Meng Chao discovered that such people often shared one thing in common.
Like Ye Zi, they had not yet extinguished their most basic emotions and become pure killing machines.
At the very least, they still understood hatred.
They hated the Clan Warriors who had destroyed their homes.
It sounded unbelievable, but according to Meng Chao's observations, not all Ratfolk hated the true culprits who had destroyed their homes and killed their loved ones.
After trekking vast distances, passing through one Gate of Hell after another, leaving behind homes that had long since been destroyed, starving for days and nights, then receiving a tiny morsel of food bestowed by their masters, and believing the nonsense that "the ancestral spirits are watching you, seize supreme glory"...
Many Red Eye Ratfolk forgot who had truly destroyed their lives and everything they possessed.
They no longer hated the murderers.
They only wanted to join the clans and become new murderers.
This was not a mindset unique to the Turan People.
Earthlings were the same.
Throughout Earth's history, countless armies had used similar methods to destroy civilians' homes, seize their crops, kill their families, and force civilians with nowhere left to turn to follow them.
This was called "coercive conscription."
Very often, an army of three to five thousand men could burn, kill, loot, and forcibly sweep civilians into its ranks along the way, rapidly swelling into a vast force of hundreds of thousands.
In such an army, people were no longer people, but beasts through and through.
All victims forgot their hatred and became new perpetrators, wanting only to inflict the pain they had endured—magnified tenfold—upon new victims.
For one simplest purpose.
To survive.
Even if they could live one second longer, they would do anything.
Meng Chao did not want to spread Dragon