Chapter 77: Gods Kill

The alley is deep and the walls are covered with grass like curtains.

Mr. Yuan Qi of Tiande Academy walked hurriedly with his head down, afraid of meeting acquaintances and stopping to greet them.

After rushing all the way, I finally returned home.

"Squeak!"

As soon as he opened the door, his wife, who was washing clothes, looked at him inquiringly.

Yuan Qi didn't dare to respond to his wife. He quickly closed the gate and bolted it, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

After giving his wife a wink, he went straight into the house.

"How is it? Did you exchange it for food?" his wife followed closely and asked with a worried look on her face.

"I got it." Mr. Yuan Qi undressed and took out half a bushel of fine grain from his pocket.

"Great!"

The gloom on his wife's brow suddenly disappeared. She checked the food and said in surprise:

"Why not switch to whole grains?"

"How dare I go and exchange it? You know the current situation. Food prices have gone up like crazy. There is no demand for food. If I show my face, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep peacefully at night."

As Yuan Qi spoke, he walked to the table, picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp, the solemn look on his face still unable to be concealed.

Even a teacher at Tiande Academy can't afford to buy food, which shows how much the food price in the city has risen!
"Too!"

The wife nodded, showing some relief:
"Luckily you took the online course and saved some points here and there, otherwise... Alas!"

Upon hearing this, Yuan Qi's face showed some discomfort, even shame.

When Taoist Yunli issued the initiative, he criticized it a lot.

As one of the few intellectuals, he has already begun to try to practice Taoism, and naturally knows how powerful practitioners are.

Therefore, it is not believed that the immortals who are high above would lack food.

Unexpectedly, the course of events completely repeated Taoist Yunli's prediction.

Immortals have no shortage of food, but human hearts are unpredictable.

As all the major temples had to collect grain, the evil of human nature was fully exposed. Food prices were rising wildly, and the higher the price went, the more people hoarded it.

The higher the price goes, the less willing people are to sell!

A vicious cycle has formed.

He comforted his wife with a few words, then quickly burned incense, logged onto the Internet, entered the forum, and saw if there was any solution.

At this point, the direction of public opinion in the forum had already reversed.

"I regret it so much. I should have trusted Taoist Yunli and made preparations earlier."

"Master Yunli is truly insightful. Now that I have carefully read the proposal, I find that almost every step of the development of the matter was within his expectations."

"I have elderly and children to take care of, and my whole family is waiting to cook. I beg everyone to lend a helping hand and give me some points to tide me over this difficult time."

"Everyone is poor now. Don't forget that when online banking opened some time ago, everyone redeemed their points. Who still has points? Even if there are, who would dare to give them? I don't know how long this situation will last."

"What should we do in the current situation? Is there any plan to save the food?"

"Master Yunli has already given us a solution. There is no other way except to open the warehouses and release the grain to lower the grain price!"

"Then open the warehouse and release the grain?"

"It's easy to distribute grain to a county or state, but it's difficult to distribute grain to a prefecture or city!"

“Damn, who is hoarding food?”

"Who else could it be? The various temples. They'll do anything to get incense."

"Master Yunli, please save us!"

Looking at the cries of support on the community forum, Yuan Qi was stunned.

After a while, I wrote a post in my heart:
"Master Yunli, please think of a way to save the people of the world!"

Looking at the posts flooding the forum, Yuan Qi sighed softly.

He knew there was little point in doing so.

The immortals who are high above will not care about the sufferings of the world.

The current situation is also most favorable for the Internet.

Because points have become hard currency.

There was naturally no need for Taoist Yunli to take action. After all, he had already issued a warning, but no one in the world listened.

Yuan Qi was about to log off the Internet with a sigh when a pinned post appeared right under his nose and startled him.

——【Notice: Starting tomorrow, all major online banks will provide free porridge for disaster relief】

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Immortal Court, Dantian Fenghuo Courtyard.

In the main hall, the generals under the command of Zhengyi Xuantan were arguing in a mess.

"Marshal Xuantan, the price of grain in the mortal world has skyrocketed, and the people are complaining. If this continues, there may be a backlash! I have counted the grain reserves in the major temples. There is still a lot of grain. Should we open the warehouses and release the grain to appease the people?"

"No! Giving out grain now is just like throwing meat buns at a dog. It will never come back. I think that with the current situation, instead of fighting to the death and wasting energy, it is better to take a step back and protect yourself. After accumulating strength, you can find a way out."

"Isn't this fulfilling Gu Zhenzai's intention?!"

"That's better than a backlash from the people!"

As the quarrel was going on in the hall, suddenly, several talisman swords appeared almost at the same time.

Several generals reached out to take the talisman sword, and their faces changed slightly as they scanned it with their divine senses. They quickly reported:
"Marshal Xuantan, that Gu Zhenzai decided to provide porridge to relieve the disaster!"

"Providing porridge to relieve disasters? This isn't a disaster year, what disaster are we providing?"

"Yes, distributing porridge to help the disaster relief is a done deal. It can not only alleviate the danger of skyrocketing food prices, but also win people's hearts! This is a great idea!"

Some people looked bewildered;
Some people applauded.

The immortal officials and gods in the hall, who had long since left the mortal world, thought for a moment and suddenly realized.

The fundamental reason for the soaring food prices among the people is that some people have been buying food regardless of the cost;

If we change burning incense and giving out money to giving out porridge, the crisis will be resolved after the rice is cooked.

