Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

In a daze, she remembered the day her college entrance exam results were announced, she remembered Feng Chuanxiang, who seemed like a prodigy, and she remembered the undisguised ridicule and humiliation she received from everyone...

She took a deep breath, suppressing all her chaotic thoughts; she raised her head, her clear and resolute eyes like a sharp sword poised to be drawn.

"Please teach me, sir!"

"Alright!" Cheng Cheng chuckled. "Then let's become disciples!"

"Become an apprentice?"

Cheng Cheng rolled his eyes: "Of course. If you don't become my apprentice, how can I teach you everything I know?"

Tong Chuxue hesitated. After talking for so long, the possibility that the boy in front of her was a fraud was getting lower and lower. But once she became his disciple, it would mean that the boy would become her elder, and she would have to support him with all her possessions and help him recover his strength.

The family business is on the verge of bankruptcy, and the girl is struggling to make ends meet. She is penniless, so how can she help her future mentor?

However, opportunities only come once. If she misses them, she will surely regret it for the rest of her life.

Your own life, your own future—you must never regret it!

Thus, Tong Chuxue seized the future:

"Master, please accept my bow!"

Tong Chuxue performed the formal apprenticeship ceremony meticulously. Once the rituals were complete, Cheng Cheng finally smiled and gently patted the girl's shoulder:

"From this day forward, you will be my first disciple. I will do everything in my power to teach you all the ways to make money. As for your future achievements, that will depend on your own choices."

"Yes!"

Taking a deep breath, Tong Chuxue asked impatiently, "Master, may I ask, how do you plan to help me make money?"

“Hmm… let me think…” Tong Chuxue stroked her beard, deep in thought, “First of all, you have to start by laying bricks.”

"Make money?" Tong Chuxue was taken aback.

"You're a civil engineering major, how can you make money without laying bricks?" Cheng Cheng said slowly. "While I'm not an expert in bricklaying, I do know a thing or two about it."

…………

Finally, they managed to fool everyone...

Hiding in the dark space of the ring, watching Tong Chuxue rushing to catch her train outside, Cheng Cheng let out a long sigh.

The difficulty of this witch's trial lies in how to make contact with Sylvia and the others.

In the past, I always used Sylvia's phone directly. They were already friends, so there was no need to remember their phone numbers or social media accounts... But now that we're all in different places, it's extremely difficult to contact them.

If you were to directly call the Kingdom's embassy in the Empire, given the state of war between the two countries, you would probably be treated like a walking 500,000.

At that time, even if you can complete the simplest task, "contact Sylvia and others," you can forget about completing the tasks of "establishing an intelligence organization" and "climbing into the upper echelons of the empire."

Similarly, other methods of contacting the kingdom's official authorities are temporarily unavailable; we'll have to find another opportunity...

Fortunately, the mission wasn't just his, but also Sylvia's and Freya's. Surely they would find a way to locate him.

Before contacting them, we need to help Tong Chuxue level up quickly and accumulate money and reputation. Tong Chuxue is just a lucky one chosen by Witch C, not a game character, so the experience books produced by the system and the monster-killing leveling mechanism are useless to her.

The only reliable medicine is the pills that can improve one's cultivation level, but they are too expensive.

With Cheng Cheng's current cultivation level, which is comparable to a legend, making money is incredibly easy for him.

With the system's attribute sharing, he possessed 70% of Freya's attributes, and Freya was already a legendary being, with 1% control over the source matter—meaning Cheng Cheng himself owned 100% of the source matter…

Never mind, Cheng Cheng isn't good at math, and he's too lazy to calculate it, so it's very low anyway.

However, the difference between "having source matter" and "not having source matter" is vast, regardless of the percentage of control.

Currently, Cheng Cheng can delete the memories of all people within range, or directly delete a certain object, but Freya needs to gradually increase her control over the source matter for more operations.

At the same time, since the Source Essence [Understanding] is the superior of the three cards "Empress", "Moon" and "High Priestess", which together symbolize feminine power, Cheng Cheng can also use some of the authority of "Moon" and "High Priestess", but the effect is weaker, and can only hypnotize ordinary people and increase his own recovery speed.

The "Empress" card, which empowers beings, can also be used to force them to become pregnant. Moreover, since it is Freya's blasphemous card, the effect is even stronger when shared.

Cheng Cheng named this move "Staring Pregnancy Gu," also known as "Strong Person Appraisal Technique," because true strong persons, such as Legendary, can suppress the pregnancy effect or even manually abort the pregnancy using a clothes hanger. However, anyone below the Legendary level who takes this move will undoubtedly die.

