Hearing Xu Shi say that, everyone's gaze immediately turned toward him.
"Hm? You mean... spread this throughout the entire city?"
Wen Shengkui was the first to react, narrowing his eyes as he asked.
"That's right."
Xu Shi smiled and nodded. "The Forgotten are a large group, after all. No matter how our contact with them turns out, they'll have a certain impact on Night Sin City."
"So I think we should at least give the people in the city a warning. Otherwise, it wouldn't seem quite appropriate, right?"
Everyone seated at this table was shrewd, and they quickly understood the implication behind his words.
Contact with The Forgotten was inevitable. They could not possibly do as He Jiayuan had suggested and reject them outright without even hearing them out.
Whether to accept them or not was another matter, but since they had come knocking of their own accord—and under such desperate circumstances—the difference in status between the two sides had already been established.
It would be unreasonable not to squeeze as much value out of them as possible. The only question was how much they could extract.
Then, creating a public atmosphere unfavorable to The Forgotten would further widen that disparity in status, allowing Night Sin City to reap even greater benefits.
How did that saying go again? Once someone had committed a crime, regardless of its severity, first give them a hundred strokes to establish authority?
That was probably the idea.
"I agree."
Xie Qingyan gave a slight nod.
The others followed suit and nodded as well.
Even He Jiayuan of Shark Tooth did not object. So what he had said earlier really had just been said in anger. No matter how old and muddleheaded he was, he could not be that arbitrary...
"Then we'll have to trouble Young