The Zhu Nuo Family cautiously entertained the players invited to the Zhu Nuo Family Manor while keeping an equally cautious guard against them.
Only five or six player families neighboring the Zhu Nuo Family had come, along with representatives sent by the District Government and members of two nearby unaffiliated player organizations.
Distance did not determine closeness; it was simply a sensitive time, and the Zhu Nuo Family did not dare let too many people in. They had invited only a few families to help, with witnesses present. The government representatives were mostly there for show, while the unaffiliated player organizations were more like mercenaries. They had been paid to come and had extensive experience in both combat and tracking. Anything the player families could not openly do could be left to them.
Of the three groups, the government representatives and the players from other families rested in the main building, while the player organizations stood guard in the towers along the manor's perimeter. At the moment, however, all three factions were unhappy.
How could the government representatives and the player families fail to notice that the Zhu Nuo Family was guarding against them? Though they had ulterior motives, the Zhu Nuo Family had been the one to request their presence. If the family behaved too disgracefully, they could hardly blame others for dropping the polite façade. Besides, they were ostensibly here to help, so if something really happened, they would have to pitch in.
If those two groups received such treatment, the player organizations, whom the player families looked down on, had it even worse. They did not even have a proper place to rest. They had been put on guard duty as soon as they arrived, ordered around like servants, and given the same food and drink as