Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 760 - 1 Heading to the Fortress of the Gods

760: Chapter 1: Heading to the Fortress of the Gods

760 -1: Heading to the Fortress of the Gods

Baichuan City remained unstable for a long time, as even a city much larger than Pyramid found it challenging to arrange the populations of over two hundred fortresses in a short time.

Li Wanye offered a suggestion, since each fortress had left with a large number of teleportation rifts as per Yu Xiaozhe’s instructions, it might be feasible to implement a “shift system.”

Some of the population would be settled in the mining area to extract resources, and after a certain period, these people would be exchanged with another group from Baichuan City, making the mining area a sort of population cache zone.

The plan sounded simple but was rather complicated to execute.

However, Li Wanye organized a group of people, and soon all the arrangements were made.

These people were all former fortress leaders.

Returning to their native land meant a reshuffling of power, and Li Wanye skillfully harnessed the mentality of those unwilling to be left behind, eager to establish their authority and return to the management level.

Thus, he let these former leaders take charge of everything, with everyone displaying remarkable work efficiency.

Tang Xian observed all this, considering that Li Wanye himself harbored the same mentality as these people.

Just a few days earlier, Li Wanye’s trial had been a spectacular affair.

Times Square of Baichuan City was swarming with people from all over the world, and nearly all the voices were calling for Li Wanye to pay the price, many of them also demanding the entire Li family to do so.

It wasn’t that Li Wanye willingly “sacrificed his kin for justice” that made everyone accept this.

Fortunately, the video footage that Tang Jing released significantly shifted the situation.

That was Tang Jing’s script.

The script was strikingly similar to Tang Jing’s own life.

In this script, Li Wanye had discovered the Orderers early on, as the initial developer of the eighth level fortress, he had found the secret of the Trial Knights.

The conversation between the Child of Order and Li Wanye included one part where Siren probed Li Wanye’s psyche.

Only the content of that conversation was completely altered.

Moreover, the subsequent dialogues between Li Wanye and Tang Jing on the ninth level were also wholly different.

In this script, Li Wanye was a spy navigating between humanity and the Orderers, cooperating with Tang Xian on one hand and obeying the Orderers on the other.

But ultimately, he was always working bit by bit for the sake of human forces.

This explained why during the time Song Que was under attack, Li Wanye remained secluded in his study without emerging and did not participate in suppressing Song Que, even though it was an opportunity for Li Wanye to turn the tables.

Some of these reasons seemed somewhat far-fetched to Tang Xian, as the insider.

However, as the inspector, Tang Jing had too much material to absolve Li Wanye.

The eventual break between Li Wanye and his children, Li Xiaonian and Li Zheng, was revealed to be Li Wanye’s radical amputation and attempt at atonement.

Despite the very few who truly understood Li Wanye knowing that the word “atonement” would never be in his dictionary,

it nonetheless was the vocalization of Li Zheng and Li Xiaonian that expedited Pyramid’s great evacuation.

A critical point was that with Li Wanye’s efforts, he had learned the way to the Divine Throne Fortress and its internal defenses.

This was the reward for gaining the trust of the Child of Order.

And when everyone learned that the souls stranded in the divine realm might have a day to return, Li Wanye’s importance became paramount.

Though all this intelligence belonged to Tang Xian, Tang Xian would certainly not reveal the truth at this time.

Li Wanye, a man with enormous crimes, became a tragic hero burdened with fate.

It was like the intertwining of Tang Jing and Tang Xian.

Tang Xian also understood that this script was Tang Jing’s final blank space.

It was a request for Tang Xian to save himself, as well as all the souls in the divine realm.

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In the end, Li Wanye survived.

His tremendous sins were not cleansed, and Tang Xian never intended to let Li Wanye live too comfortably for the rest of his life.

Most of the time, Li Wanye was under house arrest in a residence near the East District of Baichuan City, guarded by Yuan Wu.

Aside from the Li family and Tang Xian, no one else could visit him.

Even if the world never faced external threats again, Li Wanye would likely never be able to leave that room.

The punishments for Li Wanye were not demanded by the citizens of Baichuan City but were proposed by Tang Xian.

Li Wanye was fully aware that he had preserved his reputation but still had to pay for his sins.

Li Xiaoyu had no objections to this; she knew this was probably the best outcome available for now.

As for whether her father was a human spy lurking among the Orderers, Tang Xian may not have said it, but Li Xiaoyu knew in her heart—all of it was a lie.

She and Tang Xian tacitly avoided the subject.

During the rare moments of leisure time with Tang Xian, they would just discuss plans for the future.

Two days earlier, Tang Xian proposed a plan that caught Li Xiaoyu by surprise.

“You want to…

go to the Divine Throne Fortress?” Li Xiaoyu was momentarily confused.

Tang Xian nodded.

Only Ju Mang, Li Xiaoyu, and Li Wanye were privy to some deep-seated secrets about the Orderers.

The rest of the world was still unclear about the real nature of the Orderers, what they represented, and their relationship with the mining area.

“Isn’t that the enemy’s stronghold?”

“Yes, but within, the only one who could threaten me is alone.”