Chapter 653 - 652: What Immortal Venerable Shi Xi Couldn’t Accomplish With All His Might, Chu Sheng Did
Chapter 653: Chapter 652: What Immortal Venerable Shi Xi Couldn’t Accomplish With All His Might, Chu Sheng Did
Outer Realm Crystals are the Nipogen Race’s most important strategic resource.
Bar none.
They are the equivalent of provisions in ancient warfare.
If the supply of Outer Realm Crystals to the Alien Race’s grand army on the Blue Star front were cut off,
they would collapse on their own without the Human Race even needing to launch a counterattack.
「Ten thousand years ago.」
When Immortal Venerable Shi Xi led the Human Race to resist the Alien Race’s invasion, she had tried every method imaginable to sever the Nipogen Race’s supply lines.
But in the end, she had always failed.
The Nipogen Race’s protection of their Outer Realm Crystals was airtight to the extreme.
And yet Chu Sheng, with just a few cheap steamed buns and some spicy snack strips worth pennies a pack,
had easily tricked the Nipogen Race out of a mountain of Outer Realm Crystals.
To the vast Nipogen Race, this amount of Outer Realm Crystals was still nothing significant.
But if things continued to develop smoothly at this rate,
one day, the amount of Outer Realm Crystals Chu Sheng scammed would inevitably reach a staggering quantity.
When that time came, it would definitely have a severe impact on the supplies for the Alien Race’s army on the front lines.
Once the Outer Realm Crystal supply dwindled at the Alien Race Base invading Blue Star...
One could just imagine.
The Human Race wouldn’t need to counterattack; the starving Alien Race army would fall into chaos all on its own!
Immortal Venerable Shi Xi shared this thought with Chu Sheng.
Chu Sheng froze for a moment, then rubbed his forelegs together.
"I was originally just trying to make some extra cash on the side and boost my strength. I wasn’t thinking that far ahead."
"I was actually planning to do this for a month, make enough, and then just bail."
"But if you put it that way, then I’ll have to start planning this out properly."
Chu Sheng slowly flew three laps around the Ancestral Witch’s Divine Hall.
His compound eyes gradually began to glow.
"I’ve got it!"
"I can develop a network of agents!"
"Agents... What does that mean?"
Immortal Venerable Shi Xi frowned. She had never heard this term before.
"It’s simple."
Chu Sheng gave an example.
"For instance, I could develop Bones into my Level One agent and give him the authority to recruit his own downline."
"The downline he recruits will be called Level Two agents."
"And Bones would get to take a certain percentage cut from the principal investment of every Level Two agent he develops."
"Level Two agents can then recruit further down, creating Level Three agents."
"The Level Two agents get a cut from the Level Three agents."
"At the same time, the Level One agent also gets a smaller cut."
"And so on and so forth. The levels can extend downward infinitely."
"This way, I don’t have to go out and recruit Nipogens myself."
"These agents, for the sake of their own commissions, will desperately recruit their own downlines."
"My business will snowball, getting bigger and bigger!"
Immortal Venerable Shi Xi was exceptionally intelligent.
With just a moment of thought, she completely understood the terrifying nature of Chu Sheng’s plan.
If what Chu Sheng described could truly be realized,
it wouldn’t be long before the entire Nipogen planet was swept into this massive vortex.
Countless Nipogens, for the sake of those ethereal profits and commissions, would voluntarily hand over their entire fortunes to Chu Sheng.
For the Nipogen Race, this would be a devastating blow!
Far more terrifying than the invasion of an army a million strong!
After calming down, Immortal Venerable Shi Xi quickly thought of a fatal flaw in the plan.
"This plan sounds perfect in theory."
"However, not all members of the Nipogen Race are fools."
"There are undoubtedly gifted, clear-headed Nipogens among them."
"If these Nipogens just study it carefully, they’re sure to discover the danger within."
"What will you do if they stand up and expose your conspiracy?"
In Immortal Venerable Shi Xi’s view, if the Nipogens really saw through it,
the only path left for Chu Sheng would be to flee immediately.
However, that wasn’t what Chu Sheng thought.
"Immortal Venerable, let me give you two examples, and you’ll understand."
Chu Sheng said slowly.
"The first example: a friend of mine."
"She didn’t know it was a pyramid scheme and insisted on giving the scammers all of her life savings."
"Even when the police officers stopped her and told her it was a scam, they couldn’t hold her back."
"Instead, she cursed them out: ’You people are just trying to stop me from getting rich! You’re just jealous of me!’"
Immortal Venerable Shi Xi nodded. "She was completely brainwashed by the scammers."
Chu Sheng nodded and continued, "The second example: I have another friend."
"He knew full well it was a pyramid scheme, and he knew it would collapse sooner or later, with most of the people involved losing their entire investment."
"But he still threw all of his money into it without a second thought."
Immortal Venerable Shi Xi asked, her face full of confusion, "Why would he do that? Isn’t that just asking for ruin?"
"I asked him that same question back then."
"He said, ’I’m gambling. Gambling that I won’t be in the last unlucky batch.’"
"’As long as I can pull in enough of a downline before it collapses, I can make a killing and then get out.’"
"’As for whether the people who join after me get wiped out, what does that have to do with me?’"
Immortal Venerable Shi Xi shook her head.
"I can’t comprehend your friend’s way of thinking. It’s too insane."
"In truth, this is just human greed," Chu Sheng said lightly.
"No intelligent race is an exception."
"The Nipogen Race is the same."
"Immortal Venerable, think about it."
"Even if some rational Nipogens see through my conspiracy..."
"...what will they do? Will they stand up and expose me?"
"No. They’ll just choose to quietly join in."
"They’ll gamble. Gamble that they won’t be the last ones to be deceived."
"They’ll desperately recruit a downline to ensure they become one of the vested beneficiaries."
"Even if there are one or two kind-hearted, clear-headed Nipogens who stand up to stop everyone..."
"...the other Nipogens, whose minds are clouded by profit, will just assume that this Nipogen is deliberately trying to stop them from making money."
"This rational one might even be isolated, ostracized, or even beaten by the other Nipogens."
Chu Sheng paused, then continued, "As long as enough Nipogens are involved, there’s safety in numbers."
"In the end, the sober, rational minority will instead be seen as the ones who are in the wrong."
"And we scammers will instead be treated as saviors leading everyone to fortune."
After hearing Chu Sheng’s entire layout,
Immortal Venerable Shi Xi sized him up for a moment with a complicated expression.
Then, she let out a deep sigh.
"I really don’t know how such a tiny mosquito head like yours can contain such a complex and vicious scheme."
Chu Sheng gave a dry laugh. "Heh heh."
’He couldn’t exactly tell Immortal Venerable Shi Xi that these were all just old, worn-out tricks from Earth, could he?’
「Meanwhile.」
In Drake City, at the Municipal Official’s residence.
The Dark Tiger Demon Lord had failed to find Chu Sheng.
However, he was in a very pleasant mood as he ate the spicy strips offered up to him by the Slime.
He mumbled indistinctly as he chomped on the spicy strips, "CRUNCH, CRUNCH." "This country bumpkin relative of yours is pretty reliable, actually giving you this many packs of spicy strips."