Chapter 411: What's wrong with selling your soul to a conscientious businessman?
Chapter 411: What's wrong with selling your soul to a conscientious businessman?
The three immortals were in a heavy mood. Under the pressure of Wen Rui's power, they had no choice but to follow him into the elevator of the underground base of the Chamber of Commerce branch.
The group arrived at a large underground plaza that was as large as a modern football field.
The square was already packed with people, and countless people were standing in irregular queues under the command of a group of uniformed Chamber of Commerce employees.
This underground hall is three stories high. Wen Rui and his group are on the second-floor platform. The chairman of the Toad Spirit branch has been waiting for a long time, awaiting the arrival of the immortals.
At first glance, it was obvious that the crowd gathered in the square were ordinary people with no cultivation, and these ordinary people were a mixed bunch, with generally low quality.
There is no need to distinguish this point carefully, as it can be judged based on gender and age.
The crowd spanned all age groups from newborn babies to sixty-year-olds, and included men, women, young and old. It seemed that there had been no screening at all, and they just randomly picked people to make up the numbers.
However, the tens of thousands of people in the hall were all humans, with no demons mixed in.
It can be considered as a screening.
The "sacrifice preparations" that Wen Rui mentioned before were apparently completed. These people of all kinds were all wearing uniform white jumpsuits with numbers printed on the back and chest of the clothes.
In addition to uniform clothing, these people also underwent strict hygiene management. Unlike the mortal people that the immortals had seen in Qinzhou City, everyone had obviously bathed and their hair was uniformly cut very short.
The hall with metal walls, the bright lighting of incandescent lamps, the cleansed crowd, and the coded costumes, the scene seemed very orderly to the gods.
But when they thought that the tens of thousands of mortals in the hall were about to be slaughtered and sacrifice their souls, the three immortals first looked at each other, and then looked at Wen Rui with strange eyes.
If this was just a randomly dug mass grave, with those mortals who were used as sacrifices in tattered clothes and covered in dust, they would only think that Wen Rui was brutal and cruel.
But the slaughter and sacrifice were so elaborate, which is even more terrifying when you think about it carefully. It is definitely not something that an ordinary perverted murderer could do.
What's even more bizarre is that the mortals who came down to earth seemed unaware that they were about to die. Their expressions were all very relaxed, and many of them even had smiles on their faces, as if they were not about to die, but rather good things were about to happen.
"I understand!" Princess Longji whispered to the other two fairies, "They must have been tricked into coming here. I'm afraid they don't even know that their lives have entered a countdown. The man surnamed Wen is so scheming and has such a sinister plot."
Taibai Jinxing was shocked and said, "I am also a senior immortal official. Sometimes when I see sentient beings suffering, I will also feel compassion. I heard that the emperor is ruthless. You are quite advanced in Taoism. You really don't treat people as human beings. This state of mind is no less than that of a saint."
"Too cruel and vicious. He was just as cruel and vicious when he plotted to kill Zhou Jun."
Little Nezha's handsome face twisted, with a hint of fear in his eyes: "I used to think he was just a vicious and evil person, but now he has been deified. Could it be that we are wrong? Should gods be ruthless?"
"Cough cough."
The three immortals were still whispering and holding a small meeting, but Wen Rui had already turned on the microphone and loudspeaker and said loudly to the people below: "Everyone is going to die soon, are you afraid?"
"Eh?" "What?" "Can you say this in public?"
The three immortals were all stunned when they heard this.
However, the people's reaction was not as chaotic as expected, with people crying and running away, but rather bursts of laughter.
"Hahaha, boss, you're joking. We're just worried that you'll default on paying our wages."
"Didn't they say that if I really died, I would be given an extra 100,000 yuan in compensation? They also said that even if I really died, I could be reborn into a good family in the next life, wouldn't that be a great deal?" "I'm already this old, I'm not afraid of death, I'm just afraid that I can't make any contribution to my children and grandchildren."
"Don't worry, I've worked for the Chamber of Commerce for more than ten years, and I've never been owed wages."
……
The brave mortals loudly responded to Wen Rui on the second-floor platform, appearing to be very calm and composed about dying.
"That's good. The staff will distribute the 'Sacrifice Agreement' later. Everyone should read it carefully. If anyone can't read, the staff will explain it on the spot."
Wen Rui took out a paper agreement from his arms and waved it to the people in the audience: "If you suddenly regret not wanting to sign the agreement, just tell the staff and they will take you away. There are still many people waiting in line outside for a spot."
"No regrets, no regrets. I queued up overnight to get a spot in this lucrative experimental project. How can I give it up to someone else?"
"That's right. I've been a volunteer in similar human experiments before, and I know all the rules."
"Yes, there is a mortality rate, but what's so scary about death? What's scary is that you live without spending your money."
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The discussions of the mortals below the stage were clearly heard by several immortals. Princess Longji suddenly realized what was going on and looked at Wen Rui and asked, "Are you buying your life with money?"
Wen Rui nodded as a matter of course and said, "That's right. Money can make the devil work, and it can also make people become devils. As long as I spend this money properly, I can make people become ghosts and work for me."
"What a bunch of foolish mortals, dreaming of getting rich even though their lives are gone?"
Long Ji said angrily: "It's great to be rich. Can you do whatever you want just because you have money?"
"Hey, you're right, if you have money you can do whatever you want."
Wen Rui laughed wildly: "Even if they lose their lives, their families can be the beneficiaries. Besides, with my skills, even if the body and soul are separated for a short time, as long as the control is proper and the time is not long, they can be reunited, that is, resurrected."
"I rented their souls for ten days at a price of three thousand credits per person, and promised to compensate their families with one hundred thousand credits if the resurrection failed. This is a good way to make money without doing anything, and everyone signed up enthusiastically."
Based on the exchange rate between credit coins and real currency, three thousand credit coins are equivalent to nearly 50,000 Dragon Country currencies. Earning 50,000 by being out of the body for ten days is really attractive to the lower-class people.
"Is this possible? Does this count as selling one's soul?"
Princess Longji, even though she was a deity, could not help but feel extremely surprised: "Are you a devil?"
"What the devil is? I am a conscientious businessman who never cheats anyone and never sets traps in contracts."
Wen Rui brushed off the dust on his clothes and said seriously, "You pay the money with one hand and the soul with the other. The lease will be returned immediately upon expiration. If there is an extension, overtime pay will be paid. This is clearly stated in the agreement. What is the essential difference between hiring a body to work for me and hiring only a soul to work for me? Are the souls of those office workers who send "received" on the chat software on Monday morning free?"
Although she did not understand Wen Rui's last sentence, Princess Longji was unable to refute it. But inexplicably, her understanding of the four words "all living beings suffer" seemed to have deepened a little.
(End of this chapter)