In short, Cheng Cheng is now terrifyingly strong. He is invincible below the legendary level and can trade one for one above the legendary level!

If they want to continue to grow stronger, it will depend on Freya and Sylvia's efforts... Sylvia's legendary ritual is still pending, so Freya's performance progress and her mastery of the Blasphemous Cards and Source Essence are particularly crucial.

As the name suggests, Freya can naturally play the role of the Queen as long as she acts well. However, given that the Queen card also has the meaning of the Mother card, and authority is a symbol of the mother, Cheng Cheng felt that it would be more effective to get Freya pregnant as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, I'm not by Freya's side, and Freya's current physical age makes it hard to say whether she can conceive... If there's really no other way, it's not impossible for me to call Freya "Mom".

It's not that I want to shout, it's because I want to become stronger...

Lost in thought, Tong Chuxue had already arrived at school.

Normally, high school students have two months of summer vacation after the college entrance examination, which is also the last summer vacation for most people in the empire. However, since the empire is currently in a state of high alert, the summer vacation has been canceled. All high school students must either join the army or go to school immediately.

Of course, once you get to school, don't even think about resting; everyone has to work.

The alchemy and weapon crafting majors are assigned to work in military factories, the courier majors are responsible for transporting military supplies, the security majors are sent directly to the battlefield, and the civil engineering majors are—

"Move bricks!"

At Jinling Vocational and Technical School, in the drab civil engineering teaching building, on the teacher's platform.

The counselor made no attempt to introduce the school or the meeting, but instead went straight to the freshmen, saying, "Now is the time when the country needs us, and His Majesty needs us! We cannot waste our limited time on studying; instead, we should learn through labor!"

"The school has contracted to build an air-raid shelter, and we need manpower right now! All students, put down your textbooks and come with me to the construction site to move bricks!"

Upon hearing this, the students immediately began to discuss among themselves:

"I finally got into a junior college, but I still have to do manual labor. What's the point of getting into junior college?

"Damn it! This lousy school is just looking for free labor! Protest! I'm going on strike!"

"Are you a spy for the Kingdom? Have you been poisoned by the Kingdom's propaganda? Strikes and protests are the people's powerless resistance against the Kingdom's capital, but the Empire belongs to all its people and has no capital! Therefore, protests in the Empire without permission from the relevant authorities are illegal, don't you know that?"

"Hmph, in my opinion, it's all the fault of the civil service..."

Amidst the commotion, the teacher slammed his hand on the podium and even shouted "Silence!", which only made the students noisier.

Only after he pulled out his pistol did the students obediently shut up and sit still.

"Of course, the school will not treat its students unfairly." The teacher coughed lightly. "All students will sign contracts with the school-enterprise partnership and will receive a salary."

With a serious expression, he said, "The reason you all chose to go to college instead of going to work in a factory after graduating from vocational school is to earn more money and cultivate higher levels of skill, right? I can tell you with certainty that although civil engineering may be dirty and tiring, no one has ever said that civil engineering is not profitable!"

"Moreover, our school is undertaking national projects, so you can rest assured that you will be able to work and study without worry. I will also teach civil engineering-related courses by example in the factory to ensure that you graduate smoothly!"

Upon hearing this, the students all quieted down.

Tong Chuxue held the ring on her hand, thinking to herself, "As expected, Mr. Mambo was right... Entering the civil engineering field ultimately means laying bricks."

…………

The junior college is located in the suburbs, so the construction site is not far from the school; it's just around the corner.

Tong Chuxue glanced around and found that the construction site covered a huge area, with roads being built, buildings being constructed, and tunnels being dug everywhere, and various vibration and bombardment sounds could be heard incessantly.

"The country is currently on high alert, so military roads, air defense facilities, and storage facilities are being built everywhere," the teacher told the new students. "So don't worry, for the next few years, our civil engineering program will have no shortage of work and money!"

"Yay!" the students cheered.

Immediately afterwards, the teacher began to assign tasks with a smile.

All students were divided into groups of three. Some went to work with the construction team. Those with technical skills were responsible for operating large machines or ritual implements, while those without skills were responsible for pouring cement and carrying bricks.

The teacher also selected three of the prettiest girls to participate in the quality inspection training.

The first snowfall of Tong was not among them.

It wasn't that she wasn't pretty, but rather that her beauty probably didn't fit the teacher's aesthetic standards—the three girls were all over 1.8 meters tall, with curvaceous figures and glamorous makeup, while Tong Chuxue was small and had no breasts or buttocks; the teacher glanced at her and left.

