Seeing a familiar face, everyone they met along the way would greet Ma Yongcheng before they realized something. Their faces would stiffen and they ultimately avoided him.
Even someone who was kind enough and wanted to tell him his wife and kids' whereabouts would be dragged away by other beastmen. Their eyes were filled with reproach.
So many people were acting suspiciously. Ma Yongcheng was now a hundred percent certain they were hiding something from him. Since it was the case, he wouldn't be kind to them either.
Everyone was in cahoots. He was getting more anxious about his family's wellbeing and couldn't help but start to use force. Because he laid his hand on the talkative beastman, other beastmen tried to help the latter.
"Ma Yongcheng, what's wrong with you?! How can you be so ruthless toward your fellow villagers?"
"Let go of him, young beastman. You are going to hurt him." A relatively older beastman was trying to meditate peace between them.
