Chapter 449: Striving to Achieve the KPI (Twenty-Nine) [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

Public opinion is a good thing.

It is also a knife that kills without drawing blood.

The methods of public opinion in this era are limited to crude means such as fabricating folk songs and hiding messages inside fish bellies. These are methods used by those in power to fool and control people's hearts, but that's all. They haven't explored the various uses of public opinion in depth...

But Chen Tang is different.

She has a hundred and eighty ideas in her mind.

The Ten Crows were precisely the place to test her theories and put them into practice. By combining public opinion with belief myths, it was no wonder that a bottom-up storm could be stirred up.

After emptying a tribe's long-accumulated granary, Shen Tang ordered the refugee chief to distribute enough food and winter supplies to each refugee, and also held a small celebration.

Shiwu was skilled in archery, horsemanship, and horseback riding, and was also good at singing and dancing.

Watching the old and young singing and dancing around the campfire, Shen Tang's gaze deepened. Seeing that his lord showed no intention of joining in, Gu Chi asked, "My lord, won't you go down and have some fun?"

Jiang Sheng also looked over.

Ultimately, our lord is still at an age where he loves to play.

Shen Tang glanced at Gu Chi and asked, "Shall I go downstairs to play?"

That guy always brings up the very thing he shouldn't have said.

Didn't you previously criticize her singing and dancing?

Gu Chi coughed awkwardly twice.

Shen Tang said indifferently, "Such joyous occasions as singing and dancing should be shared with our comrades. What are they compared to us?"

Simply put, I'm not interested.

It wasn't that she discriminated against other races. If it were someone like Gong Xi Chou, she would have already blended in and started swaying without Gu Chi reminding her. But these refugees in front of her were from the Shi Wu tribe.

They are her enemies; it would be strange to share joy with them.

Gu Chi: "..."

He finally understood his lord's preferences: singing, dancing, painting, riding pigs, and Gongxi Chou.

Qi Bushan is right, this guy is truly a femme fatale.

The victory celebration was filled with meat, wine, song, and dance; the refugees seemed determined to completely dispel their pent-up frustrations, reveling until late into the night. Besides Shen Tang and his group, one person remained absent from the revelry. The slave boy, Sparrow Head, sat high above, watching the Ten Crow refugees below, dancing and singing around the bonfire, his gaze filled with complex emotions—these people were celebrating the massacre of their own kind…

Before he could even process what he was thinking, he suddenly felt a slight movement behind his head. He reached out and grabbed a wine flask.

Sparrow Head turned around in surprise, only to see Lin Feng.

He was about to get up and bow when he was stopped.

"There's no need for such formalities on this joyous occasion."

Lin Feng gestured for him to sit down.

Sparrow Head didn't refuse and plopped back down.

Lin Feng sat not far from him, resting his chin on his hands as he looked at the clusters of campfires rising below: "This is wonderful."

Sparrow Head gave a slight response: "Okay?"

Lin Feng countered, "What's wrong with being well-fed and watered?"

The sparrow opened its mouth as if to speak.

What use are these lowly vagrants if they are well-fed and watered?

It's just a waste of food.

It's a pity that the tribesmen who fell under their swords were killed.

The sparrow lowered its eyelids, gathering its thoughts.

Lin Feng asked again, "Why don't you go down and play with them?"

Sparrowhead: "I'm not really interested."

Why?

Sparrow Head said, "I dislike killing."

Lin Feng didn't believe a word of what he said.

The princes of the Ten Crows, under the savage training of the King of the Ten Crows Royal Court, were all ruthless. Some even led troops to slaughter small tribes that disobeyed the court's rule in order to hone their ferocity. All the men were captured, and their wives and children were raped and killed in front of the king. Then, their heads and skins were used to make war drums for amusement. The leader of the Sparrows, however, claimed he disliked killing…

This is similar to Zheng Qiao saying that he is still innocent and virgin.

