Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 533 - 6: The Corpse of an Apocalyptic Creature_3

Tang Xian watched these scenes unfold, watching the once-broken "city wall" rise up again, towering and impregnable, deep in thought.

Compared to Li Xiaoyu, Tang Xian was much more composed. He suddenly asked:

"Speaking of which, haven't you felt that Baichuan City is actually not that old?"

Li Xiaoyu understood Tang Xian's meaning right away. Still shaken, she steadied her emotions:

"Yes, compared to the ruins of other cities, Baichuan City doesn't seem to have been abandoned for hundreds of years. It looks more like a city that has been deserted for just a few decades. After all, if it really had been hundreds of years, none of those things in the supermarket would be usable.

Although the luxury goods produced in ancient societies were made with the intention of being passed down, they would require meticulous preservation."

Tang Xian looked at the vehicles parked in the distance, pondering what a car would look like fifty years later; he could easily imagine the car's metal cover having oxidized significantly.

And after five hundred years?

It was unimaginable, but certainly not the scene before his eyes.

The plants too, it was rare for plants to grow wildly to such an extent. Very few trees can live for hundreds of years in an urban environment.

According to the last notes left by Jing Jian, his description was that this world seemed to have a consciousness, sending these plants to protect the last vestiges of human civilization.

But Tang Xian did not believe in such sentimental statements.

Jing Jian was delirious in his final moments, and his notes were filled with much personal subjective conjecture.

Sentimentality would increase, but in this world, where there's something abnormal, there must be a demon at work.

Why would plants grow like a city wall?

Why would the animals on the outskirts obey so compliantly, staying on the periphery instead of entering the city core?

These questions were but fleeting thoughts; Tang Xian did not ponder them in detail.

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Because he simply couldn't come up with an answer.

Could it be that what he was seeing was exactly what Jing Jian had seen?

Tang Xian, holding onto Li Xiaoyu, walked cautiously through Baichuan City.

Thinking carefully, why had they chosen to stay in Baichuan City back then?

It was, of course, because the city was highly intact.

But Baichuan City wasn't at the edge of the world nor was it at its center; its geographical location was utterly ordinary, so why was it the only city so well-preserved?

There certainly wasn't any consciousness of the earth; this world was composed of countless inorganic substances, and though it was full of living beings, those beings were alive, but the world itself was dead.

Li Xiaoyu watched Tang Xian deep in thought, silent. She knew that Tang Xian's thinking was broad.

Like the knowledge he consumed, vast and varied, seemingly useless and inapplicable, yet always proved to be useful, especially when faced with the unknown.

Tang Xian's pace slowed more and more until he finally stopped, watching the surrounding plants continuously circumvent himself and Li Xiaoyu, growing wildly in their frenetic expansion.

He spoke:

"The southern islands are actually the Sea God's graveyard."

Li Xiaoyu did not understand why he suddenly brought up the Sea God.

"After the Sea God died, it continued to shelter that maritime area, making everyone believe it was still alive. It even fooled the Order Keepers and the Court of All Beasts."

"So, if the Stele of Order was right, and the Lord of Eden led six apocalyptic creatures to invade this world, what about the other five?"

Li Xiaoyu got it, and she shivered suddenly:

"Without the consciousness of the world, perhaps the objects in Baichuan City didn't decay normally, and the plants grew crazily because... some entity is sheltering Baichuan City? And it's sheltering it periodically?"

"I feel a familiar presence, a presence that has nothing to do with order, but resonates with another force inside my body."

Tang Xian gazed into the distance, saying:

"Perhaps the other five apocalyptic creatures died in different places, but just like the Sea God, they are sheltering different places too."

"That's a rather bold conjecture."

"Just look at those vehicles, and you'll understand."

Li Xiaoyu then followed his gaze. Her view was mostly obstructed, but she could still make out the vehicles parked by the roadside.

Li Xiaoyu shook all over suddenly, because those long-abandoned vehicles looked—

Not so worn and old anymore.