Not a god

Chapter 159 World Trends
From freshman year to senior year, Chen Xi was like an old father. No, it cannot be said to be like, but he was exactly like him.

Whether it was homework, various projects, or even the final thesis, he took care of everything himself... In fact, when it came to the thesis, Chen Xi's initial idea was to help her choose a topic and let her do the rest on her own.

As a result, his heart softened again and again, and as time went by, 80% of the entire paper went through his hands.

All I can say is that a certain e-sports queen knows how to grasp his weakness.

But no matter how much you dote on her, you can't let him help her with the defense. She has to rely entirely on herself.

"Well, forget about not being able to graduate. I'm married anyway!"

I have absolutely no idea what the connection is between graduation and getting married.

"Why, brother, I want to come too..."

Jiang Xiaowan was even more confused. She was over a thousand years old, and the university had collapsed many years ago. Why was she pulled back to do this graduation defense?

"To make up for your regret of not participating in the graduation defense that year."

“……”I have no regrets at all in this regard!

Chen Xi brought the two of them to the store and asked them to give PPT presentations in the store for the next few days.

In fact, Jiang Xiaowan was not as socially anxious as Jiang Wanwan is now, and because of the cold expression on his face, he gave people a feeling of being aloof and cold like an iceberg.

After the speech, when he was praised by Chen Xi, his face still had no expression, but his eyes were shining, like a little puppy being praised, and he looked very cute.

During this period, Jiang Wanwan was still very socially anxious.

At the beginning, Jiang Wanwan only had to tell the story to her brother. She was full of confidence and spoke fluently... Anyway, she just had to recite the script.

Then, it was not difficult at all for her to tell it to Xiao Chenyi.

Although the little girl couldn't understand what her mother was mumbling, she knew she was talking to her, so she sat there with a round face, and as she listened, she became distracted and started rubbing her little feet and playing with her fingers.

Occasionally, Jiang Wanwan would pause while talking and look at the distracted little one. She would be very considerate and raise her hand to respond twice: "Oh, oh!"

After further advancement, she told Douzi, Chen Yan and others about it. After all, it was a public speech, so she was still a little nervous, but she managed to proceed smoothly in the end.

Then he also told it to Ms. Yin and a junior high school student who was doing homework in the store.

She was not that familiar with Ms. Yin yet, especially with a certain arrogant junior high school student, who crossed his arms and looked at her while talking. Jiang Wanwan stumbled nervously.

But in the end, I finished it smoothly.

And because she had recited it so many times and told it to others so many times, she began to become a little complacent.

"What? What? This isn't super easy. What's the point of training? Get on with it. Today I'm going to take you to a hundred stars!"

……

Such a big thing happened in Pingjiang County, which attracted widespread attention last night. After fermenting overnight, it is now being discussed on all platforms and all social software.

Major media outlets have reported on the incident, not only domestically but also on the international Internet.

There is no doubt that this is a disaster. In fact, if we only look at the losses, the damage caused this night is not worse than some natural disasters, but the anxiety and tension it caused are deeper than any natural disaster in the past.

Because no one can be sure whether such emergencies will occur again in the future, whether they will occur frequently, or whether they will happen around them or in their city.

In fact, long before Pingjiang County, there have been several similar disasters abroad. Some of them were much smaller in scale than Pingjiang County, but the losses were much more serious.

When the incident happened, the outside world had been watching the outcome of Jiangping County, and some people even gave very pessimistic predictions. As a result, the data finally counted was only equivalent to a small typhoon.

Thunder, little rain.

The entire external network was now unable to sit still and was in an uproar. Why was it that whenever they encountered a similar large-scale invasion by evil corpses, there were heavy casualties, but they were able to handle it so well here?

Of course, there are people who don't believe it, saying that they are concealing the data and that the real situation cannot possibly have such low casualties.

Many videos and photos from last night were leaked online.

Groups of Tianming people roamed around Pingjiang County. Wherever evil spirits appeared, they would rush there to kill them, just like dogs seeing bones.

Spanish netizens: Damn, why do they have so many well-trained people with destiny?

Italian netizens: Have they mastered the method of mass-cultivating people with destiny?
Japanese netizens: What is "The Destiny Man"? It seems that they relied on this game to familiarize themselves with how to deal with the evil corpses in advance, and also relied on this game to become the Destiny Man!

