Pretending To Be A Boss
Chapter 907 - 62: The Heroes of Baichuan City

If there is anyone in this world who can confront and defeat the Master of Eden head-on, it can only be the Orderer standing before them.

Song Que was deeply worried.

If Tang Xian were no longer here, Baichuan City's future would likely be short-lived.

The Orderer helping humanity?

Even someone as young as Yuanwu understood—once the Master of Eden truly fell, what the Orderer might do to humanity.

Just as she had said when she first arrived in Baichuan City, disguised as a fortune-teller, all her words indicated that Qi Yuan believed humanity's ultimate future was in the divine kingdom.

Those two hundred Pyramids remain scattered across the globe to this day.

The Fortress of the Divine Throne still looms high above, gazing down upon the world.

Her ambition was blatant, unrestrained, all because Tang Xian was no longer present here.

The meeting ended.

After clarifying her intentions to humanity and revealing the truth about Tang Xian, Qi Yuan didn't linger any longer. All the hints had been laid out. All she had to do was wait.

Rather than returning to the Fortress of the Divine Throne, Qi Yuan went to the Fortune-Teller's House.

The Fortune-Teller's House reopened for business, much to the joy of the residents of Baichuan City.

Soon, residents began forming queues as long as dragons, eager for their fortunes to be told.

Qi Yuan had already become human, and humanity has its own unique joys.

For Qi Yuan, calculating the trajectories of other people's lives was an engaging pastime.

She had been analyzing what humans love and prioritize for centuries, but it seemed that after becoming human herself, conducting such calculations brought a distinct and peculiar thrill.

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An additional half month passed.

Spring matured into summer. Still, there was no sign of Tang Xian's return.

The Fresh Sense Café, however, was growing increasingly popular, and everything in Baichuan City seemed to be developing in a positive direction.

Various industries were steadily regaining vitality, the urban ecological cycle thriving healthily.

Reports of success continued to pour in from the construction of the teleportation gate on the southern island.

Everything was advancing at full tilt.

Li Xiaoyu often woke from nightmares in the dead of night, crying alone.

To her, this place was no longer her utopia—because Tang Xian had not yet returned.

Yet compared to others, Li Xiaoyu remained the most resolute.

Ever since Qi Yuan revealed what Tang Xian had experienced, Li Xiaoyu no longer displayed her sorrow before others.

She carried on as if nothing had happened, as if she was unconcerned about whether that person would find his way home.

Only in the lonely stillness of the night did she weep, fearfully muttering a single name, as though dreading that others might forget it.

During this half-month, Tang Jing, Bai Mansheng, and Qing Jiuyu had made several trips to the mining district and uncovered some news.

In Tang Jing's view, the Master of Eden was undoubtedly the most formidable being—both his brother and the Orderer had no choice but to temporarily join forces against the Master of Eden.

But what was the Master of Eden's goal?

What did it intend for humanity?

Would its actions end up worse than what the Orderer might do?

From what had transpired in the mines, Tang Jing found it impossible to draw conclusions.

Based on reports from the fox clans and Nvwa Snake groups, combined with their own investigations, Tang Jing, Bai Mansheng, and Qing Jiuyu discovered that a significant number of creatures had started heading toward the sacred zones, seeking transformation by the Master of Eden.

More and more Beastfolk in human forms began to roam about.

Many once-dense habitats of massive beasts were now populated with human-like figures.

When Tang Jing visited these areas, he was struck at first glance by the sight of diverse humans moving through the forests.

It was as though the mines had already been overtaken by humans.

Eden's Master's bizarre schemes?

Tang Jing knew that beings like Bai Mansheng and Qing Jiuyu—Beastfolk in human forms—were created by the Master of Eden before the advent of the Ragnarok, by modifying their Soul Crystals.

This was linked to the Eden Tribe's lack of fixed lifeforms; it was akin to fragmenting part of its transformative ability and spreading it to other beasts.

The specifics, as far as Tang Jing was concerned, were far beyond his comprehension.

At the time, the Master of Eden had explained it as enabling beasts to better learn human civilization.

But the current scale now made Tang Jing feel something was amiss.

These humanoid Beastfolk seemed to still be adapting to their new forms. Even more surprisingly, the Master of Eden would even teach and lecture, imparting much knowledge about human civilization. Those ancient apes—original members of the Beast Court Council—who had resided on the sacred mountain and bore intelligence closest to humans, along with true humans living in the mountain's forbidden zone, now followed the Master of Eden's arrangements to educate the other beasts about aspects of the Human World.

This scene kept Tang Jing from venturing deep into the sacred mountain. He could only imagine the massive square outside the forbidden zone's gates was now filled with a "sea of people." Not just the sacred mountain—many areas beyond it were gradually taking on an air of "urbanization."

The mining district, long an image of beastly throngs resembling a prehistoric epoch,

now seemed forcibly pushed forward by an invisible hand through countless millennia.

The Master of Eden's actions grew ever more incomprehensible to Tang Jing.

Even Qi Yuan likely did not know what the Master of Eden truly intended to do.

In essence, these transformed beasts remained beasts, so why unify their appearances?

What was the necessity of this? Enlightenment?

Although Tang Jing dared not approach the sacred mountain, he could sense something profoundly wrong within its bounds.

Beyond the Master of Eden's strange activity, Tang Jing could also distinctly feel it was expanding its domain.