Chapter 741 The era of chivalrous women and knights has long passed

Chapter 741 The era of chivalrous women and knights has long passed

Chapter 741 The era of chivalrous women and knights has long passed

The same scene was played out all over the southern continent. The human victims who were suddenly attacked watched the people around them turn into a cloud of white smoke, leaving only tattered linen clothes scattered on the ground. They were unable to react for a moment and stood there numbly and terrified, even forgetting to call for help or escape.

In fact, most of the victims had no strength to struggle anymore. Even if they realized that the so-called relief food distributed by the Chamber of Commerce was a trap to lure them together for mass slaughter, they could only accept their fate.

For many people, perhaps dying in an instant by turning into white mist is better than dying slowly from hunger and thirst in despair.

The disaster victims had long given up any expectations of their lord. Without the exploitation of the lord and his minions and lackeys, they could have even held out for another month or two.

It was the cruel officials who plundered the last grain of food in the house, even the seeds for sowing next year were not spared.

Not only that, the monarch also issued a decree prohibiting the people from digging wells privately to save themselves, so as not to rob the masters of their underground water sources.

The Chamber of Commerce was the last hope for the victims. In the past, when various places suffered natural disasters, the Chamber of Commerce had joined hands with the government to carry out symbolic disaster relief. Of course, the majority of the money was embezzled by corrupt officials, and only one or two tenths reached the victims.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this kind of relief activity is collusion between officials and businessmen, and is a way for the Chamber of Commerce to bribe local officials.

But even so, the people would be grateful to the Chamber of Commerce even if they just had a bowl of soup to drink.

As a result, this time, the relief grain from the Chamber of Commerce turned out to be bait for a deadly trap, and the deceived people did not even feel resentful. Instead, everyone calmly showed a look of relief.

All living things suffer. After death, perhaps there will be a period of time when they will not feel pain before entering the next reincarnation?

The dehydration operation was so efficient that the Demon Alliance Special Operations Team could deal with tens of thousands of people in a princes' capital in just one or two hours.

After the random gunfire, large sorting robots will come in and pick out the plasticized shrunken human bodies from the burlap and rags scattered on the ground, number them, and store them in sealed containers.

Due to the severe drought in recent days and the dry and hot climate, many people in the Great Zhou Dynasty were not wearing linen clothes, but it was easier for them to deal with the civilians in the cities under their rule than for the Demon Alliance.

After completing the dehydration and collection of all the residents in the city, the action team boarded the ship in an orderly manner, and the fleet took off and jumped away, leaving behind only an empty city.

When the last hexagonal space door was closed, two figures in Taoist robes poked their heads out from the ground tremblingly. They had just used the earth escape technique to hide and escaped this disaster.

"Brother...what on earth is the Chamber of Commerce doing? They...they killed everyone in the city within an hour."

The person who spoke was a pretty girl with a ruddy complexion. Her complexion was very different from that of the victims and it was obvious that she was not affected by the drought.

The girl was quite frightened. Although she was a practitioner and much older than her young appearance suggested, she had never seen such a brutal and decisive mass massacre, and her spirit was greatly shocked.

The person she was questioning was a handsome young man with a handsome face and bright eyes.

The young man was calmer than the girl, but his eyes also showed a strong sense of uneasiness. He asked uncertainly, "Could it be that the Shang people wanted to use this natural disaster to slaughter all the Zhou people, occupy their old land, and restore the Shang Dynasty?"

These two people are disciples of the Yuding Immortal Sect. Whenever there is a major disaster, the Yuding Immortal Sect will send its disciples down the mountain to practice in the secular world and accumulate merits.

The Yuding Immortal Sect is renowned for its alchemy and medical skills. In years of great disasters, epidemics are often rampant. The disciples carry talismans, elixirs, and medicines with them, and use them to cast talismans and give elixirs to treat all living beings.

