No strange things are allowed to evolve!

The panel is very simple, with only three data points, making it intuitive and easy to understand.

Next to the believer, there is a button to check details, but it is not yet available. Jiang Shu guesses that after successfully subduing the believer, this channel will be available to view the believer's attributes.

As the guide says, different believers can provide different amounts of faith power, and the amount of divine power they transfer to the gods is also different.

It is likely that there exists a system of qualifications for believers.

So, the question now is how to win over the believers, right?

"So, what can you do with ten points of divine power...?"

While Jiang Shu was still exploring the various mechanisms within the incubator, on the other side, the bald man, using the alias "Itchy Head," had already entered Wangzhuang, the village at the foot of the mountain where he was located.

He couldn't remember which playthrough this was, but in any case, he had already figured out his own formula for playing.

Although the specific circumstances in the hatchery will change greatly each time and it is impossible to completely replicate them, the core principles remain the same. As long as the mechanism remains unchanged, his gameplay can always be adapted.

Now, as usual, he disguised himself as a wandering Taoist priest and began searching for suitable followers.

His selection process is very particular.

If it were an ordinary evolved being, upon entering this incubation ground for the first time, they would definitely inquire about and seek out the most loyal, trustworthy, and steadfast person in their daily lives who could contribute the power of faith, and try to recruit them as a believer.

But he's different.

He doesn't consider character or personal factors.

He only looks at who has the most influence and the most prestige.

These people only need to appear virtuous on the surface, because what they value is not individual worth, but their influence.

The most crucial thing is how many followers they can attract.

It's certainly easier and more convenient to have local people helping you than to spread the gospel one by one yourself.

These people often have a certain reputation in the local area. If they vividly recount their miracles to win people's hearts, although the effect is certainly not as reliable as if you repeatedly perform miracles and fulfill their wishes, it will at least make them feel closer to you and at least prevent them from being resistant.

This will help him save a lot of divine power expenses.

This idea isn't particularly ingenious; in fact, many people could come up with it. But why is it that only the person with the itchy head can consistently succeed?

This brings us to the difficulties in implementing this plan and its ingenuity.

First of all, influential and prestigious people are often those with vision, ideas, and even principles.

They are not easy to subdue.

Because things that are out of reach for ordinary people may just be part of their daily lives, their desires are often far beyond what ordinary people can achieve. This means that the initial investment of divine power must be substantial.

This is tantamount to maximizing the risk from the very beginning, which has already deterred many people who lack courage.

Most people worry that if they gamble all their divine power and fail to fulfill these people's wishes, or even if they do, and the returns they bring are far less than expected, what should they do?

For example, if you spend 10,000 to hire a salesperson, but their output is only 5,000, and they can't attract other clients, wouldn't that be disastrous?

Therefore, most people will seek stability and will start with those individuals who are not very profitable but are stable.

But I did it anyway because my head was itchy.

Because he has his own clever ideas and designs, he is not afraid of any mishaps.

He will not exhaust his divine power at the beginning to gain complete trust and respect.

He started with a little bit of trust.

Once he has identified his target, he will first demonstrate his skills.

This technique doesn't require much divine power; it only requires convincing the target that they are not an ordinary person and can do things that ordinary people cannot.

If possible, it's best to make the other person believe that you are a mountain god.

Then, we can start discussing business.

Yes, we're talking business, not some unrealistic, vague ideal or anything like that—

As long as you can bring me a certain number of followers, I can grant you one wish.

Having witnessed the miraculous abilities, whether out of a desire to give it a try or out of curiosity, most of these people would give it a shot.

They will soon find some trustworthy people, or people they deem gullible, and gather them together.

Only at this point will the person with the itchy head truly expend divine power to fulfill the initial person's wish and perform a miracle.

Thus, the first believers were born.

Seeing that some people have actually received God's blessings and had their wishes fulfilled, wouldn't those who were called in, who can be tentatively called second-generation believers, feel itchy to do the same?

