Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 532 - 6: The Corpse of an Apocalyptic Creature_2

"So, your origins are far more complicated than we imagined. The Eden bloodline you possess was most likely procured by your parents, but this part of your memory you haven't recovered,"

"Yes, I haven't. I guess they came to regret it."

"Why? Regret what?"

Follow curr𝒆nt nov𝒆ls on fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com.

"They regretted allowing me to bear these burdens, so they erased everything, until the end of their lives, they never told me what I was supposed to change in my life.

They probably hoped I was truly just a child from an ordinary family.

They wanted me to have an ordinary life. Despite always feeling that I was nothing special,"

Li Xiaoyu automatically ignored the last sentence, saying:

"Such parents are really good... They left the choice up to you, rather than forcing you to make certain decisions—unlike my dad. And unlike Song Que's family."

Tang Xian thought deeper:

"No one would choose to give up on tasks that could be easily completed. My parents gave me the talent to fulfill the mission, yet they hid these matters from me, probably because they realized halfway that everything was in vain, that what we face possibly cannot be changed, so they simply didn't involve me at all."

Li Xiaoyu didn't speak, just nodded in understanding of this sentiment.

Just like a patient who finds out their disease is incurable might choose to live well with the time they have left, rather than futilely fighting the illness, depleting their wealth.

Indeed, many people think this way when they are convinced that death and failure are inescapable.

Tang Xian continued:

"But I still want to try."

"Parents can also make mistakes. This, I understand well."

"Yes."

Tang Xian understood much about the situation in Baichuan City through Li Xiaoyu, who provided a brief supplement to complete the picture.

The two soon arrived at the outskirts.

On the outskirts of Baichuan City, Li Xiaoyu had also allocated some people to trim the plants.

Her method of allocation was unusual, not uniformly spreading the work unless it was a small project that could be completed by a few people in a short time.

Most of the time, Li Xiaoyu would ask everyone to focus on a specific project.

Such as pruning the branches and weeds on the outskirts of Baichuan City.

With the presence of a few experimental subjects endowed with strength and the Wan Beast, the beasts of the original world were naturally no longer a threat.

So there was no longer any need to keep the vegetation surrounding the outskirts.

Looking at the outskirts which were now much more open than before, Tang Xian said:

"After I left, once power was restored, did you find any useful information?"

Li Xiaoyu shook her head.

"Even if there are still a few pieces of information that can be accessed, they are all meaningless. Most computer equipment is damaged beyond repair.

The materials have also aged, and some can barely be powered on, but the data is all corrupt."

Tang Xian wasn't too disappointed.

The notes of Jing Jian and some books from the library had already allowed him to deduce most of it.

Li Xiaoyu appeared somewhat disheartened because she knew Tang Xian would really care about this, so at first she had also deployed quite a few people to sort the data, but to no avail.

Tang Xian said:

"It seems it's pretty much as I thought."

"What?"

"The real historical records are neither with the Order nor with humanity."

"Then where are they?"

"With the Wan Beast, in the mine area. There are some steles on the southern islands, but some of the inscriptions are in Eden script, indecipherable to me. Regrettably, I can't understand them either, even though I have memorized all the symbols of the stele inscriptions by rote, but currently, I have found no one who can decipher them.

However, from the court of the Wan Beast, through the attendants of the Ash Dragon and the Plague Source, I learned that this world still has the Wan Beast Codex, preserved on the holy mountain of the court.

The data recorded there might let us know what happened; it's just... right now, we simply don't have the means to understand it."

"Why?"

"Tang Feiji, Qing Jiuyu, Bai Mansheng—the three of them are calamity-level boss creatures, but even they are not strong enough."

"Then it's best if you wait until you're confident enough to go."

Tang Xian nodded, and the topic concluded there.

He and Li Xiaoyu walked around the outskirts, aimlessly, just wanting to talk and chat.

Although it wasn't sweet nothings they discussed, their minds worked differently, and they both found it very interesting.

But a few minutes later, something bizarre happened.

The plants were growing wildly.

Those plants, which were originally left on the outskirts like a wall, had been pruned by Li Xiaoyu.

But what was a severed branch a second ago, began to grow at a terrifying rate the next.

Both Tang Xian and Li Xiaoyu were stunned by this sight.

Li Xiaoyu didn't sense any particular aura, but Tang Xian did.

It was a familiar scent, ancient.

It seemed to resonate with him from afar.

The two were about to enter the suburbs where the sky-blocking trees and weeds had been cleared, the open road looming before them, but now, the vegetation on the roads around them, which seemed as if broken for centuries, began to grow wildly, quickly expanding their territory in a very short time.

The trees were also rapidly growing taller... Soon, Tang Xian and Li Xiaoyu were enveloped in shadows.

Li Xiaoyu watched this scene in shock; she wasn't concerned that her previous efforts were destroyed but rather didn't understand—what was happening?

Why was this occurring?

The roots of the plants, like pythons, meandered past, just so happening to avoid the two of them.