On April 24, 2042, everyone on Blue Star was suddenly teleported to an unknown place.
Everyone was horrified to find themselves on a single raft in the boundless ocean. Suddenly, an ethereal ...
As Chen Ping delved deeper into this simulated world, he realized that the environment here was different from the previous scenes. The characters here were no longer expressions of simple emotions, but rather exhibited complex personality traits, just like ordinary people in the real world.
The nobles not only displayed arrogance but also greed, vying for power, status, and wealth on various occasions, even including their desire for beautiful women.
Chen Ping was witnessing a farce of nobles forcibly abducting commoner women. He frowned slightly, marveling at the intricate structure of this world. This scene not only reflected arrogance but also vividly demonstrated the existence of the original sin of greed.
At the same time, Chen Ping speculated that, given the richness and diversity of this world, there may be other seven deadly sins, such as sloth, which may be lurking within it, manifesting itself in a more subtle way.
Of course, sloth may not be present here, but greed is definitely there. It's normal for an arrogant and greedy nobleman. Moreover, the other seven deadly sins that Chen Ping sealed away are also more or less manifested here.
It's just that arrogance and greed are the only things that matter on their home turf.
During his travels in the quarantine zone, Chen Ping gradually came to understand the different ways the Seven Deadly Sins manifested in this world. Indeed, pride and greed were the most prominent characteristics of this area. Many nobles, due to their status and resources, often exhibited arrogant and insatiable traits.
However, he also realized that the other seven deadly sins that he had sealed away also existed here in different forms.
While arrogance might be less noticeable in the slums, greed was rampant. Chen Ping witnessed many ordinary people risking their lives to smuggle themselves across the border in their quest for survival and a better life, only to be met with merciless punishment.
He also witnessed the scenes of nobles oppressing commoners and seizing their property, and among the common people, greed was sometimes displayed even more blatantly and intensely.
Because commoners live in poverty and have nothing, once they encounter an opportunity to change their situation, they often pursue material interests more relentlessly than nobles, because they yearn to possess everything to make up for the scarcity and hardship of their lives.
The common people have nothing, and if given the chance, they would certainly want everything.
This peculiar rule ignited intense desire and greed in the people in Chen Ping's situation. It meant that any commoner who could quietly enter the noble district could immediately rise to the rank of noble, enjoying a range of privileges and benefits, such as owning property, having servants, and even receiving a knight as a protector—these were the basic requirements for becoming even the lowest-ranking noble.
For commoners, such a leap is undoubtedly a huge temptation. The transformation from having nothing to having the status and position of a nobleman greatly stimulates their greed.
Chen Ping believes that in commoner communities, people's greed for opportunities to climb from the bottom up may be stronger than that of nobles. This is because, in the minds of commoners, the "0 to 1" breakthrough from poverty to wealth and from the bottom to the upper class is far more attractive than the promotion between noble levels.
Furthermore, such a system also hints at the class contradictions and tests of humanity that exist in this world. For those who yearn to change their fate, this rule is both a ray of hope and a nightmare, depending on whether they can resist the corruption of the seven deadly sins, especially greed, while acquiring power and wealth.
Although it's completely impossible, since this scenario is primarily driven by arrogance and greed.
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After looking around the working-class area, I found that basically every working-class family was in a similar situation, with many discrepancies. For example, the food on the table was exactly the same in a one-person household as in a household with seven or eight people.
It seems there are some details that weren't handled properly.
Finally, Chen Ping walked around the outermost part of the town. Soon, there wasn't even a doorway; it was a completely closed-off town, another obvious flaw.
After observing for a while, Chen Ping couldn't tell whether Greed was in the commoners' area or not, so he decided to go to the nobles' area to investigate.
Chen Ping quickly toured the noble area. The noble area was much larger than the commoner area, but there were fewer people in it, so it took much less time.
Chen Ping looked at the arrogance before him and shook his head inwardly, sighing that arrogance was indeed arrogance, making absolutely no attempt to conceal itself. Since he had stepped into this area, arrogance's presence had been extremely strong, as if the words "I am arrogance" were written directly on its face.
Especially since this is just the basic version of arrogance, his words and actions reveal an undisguised stupidity and straightforwardness, and it is not surprising that he does anything that is both laughable and absurd.
What Chen Ping didn't expect was that Arrogance not only acted arrogantly, but also inadvertently revealed his greed and laziness. He had only asked a casual question, and Arrogance had already smugly betrayed his two "teammates."
Looking at Aoman's smug expression, Chen Ping silently applauded him in his heart, thinking, "What an excellent teammate! He let me grasp more information so easily."
Pride is probably the second easiest of the Seven Deadly Sins to seal; you just need to defeat him personally.
For Chen Ping, this was a simple matter, so arrogance immediately joined the family of lust and gluttony.
After dealing with arrogance, Chen Ping ran straight to the quarantine zone, where greed was at play. In fact, thinking about it, greed was much better here than in the commoners' or nobles' areas.
The quarantine zone is a place where one step can lead to heaven or hell, so greed is understandable here.
Chen Ping quickly found Greed. That's right, Greed is the captain of the Knights in charge of the quarantine zone. He had seen him enforce the law a few times before, but he was completely unaware of it. If it weren't for Arrogance, he probably would have noticed the quarantine zone at the very end.
After finding the target, Chen Ping successfully sealed it while Greed was completely bewildered.
Having overcome greed, there's only one more to overcome. Once we conquer sloth, the trial of the Seven Deadly Sins will be perfectly completed.
According to the clues provided by Arrogance, Laziness is in the commoners' area, and he is the only commoner there. Chen Ping had also been paying attention to this guy. In the entire commoners' area, only his family lives alone. The other commoners all live in groups of three, four, or five.
Thinking of this, Chen Ping couldn't help but twitch his lips. It turned out he had missed them all. If it weren't for his arrogance, he felt he would have been trapped for a while.
Shaking his head, Chen Ping smoothly arrived at Lazy's side. Without even a fight, Lazy, lying flat, watched helplessly as he was sealed without moving an inch.