Recycle…
This word sounds very uncomfortable, as if the child found by He Yanhui is not a human being in the eyes of the NPC, but an object.
“What is recycling?”
The NPC explained: "Children are gifts bestowed upon us by the loving gods, but the gods are very busy, so the job of selecting gifts is left to the gods' servants. Occasionally, the gods' servants make mistakes in their work and give us gifts that they shouldn't have. In such cases, they will be responsible for collecting these gifts that shouldn't have appeared."
He Yanhui couldn't help but frown, intuitively feeling that what he said seemed a little scary.
The baby was still crying, and the players did not continue to question him. The most urgent priority was to find the child's parents first.
Originally, He Yanhui and the others thought that finding the child's parents should be a very simple matter.
Qiming City is a city of faith. The gods take on the responsibilities of administrators, and it stands to reason that they must have corresponding records of the city's residents moving, getting married, and having children.
But what the players didn't expect was that they did find a "file" in the Tower of Gods, but the file contained columns of numbers that they couldn't understand.
"What do these numbers mean?" No one understood.
However, Zhang Daoan took a glance at them when he passed by behind them.
"The number of people."
The players hurriedly lowered their heads to study it, not understanding how he figured it out. Zhang Daoan had already left this sentence and disappeared quietly.
"Whatever. Since we can't find the information we want inside the Shenju Tower, we might as well ask the nearby residents directly."
Having said this, He Yanhui brought the child in her arms and several players back to the place where they found him.
This place is close to the city wall and is quite remote. Although the entire Qiming City does not seem to be wealthy, this area must be the least wealthy place.
After arriving, the players easily asked about the child's family situation.
There was a couple living in this house. They were both very poor. The man drank and beat people all day long, and he blinded the mistress. One night, the man drank too much and accidentally fell on his head and died. It was inconvenient for the blind mistress to take care of the child, but the gods brought good news that she had found her next marriage.
So under the "guidance of God", she left her child and married a new husband.
When the neighbors told the gods about this hostess, they were actually very envious.
"God sympathized with her difficult life and allowed her to have a new marriage. Her current husband lives near the God's Tower and is a famous wealthy man."
He Yanhui and the others looked at each other, thinking it was ridiculous.
"Shall we go back and look for that poor mistress?"
"Walk."
Several people returned without stopping.
It was already time for lunch, and the players followed the clues given by the neighbors and quickly found this "enviable" blind girl.
When the smell of food came from every household, the blind woman was sitting at the door of her house, skinny as a bag of bones, groping at the clothes in her hands.
Her new husband was said to be a famous rich man, but in fact, in Qiming City, except for the gods, the living standards of other residents were not much different, and they all looked very poor. But despite the poverty, the blind girl who had experienced all this seemed to have a happy expression on her face.
When He Yanhui and others walked up to her and revealed their identities, the blind girl quickly stood up.
"God's favor."
The child in He Yanhui's arms saw his mother, tried hard to stretch out his hand to her, and made an ambiguous "ah" sound from his mouth.
The blind girl recognized the voice as her child's, but pretended not to hear it.
He Yanhui held the child in her arms, and the child twisted his body and tried to open his arms to his biological mother, but the blind girl remained unmoved. This scene made people feel somewhat uncomfortable.
"This is your child, you just don't want him anymore?"
The blind girl was stunned.
"My Lord, this is the guidance God has given me." She said, "The gift God has given me is not suitable for me. He will give me a new gift again."
"Children are not gifts!" He Yanhui was a little angry.
Children are human beings, not objects, and they are both recycled and given. Are these residents crazy for believing in God
The player next to her gently pulled her sleeve, as if he understood something.
The blind girl stood there at a loss, somewhat bewildered by He Yanhui's words.
Just then, her newly-married husband heard the noise and came out of the house.
When he saw the players, the man immediately came over with a smile on his face.
"God's favor."
He looked young, as if he had just reached adulthood, a few years younger than the blind girl, and had a handsome appearance. The couple seemed very mismatched standing together.
The player next to He Yanhui greeted him with a smile, then took He Yanhui away from the residence.
"Xiao Hui, something's wrong."
When they got to a deserted place, they gathered together. He Yanhui's companion immediately spoke up: "We discussed this before. For some reason, there are no elderly people in the city, and they don't know what 'elderly' means. I observed more on the way today... Every household has children, but I didn't see a pregnant woman, and each family only has one child."
The companion hesitated and said, "So I wonder... could the 'gift from God' they mentioned really be a 'gift from God'? The child was not born after the mother carried the baby for ten months?"
