Chapter 138: One Thought of Saints, One Thought of Demons

Luden, as a victor, left the Senate. Justice Northred did not leave immediately.

The Grand Elder stood up, stared at the face that was bigger than the plate, and asked coldly,

"Lord Grued, the Senate needs to know why you agreed." The Senate is an ornament, and it is well known in the Divine State.

What is passed by the seven justices, the Senate generally passes. What's more, the pregnant woman card played by Luden this time belongs to spending money on the moral high ground to point fingers.

Ludon was willing to bear all the expenses of the citizens born during this period, and even had to deposit a sky-high amount of miso in the palace of greed.

Everyone has spent money, what else can they say?! Merely... In the eyes of the Senate, isn't this an open sale of the status of a citizen of the Divine State?

Wait a minute... Can the citizens of the state of God themselves be bought with money? Shenbang big stage, if you have money, you will come. Ahem.

In short, they looked down on Lutdon as an upstart, and with Lutden's grievances when he served as the hanged man, the Senate would not let go of the opportunity to take revenge on Lutden.

If they have the ability. Justice Gurred had thought of this a long time ago, twisted a piece of paper with two fingers, and read out the contents of it,

"According to the investigation of the Inquisition, there are 453 pregnant women between 8 weeks and 40 weeks in the vicinity of Shenbang." Pregnant women under 8 weeks of age, who can't see anything at all when they look at their stomachs, can swagger past the guards.

According to the research of the medical doctors of Shenbang, it takes about 40 weeks from pregnancy to delivery. The rule of the state of God over the years was that pregnant women were forbidden to enter the city.

Therefore, after the bell rings, the vast majority of pregnant women embark on the journey back to their hometowns in despair.

According to their survival wisdom, staying outside the kingdom of God is no different from waiting for death. Hiding in a cave in the ground of his hometown and preparing enough food and water will have a chance of survival.

There are only a handful of pregnant women who really stay near the state of God! There are only 2 days left until the gates are closed!

It's time to go, it's early, and it's not the first day of notice. Even if other pregnant women receive the news and want to return to the Divine State, it will be too late.

"The average time for the orcs to attack is 49 days. Even if it is calculated according to 2 months, 8 weeks. Justice Gourd held up eight fingers and said disdainfully,

"Of the 453 pregnant women, only 112 will give birth during this time, do you understand?" The orcs will come and go.

How big a pregnant woman's belly is is an objective law. In the third trimester of pregnancy, even if you are pregnant with a saint in your belly, it is impossible to give birth!

Who is Luden? Justice Gourd understands it too well! A guy who is as greedy as Justice Gurred is in his bones, and he can't wait to make any Miso.

Will he trade at a loss? Luden's rescue of pregnant women is nothing more than to build momentum, canvass for votes, and run for tribunes.

112 citizens of the Divine State, close to 20 million meters of expenditure, is it a profit or a loss for a tribune?

This account, Ludon himself calculated. The problem is that the 20 million meters do not need to be paid by Luden for a day!

And Ludon will be able to become a tribune in a few days! When he became a tribune... Isn't this 20 million meters a drop in the bucket?

And, if the mind is darker, the counting is a little cold-blooded. … Among the more than 100 babies to be born, how many can give birth smoothly, how many can survive the first three years, and how many can grow to such a high wheel?

In this era, the infant mortality rate is very high. Luden exchanged a blank check of 20 million meters for the hearts of the people and the tribune.

The true cost of Luden is likely to be lower than 20 million. Moreover, Justice Greed wondered if Luton had intended to live that long.

This man, who keeps saying that he doesn't want to hang, is always on the verge of death. No one suffers in this deal.

The pregnant women survived. The Senate received some applause, and people can live up to the Senate today. The palace of greed gets enough misso to fill the financial deficit.

While Ludon paid Miso, there was no suspense in taking down the tribune. Justice Gourd narrowed his eyes, his sparse eyebrows twitching, looking in the direction where Ludon had disappeared.

Is that really the case, Mr. Luden? May the saints bless you. ... After returning to the small building, Luden felt a little bored.

I don't know why, there is always uneasiness hanging over him. Such uneasiness is rare. What did he miss?

Luton rechecked it, not feeling like he had missed anything. He is really sending good fortune, sending good fortune with white flowers, and doing good deeds with sincerity.

Maybe the gimmick of this good thing is greater than the reality, maybe Ludon has done a lot of publicity about it, maybe Luden's original purpose is not so simple.

But that's really a good thing. Ludon closed his eyes tightly and revisited the whole thing from beginning to end.

He knew that the so-called [welfare], at some point, would backfire. If people with disabilities are given high welfare benefits, there will be a large number of healthy people who will find ways to turn themselves into disabilities.

If the unemployment benefits are too high for the unemployed, then people will stay at home and sit on empty seats. But this time it was a pregnant woman who was relieved, and he only paid for the expenses of the greedy palace, and did not have any other benefits.

