Pretending To Be A Boss

Even now, people on Earth have not discovered the exact location of the mining area within the galaxy.

If we speak in terms of the multiverse concept, this is probably two parallel Earths blending together due to some rule.

The technology for the transmission rift comes from the Pyramid. Without the Pyramid, humanity might have perished in the great catastrophe.

That's why the Hunting Festival couldn't be broadcast.

After all, the two worlds might be separated by tens of thousands of galaxies.

Hunters compete in the hunting grounds—the Redsand Woods—for seven continuous days of slaughter and hunting.

The organizers and envoys from various countries, on the other hand, hold a seven-day-long singing and dancing festival at a large stadium.

The hunters vie for honor, while the upper echelons of various countries build diplomacy on this ground.

Every Hunting Festival is a reshuffling of a new round of diplomatic relations.

As Lincoln Fortress poised to take the "first clear" of the eighth layer, the situation in the world was also slowly changing at this event.

As for the hunt?

People certainly care about which team will take the glory of being the world's number one Hunter's Group, and how their fortress's own hunters rank.

But since they cannot watch, they can only wait leisurely amid the extravagance of the banquet.

The time is fifteen days after the registration.

The Hunting Festival begins.

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The Sea of Trees.

Tang Xian spent this half a month doing two things.

The first thing, half a month ago, after purchasing books converted to CD format, he had them re-edited.

He ensured that every book would stop abruptly at the most captivating part of the story.

Then, undeterred by the longer route, he returned to the mining area, to Tianque Plains, and gave these story CDs to Bai Mansheng.

Bai Mansheng was deeply moved, and although he always treated Xu Xian with cool detachment, his affection skyrocketed to the point of heart-fluttering.

She believed that since Tang Xian brought her a pile of stories, it must be Xu Xian's personality dealing with her, which naturally made her happier. Enjoy exclusive chapters from empire

Tang Xian felt sure that this affection would drop eventually.

But when that time came, all he had to do was to blame it on the Tang persona he had conjured up.

Therefore, he didn't press the advantage while the iron was hot. After delivering the novels, he left as if he were the very model of doing good deeds anonymously.

Bai Mansheng was somewhat puzzled but didn't give it much thought and quickly began listening to stories from the Human World as Tang Xian had taught him.

The second thing Tang Xian did was to visit Qing JiuYu's grasslands, where he obtained some Anai from Shang Lu. Following the formula he'd seen in the Evolution Zone, he turned the Anai into an extract.

He did this not for any other reason but to inject it into some of the solitary beast mounts.

For this purpose, he even made a special trip with Qing JiuYu to a place outside the BloodWasteland, capturing nearly fifteen beast mounts in a week.

Greatly shortening the delivery cycle for Tang Mutton Restaurant.

Qing JiuYu initially found it somewhat cruel. It was bad enough to eat them, but to also make them forget their enemies seemed hard-hearted.

She was curious how Tang Xian knew so much about human black tech. Tang Xian said:

"This isn't cruelty; they are bred here precisely to be easily eaten by us. If they can forget past grudges and wait to be dispatched happily, isn't that a form of kindness?"

"Moreover, living happily leads to more flesh. A fat person is happy, and they are fat precisely because they're happy."

"As for this extract, you can call it Meng Po Soup."

"It's from some illegal organizations on the human side, quite useful stuff. I've said it before, humans have a lot of things that you could learn from."

Qing JiuYu didn't think much and believed Tang Xian's words.

Talking with Tang Xian always seemed to make sense to her.

In the BloodWasteland, where stones and trees are scarce, it is actually difficult for foxes to find suitable places for their dens, and as they do not have Biphasic Orchids like those in the woodlands, the defeated migrants need time to adapt.

Tang Xian brought tents and taught Qing JiuYu how to set them up while also informing her about the surrounding terrain and where to get timber suitable for fencing.

And he planted Biphasic Orchids in some unused grasslands.

All this moved Qing JiuYu greatly.

Of course, Tang Xian had his own motivations.

He was transforming this place into the first farm, letting these little foxes work as foremen under the big fox's leadership.

So everything had to be done with care.

The transformation of the BloodWasteland was still in the early stages.

Tang Xian decided to come back after the events at Yuepela Plains were over to see how things had progressed.

In the meantime, he left Qing JiuYu to build it up extensively.

Qing JiuYu felt that Tang Xian truly had the foxes' interests at heart. Such a generous glutton was vastly different from the indescribable greedy beasts of legend.

Watching the young lambs grazing leisurely on the wasteland, Tang Xian left with great satisfaction.

Time had also just passed fifteen days, and today was the day the Hunting Festival began.

The vast land to the south of the Sea of Trees belonged to the Redsand Woods, where the most dangerous creatures were elite-level boss creatures.

It is extremely rich in species variety and highly suitable for hunting.

Tang Xian returned to the cabin in the Sea of Trees, where the still unconscious Tang Suoye was.

There was also Tang Xiaojiu, who was striving to learn idioms but without any improvement.

Akasi had gone to assist Li Zheng and might be battling in the Redsand Woods at this very moment.

Dong Ran and Qiao Shanshan had not come to the mining area.

Qiao Shanshan, surprised and delighted by the invitation from the Li family, arrived at Fortress Thirty-Nine.

Although living on the third layer, the Li family's residence there could only be described as luxurious.