Excessive ferocity due to caution

"What a pity... everyone."

"Your savior has not saved you this time."

Zhao Yi flicked his cigarette ash, turned around, paused suddenly, and then smiled:

"Perhaps it was inappropriate of me to say it like that."

"It should be said that your savior never saved you."

No one in the crowd dared to refute Zhao Yi anymore.

Their faces were ashen.

Lü Hong abandoned them.

The Lü family abandoned them.

Even more so, just now Lü Hong had wanted to kill them all.

The thought of Lü Hong's indifferent eyes sent chills down their spines.

"You've gathered us here... just so we can see the truth?"

A handsome man spoke up.

Zhao Yi slowly walked up to him, stubbed out his cigarette, and tossed it into the pocket of the handsome man's shirt. He then gently stroked the man's cheek with both hands.

"No, hero."

Zhao Yi spoke.

"I've gathered you all here because I want to kill you."

"But killing them directly would be too boring."

"Life in the abandoned city is pretty boring... I need to find some fun."

He let go.

The handsome man's legs went weak, and he knelt on the ground.

He was breathing heavily, and his body was trembling violently!

He didn't understand why he was so terrified!

The instant he locked eyes with Zhao Yi, he felt as if he had fallen into an abyss; a violent sense of weightlessness and darkness enveloped him, utterly swallowing him up…

Zhao Yi took out his phone, checked his watch, and smiled at everyone:

"You have one and a half hours left."

"I keep my word."

"The top three players on the leaderboard can leave the ruined city alive and return to the capital."

Upon hearing this, everyone finally snapped out of their daze and swarmed into the casino like flies to continue gambling!

Xu Shengzhi approached Zhao Yi and bowed slightly, saying:

"Master, Chief Steward Wu said that things have been arranged properly on his end."

Zhao nodded and said with a smile:

"Have tea with me."

The two returned to the lounge on the second floor of the casino and continued drinking.

Xu Shengzhi remained worried.

"Master, Boss Feng is indeed formidable, managing to force back Lü Hong, who was leading three Sovereign Realm experts. But what if Boss Feng leaves and Lü Hong returns with his men to attack again?"

Zhao asked in return:

"So, what do you think I made Wu Liang do?"

Xu Shengzhi was taken aback, but his eyes brightened considerably, and a great weight was lifted from his heart.

Since Zhao had already made arrangements, this matter was no longer his concern.

After drinking tea for a while, Xu Shengzhi's gaze passed through the gaps in the white stone railings and landed on the crazed gamblers on the first floor.

"Master, there is still one thing I don't understand."

Zhao Yi:

"speak."

Xu Shengzhi said:

"Now that these people have witnessed the true colors of the Lü family and have been ruthlessly abandoned by them, they must harbor resentment towards them. Wouldn't it be better if we let them go back and cause trouble for the Lü family?"

"After all, tearing away the glamorous facade of the Lü family would be a considerable trouble and cause them considerable harm..."

Zhao Yi took a sip of tea, crossed his arms, placed them on his crossed legs, and smiled:

Have you seen the overwhelming online discussion in Beijing?

Xu Shengzhi nodded and said with emotion:

"It can only be said that the Lü family is indeed the Lü family; they have two mouths and they can really talk a good game."

"Those opinions, they can turn black into white and white into black, it's terrifying!"

"What's even more terrifying are the comments below, which are all from Lu's die-hard fans..."

"The comments under news articles about the Lü family are always full of blessings and envy; you can hardly see any dissenting opinions. It's strangely clean... especially in the chaotic online environment of the capital."

"This shows that the Lü family's propaganda war over the years has indeed been very effective."

Zhao Yidao:

You're only half right.

"The Lü family has certainly achieved great success in controlling the mindset of people in the capital through public opinion, but this world is not short of fools, nor is it short of smart people."

"There are no dissenting voices under the news about the Lü family because only two kinds of people know how to speak."

"One type is someone who takes money to copy others; the other type is a mindless bandwagoner."

"For intelligent people, public opinion may not be able to control their ideology, but it can pollute their living environment. As long as they sing a dissenting note under the Lü family's public opinion, they will immediately be attacked by the Lü family's online army. This naturally includes the bandwagon dogs who have been brainwashed by ideology. So over time, intelligent people have stopped speaking out."

"Who would want to get themselves into trouble for no reason?"

Xu Shengzhi suddenly realized, but then scratched his head and said:

"But how does this relate to my previous question?"

"These people harbor resentment towards the Lü family. Letting them go back, even if they don't dare to retaliate, will they still cause the Lü family a lot of trouble?"

Zhao Yi smiled slightly:

"You still don't understand ideology."

"After these people discover the true nature of the Lü family and return to the capital, there is a 99% chance they will fall into one of the two types mentioned above."

Xu Shengzhi's body jolted violently, and he murmured:

"Silent smart people and... paid online trolls who go against their conscience."

Zhao Yi poured himself a cup of tea and smiled:

"Do you understand?"

"Sending them back to the capital will not help the future development of the Jie Sect, and may even have the opposite effect."

"In that case, why not use their mouths to spread fear?"

"So... how does fear spread?"

Zhao Yiqian took a sip of tea and said slowly:

"If a hundred wolves go out to hunt, and a hundred of them return, then no matter how hard they try to describe the terror of the tigers and the danger of the lions they encountered, it will not cause any ripples in the other wolf packs."

"But if out of a hundred wolves that go out to hunt, only one returns, then the weight of its words... will be completely different."

Upon hearing this, Xu Shengzhi was so shocked that he couldn't speak!

After a long time, he once again personally experienced Zhao Yi's terror!

It seems he didn't do anything.

Yet they did everything.

Before today's conversation, no one could have guessed why Zhao Yi would spend so much money to hastily build a casino just to watch people from the capital participate in such a meaningless gambling game.

Xu Shengzhi thought this was Zhao Yi's little quirk.

He enjoys watching the dying struggle to survive.

But now he finally understood that this bet was just an excuse Zhao Yi had made for the Jie Sect.

One reason... for letting the three wolves go out to forage.

PS: Second update!

My darlings, get some rest early, goodnight!