NOVPUBChapter 90: Chapter 89 Sudden Warning
Chapter 90 -89 Sudden Warning
From the beginning, this wasn’t a bad thing; its original intent was to share and redistribute the medical costs among participants, effectively reducing the burden on patients and safeguarding the rights of the poor communities.
The problem lay in how perfectly it fit with greed, which could easily lead to a metaphorical ‘stepping on the left foot with the right foot, then stepping on the right foot with the left,’ spiraling upwards until it ballooned out of control.
If it came to that, in an Angel’s eyes, it would surely be considered evil.
However, Chaoyang wasn’t too worried about the rapid expansion of both elements—because the pursuit of profit is the nature of capital, and what he pursued was wishing power. Without the greed of capital, there naturally wouldn’t be the original sin of capital.
Moreover, the medical corporations would most likely be operated by players, and the economic benefits here were non-transferable with Earth, plus he could kick out players at any time, so it was a triple insurance.
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After sending Jenny back to the cathedral, Chaoyang also planned to return to Emerald Street, when he suddenly heard a burst of enthusiastic noise from the street corner.
Chaoyang lifted the carriage curtain to look outside. He saw seven or eight people being escorted by the city guards toward the street corner, where a row of black gallows stood erected.
On both sides of the gallows stood many onlookers, their faces filled with joy and excitement, cheering for the city guards.
If he listened carefully, he could even faintly make out what these people were shouting.
“… Hang these heretics!”
“Shorten the ropes a bit… don’t let them die so quickly!”
“What’s happening? Are those people criminals?” Ailuodi asked, puzzled.
“No, they are heretics,” Dane replied, “It has been all over the newspapers recently—the Guard Squad combined with the company’s security team to carry out a comprehensive crackdown on the secret heretical organizations outside the city, capturing almost two to three hundred people in the process.”
“That many?” Chaoyang was slightly surprised; no wonder he had seen several public executions recently, “They hadn’t noticed these people before?”
“Uh…” Dane involuntarily glanced at Ailuodi, also known as “Miss Fiend.”
“It’s okay, she’s not related to the heretical cult, she’s another kind of evil follower,” Chaoyang immediately said, “You can speak freely.”
Ailuodi turned her head away, no longer wanting to pay him any attention.
“Although I haven’t been to Jeddy Brothers News anymore, I still have some friends willing to provide me with information. According to them, only a small part of those captured are actual heretics, maybe just two or three people. The majority of those arrested are from the mines… that is, the Huiqiu Mine controlled by the Gaotian Company,” Dane said.
This was the first time Chaoyang heard this news, “Why are they executing miners?”
And it’s the Gaotian Mining Company again.
Plus, the previous Chief of the Northern City Police Station had also privately built a Black Prison, imprisoning and killing miners in an inhumane manner. Were they having a grudge against miners?
Whether these people were employed by them or bought as slaves, they should still count as company assets, and it made no sense to waste them arbitrarily.
“Well… the company says that there was a rebellion of escaping miners, and these people were involved,” Dane explained.
“…” Chaoyang suddenly sensed something was amiss, “How did they rebel?”
“They robbed a train.”
“Cough cough—” He couldn’t help but choke, “What?”
“The newspapers all attributed the train robbery to the heretics, and those who collaborated with the heretics to take action were from an organization secretly formed by the escaping miners,” Dane said honestly, “That day you were traveling through the mist all the time, and since we took the sea route, you might not have noticed, but that night, there was a very strong tidal change in the mist. The bells that rang that night were warning that the Misty Zone was approaching.”
Chaoyang thought for a moment; it seemed there was such an incident that day…
But after he got the money, he left this world and re-entered only after two days. Then he busied himself with recasting gold coins, summoning Qianyuan Meiko and others back to the game, completely forgetting about the bell ringing.
“So these people are because of us…” Ailuodi’s eyes showed a trace of compassion.
“It’s not necessarily because of that,” Dane quickly corrected, “They were indeed planning to do something against the Gaotian Mining Company. They had hidden a lot of explosives in an abandoned mining area and also made quite a few firearms on the sly. I heard that the company’s guard squad also suffered considerable casualties in this crackdown. If it wasn’t for the city guards stepping in, the company would have had a tough time.”
