Different World Card Master: Change the World with Cards

304: A scamThe Tianlong Republic was making intense preparations, but what would the exotic beasts do on the other side?

Regarding the latter, Wang Shanshan was observing closely.

In fact, under normal circumstances, Wang Shanshan was just a newcomer under the Elder and should not have known about such confidential matters, but unfortunately, an accident had occurred within the cult.

This accident caused the cult to undergo a major reshuffling, and the remaining cult members then shared a big secret together.

When people share a common secret, their relationship becomes closer, and other secrets become insignificant.

As for what that secret was?

It all needs to be told from the beginning.

At first, Wang Shanshan only knew that her current boss was responsible for liaising with the exotic beasts. Although the other party didn’t trust her much initially and left many things to another assistant, there were too few personnel, so some tasks had to be assigned to her.

As long as one has the intention, trust can be cultivated.

Later, after she completed a few tasks, the Elder’s trust in her gradually deepened. Consequently, he became more assured of her, assigned her more tasks, and she came into contact with more confidential information.

Thus, Wang Shanshan gradually learned what she wanted to know regarding God’s Blood, and discovered that God’s Blood was provided to the cult by the exotic beasts.

Upon learning this news, Wang Shanshan was extremely furious inside.

As expected, the higher-ups were lying to them; everything was a scam. This God’s Blood was not the so-called blood of a god at all, but the blood of exotic beasts.

So, Wang Shanshan followed the line of reasoning they had previously provided. At the time, they had claimed that drinking a lot of God’s Blood would allow one to become a god. Now that she discovered God’s Blood was actually the blood of exotic beasts, wouldn’t drinking a lot of it turn one into an exotic beast instead of a god?

Thinking about it this way, it made perfect sense. Although Wang Shanshan had some ideas, she was a cautious person and did not act immediately.

Therefore, she wanted to see who drank God’s Blood and who didn’t, and wanted to know who knew the truth.

As she watched, Wang Shanshan realized things were not that simple.

She had initially thought that God’s Blood was just a scam targeting the bottom-level cult members, but as she observed, she discovered that some high-level cult members were also drinking it.

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This puzzled her greatly. Since the higher-ups knew that this God’s Blood was provided by exotic beasts, why did they still drink it? Weren’t they afraid? Furthermore, it was they who claimed that drinking too much God’s Blood would turn one into a god; knowing it was beast blood, wouldn’t they worry that drinking too much would turn them into an exotic beast?

To answer these questions, during a drunken occasion, she coaxed information out of a high-level member and extracted their inner thoughts.

So that was it.

People’s thoughts are truly very complex.

It turned out that the cult’s higher-ups initially had some concerns about God’s Blood, but when some people drank it and experienced various positive bodily changes, others saw these changes.

Others who hadn’t drunk God’s Blood noticed that someone similar to them had become more energetic and stronger after drinking it, and their hearts became unbalanced.

Just think, a 50-year-old person drinking God’s Blood and having their body become like that of a 20-year-old; seeing this change, others naturally assumed that the person’s lifespan had increased.

The human longing for immortality is engraved in everyone’s mind.

Like ancient emperors, once they had power, they would think about immortality. So, those high-level cult members, now that they possessed a certain amount of power, naturally wanted to live longer themselves; and the longer they lived, the more things they could do.

This was only one aspect; of course, there were other changes as well.

You have to realize that if others are improving and changing, and you remain the same, that is equivalent to regressing.

This was something they could not tolerate, so those who hadn’t drunk God’s Blood also started drinking it, wanting to catch up with or even surpass the others.

Later, only a few stubborn people in the cult persisted in not drinking God’s Blood.

And those who drank God’s Blood, after one drop, wanted two; after two drops, they wanted three; and after three, they wanted even more.

Human desire is endless and will never be satisfied.

Thus, once they started, there was no turning back. Those who drank God’s Blood wanted to obtain more of it to make their bodies better and live longer.

During these frequent exchanges, the Elder whom Wang Shanshan followed also drank God’s Blood. Out of courtesy to his subordinates, he shared one drop each with Wang Shanshan and another assistant. If they wanted more, they would have to strive for it themselves later.

Wang Shanshan knew God’s Blood was problematic, so of course, she couldn’t drink it. She hid the God’s Blood and pretended she had already drunk it.

Because she spent more time with the other assistant, she began to observe the other person closely to see if there was any difference in their actions after drinking God’s Blood.

At first, it was the same as before, but upon closer observation, she noticed a slight change in the other person: previously, they would be out of breath walking that stretch of road, but now, their breathing remained steady.

When the other person noticed she hadn’t changed and asked her about it, Wang Shanshan was so scared she broke out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, the other party was a man and she was young, so she used the excuse that she was a woman and had been too physically depleted before, so the change wasn’t as significant as his, and she managed to muddle through.

Fortunately, the other person was just asking and didn’t think too much of it.

Perhaps having tasted the benefits, the other person began to praise God’s Blood and recommended his friends to drink it, and some who hadn’t drunk it also started to try it.

Gradually, Wang Shanshan began to understand the psychology of those who drank God’s Blood: they wanted more people to be like them, so that even if problems arose later, everyone would face the problems together.

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Perhaps because Wang Shanshan hadn’t observed people who had drunk God’s Blood up close before, this time she discovered a special detail: when the other person’s behavior was off, their eyes would glow.

Er... this was also because Wang Shanshan was short, which allowed her to spot the glowing eyes under the other person’s hood.

Wang Shanshan was extremely grateful for this shortcoming of hers; she hadn’t expected this flaw to turn into an advantage at such a moment.

But that wasn’t important; the main thing was that she had discovered something wrong.

Wang Shanshan’s mind kept replaying the eyes she had just seen; this pair of eyes made her feel very uncomfortable.

Looking at these eyes, Wang Shanshan felt that, all of a sudden, the other person had transformed from a human into a man-eating exotic beast, cold and devoid of any emotion.