German netizens: Game? A game? Are you kidding me?

Foreign netizens began to investigate this game, and the more they investigated, the more ridiculous it seemed.

A 100% immersive world exploration game? It allows players to enter a dreamland and actively learn about things in the dreamland. Every time they die, there is a chance to awaken their destiny. After defeating the evil corpses inside, they can plunder the evil souls to improve themselves. There is also a chance to obtain evil destiny items, and so on.

It's crazy!
Is this the reason why they were able to give birth to so many people with destiny? You are so cunning that you kept it a secret all this time. Now, we have discovered your secret.

It’s on the Spark platform, right? I really found it. I quickly downloaded it and logged in...but I couldn’t log in.

Is this game region locked?

Damn it! Why is it region-locked? Who is the developer of this game? Is it discriminating against different regions?
The door leading to the treasure house was right in front of them, but it couldn't be opened, which immediately caused a barrage of criticism online.

Indian netizen: Shit, why can’t I get in?

Brazilian netizens: What on earth do they want to do?
Korean netizens: Game officials, the Republic of Korea notify you to immediately open login permissions for the Korean region, otherwise there will be serious consequences!
There are quite a few comments like this. They are so noisy and make people feel like they have some brain stem deficiency. But if you think about it carefully, as ordinary people, they can do nothing but shout like this.

There are also many foreigners who have climbed over the wall and come to the domestic Internet, and they find that the Internet here is really exciting.

"I have just awakened my destiny of moving mountains. It is finally my turn to perform handstand push-ups for everyone."

"Si Nong Ming challenged to grow rice in the cracks between bricks in the community, check in on the 34th day."

"If I had awakened this 'speed destiny' earlier, would I have been able to catch up with the taxi you left in?"

Netizens who climbed over the wall were all overwhelmed by the "climaxes" of the domestic Internet.

What you mean is that when one or two people with destiny appear in their country, they are regarded as saviors like Jesus, while in this country on the other side of the ocean, people with destiny are about to develop into a mature group of internet celebrities?

Not only is the Internet so lively, some formal official media are also reporting related matters. Foreign officials have been trying to contact this side. As for the subsequent exchanges between the two sides, not only foreign netizens but also domestic netizens are very concerned.

"The man of destiny from abroad..."

After Chen Xi finished surfing the Internet, he looked at Chen Yan who was standing beside him. She leaned over the front desk with her upper body, frowning and concentrating, her fingers scratching the screen of her mobile phone. Chen Xi could hardly imagine that an old immortal who had lived for who knows how many years could be so serious about reading a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law romance article on Zhihu.

The reason why Chen Xi knew what she was looking at was because this guy didn’t have Zhihu Yanxuan, so he couldn’t see it without a membership, and he used his account.

He asked her, "There are gods abroad, too, right? Do they really not care at all?"

Chen Yan was doing two things at once. While reading a novel, she said to him, "Foreign gods... Actually, domestic gods don't care either. Do you think we have ever done anything?"

"Haven't you already done a lot? For example, this game called "Destiny Man" was created by you guys."

“NoNoNo…”

She stretched out a finger and waved it:
"The people who worked on designing "The Destiny Man" were actually Xiaoyu, Xiaojiang, and Wanwan. Xiaoyu and Xiaojiang did it because of the rewards promised by Mr. Guan, and Wanwan obtained a large number of evil souls through this game. It's not that we did a lot of work, but we just did some work for Mr. Guan. In the final analysis...

If there really is a disaster that even gods cannot escape death, then there is no point in struggling, just eat and drink. If it is only a disaster for ordinary people... then what does it have to do with us?"

They did accomplish a lot in collaboration with Mr. Guan, but it was either because of vested interests or because Mr. Guan promised them rewards. The so-called collaboration was actually just them doing some work when they thought the rewards were reasonable.

This usually carefree clerk was now lazily lying at the front desk, saying something like "What does the destruction of the world have to do with me?"

She rested her chin on the table and read some silly and cool novels. Then, she squinted her eyes and started laughing.

"But there is one thing that is true... If order is destroyed, many interesting things will be gone, so I don't mind doing some work for the officials within my ability. I'm not such a stingy person."

"Aren't there any people like Mr. Guan practicing Buddhism abroad?"

