Pretending To Be A Boss

The feeling of anger.

Yuanwu remembered having felt this way before. In the evolution zone, when those experiment subjects left one by one, he too once felt unwillingness and humiliation.

He wanted to protect them but, in the end, he was powerless. He wanted to grasp something, yet nothing remained in his hands.

In his memory, there seemed to be a very important person who had left him over and over again, but for some reason, there were so many farewells.

"My name is Xi He, I am your master."

"Do you like that girl? Do you want to protect her? Fine, I allow you to protect her, but just liking her is not enough. If she dies one day, whether it has anything to do with you, the responsibility will be yours. You must be prepared for this to truly protect someone. Can you do it?"

Countless Iron-Cutting Beasts left deep claw marks on Yuanwu's body.

In utter helplessness, Yuanwu instinctively used telekinesis to manipulate everything he could, desperately dodging the attacks of the Iron-Cutting Beasts, as well as avoiding the black venom spit out by the three-headed serpent and the terrifying fox fire.

During this process, he felt his life force steadily draining away. No matter what he did, he could not change the fact that he was slowly approaching death.

He was gifted, able to see the terrifying values of these monsters. He knew that he was… facing the weakest of these beast herds.

It was also at this time that he suddenly remembered the voice of Xi He in his mind.

That man who arrogantly claimed to be a god, who seemed to have known him a very long time ago.

But without past memories, injected too many times with Anai, subjected to too many hypnosis sessions, Yuanwu could never arrange these fragmented memories in the correct order to piece them together, and most of the time, he couldn't recall those fragments at all.

The beast tide, like a storm symbolizing death, swept over Yuanwu in an instant.

"On October fourth, after the incident with Kritos, we only captured one characteristic, despite the small number of subjects. Even with all my resources, I could only find two children like this. This made me wonder, why do the creators favor these mere mortals so?"

"The key to unlocking the treasure seems to be an extreme emotion. Maybe it's related to anger. But Kritos is a failure. He cannot be controlled. A disobedient dog must not stay. Perhaps I should focus on such an experiment, one designed to control human emotions."

The voices in his mind were like whispers of a demon, but they didn't evoke any real memories for Yuanwu.

The fear of death continued to invade him.

Yuanwu shouted helplessly, resisting with all his telekinetic power, but the Iron-Cutting Beasts were a breed with a very strong will to fight. Knowing that this human possessed a terrifying ability that could kill them instantly, they still charged fearlessly at Yuanwu.

The wounds on Yuanwu's body multiplied, and constant bleeding made his consciousness increasingly blurred, the fear in his heart like a beast about to break out of its cage.

Occasionally, a glance to the nearby battlefields revealed that they were also in dire straits.

Despite Tang's protection, Bai Mansheng was tightly constrained by the Gold-Breaking Beast and Taowu, two great generals, unable to move an inch.

Tang Xiaojiu's confrontation with Qing Jiuye was obscured by a sea of flames, with only the vague silhouettes of two bodies continuously changing positions...

In the depths of his heart, Xiaojiu was just a cute kid, and facing a mature nine-tailed demon fox, his chances were likely grim...

As for Lord Tang Xian, he was completely enveloped by a spider web, seemingly about to be devoured at any moment by the giant Sin-Bone Spider looming above him.

No one could save him now...

As Yuanwu thought this, he shed tears from fear.

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Six days ago. Baichuan City.

The chaos was finally quelled, thanks to the cooperation between Song Li and others, the savvy of Li Xiaoyu, and the surveillance abilities of Ju Mang.

It was because of this incident that Li Xiaoyu and Ju Mang's relationship somewhat improved.

Even though she knew Tang Xian was not the type to flirt around, bringing back a woman with exotic features and dark green hair still caused a twinge of dissatisfaction in her heart.

It wasn't until Ju Mang displayed a temperament similar to Zhong Xiuxiu's that Li Xiaoyu started to see her as a good girl.

Although deep down she was aware that Ju Mang was very dangerous, when Tang Xian left, he also implied that she should keep an eye on Ju Mang.

Now, Li Xiaoyu was dressed rather lightly, yet she did not feel cold. She had returned to wearing a dark gothic dress.

This was crafted by Bai Shuang using crystals; although not very thick, it was warm and comfortable.

Having bathed in the hot springs together, Li Xiaoyu and Bai Shuang had become closer, sharing a relationship like that of both mentor and friend.

However, Li Xiaoyu's leisure time wasn't always spent with Bai Shuang.

In the "Fresh Feeling" cafe, she would also occasionally discuss matters related to Tang Xian with Ju Mang.

Like on this day.

Li Xiaoyu had set aside some matters to invite Ju Mang for a warm drink and a chat.

Connections had to be nurtured, not just used when needed and then discarded. So after Ju Mang dealt with some ulterior motives in Baichuan City, Li Xiaoyu still spoke with her and even asked for her advice.

Interestingly, Li Xiaoyu's various needs could be directly discerned by Ju Mang.