Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 542 - 11: A Major Event Approaches

Although the discovery of clues brought more motivation to the task, searching for the desired information amidst the vast sea of electronic data was still quite time-consuming.

Tang Xian and Li Xiaoyu busied themselves until nightfall.

Tang Xian had planned to cook something to eat, but because his mind was completely focused on searching for historical records, he forgot.

This made Xiao Jiu very sad to learn that Brother Tang Xian had already returned to Baichuan City.

The food prepared by Akasi was edible, but in comparison to Tang Xian, it instantly turned into a culinary disaster.

However, as the saying goes, hard work pays off. With Tang Xian and Li Xiaoyu's efforts, they finally managed to organize some clues.

In the meantime, Tang Xian also learned about various people and events.

The 21st century was a time of constantly changing cultural trends.

Basically, every ten years, people's worldviews and values would shift.

Thus, the generations were differentiated as the post-70s, post-80s, post-90s, and post-00s, a rare occurrence in human history.

It's worth mentioning that the post-90s deserved a certain amount of sympathy.

They were caught in the cracks between the elderly and the young.

Most of the post-80s had already started families, the post-00s fell in love even earlier than the post-90s, who were largely still single, making them the most unfortunate generation.

In Tang Xian's search for historical materials, most of the figures that emerged belonged to the post-90s.

Like Xu Lingwei, in charge of the research and investigation of Judgment Knights; including Chang Chuanbai, who appeared in later video material, tasked with the research on disassembling Judgment Knights.

And Bao Daren, the earliest to discover the hellhound with three heads in the mining area, as well as those academic researchers who made hypotheses about the truth of the myriad beasts.

Many others, named and nameless, although sought for related knowledge, also gave Tang Xian a deeper understanding of the attitudes towards life of the people from that era.

After all, people don't live inside microblogs. The real diaries offer perspectives vastly different from what's shown on social media.

The real tapestry of life gave Tang Xian much to reflect on from different viewpoints.

The documents recorded many anomalies of that time, and people's views on these anomalies varied greatly.

He admired the academics who maintained the most objective attitude towards the emergence of life and machines, persuading institutions around the world to prepare their defenses early.

Even though humanity was ultimately defeated and retreated into the Pyramid, it seemed that they had exhibited considerable strength during the catastrophe.

It wasn't like what he had previously understood, where humanity was simply overpowered.

What was uninteresting, however, was that even up to the year before the great catastrophe, the starting salary for a top-tier professor at an institution like Tsinghua University was only a few thousand yuan, with the higher end being just ten or twenty thousand.

As for million yuan annual salaries, only the industry's top echelon, those academic legends capable of challenging for the Nobel Prize, could command such figures.

Therefore, living in that era, it wasn't hard to see why scientific reporting was less common than entertainment news, and why squabbles among academic giants were practically unseen on microblogs.

After all, if filming a sleep-inducing movie could earn one an academic researcher's lifetime wages, who then would choose to pursue academia?

I digress.

The information that Tang Xian and Li Xiaoyu organized, although pertaining to the period before the great catastrophe, regrettably still did not provide the answers they most sought.

"With so much data, we should be able to make some rough inferences now, right?" said Li Xiaoyu.

"Unfortunately, no one knows about the Origin. We only know that in the year before the great catastrophe, a large number of Judgment Knights and a few myriad beasts began to appear.

The hellhound with three heads and some peculiar insects had already appeared within human activity zones.

At first, they seemed like normal wild beasts, similar to the Judgment Knights, not primarily targeting humans for attack and even somewhat friendlier than those in the mining districts, basically not attacking humans unless provoked.

It's as if they were adapting to this world, or possibly, they were waiting for a certain moment? Waiting for a command?"

Tang Xian was unable to deduce the truth about the Origin from these existing historical videos.

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He looked at the time and said:

"We're running out of time. We haven't even finished ten percent of the content, and it's already night. Let's stop here for now, I'll be leaving tomorrow, and I'll have to leave these matters in your hands."

"You're leaving tomorrow? Song Que hasn't awakened yet, and I thought you would wait until he did before leaving."

"He will know what I will be doing next."

"Have you already made clear arrangements with this Human Federation Supreme Commander?"

Tang Xian laughed:

"Indeed, I can't delay any longer. The number of Judgment Knights is rapidly increasing; letting people know the truth sooner rather than later is for the best."

"I will take good care of Baichuan City," said Li Xiaoyu.

Tang Xian nodded, thinking that to prevent Li Xiaoyu from appearing in his mind and distracting him in the coming days, he had to do something:

"It's nighttime, and we've been busy all day. Why not do something that you usually do at night."

"Sleep?" Li Xiaoyu's face turned red, although she appeared quite nonchalant.

She didn't object to the idea, but thought it felt somewhat rushed.

Tang Xian said irritably:

"Of course, I mean preparing dinner. What were you thinking?"

"Oh, okay."

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The puzzle remained a puzzle, yet Tang Xian believed that within that vast swath of data, there must still be valuable information to uncover.