"I will hold to my bottom line, and I hope you can hold to yours as well. If we lay hands on those innocent people now, then one day we may lay hands on our own people."
Tian Hao, his face pale, swept his gaze deeply over everyone. Their hearts tightened, and they calmed down.
He would not kill those people. After leaving, he would even write an anonymous letter to inform Spirit Hall and have them send people to deal with the matter.
At this stage, only Spirit Hall could handle this properly. At the very least, it would not allow the innocent people in the city to fall into hell again.
If the nobles of the two great empires and the many kingdoms came instead, those innocent people would inevitably be taken away and forced to continue their miserable lives.
The ugliness of human nature was simply beyond imagination.
"Don't worry. I devoured their memories from the past few days, so they won't expose us. Their temporary amnesia will also resemble the effects of a spiritual soul skill attack, misleading the judgments of the major forces."
Only after seeing everyone calm down did Tian Hao offer an explanation.
Other than his own principles, the main reason he did not kill those people was that he had used the Dream Devouring Soul Space to steal and devour their memories from the past few days. It was like the cut function on a computer; they simply could not recall them. Even if someone used a spiritual soul skill to search their memories, they would find nothing.
Of course, this would leave those people with some aftereffects, such as occasional headaches in the future, but that was still better than being murdered to silence them.
After all, secrecy was the top