The short man knew perfectly well that ordinary people thought the military was unreasonable mainly because they lacked the strength to reason with it.
But when they ran into someone who claimed to be even more unreasonable than the military—if nothing else, their strength was absolutely beyond doubt.
After thinking it over, he let out a soft sigh. "So you... don't care about the truth?"
"Only the weak care about the truth," Qinghu said expressionlessly. "The strong do not even need to explain."
"When you requisition land for mining, do you consider the feelings of those weak people?"
"We do," the short man answered without hesitation. "Cosmos did not grow this large by exploiting the weak!"
That was the truth. Cosmos had a fairly good reputation in that regard.
In the information age, every company needed a good image—even when information barriers were so high they were astonishing! The key was that exploiting the weak did not earn much money, yet had a broad impact. It simply was not worth it!
However, Qu Jianlei was far too familiar with this routine. He sneered. "Have you exploited small and medium-sized factions?"
This was also a common phenomenon on Blue Star. The exploitation of ordinary people by massive powers was generally so subtle that it went unnoticed.
There was no need to elaborate. In any case, when large factions dealt with small and medium-sized factions that did not know their place, they showed absolutely no mercy.
The short man was instantly speechless. Did this really need to be spelled out? But since the other side had made it clear, there was no point concealing it. He nodded readily. "Yes!"
"Just as I thought," Qu Jianlei snorted, saying nothing further.
The short man fell completely silent as well. The other side was this