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She didn't mind it, though.

Frequently cut off by Li Xiaoyu, she would just purse her lips and look at Li Xiaoyu with a half-smiling, half-serious expression.

Li Xiaoyu probably understood a bit, Qing JiuYu seemed very enchanting, but it was actually very hard for these people to get close to her heart.

Qing JiuYu was equally curious as to why Tang Xian would always show favoritism to such a person whose personality was not very likable among humans.

But deep down, Qing JiuYu didn't dislike Li Xiaoyu.

She disliked most of humanity, but Tang Xian was not included.

And sometimes, Li Xiaoyu seemed very much like Tang Xian.

This feeling was indescribable to her, despite the fact that these two people were very different.

The two women seemed to have gone from being enemies to subjects of mutual study.

To Qing JiuYu, this was less amusing than making trouble in front of Tang Xian.

Especially since Li Xiaoyu had entered into observation mode, rather than the hostile mode of past days.

It had been a while since Tang Xian had returned here.

Qing JiuYu hoped that Tang Xian would be efficient and bring Bai Mansheng over soon.

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On the fourteenth day after the restoration of electricity in Baichuan City—

Li Xiaoyu finally found a computer that could be used.

The other tens of thousands of computer devices were still being checked.

The hundreds of years had rendered most electronic devices unusable even with power, although they could naturally be repaired or replaced, but if the crucial hard drives were damaged, the devices would become meaningless.

Up to now, only one well-maintained computer had been found to be usable.

This was also thanks to the computer being stored in a sterile laboratory environment.

And it was a military-grade computer.

That noon, Li Xiaoyu turned on the computer, and the Windows interface made her feel like she was looking at a history book.

This had appeared in humanities textbooks of the sixth academic year, and Li Xiaoyu remembered this century-old enterprise.

She also remembered some of the great figures well-known in human history.

The hard drive definitely had some issues, Li Xiaoyu discovered that it took several minutes to load the logo screen before she could see the desktop.

There was a pile of files on the desktop.

Although Li Xiaoyu speculated that the owner of this laptop must be a doctor, it looked like... this doctor was rather young.

The software on the computer's desktop included many ancient games, Half-Life 3, Cyberpunk 7702, Riding Gundams and Slicing 2, League of Legends tactile edition, Overwatch Booty, Dungeons and Martyrs, Pretty Girl Magic Mirror, Trans Mountaineering, and so on.

These were naturally not what Li Xiaoyu was looking for.

As she browsed slowly, she found that aside from games, this laptop's owner was pretty boring.

Mostly work data, this was a doctor of proctology,

Some of the user data pictures looked disgusting, but Li Xiaoyu, who was skilled in anatomy, browsed through them with a calm face.

However, she still couldn't find any data she wanted about the Great Cataclysm.

Li Xiaoyu thought about it and started to use keyword search, looking for words like disaster, escape in the local disk.

After the computer froze for a few minutes, she actually did find a hidden folder.

The name of the folder was "Study Material".

Li Xiaoyu didn't know why the owner of the computer would hide the study material.

As the mouse hovered over it, she saw that the file sizes were quite large, a hundred or so gigs.

"Seems like a person who loves to study a lot."

These study materials were all in video format.

Most were in the language of the island nation, with occasional domestic ones, resembling premium peripherals, certain scandalous events, or Sino-U.S. co-productions, something about glorifying the nation.
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Li Xiaoyu was perplexed; it seemed to be some very obscure study material. Out of curiosity, she clicked to have a look.

Half a minute later, Li Xiaoyu closed the video. Her red face bore anger.

She was grateful she had brought her headphones, as there were people responsible for guarding right outside her usual office.

If they had heard it...

Li Xiaoyu shook her head, wondering how could the ancients use a folder named 'Study Material' to store such videos?

But in fact, it was the same principle as a primary schooler naming their King of Glory folder "Homework."

However, Li Xiaoyu didn't know this.

Li Xiaoyu shook her head.

It was not easy to find an ancient device that had been well-preserved, only to find it filled with these... unspeakable things, which was truly disheartening.

Eventually, after searching, Li Xiaoyu realized she truly couldn't find any information about the Great Cataclysm.

She could only continue to wait for other devices to be discovered.

She turned off the computer.

And proceeded with handling other affairs in Baichuan City.

In the afternoon, a guest arrived in Baichuan City.

Yu Xiaozhe.

The last time Yu Xiaozhe visited, he brought a large number of talents to Baichuan City.

This time, Yu Xiaozhe brought news that was temporarily unclear whether it was good or bad—

Song Que was trapped.

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The peaceful Baichuan City finally encountered turbulence.

In Fresh Sense Café on the commercial street, Akasi, Tang Suoye, Yuan Wu, Qiao Shanshan, and Dong Ran among others gathered together.

There was no coffee, as the nearby cocoa beans had not yet matured.

Although the grinder had been cleaned up, it would still be a while before the shop could operate.

According to Li Xiaoyu, the Fresh Sense Café would be given to Dong Ran and Qiao Shanshan.

Yu Xiaozhe, dressed in casual clothes, with an odd expression on his face, looked at everyone and asked,

"Has Tang Xian not returned yet?"

"No," said Li Xiaoyu.

"Then it might be a bit troublesome."

"How so?"

"After Song Que returned to Fortress One, he had a premonition that some bad things would happen without his gift, but he didn't specify what. He just made an agreement with me to contact me regularly every day."