After several days, Viet Guard had finished sweeping away all the bad factions, gaining a total of 158 cities. Eighty percent were small cities, while twenty percent were heavy-city grade.
Viet Guard's large-scale purge also stirred up much dissatisfaction and hostility. Although the public response was overwhelming, some factions began to find Viet Guard less welcome, because Viet Guard still posed a threat to them. No faction would welcome someone who threatened it.
Zhao Fu also had no intention of letting Viet Guard leave the second Great Wall, since their main task was to sweep through the thirty-five regions. But since the evil had been cleared away, it was only natural to clear away the good as well.
Zhao Fu did not care whether they were good or evil, because to Great Qin, they were all enemies.
Once again divided into three teams, they began their sweep. Within Viet Guard, some doubts arose over purging these regions. Why had they previously been called good, only to now be called evil?
Though they had doubts in their hearts, they still obeyed the orders of Viet Guard's upper ranks. Quite a few were there for profit anyway; they did not care whom they attacked, so long as there was money to be made.
Viet Guard also began issuing proclamations, declaring that these factions were evil as well. They deceived the people, engaged in severe exploitation, secretly committed evil deeds unknown to ordinary people, and yet draped themselves in noble garb—making them even more despicable than evil people.
Some within Viet Guard believed the proclamation, while others did not, because they were not truly fools and could judge right from wrong.
The other factions were also shocked, because they could clearly sense that Viet Guard's intentions were far from simple. It wanted to