When Xu Shi asked, "What should we do next?" everyone understood the unspoken meaning behind it.
He had clearly already figured out how to deal with the imperial people... but Jiang Chengcheng still could not wrap her head around it.
She knew Xu Shi well. Whenever he wanted to do something—especially some prank meant to mess with people—he either set up a chain of traps or defeated them in one move... But what kind of tricks could he pull with something like the Sea God Stone?
Her expertise lay in engineering materials and weapons. She was not nearly as good at all the twists and turns. Even after rising through the ranks, she had basically just followed Xu Shi's orders. When managing people, all she relied on was a sour expression. It was not as though she had any real methods.
But since Xu Shi had spoken, she obediently picked up a paper ball at random.
When she opened it, she found a little flower drawn on it.
"This is... a tulip?"
She stared at it for quite a while before remembering what kind of flower it was. That was just how engineering girls were... especially when Night Sin City itself was a steel jungle with barely any greenery. Being able to name it at all was not easy.
Naturally, she did not understand the meaning behind it. Neither did anyone else present. What was this guy plotting now?
"Well..."
Xu Shi had no intention of playing mysterious. Everyone present was one of their own, so there was nothing he could not explain.
The tulip represented Tulip Mania, one of the three great bubble events of modern Europe in his previous life. According to the records, it had even been the earliest economic bubble of that world.
At the time,