Pretending To Be A Boss

Anyone could inadvertently reveal the secret of the Eden prodigy.

So, he straightforwardly made the events of yesterday public.

This announcement had become a super headline that impacted over two hundred fortresses around the world.

The existence of apocalypse-level creatures had also shocked the entire world for a time.

The academic communities weren't even focusing on the conclusive debate of the great catastrophe.

Because the invasion of the Pyramid by an apocalypse-level creature carrying a calamity-level boss had nearly ignited everyone's thoughts.

Two worlds, separated by great distances, suddenly seemed to have no distance between them because of this incident.

In less than two hours, the related news had spread to all the fortresses that had access to the network.

Even the people at the bottom level of each fortress had received the news.

A massive crackdown and indiscriminate searches had thus begun.

All those associated with Tang Xian were on the search list.

The old miners who had been close to Tang Xian in the lower levels had been dealt with as well.

After hearing that Luo had been taken away for questioning, Liu Lang, the owner of the forge in Fortress Thirty-Nine, tidied up his shop.

After busying himself with all this, he sat quietly on the rattan chair, sipping his lidded cup of tea.

The expression on his face was indescribably complex.

After a long time, he spoke to himself to relieve his boredom,

"I thought everyone was just boasting, but it turns out you really are the real deal. Hahaha... What an apocalypse-level creature, old man; I, too, am someone who has had dealings with an apocalypse-level creature now."

Before long, Liu Lang had visitors outside his door.

"They sure checked the meter quickly."

Liu Lang walked out composedly.

Sky Guardian Fortress.

After Sky Guardian Fortress prepared to secede from the federal system, Yu Xiaozhe forged an identity and came to Sky Guardian Fortress to gather intelligence.

As usual, he went for his morning walk.

On the third floor of Sky Guardian Fortress, on Sky Tree Boulevard, Yu Xiaozhe saw the news playing on the giant TV tower.

He frowned,

"Tsk tsk, my bounty price suddenly doubled?"

He'd been very well-behaved recently. He couldn't figure out the situation. Was this another fraud case that couldn't be solved and got pinned on him?

Yu Xiaozhe searched on his phone, and what he found startled him.

"Federal fugitive Yu Xiaozhe suspected of dangerous dealings with apocalypse-level creatures against all humanity?"

Yu Xiaozhe quickly found out who the apocalypse-level creature was.

When he saw Tang Xian's ID photo, he burst out laughing, Explore hidden tales at My Virtual Library Empire

"It had to be you! Even your entry into the world of crime is far higher than that of ordinary people."

He tightened his coat and pressed down the brim of his hat, and Yu Xiaozhe continued on his way.

Bounty meant status in the underworld.

Yu Xiaozhe wasn't overly concerned with the increase in bounty, but to suddenly go from a financial criminal to one akin to colluding with aliens to persecute Earth was too fast of a leap in status.

He worried that others might not agree to cooperate with him in the future.

Fortunately, Yu Xiaozhe ultimately dodged a bullet.

But Ke Ye wasn't so lucky.

The gloves he made for Tang Xian weren't possible to produce en masse, but it was possible to succeed if a castrated version was made by removing some parts.

Ke Ye, who had been trying this, ignored the outside world and focused on constructing the design.

But because of the exaggeration by Wang Qi, the old academician from the House of Daedalus, those delivering parcels to Ke Ye were all regular soldiers, a whole platoon of them.

When Ke Ye was taken away, Li Zhenjiang was furious, and he lashed out at Wang Qi.

But Wang Qi's rhetoric about the greater good of all humanity left no room for retort.

Ke Ye's charges sounded absurd, yet they were indeed serious—providing war equipment to the creatures of the mining area and leaking human war equipment formulas.

On the way to Fortress Thirty-Nine, Ke Ye still had no idea what had happened.

Luckily, as a master of weapons, Ke Ye quickly managed to get the soldiers escorting him to inform him about the situation by discussing weapon maintenance and modification, including some vulnerabilities that only the designer would know.

This absurd charge, Ke Ye had never expected it to come from Tang Xian.

After learning the full story, he didn't take it as easy as Yu Xiaozhe and Liu Lang.

Ke Ye tried hard to recall his past with Tang Xian.

In their third academic year, although Tang Xian's personality had suddenly become much softer, Ke Ye believed that this Tang Xian couldn't possibly be the same being described as an extremely cruel prodigy.

"There must be some mistake."

When he learned that Tang Xian had gone to the mining area to flee, he wasn't worried about himself, but about Tang Xian.

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Fortress One.

After being confirmed as the human commander, Song Que's schedule had been full. He attended the evening party at Fortress Thirty-Nine the day before and spoke with Tang Xian, then hurried back to Fortress One the next morning.

After that was a series of tedious matters, which Song Que dealt with seriously.

Tang Xian was a mountain he considered worth surpassing for a lifetime.

He was full of expectation to compete with Tang Xian in terms of military achievements on the Yuepela Plains.

These days, the voices in Song Que's mind had become much quieter.

People are like this; once one has friends willing to share certain burdens, even the most pervasive chaos seems surmountable.

Until one day, when the news of the apocalypse-level creature invading Fortress Thirty-Nine spread.

When Song Que saw the news, he was more shocked than anyone else.