The entire human civilization could be said to finally hold its head high in the presence of the Daike People for the first time.
In this future, the hatred human civilization bore towards the Daike Civilization surpassed even that towards the Worren who first invaded Blue Star.
Because they had never been utterly defeated by the Worren.
Yet they were completely crushed by the Daike.
They didn’t even have the courage to resist.
They defeated the Worren, yet could only surrender to the Daike People, losing their greatest heroes, losing their culture, history, heritage, and the right to have Masters of Primordial Energy once again...
Perhaps the Worren quickly forgot all of this after facing a similar fate or had no choice but to forget.
Just like Shen Shi once saw the final words in that piece of history.
——But we will always remember the great heroes of humanity, will always remember this long and arduous war!
Even if humans were still on the extremely weaker side in this battle, even if they could only defend, they had just ascended to a C-level Civilization, and their comprehensive strength was still far inferior to the Daike Civilization. However, from Shen Shi’s view of the information database, the fighting spirit within human civilization was very high.
"It’s time to reclaim everything we’ve lost."
This was the most successful slogan human civilization made for this war.
Even though, to Shen Shi, it seemed like he was merely trading with the future world, changing the future one time after another. However, from the perspective of humans of the future world themselves, they had spent entire three thousand years, three thousand years of effort and struggle since entering the Starry Era, to finally truly have their own sovereignty and finally able to stand in front of the Daike People, launching this war that was three thousand years overdue.
Even Shen Shi thought, with such fighting spirit, the humans in the future world would definitely win.
Even if they were not strong enough, he would ensure they won.
"I guess this also makes me an unsung hero of the future world."
Shen Shi praised himself in his heart, and happily came to Gong Chu’s shop.
Then, he surprisingly found that a large group of people was gathered here!
Indeed, from the outside, there was nothing unusual, but once inside the shop, there were nearly a hundred people gathered, and the entire shop space had to be enlarged to accommodate them all.
Shen Shi observed and noticed that at least half of them were not anonymous.
He didn’t find Gong Chu, but he unexpectedly saw the Collector!
At this moment, the Collector was surrounded by a large group of people, some were anonymous, and some were not, displaying all sorts of modified bodies. Now, Shen Shi could easily recognize that none of these modifications were simple.
In the middle of such a group of people, the Collector undoubtedly occupied the central position.
To be precise, the others were gathered around him.
Shen Shi thought for a moment, then quietly approached. Being anonymous here, he wasn’t very conspicuous, and more people were continuously coming in through the shop entrance.
"That’s right, I’ve already reached Gus Land."
Shen Shi heard the Collector say in a deliberately elevated voice, "A trade? Of course, there’s no problem. I searched for Gus Land precisely for this. However, my shop’s name will have to change; from now on, I won’t just deal in antiques."
"Do you remember that Ancient Book of mine with a preservation rating of twenty-two point forty-six percent? It’s a famous novel from the Earth Star’s late period, even called one of the Four Great Classics of the Eastern Country," said another voice, coming from a person whose arms and legs had been modified into extremely sharp spikes. "I’d like to exchange it for personal combat modification from Gus Land, requiring it to be at least C6-level."
Shen Shi knew this grading scale; it wasn’t standard but very straightforward to understand.
It was simply dividing each level of civilization technology in the Mude System into nine levels.
C5-level roughly meant that even in the most powerful C-level Civilization, such a modification would be considered quite good equipment.
In comparison, Shen Shi’s Life Evolution Device should be around C7, nearing the high-level of a C-level Civilization.
Even with the technological prowess of human civilization now, making a device of such caliber was extremely difficult; they could at most make a technological device around the C3 level, which would be considered average in the most powerful C-level civilization.
After all, the grading system in the Mude System was relatively simple, based only on a few rigid standards, which directly resulted in considerable differences in many fields within the same level of grading.
Of course, this grading was only a vague standard.
For clearly expressing one’s intentions.
This even tempted Shen Shi a bit, though he hadn’t fully harnessed his Life Evolution Device’s potential, he wondered if he could exchange it for better equipment.
Then, he heard the Collector say, "Veness, if it were in the past, your trade request wouldn’t be unreasonable, but I think you need to understand that the current situation is completely different. My interest in your Ancient Book is very little, nowhere near matching your asking price."
The voice of this person named Veness was deep, seemingly unchanged, but the Primordial Energy emotions he exuded clearly told everyone he was displeased.