Honma Kyou sweated, quickly swallowed back what he originally wanted to say, and watched Chi Feichi walk away.
Chi Feichi walked along the street to the intersection, turned into an alley, turned left and right in the alleys, found a secluded place, took off his disguise, changed his clothes, and then went to the station and took the bus back to Mihua Town.
Honma always feels that he is no different from others and really lacks confidence in himself.
If a person is smart and motivated, has the brains to learn, and is willing to learn, he is already better than many people.
Moreover, Honma also has the simple trait of 'I will be nice to anyone who is nice to me'. This trait is not uncommon among the student community, but compared with other peripheral member candidates, Honma has such a simple trait.
A very rare trait.
Those candidates are either profit-seeking and can betray even their friends, or they are selfish and cruel and take pleasure in torturing others. They don’t have many fuel-efficient lamps. If you want to make those people work honestly for the organization, you have to spend a lot of effort to tame them.
In comparison, a well-behaved child like Honma who is willing to obey will make him worry a lot, and he will naturally be willing to give Honma a little more patience.
In addition, Niulang's store is actually in a chaotic gray and black zone.
Those cowherds will try their best to extract money from girls. After squeezing all the money out of girls' pockets, they will introduce girls into the custom industry and let girls sell their bodies to support themselves. Occasionally, there will be girls who pay too much and get nothing.
Wanting something in return, he broke down emotionally and rushed to the store to stab the Cowherd with a knife.
Deception and revenge, harm and being harmed are elements that circulate all the time in Cowherd's shop. Working in that environment for a period of time will also affect people's moral values. Once you get used to it, you will feel that hurting others is not uncommon.
Yes, a great event.
Moreover, most Cowherd shops are related to the Yakuza forces, and the store owners will regularly pay "protection fees" to a certain Yakuza force. In this way, the store owners' management of Cowherd and the maintenance of security in the store will all rely on the Yakuza.
The influence of the organization, such as the threat of 'If you dare to break the rules of my store, I will find the Yakuza boss to kill you', is not uncommon in Cowherd's store.
During the time when Honma was working at Cowherd's shop, he was bound to be exposed to the rules of the gray and black areas, because the adults in the workplace would say, "It is right for the Yakuza to treat traitors cruelly. It was the traitors who violated morality first."
He had heard a lot and even witnessed the illegal and criminal behavior of the Yakuza forces, so when he said that the organization had a rule of "betrayers die", Honma could quickly accept it and would not act like a serious person.
Like a good boy, he innocently asked him, "Why do you kill people?"
Also, the owner of the Cowherd shop where Honma worked before was not a good person. Not only was he connected with the Yakuza forces, he would use the influence of the Yakuza forces to manage the store, and he would also encourage "money" in the store all day long.
With the same values, he used all means to brainwash the cowherd in the store.
The shopkeeper would ridicule and ridicule a cowherd like Honma who was handsome and could seduce girls by his looks, but failed to extract money due to lack of ability or ruthlessness.
'People who can't make money are useless...'
'I took you in to work here, is this how you repay me?'
'If you don't work seriously, what are you doing here? Think carefully about why you are here? Others will not be grateful to you because you are kind. If you feel sorry for others, others will only laugh at you as an idiot...'
Honma has probably heard words like this many times.
The brainwashing method of that shop owner...or that kind of Cowherd shop owner will constantly emphasize two points——
First: You can make a lot of money by being a Cowherd. I agree to let you work to give you an opportunity to change your life. I am kind to you, so you must be grateful to me, listen to me, and help me make money;
Second: Money is paramount in this world, and your morality is the most useless thing. Only by lowering your moral bottom line can you make money, become a successful person, and become a respected person.
In order to enhance the brainwashing effect, the store owner will give higher status to the cowherds who make money in the store, require other cowherds to be respectful to pinguan, give pinguan many privileges, and also allow the cowherds who make money to
The Lang will humiliate and bully the Cowherd who has not made any money, and will even guide and encourage the Cowherd who has made money to bully the Cowherd who has not made any money.
After a newcomer is bullied, the store owner will tell the newcomer - 'Because you have not made any money, you are a loser and weak, so you are being bullied', 'If you can become the best seller, no one in the store will dare to bully you.
If you die, everyone will only respect you'.
And the atmosphere in the whole store, as well as the atmosphere in the surrounding Cowherd stores, are also telling newcomers - 'Only when you make money can you step on others. If you can't make money, you can only be stepped on by others.'
Under the influence of this brainwashing method, the moral bottom line of the Cowherds will drop again and again, and their desire to "obtain money and dignity" will be stimulated to the extreme, driving the Cowherds to extract money from their guests.
Honma has been working in this environment for a period of time. He was bullied by his seniors and brainwashed by the shopkeepers all day long. Naturally, he developed a determination of "I want to make money and I will not be a loser." This determination probably also motivated Honma to
Key to agreeing to join them.
Speaking of which, he had to thank the shop owner.
Honma's working experience in that store was not very pleasant, and he had no good impression of the store owner, and he had no nostalgia after leaving that store. However, the brainwashing of the store owner had already had an impact on Honma, and the store owner had been brainwashing for a period of time.
, which not only lowered Honma's moral bottom line, but did not completely turn Honma into a profit-seeking person, it was just stuck at the level where he could easily interfere and guide.
Others have helped complete the brainwashing process that is most likely to arouse hatred and encounter backlash from the target. He can take over a well-behaved and sensible subordinate. When faced with this opportunity, he really has no reason to refuse...
To sum up, Honma is not the kind of person who is 'just like everyone else'. It's just that from a personal perspective, Honma cannot see his own advantages over him, so he can't figure out why he was chosen.
It is precisely because Honma has been brainwashed by the shop owner and he is well-behaved and sensible. He can achieve his goals without putting too much pressure on Honma, so he is willing to treat Honma in a friendly manner.
It's not that he gave Honma preferential treatment, it's just that different people need to communicate in different ways.
Take that guy Takatori as an example...
When Takatori met him, he was already a bounty hunter who had experienced many dangers and dared to use swords and guns. Although Takatori didn't seem to have made much money in the past, his unruly temper was better than that of many bounty hunters.
It's all important. If he hadn't put the muzzle of the gun to Takatori's forehead, Takatori probably wouldn't have faced his existence, let alone listened seriously to what he said.
And if he had pointed his gun at Honma when they first met, he would probably have frightened Honma greatly. This would not be beneficial to him in attracting Honma into the organization, so he would naturally not do that.