manynovel Chapter 565 Civilized People
Chapter 565 Civilized People
"I was right, your bones were indeed broken! And you're still thinking about running away!" Xu Si naturally couldn't accept that.
After resolving the issues here, he still needs to deal with the eerie receding tide, then continue to heal his injuries from the laws of nature, deal with the covetousness of the gods, and even contend for a divine position, so he can ask his sister face to face what exactly happened.
He neither has the energy nor the time to take on all of this.
Even though he knew what all this meant, it could very well mean ruling the world.
Even if it's just a severely shrunken empire, it's still an empire.
Xu Si sat in the command hall of the underwater hub for another quarter of an hour.
For half an hour, no one spoke. Zhou Jieyi's long sigh and Wu Pian's hesitation were like two parallel streams, each flowing in its own silent riverbed.
They thought Xu Si was considering something, but Xu Si was actually thinking about the operating system of his own little world.
It doesn't seem necessary to completely follow Earth's appearance.
He had previously been kneading the clay in the shape of Earth, but today's conversation gave him an idea.
His little world doesn't seem to need to be molded into a predetermined shape.
Xu Si knew he had to leave; he needed to find a place to properly test things out.
"Old Zheng, Fu Xiaojian asked me to tell you that the gates of the City of Fire are always open to you."
"That's all I have to say." Then his gaze turned to Yue Lengshu and the others.
He stood up, and Nirvana transformed into a wisp of silvery-white light that disappeared into his collar. Then his body began to dissipate and vanished before everyone's eyes.
A few people were left speechless, unsure of what to mean.
"So he wasn't even considering whether or not to take over Lao Yue's job just now," Zhou Jieyi realized belatedly.
In the central command hall at the bottom of the sea, the cold white light fell on several elderly people, like a layer of faded white frost.
Yue Lengshu was the first to snap out of his daze, and he sat back down in his chair, feeling utterly defeated.
He learned to back down step by step, without knowing when it started.
Or, as Xu Si said, to escape.
"...He's gone." Zheng Fangzhou was the last to come to his senses, and he said in a low voice.
Wu Pian leaned back in his chair, exhaled a long breath, and the last spark in his eyes finally went out completely.
He rubbed his temples, his voice muffled: "He didn't take us seriously at all."
Zhou Jieyi stood beside Yue Lengshu, holding onto the edge of the table, her gaze fixed on the spot where Xu Si had stood before disappearing. She carefully chose her words as she spoke: "He didn't disregard it; he... he was contemptuous. This central hub, these seventeen survival bases, and us six old bones—in his eyes, they weren't even worth spending half an hour dealing with."
"He's right. Our bones were indeed broken." Yue Lengshu's back was bent into an arc repeatedly folded by the years and heavy pressure.
"Commander..."
Everyone tensed up. It was easy to say these words, but it was not something the Chief of Staff could say.
"Isn't what he said true?" he said.
After saying that, he ignored the others and stood up and left the command hall.
Today's conversation deserves his time to reflect.
The others also looked dejected.
"I never thought we'd be the ones getting warned!" Wu Pian was the second to leave.
It's pointless to discuss whether or not to open the survival base now.
Zhou Jieyi lowered her gaze and tapped her fingertips lightly twice on the edge of the table, the tapping motion being extremely small, like some kind of subconscious metronome.
He said to Fan Changjie, who was the only one left, "Old Yue... is really tired this time."
"Tired?" Fan Changjie turned around abruptly, his eyes blazing with a rage that had been suppressed for too long.
If anyone reacted the most to Xu Si's words, it would definitely be him.
As the commander of the order of battle, he bears an unshirkable responsibility for the fall of the world.
"Who isn't tired? I haven't had a full night's sleep since the first day of the apocalypse, and I still can't sleep at night. Every time I close my eyes, all I see are my men sacrificing themselves one after another! 'Tired?' Tired is nothing!"
He left the command center cursing, without even knowing who he was cursing at.
"Old Fan, this is..." Zhou Jieyi looked speechlessly at the remaining Qi Wuyan and Zheng Fangzhou.
"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Fan wasn't targeting you; he's probably under too much pressure too!"
Zheng Fangzhou never expected that he would one day have to comfort these bigwigs.
Qi Wuyan didn't say anything, nodded to Zhou Jieyi, and then left the command hall.
Zhou Jieyi couldn't leave; he was on duty today.
These people are destined to have a sleepless night.
……
"You're back?" Fu Xiaojian was arranging the expansion of the new city at the World Tree City Lord's Mansion when he sensed Xu Si's presence among the branches of the World Tree. He stopped his work and got up to pour tea for Xu Si.
"Um."
"Then, Old Zheng?"
"It's nothing, they didn't do anything else, I just gave them a warning."
"Warning? You're probably just pointing your finger at me and cursing me, aren't you?" Fu Xiaojian asked hesitantly.
"No, we're civilized people."
"..." Fu Xiaojian sighed. He was actually a little unsure how to get along with the official survival base.
He certainly hoped that others from the official base would also join in the construction of the new world.
However, he also felt that the problems that arose from this were somewhat troublesome.
This situation has given both sides some buffer time.
"Is there anything you'd like to eat? I'll have someone arrange it!"
After such a long period of accumulation, the city's supplies can now be described as abundant.
Xu Si has been coming and going so fast that he hasn't enjoyed any of the city's benefits.
As the city's greatest contributor, Fu Xiaojian naturally deserves to be treated well.
Xu Si picked up the teacup and took a sip. The tea was at the perfect temperature, clear and sweet, with a very faint floral fragrance, as if it were brewed from tender leaves just picked from the morning dew.
"Wheat juice," he said.
Fu Xiaojian was stunned for a moment: "What?"
"Wheat juice." Xu Si repeated.
"Didn't you just say there was something you wanted to eat? I'd like to drink some wheat juice."
Fu Xiaojian's lips twitched; he naturally knew what wheat juice was.
However, although there are quite a few wheat reserves, they are not enough to make wine at will, especially since he has also issued a ban on alcohol in the city, mainly prohibiting the use of grain to make wine.
This is also a necessary measure for storing grain.
So after stammering for a while, he finally managed to squeeze out a sentence: "That stuff counts as a drink, not food. I'm asking what you want to eat?"
However, he was thinking about how to circumvent the alcohol ban he had just issued.
Xu Si, this is really something.