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The lives of the people of the empire are now even more difficult than Yu Tong had expected.
The noble who was supposed to buy the child from the priest did not send anyone to contact him.
However, more and more people came to buy monsters. After Yu Tong and Chen Xi discussed it, they all rejected it.
During the years that the priest was in charge of the institute, he had accumulated countless treasures, enough for them to squander for decades.
If they want to develop the Institute of Cultivation into Chenxi's territory, the monsters that can be controlled by believers will be their army.
Wild monsters without believers serve as training tools and supplies for the army.
Yu Tong was not so cruel as to capture more children, abuse and threaten them every day, and use the despair they developed to summon new monsters.
Even if he wanted to do so, Xiao Chenxi, whose deviation value had risen to 70 points, would persuade him to give up the idea.
The team of merchants delivering food to the orphanage still arrives on time every two weeks.
The person in charge of receiving them changed from Sister Love to Sister Smith. Since they were both nuns, these people didn't think anything was wrong.
While chatting with Sister Smith, they mentioned that many nobles in the town had disappeared.
The families of those playboys could not contact the priest, and after trying to find out about him several times, they gave up asking when they saw no results.
At Yu Tong's suggestion, Sister Smith asked them if anything happened outside.
The delivery people looked at each other, and one of the women sighed.
"Everyone was starving, and to survive, many people started looking for new ways to survive, creating clubs and so on... You know, the peaceful days were gone."
"If after a while, the higher-ups no longer provide you with regular food, you can contact us. We not only cooperate with the higher-ups, but we also do business with them on a regular basis."
Sister Smith took the card the woman handed her, which had their addresses recorded on it for easy correspondence.
Yu Tong knew very well what the woman meant.
Chen Xi’s father was right, the empire was about to fall into civil strife.
After this civil war ends, it is very likely that not only will the imperial family be replaced, but the great nobles will also become completely history of the empire.
That's why those nobles didn't have the energy to care about their dead clansmen.
In the third month since Yu Tong became the acting priest, the army that had been guarding outside the town finally noticed something unusual.
They sent people to inquire about the old priest's situation, but they were all sent away by the nuns sent by Yu Tong.
The soldiers didn't really care about the priest's life or death, nor did they care whether the Institute of Education belonged to the empire.
Every time the priest sells monsters, he has to pass through a checkpoint guarded by the army.
The troops sent by the empire not only fulfilled the duty of monitoring and assisting the priests, but also secretly did business with the priests in selling monsters.
Now that there was a new priest who was more generous with his money, they just pretended to scold him a few times and didn't say anything else.
The soldier hinted to Sister Smith, who was in charge of reception, that something was amiss in the Empire and that the monster trade would be strictly investigated. There was a high probability of fake buyers appearing, so they were advised not to take any risks in the near future.
More than six months have passed since the priest's death, and during this period the orphanage has accepted two more groups of children.
They were sent by the army.
If the orphanage doesn't want them, the army won't be able to deal with them. They can probably just use a few fireballs to burn them all to ash.
The deviation value increased to 80 points, and Chen Xi became more soft-hearted than before.
After discussing with the Sun God, they decided to accept these children.
They were placed in a small town, living in empty houses at night and working in the town during the day to earn money. Occasionally, when there were no monsters in the orphanage, they would be brought in to listen to the nuns' lessons.
The larger the town's population, the better for the territory's development.
Anyone nearby could see that the orphanage had changed.
But the emperor is far away and the imperial family is too busy to take care of this.
The devastated townspeople are happy to see their hometown get better.
The army had not received any mandatory orders and did not want to provoke a conflict with the monster-infested Yushen.
Merchants prefer prosperous and stable places. The expenses of orphanages and armies are very high, and the current town is very suitable for doing business.
As time passed, the wild monsters in the orphanage gradually couldn't keep up with the speed.
Yu Tong used the notes left by the priest and began to contact channels to purchase monsters from outside.
During the time he was managing the orphanage, Chen Xi had been learning beside him.
Yu Tong could clearly feel that the way Brother Xiaochen looked at him was becoming more and more wrong.
He was always worried that one day when he woke up, he would see Chen Xi kneeling in front of him with a pious look on his face, offering him offerings with both hands.
As it turned out, Yu Tong's worries were right.
Chen Xi has started learning how to carve a statue of the sun god.
The time spent with the villain has already exceeded 100 days. With the props, Yu Tong can transform into a human at any time.
After two weeks of heart-to-heart talks with Chen Xi, Yu Tong felt that his influence in Brother Chen's heart was no longer so sacred and inviolable.
On Monday night, after finishing all the work at the orphanage, Yu Tong brought Chen Xi to the old priest's former bedroom.
He closed the door tightly and told the boy to be prepared because he was about to perform a miracle.
Chen Xi tilted his head in confusion and was about to ask him what he meant.
The next second, the little yellow chicken on the bed was surrounded by dazzling golden light.
When the golden light faded, a black-haired man with fair skin and delicate features appeared out of thin air on the bed.
Chen Xi looked at the man with black hair and black eyes, then looked at the golden feather that he had made into a necklace, and his mind went blank for a moment.
The color does not match his Sun God Chicken, so this should not be the real Sun God.
So who is this handsome brother?
He had never seen her before, and she didn't look like an adult.
Did the Sun God meet another boy behind his back?
Why? Is he not good enough?
Chapter 62 The Second World (25)
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