It's not a simple task to quiet Lily down.

Unlike Maomao, who can be silenced for a full five minutes with a single sausage.

Tightening the rope in her hand, Li pulled back Lily, who was about to leap from the second floor.

"Don't stop me. I don't want to live anymore?"

Watching Lily twisting and turning, Li's little brain began to think fast, tapping into ancient wisdom.

After a long while, she poured a cup of iced tea and handed it to Lily.

"Thirsty?" Li asked.

After considering, Li thought that although Lily and Maomao are different species, feeding her something might calm her down.

This has been verified on herself.

"Thirsty." Lily honestly accepted the iced tea, drank it down in one gulp, and then wiped her mouth, letting out a comfortable moan.

Then, just when Li thought the night could finally be peaceful, Lily started causing a fuss again, albeit this time not about life and death, but softly mumbling.

Like an old woman with dementia, repeating those trivial matters, tormenting Li's ears.

"Ah~ Being the boss is not easy, no one knows how hard it is. What should I do? I'm so miserable... No one cares about me..."

Li, "..."

Just as Li was preparing to use coercive measures, the "quick sleep headbutt," Lily suddenly quieted down.

Someone downstairs was calling her.

"Gang Leader! Gang Leader! Who bullied you? I'll blow them up!"

Lily, "It's fine, it's fine, just messing around. Calm down, watch out, it might eat you."

Sitting on the rail, Lily adjusted her clothes to appear as normal as possible, lest she lose dignity in front of her subordinates.

Li leaned closer to look down.

The one shouting was an antelope girl.

Her lower body was an antelope, upper body human, but her head remained that of an antelope.

Her body was adorned with various small bottles, and several full backpacks were hung on either side of her back.

Judging by her attire, she seemed akin to an advanced beastman siege elite unit focused on intelligence.

However, she was not from the Garen continent, but a pure-blooded Demon from the Northern Territory.

Li remembered that Zhang Ze mentioned this unique transformation style, something called "furry" or whatever it was.

In short, it was very strange.

Regarding the clothes of the antelope girl...

About the three characters "Heaven-Blasting Gang" embroidered on her lapel and the red cord indicating identity tied to her arm, Li had no comment.

Everyone knew that Lily founded a gang within the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, proclaiming herself as the gang leader daily, with Zhang Ze's tacit consent, so Li couldn't interfere either.

However...

Looking at the attire of the antelope girl, Li frowned slightly, thinking this might spell trouble.

'Uh-oh, could Lily be planning a rebellion?'

Soon, she realized it was just overthinking.

The antelope girl dressed like a self-destructing siege unit simply came to report expenses to Lily and ask some questions.

"Gang Leader, how do you plan to blow this up?"

"This, well, you should start like this... then..."

Lily sat on the rail, seriously explaining the solution to her subordinate.

Seeing Lily become normal as soon as they talked about the professional field, Li's long closed-off mind suddenly came alive.

She thought she discovered the crucial point of the problem.

'Perhaps the reason Lily is causing a stir might be her fear of becoming useless in the future, fearing she'd return to the way she was.'

'After all, whatever Lily can do, Xiangxiang can do too, and Xiangxiang doesn't even need to eat.'

'Not needing to eat, that's really important.'

Li thought this was Xiangxiang's greatest advantage.

Thinking more and more along these lines, Li began contemplating.

After Lily finished instructing her subordinate, who was about to start fussing again, Li raised her hand to signal her to listen.

"Let me tell you something." Li said, shaking the iced tea, and climbed onto the rail.

She wanted to climb onto Lily's shoulder but thought better and gave up, as Lily's small shoulders likely couldn't bear her weight.

Sitting on the rail, she took out a second-generation walnut, thinner and able to transform freely within a certain range.

"This thing actually has a defect." Li said.

"What defect?" Lily became spirited.

"The technology of White Emperor City relies on the Star God and that silver metal." Li spoke slowly, gathering her thoughts.

"Technically speaking, the technology of White Emperor City is an independent, closed system, unable to connect with other artifact refining techniques of the Four Continents."

"Exactly, that's why I said this matter is too costly, many profitable ideas are lost..." Lily's face looked dejected, seemingly ready to whine again.

Before the walnut encountered any issues, Lily had a grand plan, to eventually turn the walnut into a magical artifact with independent consciousness, complete with an artifact spirit.

Then, the walnut would be both a magical artifact and a partner, not only fighting but also warming the bed, linking all the master's magical artifacts, achieving full Cave Mansion intelligent customization, thought-based recycling, remote control, and more...

Counting on her fingers, each and every one of these was a big business opportunity, golden money.

Now, everything was lost due to the walnut's upgrade.

As she thought more about it, Lily became more saddened until she burst into tears.

Li quickly comforted her, "But don't rush, there's actually a turnaround."

"What turnaround?" Lily perked up again.

"Considering the Thousand Mechanism Array Talisman as the most basic unit, it can translate the Ten Thousand Laws; there's no reason it couldn't translate the dharma methods of White Emperor City and the Star God."