Qin Cheng continued, "Why did Gao Teng act this way?
"It might be a complex result of intertwining reasons, but each reason must be dark and vile.
"Gao Teng himself is a person filled with inner darkness and is negative and cynical about life.
"He once lost everything to gambling, becoming crippled. Without the New World, he might have died like a rat in the sewer in reality.
"But the opportunity presented by the New World abruptly interrupted his process of giving up on life.
"It was Wei Changfeng and Xu Yili who used extreme kindness and tolerance to continually pull him up from the abyss, trying to help him find the meaning of living on.
"For Wei Changfeng and Xu Yili, their decision was made without any rational thought; it was purely instinctive behavior.
"If they had thought rationally, they should have considered the story of the farmer and the snake.
"They felt Gao Teng was not inherently bad and pitied his background, so they treated him like a brother.