Besides—she's seen Sparrow Head's bloodthirsty look on the battlefield before, so why pretend?

Just as I was thinking this, the sky suddenly brightened.

Many of the migrants also noticed something was wrong and instinctively looked up.

Then--

They were completely stunned.

Sparrow Head was so startled that he stood up on the spot.

A black, three-legged raven-like creature, trailing a red halo, descended from the sky and vanished into the mountains in an instant.

The whole process lasted only three breaths before everyone snapped out of their daze and, out of their instinct to watch the spectacle, crowded around.

Shen Tang was also "wake up" from her light sleep.

What's all that noise outside?

Gu Chi and the other two had already gone to sleep.

We were both woken up by the noise outside, and came out one after the other, still adjusting our collars which we hadn't had time to put on properly.

The camp was in complete disarray; anyone who didn't know better would think it had been attacked by enemy forces. They randomly grabbed someone and questioned them.

He replied, "A strange thing just fell from the sky."

It's important to understand that the situation on the mainland was altered by a "thief star" two hundred years ago. Whether they are citizens of various nations or foreign tribes, everyone takes this "thief star" very seriously. Who wouldn't want another thief star to descend upon their territory? Especially the foreign tribes rejected by the mainland's nations—they dream of it. If they had the blessing of a thief star, why wouldn't they be able to march south and unify the mainland?

When a divine object falls from the sky, the first reaction is "a thief star".

However, when everyone dug the object out of the charred pit, they discovered that it was not some kind of thief star, but an inscription.

To be precise, it was a stele recording the characters of the Ten Blacks. Xianyu Jian and others had already sent troops to block and intercept the place.

"My lord!"

Everyone bowed in greeting.

Shen Tang strode over.

Many refugees, emboldened, came to watch the spectacle, but they dared not cross the cordon set up by the soldiers. Sparrow Head, however, managed to sneak in with Lin Feng. But since Chen Tang wasn't there, Lin Feng wouldn't approach without permission, so Sparrow Head naturally had no chance to get a closer look.

"What fell from the sky again?" Shen Tang was still grumpy from waking up, and now she was cursing even more. "They say a day in heaven is a year on earth, but who poked a hole in the sky? It keeps throwing things down every now and then, damn it..."

Gu Chi and Jiang Sheng closed their eyes in tacit agreement.

My lord, please be more composed!

Xianyu Jian stepped forward and reported, "My lord, it is a stone tablet."

"Stone tablet?"

Xianyu Jian leaned closer and whispered, "The characters on it are 'Ten Black Characters'."

The sparrow's head was close by, and its pupils trembled slightly upon hearing this.

A stone tablet fell from the sky, inscribed with the characters of the Ten Crows?

His hands, hanging at his sides, clenched tightly.

Shen Tang's expression changed, and she suppressed her anger.

What does it say on it?

Xianyu Jian looked troubled.

Shen Tang, annoyed, snapped, "A man should just say what he wants to say. Are you constipated from stammering?"

Xianyu Jian had served under Shen Tang for some time and knew well what kind of frantic state his lord was in when he was woken up in the middle of the night, so he didn't dare to talk back and said softly, "It's all family precepts praising the deeds of the Golden Crow and educating the offspring... My lord, there's a problem..."

If the stone tablet is real... wouldn't this thing be irrefutable proof that Shiwu is a descendant of the Golden Crow?

Shiwu was already arrogant.

And then there's this thing for verifying authenticity...

Why not fly up to the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun?

Xianyu Jian made a tough decision: "My lord, let's destroy it as soon as possible before anyone discovers it, and that will end it all!"

Shen Tang pondered for a moment.

"If this is truly a divine gift... if we destroy it, we might offend the heavens... Let's examine the contents of the stele first. If it's nothing of importance, we can keep it."

Xianyu Jian's eyes widened in horror.

My lord is more cunning than ten foxes...

Why are you acting so foolish today?

Waaah, it's the last day! Do I still have any monthly passes left?

(End of this chapter)