-breakers were all particularly troublesome. After the World Contention War started, the situation was as follows:

Contractors from Reincarnation, Death, and Dawn fought until blood sprayed everywhere, with every move aimed at vital points, while the god-stickers from Sanctuary Paradise watched the excitement nervously from the side. The situation that often appeared was that the excitement was watched in the morning, people died by noon, and Sanctuary Paradise retreated in the evening.

Watcher Paradise had to look at the situation. If the lineup was tough, they would go up and compare with the three strong ones, and then hit GG in laughter.

As for the Apocalypse Paradise and Holy Light Paradise sides, when the lunatics, rangers, and rule-breakers were spraying blood everywhere, the people from Apocalypse Paradise and Holy Light Paradise were almost hugging each other and hiding in the corner, with expressions of "this is really scary."

Su Xiao had known for a long time that the six paradise factions now had different attitudes toward rule-breakers. For example, Holy Light Paradise and Apocalypse Paradise had relatively loose attitudes toward rule-breakers.

The way Apocalypse Paradise's Battle Angels dealt with rule-breakers was to talk first. If they could be persuaded, they wouldn't move their hands. If it really didn't work, they would move their hands. Aidoer could become a rule-breaker on the Apocalypse Paradise side before, which showed the degree of loose punishment.

Before doing anything major, after being defeated by Battle Angels, as long as the rule-breakers of Apocalypse Paradise were willing to dig mines for a few months to redeem their sins, it was equivalent to turning over a new leaf.

Holy Light Paradise was about the same. After rule-breakers were caught, they would receive all kinds of missions without rewards. Rule-breakers as strong as Fairy belonged to a special case in Holy Light Paradise.

Watcher Paradise and Sanctuary Paradise had moderate punishment mechanisms for rule-breakers, while Death Paradise was relatively strict.

As for Reincarnation Paradise, after becoming a rule-breaker, you want to turn over a new leaf without saving the world a few times? You might be thinking of farting.

Reincarnation Paradise had the most tragic punishment for rule-breakers. Correspondingly, their own rule-breakers were more fierce and cunning. Those rule-breakers with poor abilities had long died in the pursuit of hunters. The stricter the elimination mechanism, the stronger the surviving individuals. This is a law.

There was one more point. In the notarization of the Void Tree, rule-breakers, contractors, hunters, Battle Angels, etc., were all treated equally, because rule-breakers were also a status rank notarized by a certain paradise, and that paradise was Dawn Paradise.

If there was no such status rank, rule-breakers couldn't pass through the "Public Staging Point" of the Void Tree at all to improve strength, trade with each other, or even enter random native worlds of their own tier.

After learning these things, Su Xiao thought of a very important question: if he couldn't get rid of the Gray Gentleman this time, it would be difficult to destroy the other party later.

Once the Gray Gentleman's plan succeeded and Dawn Paradise was allowed to recuperate in the Tree-Born World, this paradise faction might gradually recover.

This was a paradise faction. Even if it was swallowed by Reincarnation Paradise long ago, it was still a paradise faction.

Everyone can only come to the Tree-Born World once in their life, and only eighth-tier contractors can enter. This was simply the best staging point for Dawn Paradise at the current stage. Just now, Reincarnation Paradise interfered with the situation in the Tree-Born World, and because of the initial regulations and the notarization of the Void Tree, more than 50,000 ounces of space-time power almost went down the drain.

The cost of this reinforcement was so high, representing that even if there were friendly contractors and hunters coming to assist Su Xiao now, how could they teleport in?

Friendly contractors like Solomon and Gulu couldn't enter the Death Domain, and it was unclear whether Caesar could enter.

Moreover, there wasn't much time left. Once the Gray Gentleman's plan was completely successful, it would become: those who could beat him couldn't get in, and those who could get in were no match for him. Unsolvable.

There was no way to solve it through a Paradise Contention War. Not to mention whether Dawn Paradise would pass the participation notarization, just the point of participating contractors couldn't be settled.

