When the game shut down, I took my skills with me.

Ye Tian looked at Lu Yuan, then at the small mountain behind him made of copper wire, glass beads, quartz, and red rope, and felt like his CPU was about to burn out.

Open a general store?

In this global catastrophe, at a time when the end of the world is nigh?

With these... junk?

"Sir, what exactly should we do?" Ye Tian asked cautiously, having now learned to throw his common sense into the sea.

Lu Yuan yawned and casually retrieved a red rope and a very ordinary glass bead from the mountain of materials.

He didn't even have to reach for them; the two items simply floated in front of him.

"Watch, I'll only teach you once."

As Lu Yuan spoke, he flicked the glass bead with his finger.

There was no sound, no light effects, and not even a trace of energy fluctuation was leaked.

But in Ye Tian's eyes, inside that ordinary glass bead, it was as if billions of stars had been born and died in an instant. Countless golden threads, billions of times finer than a hair, wove together a three-dimensional rune at the core of the bead that he could not comprehend at all, and then vanished in an instant, as if it had never existed.

Immediately afterwards, the red string automatically passed through the beads, and the two ends were perfectly knotted, turning into a rather simple-looking red string bracelet.

"Here, that's it." Lu Yuan waved his hand, and the bracelet floated lightly into Ye Tian's hand. "Just enchant it, it's very simple."

Ye Tian held the still-warm bracelet, his hands trembling.

Simple?

He thinks he just witnessed the Big Bang!

……

Dragon Shield Command Ship, Medical Room.

"Quick! Give Dr. Chen a sedative! He's past his prime!"

"No! Dr. Chen smashed the sedative; he said he needs to remain absolutely conscious to witness a miracle!"

In the command hall, Qin Shiyue gripped the armrests of his chair tightly, his fingernails turning white from the force.

Just now, the instant Lu Yuan flicked his finger, all the energy monitoring instruments on the entire command ship went off the charts, and the screens were left with only a blinding red light indicating "unanalyzable".

"Report! We've just detected a high-dimensional energy reaction originating from 'Divine Realm Number One,' with a peak value... the peak value is incalculable! Three of our sensors have been burned out!"

"Report! The energy properties cannot be analyzed! It does not belong to any known form of energy!"

Dr. Chen was helped back from the medical room, stumbling and pointing at the red rope bracelet floating in mid-air on the screen, looking like a madman.

"He's not enchanting! He's creating something new!" The old doctor's voice was hoarse, yet filled with unprecedented excitement. "What do you know! He's not adding any attributes to the beads! He's using mortal objects as a medium to directly inscribe the law of 'elemental resistance' from nothing! We sent copper and sand, and he returned a brand new law of physics!"

"This is creation from 0 to 1! It's an authority that only God possesses!"

The entire command center was completely silent.

Everyone was stunned by Dr. Chen's "interpretation" and their scalps tingled.

Qin Shiyue closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and when he opened them again, all that remained in his eyes was endless reverence and piety.

"We sent a pile of junk, but what the gentleman returned was the hope of this world..." he murmured to himself.

……

on the beach.

"Put it on and go for a walk in the rain." Lu Yuan pointed to the world outside the parasol.

Outside, there is a terrifying "data rain" that can turn steel into a stream of data.

Ye Tian did not hesitate at all.

He put the simple red rope bracelet on his wrist and then stepped out of the shade of the parasol.

[System notification: You have equipped the "Simple Elemental Amulet (Masterpiece)".]

[Equipment Effect: Immune to all elemental erosion below the "Law Level".]

Before Ye Tian could even be surprised by the notification, he felt countless cold raindrops falling on him.

However, the expected excruciating pain of the body being broken down did not occur.

A thin, almost invisible film of light flashed across his body. Every colored raindrop that came into contact with the film evaporated instantly with a "sizzle," as if falling onto a red-hot iron, leaving not a trace of moisture behind.

He was unharmed in the rain.

He felt like a rock standing beneath a waterfall, unmoved by the torrents.

"Come back, don't waste time," Lu Yuan's voice came.

Ye Tian snapped out of his daze and hurriedly ran back under the umbrella. The look in his eyes when he looked at Lu Yuan could no longer be described as worship. It was the look of a mortal looking up at a true god.

"Sir, I..."

"Alright." Lu Yuan waved his hand, looked at the small mountain of materials, and sighed, "There's so much, when will we ever finish it..."

Upon hearing this, Ye Tian immediately volunteered, "Sir, I'll help you! I can string beads too!"

Lu Yuan glanced at him as if he were an idiot.

"You're here?"

He stretched out his right hand and gently snapped his fingers towards the small hill.

"Buzz—"

The entire small mountain, made of copper wire, glass beads, quartz, and red rope, was suspended in the air in an instant.

The next second, a "storm" far more magnificent and dreamlike than the "data rain" was born.

Countless red threads, like living serpents, spontaneously broke into the appropriate lengths. Countless glass beads and quartz, as if guided by an invisible hand, flew precisely to each red thread.

They darted through the air, combining, knotting...

Golden light flashed continuously at the center of the storm, and each flash represented the inscription of thousands upon thousands of "laws".

Ye Tian's mouth dropped open, and he completely lost the ability to think.

On the distant command ship, there was an even more deathly silence. All the instrument screens were filled with static, and overload alarms sounded incessantly, but no one paid any attention.

Qin Shiyue, Dr. Chen, and the others could only stare blankly through the most traditional optical telescopes at the scene unfolding on the beach—a scene that was enough to overturn all human understanding.

That wasn't production; that was the arrival of a myth.

A few minutes later, the storm subsided.

"Splash..."

Like rain, countless finished red rope bracelets fell from the sky, piling up on the beach into another small mountain that shimmered with a faint jewel-like light.

"Done." Lu Yuan clapped his hands, as if he had just finished a trivial task.

He lay back down on the beach chair, picked up a bottle of Coke, twisted it open, and took a sip.

Then, he said to Ye Tian, ​​who was still petrified:

"Alright, the general store is open for business. Go tell them these amulets are one dollar each. Or, a bottle of iced cola will do. No credit, first come, first served."

……

When Ye Tian, ​​in a trembling voice, conveyed Lu Yuan's "pricing" to the Dragon Shield Bureau via communicator, Qin Shiyue's first reaction was not absurdity, but a sudden realization as if struck by lightning.

One dollar...

A bottle of Coke...

He slowly and solemnly put down the communicator, looking around at the bewildered faces in the command room.

"I understand..." His voice trembled slightly, carrying with it a joy born of profound realization. "I finally understand the master's profound meaning!"

Dr. Chen also realized what was happening and excitedly added, "He wasn't selling anything! He was bestowing 'fairness' upon us! God's grace is boundless, yet He doesn't want people to receive without effort! In God's eyes, one dollar and a fortune are no different!"

"This one dollar isn't a price!" Qin Shiyue's voice suddenly rose. "It's the 'price' we mortals must pay to gain the right to salvation! It's the last bit of dignity he left us! He didn't want money, he wanted our proactive attitude towards self-salvation!"

"God saves the world with mortal things, yet demands mortal things in return from humanity... This is a perfect closed loop! It is the Great Way! It is the ultimate truth!"

An unprecedented light flashed in Qin Shiyue's eyes, and he slammed his hand on the table.

"Pass on my order! Immediately activate the highest-level contingency plan—'Operation Ark'!"

"Use all available resources to deliver the Master's 'gift' to every survivor base around the world! Tell them that this is 'the price of hope'!"

"As for this one dollar..." Qin Shiyue's lips curled into a smile, "Our Dragon Shield Bureau will pay for it for the whole world!"