Sudden Visit

"So you sent those people away just to tell us this? You were afraid they'd panic after learning about it?"

Xilos looked utterly astonished. She hadn't expected there to be such a reason.

With the strength of those monsters, she could have dealt with them easily, and Shen Yi even more so. Even without her, it definitely wouldn't have been anything too outrageous. Did it really need to be taken this seriously?

Or was this about putting on a show of force too?

At a time like this, those monsters were simply not something ordinary people could fight. Using threats like Black Fog monsters to intimidate people again seemed a little unreliable, didn't it?

"More or less."

Long Aoshuang nodded and glanced at Xilos. As though she knew what Xilos was thinking, Long Aoshuang continued, "As for husband, if he doesn't need to act, then we should avoid letting him act. After all, husband's current strength may have already surpassed many people's imagination. Right now, the people in the Shelter think he's busy maintaining the Shelter's existence."

"Once others realize that husband can easily deal with the surrounding Black Fog or those strange insects... of course, this is only a hypothetical. Assuming husband really can handle them easily, what do you think everyone else would think?"

"I... can't say." Xilos was somewhat discouraged.

After what Fei Mi and Murong Xue had told her before, she could no longer quite understand such thoughts in other people's hearts. Or rather, she didn't dare understand them too clearly.

"At first, they would be exceptionally grateful and might even worship husband as a god. But over time, would you like having someone constantly and forcibly standing above you in certain matters?"

"At times like this, something that resembles divine authority but isn't quite divine