The Secret About the Past (102)

If they'd chosen to shoot him and sacrifice their leader back then, they would at least have had the chance to live on.

Yet, they had now become sheep waiting to be slaughtered, despite their leader still being sacrificed in the end.

This was human nature.

When everyone around remains still, rarely would one sacrifice himself for the sake of his teammates.

An Xiaoning recalled a story she once read in history books about no one daring to retaliate when thousands of people were held at gunpoint by two invaders.

That was because it was human nature to fear death and sacrifice.

However, if everyone chose to stand together to retaliate, they would be able to defeat even a hundred invaders, let alone just two.

Within the hearts of everyone lay two separate versions of themselves — one strong and the other weak. The weaker one shines when it manages to blur the vision of the stronger one.

The weak are the prey of the strong.