Although the situation looked tense, it had at least stabilized. The team members who had been shouting earlier felt that all that fuss had been worth it.
If they hadn't made a scene, how else would Jiang Yue have been willing to protect everyone?
Jiang Yue, meanwhile, stood among the crowd with an ashen expression, and no one knew what he was thinking.
When his gaze swept over the team members' faces and saw their excited expressions, Jiang Yue snapped, "Satisfied now?"
These people had morally coerced Jiang Yue into taking action because, deep down, they were afraid of dying. They didn't want to become food in the spiders' bellies.
At heart, they hadn't wanted to fall out with Jiang Yue. If the situation hadn't been so urgent, they wouldn't even have wanted to offend him.
One of them put on a fawning smile. "Xiao Yue, we've been neighbors for many years. I was an old friend of your father too. You could say I watched you grow up. Now that you've made something of yourself, we neighbors get to benefit a little. Please don't stoop to our level and take offense."
"That's right. Our New Moon Bay produced someone as capable as you, and we've benefited from it. We all appreciate what you've done. Don't blame your uncles for going too far with our words earlier. We had no choice. We have wives and children at home. If we died here for no reason, our families wouldn't be able to survive either."
"There's a saying: Even a starving camel is bigger than a horse. Even with only thirty or forty percent of your strength left, you're still far stronger than weaklings like us. If not for you, we'd probably already be lying on the ground."
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