Chapter 21 Standing on the table and giving the middle finger
After receiving Bai Wei's "encouragement", Ulu regained his spirits and opened the door of the church.
As usual, people who had been waiting for a long time and were already hungry had gathered outside the door. When they saw the church open, they surrounded it like zombies, but unlike zombies, they did not have so much strength that they seemed to fall down at any time when they walked.
Seeing this, Ulu could not help but frown and cursed inwardly, "What a starving ghost reincarnated", then he moved aside to let these people rush into the church to drink porridge.
Of course, the porridge was not cooked by Wulu. He had a lot of things to do these two days, including killing people, burying bodies, and chopping off fingers. How could he have time to take care of the relief food?
These were all made by believers invited by the church, but in fact they were free of charge, and were generally given to small landowners who believed in the Rhine Church. The landowners would ask their servants to cook the porridge the night before, and then bring it over in the morning, and distribute it in the name of the Rhine Church.
"Are those small landlords so kind?" Bai Wei asked after listening to Wu Lu's explanation, "Don't charge money?"
"What else do they want to collect?" Wu Lu said with disdain, "I have already sold the grain sent by the higher-ups to them at a low price. They can make a lot of money. They have made so much money. What else are they dissatisfied with for spending so little?"
I see.
Bai Wei finally figured it out.
After a famine occurs, the upper class of the Rhine will distribute relief food to the lower class. This relief food will fall into the lowest level church, that is, the church at the level of Uru. Then Uru will resell this food to the landlords. After buying the food, the landlords will provide each church with the lowest level, processed food, such as white porridge.
This thing is the most suitable. It is easy to drink a lot but not feel full, which makes people doubt whether it is porridge or water. But this can be used to deal with inspections. After all, the buckets of it look really heavy.
It was as if the Rhine Church really wanted to provide disaster relief, but was exploited by its subordinates layer by layer, so that it could not save many disaster victims at all.
It seemed as if the Rhine Church had good intentions at first, but because it lost control over the lower-level churches, things turned out like this.
But according to Bai Wei's understanding of the Rhine Church and Lu Ji's letter to the bishop, the Rhine leaders were basically aware of all of this.
After all, this is a Western fantasy world where supernatural powers exist. How is it possible that the upper echelons of the major religious sects have no control over the lower echelons?
Seeing Bai Wei suddenly asking about this, Uru suddenly felt a little nervous: "Uh, Lord Visas, are you dissatisfied with all this?"
dissatisfied?
Of course I am dissatisfied.
Although this famine is just a background plot in the game, it is a real disaster now. As an orthodox socialist successor, looking at this church filled with victims who are about to starve to death, and thinking that the cause of all this is not only natural disasters but also man-made disasters, I will definitely not feel very happy.
However, he could not show his dissatisfaction, after all, he was Visas now. He could not show emotions that were not in line with this identity, such as... pity.
"I'm not dissatisfied." So he could only respond calmly, "I just feel it's a bit strange."
"……strangeness?"
"Yes." Bai Wei said, "My current position is too low. I can't see much. Please lift me higher."
Uru was slightly stunned, and then subconsciously lowered his head and looked at the middle finger of his left hand... Oh no, this is Lord Visas.
"Lift you... a little higher?" Ulu was a little confused by this instruction. He hesitated and asked, "What should I... do?"
"Since you asked me this question, I have to start doubting whether I have chosen you as my disciple." Bai Wei said unhappily, "Don't you understand what I'm saying? Raise it higher, raise it higher, raise it higher! I'll repeat it to you three times, do you understand now?"
Seeing that Bai Wei was getting impatient, Wu Lu didn't dare to delay any longer and could only raise his left hand immediately.
"Is this okay?"
"Raise it higher, I still can't see it clearly enough."
There was no other way, Ulu could only raise his hands higher, almost standing completely straight.
"Is this okay?"
"It's high enough, but why are you holding up so many fingers? You're blocking my view." Bai Wei said, "Put the rest of your fingers down."
Ulu had no choice but to obey the order again and retracted the other four fingers, leaving only the middle finger.
Bai Wei's vision finally opened up. Although he could use his own strength to put down the other four fingers, doing so would inevitably cause Uru to become nervous and think that his body was out of control.
If this is the case now, Ulu will definitely think that Bai Wei's power is still bound in that middle finger.
However, Bai Wei asked Ulu to lift him up not just to torment him, but to observe the situation.
He first observed the number of victims in the church. If he remembered correctly, the number of refugees in the church today was half that of the previous two days.
It’s not that everyone suddenly stopped being hungry, but that half of the refugees have no way to come here.
As for the reason...
Bai Wei looked outside the church, but he still couldn't see clearly because he was blocked by the wall.
"Higher." Bai Wei ordered.
Higher?
Ulu was in a dilemma. He wanted to say that he had lifted it to the top and he could only stand on tiptoes to go any higher, but that didn't seem to go much higher.
But he absolutely didn't dare to say this. After all, Bai Wei had already shown his impatience just now. If he couldn't even handle such a small matter, he would be useless.
There is no other way, I can only find a solution myself.
After a while, Bai Wei's vision broadened significantly.
Now he could finally see outside the church.
As he expected, many knights of the Rhine Church appeared on the streets outside the church. They were checking all passers-by, and all suspicious people were pushed to the corner and made to squat.
The Rhine Church's response was really quick.
After discovering the bodies of Luigi and Roger last night, the Knight Commander must have immediately contacted his superiors. Then, within half a night, so many knights appeared out of nowhere, obviously urgently transferred from other churches. And there were not only knights, but also many people wearing cloth armor among the inspected people. These should be the servants of the landlords, who were also requisitioned.
Apparently, they thought they were still in town and had no intention of letting him leave.
But it doesn't matter. This was originally in Bai Wei's plan, but the plan has not been fully realized. Bai Wei wants to make a bigger fuss and lure the bishop over. After all, his eyes are still there.
While Bai Wei was thinking, Uru under him spoke tremblingly: "Wei, Lord Visas, although I don't want to disturb you at this time, I still feel that my behavior of standing on the table and giving the middle finger to all the victims is a bit...too conspicuous?"
(End of this chapter)
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