"Mr. Gray, I once heard that rules exist to prevent people from fighting each other." In front of the hotel, as Tabetha and others watched, Mu Hua said to Gray.

A casual suit with exquisite fabric and proper color matching can show his taste and status whether in business occasions or social gatherings.

She was wearing cufflinks, collar clips, bracelets, rings, and some exquisite accessories that looked quite expensive.

Young and unruly, Gray has a very tall and straight figure, and has the temperament of a noble young master.

Faced with Mu Hua's questioning words, Gray was slightly stunned, then a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Haha, Mu Hua, right? No need to be so polite, just call me Gray." Gray said with a smile, looking at Mu Hua playfully.

"Wanting to kill indiscriminately? Haha, this statement is a bit problematic."

"If a miracle happens, a sufficient number of sheep might be able to kill a lion."

"But rules exist to prevent lions from killing sheep indiscriminately." Gray said to Mu Hua.

"Even the species are different? The rules between people have distorted even the concept of human beings. Is this the dogma you believe in?" Mu Hua frowned.

"It's just a relatively easy-to-understand metaphor. Haha, I won't say anything I shouldn't say." Gray laughed playfully.

"Mu Hua, right? It seems that my previous understanding of you is a bit wrong. You are an adventurer, just like you and the necromancer just now. The minimum standard for the rules to be valid is also a lion and a hyena."

"Isn't it?" Gray took a few steps closer to Mu Hua and pulled Ivy's arm while speaking.

Gray lifted Ivy's arm and slid her cuffs down, revealing the marks on her wrist from being strangled by the rope.

"We haven't met before, but you don't seem to like me."

"Is it because of the necromancer just now? Or is it because of this?" Gray pulled Ivy's wrist to his mouth and kissed it gently.

"That necromancer was a mistake."

"If that's it, you don't need to worry. She likes this, you know? This is just our little entertainment." Gray said, holding Ivy's waist.

Mu Hua twitched his lips and was speechless when he saw Ivy and Gray acting so affectionately.

"Mu Hua, what are you going to do? It's none of your business to interfere in my affairs. If you think that the necromancer is related to us, you should interrogate him instead of causing trouble for Gray." Ivy defended Gray with all her might, and spoke to Mu Hua with a cold face.

Although he felt disgusted, Mu Hua still had a helpless expression on his face. In fact, Mu Hua was quite good at pretending. There were few people who struggled at the bottom of society who could not act.

Some performed well, some performed badly, some found people to cooperate with them while they were acting, and some found that they could not get any benefits and simply refused to act.

No matter whether you are tightening screws or mixing in society, what is the most important thing?
People who are straightforward and tough usually die quickly.

People who are cunning and scheming are bound to be stabbed in the back.

Simple and lowly people will inevitably be ostracized and bullied.

The only ones left are those who can pretend and act.

Mu Hua wanted to stab Ivy, but he couldn't just pull out a knife as soon as they met, right?

First choose a way to get along with her, and then let Tuesday throw a "death" at her. In order to reduce her own suspicion, Mu Hua chose the conciliatory approach, but the result was that she was left with a lot of disgust.

He understands a lot of principles, but understanding doesn't necessarily mean he will put them into practice. And when he really starts to do them, he gets bored in minutes.

"Oh, forget it. Let's go and see the room prepared for you first. You can come to me if you need anything." Mu Hua sighed helplessly and turned to look at Gray.

"Mr. Gray, no matter what, her last name is Benson." Mu Hua hesitated to speak, with a hint of stubbornness and warning in his tone.

"It's a pity you're not Benson." Gray's smile faded. He glanced at Tabitha with an ambiguous expression on his face.

"Mu Hua, you seem to be a smart person. The relationship between Benson and your family may be more complicated than you think. If you have time, I think we can talk about it." Gray said to Mu Hua.

As they were talking, Gray had already walked towards the hotel with Ivy, leaving Mu Hua with his back. Ivy glanced at Mu Hua, opened her mouth, but didn't say anything in the end. She took Gray's arm, chuckled and muttered something.

A group of strong men escorted Gray and his companion into the hotel. Mu Hua raised his eyebrows slightly. What other connection could there be between the Benson family and him other than Samantha?
It is said that he has had the thinking of an adult since he was young. He has never been a child who knows nothing since he was born. He has lived at the bottom of society for most of his life in his previous life. As long as you don't talk about professional knowledge, there is nothing he doesn't understand.

After Samantha married into the Benson family, it definitely caused a lot of negative impact on the Mu family, but that was none of his business.

