Pretending To Be A Boss

"I always say, too big isn't always good, there's a proper measure for everything. Surpass a certain size and it starts to hurt," Tang Xian said with a look that suggested "I deeply understand the Sea God; after all, I'm pretty big myself."

Bai Mansheng frowned, pondering why the words sounded so odd coming from Tang Xian.

The Xuan Bird continued:

"The Judge and the Sea God indeed had a rift between them, but amidst the battle, because the alien creatures were excessively formidable, all creatures temporarily set aside their grudges."

"When there is an external enemy, internal disputes tend to fade, humans are the same. This battle was an invasion of the Myriad Beasts Realm, right?"

"Yes," the Xuan Bird acknowledged, catching the undertone in Tang Xian's words and added:

"As far as I know, the Human World was still quite normal at that time."

Tang Xian was puzzled, "How do you know that?"

"Because the Eden Tribe has always been monitoring the Human World."

"Do you mean to say that the Eden Tribe can directly enter the Human World?"

"As the foremost civilization of the Myriad Beasts Realm, Eden possesses many technologies we cannot comprehend."

Tang Xian's expression turned strange.

The Xuan Bird didn't seem to realize it. That was the strangest part.

Alien creatures do not have a fixed biological form.

Eden creatures do not have a fixed biological form.

Alien creatures possess powerful learning abilities and technological weapons.

Eden creatures possess powerful learning abilities and technological weapons.

The Eden creatures were the first to discover the alien creatures.

Tang Xian switched gears, imagining these events as a criminal case.

The first to report the crime would then be the Eden Tribe.

Following the detective's principle, the biggest suspect is the person who finds the crime first.

Moreover, there were too many similarities between the two...

"Have you ever considered the possibility that alien creatures might be Eden creatures themselves? They aren't bound to a specific form, are they?"

"Impossible. If that were true, why would alien creatures fight against the Eden Tribe? The Eden creatures have a life force, while these alien creatures lack Soul Crystals. That's the fundamental difference."

Now Tang Xian understood.

It was just like when Bai Mansheng, Qing Jiuyu were investigating him, assuming he was strong based on the sensation from the Soul Crystal.

Such crystals could even let Qing Jiuyu pinpoint his location.

Although the hint in his sea of consciousness looked just like a WeChat location pin.

He shook his head, suppressing some doubts.

The Xuan Bird continued detailing how tragic the battle had been, how several Beast Gods had joined forces to fight, and eventually managed to slowly suppress the invasion of the alien creatures.

To Tang Xian, all this seemed to follow a logical sequence, nothing more than a few battle details. However, Xuan Bird likely hadn't witnessed much.

In Xuan Bird's perspective, mostly, it was about cataclysmic creatures leading their beast hordes, fighting the minions of those alien creatures.

Tang Xian slowly clarified these details, organizing a line of thought.

"Twilight of the Gods truly was a war of mechanical bodies against the world of living beings, but who created these mechanical bodies?"

"Myriad Beasts indeed won the battle of Twilight of the Gods, but why then move to the Human World?"

Spoils of war... or perhaps they coveted some characteristic of humans?

Even before Xuan Bird had finished speaking, Tang Xian had already realized that the human catastrophe, though not as widespread as the Myriad Beasts Realm's Twilight of the Gods, was a cataclysmic disaster for humanity.

Myriad Beasts Realm was wary of the revival of alien creatures, leading to several Beast Gods, or perhaps the lords of Eden, joining forces to create a barrier—

This barrier was the failure of technology.

Any mechanical object that came into the mine area became as good as scrap.

Therefore, the setting of the mining area was not defensive against humans, but against another, more powerful race.

Tang Xian referred to them tentatively as the Mechanical Race.

The reason they were not Orderers was that, in Tang Xian's view, the Orderers were not part of the same group that invaded the Myriad Beasts Realm.

Seeing Tang Xian silent, Xuan Bird was unsure about how the exchange with Tang Xian stood.

It was curious about the whereabouts of that feather.

But at the moment, Tang Xian was deeply engrossed in thought.

Bai Mansheng rarely saw Tang Xian so absorbed in contemplation, as if the outside world had nothing to do with him anymore.

Tang Xian had indeed entered a unique state, with all his thoughts focused on this analysis.

Just as he once told Dong Ran, an adult should learn how to interpret information.

Even if the provider of that information cannot fathom its depths themselves.

"The Mechanical Race and the Orderers are not aligned. It's very likely that the Orderers only came into existence after the great catastrophe. If they were the Mechanical Race that almost destroyed the Myriad Beasts Realm, the Myriad Beasts Court would not stand by idly."

"According to what Xuan Bird said, the Eden Tribe has technology that allows them to step into the Human World, so portable transfer rifts could be a product of the Eden Tribe."

"And only the Eden Tribe knows the location of the Human World. With that in mind, the human world's catastrophe must be related to the Eden Tribe."

Numerous thoughts floated through his mind, and Tang Xian quickly deduced two possibilities.

"Pyramids, mechanical bodies, judges, orderers—while they're not the Mechanical Race, they might very well be imitations of it."

"After a narrow victory, the multitude of mechanical remains that fell into the hands of the Eden Tribe wouldn't simply be discarded as trash to be incinerated. The Eden Tribe, naturally able to acquire biological traits, would have thought to dominate these mechanical beings. Following the Mechanical Race's defeat, these mechanical remnants became the study materials for the Eden Tribe. The great catastrophe was orchestrated solely by the Eden Tribe."