Old Zheng broke out in a cold sweat instantly.
He wiped the sweat dripping from his forehead and forced a smile:
"Miss Xu, you must be joking. There's no such thing as a sniper."
Ata laughed loudly: "So quickly you've gone from Little Xu to Miss Xu?"
The boss, Ya Zi, was questioned, and Boss Qi was indignant.
So she pointed them out to the old man one by one: "There, there, there, and there, aren't they all there?"
Oh, right, there's a reinforced company of guys outside the window. Their pistols' safety catches are all off, am I right?
Old Zheng: "..."
Qi An picked up the teacup again, took a sip, swallowed, and said, "Is there still tea left..."
The old man sweated even more and quickly interrupted her: "Miss Xu, you're mistaken. Who could see clearly from that distance?"
Qi An smiled: "Are you sure?"
Old Zheng: "..."
"Also, when did I say I was a normal person?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi An spread his five fingers and pulled his arm back.
Several dark figures flew in quickly from a distance and were caught in her hand.
A gasp rang out from outside the door, followed by dozens of pistols flying in and landing with a clatter at Qi An's feet.
Qi An handed the sniper rifle forward, his face full of sincerity: "Isn't this it? You're getting old, and you can't see clearly anymore. Let me show you."
The old man stared blankly at the gun handed to him, feeling that in all his decades in politics, he had never encountered such a difficult public relations situation.
He knew, of course, that this was a show of force from the mysterious and terrifying Miss Xu.
He felt a chill run down his spine: Thank goodness, thank goodness they didn't do anything.
Otherwise, things might not have ended up like this today.
A number of people appeared outside the door and windows, all looking at their sidearms on the ground with shocked expressions.
They couldn't understand why the gun suddenly slipped from their hands and flew away.
Old Zheng raised his hand, and those people disappeared again outside the door and window.
He adopted the thick skin he had cultivated over decades of political experience, and said with a smile:
“Miss Xu is indeed extraordinary. This country belongs to you young people. I am getting old, and I will need Miss Xu to take care of things for me in the future.”
Qi An smiled and said, "No problem, no problem."
After leaving the base, Qi An stretched and proudly announced, "A harmonious and friendly meeting has successfully concluded."
Ata pouted: "Boss, you seem to have some misunderstanding about 'friendship'? I see the old man's collar is soaked with sweat."
Qi An: "Really? I didn't see it. Wasn't I kind enough today? I didn't kill anyone or set any fires, and I even showed care for an elderly person with poor eyesight."
Ata inwardly cursed this shameless beast, but aloud asked:
"What do you plan to do, boss, if that old man doesn't agree to cooperate?"
"What should we do?" Qi An said matter-of-factly, "Of course we should just rob them, like we took over the Aotian base. Do you expect me to try and reform them?"
"Humans believe in using courtesy before resorting to force, so we're just going along with local customs."
Ata thought to himself, "This is indeed the recipe I'm familiar with."
With the three bases merged into one, the demand for food increased even further.
Qi An took out many seeds from the bracelet's space and instructed people to plant them.
She flew into the air and brought down artificial rain within a limited area, all of which was spiritual spring water.
With the problem of food and vegetables solved, Qi An then sent the mutants out to hunt every day.
The children at the base were all big-headed and small-bodied, looking just like the big-headed dolls in the cartoons Ata watched, with hardly any flesh on their bodies.
The adults weren't much better off; they all needed to replenish their nutrition.
In the past few years since the apocalypse, many people have been afraid to eat meat, fearing retaliation from mutated beasts.
It can be said that once bitten by a snake, one is afraid of a rope for ten years.
Qi An told them, "As the top of the food chain, it's not wrong for humans to eat meat, just like big fish eat small fish and small fish eat shrimp. It's all part of the normal operation of the ecosystem."
What's wrong is the indiscriminate killing of animals, the imprisonment of animals for amusement, and even the torture and killing of animals.
"The same applies to plants. There is nothing wrong with reasonable logging and harvesting, but it is wrong to wantonly destroy vegetation and exploit resources without restraint."
Survival of the fittest is a truth of nature.
As the most advanced species, humans should protect our planet Earth and coexist harmoniously with other living beings.
It was human arrogance, ignorance, selfishness, and stupidity that destroyed all of this.
It's no wonder we've ended up like this.
Qi An hoped they would face their shortcomings squarely, but he did not want them to give up because of a minor setback and stop making progress.
Human beings must develop, but this development should be done in a healthy way without harming other living beings or damaging the Earth's environment.
Instead of the pre-apocalyptic scenario of draining the pond to catch all the fish and endlessly squeezing out the living space of other species.
When other species become extinct one after another, and only humans remain on Earth, how can humans possibly survive?
Under Qi An's arrangement, everyone at the base had work to do and was contributing to the collective. They were well-fed and warmly dressed, and no longer lived in fear or worried about not having a tomorrow.
Meanwhile, under her deterrence, the murders never happened again.
At the original Red Star Base, there was a highly skilled thug who was driven by lust and wanted to bully a girl. Qi An publicly chopped him into a human stick and then threw him into the air to explode like fireworks.
Order was gradually established, and intangible morality and law slowly returned to people's minds.
Life at Dongfang Bubai's base gradually returned to normal, becoming a rare haven in the apocalypse.
As soon as the news was released, small bases and teams scattered in various places flocked to join them.
After all, most people yearn for a normal life; humans are inherently inclined to crave stability and dislike wandering.
"Boss, all three bases are full, they can barely hold any more people," a team member reported.
Qi An said, "Okay, I understand. It's time to take back humanity's own territory."
"Boss, what do you mean?"
"What I mean is, I'm going to take down artificial intelligence so that humans can go back to their homes."
"Oh... Ah? What are you trying to get rid of?"
Qi An stood on the cloud, looking down at the mountains and rivers below.
Apart from those three bases, the cities and homes that humans built have been abandoned for five years.
Ata asked, "Boss, artificial intelligence is everywhere in this country. How can we get rid of it all?"
Qi An: "Who said we were going to wipe them all out?"
Ata: "...?"
Qi An: "To catch the thief, first catch the king. No matter what kind of artificial intelligence it is, there is a boss controlling it. We just need to take down their boss."
Ata: "But how can we find their leader?"
Qi An smiled slyly: "That depends on you."
Ata looked bewildered: "Watch me?"
Qi An: "Go out and sense where the energy fluctuations are most obvious. No matter how powerful it is, it's still a machine. It has to control so many subordinates. As long as it issues orders, it will definitely generate huge energy fluctuations. Find it."
"Okay," Ata replied, emerging from his sea of consciousness.
The tower emitted countless golden rays as it began scanning the signals below.
Upon sweeping through a valley, Ata exclaimed with delight, "Found it!"
Immediately afterwards, Ata murmured, "Boss, what a... what a huge brain."
"Gulp".
The two of them swallowed hard.
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