A boy named Xiao Chunan, who was assigned to the same team, complained, "Sigh, I never thought that being pretty would get me special treatment on this construction site. I'm so envious..."

Another boy, dressed in black with a black hood and a black mask, named Wang Zhiming, sneered: "What does it have to do with being pretty or not? You probably don't know how murky things are on construction sites!"

"Oh? Tell me more?" Tong Chuxue and Xiao Chunan were both intrigued.

“Jinling City is inland. With the Empire’s military strength, how could it possibly be driven here? If they can’t defeat it, why are they undertaking such large-scale construction?” Wang Zhiming sneered. “In my opinion, it’s all just about making money!”

“But this is a national project, and it’s wartime. I don’t think anyone would be so bold as to do this,” Xiao Chunan said hesitantly.

"Of course there is!" Wang Zhiming answered firmly. "Do you know? There is such an organization that has been manipulating the world's situation in the shadows, constantly launching wars, harming the people and His Majesty the Emperor, and enriching themselves. The previous Gao dynasty was brought down by them!"

"Is this really true? What organization is this?" Xiao Chunan exclaimed in shock.

Wang Zhiming took a deep breath, looked up at the sky, and uttered four words in a deep voice: "Civil official group".

"I've already written a book about this, titled 'The True History of the Empire.' I originally planned to post it online, but unfortunately, it was rejected by Qidian.com, which shows that even Qidian.com has the shadow of the civil service group..."

Tong Chuxue ignored the two idiots in her group, put on her hard hat, and entered the construction site.

On the construction site, quality inspectors wear red safety helmets, skilled workers wear blue safety helmets, gold and silver safety helmets belong to leaders, and ordinary workers wear yellow safety helmets.

The safety helmet has an intelligent AI recognition system that can monitor workers' work efficiency in real time and charge them per piece.

The Tongchuxue group's job was to move bricks. Following the teacher's guidance, they arrived at the work site. The teacher explained, "You are all college students. Since you were able to get into college, you must have some cultivation. You should earn more than ordinary migrant workers... provided that you use the work tools."

The so-called magical artifacts are the same as the kingdom's magical props and magical prosthetics. After all, only those at the Silver rank and above can learn magic, so what use is the magical power of cultivators below the Silver rank?

It involves using magical artifacts to indirectly employ magic.

"We have magical artifacts and artifacts available for rent at the construction site, which can improve your work efficiency," the teacher said meaningfully. "If you don't have enough money, it's okay. We offer preferential rates for work loans here."

Xiao Chunan and Wang Zhiming exchanged a glance and then went to take out loans to rent magical artifacts.

Xiao Chunan's magical artifact is the Brick-Carrying Handguard, which can strengthen the body and maintain balance, allowing him to carry hundreds of bricks in one go without falling over; Wang Zhiming, on the other hand, chose the Cement Arm, which allows him to insert his hand into cement and stir it, injecting magic power, instantly reaching 108 revolutions, producing cement that is both fast and of high quality!

"Hahaha! Sure enough, I'm making money much faster after using the magic artifact!" Xiao Chunan exclaimed in delight. "My work efficiency has tripled. I only need to work for half a day to earn enough to cover a day's rent, and the rest is practically free money!"

The teacher smiled with satisfaction as he watched the students successfully obtain their loans.

Then, he looked at Tong Chuxue, the only one who hadn't moved, frowned, but still said in a gentle tone, "Tong, aren't you going to rent a magical artifact to work with?"

"No need, I have enough."

Before Tong Chuxue could finish speaking, she suddenly raised her right arm high above her head, and the ancient ring on her index finger suddenly lit up. A circle of warm yet sharp golden light exploded from her fingertip and spread in all directions.

"The ultimate move: To shelter all the poor and needy and bring them joy!"

The next moment, it seemed as if an invisible command resounded between heaven and earth—thousands of blue bricks broke through the ground and rose into the air, like thousands of troops summoned, rushing and converging from all directions, layer upon layer surrounding the girl!

Under the teacher's astonished gaze, bricks floated, arrayed like a wall, dust swirled in the wind, and golden light intertwined with the shadows of bricks. Tong Chuxue stood amidst the sky full of bricks, her figure upright and sharp, appearing at a glance like a construction site queen commanding thousands of bricks, awe-inspiring and unapproachable!

Chapter 105, Slapping the Boss in the Face, Shocking the Construction Site