There must be more than 80% of participating contractors voting in favor to start the war. At present, Dawn Paradise should only have two contractors, the Gray Gentleman and Bee. As long as the Gray Gentleman refused himself, it would become 50% of participating contractors opposing, and the other party had a veto power.

A centipede dies but doesn't stiffen. If Dawn Paradise was really allowed to recuperate and recover, then the Gray Gentleman who helped the building from falling and turned the tide would have what kind of authority in Dawn Paradise? Saying he could control Dawn Paradise was nonsense, but he was definitely treated as a biological son.

Based on Su Xiao's understanding of the Gray Gentleman, after that guy had this treatment, he would definitely disappear for a long time. When he appeared again, he would definitely have chips for a crushing victory.

Su Xiao had encountered the Gray Gentleman in several native worlds before. Although the two sides had always been hostile or semi-hostile, the Gray Gentleman never came to have a head-on collision with Su Xiao. Every time, it was a secret confrontation. If there was a slight sign of defeat, the Gray Gentleman would immediately withdraw with a backup plan, abandoning tempting benefits and retreating completely.

Only this time, the Gray Gentleman didn't retreat.

However, saying that the Gray Gentleman's plan this time had no risk was also wrong. That risk was Bee. Logically speaking, the Gray Gentleman should have let Bee hide, but the actual situation was that Bee was simply a little expert at courting death.

When this world first started, she participated in the siege of Su Xiao, then joined the Fairy team, chased Su Xiao north, and later went south to Bay City.

The Gray Gentleman must have prepared a lot of life-saving means for Bee. The biggest possibility was not that he let Bee wander around the world, but that Bee had to do so, just like opening a map, wandering around the world, indirectly participating in all kinds of major events in this world.

For example, participating in the siege of the overlord unit · Su Xiao, and then when Su Xiao beheaded the Queen, Bee secretly hid in the bottom corner of the large tree hole and ate potato chips.

Later, in the "Sun Rising Event," Bee secretly hid behind and praised the sun, and after that, during the Bay City disaster, Bee fell asleep in the sun on the roof of the palace.

It seemed that Bee didn't directly participate in these things, but to some extent, she indirectly participated, or at least was a melon-eating crowd. This should be achieving some goal, or accumulating something.

These were not important now. Su Xiao was hesitating whether to continue exploring forward. Based on his understanding of the Gray Gentleman, that guy would definitely prepare a backup move. Hitting it head-on now would likely lead to a broken head and bleeding.

In fact, the situation now was very simple. In Su Xiao's view, the Gray Gentleman should have set up a coordinate, and Dawn Paradise locked onto this coordinate to arrive here to recuperate.

According to the "risk and benefit equivalence" law of paradise factions, the Gray Gentleman's behavior now would definitely receive assistance from Dawn Paradise.

Su Xiao received assistance from Reincarnation Paradise, but the main problem was that distant water couldn't quench near thirst. One of the three aids, 【VII Combat Auxiliary Device】, was intercepted by the Void Tree. This was actually very normal. If Su Xiao drove that thing, at most 4 hours, he could flatten the entire Tree-Born World.

Besides 【VII Combat Auxiliary Device】, Su Xiao also received the following two temporary aids:

1. Hunter function · super-tier opening.

2. Brand permission · super-tier opening.

There were as many as 162 functions derived from these two permissions. However, being in the Tree-Born World and in the Killing Competition, the functions derived from these permissions were not only not allowed by the Void Tree, but also interfered with by paradise factions like Apocalypse Paradise, Holy Light Paradise, and Death Paradise.

Once Su Xiao could activate these functions, as long as he wanted, within three hours, there would be no living things in the Tree-Born World.

This led to these particularly fierce "temporary cheats" being weakened to only three left before they arrived.

1. Can lock the Gray Gentleman's position and the other party's general state at any time through super-high-tier hunter permission.

2. Purchase rights for some items in the War Shop.

3. Exchange permission for materials/semi-finished devices/emergency supplies.

In Su Xiao's view, the permission of the War Shop was useless, being weakened too much.

