Super Righteous Player
Chapter 1104 - 161: Ingrid’s Quadruple Plan (Two-in-One)_2

Chapter 1104: Chapter 161: Ingrid’s Quadruple Plan (Two-in-One)_2

The highest-ranking aristocrats of each country... including the "Winter family" itself, actually all have a room here.

Paper Princess was indeed staying in her room with Annan.

These occupied rooms took up sixty percent of the entire hotel’s rooms. But it didn’t cause the owner to lose money; instead, it became a sort of advertisement, making the owner earn even more...

Annan was also shocked at the time.

What kind of business acumen ahead of its time was this?!

After asking in detail, Annan learned that this was a shop previously opened by the former Pope of Silver Baron, and it is still being operated by a commercial guild under the control of Silver Baron’s church. The old man had also written several books in his lifetime, specifically discussing various business techniques and marketing strategies...

Compared to such truly wealthy people, demon’s blood is not considered expensive; it can even be considered cheap.

After all, it does not become valuable because of "limited production," "secret formula," or "strong efficacy"...

The reason smuggling demon’s blood carries a death penalty is partly because it can quickly create fallen ones; and partly because the raw material of demon’s blood... is humans themselves.

It must be a spiritually pure fallen one to be transformed into demon’s blood. The criterion for spiritual purity is rather broad... as long as one does not wish to harm others after falling, they can be considered spiritually pure.

After all, the process of falling amplifies negative emotions.

Many who appear to be honest corporate slaves might turn into serial killers after falling. This is partly because they suddenly gain power and have too little understanding of the world, leading to arrogance, and partly because the path of falling is a test of will and morality.

—Conversely, the path to ascension tests a person’s desires, while the path of falling tests one’s will.

In other words...

Every unit of demon’s blood produced means an innocent "good person" has to pay with their life.

If this ship is really filled with demon’s blood...

Calculating every six bottles of demon’s blood per unit, with shock absorption and light prevention embedded packaging tied together, to fit into a suitcase. Excluding the number of guards, this ship can hold at least six to seven hundred units of demon’s blood.

Excluding about sixty percent failure rate, this means nearly eight thousand people will die because of it.

...That’s about the population of some less populated towns, and even some underground cities do not reach this population.

Even if you let her capture people randomly, it’s impossible to capture so many.

Hence, the players had long realized—there must be a problem here, although they weren’t sure exactly what the issue was.

Once the players took over the ship, they began to inspect the hull.

And they received a piece of good news and a piece of bad news.

The good news was that there indeed was demon’s blood on the ship.

A full eight hundred units of demon’s blood!

...Or rather, eight hundred units’ worth of containers for storing demon’s blood.

The bad news is, most of them were empty.

Seven players carefully examined for about two hours.

They found that almost all the outermost layer had something... but the deeper inside, the emptier it got.

In the end, it’s estimated that only about a hundred units of demon’s blood could be found.

At most, definitely not reaching a thousand units.

It would be good to get five hundred units of demon’s blood if there are items in eighty-plus units of boxes.

The problem is...

Exactly how much demon’s blood did Ingrid get?

Were these empty boxes moved here by her to scare Annan, or did she actually empty out the contents?

But soon, Annan noticed a detail.

That is... many of the boxes were empty from the start. It could be directly determined that Ingrid stuffed a bunch of empty boxes in here.

And she used this method, definitely to cover up how much demon’s blood she actually took!

Thinking about it, Ingrid played the same trick twice.

She had "Venomhand" plunder this cargo ship, nominally letting it be hijacked by pirates, and the goods lost... but in fact, Dennisiowa’s navy was still guarding it, proving it was never truly stolen.

This blame would fall on "Venomhand" to allow Ingrid and the backing power behind her eligible for the "Council of Advisors" to monopolize this wealth.

And her second plan was to use this chain of demon’s blood to trick the players.

To see if her specially cultivated "Poppy" could counter the players’ resurrection abilities—if possible, to use Poppy’s ability to take over some players for further plans.

But if something unexpected happens, resulting in Poppy not being able to kill the players, but instead gets killed by them...

That would be her third plan.

She herself stole a batch of demon’s blood—and because of the excessively large number of empty boxes, it was impossible to determine how much she had actually taken... while also shifting the blame onto Annan.

Annan immediately thought of a joke.

It’s like when Uncle Yu Qian was hijacked by Somali pirates, and they demanded three million USD, but he responded by giving them four million and requesting an invoice for ten million...

Later, she would tell the backer that the demon’s blood had already been plundered by "unknown forces." Thus, the batch of demon’s blood she embezzled would have no way to be traced.