Different World Card Master: Change the World with Cards

274: Divine BloodThe next afternoon.

The Government conference room.

Representatives from various parties gathered here.

First, the Guard Team needed to report the information they learned after interrogating the kidnappers overnight, as three of the kidnappers were captured alive yesterday; the others had died.

Two of these three people had consumed the blood of Ultra-Grade Beasts. The Guard Team initially thought the culprits had communicated with and were subordinates of the Ultra-Grade Beasts, but it turned out they did not know the blood they drank was related to the Beasts.

According to them, they were members of the Divine Card Sect and considered internal personnel. They did not know they were drinking the blood of Ultra-Grade Beasts; they claimed they were drinking ’Divine Blood.’

This Divine Blood was something the Divine Card Sect had recently produced. The Sect preached that consuming Divine Blood would allow people to be reborn, become more powerful Card Makers, and eventually become a member of the gods.

Currently, many Divine Card Sect followers were gathering resources and funds to exchange for Divine Blood. They were just a part of this movement, except they were a little bolder and wanted to pull off a major crime, believing this would allow them to ascend directly to godhood.

They didn’t expect to accidentally kick a steel plate... Hearing this reason, everyone in the conference room was speechless. However, upon further reflection, the struggle between humans and Beasts had been too long, and the hatred between them was countless. Many people who wanted to join the Divine Card Sect had relatives killed by Beasts, so even an evil cult wouldn’t dare openly cooperate with Beasts.

Therefore, they ”packaged” the Beast blood and disguised it as Divine Blood.

After many followers drank the Divine Blood, their physical condition improved significantly. More importantly, their eyes could glow at night, making them different from ordinary people. This was regarded as a miracle, making them believe even more strongly that it was Divine Blood and increasing their desire for it.

Everyone present thought about it and understood the mindset of those cultists.

Mr. Number Three: ”This means that the cultists need to raise resources and funds recently, which suggests that the Divine Card Sect will make a big move soon.”

Personnel monitoring national information had collected and organized crime incidents from various regions this morning and compared them with previous data.

An intelligence officer said: ”We can clearly see from the data that the crime rate has increased significantly. However, we previously analyzed that this was caused by the approaching Beast Tide, which led to excessive psychological pressure and emotional instability among the populace, combined with various cults taking advantage of the situation to cause trouble, resulting in an increased probability of crime.”

Another intelligence officer analyzed.

”Now it’s not just internal human strife; external Beasts have also joined in.

Although we are currently unclear whether the cults sought cooperation with the Beasts or vice versa, their ultimate goal is the Beast Tide.

The Beasts want to further suppress humanity through the Beast Tide, while the cults want to seize power.”

”Hmph,” someone laughed out loud, ”The cults don’t understand the Beasts very well. How dare they give their followers Beast blood? Don’t they know that after drinking this, they won’t dare disobey the commands of Ultra-Grade Beasts? They are playing with fire and will bring about their own destruction.”

Liu Tianshi slammed the table.

”Now is not the time to laugh at them. Even if they eventually destroy themselves, it is undeniable that we are currently their common enemy. They will only break up after we are destroyed. Before that, their actions will cause us considerable trouble.”

Everyone nodded. Indeed, the enemy’s target was them, and they could not allow the enemy to act unchecked.

If they allowed the enemy to act, it would be disastrous if they were unexpectedly defeated.

Xu Bai listened to their discussion from the side and raised a question he had been considering: ”Do the cults need the funds and supplies, or do the Beasts need them? What are these funds and supplies being used to purchase? Are they buying cardss? If they are buying cardss, what kind of cardss would they buy?

Although it is clear that Beasts cannot become Card Makers, Beasts can use cardss. If they purchase our human weapon cardss, what will be the consequences when weapons made by humans are used against us?”

Hearing Xu Bai’s warning, everyone present imagined a scene where humans and Beasts were firing at each other.

If Ultra-Grade Beasts used lower-level Beasts as cannon fodder, and then higher-level Beasts with some level of consciousness attacked from the rear, supplemented by automated weapons, and then controlled cultists caused chaos in the middle, this Beast Tide would likely face huge problems, and human casualties might be much greater than in the past.

The temperature in the room was not cold, but everyone felt as if they were in an ice cellar.

Fortunately, they were people who had seen the world and did not need to despair over these matters. They were all smart people, their minds racing as they considered the possibilities Xu Bai mentioned and the countermeasures they could take afterward.

An intelligence officer said: ”This possibility is very high. If the enemy wants weapons, I can currently think of two channels to acquire them on a large scale: one is through cooperation with mercenaries, and the second is through cooperation with the military.”

When Liu Tianshi heard this, he felt uncomfortable.

”The military, on my end, has no issues. You cannot make baseless accusations.”

”We are not making baseless accusations. You must know that the military is where most weapons are stored, and many weapons are shipped out from the military. If someone were controlled, this problem could arise. Furthermore, we have had issues with weapons being privately sold before. Can you confirm that no one would be tempted by money?”

At this point, Liu Tianshi fell silent.

Weapons were fundamentally distributed through their military department. They had a certain amount of authority over who they were sold to and how many were sold.

Regarding weapons, the quantity they sold to mercenaries each month was limited. However, sometimes the mercenaries would pay money to have a slightly larger supply in a given month. They simply sold a portion of their training weapon quota to the other party. This money was also provided to the soldiers, giving them an extra income.

There was nothing they could do; this was considered a gray industry chain, involving the interests of too many soldiers, and even he could not easily control it.

Previously, they only thought that since everyone was human and killing Beasts, there wasn’t much difference, and nothing would go wrong. Now, however, Beasts might be buying weapons.

He needed to stir up this hornet’s nest.

Liu Tianshi: ”I will have people investigate, but regarding the cooperation between Beasts and humans, do we need to tell the soldiers?”

Mr. Number Three: ”Do you have a specific idea?”

”I think that telling the soldiers about this will make them more vigilant. Otherwise, everyone thinks that as long as the weapons remain in human hands, selling them is fine.”