I Don't Agree to the Terms-Chapter 1018 - 535: Tired, Time to Take a Break

If it really doesn't work out, letting Cui Yingying remain cautious is better than a lifetime as a mental patient.

"Isn't he a mental patient? Why can't you still fool him?" Shura asked confused, in his eyes, things like this should be a breeze.

"He's a mental patient now, not a fool. His IQ hasn't changed, stop looking at him with tinted glasses." Gu Shanhai explained to Shura, while also feeling a bit regretful inside. If it really doesn't work, the octopus will have to be stewed.

"Oh, but can an octopus really be stewed? Can it taste good if stewed?" Shura didn't care if the big echelon was mentally ill or had a lower IQ, all he cared about was the octopus for dinner.

"It should be fine, I'll try my best." Gu Shanhai wasn't very confident, but it didn't matter. If things went south, he'd just add some spices; as long as it tastes good, it's fine.

"Come on, you two, can you be serious for once and stop thinking about food? We need to solve the matter at hand first." The big echelon said seriously for once.

"Just answer whether you'll eat or not." Shura asked, speechless.

"Eat!" The big echelon responded with forceful emphasis.

As for the big echelon's response, Shura didn't even need to think, knowing there wouldn't be another possibility.

"Are you done with things?" Gu Shanhai looked at Shura and asked.

"Not much else, can't fight, not much intel, and the core issue is protected, I have no way to make a move."

"After dinner tonight, I'll go look again, see if I can find the core area of the Bai Gui Sect."

By saying this, Shura implied that he was tired and needed some rest.

His words were subtle, but the reasons were justified.

Since the first checkpoint, Shura hadn't rested properly, especially after opening the BOSS room at the last checkpoint. He battled continuously for ten days, never pausing in slaying zombies. After killing zombies, he immediately went on to fight the BOSS, and after changing checkpoints, he went straight to gathering intel.

Even if his body wasn't tired, his mind would be exhausted too.

Taking a break is quite normal.

The big echelon wasn't relaxed either. Protecting Gu Shanhai required vigilance, and manipulating the Tai Sui Gu took energy too. Although not as bad as Shura, his mental strength was still insufficient.

Even with the augmentation from Wang Chao's hat, it was actually an additional boost, forcibly elevated.

"It's up to you." Gu Shanhai didn't stop him nor told Shura to rest more, as everyone was an adult, and such things did not need external interference.

Shura just nodded and didn't say anything, casually finding a corner to start feigning sleep.

The big echelon originally thought about exchanging a few words, but seeing this scene, he gave up the idea.

Time passed bit by bit, as Gu Shanhai went through the large amount of information brought back by Shura, he found a lot of related intel.

Shura was quite reliable in this regard, directly obtaining the city's municipal planning information.

The commotion caused by sacrificing an entire city wasn't small, and a lot of nodes were required. Such nodes weren't built piece by piece by the Bai Gui Sect, but by the local government.

'Why does everyone use this trick.'

Gu Shanhai mentally ridiculed.

The process was quite simple actually, just like the method of Eternal Life Technology's Xiao Yongsheng back then, money is key.

The officials never considered that the other side's investment in building the hometown was actually preparing to send the entire hometown to Hell.

As long as the money was right, distributed and subcontracted a few times, there would be practically no one who knew the full layout of the array, nor would those who know speak up because their mouths were blocked with shining Silver.

The nodes of the entire array were hidden within various constructions, and discovering them required a high level of learning and related knowledge.

It's not that easy to serendipitously encounter such a person.

However, it might have happened, as the human world won't just let the Bai Gui Sect do such things unchecked, but it ultimately failed.

All levels have been made very satisfied, but if you jump out and say there's a problem, and the construction can't proceed, what do you think will happen?

If it really could be stopped successfully, that's the real problem. But failing to stop it is normal.

'Man proposes, but God disposes, though sometimes man triumphs over God, even if the victory isn't proper and harms oneself.'

Such things were hard for Gu Shanhai to comment on, as it wasn't his world, so its collapse didn't concern him.

In a flash, it was evening. Shura leisurely awoke.

He immediately fixed his gaze on the octopus on the big echelon's head, and the meaning was clear: why is this thing still alive, shouldn't it be in the pot by now?

Wang Chao's hat also noticed Shura's gaze, and its tentacles wrapped around the big echelon's head tighter and tighter.

"Easy, easy, you're squeezing my head off," the big echelon sensed the change in force from Wang Chao's hat and naturally guessed the situation: "Don't worry, we're not eating you tonight, if we were, you wouldn't still be here by now."

The strength of the octopus's tentacles lessened significantly, though it still wrapped tightly.

"This thing actually has intelligence?" Shura was a bit surprised, he thought it was just equipment, not expecting it to be this smart.

"Yes, theoretically, it's smarter than that Tai Sui Gu. You could pose it a math problem, and it could solve it for you," Gu Shanhai replied nonchalantly.

He then went to start cooking as it was time for dinner.

Shura clicked his tongue in wonder, then asked, "Come on, recite the digits of pi. I'm not asking much, just ten million digits."

"C'mon, you asked for pi, why hold back, just have Wang Chao recite it backward too." The big echelon teased, is this a question a normal person would ask? When asking animals, isn't it usually something like what's one plus one, and yet you go straight for pi, asking for ten million digits.

"Can it?" Shura turned to look at Gu Shanhai.

"Hell no, I don't even know how to recite pi backward. Asking an octopus to do it, you're not just troubling the octopus, you're troubling me," Gu Shanhai replied slightly irritated.

What's with these two, always giving the octopus a hard time.

Shura laughed awkwardly, thinking the octopus could really recite it, as it did look rather smart.

"By the way, when you got this octopus, were you planning to pair it with your Tai Sui Gu?" Shura curiously asked the big echelon, after all, the two did seem to match quite well.

"No, I didn't buy it, borrowed it from ***." The big echelon didn't hide.

"He wanted a cat gun instead of an octopus hat, but where would I get him a cat gun. If he wanted a Cat Lady, I'd understand, I could even make one for him. But this, I'm starting to think his XP system is malfunctioning," Gu Shanhai chimed in.

"You have such interests, doesn't your wife mind?" Shura's spirit lifted after resting, no longer wearing a gloomy expression like he wanted to beat someone.

The big echelon's face darkened: "Speak with evidence, otherwise it's slander!"

"Besides, why would my wife mind if I keep a cat? Haven't you seen that I've already got a Tai Sui Gu?"

"Just a living piece of equipment, nothing new, it's not a big deal." The rhetoric of the big echelon became increasingly muddled.

"You are..." Shura was puzzled.

"Don't worry, you startled Wang Chao earlier, causing it to affect his spirit, commonly known as having an episode, keep your distance or he might bite you and you'll have to apologize to him." Gu Shanhai instantly identified the issue.

Shura's eye twitched: "Can't you get some proper equipment?"

"It's put together on the fly. And besides, you know my situation, having it put together at all is remarkable. This minor issue might affect the big echelon but won't impact the larger situation," Gu Shanhai casually remarked.