Ever since becoming the Administrator and handling countless bits of survivors' domestic drama, Chu Guang had rarely taken anyone's one-sided account at face value.
It was not because he feared someone might harm him.
It was because whenever anyone spoke like a human being, consciously or otherwise, they would inevitably mix in at least a little of their own stance and thoughts.
That depended on how that person understood themselves, others, and the world.
Therefore, when explaining something, even if most people were indeed telling the truth, it might not necessarily be "absolutely" objective.
If he believed them completely, it would be easy to let others lead him around by the nose.
Of course, that did not mean an insufficiently objective statement was a lie. After all, even for a genuine con artist, lying outright was a very foolish thing to do.
Once their logic failed to hold together, they would fall into an impossible-to-explain dead end. And to maintain that logical consistency, they would have to fabricate one flimsy lie after another.
A more clever approach was to pick out the parts of the facts that benefited oneself and embellish them with exaggerated adverbs, while interpreting the unfavorable parts from a tricky angle.
For example, if he had listened only to Sun Yuechi's side of the story, the food and supplies used by survivors in the Southern Seas would probably all have come from the tiny reserves taken out of the vault.
If he had not run a household himself and known the cost of daily necessities, he might really have believed that guy's nonsense and thought they were a bunch of naive fools.
Of course, he had not simply accepted the Southern Seas survivors' version either.
Judging from the wording Charas had used in his broadcasts, every resident