Pretending To Be A Boss

Three hours quickly passed, and Tang Xian woke up Tang Feiji before he himself fell into a deep sleep.

When he awoke the next day, the weather was gloomy. But Tang Xian looked at the sky and confirmed that it was just overcast without any sign of rain.

It turned out to be a suitable day for exploring outside.

So Dong Ran, Li Xiaoyu, Qiao Shanshan, and Akasi formed one team. They were responsible for searching the outskirts to see if they could find any valuable information.

Qing JiuYu and Tang Xian teamed up together, planning to search around the city center to see if they could find other usable items or discover valuable information.

Li Xiaoyu was very dissatisfied with this arrangement, but Tang Xian had the demeanor of a family head, and the matter was decided by him.

As for Tang Suoye, Tang Xiaojiu, and Tang Feiji, the three of them were considered the children's group.

Because they all chose to go play in the toy department store across the street.

Tang Feiji was particularly fixated on the pile of Rubik's cubes there waiting for him to solve.

Having two foolish kids around was not a hindrance. As long as Tang Xian and the cunning humans didn't follow, he could keep the treasure all to himself!

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On the outskirts of the East District.

With Akasi's assistance, the girls didn't feel insecure.

The sight on the outskirts shocked them, just as Tang Xian mentioned at dinner, it was as if there was a wall of plants surrounding the city.

These wildly growing camphor trees had encircled the city.

Tang Xian's description was like a fence.

But when Li Xiaoyu saw this scene, she had a different feeling.

Whether it was a fence or a wall, the most important thing was the reason why these overgrown plants suddenly stopped growing. Was it simply to pen in humans, or was there another reason?

The many vehicles parked along the edge of the plant wall didn't look like they had been hastily abandoned there.

Relative to the exit of the eastern suburbs, these vehicles were mostly lying perpendicular.

Women's thinking is more emotional than men's.

Even though Li Xiaoyu did not exhibit such characteristics.

But Dong Ran once again came up with a statement that exceeded her own value of 1.2 winters:

"Second Miss, are these plants protecting us?"

Li Xiaoyu was startled.

Qiao Shanshan also nodded, adding, "These vehicles too, it looks like they were trying to block off some area."

Following the two's line of thought, Li Xiaoyu considered and found the idea quite possible.

If these camphor trees had continued to grow inward, they would likely have covered the entire city in a complex, tangled network.

But they only grew along the edges. After gradually becoming dense like a defensive barrier, they stopped growing.

"Let's go check the vehicles, maybe there will be some clues."

Dong Ran and Qiao Shanshan nodded in agreement.

After hearing Dong Ran's words, Li Xiaoyu became increasingly convinced there must be some clues to be found here.

Akasi was responsible for patrolling nearby.

There was nothing in this world that made him feel threatened, but staying alert had become his habit.

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In the city center.

On the way to the city center, Tang Xian found that there were practically no vehicles, as if all the vehicles had stopped at the edges of the city.

The roads seemed empty. Occasional rats could be seen next to trash bins.

But they were also gathered around the bodies of some animals.

As for garbage, after several hundred years, there was nothing left in this trash that was of interest to the "Gold Seekers."

Qing JiuYu was very interested in the distribution and style of buildings on these streets, looking at the world of humans.

"Humans do know how to enjoy themselves."

"Yes. The species best at indulging and courting death is us humans."

"Courting death?"

"It's recklessly probing the edge of death."

"Do you do that too?"

"Meeting you and Bai Mansheng, as well as most of my experiences in the mining area, were experiences of courting death."

Qing JiuYu didn't respond, thoughtfully parsing the meaning behind the words.

It was at that moment that Tang Xian found a coffee shop. The calligraphy on the coffee shop's sign was no longer legible.

But judging by the shape of the neon lights, it was probably called Fresh Sense Café.

Tang Xian then went in to take a look, thinking of taking along a cleaned-up grinder for reuse if possible.

In the Pyramid, coffee and tea were extremely expensive commodities. Even seeking Shang Lu, it was difficult to get cocoa powder.

Because the Hua Science Academy was the only place growing plants, it also bore the responsibility for selling the fruit and various plant yields for the whole federation each year.

A pound of cocoa powder, on the fourth tier, could buy several temporary workers.

But the art of coffee grinding had been lost, and the taste of coffee never achieved the silky smoothness described in ancient books.

Moving closer to the café to scan around, Tang Xian surprisingly found a wish wall.

It was something left behind by the customers.
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However, the wishes and blessings written on the wish slips were no longer legible.

Still, everything inside made Tang Xian feel curious.

The lifestyle of ancient people might have had its contradictions and oppositions.

But it certainly wasn't as clearly stratified as in the Pyramid.

Tang Xian soon found the machine. Luo gave him two hundred billion weibos worth of information, much of which Tang Xian couldn't remember.

Even if he spent decades reading, he couldn't possibly finish two hundred billion reads.

So Tang Xian just checked instinctively, searching according to some professional keywords.

Such as cooking, catering, fashion, architecture, photography, creation, and so on.

He also searched by popularity.

But the information found by searching by popularity was mostly trash.