The older generation had all died before he was born, so family affection cannot be created out of nothing, and self-indulgence is highly taboo, and his step-parents didn't give him the opportunity to develop feelings. If blood can create family affection out of nothing, then at least wealth, fame, honor, even if it's just a fleeting pride, can be created out of nothing, so at least the descendants should be able to find one of these, right?

People always like to imagine the psychological activities of orphans as pitiful, which is somewhat taken for granted.

Before a true orphan starts to feel sorry for himself, what he thinks about is definitely how to survive alone without anyone to take care of him.

Just like baby birds leaving the nest, it is a habit engraved in their biological instincts. They will only become more independent and more self-centered. They will only indulge in self-pity when it is beneficial to them.

In fact, if we really want to judge good or bad based on kindness, innocence, honesty and so on, there are really few "good" orphans.

Even when it is said that orphans still have a hard life and difficulty in development when they grow up, it is not because they did not have their parents to take care of them when they were young, but because they do not have their elders to take care of them when they grow up.

So, no matter how much the Benson family is related to the Mu family, Mu Hua probably won’t think too much about it.

Leaving the nest and becoming independent early, if we still have to talk about blood ties, I don't know whether it is a humane or anti-human argument.

At this point, the only people he was involved with were Samantha and Tabitha.

Mu Hua heard a hint of provocation and seduction in Gray's tone, but unfortunately, just like Mu Hua expressed his feelings to Ivy in the wrong way, our Seventeenth Young Master obviously also expressed his feelings to Mu Hua in the wrong way.

The crowd dispersed and Taibetha walked over to Mu Hua.

"Let's go?" Tabitha gestured to Barbara to leave and said to Mu Hua.

"Huh?" Mu Hua was puzzled and couldn't help but follow Tabitha's footsteps.

Walking around the hotel, we came to the edge of the training ground. From a distance, we saw a group of young men and women sharpening swords with Hengjin grinding wheels in a corner of the training ground.

The so-called eternal gold is the ore that can be used to refine demon gold coins. It has a very high-sounding name, but it is fundamentally different from demon gold coins and is not a very precious thing, so there is no need to say more here.

Sharpening knives and repairing weapons with grinding wheels made of Hengjin particles is also a compulsory course for logistics personnel.

The purpose of shooting practice is to enable logistics personnel to have a certain degree of self-protection ability in emergency situations.

Physical strength training is to cope with the weight of miscellaneous items.

Setting up tent camps, dismantling monster corpses, loading ammunition and repairing vehicles, sharpening arrows, maintaining weapons and equipment, etc., these are the main tasks of the logistics personnel.

Standing side by side with Mu Hua, watching the men and women in training from afar, Taibesha spoke softly.

"Cousin, do you hate Ivy?"

"Why do you ask? Can't it be because of you that I want to take care of her? She is your sister after all."

"Who keeps calling him a bastard?"

"It's just a name. I admit, it's a bad habit."

"Oh, as long as you like it. But, cousin, leaving a sinister impression on the people around you is somewhat not worth it." Tabitha rolled her eyes and said in a tone of advice.

"Is it that obvious?" Mu Hua wondered.

He didn't even say a few words to Ivy, so it's okay to say he was very familiar or hypocritical, but how could Tabitha directly link it to the extent that she hated Ivy?

"It's not obvious, it's just my feeling. Of course, that's only if you can keep pretending." Seeing that Mu Hua was no longer pretending to be stupid, Taibesha said with relief.

"We should focus on ourselves. They have chosen a different path from us. Everything they do revolves around family power struggles. Samantha doesn't like us getting involved in those trivial matters."

"And you own a magical abyss island, so there's no need for us to target them." It wasn't just an emotional rejection. Mu Hua could clearly sense from Tabitha's tone her disdain for Ivy and the others.

Mu Hua frowned slightly. Samantha didn't allow Tabitha to get involved in family affairs. Mu Hua even felt that Samantha didn't support Tabitha's adventures much.

Is this naivety? Or is it a protection for Tabitha?

Mu Hua didn't quite understand at first, but when he nodded to deal with Tabitha, he didn't intend to target those illegitimate children in his heart. He just promised Samantha to kill them.

Especially after seeing Ivy dragging the young master of the Caesar family to cause trouble for the hotel, inviting a wolf into the house? Destroying the family business? Poaching from one's own family?
Although he had never experienced the so-called family nurturing, Mu Hua thought, this is not how a family fights for power, right? Did he watch too many soap operas?

After meeting Ivy, Mu Hua understood more and more why Samantha wanted to kill them. (End of this chapter)