Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 541 - 10: Records Left by Ancient People_2
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Working together in the office, to Li Xiaoyu, was exactly the romance she longed for.
As two people who placed extreme emphasis on work efficiency, she even felt more comfortable in this working state than she had at noon.
However, as she reviewed the ancient people's hard drives, Li Xiaoyu thought back to the folder named "study materials."
Her face instantly turned red.
After experiencing the growth of vegetation and the time reversal of matter, indeed much of the unreachable information became accessible.
Li Xiaoyu, sure enough, saw the folder named "study materials" once again.
Tang Xian, seeing Li Xiaoyu's reaction, knew that the content was nothing serious, but following the policy of 'better to wrongly kill than to miss out,' he still opened it in front of Li Xiaoyu.
When a movie popped up featuring only a male and female lead, and due to a graphics card issue showed them without their clothes, Li Xiaoyu didn't actually feel as embarrassed as she had imagined.
Tang Xian was even more unruffled.
"In ancient times, this industry actually had tremendous profits. If the concept of legitimate viewership spread among the people, those profits could increase manyfold."
Li Xiaoyu said expressionlessly,
"Can we skip this, please? It's a waste of time. Historical clues would not be hidden in these kinds of... movies."
"Of course, I was just saying, be mentally prepared, because ancient people all loved to learn. For instance, right now, if we were to conduct an investigation on ancient data and assume those souls of people who died over a thousand years ago are willing to cooperate,
The task is for people who downloaded similar videos on their computers to hit '2'. Otherwise, they should hit '1'.
You would probably find that your statistics file is just endless rows of '2's."
Li Xiaoyu didn't respond, flipping through other documents. Actually, she wasn't opposed to it internally; in her eyes, if Tang Xian had that kind of impulse toward her, it would be something... to be happy about.
Tang Xian wasn't interested in these garages either; after all, modern people street racing were far better than the ancients of the 21st century.
This reminded him of Shang Lu, wondering how the double-ended cucumber they researched together was selling.
Tang Xian said,
"The owner of this computer must be a student, not because of the 4TB of 'study materials', but because of the educational software on the desktop indicating he was a journalism student. Search this computer carefully, the documents inside may contain the information we need."
"Alright."
Li Xiaoyu took over the laptop that was thick with scholarly ambiance.
Tang Xian then opened another one.
The two of them were quite slow at this kind of task, and Tang Xian wasn't in a hurry to know the specific events of the past.
But today he was supposed to accompany Li Xiaoyu, and even after the time reversal and meeting Bai Shuang, he shouldn't change the plan they had set.
Li Xiaoyu also enjoyed this time. She knew that tomorrow Tang Xian was probably going to the Pyramid, to do something big.
Therefore, she didn't want anyone else to disturb the quiet time she had yearned for for many years.
The owner of the laptop in Tang Xian's hands apparently had an interest in musical instruments, especially the guzheng, and specifically the standard kind that was one meter and sixty-three centimeters long.
Seeing the image of a delicate woman carrying a guzheng, Tang Xian thought of the meme about being unable to unscrew a bottle cap, but able to lift one's own 'celestial cover.'
He casually browsed through some messages.
In the audio files folder, there was a series of tracks ranging from 60 to 100MB. Tang Xian clicked on one and found the guzheng actually quite pleasant to listen to, although in the Pyramid, these arts were no longer studied.
Then he discovered another audio folder, which contained very short clips, seemingly because of recording quality issues, so they occupied much less memory than the previous track recordings.
Tang Xian clicked on one and, after hearing the first audio clip, his expression turned serious.
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"April 4th.
There's nothing particularly interesting to note today. Teaching guzheng is exhausting. The parents in my small eight-tier city always seem to want a bargain. Clearly, the contract states forty-five minutes per lesson; if I end on time, I'm always criticized for not wanting to teach the kids, not even willing to give an extra minute.
Really, isn't that basic time-awareness?
Xu Lingwei still didn't come home today, claiming he found a bronze terracotta army that couldn't be dated. Shouldn't this kind of news be on the reports?
