Pretending To Be A Boss

"I've seen the structure of the underground bunker; if this door is damaged, although it won't affect the big picture, this is underground. Your strength is too great, it might cause a collapse."

Qing JiuYu said with a seductive smile,

"As the host, whatever you say, I—as the guest—will do. Right, host?"

Tang Xian replied with a wry smile,

"What did you experience as a child? Both are nine-tailed foxes, how come Xiaojiu is so innocent, and yet you turned into a chauffeur?"

"Chauffeur?"

"We are preparing to leave. This city must hold other clues; this door must surely be able to open normally. We should head back now."

"Are we going back just like this?"

"Yes, let's ask the other groups if they had any gains."

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East District.

Not long after Tang Xian and Qing JiuYu returned to their residence, the team consisting of Dong Ran, Akasi, and others also arrived.

Tang Suoye, Tang Feiji, and Tang Xiaojiu's intellectually disabled children's team had already sat in a row, waiting for the main chef to return to his position.

The living room was filled with people; Tang Xian first took out some books.

He then recounted the discoveries at the café, the library, the gymnasium, and the subway.

The crowd was shocked.

"This means that after the Catastrophe struck, our ancestors actually had ways to deal with it. However, that door blocked my way. I think maybe we need to look for more clues. Did any of you find anything?"

After Tang Suoye heard this, he suddenly thought of the contents of the music box. But at this moment, Li Xiaoyu took out a notebook. He didn't rush to speak.

"What you saw at the gymnasium, along with what is noted in this notebook, and the plants on the outskirts of the city, should be able to explain some problems."

Li Xiaoyu passed the notebook to Tang Xian.

"This notebook is still legible?"

"Yes, the owner of the notebook had sealed it well in a bamboo box, and placed it beneath the shade of a tree. Some parts are blurred, but it is clear that the notebook's owner wanted future generations to know her thoughts; she wrote the same contents many times over. Take a look."

Tang Xian took the notebook and began to read its contents.

"The anomalies started. One city after another brought bad news. Horrific beasts and machines began invading us.

Baichuan City was actually not affected, but news had spread. In the cities of the north, messages had arrived.

There was Noah's Ark. People were waiting for us there.

Images of huge towers kept incoming; they just stood quietly on the ground, their entrances wide open.

People began to evacuate, to avoid the mechanical beings and the mythological beasts, and more and more headed to the Pyramid.

But I didn't go. I remembered a story I heard as a child.

'One day, a tear dropped into a fishbowl, and thus, the fish became smart. They were surprised to find themselves living in an environment full of coincidences, where every condition for survival was just right.

The walls of the fishbowl were a protective shield, offering them the most basic guarantee for survival. Outside the shield was terrifying; they wouldn't last even a few minutes. They didn't want to leave, but now they couldn't break free.

There was also a water circulation and filtration system; the life-giving water would always flow into a mysterious black hole, returning free of germs and life-threatening impurities. The unstable temperature, the marvelous oxygen supply system, and an automatic feeder…

In the fishbowl was a heating rod, made with technology far beyond the fishes' comprehension. It constantly released energy, ensuring the temperature of the fishbowl remained constant, with energy so abundant that the fish had no way of imagining its process.

Fishes kept dying, and new fishes kept arriving. But as fishes, their memories were so short. No fish panicked, no fish felt sad. The comfortable environment made them unwilling to escape the fishbowl; they even revered the owner of the fishbowl as a deity.'

Looking at those huge tower fortresses, for some reason, I felt they were just a fishbowl.

Sooner or later, we'll all be eaten by the owner of the fishbowl.

The appearance of the towers and the beasts and machines, the timing was too coincidental.

But still, our fears drove us into the fishbowl.

I called for everyone to stay in Baichuan City, confident that if we worked together, we could defend this city.

Initially, there were people who responded to my calls.

We parked movable objects, like vehicles, at the entrances to the city.

A large number of vehicles were driven to the borders between the suburbs and the city districts. Relying on everyone's strength, we could form a huge door from these steel vehicles.

During the day we would go out looking for food, and at night, we hid in the underground bunkers."

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"As long as we're careful enough, we could definitely have stayed in this city."

"I tried to establish a city fortress that isolated everything. I didn't want to leave Baichuan City, the place that raised me."

"But when my companions saw the wildly overgrown plants, they all changed their minds, screaming that this world was going to destroy humanity."

They started to panic and flee."

"I shouted that this world wanted to protect us, that the rampant growth of these plants must also be the will of the world driving them!"

"But they called me a madman."

"The fact that the animals refuse to come in is the best proof: carnivorous beasts as well as tame herbivores, they all quietly stay on the other side of the plant wall, never entering the city."

"It's as if the will of the world is driving them to be the food for us humans in the future!"

"The world is trying to keep us!"

"Yet no one believed me, and more and more people began to flee into the enormous tower."

"Many images came from the tower."

"People were living happily inside, where there were enough resources stored."

"They were eating semi-liquid food, which didn't look appetizing at all, but everyone seemed satisfied."

"More and more people entered the tower, but we could only ever see the images from the first floor."

"I wonder, what about the second floor? The third floor?"

"With more and more people, there must be some who have gone to the second floor, right? What kind of people would they be?"

"The resources and energy in the Pyramid are also limited, so how will humanity obtain them when the time comes?"

"For some reason, the more I think about it, the more terrified I become."

"I try my best every day to keep the people of this city from leaving, but the population continues to dwindle."

"I know I shouldn't blame them. Waves of panic come, and many kingdoms and cities are destroyed."

"Facing those powerful monsters, we are utterly defenseless."

"At this time, when Noah's Ark appears, how many people care whether it's a fishbowl?"

"Perhaps I really am the madman?"

"I don't want to go."

"I started to have hallucinations."

"I seem to hear the world crying, the Milky Way fractures in July, and the rain continues relentlessly."

"My body is getting worse, and I so wish that there were still people in this world who would choose to stay."

"But the city grows quieter and quieter, and at night I can only hear the sounds of reptiles and rats."

"The plants have stopped growing. Those who once shouted that the plants would strangle the city can no longer witness this scene."

"What is life like inside the tower?"

"Will they ever come out in the future? Will the world accept them?"

"It tried so hard to protect us, yet we betrayed it."

"I feel an indescribable heartache; my family, friends, all have entered into a huge fortress like the tower."

"What's their final impression of this world?"

"Is it endless destruction and ruin, or a hell filled with danger and death?"

"It was so gentle in keeping us!"

"I know my time is running out."

"But I will stay here, I want to witness the truth, I want to die together with this world."
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"Either let the disease torture me to death, or be eaten by those fierce beasts."

"But I know, there are no fierce beasts."

"After everyone has entered the fortress, those fierce beasts and mechanical bodies must have disappeared, right?"

"Books, documents, most of history has been left in this world."

"Perhaps in hundreds of years, the fish inside will also think that only in the fishbowl is it safe, right?"

The notebook doesn't end there, there are some diaries afterwards, but they're somewhat illegible. At the end of this notebook, is the name of this pitiful person.

Signature: The last human of this world, Jing Jian.

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