Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies-Chapter 1260: You Must Atone

Chapter 1260: You Must Atone

The High Lama's voice was low and steady, slowly drifting into the ears of the believers below.

Those muddle-headed believers, suffering from the extreme cold, some were already mentally dazed.

Yet, when they heard the High Lama's promised afterlife, a glimmer of hopeful light burst forth in their eyes.

Oh, that's right.

No wonder my life is so hard now; it turns out this is a form of ascetic practice.

As long as I can endure hardship now, after I die, I can enter the Pure Land and enjoy ultimate happiness.

Thinking this, their hearts instantly felt much more balanced. Instead, they became smugly confident for having endured enough suffering.

An old woman, her face full of wrinkles, grinned, revealing her last two remaining teeth, giggling "geigeigei" non-stop.

She was mocking those privileged masters.

Mocking those overseers who spent their days brandishing leather whips to beat and curse her.

Those people might strut about arrogantly and live well in this life, but after they die, they certainly won't enter the Western Pure Land.

So, in the future, when she was beaten again, she would only inwardly mock those people, not complain.

After death, those people would stare enviously from hell as she enjoyed bliss, while they themselves could only experience endless torment in hell.

Let them regret it then!

Just thinking this, the old woman immediately felt delighted, more comfortable than eating a full meal.

The High Lama picked up a small drum from beside him and gently tapped it with his hand.

"You must atone for your sins!"

The believers hurriedly said, "I must atone for my sins."

"You must repent!"

"I must repent."

...

"You must endure!"

"I must endure."

...

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yi and the others all felt an intense sense of familiarity.

It reminded them of the Bai Xue Jiao back in Tianhai City.

All religions under heaven spread their ideology by brainwashing people, making them accept their set of doctrines.

The believers suddenly looked towards Zhang Yi and his group. On their cold, numb faces, a terrifyingly eerie smile suddenly appeared.

Zhang Yi shook his head; these people were already insane.

He glanced at Lhobu beside him and suddenly asked with keen interest:

"Through this method, the people below must be very obedient, right?"

Lhobu hurriedly clasped his hands together: "Amitabha, esteemed guest, you are mistaken. They are merely practicing asceticism."

Liang Yue, standing nearby, said in a slightly sarcastic tone, "Then why don't you and the master of the Pagyi Family practice asceticism?"

Lhobu's eyes shifted, and he smiled, "Precisely because we endured asceticism in our past lives, we can enjoy blessings and prosperity in this life."

Liang Yue rolled her eyes, speechless at Lhobu's sophistry.

Zhang Yi chuckled, pointing at Lhobu as he said to Liang Yue, "You're trying to show off your skills in front of an expert. Since they've been playing this game with a tradition spanning thousands of years, they naturally have ways to justify it."

Flickers of fire seemed to dance in Liang Yue's eyes.

Having spent a long time with Zhang Yi, she had also learned to be reserved.

But indignation still burned in her chest.

She had thought the outside world was already chaotic enough, but she never imagined this place would be like a demon realm, filling her heart with frustration.

It was just that she couldn't lose her temper in front of Zhang Yi.

Otherwise, according to her nature, she would definitely chop down all the abusers here and liberate these poor serfs.

Liang Yue's thoughts were written all over her face. Seeing this, Zhang Yi didn't say much more.

However, Lhobu looked at Liang Yue, greatly astonished in his heart.

"The mercenaries the family head invited shouldn't include that kind of hypocritical person. What's the deal with this woman?"

Lhobu was puzzled but didn't dare say more. He just planned to observe these people today and then report to Pagyi Gesang.

Zhang Yi and his group spent half a day touring the Pagyi Family's territory.

However, they didn't get to visit the core area of Lhasa City, the political and religious center, Sangha Monastery.

Because the situation there was currently complex. Nominally, it was still jointly managed by the four great families.

But since both the Lord of the Charnel Ground and the Khenpo were from the Yasha Langtai Family, it wasn't suitable for Zhang Yi, a Pagyi Family mercenary, to go there.

Zhang Yi was indifferent to this.

He had already made up his mind. Daytime operations weren't very convenient. When night fell, he would go and investigate properly.

After wandering around for a while, Zhang Yi and the others went back to rest, waiting for Pagyi Gesang to return.

As soon as they entered the room, Liang Yue slammed her Dragon's Roar saber heavily onto the table.

"This place is simply hell!"

Her face cold with anger, she said to Zhang Yi.

"We shouldn't have come back! A place like this deserves to be destroyed!"

No one was guarding outside at the moment, so Yang Xinxin and the others also emerged from the Shadow Space.

However, Zhou Haimei and Yang Siya's faces were deathly pale; it was them who had been vomiting inside the Shadow Space just now.

Such a cruel scene was something they had never witnessed in their lives; their hearts simply couldn't bear it.

In comparison, Zhou Ke'er, having performed many surgeries, was less affected by human organs and could still endure it.

Faced with Liang Yue's indignation, before Zhang Yi could speak, Yang Xinxin spoke first.

"Do you think other places are much better?"

"Even if the Pagyi Family is destroyed, the esoteric sect's rule will still exist. The people here will still be enslaved like livestock."

"And," she looked at Liang Yue with a frighteningly rational gaze, "the root cause of all these problems isn't just human evil; it's also related to the environment."

"Scarcity of resources inevitably leads to such outcomes. It's just that their methods are more blatant and barefaced."

Liang Yue opened her mouth but found herself unable to refute for a moment.

Similar situations hadn't been absent in Tianhai City back then.

It was just that later, due to Zhang Yi's presence, everyone in the Shelter had ample food and clothing, giving Liang Yue a vague illusion of returning to a stable modern life.

But in fact, the chaos of the Apocalypse still existed, and competition between people would only grow fiercer, not weaker.

Liang Yue took a deep breath, "But what they're doing feels like senseless slaughter to me! It's inhuman."

"Moreover, what's visible on the surface is already so cruel. I can't imagine how many unspeakable deeds are happening behind the scenes."

This time, even Zhou Ke'er stepped forward to support Liang Yue's view.

"While chaos is inevitable after the Apocalypse, the situation in Lhasa City is a bit too extreme."

"This is, after all, the center of the Southwest Region, supposedly the area with the most abundant resources. Places like Shengjing City and Blizzard City have never had such terrifying scenes."

She frowned slightly and said slowly, "I always feel this place has an air of strangeness about it."

As soon as she said this, everyone present suddenly looked at each other. Even Zhang Yi's face flashed with a peculiar expression.

"You felt it too?"

Zhou Ke'er looked at everyone, "I think we all felt it. The people here, every single one of them, is abnormal."

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