Most definitely.

But those with itchy heads won't grant their wishes just because of their complete faith.

The same method was used again—

As long as you can bring me a certain number of followers, I can grant you one wish.

At this point, after witnessing the miracle, even though it didn't fulfill their own wishes, these people had already begun to feel a strong urge to believe.

He firmly believed that as long as he did what the mountain god had instructed, his dream would come true.

In this way, they will be itching to recruit third-generation believers.

All that's needed for someone with an itchy head is to fulfill the wishes of a second-generation believer in front of a third-generation believer, and the entire process will run smoothly like a machine.

The most wonderful thing about this is that, from beginning to end, the divine power is always abundant, it can never be depleted, and there will never be a situation where you go all in.

This is because it is tantamount to using the beliefs of later generations to fulfill the wishes of earlier generations.

The only scenario where things go wrong is if the development is too fast, and when the last batch of believers enters, the divine power generated by the faith of those who came before may not be enough to support them in fulfilling their wishes.

However, if such a situation occurs, it means that the incubator mechanism has already subdued almost the entire village at a speed that exceeds its operational limits. In that case, it doesn't matter whether their wishes are fulfilled or not. As long as a powerful blow is delivered to crush the real competitor, the outcome will be decided.

If this situation doesn't occur, and instead a steady and methodical approach is taken to completely convert the entire village into believers, then there's even less to say.

Outside the hatchery, Sebastian watched as the man with an itchy head chatted and laughed with a highly respected old Chinese medicine doctor in the village. With just a few moves, the old doctor was amazed by the man's extraordinary abilities and then asked him to pass on his knowledge. Sebastian immediately realized that this man was no ordinary person.

"A Ponzi scheme...?"

He sighed:

"Young Master has met his match this time."

"Although...but..." Brother Bing glanced at him, "Why are you talking like he's never met his match before? Isn't this his first opponent?"

“But there’s nothing we can do.” Sebastian shook his head and said helplessly, “Our opponent is a thousand points. Although he is relatively mediocre in the final arena, he is a force to be reckoned with in the high-level arena. Not to mention, he is targeting those veterans from the incubation arena. All the unfavorable factors have piled up together.”

Upon hearing this, Brother Bing smiled wryly and said, "Who can we blame? We've already warned him. Fortunately, although the stakes are high, they're not serious enough to cripple him. Hopefully, he'll learn his lesson this time."

It's not that they thought Jiang Shu would lose; it's just that compared to the intense competition on the other side, Jiang Shu's side was completely exhausted.

Sebastian and Brother Bing have God's perspective, so they can see that Jiang Shu actually turned all his divine power into food.

Although he was able to conjure up a mountain of high-quality grains with his ten points of divine power because food was cheap, he now had no divine power left and was no different from an ordinary person.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Shu distributed all the fine grains to the tenant farmers and poor peasants in the village who worked for the landlords and usually only ate coarse grains.

"These... are for us?"

The tenant farmers were incredulous at the mountain of grain they were presented with.

Even if all of them combined for a year, they might not be able to produce this much high-quality grain.

"Yes, they're all for you."

Jiang Shu said with a smile:

"I just met a young man from your village on the mountain. We hit it off and chatted for a long time."

He said that you guys usually don't have enough to eat, and the landlords take most of the harvest every year. It's pitiful. Many young men, who are of marriageable age, can't find wives because their families have no food reserves.

It was so heartbreaking to hear; you really don't know the hardships of life until you go out.

As it happens, I have some savings, so I thought I'd do some good deeds and distribute some of my unused grain reserves. Those who need it can improve their meals, and those who need it to get married can use it to do so. Don't be shy with me!

"Godfather? Is he really my godfather?"

In an instant, cries of gratitude filled the air.

As he watched the number of believers steadily increase on the divine panel that only he could see, Jiang Shu couldn't help but reveal a cryptic smile.