Chen Yan thought for a moment after hearing this and said, "There are still quite a few people practicing mind cultivation abroad. It should be said that the majority of gods who practice mind cultivation are those who practice mind cultivation..."

The power of the mind cultivation comes from the believers. As for how to make the people contribute their faith, there are officials like Mr. Guan, who cares about the people and does a lot of practical things, and the people buy in. There are also forced missionaries and church development, which is very common in the Western god system.

Those gods are watching, secretly marking out their territories, and then waiting until the believers are in dire straits before they take action to reap their faith.

As for those who are not believers in cultivation, the true innate sacred Daluotian, their mentality is probably similar to Chen Yan's.

No matter how big the flood is, I am considered to have good character by not becoming a citizen of my motherland. Do you still want me to be a superman and save the world?
However, that’s not entirely true.

There are also three gods on the Internet now. They are very popular and stand directly in front of people in this chaotic era.

One is a country across the ocean. It was a federal police officer in his forties who killed a sea monster that was causing trouble on the west coast.

One was an eight-year-old boy from Northern Europe. He directly revealed his identity, contacted the local government, and prepared to fly to his own country.

There is also one in northern Russia, a white lady in her twenties with blonde hair, blue eyes and long legs, who also directly identified herself to the country and the public.

Including the big up-host 'Chennian Laojiang' in Jiangcheng Game Zone, there are only these four gods appearing in the world now.

There was another round of weird laughter from the side, and Chen Xi finally couldn't help it, "Don't use my account to buy your novel, I'm quitting."

"Why are you so stingy? I can't watch it without a membership."

Chen Xi was speechless: "You use my account to look at it, and when the time comes, all the people who give me the account will promote these stupid articles."

"You subscribed to this membership just to read these silly short stories, didn't you?"

"…You can use your own number anyway."

"Then lend me the money to buy a membership."

Chen Xi used her phone to cancel his number. Chen Yan's lips moved up and down, probably saying some unpleasant things about him, and then she went back to chatting.

"Douzi, do you know that a wise woman must learn how to deal with conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law after marriage..."

After listening to Chen Yan's patient persuasion, Bai Douzi's little brows suddenly frowned.

She only knew that she could get married after finding a boyfriend, and then start a family after getting married, but she never imagined that there were so many compulsory courses for women before getting married!
Bai Douzi took out her broken Redmi Note and operated it clumsily for a long time. She even got stuck for a long time while downloading Zhihu, and finally found out that she still needed membership.

"Look, this costs money..."

"Good things definitely cost money. Can free things be reliable?"

"Okay, it seems so!"

"When has Sister Chen Yan ever lied to you?"

"Ok!"

Bai Douzi seems stingy in many aspects, but generous to the point of being silly in some aspects. He was fooled by Chen Yan and actually recharged an annual card for Zhihu Yanxuan.

But there was a fatal problem: Douzi was illiterate. After she paid for her membership, she found that she did not recognize many words.

"This is a small matter, Douzi, go ahead and take care of it. I'll teach you after I finish watching it."

"Really? Thank you, thank you Sister Chen Yan!"

Bai Douzi suddenly became full of energy and felt that she was one step closer to starting a family.

“……”Doesn’t this woman really have any pain in her conscience?

……

Ever since the incident in Pingjiang County, life has become peaceful again for a while.

A group of second-rank masters of the King's Fate appeared on the List of Gods, and Su Jiuer, since she had been tempered in the ten reincarnations that day, not only did she make rapid progress that night, but her subsequent practice also increased rapidly.

On the "Investiture of the Gods", he has even reached 76th place. You should know that among the top people on the "Investiture of the Gods", the youngest are all old men in their forties or fifties.

And ever since that day when Chen Xi drove a car and brought a Daluotian to the rescue, it was inevitable that his identity appeared in the vision of the other two major guilds in Jiangcheng and the big guys behind their guilds.

In the past few days, a lot more people have come to Chen Xi's shop to drink coffee with him, and each of them has a lot of little ideas.

When these people came to the store and noticed Xue Ji, they all looked shocked and thought to themselves that Director Chen was indeed unusual as he actually kept such a monster in the store.

Chen Yan was happily cracking melon seeds on the side, watching them go to the boss for coffee, constantly probing them with words, and not even reading any of the stories about mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

When they finally left, she persuaded them all to sign up for annual membership of their store, and each of them signed up for more than a dozen cards, making a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)