Niyang was not the only one worrying himself sick over the students. Meng Jie, the president of Mammoth University, was as well.
Recently, the situation in Mammoth City had grown turbulent, and Mammoth University, founded single-handedly by Niyang, had been pushed into the eye of the storm.
In particular, the "passive stance" taken by the Survivor Daily during the conflict had enraged the students and progressives alike. Now, they not only demanded that Laxi explain the dam incident, but also that he take responsibility for the three dead students and two Family Association members.
They were all family now.
This included the Moon Tribe resistance veterans who had been marginalized by the Laxi administration.
When Laxi seized Mammoth City back then, he had relied heavily on the Moon Tribe's forces both at home and abroad. He himself was even a member of the Moon Tribe.
For that very reason, he was destined to be unable to carry out a thorough purge of those veterans. At most, he could squeeze them to the fringes, far from the center of power—unless he wanted to completely fall out with every Moon Tribe force at home and abroad, as well as the radicals within The Alliance who sympathized with the Moon Tribe.
The price was simply too great...
In contrast, the veterans pushed out of the inner circle had nothing to fear. After all, they had nothing left to lose.
They might even be able to stop the civil war.
They had no interest in fighting Absek for the three northern provinces or even Heaven Capital. Keeping their little patch of Mammoth Province was enough.
If they earned themselves the reputation of defenders of peace, The Alliance would surely be quite pleased as well.
After all, The Alliance's administrators had always held the same