Chapter 526 - 171 Nan Batian: Chen 94 you f*cking betrayed me!
"Move aside, move aside, all of you, move aside!"
The Yelu Mansion’s investigation was indeed a spectacle, with the main force of the Mulan Guard Army marching in the middle, and the younger brothers from the Fishing Guild and Guild Cao acting as pioneers to clear the way.
Swinging clubs and sticks, they drove away anyone who dared obstruct the path.
Pedestrians on the road hurried to dodge, the formation clearly signaling that someone was about to be arrested.
Thinking of this, the surrounding people craned their necks, eager to see who would be the next unlucky one to fall into the grasp of Yelu Mansion.
Indeed, the ordinary people living in these times had already been tormented by society to the point where they had little sympathy left, feeling no compassion even when they saw the Mulan people harming the Han people.
Instead, they took a secret pleasure in it.
Just as Mr. Lao She once said during an interview about his play "Tea House", in times of war, the common people, having made it through today without a thought for tomorrow, do not feel sympathy when seeing others’ misfortune—rather, they feel a smug satisfaction that the misfortune is not befalling them.
Likewise, the people living under Daqian’s rule also mostly harbored this mentality: their lives had no hope, so they could only revel in the misfortunes of others to feel a sense of pride.
So when they saw a large group of people rushing onto the street, everyone’s first reaction was to join the crowd and see who would be the next to fall.