In fact, as early as the first day of searching for the Sons of God, everyone felt something was a little strange.
This kind of search for the Son of God and taking away the found Son of God may make the Son of God's parents reluctant to let him go, after all, this is their child.
But no one expected that after finding the Son of God, as soon as the players said "This is the Son of God", the children's parents happily pushed their children to the players.
Why? If children are truly a "gift from God," what does recycling mean
With such doubts in their minds, everyone could only take the child back to the Shenju Tower.
At noon, the other players were eating.
The atmosphere among players now is very different from before. Everyone is eating and praising the gods at the same time.
In the morning, everyone helped many residents of Qiming City who were in need, received their thanks, and gained a lot of divine power. Everyone felt that they had a deeper connection with the gods.
He Yanhui held the strange child in her arms. Although this was not her child, her maternal instinct made her somewhat disgusted with such a scene.
This... looks like a happy scene, but in fact it seems to be hiding countless terrifying "truths".
The child in her arms cried for a while and then fell asleep in her arms tiredly.
He Yanhui held the child in her arms, looking somewhat confused.
She seemed to be split into two. One side kept telling her in her mind how good the gods were. The gods gave her a beautiful dream, in which she saw her child again and had a brief moment of happiness. Then they gave her so many skills and props that she had more confidence to survive in this game in exchange for the opportunity to return to the world in the future.
But the heavy child in her arms seemed to indicate to her that something was wrong with this god.
She felt that she should not question God, but were the people of Qiming City really happy
Zhang Daoan glanced at her.
Xie Fangcheng sat next to him, full of doubts.
When Zhang Daoan said "wait", Jie Fangcheng originally thought that this "wait" was just an adjective, and they had to do something while waiting.
The result is no.
In the morning, Jie Fangcheng realized his dream. He lay in bed like a salted fish for the whole morning. Zhang Daoan didn't even know how he borrowed a computer from a member of the Death God Guild for him to play Minesweeper. He also left him a bunch of snacks such as French fries and Coke that he didn't know how to get, so that he could experience the joy of being a otaku in the dungeon.
However, although Jie Fangcheng was confused, he still remembered what Zhang Daoan said, that this copy was probably under the surveillance of Ji Chaoyang.
So Manager Xie suppressed his doubts and just moved closer to Zhang Daoan.
"Hey, do you want to come to my room again tonight?"
From the corner of his eye, Zhang Daoan saw Qi Chanyang's hand that was eating suddenly stop.
He smiled: "Okay."
Jie Fangcheng scratched his head.
Because all the servants of the gods were dead, at the suggestion of Zhang Daoan, everyone found a number of resident NPCs to take over the work of the former servants of the gods, such as cooking, cleaning and so on.
Moreover, Zhang Daoan spoke very lovingly.
"If we want to find someone, we should look for those whose lives are a little harder. After they finish their work, we can give them some compensation so that their lives can be improved."
The NPCs are all very obedient and work very hard, and the players are very satisfied with the rewards they receive.
Anyway, there isn’t much else in the Tower of Gods, but there is a lot of money.
From the outside, this tower doesn't look very special, it just looks very holy. But once you enter the tower, you will find that it is extremely luxurious.
The floor was silvery and looked like it was made of silver. The walls were inlaid with large gemstones, the hanging chandeliers were exquisitely crafted, and even the candlesticks were more exquisite than those in the temple.
The warehouse is always full, and the gods' servants are very hardworking. They replenish a batch of fresh ingredients every three days and throw away the old ones.
Now that the gods' servants are all dead, and also at the initiative of Zhang Daoan, the food in the warehouse is not wasted as before, but is given to the NPCs after they come to help.
The NPCs all looked grateful, and many of them wanted to kneel down in front of the players while holding food.
This kind of gratitude makes many players feel very useful.
"This dungeon is so great!" a player said with emotion, "Qiming City is really a paradise!"
Hearing this, Zhang Daoan just smiled sarcastically.
However, Qi Chanyang vaguely understood the purpose of his doing these things.
Is Qiming City a paradise
Under the premise that most of the residents in the city are so poor that they are starving, what qualifications do the people in the tower have to think that this is a paradise, as it was built by sucking the blood of the entire city's people
In the past, when the gods were there, the city residents were not allowed to enter the God's Tower, or even stay near the tower. But now, a rescue point has been set up in front of the tower, and NPCs have been recruited to work directly in the tower. All the city residents have the opportunity to visit the tower.
When the residents of the city gradually discover that the lives of the "god's followers" in this tower are so different from their own...will they still willingly support this "benevolent" god
(End of this chapter)