What could go wrong?

"Winter—"

"Winter—" The knock on the door was a little weak, and it seemed weak, and it fell on Luden's ears, but it was extremely dull, like thunder on the ground.

Opening the door, in the night, there was a groom standing at the door, and... A pregnant woman with red eyes.

When she saw Mr. Ludon, she burst into tears and wept, and the pregnant woman choked up,

"Mr. Luden... Lena she... Lena, she..."Looking at the pregnant woman crying silently in front of her, Luden's heart sank, and the uneasiness fell into place.

It's time to come, but it's still coming after all. Lena, the simple name, Ludon remembers, of course. The pregnant woman who took the lead in talking to Luden yesterday is also the one closest to giving birth.

The moment he heard the name, Luden's mind went blank for a moment. He seemed to hear a sigh in his ear.

Invited the pregnant woman into the house, brought a glass of warm water, and Ludon was by his side, listening to the other party talk intermittently about what kind of tragedy this was.

"Last night, Lena's stomach started to hurt, and she didn't say anything until she couldn't help but hum, and we didn't find out."

"By this morning, we couldn't go into the city at that time, she was supposed to be giving birth, and we were in a hurry to prepare things..."...

"Lena won't let us come near her, and no one is allowed to come near her. Her face was pale, and her sweat kept dripping, and we didn't know how to do it, I really didn't know how she persevered..."

"We sent someone into the city to look for you, and they said you had gone to the Senate."

"The people who went into the city couldn't find you, and brought back the news of the Senate, everyone was very happy, and Lena was also very happy, she told us to put her on the tablet, she had to go into the city quickly, she couldn't even stand on her own, oh my God, I don't know how she did it, it took us a lot of effort to get her in the carriage."

"The carriage is too bumpy, it shouldn't be ridden, the donkey cart might be better... Everything happened so fast, so chaotic, and when we got to the gate of the Divine State, Lena she, she had, she had—" The woman said and howled again.

Ludon hung his head slightly, not saying a word. Lena didn't survive, and neither did the child. In this day and age, childbirth is a high-risk event.

It's the same for both adults and children. In addition, Lena has lasted too long, bumps along the way, and there is not enough scientific care... A thousand words, and finally a sigh.

The pregnant woman wiped tears from the corners of her eyes and cried,

"Oh, we hard-working people, good luck has never been involved in Lina..."She wants to give birth after entering the Divine State, she wants her future child to have the status of a citizen of the Divine State, and she has endured hardships, and she doesn't want the child to suffer again.

In the end, this tragedy was caused. Lena's behavior cannot be measured by right or wrong, let alone criticized or commented on by others.

Adults, take responsibility for their own choices. That's enough. The pregnant woman's emotions calmed down, raised her red and swollen eyes, and said hoarsely,

"We feel that we need to inform you about this, you need not be upset about it, you have done nothing wrong, but we poor people are to blame ourselves for our miserable lives..."Even in the last days of her life, Lena praised Mr. Ludon from the bottom of her heart.

In her heart, Mr. Ludon was more saint than a saint. The saints did not help her, but Luton gave her a palpable hope.

It's just that this hope, in the blink of an eye, bursts in the air like a bubble and no longer exists. Lu Deng comforted the other party a few words, expressed his grief and pain, and asked the other party to take care of his body.

Eventually, the groom sent the pregnant woman back. Xiaolou fell silent again. Ludon sat on the chair, let the back of the chair support his body, and applied a hot towel to his face, and the heat gushed upwards and slowly dissipated into the air.

"Awu, sit." At Mr. Lutdon's instructions, Awu sat down across from Mr. Lutden. There was a balance on the table, and the ends of the scale were empty.

Removing the towel from his face, Ludon sat up straight, and the strength returned to him. Darkness raged outside the building, constantly eroding the light.

Under the dim candlelight, Ludon looked at Awu, and the emotions in his eyes were too complicated to describe in words.

There is disappointment, there is pain, there is numbness, there is unwillingness, there is anger... All emotions melt together and become a flame, a flame that can burn the soul.

The flame attracted all of Awu's attention, and he watched it ignite in Mr. Ludon's eyes, and saw it fade away little by little.

Wu knew that the flame had not been extinguished, but had been hidden by Mr. Ludon in disguise. He's a guy who is good at disguise.

Only by getting closer, closer, can it be possible to peek into some of the truth of Mr. Luden's inner world in some moment.

When the flames were gone, the suffocating sense of oppression vanished, and Wu gulped in the fresh air, like a man who was on the verge of drowning.

A surging sorrow seemed to envelop Mr. Lutdon. Awu had never seen such a Mr. Ludon.

So strange. I don't know how long it took for Luton to break the silence.

"There are two lives on the scales." Ludon pointed to the empty scales and tortured Awu's soul,

"Which human life was saved by me, and which human life was harmed by me?".