It turns out that what happened just now was not a coincidence. I really don't need to deliberately fulfill their wishes to win them over as believers.

Gaining their favor and then using your charm and generosity a little bit is enough.

Not long ago, Jiang Shu, who was testing the effects of divine power, used a little of his power to conjure up many white steamed buns. Just then, a skinny cowherd passed by. Jiang Shu thought that since these steamed buns were going to be thrown away anyway, he might as well give them to this little boy who looked like he was about to starve to death.

It turned out that after talking to him, they realized that he was not a child at all, but a malnourished adult. He was not only thin but also short, and he just looked like a child.

While the cowherd was frantically munching on steamed buns, Jiang Shu learned that there were many people like him in Zhao Village. Jiang Shu immediately realized that this might be a group used to ensure the minimum level of believers, a group that exists in the lower-level market when it is impossible to subdue highly qualified believers.

At the same time, his number of followers also became 1.

Through the panel, Jiang Shu can view the cowherd's detailed information.

As expected, the other party could contribute very little faith and divine power. After all, his wish was simply to have enough to eat, and he would treat whoever fed him as his elder brother.

However, Jiang Shu is very cautious.

He wasn't sure if eating was truly the other person's wish, or if it was his own skill and charm that worked.

So an evil plan gradually began to take shape in his mind.

If it's just about having enough to eat, then even if not everyone—after all, there will always be some idealistic romantics—at least most of the people who received food from him would treat him as an elder brother, so it's not too bad. But if it's about skills and charisma, then everyone will become his followers, and that would be a huge win.

Now, it turns out that it was charisma and skill that made the difference.

Even their loyalty is 100%!

Seeing this, Brother Bing outside the hatchery frowned: "Is this the same idea as that other guy, also wanting to go down this path...?"

But he seemed to have fallen short, not only exhausting his divine power to do these trivial things, but also choosing these targets...

To put it bluntly, if you live a monotonous life, barely scraping by, what vision can you have, what ideals can you talk about, and how much divine power can you contribute?

Seeing this, Sebastian was slightly disappointed, but he still said, "Let's wait and see. This is just the beginning. Perhaps the young master has some clever ideas that we haven't noticed?"

"Is that so..." Brother Bing didn't take it seriously.

Meanwhile, Jiang Shu finally began his evil plan.

He was facing this group of believers, or rather, suicide squads, whom he had just gained.

He suddenly burst into tears.

"What's wrong, my benefactor?"

"Godfather, what's wrong?"

Rubbing his teary eyes, Jiang Shu sighed, "I was just thinking that I gave you a few good meals today, but that's only a temporary solution. Once this food is gone, you'll go back to your old ways, and then I might not have the strength to help you anymore."

"this..."

Everyone was speechless, and for a moment, a somber atmosphere filled the air.

It was at this moment.

"Sigh, never mind, it's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish." Jiang Shu seemed to have made a major decision: "How about... you guys work for me?"

After a moment's hesitation, everyone's eyes hardened.

"Our benefactor, please tell us what you want us to do, and we will go through fire and water for you without hesitation!"

"I want to set up a workshop here."

Jiang Shu picked up a broken tile from the field and murmured:

“I’ve already thought of a name: Miaowadi Industrial Park.”

Chapter 215 Cutting Off the Fire from Under the Blade

"Temple Tile Land? My benefactor, what does this mean?"

The tenant farmers and poor peasants asked, puzzled.

Jiang Shu threw down a tile: "The temple refers to the temple I live in on the mountain, the tile means that we must rely on our own efforts to build our own lives, and the land means that this land is the beginning of our path to prosperity and wealth!"

“The temple on the mountain…” One of the older tenant farmers thought for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise, “There’s only a dilapidated mountain god temple on the mountain, and it hasn’t had any worshippers for a long time. You live there, but you don’t seem to be a wanderer. Could it be that you are…”

Jiang Shu nodded: "That's right, I am the mountain god here."