this infinite world

Don't blame Yang Yun for using foul language; in fact, he felt that he had been extremely, quite, and very restrained.

Damn it, is this what you call a "reincarnation army plan"? Actively dismantling side storylines to arm your homeland with modern technological military? Are you kidding me?
Although Yang Yun didn't know how Chu Hao planned to transport the armies of various countries from the Final Destination world into the Main God Space and then bring them into the mission world, it was likely through a demiplane or a similar method... So the question arose: in Chu Hao's plan, who would command these 100,000 reincarnation troops? Who would give them orders? Who would provide for their logistics, food, shelter, and weaponry?
As we all know, "an army marches on its stomach," a saying that has been considered an irrefutable truth in ancient warfare. In modern warfare, the importance of logistics is even more evident.

The quality of an army is more important than its quantity. Every war must be backed by the nation. The number of personnel is not the key issue. The technological gap is the most important thing. Even if you have a million people with airplanes, tanks and artillery, what good will it do? I can just drop a bunch of nuclear bombs on you and you'll be reduced to ashes.

—And such an example had actually been done once before in the Transformers universe by the Central Continent Team in the original timeline. Putting aside everything else, even if Chu Hao used all of his A-level and C-level side quests to exchange for nuclear bombs, the effect would be far greater than those ridiculously useful thirty Gauss rifles.

As for Chu Hao's claim of using these thirty Gauss rifles to "buy horse bones with a thousand pieces of gold" and supplementing them with life-saving potions to gain the trust of high-ranking leaders of various countries, that was a dosage that Yang Yun and the Central Continent Team had already exhausted... When Cheng Xiao returned to the real world, Yang Yun simply took out a hundred bottles of potions infused with his own life energy, which was enough to cause a sudden change in the world.

Upon first entering the Main God Space, Yang Yun grasped a truth: the development of civilization is never a miracle of individual breakthroughs. True wisdom lies in "leveraging existing forces"—like sowing seeds in barren soil and waiting for them to ignite a prairie fire.

He knew that the technology tree was a complex ecosystem, requiring nourishment from countless foundational disciplines. Rather than being bogged down by the bureaucratic systems of the real world, or even being exploited by them, the wiser strategy was to find a suitable world as a logistical base, providing it with technological support and subsequently acquiring finished products from that world to create artifacts…

When industrial systems take root and flourish, and scientific research flourishes, the harvest will not be just of fruit, but of the entire forest. And if one is more wicked or driven by short-sighted greed, one could become a "harvester" in the Pacific Rim world, periodically returning to this world to reap the rewards from the corresponding indigenous civilizations…

Putting aside the fact that Chu Xuan tricked Zheng Zha and used his return to the real world to bring back a huge pile of technological blueprints from the Main God Space—all carefully selected by Chu Xuan as the most suitable technologies for human societal development—if they could be thoroughly studied and mastered, it would conservatively advance human civilization by twenty years… This is exactly what a reincarnator should be doing!

—Damn it, today I spent one A-rank side quest and one C-rank side quest to exchange for thirty Gauss rifles. Tomorrow, will I use two A-rank side quests and two C-rank side quests to exchange for sixty Gauss rifles? The day after tomorrow, will I have to exchange for one hundred and twenty, eventually becoming the... Gauss rifle demon?

—Then as the Chainsaw Man, I might have to kill you, really.

"Sigh, seeing you like this, I'm increasingly convinced that the decision to turn Pacific Rim into the Central Continent's logistics base was incredibly wise. Although that world didn't actually help us much in the end, at least it was less of a hassle, and we didn't end up with this mess you've made..."

Yang Yun rubbed his temples: "Back to reality, huh? First, delete that damn thirty Gauss rifles from your head, then exchange them for any spell, anything will do, as long as you exchange them, it's better than burning the money... After you've exchanged them, come with me."

"Where to?" Chu Hao looked at Yang Yun's expression and wisely kept quiet. "As I said before, I have to go back to the real world."

“I know, that’s why I plan to go with you. Otherwise, who knows what kind of mess you might get into.” Yang Yun said irritably. If Yang Yun still had a considerable degree of trust in Chu Hao after that battle, then at this moment he trusted Chu Hao’s character and beliefs, but found it difficult to trust the young man’s intelligence: “Besides, I’m not just accompanying you. I just have some things to discuss with Li Ganglei.”

“Li Ganglei…that’s it.”

Upon hearing Yang Yun's words, Chu Hao finally remembered the fact that Yang Yun had initially stated: he had traced the cause and effect back from Chu Hao's homeland and found the plane of the One Ring in the vast multiverse...

"But before we return, I need to take you somewhere first."

Just as Chu Hao was pondering the relationship between Yang Yun and Li Ganglei, and wondering why the memetic creation previously numbered "Thaumiel-01" had suddenly become the backbone of himself and even the entire team, Yang Yun added another sentence.

"Where to go?"

“Naturally, it’s the plane you came from.” Yang Yun sighed, it was unclear whether he was marveling at Chu Hao’s intelligence or something else: “I know without you saying it, you’re returning this time to see Ling Xin, right?”

"But do you think Ling Xin will see you?"

"...Probably not." Chu Hao fell silent upon hearing this.

Yes, just as Ling Xin understands Chu Hao better than anyone else, Chu Hao also understands Ling Xin better than anyone else, although that "understanding" might be questionable now... But based on Chu Hao's understanding of Ling Xin, after that battle, Ling Xin definitely wouldn't want to see him anytime soon, and the same would be true even after returning to the real world. It's likely that in the current main base, that man's very existence has been erased...

"That's why I can't stand you two grown men doing this awkward thing. Anyway, you're herding one sheep or two sheep, it's all the same."

As Yang Yun spoke, he raised his right hand, and a warm, bluish-green light suddenly emanated from the main god wristwatch on his wrist. The light flowed as if it were alive, gradually transforming into a clearly visible screen of light in the air—

"I'll take you and Ling Xin back to the plane of Final Destination." (End of Chapter)