Chapter 247

Even with bodily pain, even with low spirits, she still does her own work properly.

Roughly speaking.

Morale determines the upper limit of work.

Loyalty determines the lower limit of work.

Right now those women's loyalty and morale are both very high, they're working their tails off — that's the best proof.

Eyes glance downward.

Notices several group chats have exploded with messages again.

Zhao Chi taps open the class private group.

Finds everyone discussing the rebels, and the issue of magical beast quotas.

Looks like those nobles have already contacted their respective families.

Besides that, the latest few messages catch Zhao Chi's attention.

Li Xun 【Holy shit! Did you see? You Yu is dead】

Kong Xiang 【Who? You Yu?】

Yin Lan 【The one from Class 2?】

Sun Quan 【Who said that?】

Li Xun 【Yeah, Class 2's You Yu, don't you guys look at the year-wide group? Everyone's going crazy discussing it】

Yu Wang 【I've been watching the whole time, too tragic】

Zhao Chi frowns, immediately tapping open the year-wide private group.

The messages inside are extremely numerous.

They really are all discussing You Yu, but it's too scattered, hard to piece together what actually happened.

Fortunately Li Xun has already started explaining.

Shi Juan 【The year group info is too messy, Li Xun you tell us】

Sun Quan 【Yeah, I only found scattered bits too, Li Xun help us forward it】

Li Xun:

【The year group has over a thousand messages already covered, I'm too lazy to dig through them, I'll just tell you directly】

【Didn't those nobles from District 7 send people today to search for those resisters? You should've all seen it, right?】

【When those soldiers were searching, their hands got fresh — whenever they saw a woman they'd grope her on purpose】

【When they got to You Yu, she dodged a few times, which made that soldier furious, so he started groping her in a humiliating way】

【You Yu couldn't hold back, when she pushed the soldier's hand away her movement was too big and she slapped him right across the face】

【That was it — in the soldier's eyes, that was a slap to his face】

【The noble nearby saw You Yu dare to lay hands on a soldier, so they arrested her entire family】

【You Yu was pushed to the wall, had no choice, and forcibly summoned her territory's soldiers and heroes】

【That act was judged as rebellion on the spot by that noble, and she was executed immediately...】

Yang Xiong 【Holy shit!】

Sun Quan 【Executed on the spot?】

Lu Yi 【No way? You Yu was so outstanding, and she just died like that?】

Yin Lan 【We think she's outstanding, but in the nobles' eyes she's just a blade of grass】

Tan Wei 【Dying like that is actually fine, at least it's much better than those nobles dragging her back — at least she died quick, saved herself from torture】

Lu Yi 【Your way of putting it... sigh, I actually agree with you, but it just feels so... so fucking...!】

Lu Yi couldn't hold back and cursed either.

Not for You Yu's sake, but for this kind of thing.

Yang Xiong 【Fuck, Class 2's You Yu was so strong, she's been on the rankings this whole test, what a waste】

Kong Xiang 【Yeah, You Yu's family wasn't well-off either, a commoner who finally worked her way up, just gone like that】

Zheng He 【Couldn't she just endure it? So what if they groped her, is that more important than her life?】

Yin Lan 【There's always a moment you can't hold back, are incidents like this really that rare?】

Shi Juan 【You Yu was executed on the spot? In front of her parents? Her parents must be completely broken, right?】

Li Xun 【Broken? The parents were executed too】

Yang Xiong 【Holy shit!】

Yu Wang 【Fuck! Shit!】

Kong Xiang 【What? Shit!】

Li Xun 【Lucky her family was scattered households, if it was a clan, the Meizhun Society might've dragged the whole clan down with her】

Shi Juan 【Sigh, they always propagandize those resisters as rioters, but I can really understand them — I even want to resist myself】

Zhao Chi is stunned — Shi Juan actually said that?

He immediately sends a voice message:

Zhao Chi 【Shi Juan! Recall it quick】

Lu Yi 【Recall it! Shi Juan, don't talk nonsense in the group!】

Yang Xiong 【Be careful!】

Cao Feng 【Shi Juan, are you insane? Recall that fucking thing right now!】

【Shi Juan has recalled the message】

Shi Juan 【Should be fine, right? Those nobles shouldn't be monitoring the group】

Cao Feng: 【Damn it, if anyone screenshots this, you're finished.】

Shi Juan: 【The people in our class probably wouldn't, right?】

Yang Xiong: 【Cursing the nobles is no big deal, but if you dare sympathize with the rebels, or even show rebellious sentiment, you know what happens, don't you?】

Shi Juan: 【Sigh, I know. Thanks, everyone.】

If it's just the usual complaining in the group chat, or even cursing the nobles, it's not a big problem.

As long as you don't curse them to their face, those nobles can't be bothered to care.

Besides, this also lets the commoners vent their grievances, which actually has a positive effect.

After all, once the commoners finish cursing, they still have to go back to work and keep paying hefty extra taxes.

But if you dare get tangled up with rebellion, then the problem gets serious.

The crime of rebellion carries an extremely heavy penalty.

Basically, it's a death sentence.

Zhao Chi went back into the grade-wide group chat and searched for a long time, confirming that, just as Li Xun had said, You Yu's entire family had been killed.

The news had been posted by several people from their same village.

It was most likely true.

Actually, what Shi Juan had just said wasn't wrong.

Many of these nobles' practices really do make people want to rebel.

But those nobles are far too powerful.

It's not just that they themselves are strong — the strength of their territories is even greater.

Seventy percent of the massive magical-beast invasions from beyond the walls are wiped out by those nobles.

And those nobles only make up about five percent of the total population.

Five percent of the population, wiping out seventy percent of the magical beasts.

With that kind of strength, the commoners simply can't resist.

And if those nobles were gone, who would deal with the seventy percent of magical beasts left over?

If that gap can't be filled, then probably no one would survive.

The commoners resent the nobles, but they have to rely on them.

That feeling… is just fucked up.

Zhao Chi didn't know how to judge it either.

In any case, right now he only had one path — forever only one path.

And that was to improve himself.

To desperately improve the strength of both himself and his territory.