87: Chapter 87 The Internet is Down, People are Poor

To avoid surprise attacks at night, Guan Hong kept his Law of Fate active constantly. Counting the intermittent use during the day,

his consumption of divine power points reached a full 1000 points in just one day. Originally, this amount of divine power points would not even have been a drop in the bucket for Lin Xiao.

But the problem was that the network was down!

Once the network was disconnected, the hundreds of millions of Medicinal Pills produced by his buildings were stuck in his hands. With the Medicinal Pills unable to be sold, his original income of over ten million divine power points per day plummeted to just over thirty thousand points per day.

And this was only the result because of yesterday's explosive harvest, which had raised the overall strength of the Believers under those gods by a notch.

Looking at the remaining balance of 32.43 million divine power points in his Divine Kingdom, this was the first time Lin Xiao had felt the taste of being poor since the System officially started. Fortunately, he could still settle the production output.

The resource points in the inner Divine Kingdoms of his subordinate gods had been significantly updated yesterday, allowing him to more than comfortably support everyone based solely on production.

Just as he was feeling irritated because the Medicinal Pills couldn't be sold, several students hesitantly shuffled over. After nudging each other, one of them finally blurted out with a flushed face:

"Lord Lin, could you lend us some resources? They don't need to be very good, anything below C-grade will do. We just want to maintain the normal operation of our Divine Kingdoms."

"We also know that these are extraordinary times, so for the resources you lend, my Lord, we are willing to pay double the faith points as interest!"

Listening to the requests of the students before him, Lin Xiao was secretly startled. He hadn't noticed it before while the network was still available.

Now that the network was down, he immediately realized how terrifying it was to not have enough divine power points and resources on hand.

One didn't even need an enemy to attack; over time, just the resources required to maintain a Divine Kingdom could drag down a god.

[It seems the faith points given by Believers are the most reliable; although few, they won't be cut off due to external factors. Taking advantage of this incident, I need to have my subordinates cultivate more Believers. It would be best if they could all be raised to the Qi Refinement Stage. Also, regarding those resource points, I need to stockpile more Spirit Rank resources from now on.]

He secretly noted down the keywords: Believers, divine power points, and Spirit Rank resources. His gaze swept over the few students before him who were looking at him with anticipation.

"Since you also know that the situation is special, why should I lend resources to you? Not to mention whether you can pay double for these resources afterward. What makes you so sure that you will definitely survive until this incident subsides? If Anping County is defeated, or your Family gets into trouble, or if one of you accidentally dies somewhere. Although these resources aren't much, I'm still not willing to do something like throwing them into the water for nothing."

As Lin Xiao spoke, the expressions of the people before him constantly changed. In the end, they all walked back without saying a word.

"How did it go? What did he say?"

"It doesn't look like it went well. Is he dissatisfied with the double interest? That's a bit too greedy, isn't it? In a few dozen days at most, he could double his money. In the past, if there were such opportunities, I would have scrambled to invest my faith points!"

"In the current situation, double might indeed be a bit low. Why don't we increase the interest? I don't believe anyone would complain about having too many faith points!"

A group of people gathered together whispering, but in reality, all of their conversations were heard clearly by the gods.

It wasn't that everyone had a hobby of eavesdropping; it was just that after becoming a god, one's five senses are naturally and significantly enhanced. They could even detect a mosquito flying by within a range of several hundred meters.

Now that the environment was so dangerous, everyone naturally wouldn't deliberately lower their five senses just to avoid these students.

Therefore, the whispers that these students thought were private were actually being simultaneously relayed to Lin Xiao's ears by his subordinates.

"It's not about the interest. That Lin... he actually cursed us, saying we wouldn't live to see the end. He said lending resources to us is like throwing them into the water."

"He said he wasn't sure what the situation would be later, in case Anping County didn't hold out, or our Family, or we ourselves didn't hold out..."

Hearing this, a student immediately interrupted somewhat irritably. "Nonsense!"

Perhaps realizing that his voice was a bit too loud, this student stole a glance at Lin Xiao's direction and then carefully lowered his volume.

"Our respective Families have been in Anping County for at least over a thousand years; which one of us doesn't have some trump cards hidden away? Although the opponent is coming aggressively, I believe the Family will definitely be able to hold out!"

"That's right! And actually, we don't need to defeat these people head-on; as long as we stall until the outside world realizes something is wrong, the higher-ups will naturally send people to clear out these undead!"

Lin Xiao had no interest in the whispers of these students. As long as they didn't provoke him, it was fine. Carrying them along was already out of consideration for their classmates' relationship.

The starship, having shrunk its size, once again began its hunting journey. These demigod and god-level undead seemed as if they could never be killed off.

Even though they had killed such a large batch yesterday, a day had passed, and Lin Xiao felt that the number of opponents didn't seem to have decreased at all.

This couldn't help but make him secretly mutter to himself; after all, this was not a good sign.

"Does anyone here know the specific abilities of this Law of Death? We clearly spent the whole day cleaning them up yesterday; we killed over four hundred gods alone, and more than four thousand demigods. Why does it seem like there's been no reduction when looking at it today? Is the opponent's troop count too abundant, or is it that this Law of Death can instantly convert dead creatures into undead?"

Hearing his question, the knowledgeable Meng Ning spoke up to answer in their minds.

"My Lord, there is no need to panic. Anping County has an area of 2.5 billion square kilometers, after all. To be able to sweep across the entire star simultaneously, the opponent's troop strength naturally needs to be sufficiently abundant.

As for the conversion of undead that you are worried about, my Lord, the Law of Death can indeed achieve this step. However, this also requires time; the more powerful the creature, the longer the conversion takes. Of course, if the opponent successfully breaks through to a Intermediate God..."

Hearing this answer, Lin Xiao didn't know whether to cry or laugh. Good news: The opponent cannot quickly convert high-level units. Bad news: The opponent's troop reserves are abundant, and they don't even need to convert?

"Alright, it seems we have caught up to a good time. If we can have as much harvest every day as we did yesterday, then your Breakthrough to Second-order Deity doesn't seem like it will be a difficult task anymore.

In the coming period, I hope that besides your core Believers, you won't neglect your ordinary Believers either. Anyway, there are so many resources. Just use them all without restraint! I hope you can raise all your Believers to the third rank, or even above the Spirit Rank!

Whoever raises the overall strength of their Believers the fastest and has the largest scale, I will take out another complete Divine Artifact as a reward. For second place, the reward is 2 million divine power points, third place gets 1 million divine power points, and fourth to tenth place will be rewarded with 200,000 divine power points!

In addition to this one-time reward, I will also increase your daily income based on everyone's ranking, the strength of your Believers, and their scale. Of course, all of this has one main prerequisite: that we can successfully survive this catastrophe. So, everyone, do not neglect your core Believers for the sake of the rewards."