The reason they said this was because, firstly, they noticed that there was something wrong with the food. Secondly, after discovering that there was something wrong with the food, they did not act rashly.
If these people were successfully recruited by Lian Yue, then Lian Yue's wings would naturally grow stronger and become more difficult to deal with …
This must not be allowed to happen. Right now, what he had to do was to slowly reduce Lian Yue's power. Only by doing this would the competition be fair and viable. There was no reason for him to add wings to a tiger.