Actually, what Su Xiao didn't know was that if it weren't for this permission notarized by Reincarnation Paradise, if it were Apocalypse Paradise, he wouldn't even be able to see the War Shop.

At the current stage, counting Dawn Paradise, the Tree-Born World had received a total of eight notarizations, plus this was the absolute jurisdiction of the Void Tree. Wanting to interfere with the situation inside was difficult.

Not to mention anything else, just the point that one couldn't arrive in this world through teleportation could show many clues.

Su Xiao activated the tracking function, and a holographic map appeared in front of him. This was a detailed map inside Dawn Paradise. After all, the leader had led many top-tier contractors to attack here, so having this map now was very normal.

The red dot on the map was the Gray Gentleman. Su Xiao began to detect the Gray Gentleman's life force wavelength and found that the Gray Gentleman's aura was becoming stronger at a not-slow speed.

The other party was located in the central area of Dawn Paradise, where there was a spiral giant tree. Bee's aura fluctuation overlapped with that spiral giant tree.

Besides that, there were a total of 572 small red dots on the map. The one closest to Su Xiao was only a hundred meters away. These 572 small red dots represented 572 enemies. Their aura fluctuations were all eighth-tier top-tier level. It seemed that the Gray Gentleman's "temporary cheat" had also arrived.

However, there was one point: these 572 auras, although their combat power was eighth-tier top-tier for a period of time, they were more like consumables. They would be scrapped after fighting for a certain period of time, unlike normal eighth-tier powerhouses who would reach full combat power again after recovering for a period of time as long as they didn't die.

Su Xiao determined that these 572 enemies couldn't leave the black shell, which was Dawn Paradise, otherwise they would have rushed toward him long ago and wouldn't be ambushing there, waiting for him to step into the encirclement.

It could be said that if one couldn't understand the enemy's intelligence, one could only bite the bullet and explore. This enhanced tracking function was truly life-saving. The pity was that this level of tracking function was just a temporary trial version.

The combat power of those 572 enemies was astonishing. Su Xiao admitted that he would die if besieged. This was a "temporary cheat," and he wasn't a reckless idiot, so of course, he wouldn't use his own flesh and blood to deal with it.

The opposite side had a "temporary cheat," and Su Xiao also had one. This thing was limited to use within this world, so of course, he had to exert its effect to the limit.

"Retreat."

Su Xiao took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baja and retreated. Although the Gray Gentleman was continuously becoming stronger, he couldn't rush hard now. That was the most unwise decision.

If someone else took over the current situation, they would definitely shout that it was pitting people. The "temporary cheat" given by Reincarnation Paradise didn't have much boost to combat power.

For other contractors, it might be so, but for Su Xiao, the assistance given by Reincarnation Paradise was enough. At this moment, he deeply realized that knowledge is power.

Su Xiao retreated a few steps and arrived outside the black shell. Although he was prepared to retreat temporarily, not saying hello before leaving was truly not "polite."

An 【Apollo · Fury of the Blazing Sun】 appeared in Su Xiao's hand. After activation, he waited for 13 seconds and tossed it into Dawn Paradise. Tossing Apollo into the paradise, Su Xiao was probably the first person in history.

The detonation time of Apollo · Fury of the Blazing Sun was 15 seconds. Not long after he tossed it in, he heard a muffled sound from inside the black shell.

The sound didn't have the usual impact, likely because it was weakened by Dawn Paradise, but that didn't matter, as long as it could explode.

Although Su Xiao had strong awe for Dawn Paradise, he really didn't think that this paradise faction still had too many paradise functions. Otherwise, why did it only sign one contractor?

As Su Xiao's tier became higher and higher, he had roughly understood one of the reasons why paradise factions signed contractors, which was to win the World Contention War.

Every time his side won the World Contention War, that is, seizing the World Core + establishing a permanent world coordinate with Reincarnation Paradise attributes, that native world belonged to Reincarnation Paradise.

After taking over this world, Reincarnation Paradise could first ingest a huge amount of space-time power. What effect this thing had on paradise factions was not something Su Xiao could know, but he knew one point: all paradise factions needed space-time power. Before, he had even helped Reincarnation Paradise rob Apocalypse... cough, helped Reincarnation Paradise carry out the contention for space-time power.

