Looking at the grim reaper girl clinging to his clothes and gazing up at him pitifully as she begged him to help her reap souls, Xiang Yang sighed.
He asked her, "You want to reap as many human souls as possible?"
The grim reaper girl nodded.
"So you want to kill them in droves with plagues, wars, famines, and the like?"
The grim reaper girl nodded vigorously.
"You fool!" Xiang Yang poked her forehead hard, exasperated that she just didn't get it.
"How is that any different from killing the hen for its eggs? Ever heard of growing the pie first?
"In this age, production is so low that people can barely feed themselves. Even if you wiped out humanity, you'd reap only a few million souls!
"But if you help humanity increase production first, so that people have plenty of supplies and can have more children, their numbers will grow exponentially!
"Once there are tens or hundreds of billions of them, you could lie around doing nothing and still reap tens of millions of souls every year!"
The grim reaper girl covered her reddened forehead, suddenly enlightened!
