Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 544 - 12: True·Meeting the Parents

Perhaps Song Que was really an interesting person, honest to a fault, which always stirred within me a desire to feel closer, or perhaps swayed by suggestions from Constantine's memories, I felt an inclination to cultivate such individuals—

In any case, my arrangements for Song Que began a very long time ago.

"Song Que has almost become your tool. Speaking of which, how is he doing now? Has his talent recovered after his trip to the Evolution Zone?" Yu Xiaozhe asked.

"It's still too early to tell, but fortunately, there's plenty to keep us busy before he wakes up."

Tang Xian began entrusting the details.

Breaching the eighth and even the ninth level of a fortress was enough to cause a huge commotion in the world.

It's likely that the topic of conversation for the coming months would revolve around this.

Mixed within this period would be evaluations of various natures.

In this process, choosing a media outlet with cooperative value to guide the mainstream group's opinion was a necessary action.

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Tang Xian entrusted this task to Lin Sen and Bu Jing.

Shortly after the dragon attack incident, Bu Jing quietly arrived at the Sanctum Fortress.

Lin Sen and Yu Xiaozhe had also arranged for his identity.

With top spy Bu Jing involved, the subsequent plans were more secure.

Bu Jing was responsible for investigating the details, while Lin Sen provided equipment support.

The most credible media outlets in the Federation were not an option, as they were controlled by the Federation. Such large corporations naturally did not lack exclusive reports, but they wouldn't broadcast excessively disruptive news without confirmation. Especially, the top news departments were regulated by various institutions within the Pyramid social structure.

And those smaller media outlets seeking sensationalism were also unsuitable.

In the matter of exposing the Judgment Knights, for the journalists, it was a gamble with their lives—there were very few who dared to report the truth for its sake.

Besides, no one knew the formula for the Judgment Knights.

Tang Xian eventually selected several media outlets, all of mid to large scale, that were unlikely to get firsthand material, but their reporting content and writing approach offered more unique insights compared to other news agencies.

He required Bu Jing to make contact with the editors of these media outlets within two weeks, to gather all their information and conduct a risk assessment.

While he could have sought help from Constantine, Tang Xian chose not to do so.

His trust in Konstant was not as strong as it was for Song Que and Yu Xiaozhe.

After making the recent arrangements, Yu Xiaozhe and Tang Xian walked along the streets on the fifth layer.

The people of the Sanctum Fortress carried on with their daily lives. After the previous pit incident, talent bearers finally accepted that there would no longer be those without talents to rule over them, and they began to organize effective labor.

Humans can change quite easily because the essence of intelligence is adaptability.

Therefore, faced with creatures that can't adapt, humans have a significant advantage.

This made Tang Xian optimistic about the future.

"This ring should be returned to you."

Walking on the streets, admiring the still beautiful and leisurely Sanctum Fortress, Yu Xiaozhe suddenly took off the Lord's ring from his hand.

Tang Xian furrowed his brow and asked,

"Don't you like being a Lord?"

"This thing... it's quite seductive. To be honest, if I hadn't been dealing with you for a long time, and if I wasn't a conspiracy theorist myself, I'd have been easily seduced. It's perhaps not very nice to say this about Lin, but if he wore this ring, chances are he'd defect."

Yu Xiaozhe's expression was serious, not at all joking as he spoke.

Tang Xian did not immediately refuse and took the ring.

It was a plain platinum ring without any adornment, with a simple and clean design.

Yet it contained the most cutting-edge technology from the Order Keepers.

It included data summarizing the resources of all fortress levels, the personnel ratio, security assessment, the overall energy situation of the fortress, remaining energy utilization time, as well as many other information modules like the fortress ranking.

Of the more than two hundred fortresses in the world, Sanctum Fortress ranked slightly below the middle—a rather inconspicuous position that was easily overlooked.

Considering all this data, Tang Xian could understand why the ring's owner would feel a sense of control over the world.

This gamification of the scope for manipulating the real world certainly can imbue one with a "master's" delusion of youth.

For ambitious figures like Li Wanye and Song Gengzhao, they could no longer keep a low profile and naturally wanted to strive for the top of the leaderboard.

One should never underestimate the system setting of leaderboards.

Even if they are inherently meaningless, throughout history, people have bled and fought over them.

However, these were all translated from Zhe to Tang Xian; he himself couldn't use the ring.

He was puzzled and said,

"This ring is basically like an integrated module for managing a fortress, with the highest priority level of functional authority, but is there no anti-theft precaution?"

Tang remembered giving Yu Xiaozhe this ring; indeed, one could use it simply by putting it on.

And now, it was the same as Yu Xiaozhe passed it back to him.

There were no inheritance settings, nor any anti-theft measures in place.

Tang Xian didn't believe that the ring lacked such features.

"When I was exploring the abilities of the ring, I saw warning prompts about binding identity, bloodline detection, and such. Lin and I speculated that once activated, if the ring was lost, others wouldn't be able to use it," Yu Xiaozhe explained.