Signing contractors, first letting contractors grow in safe derivative worlds—that's right, in Su Xiao's view, derivative worlds were safe. As long as you spent more time watching anime, the plot, character personality, world plot direction, etc., in the derivative world could be completely figured out.

To put it more directly, after contractors entered the derivative world, they almost opened the God's perspective. The contractors who died here were mostly because their greed exceeded their own ability limit.

And when they arrived in the native world, everything was unknown. If there was no world introduction, after entering the world, everyone would be: Where am I? Who am I? Why does this place look like a prison?

The leader once said that entering a derivative world after the sixth tier was equivalent to going to kindergarten big class at 20 years old.

After the sixth tier, Su Xiao not only didn't have the opportunity to enter the derivative world, but he didn't even enter the native worlds notarized by his own side much. What he entered were either all-open worlds notarized by the Void Tree, or going to fight World Contention Wars, or world invasions, and the most fierce space-time power plundering.

Simply put, Su Xiao had already started to rob resources outside, and could rob them full of pots and pots. For example, representing Reincarnation Paradise to fight in the Painted World, and then invading the World Contention War of Cell Star alone.

The relationship between paradise and contractors, fundamentally speaking, was not exploitation. What other paradises were like, Su Xiao didn't know, but Reincarnation Paradise only signed those who were about to face death but hadn't died yet.

When dying, they would be teleported to Reincarnation Paradise, fix their life state, and then give a choice.

1. Continue to complete the death process.

2. Become a contractor/hunter.

Don't want to bind the brand, that is, don't want to lose a certain degree of freedom? That's fine, continue to die. Reincarnation brand is a very rare thing.

Initially, Su Xiao thought the brand was very ordinary, a cheap good, and a cheap good that could be mass-produced. After all, every contractor had one. But until now, Su Xiao found that all his family assets added together were not as valuable as his own Reincarnation brand.

A paradise faction having many contractors represented that this paradise was prosperous. For example, Reincarnation Paradise, due to the punishment of the main mission, 99% of the situations were forced execution, causing the death probability of contractors to soar, but the contractors in Reincarnation Paradise were still many.

The current Dawn Paradise, counting the Gray Gentleman, only had two contractors. This was because the Gray Gentleman

That is to say, even if Dawn Paradise could reduce the 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】, this was based on the situation where Su Xiao only threw one Apollo into Dawn Paradise.

Su Xiao ran at full speed while pondering. When the white fog in front thinned, he rushed out from the gap in the fog wall on the south side of the ancient capital and was out of the Death Domain's range in no time.

Su Xiao checked his current Soul Coins, totaling 81,396. This huge sum was the result of his hard work for one world, of which the secondary little rich girl, Aiduo'er, "contributed" 25,000.

After spending the hundreds in change, Su Xiao used his temporary authority to exchange for quite a few materials, and he began to set up a teleportation array.

After setting up the teleportation array map in a secret location, Su Xiao took out the ancient idol and activated it; he was going back to Mushroom Village.

As the saying goes, only magic can defeat magic. The current situation was that only a "temporary cheat" could defeat a "temporary cheat." Charging in blindly wouldn't work; what followed was not just technical work, but also physical labor.

The dense fog that had emerged due to the teleportation dissipated. Su Xiao arrived in the single-room hut at the Mushroom Prophet's house. A faint aroma of wine permeated the air; below this was the Mushroom Prophet's wine cellar.

Su Xiao left the hut and saw the Mushroom Prophet calculating something. Seeing Su Xiao arrive, the Mushroom Prophet pointed to the empty wine glass on the table, meaning to ask if Su Xiao wanted a drink.

Politely declining the Mushroom Prophet's kindness, Su Xiao left the treehouse. As soon as he left, he saw an acquaintance: Aiduo'er.

At this moment, beside Aiduo'er was a little fan girl with eyes full of worship. The little fan girl wore pigtails and had a slightly chubby face. At this moment, the look she gave Aiduo'er was so worshipful that little stars were almost appearing.

