When 'God' Decides To Start Over
Chapter 197 - 117 Emperor’s Mask

Chapter 197: Chapter 117 Emperor’s Mask

After leaving the laboratory, Li Xiu called Sha Chu over.

When Sha Chu arrived, he brought a suitcase and placed it on Li Xiu’s desk.

"What’s this?" Li Xiu asked curiously as he looked at Sha Chu.

"The natural topaz you wanted. The quality definitely doesn’t match the Emperor Topaz’s color, but within Zhongshan City, these are all you can find. Others are color-modified topaz. If you need those, I can get more for you," Sha Chu said.

Li Xiu opened it to find many transparent topazes with a faint yellow hue inside, varying in depth of color. They all had a hint of yellow but weren’t as yellow as the Masked Emperor Li Xiu had before.

"Not bad. Take a look at this list. Can you get the items on it?" Li Xiu handed the list from Ximen Guan to Sha Chu.

After looking at it, Sha Chu said, "Aside from the difficulty with the S-Class Demon Core, some S-Class Demon Spirit materials need to be gathered externally, but the rest are not hard to find."

"Leave the S-Class Demon Core to me; find a way for the others," Li Xiu thought and said.

"There’s another problem now," Sha Chu said, looking at Li Xiu without responding to him.

"What problem?" Li Xiu asked.

"The City Lord’s Mansion is broke," Sha Chu said slowly. "The City Lord’s Mansion never had much money. A large part of the merchants have left, and now that you’ve killed Cha Liang, the remaining big merchants are also fleeing. No one is doing business in Zhongshan City. We’re even worse off financially."

"Are you saying I made a mistake?" Li Xiu looked at Sha Chu and asked.

"Mistake or not isn’t important; what’s important is how to solve the problem. The staff at the City Lord’s Mansion need money, the researchers in the laboratory need money even more, and the soldiers with us can’t possibly not need money. Without money, we can’t do anything, and soon everyone will leave us."

Sha Chu paused and continued, "This is just the beginning. With Cha Liang’s death, if Red Sand City blocks us, Zhongshan City will have trouble even with food and water. You should know Zhongshan City was built in this godforsaken place, clean water sources are hard to find, all water and food come from Red Sand City. During the city’s construction, only one road was built leading to Red Sand City, so at this rate, Zhongshan City can’t keep people. Without the Red Sand City Lord wasting a single soldier, we’ll have to leave."

"Isn’t Zhongshan City located between Red Sand City and Guyue City? Can’t we buy supplies from Guyue City?" Li Xiu frowned and asked.

"You can; you alone can travel through the deep forests to reach Guyue City. But if you want massive transport of food and water, a road is needed. Do you have the money to build a road to Guyue City?" Sha Chu sighed and said, "I really can’t figure out why the Red Sand City Lord spent so much manpower and resources to help that idiot Zhongshan City Lord build a city in such a place. It’s simply not worth it for just a Trial Gate."

Li Xiu laughed after hearing this, "Sha Chu, you surely have a way, don’t you?"

"What way can I have? Without money, there’s no way at all," Sha Chu said, pursing his lips.

"I may not have money, but I do have some gemstones," Li Xiu said and took out the gemstones he got from Cha Liang, along with those Sha Chu gave him before, placing them together.

"These gemstones can help us hold on for a few more months. If we add on purchasing the things you need, maybe just three more months, and that’s assuming Red Sand City doesn’t block us," Sha Chu said, looking at the gemstones.

"Is there no other way?" Li Xiu asked Sha Chu.

"Yes, fully open the Hero’s Trial Gate and allow everyone to freely enter and exit it," Sha Chu said.

"You mean, also publish the strategy for clearing the Dark Maze?" Li Xiu pondered and asked.

"Yes, only by doing this can we attract vast numbers of people to Zhongshan City. As long as people come and need food and drink, naturally there will be people bringing supplies here. What we need now is people—regardless of whether they’re ordinary people or Trial Takers, we need them. Just attracting Trial Takers isn’t enough," Sha Chu explained his plan.

"Alright, soon I’ll write up a detailed strategy and give it to you. With this strategy, even ordinary people, as long as they’re not too dumb, should be able to pass the Dark Maze under S-Class," Li Xiu didn’t mind publishing the Trial Ground strategy. In his view, the more people become Trial Takers, the better.

"As long as we can do this, you can leave the rest to me," Sha Chu smiled and said.

"Then I’ll leave it to you. It’s good to have you around," Li Xiu sighed and said.

Sha Chu was slightly taken aback, looking at Li Xiu with a somewhat complex expression, then turned and left.

After Sha Chu left, Li Xiu summoned the Masked Emperor. Looking at the Masked Emperor posed a bit of a problem; this thing was like a motorcycle and didn’t have a mouth—how should he feed it?

While Li Xiu was thinking, he saw the Masked Emperor itself approach a box containing Yellow Topaz, lifting the lid to reveal its refueling port.

Seeing this, Li Xiu picked up the Yellow Topaz and dropped it into its refueling port.

One made no reaction, nor did two or three. Li Xiu simply picked up the box and poured it in. Soon all the Yellow Topaz in the box were poured into its fuel tank.