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Before long, the elderly village chief emerged from the village with several middle-aged and young men.
The old man sized me up for a long while before saying, "A-Lai said that, judging by your accent, you should be from one of the nearby villages. But no major crime has occurred recently, so how did you offend the Heavenly Eye Estate?"
"I offended one of the Heavenly Eye Estate's officiants. He cheated me out of quite a bit of money, so in a fit of rage, I struck back from the shadows. That's why I was stripped of divine protection." My ability to lie without batting an eye had long since been put through its paces.
"You dared to retaliate against an officiant of the Heavenly Eye Estate?" The village chief stared at me in astonishment, while the middle-aged and young men behind him began whispering among themselves.
Most of their expressions showed disbelief, but there seemed to be an air of shared outrage among them. From their conversation, I also learned about the Heavenly Eye Estate's officiants.
Becoming an officiant of the Heavenly Eye Estate came with considerable power. It was much like being a priest in the modern world—the position in the Heavenly Eye Estate that controlled the activation of connections to the Heavenly Eye.
One had to understand that with such power in the officiants' hands, the inspection system was as good as nonexistent. Whether or not someone could awaken their divine eye was truly up to them. Earlier, I had heard several villagers mention that they needed to work hard to earn money and then bribe the officiants so that the latter would awaken their children's divine eyes.
After all, it was no easy matter for the descendants of sinners