Using the World's Greed for Profit

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"Secondly, although two hundred years is a long time, in reality, those behind-the-scenes manipulators who passed down their lineages secretly influenced the successive city lords of Falling Star City in planning the city's roads, while on the surface, they disguised it as a ' Open Conspiracy '."

What is Open Conspiracy?

A conspiracy is a secret plan, designed in secret to achieve the perpetrator's hidden agenda.

Open Conspiracy is to act in accordance with the existing reality, and with the subjective initiative of the person implementing it, to achieve a goal that is beneficial to oneself or that one desires in a legitimate and aboveboard manner.

In most cases, for a conspiracy to last for more than a year, it must be concealed by a layer of overt Open Conspiracy.

Tang San suddenly realized why the Soul Tool Core Formation of Falling Star City could be completed within two hundred years. It was because the schemers who guided the city lords of each generation were all of the same ilk. Only they knew the final plan, and they claimed to the city lords that such planning and design would make Falling Star City more orderly.

Just like Dales, when he first took office in Falling Star City six years ago, he killed an innocent rural couple who were suspected to be Zhou Qing's parents, as a warning to others, with the aim of restoring order in the city.

Establish order...

All the residents of the city knew about this matter, and they hoped that the city would be in order so that they could live better lives. Therefore, they did not think there was any conspiracy involved. At most, they thought that the city lord was cruel in carrying out this plan.

Furthermore, they are already exhausted in order to survive, and their abilities are limited. Most of them think things like "it's better to do less trouble than more trouble." So even if there are some hidden talents among them who notice something is wrong, they will force themselves to ignore it and let things slide.

"The common people are all foolish and lack courage!"

Tang San couldn't help but sigh.

Zhou Qing, however, said, "Therefore, we need to give them courage."

"Um?"

Tang San was slightly taken aback, somewhat confused.

Zhou Qing just smiled and didn't elaborate, as this couldn't be explained in a few words. He continued to assign tasks to everyone, saying, "Romantina, just say that you're here to hunt down the accomplice of the Soul Master who raided the Xiao Manor Nuoding City and found out that he escaped to Falling Star City."

"As for Dales ' reaction, I also imagined several possibilities, but they can generally be categorized into two types:"

First, he made up various excuses to get away with it. Regardless of whether he had any connection with the Soul Ancestor, the fact that an accomplice of a Soul Master who raided Notting Xiao Manor at night had escaped to Falling Star City would have a certain impact on his prestige. Although his reputation in Falling Star City was not very good, he was still considered to have authority.

In this situation, you can take advantage of your status as Romanyac's daughter to be a little 'unreasonable'. Just bring up various topics with him, and even make verbal personal attacks to buy time.

Secondly, he might gather city patrols to help you search, out of respect for your father. You would need to use moral pressure to get him to join the search himself.

Romantina made a note of it, then asked, "What does 'moral blackmail' mean?"

"For example: an old man falls to the ground and can't get up. Everyone is watching and no one goes to help him. At this time, you stand up, but instead of helping the old man, you righteously criticize the others for being too indifferent, making them ashamed. As a result, the others feel guilty and have no choice but to help the old man." Zhou Qing gave a simple example.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, You Hui were completely dumbfounded!

Although in this example people eventually helped the elderly person who had fallen, which was indeed a good thing, for some reason they still felt that the "Romantina" who was criticizing others was a bit disgusting and hypocritical.

Is this what they call moral blackmail?

"Am I such a hypocritical person in your eyes?"

Romantina understood the meaning of moral blackmail. Her face turned red, and she roared loudly. In her mind, she was thinking about the scene after she used moral blackmail on Dales. Dales and the patrolmen were at a loss for words, but they could not refute her. They could only stare at her with resentment or disdain.

She was extremely excited!

(P≧w≦q)!

This guy is hopeless!

Zhou Qing swore that even if he remained single for the rest of his life, he would never date Romantina, but at this moment he could only say, "I didn't say that to you. It's just that in my eyes, you are a little too 'open and honest,' so I hope you can be a little more hypocritical."

After saying that, Zhou Qing rubbed his temples, trying his best to ignore Romantina's writhing body, and said to Tang San and Xiao Wu, "Our task is much simpler: investigate the rooms behind the City Lord's Mansion."

What about me?

Seeing that Zhou Qing had no plans for her, Ning Rongrong became angry and stared intently at Zhou Qing.

"As for you, it's difficult to make arrangements due to your status."

Because Zhou Qing's Martial Soul and the Innate Internal Scripture Chart achieved harmony and unity within Welcome Spring Inn, his spirit, Qi and Blood, and Soul Power resonated, guiding out an inner belief and unleashing a peculiar power that caused most of the guests in Welcome Spring Inn to faint.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo, in order to clean up his mess, exposed their identities, making them known to everyone in Falling Star City.

Although Ning Rongrong did not have a formal meeting with Dales, and most of the people in the city did not recognize her, Dales was determined and still managed to find out her appearance. After all, Ning Rongrong had met with people from the City Lord's Mansion at the North Gate.

"However, I have an important task for you," Zhou Qing said with a smile. "Doesn't your Martial Soul have the talent for Treasure Seeking? I suspect that there are Soul Crystal in some underground areas. You can have the people secretly guarding you help you dig them out, and you need to make sure that passersby see your actions."

Ning Rongrong's eyes darted around, as if she had figured out the key point, and she said, "Oh~ so you mean, even without Soul Crystal, I can still put some Soul Crystal in?"

"Clever!"

Zhou Qing gave a thumbs up.

It can only be said that Ning Rongrong is worthy of being born into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Even though she is only six years old and does not understand people's hearts, she has learned some of the essence of these principles under Ning Fengzhi's teachings.

Zhou Qing's goal was to use Ning Rongrong to incite the city's residents to secretly dig up the "treasure" buried underground, thereby destroying the Soul Tool Core Formation made of Soul Sand.

Although Zhou Qing exploited the profit-seeking instincts of the people of Falling Star City during this process, he did so not for his own benefit, but to help them save themselves.

This massive Soul Tool Core Formation was a scheme orchestrated by a family mastermind, passed down through a single lineage for generations. It was completed with the help of the successive lords of Falling Star City over the past two centuries, all of whom eventually died of illness...

This alone is enough to prove that this Soul Tool Core Formation is bound to be a scourge!