This seems to be a very righteous style of the Xuanmen Sect, and it shows the noble character of the disciples of the Jade Ding Immortal Sect. However, Wen Rui, who has always been willing to speculate on the immortals with the deepest malice, has conducted an in-depth investigation and discovered many dark secrets from this sect's public welfare activities that are highly praised by the people.

For example, there is a serious double standard among the disciples of the Yuding Immortal Sect in their treatment of princes and nobles and common people. The nobles are given elixirs, while the common people are only given talisman water.

Moreover, many of the disciples who came down from the mountains were not at a high level and their skills were not very sophisticated. At best, they were just interns who could just practice on sick civilians. Even if a medical accident occurred, they would not have to bear any responsibility.

These were actually small matters. The biggest piece of information that Wen Rui dug out was that after the Jade Ding Immortal Sect developed new elixir formulas and new healing spells, they were troubled by a lack of volunteers for clinical trials. The medical activities during the year of the disaster became the best opportunity to experiment with new drugs.

Many disciples who went down the mountain to gain experience had drug-testing tasks assigned by their respective masters. They would record in detail the various physiological reactions of people who took the new elixir, and accumulate data for subsequent improvements to the elixir formula.

Wen Rui arranged for AI to conduct tracking statistics, and the final result was that the death rate caused by the Yuding Immortal Sect's drug testing was basically the same as the mortality rate of the victims who did not receive treatment. In other words, their doctors' benevolence was in vain, and it did not improve the survival rate of the victims at all.

It is a bit like the famous doctor Ping Yizhi who kills people. To save one person, one has to be killed, which maintains the balance between merit and karma very well.

But the deceived people will not see the true nature of the medical relief actions such as those of Yuding Xianzong.

In the eyes of the common people, all the immortals of the Yuding Immortal Sect are living Bodhisattvas, and the Yuding Immortal Sect is also the most reputable among the six major immortal sects of the Chan Sect.

Although Wen Rui had already obtained the dirty information of Yuding Xianzong, he had never considered exposing it and revealing their hypocritical faces.

After all, all crows are black, and the Chamber of Commerce, which is full of dishonest businessmen, has done many dishonest things in the past five hundred years. We cannot stand on the moral high ground and feel at ease to criticize others.

The purpose of holding on to these negative materials is just to use them as a means to attack and discredit the Yuding Immortal Sect when necessary in the future.

Considering that the business cooperation between the Chamber of Commerce and the Yuding Immortal Sect has been very harmonious for so many years, everyone has been cheating together, making black money together, colluding with each other, and the dirty work has been kept secret.

"what should we do?"

The female disciple of Yuding Xianzong was at a loss, and said in a trembling voice: "We can't just sit there and watch the Chamber of Commerce slaughter the common people, we must stop their evil deeds!"

As she spoke, the female disciple seemed to have thought of something, tears streaming down her cheeks: "Just now, a child who was cured by me ran to the square with great expectations, saying that he had nothing to repay us, and wanted to ask for a bowl of water to thank us, but he was tragically killed by the gun of the Chamber of Commerce's metal puppet, and not a single bone was left!"

A large organization cannot be composed entirely of bad people. There are always some young people who are still too young, and the ray of human sunshine in their hearts has not been extinguished by a long career of cultivation.

This female disciple, who had only been a disciple for a short time, was obviously one of these naive girls.

"If you hadn't stopped me, I would have rushed out to fight them!"

"Junior Sister Jin, if you want to die, don't drag me down with you! Just now, we were almost killed because of your impulse!"

Her senior brother, who looked like a decent male protagonist, had a gloomy expression on his face. He slapped the female cultivator on the face without mercy, causing her to spin around. He said in a harsh voice, "Last time, when I went to Liberty City with Master and his uncle to do some work, one of our uncles got drunk and caused trouble. We, a group of cultivators at the highest level of Mahayana, were suppressed by two policemen from the Liberty City Street Police Station. We were completely powerless to fight back. It was only later that the sect master heard the news and rushed over to pay a large sum of money to bail us out."

(End of this chapter)