Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 704 - 75: The Little Fox and the Old Fox in the Pyramid

Song Que's reputation within the Pyramid was polarized.

Those living carefree in the upper levels mostly saw Song Que as a disgrace to the Song Family.

His identity as the masked man was revealed, and some of the cruel acts he committed as a Trial Knight were also exposed.

The public opinion quickly molded Song Que into a figure similar to a clown, a madman.

He was even described as an unprecedented kidnapper.

That was because the several hundred thousand inhabitants of the Holy Land Fortress had disappeared en masse, to where, no one knew. And all the while, none of the Pyramid's various flying vehicles could deviate from their established flight paths.

People's awareness still lingered on the belief that "the outside" was an even harsher place to survive than the mining areas.

At least for the people inside the Pyramid, the outside world was still seen as a place riddled with radiation, where one could die instantly.

So, it was highly likely that Song Que had taken all those people to the mining area. Investigators from the Holy Land Fortress also found that the portable teleportation fractures and manufacturing materials stored in the fortress were almost completely gone.

This further proved that Song Que had taken tens of thousands of people to the mining area.

Interestingly, the transport station gates of the various Pyramids were all shut—so these hundreds of thousands of people would not be able to survive in the mining area for more than seven days.

From this sprung two theories.

The first was that Song Que was extremely cruel, taking revenge on society by holding a large number of the Holy Land Fortress's residents hostage, staining his hands with blood.

Those residents were likely already dead by now. The former commander of the Human Alliance Army, the Chosen One, the lord of the Ark Fortress had now become a dangerous figure on par with the Devil Child of Eden.

Many Trial Knights were dispatched to the mining area to capture Song Que, but they only roamed the blue zone.

On the one hand, they searched for Song Que; on the other, they were protecting the workers who were still mining.

As for the second theory, while its following was far less than the first, it was gradually gaining traction—Song Que hadn't taken the hundreds of thousands of Holy Land Fortress residents hostage; they had followed him willingly. Song Que had found a way to survive long-term in the mining area, or rather, found a way to survive... in that world that originally belonged to humankind.

For the rulers of the Pyramid, such talk was undoubtedly threatening.

They couldn't understand why, despite what had become of Song Que, there were still people who believed in him.

What was most perplexing was that most of these people were hunters, the very individuals who had once been led by Song Que across the Yuepela Plains.

Could it really be that someone in this world could win others over with personal charisma?

Didn't they realize that supporting Song Que meant making an enemy of the entire Pyramid system?

The lords of the various Pyramids were puzzled.

But the expanding "savior" rhetoric had already indicated the gravity of the situation. Yet no one was able to contain these statements.

Since Song Que left the Holy Land Fortress, the main beneficiary had been the Li family. Interestingly though, the Li family kept silent.

Song Que's various actions had been exposed, and the intelligence provided by the Watcher Constantine. Li Wanye seemed to have calculated something, as he neither refused the suggestions conveyed by Constantine nor hunted down those willing to follow Song Que.

This true powerhouse of a lord, the mastermind with plans unknown even to his two sons.

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At the Holy Land Fortress, on the ninth layer.

Following Song Que's departure, the Holy Land Fortress became the property of the Li family.

Li Xiaonian and Li Zheng were entrusted with managing the thirty-nine fortresses, while Li Wanye was in charge of the Holy Land Fortress.

Beforehand, there weren't many people in the Holy Land Fortress. As some talent left along with Song Que, the fortress was nearly paralyzed and unable to function.

However, once Li Wanye brought a group of people, the issue was quickly resolved.

What Li Wanye hadn't expected was the astonishingly rich reserve of mineral resources in the Holy Land Fortress. These reserves were several times that of other fortresses.

He couldn't fathom the mining methods employed by the Holy Land Fortress.

Only after repeated inquiries did he learn an astonishing truth—those without special talents could actually survive in the mining area for an extended period.

Having discovered this fact, Li Wanye too was shocked for a long time. A man of deep schemes and far thoughts, the implications he considered were manifold.

In this world, there were too many things they thought were correct, which turned out to be wrong.