"I told you just now that I was amazing, you didn't believe me, but you believe me this time, right?"

Aiduo'er held a photo of herself with Su Xiao, Wood, Sin-Arias, Solomon, Yuer, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Baha.

Although the little fan girl didn't know Wood and Sin-Arias, she recognized Su Xiao, Solomon, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang.

"Didn't go to Bay City today? So free?"

Baha spoke. Although it often roasted people, it never exposed people's shortcomings. Who doesn't like to brag in front of friends? There was no need to expose others.

Hearing Baha's voice, Aiduo'er panicked in her heart. Steadying her mind, she turned around and said, "Cough~, I wasn't feeling well today, so I didn't go."

"Together next time if there's a chance?"

"Sure."

Aiduo'er gave a thumbs up with one hand. Seeing this, Baha made an OK claw gesture.

After exchanging greetings, Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Baha left. Aiduo'er's expression became serious. She pondered for a moment and said to her little fan girl, "Don't go mining near the central area recently."

"But~"

"No 'buts,' just not allowed to go."

"Okay."

The little fan girl lowered her head, looking slightly disappointed.

Inside the temporary residence, Su Xiao took off his jacket and set about renovating the place. Now was the time to race against time; whichever side was faster would gain the upper hand.

With efficiency at full throttle, Su Xiao set up the temporary residence as an alchemy laboratory. Because time was tight, it wasn't fully equipped, and concocting potions would be very lackluster, but it was fully equipped for manufacturing explosives.

Su Xiao did this on purpose. He wanted to take advantage of the unlimited material exchange to exchange for massive amounts of materials and manufacture them into 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】.

This material exchange was quite special; it was neither free nor discounted, but there was no exchange limit. As long as there were enough Soul Coins, he could exchange for as much as he wanted. Even better, the Soul Coins consumed in this exchange would be reimbursed after returning to Reincarnation Paradise, and it was a 200% reimbursement.

Spend 10,000 Soul Coins, and after returning to Reincarnation Paradise, get 20,000 reimbursed.

Su Xiao estimated that without using his own Fire Gold, the materials for one 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 would cost about 50 Soul Coins. The previous cost was cheap because he used his own Soul Crystal (Large) and Fire Gold. Now, both were obtained through exchange. He replaced the Soul Crystal (Large) with Soul Solidifier, but did not replace the Fire Gold.

Su Xiao currently had 80,032 Soul Coins. Each set of 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 materials cost 50 Soul Coins, meaning he could exchange for 1,600 sets.

In normal times, this would be absolutely impossible. With his material exchange quota as an Eighth-Tier Hunter, he could only exchange for 1–2 sets of 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 materials after one world progress. After all, this was a flat-rate exchange.

What is a flat-rate exchange? It means exchanging according to the selling price on the material data, so one can imagine how cheap it is. Plus, the quality is top-notch. This belongs to the benefits of high-tier hunters, though of course, there is an exchange quota limit.

Su Xiao didn't start manufacturing Apollo immediately. After leaving the temporary residence, he sought out Caesar and asked straight to the point:

"Want to invest? If I die, you lose everything; if I don't die, there's a 100% return."

Hearing this, Caesar, who was usually eloquent, was silent for a few seconds. Afterward, he rubbed his hands and said with a treacherous smile, "Okay, my dear friend, I want to invest."

【Prompt: You have received a trade request.】

【You have obtained 50,000 Soul Coins.】

Su Xiao didn't say anything else, turned around, and returned to the temporary residence. The door closed and locked.

With 50,000 Soul Coins poured in, another 1,000 sets of materials were exchanged and stored in the team storage space.

A total of 2,600 sets of materials, which meant manufacturing 2,600 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 bombs. Any normal person wouldn't be this devilish.

