Working: Start by earning the boss a hundred million!

Chapter 154 What kind of person is your boss?
Cheng Mai glanced at Shen Luo, who was fuming beside him, but didn't care about what Cheng Ming said.

"As for your desire to be my father, let's talk about that first," Cheng Mai said with a smile. Other things could be set aside, but this matter needed to be discussed. "Even if I can't remember the past, I don't think we've reached the point where we want to be each other's fathers."

Human friends who have a good relationship may have a quirky sense of humor in playing the role of each other's father, but the Twelve True Gods are not ordinary people.

Cheng Ming's eyebrows and eyes did not move, but they drooped slightly, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

Cheng Ming didn't answer Cheng Mai's question, but instead looked at Shen Luo, "Little bird, when the adults are talking, go out and play for a while."

"I'm not a little bird, and I can't leave, I have to protect..." Before Shen Luo could finish her rebuttal, Cheng Ming raised his hand and she slumped onto the table. "Young Master Cheng."

The last three words were mumbled out, and then there was no further sound.

Cheng Mai glanced at the unconscious Shen Luo and clicked his tongue.

Cheng Ming stopped, as if nothing had happened.

"I thought you came here to ask me what that kid was up to?" Cheng Ming said slowly. "It seems that amnesia has indeed changed you a lot. You wouldn't have paid attention to things that concern you before."

Cheng Mai was displeased. Was she really this great and selfless before?

"Now that I've changed, why should I be your father?"

"Is it possible that I didn't want to be your father?" Cheng Ming asked rhetorically, "but it just happens to be her, and it just happens to be you?"

The implication is that if it weren't for your mother, I wouldn't want to be your father.

Cheng Mai: "..." This is her bringing shame upon herself.

Cheng Ming watched the coffee arrive, and only after the waiter left did he say, "As for the rest, it's no use asking me now. I don't know what he's doing either. I can only tell you that the fate of heaven and earth has run its course."

Cheng Mai's nonchalant expression gradually softened, and he looked at Cheng Ming with more seriousness.

"What do you mean?"

Its fate is sealed? What's the difference between that and saying the Earth is about to explode?
"It means that a new creator has appeared." After Cheng Ming finished speaking, he looked at Cheng Mai, who seemed a little confused. "The appearance of a new creator means that this world is about to perish."

Cheng Mai understood, but he didn't quite grasp the meaning.

"If the world was truly destined to perish, shouldn't it have been destroyed when the twelve true gods perished? Why has it been delayed until now?" Cheng Mai retorted.

“That’s what’s strange about us. We should have all perished back then, but except for Xuan He, we all left behind a remnant soul.” Cheng Ming said, looking at Shen Luo. “This remnant soul can only fool these little birds now. Trying to fight against the Void Realm is like throwing an egg against a rock.”

So it's not that they no longer save the world, but that they no longer have the ability to save the world.

"So you really don't know what Shang Xingjian is doing?" Cheng Mai frowned. Of the twelve true gods, only Shang Xingjian still has divine power. Even Xuanji couldn't figure out what he was up to.

"Does he have the potential to save the world?" Cheng Mai asked.

“It’s too difficult. Once the Creator appears, it means there’s no turning back. Xuanhe knows this too. Although I don’t know what he’s doing, he’s just putting up a last-ditch effort.” Cheng Ming said, then added as if he had thought of something, “But I do want to know how he’s going to put up a last-ditch effort.”

Cheng Mai tapped the tabletop lightly with his fingertips, deep in thought.

Cheng Ming didn't disturb her thinking, giving her time. Cheng Mai didn't think for long; after her fingertips stopped, she looked at Cheng Ming.

"Who is that person behind you? Why are they causing trouble for the business? Is it the Creator?" Cheng Mai asked.

"We don't know what the business is doing, but natural extinction and natural floods are different ways of extinction. The Void Realm has already collapsed and cannot withstand the divine punishment brought down by the Creator."

"So you're just admitting defeat?" Cheng Mai retorted sharply, her gaze fixed intently on Cheng Ming. "You've all given up before even reaching the final step. Some people are still trying, but they've become the source of the disaster in your eyes. Is this what you call a god?"

Cheng Ming knew she would refute him like that, so he wasn't angry.

"Your cynical nature hasn't changed much, but once you regain your memories, you'll understand that some struggles are futile. Everyone knows the ending, and Shang Xingjian understands it even better. He's already in the middle of the ending; he just refuses to give up."

"If the outcome of regaining his memories is to stand and wait to die like you all, then I might as well stay this way. If you won't help him, then I will." Cheng Mai stood up and placed his hands on the table. "It is said that Lord Qingfan can save all people. Now I want to ask, has the Lord ever saved himself?"

After Cheng Mai finished speaking, he patted Shen Luo on the shoulder and turned to leave.

Shen Luo woke up, not fully awake yet, and chased after Cheng Mai's retreating figure, asking, "Wh-what happened?"

Cheng Ming sat there watching Cheng Mai leave without saying a word.

Xuanji suddenly appeared from the side, "I also want to ask, has the Pure Brahma God, who can save the world, ever saved himself?"

Cheng Ming merely glanced at Xuanji and said, "But has the Xuanji Divine Lord, who plans everything in the world, ever foreseen that he himself would not have a good death?"

Xuanji glared angrily at Cheng Ming, then snorted and decided not to lower herself to his level.

"Things are really bustling in Yuncheng right now, and Xuan He's actions really give me the illusion that he can turn the tide."

"The hell on earth, have you forgotten?" Xuanji reminded him, "The Void Realm has been destroyed, what else can withstand the divine might of the Creator God? You and I have seen the ending..."

“But he’s not in the ending,” Cheng Ming interrupted Xuanji. “He’s not in the ending you foresaw.”

The heavens and earth collapsed, and the world was in hell. Fires, floods, plagues and other disasters ravaged the land. It took a whole month for all living things in the world to completely disappear in this torment.

All of this was because they had angered the creator god.

It hindered his steps toward creating a new world.

Xuanji paused for a moment, but then shouted defiantly, "Maybe, maybe he's already living a life worse than death."

“You can’t predict him anyway.” Cheng Ming finished his coffee and stood up leisurely. “Stopping Shang Xingjian and reducing the wrath of the Creator God is the only thing we can do. Even if all our actions seem like cowardice, all living beings in the world deserve a good end.”

Isn't this also God's duty?

Cheng Mai's face was heavy on the way back. After hesitating for a long time, Shen Luo asked in a low voice, "Didn't you get the money?"

She was still uneasy about falling asleep, but thankfully nothing happened to Cheng Mai, otherwise the boss would have killed her.

"Let me ask you a question: what kind of person do you think your boss is?"

Shen Luo exclaimed, "Ah!" How was she supposed to answer that question?