Xiao Hai had never dreamed that those ordinary players, docile as sheep, could, once fully roused, start deciding his life and death just like the Star Gate.
This made no sense.
Xiao Hai remembered that when Wang Dong first killed someone, only four or five people had stood up to question him and resist, and among them were powerful players taking the lead.
Those few had wanted to resist, but received no response from the players at the bottom. When they were killed upstairs, the people below merely listened, showing no reaction.
Just like that fourteen- or fifteen-year-old girl. She had sought help not only from Old Liu, but from many others. Almost everyone here knew what she went through every day, but all she got were people who wanted to help but dared not, or simply ignored her...
Most people thought that with so many people in this Star Gate, as long as they behaved themselves and made their presence as unobtrusive as possible, danger would never come their way.
Wasn't it just a little rent? Why not just pay it? They would still have something left over anyway...
Precisely because of this, the powerful players who entered later had only two paths: either join Wang Dong in his dirty dealings, or hold to their own principles and go it alone since they could do nothing about it... But people like the latter were often viewed as threats by Wang Dong and his group, and after being watched in secret, almost all of them were eliminated.
So, in the minds of Xiao Hai and the others, these controlled players were nothing but a heap of loose sand, people with their own concerns and attachments. Their brutal lives had long since taught them to endure and robbed them of the