“Is that so?” Ailuodi closed her eyes, clasping her hands in front of her chest, “They are honorable and brave fighters.”
The reporter looked up at Chaoyang with a profoundly admiring gaze, making the latter bristle.
Obviously, in Dane’s eyes, a Fiend praying for miners who were complete strangers was undoubtedly a miracle that only the Paradise Master could perform.
Chaoyang naturally understood what the Angel had in mind.
Ailuodi harbored a deep hostility and rejection towards the company, and the Skeleton Hand she formed was essentially an underground organization that couldn’t withstand the light of day. It wouldn’t be a surprise if the French police nabbed them all one day. Seeing the miners who dared to stand up against GaoTian Mining being executed probably made her feel a shared sense of threat.
Or rather, her not leaping out of the carriage to save them was already quite restrained.
“Do you think I should have leaped out to save them?” Ailuodi glanced sideways, then communicated with her mind.
“You could tell?” Chaoyang drawled, “Well, let me ask… why didn’t you?”
“Because all of this is based on what I heard from others, not confirmed with my own eyes. Of course… if I had the power to eradicate GaoTian Mining, I would be very willing to do so—because I have already witnessed its evil.”
“Oh—?” Chaoyang purposefully stretched out his tone, “That’s not what you said the first time we met, you believed that demons were all evil without having seen one.”
Ailuodi fell silent for a long time, just as he thought she wouldn’t pick up the topic again, she suddenly said, “That’s correct, I learned this from you.”
Chaoyang raised his eyebrows slightly, taken aback. This person… was she admitting her mistake?
“You indeed changed my understanding of demons. After all, in the knowledge I acquired, awakeners who obtained the deceitful power of demons, in the end, all—”
She was cut off mid-sentence as the carriage suddenly shook violently!
There was a neighing of horses from the front.
Immediately, Ailuodi leaned towards Chaoyang, shielding him behind her, while in her other hand a howling wind began to form.
“What’s going on?” Dane asked loudly towards the front.
“A horse collided with us!” the coachman answered irately, “That idiot, daring to ride a horse while drunk, he’s not afraid of falling to his death!”
As they spoke, the carriage curtain was quietly lifted, and a note fluttered in.
Chaoyang and Ailuodi exchanged a look and, in unison, opened the curtain to peer outside.
They saw many pedestrians on both sides of the street, but they couldn’t find a single suspicious figure in front of or behind the carriage.
Seeing that their search was fruitless, Chaoyang bent down to pick up the note and unfolded it to have a look.
There was only one sentence on it.
“They are looking for Judy. Tell her to run fast.”
Chaoyang’s expression couldn’t help but change!
“What’s wrong?” Dane noticed the change in the Divine Envoy’s expression.
Chaoyang passed the note to the reporter, “Where is Judy now?”
After reading it, the reporter also became extremely alarmed, “I-I’ll think… She planned to stop by Jeddy brothers’ today, but she wouldn’t go upstairs, just to hand over what she wrote to the newsboy. Afterward, she should be going back to my place… 375 Oak Street!”
“Who are ‘they’?” Ailuodi asked.
“Who knows, but now’s not the time to worry about that; we need to hurry to Oak Street to warn Judy—” Chaoyang suddenly stopped mid-sentence.
What if this too was a trap?
He was currently operating in his original form, and although he had an Angel as a bodyguard, he might not be well-protected if he was specifically targeted.
“Your Highness Chaoyang, let me go!” Dane immediately understood the crux of the issue, “Just get me to the next street over!”
But neither Dane nor Judy were people Chaoyang wanted to see come to harm; their wishing power was now closely related to him, and they were also the people with whom he had the deepest connections since arriving in this other world.
Wait… wishing power closely related?
Chaoyang activated his vision, staring at the thread as thin as a spider’s silk above Dane’s head, an idea suddenly dawning on him.
Although there was no contract binding them anymore, they were not completely disconnected.
Could he possibly use this line of wishing power to convey a message to Judy?
