Chapter 114: Advice from the Gods

From Chen Zhi's perspective, these players are truly diligent and conscientious.

Especially this batch of newly recruited players; they are clearly more well-behaved than the first group, or perhaps it is because his own guidance has been better—in any case, they are not as flighty as before.

Although there are occasionally one or two who are different, when it comes to doing tasks, these guys are truly even more useful than people hired for the job.

After a whole morning passed, the players had managed to build the kiln for charcoal burning, and in the process of letting it dry, they also chopped down over a hundred trees.

Just how enthusiastic are they about working?

They fight to do the work; even though there aren't many axes, everyone has held one, every brick and stone has the players' hard work in it, and every player's head is covered in mud.

This is only possible in a virtual world; even without wages, these players are willing to put in the effort.

As expected, these little players are much better than the employees in the company. Originally, the task of reading books was supposed to be handed to the company's internal staff, but after testing it again, those employees tried to pass this work off to others.

And he still had to pay them wages.

Setting that aside, Chen Zhi shifted his perspective, looking at the players from the viewpoint of Zhongshan Laoren.

Some players were carrying firewood and stacking it into the furnace, while others were choked by the smoke; after all, it had only been drying for a day, so it wasn't just a matter of it not being dry—it produced a large amount of thick smoke when burned.

"Maintain the temperature; we need a high heat of over 900°C. Burning it like this definitely won't work," Lin Chen said, feeling a bit anxious. "We need to raise the temperature inside the furnace first."

"Listen to Lin Chen; he does science popularization. Follow the method discussed on the forum earlier," Zhongshan Laoren said, making the final decision. "This game is a completely realistic game; we can't just take shortcuts as we please. What needs to be done must be done."

Consequently, the players had to use various tools to rake out the smoking firewood and start the kiln firing all over again.

The kiln was also newly built and still very damp inside; not only could the temperature not be raised for the time being, but the mud used on the outside for reinforcement was also falling off.

The scene was quite chaotic. Chen Zhi switched through several perspectives and felt he should rest for a while and stop worrying about those players.

After all, practice makes perfect; besides, these players can go offline to find people for guidance. They will surely be able to refine it if they spend more time. Spending so much time observing, other than giving himself a headache, has no other benefits.

So, Chen Zhi shifted his perspective to the present.

Saina was bringing her subordinate, Evans, to provide the latest news from Tana City.

The Wealth Church has indeed been shrinking its sphere of influence recently, even withdrawing its personnel from the noble districts, with more people being invested in commodity operations.

They seem to be planning to squeeze out the last bit of utility from Tana, and everyone seems to be doing this, which is causing Evans, who serves as Saina's butler, a great deal of trouble.

"These guys like to use their skills, especially against the nobles," Evans said with a headache. "I hope you can provide us with some help."

"What skills?" In Chen Zhi's understanding, isn't the Wealth Church just a group of gamblers?

By relying on the status of a Child of Luck, they can earn a large sum of money, with the only cost being that they cannot earn big money for a period of time.

But if they gamble well, they can just happen to earn a large sum, and even if they don't earn much afterward, it doesn't affect them much.

They can actually use skills to target nobles?

"The skill of Qi Luck doesn't just affect themselves; it can also affect others. They will absorb our Qi Luck, and sometimes the affected people sign agreements without even thinking," Evans shook his head. "I even almost got affected myself."

It seems Evans still has some ability after awakening; he didn't expect the influence of Qi Luck to be this great.

However, it could also be because Evans's luck has been truly terrible lately; one could even say that the luck of all the nobles in Tana City has been truly terrible recently, with almost every prominent noble suffering heavy losses.

Now that the nobles have large amounts of Tana hoarded at home, who doesn't want to exchange it for Xide quickly? As long as the Wealth Church exploits their urgent mentality, they can naturally make them pay a higher price.

For example, signing some material supply agreements, especially regarding grain, or having the nobles sign some procurement agreements.

In short, it is impossible for the Wealth Church to exchange large amounts of Tana casually; they can completely claim that they don't have that much Xide to exchange.

Chen Zhi doesn't understand these things either, but thinking about it, Andrew directly submitted all the stored Xide to the Wealth Church to purchase ore; it stands to reason that he was also affected by someone using a skill.

At the very least, the other party would have absorbed his wealth luck.

The good thing is that the other party only absorbed Andrew's wealth luck, not the players' wealth luck.

He believes those players will solve the problem.

"I can give you a few Misfortune Charms; this should be able to affect their performance, but you also need some good luck," Chen Zhi thought for a moment. "You can consider finding other sects to perform some luck recovery."

This is the best method Chen Zhi can think of.

Evans gave a helpless smile, "Uh, we are all your Believers."

"No need to be so formal. Although I don't know who can perform Purification on the bad luck you carry, it's still better than me," Chen Zhi said with self-awareness. "Whether you go to find Wisdom or the Sun Church, I think it will make the Wealth Church realize that they might have done something wrong."

Chen Zhi was only offering a kind reminder; these nobles still don't realize what the churches have actually been doing, let alone that they are competing for faith.

After all, the nobles of Tana City are ostensibly Believers of the Wealth Church, but in reality, they don't believe in anything at all—they only believe in themselves.

Regarding Transcendental Power, most of them have no reverence for it either. Just look at the fact that the Saina Family is willing to hire an extraordinary person with theft abilities for her; it shows that the nobles only care about whether there is profit for themselves and don't care at all whether the other party's Transcendental Power is legitimate.

Leaving the Sewers, Saina said to Evans: "I have to say, there is some truth to living a long time. We never considered the issue of sect strife before. I think we can go find the Sun God Cult or the Wisdom Church, and then go have a good talk with those people from the Wealth Church."

"Does this matter not require the Governor to step in?" Evans offered another line of thought.

If one wants to elevate the Governor's reputation to a higher level, then naturally, one should tell the Governor this good news.

In this way, the actions of Saina and Evans would not be considered very abrupt, nor would they make the Wealth Church resentful.

As long as the Governor has no resistance to this matter, it will be fine.

(End of chapter)