Descent!!

Descent!! Decades of Disguise!

They were still ordinary people!

To be honest, The Empire did not pay that much attention to ordinary people—at least, not compared to lords.

In fact, The Empire's protections for ordinary people were still quite authoritative. After all, The Empire understood that lords came from ordinary people.

The Empire had even retained certain jobs that should have long since been replaced. In the end, it was merely to ease the pressure on ordinary people.

The main point was to give them something to do, so they would not spend all day overthinking. One could say that The Empire's approach was somewhat unscrupulous.

But in truth, this was the right thing to do.

Even the existence of the Chaos Church was tacitly permitted by The Empire.

The Empire's tolerance toward ordinary people was exceptionally high. At the very least, it still treated them as people.

If this had happened abroad...

That would have been hard to say.

Yet this time, Bugmen had been mixed in among these ordinary people for decades.

There had never been the slightest slip until now, when they were finally exposed. Who could have predicted it?

At that thought, Su Ye drew a deep breath, a trace of confusion appearing in his eyes.

"What's the purpose? What are they trying to achieve?" Su Ye could not understand it. While doing this would cause some losses to The Empire...

They were insignificant losses, let alone enough to damage its foundations.

Thinking of this, Su Ye's suspicion toward the Gu Family faded considerably.

They had no reason to do this, did they? What was the point?

Everything required a motive and a purpose, but what benefit could the Gu Family possibly gain from this? There was none at all.

That was also what Old Man