Chapter 166

It is easy to see that Pete and his friends are not from the refugee camp.

Not only in terms of clothing and appearance.

More obviously in terms of spirit and energy.

Their mental state is completely different from that of the refugees.

Wayne has been in the refugee camp for several years, and he has seen what most refugees look like.

The worst refugees have almost no hope for life. They rummage through garbage and collect relief every day, as long as they are not starving to death and can survive.

The slightly better ones may still have a little savings in their hands, hoping to survive this period and go back after the pollution in their homes dissipates. Occasionally, there will be a little light of hope in their eyes, but most of the time, they are still tortured by the hard days and their eyes are dull, just muddling through.

Pete and his friends are different.

Their eyes are bright and energetic, and it is obvious that they are full of hope for life and live a very fulfilling life.

These people come to the refugee camp, and nine out of ten are not doing well.

"My lords, no matter what you have to do, please go back."

He hit a soft nail before he even started the negotiation.

Pete was a little depressed.

Goblin Hugo did find him a "refugee" who knows architecture according to his request, but this guy named Ray Wayne is not easy to deal with.

The other party's attitude is very resistant.

From the beginning, he refused to negotiate and directly issued an order to expel him.

If it were the old Pete, he would have retreated when he met such a guy.

It's different now.

Pete's temper also came up.

He didn't believe it!

With the belief in the God of Knowledge, there is nothing in the world that he can't do. The so-called inability is nothing more than not enough effort or the wrong direction of effort!

He can get to where he is today and become a dignified 3rd-level battle mage, all thanks to his own efforts!

God of Knowledge, add some points... Oh, no.

It should be: "Please guide me in the direction of progress!"

Pete muttered in his heart, and the prompt came down:

[Requirement: 5 knowledge points]

After destroying a large number of monsters in the dark forest, Pete now has dozens of knowledge points in his hands. He can accept this consumption!

Just pay it!

[Wayne's interest in recruitment issues: 0%]

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In the "big update" after activating the Creation Altar, Norwen also integrated and opened up another way of using his priesthood authority to believers:

That is to temporarily display a certain "mentality" of the target.

The target specifically refers to mortals who are not Norwen's believers.

Believers consume their own knowledge points to get the opportunity to query the target's "mentality" once.

Multiple queries require multiple consumption.

Norwen has not yet fully understood how his priesthood authority does this.

Because this is different from directly acquiring knowledge or displaying fixed information such as learning progress.

Things like knowledge are clear and objective.

"Mindset" is an extremely vague and abstract concept.

Norwen speculated: This is probably a result that his authority has obtained based on various information and after a lot of deductions, which is infinitely close to the truth?

In essence, perhaps just like the progress display when he can provide believers with learning knowledge and repairing airships, it is actually a kind of "calculation" of mortal thoughts?

Nowen could only make such a guess based on the information he currently had.

This way of using authority consumes much more divine power than other methods.

And the consumption varies depending on the target.

At the beginning, this trick was used to gain Bahamut's trust in the interrogation room, so that Pete could see in real time how much Bahamut "trusted" him.

Of course, at that time, Nowen only had Pete as a believer, so he let Pete use it for free.

Now that the number of believers has increased, Nowen has naturally switched to a charging model, and even added a little bit of commission.

...

Pete has experienced the effect and decisively used it to show Ray Wayne's "interest" in recruiting.

As long as he can see the progress bar, it will be easy!

At worst, he can try each condition one by one to see which condition will make Ray Wayne excited.

Pete organized his words and took the initiative to introduce himself to the other party:

"Mr. Wayne, let me introduce myself. My name is Pete Chinal. I heard that you have architectural skills."

"We are in urgent need of architects now."

"You can ask for the remuneration. If you want anything, we can discuss and try to meet your needs."

"For example, gold coins, we can entrust you with a remuneration higher than the market price!"

After that, Pete paid another 5 knowledge points.

Let's see if his words can interest Ray Wayne.

[Wayne's interest in recruitment issues: 0%]

"Fuck!" Pete's face turned black.

It's a waste of words.

After saying so much, the other party didn't seem to be moved at all, and his interest level was still zero.

Obviously, the trick of luring with benefits doesn't work.

Pete changed his words decisively:

"It is actually like this, Mr. Wayne."

"Let me tell you the truth. We are developing a territory on an unowned land, and many of the people involved in the development are refugees from the refugee slums."

"Although there was a problem with your design back then, I believe it should be just a coincidence."

"We have put in a lot of effort to build a new home, but now we don't even have a house to shelter from the wind and rain. Life is very difficult. Can you please lend a hand and help them?"

It doesn't work to lure them with benefits, so Pete changed it to emotion.

Ray Wayne has been in the refugee camp for so many years, maybe he is willing to help for the sake of the refugees?

Submit more points to see the effect of the negotiation.

[Wayne's interest in recruitment issues: -17%]

Pet is almost torn.

So this number can be reduced to a negative number? !

Carefully looking at Wayne, Pete could feel that the other party was just not interested in what he said at the beginning, but after mentioning the refugees just now, his attitude towards Pete and others began to change to disgust!

He said the wrong thing!

Ray Wayne angrily gestured for Pete to leave, and said rudely:

"I am not interested in helping refugees now, nor do I have the ability to help them..."

"You also said that my design has problems, and future designs may also have problems."

"Don't force me to drive people away, just go away, I don't want to see you again."

This guy is stubborn! He won't listen to soft or hard words!

Pet's 15 points were wasted, not only did he fail to create any effective progress, but it seemed to have the opposite effect.

Just as Pete's brain was spinning rapidly, trying to say or do something to save it.

Rena, who had sneaked into the shed at some point, suddenly spoke:

"That's it?"

Hearing the voice behind him, Ray Wayne turned around in surprise.

He saw that Rena was holding a few pieces of parchment with writings and drawings on them, which were his things.