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"": "How dare you!" Shen Kang snapped. "Long Liang died because he let hatred rule him and coveted Mr. Luo's talisman. Was killing him really murder? I was following the rules here. If Long Liang hadn't died, could we have escaped the chestnut grove? Even Mr. Luo might have been eliminated. Everyone would have died in those woods."
"Xu Jiang, I think you're a scheming bastard trying to sow discord and turn everyone against me!"
Shen Kang reacted incredibly quickly, turning the accusation straight back on the man who had pointed at him!
"Hold Xu Jiang down. We're bound to need him later!"
Chaos broke out. Some stared at Xu Jiang in uncertainty and alarm, while others watched Shen Kang.
Throughout it all, Luo Bin said nothing.
The problem was plain for all to see. Unless he had a way to break through this place by force-and he didn't. Without his ritual artifacts or a clear sense of direction, he was far too restricted.
The others had, in a manner of speaking, "shown their true colors."
The Heterodox Path was still the Heterodox Path, after all.
But wasn't a tangled mix of good and bad simply human nature?
In a situation like this, there was no need for him to speak, nor any reason to.
With Shen Kang taking the lead in Long Liang's death last night, these people's thinking and course of action had already been set.
And they hadn't hesitated. To keep moving forward, they would even kill Shen Kang outright. They had virtually no limits.
Speaking up would gain him nothing, so there was no point in showing this sort of "kindness." He was better off watching how things unfolded.
The standoff continued.
Shen Kang stared at Xu Jiang, while Xu Jiang warily