Pretending To Be A Boss

Chapter 112 New Abilities and New Equipment

All women in love may throw a tantrum for all sorts of bizarre reasons, most of which leave their boyfriends utterly confused. But at their core, these outbursts stem from a lack of security.

Forgetting birthdays, anniversaries, or the number of days since meeting her. Forgetting the things she likes.

Of course, they know these are trifles, but once they start thinking it means you don't love them, it becomes a big deal.

Li Xiaoyu's sense of security was no different, she didn't expect Tang Xian to actually fight for her in a bridal contest, but he at least needed to show he was willing.

Just as women ask men to reach for the moon, men know they can't do it, but must show their determination to accomplish the task.

After all, she doesn't really care about that particular moon.

Similarly, if she starts asking for a diamond ring or a house… sorry, that probably means she actually cares. If you can't afford it, you're done for.

Tang Xian wasn't worried about the money; Li Xiaoyu's wealth could probably buy an entire row of diamond processing factories.

But emotional issues are tricky. Rather than delve into the headache of tangled emotions, he was more concerned about his cucumbers.

After Li Xiaoyu left, he still couldn't help but promote his cucumbers.

Buy my cukes, forget that bloke.

He had even come up with a slogan for the cucumbers, which was utterly out of character for Li Xiaoyu.

Li Xiaoyu cheerfully responded with "idiot" before leaving with the Soul Crystal of a catastrophic-level boss creature.

She didn't go far before calling Li Zheng. She didn't tell him about acquiring the crystal, only that she felt unsafe.

Minutes later, a squad of regular soldiers, led by Eve, arrived at Hua Science Academy.

The onlookers outside the Hua Science Academy thought there was some sort of chaos happening inside, speculating what major event had occurred.

Accompanied by the regular army and a group of top-notch bodyguards, Li Xiaoyu returned to the sixth floor, somewhat nervous.

Carrying an artifact that could drive every fortress lord in the world insane, even such a short journey made Li Xiaoyu quite tense.

Remembering how Tang Xian casually handled the Soul Crystal, and thinking about these past days when he conducted cucumber research in the lab as a most-wanted criminal, Li Xiaoyu laughed again.

After all, the abnormal have a unique attraction to one another.

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After Li Xiaoyu left, Tang Xian didn't leave Hua Science Academy but first turned on his phone.

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Having been off for so many days, the person who called the most was Li Xiaoyu.

It's worth mentioning that trying to contact someone in the mining area would result in a "number does not exist" message.

Once back in the mining area, if the person didn't answer, it would say that the user was either switched off or busy.

Only a handful knew Tang Xian's phone number. It was for this reason that Li Xiaoyu deduced that Tang Xian had not met with any mishap; he was just wandering around somewhere inside the Pyramid.

She initially thought Tang Xian was staying with his teammates, until she invited Dong Ran and Qiao Shanshan, and also Akasi Tang Suoye, Tang Xiaojiu, and then she realized the truth.

That night, Akasi took Tang Suoye home and discovered Tang Xian wasn't in the tree house. When they left, they woke Tang Xiaojiu.

So, a group of them returned to the Pyramid, contacted Tang Xian on the phone, and confirmed Tang Xian had returned to the Pyramid but couldn't be found.

Li Xiaoyu began to speculate about Tang Xian's intentions.

Eventually, they found Tang Xian.

Tang Xian immediately deleted all messages and call logs from women like Dong Ran, Qiao Shanshan, and Li Xiaoyu.

Then there were only the call logs and messages from Ke.

There were seven messages in total, related to the gloves. When leaving Fortress Fifty-One, Tang Xian had given glove designs to Ke Ye.

In the final design, Ke tried adding several energy links on the fingertips of the gloves.

The gloves had many functions, giving a great advantage to an ordinary person like Tang Xian, making high-difficulty maneuvers like hand-climbing possible.

They also contained a hidden hook for long-distance sliding. Moreover, the fingertips could pick locks, and due to the special material, they were excellent at insulating heat.

Of course, Ke Ye ultimately thought these features were still too negligible.

His message from twelve days ago requested some ultimate improvements to the gloves.

Ke Ye's second message was about the improved plans for the gloves.

But Tang Xian was in the mining area at the time, and without waiting for a response, Ke Ye boldly began the design.

The third to the sixth messages were all about the glove design process and seeking suggestions for improvements.

The seventh message informed Tang Xian that the gloves were complete, and the goods had been sent to the storage area on the second floor of Fortress Thirty-Nine, passing on the retrieval account and password to Tang Xian.

Tang Xian looked at the final design, and the gloves looked something like this.

Each finger sheath, at the bone, had a groove, which was the energy link.

There was also a groove on the back of the glove.

Six grooves in total, each able to hold the Soul Crystal of six different creatures.

He mentioned a theory, such as creatures from cold regions being able to exhale frost breath, so would the energy from their Soul Crystals be freezing?

Creatures like hellhounds from the subtropics could spout flames, so was the energy from their Soul Crystals intense fire?

Previously, heat-blazing weapons used armed ores that contained no attributes for energy attacks, but Soul Crystals were different.

Soul Crystals contained the creatures' own energies. Perhaps the same weapon with different Soul Crystals could turn into an entirely different weapon.