"It's very hard for refugees to get through."
"It looks cruel, like watching people die without helping, but this kind of fire really is very dangerous. Right now we'd rather let all the furniture in a house burn than let even a single spark out. Once the deaths in the Sixth State are about enough, the flames of war will naturally die down."
Yuchi felt a stir inside when he heard this. He'd thought he wouldn't care about this sort of thing, but after really hearing Li Yixun's explanation, he still felt a bit dazed.
Indeed, looking at it from the perspective of the bigger picture, right now the only option is to fully suppress and hold the line, just like a forest fire. On the one hand, you throw everything into putting it out; on the other, you have to build firebreaks. Sometimes a fire can almost never be extinguished, and you can only wait until all the trees have burned out.
