Be it Liang Ce, Meng Nan, or Wang Jing, all of them had lived in the Wang Consortium's strongholds. Therefore, they could not really empathize with the wars happening in the outside world.
In their world, war seemed to be just words that appeared in the newspapers. It was something that was very detached from them.
But now, they first got threatened by a deserter in the wilderness and almost had a glimpse of how tragic the war was. What made these elite soldiers unwilling to go onto the battlefield again? It was as though they were so scared out of their wits that they wanted to flee all the way to the South.
After that encounter, everyone realized the world was about to change.
Wang Jing kept lamenting to himself that a chaotic era was about to arrive.