Since he wasn't acting like a human anyway, Su Xiao prepared to be even more ruthless. Previously, in the Painting World, after killing the Sun Bird with the "Magic Blade" ability, he had plundered one of the Sun Bird's abilities using the "Plunder · Magic Blade" trait and temporarily sealed it in a 【Sealing Scroll】. This ability was:

"Sunlight Amplification (Active, Lv. 72): Consumes 4,200 points of Sun Energy to buff oneself. For the following 50 seconds, the power of Sun Miracles, or Sun-system items and abilities used by oneself, will be additionally increased by 50%–52.7%."

Su Xiao's idea was to manufacture a large number of 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 bombs, then use the "Sunlight Amplification" state to increase their power, and then activate the Apollos.

Su Xiao was no longer going to throw Apollos one by one. He prepared to group 100 Apollos together, seal them in a container, and then activate all 100 at once. That is to say, throw 100 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 bombs into Dawn Paradise at once.

100 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 bombs exploding simultaneously—just thinking about that scene made one gasp.

Moreover, if one blast didn't finish it, he would do it again. Su Xiao would prepare a total of 26 groups of 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 bombs.

As for how to activate "Sunlight Amplification," although Su Xiao didn't have Sun Energy now, he had a better substitute: Faith Power · Sun. Using this to activate "Sunlight Amplification," the buff effect would be even more formidable.

Don't forget, this was the ability of the Sun Bird · Taihakak. That thing shouldn't have appeared in an Eighth-Tier world at all. Su Xiao only killed it at the bottom of the deep sea; one can imagine how formidable the Sun Bird · Taihakak was.

The current task was arduous, and he couldn't concoct them one by one. Su Xiao prepared to use the batch method, manufacturing 10 at a time. In this way, the progress would be accelerated 10 times.

If it were in the past, Su Xiao wouldn't have the confidence, but with his current level of alchemy, he could still do it.

Su Xiao began to process the materials and entered the manufacturing process.

Five minutes later, in the small market of Mushroom Village.

Solomon was sitting behind his stall, which held various materials he had obtained in Bay City. Just as he was calculating his gains and losses in this world, his expression changed, and his gaze turned toward the wooden hut where Su Xiao was.

Solomon didn't say a word, rolled up his stall, and stood up to leave. This undead archmage, who had always been aloof, walked faster and faster, and finally simply rode an undead beast, leaving Mushroom Village at top speed.

Mushroom Village was indeed a safe zone, but it meant that if the enemy attacked, they would be punished, not that they couldn't attack.

Su Xiao was manufacturing Apollos in batches of 10. One could imagine how terrifying the fluctuations emitted during the manufacturing process were.

Su Xiao's neighbor, Gulu's temporary residence—Gulu, who was catching up on sleep, suddenly opened her eyes. She sat up with a start, shivered, and ran for her life.

A very funny scene appeared: the contractors in Mushroom Village were running wildly out of the village as if fleeing a disaster. The Mushroom Prophet's legs were originally slower than Kingsley's aunt's, but now they were moving like the wind, running faster than some contractors.

Just 20 seconds later, Mushroom Village was empty and in a mess. A wooden door fell off its frame and slapped onto the ground with a thud. A nest of large ants on the ground was busy moving house.

Before long, the wooden hut where Su Xiao was turned into charcoal. He looked around and found that there was no one left in Mushroom Village. Coupled with the semi-enclosed environment of this place, he simply changed to manufacturing in batches of 100.

On the outskirts of Mushroom Village, the contractors who had just stopped running suddenly all turned pale. To use the description of the national football team's second-in-command, this sense of crisis was like sticking an ice pick into one's chrysanthemum.

The contractors who hadn't had time to catch their breath continued to flee further away. As for what happened in Mushroom Village, they didn't want to know at all. That was a safe zone? Screw the damn safe zone.

A few hours later, Su Xiao, bare-chested, let out a long, hot breath. He loaded the last Apollo into a glass column half a meter thick and one meter high.

This glass column was reinforced with alloy for sturdiness, and inside was a translucent solution. Each glass column contained 100 Apollos. These Apollos floated in the container, emitting a large number of fine bubbles.

This was the "greeting gift" Su Xiao prepared for the Gray Gentleman. He didn't know what the other party's follow-up plan was, but he prepared to let the Gray Gentleman praise the sun first.