Stupidity is Sometimes a Compliment

"The soil, environment, and climate here are all excellent. It's foreseeable that in the future, more and more people will settle here..."

"Even if it's just a barren land now, in the future, it will be worth more than shells, which are a currency that will be phased out."

When it came to money and assets, Cang Xuan's pupils turned into the square holes of ancient coins.

"...What does this have to do with us? We're here to protect this world, not to enjoy it."

Chi Yuan asked, confused.

Cang Xuan glanced at Lianshan beside her and said, "Chi Yuan, you need to understand that we will all grow old and die someday... But you are different."

"Your physique will keep you young forever, and you will guard this world alone for a long time..."

Xu Yanwu weakly raised his hand: "Um... I'm actually quite long-lived too... Cang Xuan, are you really not counting me in..."

Excluding the fifty thousand years in the hibernation pod, Xu Yanwu had also been in this world for a long time, and there were no signs of his lifespan running out yet...

"...Shut up, you shameless old man. I wouldn't trust you with Chi Yuan!"

"That's so mean..."

After scolding Xu Yanwu, Cang Xuan returned to the previous topic: "So, Chi Yuan, do you understand what I mean?"

Chi Yuan's eyes were firm: "I understand, I'm not afraid."

"...No, you haven't understood my meaning at all."

Suddenly, a small abacus appeared in Cang Xuan's hand (made by Xu Yanwu at Cang Xuan's request). She clicked it rapidly: "Do you know how much money it costs for centuries, or even millennia, of food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined?"

"Huh?"

Chi Yuan was stunned, stumped by Cang Xuan's question.

"Considering potential inflation, currency devaluation, and other possibilities in the future, if you don't plan properly, with your foolish brain that can't do business, are you going to earn money by doing manual labor?"

Lianshan, standing nearby, had eyes like swirling incense coils. His ancient knowledge base simply couldn't support him understanding this content...

Xu Yanwu once again silently raised his hand: "I can steal electric bikes... cough cough I mean, I can make money to support Chi Yuan. Don't let my appearance fool you, I can actually earn quite a lot of money..."

"Slap!"

The sound of the abacus hitting Xu Yanwu's face.

"Xu-Yan-Wu! Will you die if you don't speak!"

This was Cang Xuan's furious voice.

"Don't pinch my kidneys! And Cang Xuan, your character is breaking! It's breaking, Awooo!"

This was Xu Yanwu's miserable scream.

"Pfft..."

This was the sound of Lianshan and Chi Yuan trying to suppress their laughter.

The scene immediately descended into chaos.

After a final bout of horseplay, Xu Yanwu, relying on his durable body, finally tired Cang Xuan out so much that she sat on the beach, unwilling to get up. Moreover, Xu Yanwu even had the energy to direct Lianshan to take the shells they had collected back to the tribe...

After all, Lianshan, as a human of this Civilization Era, could not participate in what was to come next...

Burying the quantum computer, the crystallization of humanity's highest technology at this moment, could not be known by others...

What if Lianshan found it fun one day and took out the quantum computer to play with it like a ball?

Xu Yanwu helped Cang Xuan, who was resting on the beach, up and said with a smile, "Cang Xuan, shouldn't we bury that quantum computer you mentioned?"

"How did you know?"

Cang Xuan looked at Xu Yanwu suspiciously.

"...Didn't you keep talking about handling the quantum computer recently? I just guessed a little, couldn't I figure it out?"

"You have that much intelligence?"

In Cang Xuan's impression, Xu Yanwu had always gone hunting with the tribal warriors...

Xu Yanwu looked like he wanted to curse: "I'm a warrior who survived from the previous Civilization Era just like you, you know.

Was I that insignificant in your heart?"

Despite the complaints, the quantum computer that needed to be buried still had to be buried...

Let us congratulate Mr. Xu Yanwu on once again taking on the role of a laborer!

An hour later, in the dug-out pit...

"Dug for ore a while ago, and now digging a hole again..." Xu Yanwu spat on his palm, rubbed it, and picked up the shovel to start digging: "Indeed, I'm destined for a life of hard labor..."

Feeling desolate, Xu Yanwu sang along with the rhythm of shoveling while digging.

"Holding a steamed bun in my hand..."

"There's not a drop of oil in the dish..."

"Two lines of tears... can't stop flowing..."

"Every step is a heartache..."

Xu Yanwu's singing was so pathetic that Chi Yuan, who had been accompanying Cang Xuan, couldn't help but crouch by the pit and ask him.

"Xu Yanwu, why don't I help you out..."

Xu Yanwu's voice instantly returned to normal: "Ah, no need. I was just singing for fun. You don't need to trouble yourself. Leave the back-breaking labor of digging pits to me..."

Just as Chi Yuan thought Xu Yanwu would say something else, she heard him add: "If you collapse the pit with one punch, I'll have to dig it all over again..."

"...One punch!"

"Hey, hey, hey, don't... urgh!"

Before Xu Yanwu could even jump out, he was buried alive by the dirt and rocks from the side of the pit, which Chi Yuan had caved in...

On the other side, Cang Xuan, who was lying on the beach enjoying the sunset, heard the commotion and looked back. She spoke to Chi Yuan, who was returning in a huff, with a hint of helplessness. "Chi Yuan, I told you not to bother with him. He's just that kind of person, always trying to provoke others."

"I know, but I didn't expect him to be like this, time and time again," Chi Yuan said with a little resentment. "Even I would get angry."

Cang Xuan rarely smiled, but she retracted it before Chi Yuan noticed. "He might be annoying, but he's actually a very good person... if he hadn't been peeping."

Chi Yuan fell silent. "It feels like he's hiding something from us."

"Indeed. Even Danzhu can tell there's something he hasn't told us. And over the past two years living in the tribe, he's been constantly guiding the people of this Civilization Era towards progress. In some aspects, he's done even more than we have, as if preparing for something."

Cang Xuan paused. "Also, he seemed very familiar with us from the very beginning, not at all like someone who had just woken up before our Civilization Era was destroyed."

"I suspect Xu Yanwu genuinely knows some future events but wants to keep it from us and handle it himself."

Chi Yuan couldn't help but ask, "But he had his energy drained by the Fire Moth for decades. Wouldn't he hold a grudge..."

"Do you think Xu Yanwu would be that kind of person?"

Cang Xuan looked in the direction of the pit, and Chi Yuan followed her gaze.

Over there, Xu Yanwu had just crawled out of the dirt, breathing in the fresh air greedily, lying on the ground, unwilling to move.

Cang Xuan said softly.

"He's just... a really good idiot..."