"Gu Yunli is so kind? Is there something fishy going on here?"

"If we distribute porridge to relieve disasters, food prices will surely plummet. At that time, will a bowl of porridge still attract people to come?"

"If you can't attract them, then just give them food instead."

"Isn't this a cycle of cause and effect?" "No, after the relief of disaster relief, who would dare to hoard goods in the future?"

After some deduction and discussion, all the generals in the hall became more and more excited, and suddenly they realized that breaking the deadlock was so simple!
However, no one noticed that Zhao Jinyuan's expression was becoming increasingly ugly.

"quiet!"

Marshal Jinlun shouted loudly, causing the hall to suddenly become quiet.

"Reporting to Marshal Xuantan, Gu Yunli is extremely cunning and would never suddenly remind us. There must be something fishy about this matter. It is better to suspend this matter and wait and see."

"Grand Marshal Jinlun's words make sense. Let's put this matter on hold and discuss it later. Everyone, please go away!"

Zhao Jinyuan seemed to have been waiting for this sentence. He responded almost without thinking, then stood up and left.

The generals were left looking at each other in bewilderment.

Many people turned their eyes to Marshal Jinlun.

Marshal Jinlun remained silent.

The generals were delighted with the method to break the impasse, but they didn't know that even if the impasse was broken, it would not be of much significance.

Because the quality of incense earned in exchange for grain distribution was getting worse and worse.

After all, adding icing on the cake is not as good as providing timely help.

If in a year of great disaster, porridge, money and food are provided to relieve the disaster, it will surely attract people to worship and burn incense.

However, looking at it now, most of the believers come here just to get the food. They were very grateful at the beginning, but later they gradually became numb and took it for granted.

——Incense that has lost its evaluation criteria will naturally be perfunctory!

The major temples seem to be full of incense;

In fact, you can use incense, which is extremely thin.

What's worse, some people burn incense and worship the God of Wealth, but chant for Taoist Yunli.

I don't know how many immortals and gods were enraged by this.

It was not until this time that the immortals and gods suddenly realized that the value of Internet points was not just that 300 points could be exchanged for a bushel of fine grain, but also that it was firmly linked to incense.

Because incense can buy almost everything.

The most important thing is that Internet points have their own set of evaluation criteria.

Those who are just filling in the gaps have nowhere to hide.

Looking back now, this act of burning incense and sending food was a complete farce from the very beginning. It would be the best idea to withdraw now under the pretext of Gu Yunli's free porridge relief.

……

When Zhengyi Xuantan chose to retreat at the height of his career;

Little do people know that the most important thing to avoid when implementing a policy is sudden braking!
Baishui Prefecture, Pu County.

In the dim morning light and the cold wind, a long queue had formed outside the Temple of the God of Wealth.

Everyone huddled together to resist the cold wind.

Until the first ray of sunshine rises.

The temple gate slowly opened amid everyone's anticipation.

A Taoist boy came out and looked at the long procession outside the door. The busyness of the past month made him irritable and he said:

"Go back, I won't give you any more money!"

"What? No, no money?"

"Yes, no more money, let's go!"

"Why? Why don't you send it just because you said you won't send it?"

"Why? We worked so hard and waited in line for half the night, how can you just not send it out?"

"Yes, did you guys take all the money?"

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

The dragon-like team suddenly became ferocious and aggressive. Hunger, cold, fear and confusion squeezed out the remaining humanity.

"Who is greedy? This is an order from the gods, why don't you get out of here!"

After nearly a month of hard work, the Taoist boy's temper has been suppressed to the extreme, and his tone is as explosive as gunpowder.

"Bullshit! I don't believe it. Move aside and let me go in and take a look?!"

"Hurry, go in!"

"Ox Nose has taken the immortal's money. Let's all go in and take a look?"

I don’t know who shouted from a high place, but immediately people responded.

"Wow..."

The crowd was boiling with excitement. The people in the front were rushing in frantically. The people behind were bewildered. Seeing the people in front rushing forward, they were subconsciously aroused and followed them in.

"Stop! Stop!"

The Taoist boy was furious upon seeing this, and subconsciously opened his arms to try to stop them, but was knocked to the ground by the crowd, and then countless shoes fell like raindrops.

"Don't step on me! Master, save me——"

The sound of footsteps falling all over the sky drowned out the Taoist boy's wailing, but in the blink of an eye, the sound disappeared and he turned into a painless and ignorant meat pie.

The crowd rushed into the Temple of the God of Wealth and scattered in all directions like headless flies.

Someone is looking for money;

Some people look for food;

But more people had their animal nature aroused by the chaotic crowd and hugged everything they saw.

What's worse, some even rushed into the hall and snatched tributes.

Those who failed to grab the item at the back set their sights directly on the gilded statue.

They climbed up the statue, picked up all the tools they could, and scraped the thin gold foil on the surface of the statue.

Some naughty people even climb up onto the statue and urinate there.

In the chaos, the clay statue that had lost its golden body slowly moved up. As large pieces of clay were peeled off, the statue's lifeless eyes suddenly glowed with a strange light, and it actually came to life.

He glanced across the hall, his eyes immediately bloodshot, his hair standing on end in anger: "You bastard slave, you dare to insult me!"

"what--"

"The gods are killing people!"

(End of this chapter)