It's All Fake!

"Ha ha ha, this was the stupidity of the common people!"

The man in black laughed so hard he sprawled about wildly. Everyone present stared at him in shock.

At that moment, someone else stepped forward. "So you deliberately deceived us all? You were the ones who brought out the locusts, all to gain our trust and trick us out of the money we offered you!?"

"You're all right. That's exactly what we did. And you actually believed us—you're far too stupid!"

"Qingshan County was merely the first. Once other places could no longer endure it, we would appear and get rid of the locusts. Those places would be endlessly grateful to us and believe in us completely. That is our method!"

"You people only know to believe in this nonsense about the Locust God when disaster strikes. You have no one to blame but yourselves!"

"If you weren't like this, how could we have done any of it?"

"Do you know what I enjoy seeing most? What I enjoy most is the way you come begging us after the locusts have gnawed your fields bare!"

"Ha ha ha!"

The man in black burst into wild laughter.

But once he had finished laughing, he suddenly came to his senses. Recalling what he had just said, he inwardly cried that this was bad.

Just now, it seemed as though something had clouded his mind, causing him to spout nonsense.

The consequences of saying those words were extremely severe.

When he regained his senses, he saw a crowd filled with furious eyes.

These people had offered up all their possessions to support them, only to receive deception in return. How could they not be furious?

Anyone would have been enraged after experiencing such a thing. The vast crowd, with no idea how