When I asked him, he was all evasive, he's definitely lying to me.
What a terrible day."
Indeed, some people prefer to record the day's experiences with audio, compared to written diaries, they are more reliable. Many astronauts and polar explorers have this habit.
The words 'bronze terracotta army' piqued Tang Xian's interest immediately.
Li Xiaoyu took note too, and said,
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"Any discoveries?"
"Yeah."
Tang Xian peeled off his headphones and switched to speaker mode, then opened the second audio file.
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"April 6th.
Why would there be a performance in a hotpot restaurant? I take back what I said about not wanting to play in a teahouse.
Nobody in this hotpot restaurant actually listens to your performance; everyone is just eating hotpot and chatting!
Oh my God, why do I have to play the guzheng for them and watch them eat hotpot, who can stand that?
Today Xu Lingwei sent me photos of the bronze Terracotta Warriors. I didn't expect to actually find something, and he cautioned me not to show them to anyone.
I'm certainly someone who keeps things under wraps. I wouldn't show them to just anyone, only to my best friend Xia Li, and I also made her promise not to send them to anyone else.
Xia Li said that these Terracotta Warriors looked as if they were alive... For some reason, that comment scared me.
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Today was a day of overcast turning to partly cloudy, I really miss Xu Lingwei."
Tang Xian and Li Xiaoyu exchanged glances, neither of them spoke, and continued to play the third audio file.
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"April 7th.
Xu Lingwei told me something very unpleasant, he said that in the Taklamakan Desert, beneath an oasis, other teams have discovered new Terracotta Warriors. They must be dispatched to that godforsaken place for about a month.
I'm going crazy; it's early spring and the weather hasn't even gotten warm yet, and he's not staying with me.
Why are those Terracotta Warriors so annoying, emerging one by one with no coverage in the news?
Actually, today I received a message from Zhang Tu'an.
I'm furious, my best friend Xia Li sent the photo of the bronze Terracotta Warriors that Xu Lingwei sent me to Zhang Tu'an, who then sent it to me!
Everyone in this world has a big mouth!
Today was a day of clouds turning to heavy rain."
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"April 12th.
Xu Lingwei has been gone for a few days, and I miss him terribly. Zhang Tu'an has been coming to see me persistently for days, apparently having caught wind of something from who knows where.
While Xu Lingwei is away, I might seek Zhang Tu'an for company to relieve the boredom, but I won't give him the chance to do anything else.
Speaking of which, it seems like the news about the bronze Terracotta Warriors is getting hard to keep under wraps, which is a relief to me.
Reports have started coming in from around the world, a large number of bronze Terracotta Warriors have been found in different places.
The style of these warriors seems somewhat like Pre-Qin and also resembles Ancient Greek sculpture.
Some news outlets say the material on these warriors is a very unique new metal.
It's all very mysterious, almost sounds like an alien invasion."
There were still a dozen more audio files below, which Tang Xian and Li Xiaoyu listened to carefully.
Initially, the recordings were filled with the trivial matters between this girl, her plastic best friend, and a guy who was fawning over her.
But gradually, such matters became less frequent, and a sense of crisis started to permeate the girl's voice.
The number of bronze Terracotta Warriors kept growing, nearly a hundred thousand combined from all over the world.
What's most terrifying is that these warriors seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, not buried long ago somewhere, but surfaced without any apparent cause.
Various institutions began researching these warriors, but there was no substantial progress.
Some of the technology inside them is considered impossible for people of the 21st century.
"It looks like these audio files are indeed from before the great disaster occurred. But even until the last one, there's no record of how the Judgment Knights were resurrected,"
"Keep looking, there must be other clues left by someone else,"
Tang Xian and Li Xiaoyu were both invigorated, both feeling that as the timeline reset that engulfed the whole Baichuan City happened, the missing truths of history were gradually coming to light.
(Scheduled to have a massive update on Friday. Aiming for something between ten to twenty-thousand words, although it was initially planned for the weekend, I'm a bit busy this weekend...)
