Xiao Pu was the base's strategist. Though he'd never had a chance to take part in its most secret affairs and didn't know who exactly backed Xie Chun and Master Dao, he'd obviously heard the rumors Old Tang had spread. Learning that Xie Chun and Master Dao had actually sided with the nonhumans to attack the human world completely upended Xiao Pu's worldview. He simply couldn't accept it.
So when he broke with the base and even turned against it, Xiao Pu set aside what little moral scruples he had left. It wasn't that he wanted to become a traitor to the base. It was that, no matter how you looked at it, the base's actions were utterly perverse. He had no choice but to oppose it.
That was what he told himself. But after seeing how Yu Yuan and He Jin killed, Xiao Pu was still shaken again and again.
They'd been sitting in a well, gazing at the sky back at the base. The government's Awakened had already become this powerful.
As far as Xiao Pu was concerned, half a squad of Blade Camp members was no match for one or two people.
Yet to He Jin and Yu Yuan, killing them was as easy as slaughtering chickens. It was no exaggeration to say that the Blade Camp members had plotted and prepared their so-called negotiating tactics, but hadn't even gotten the chance to put them into action.
They were Awakened, too, with all sorts of Awakened Skills and other abilities. But Yu Yuan had only activated his Mother-Child Ghost Banner and hadn't even sent all his hundreds of ghosts after them—probably only a fifth of them—and he'd already driven half a squad of Blade Camp members to the brink of death.
They'd poured gasoline all over the