Everyone present felt speechless in reaction to Ye Weiming's play.
He promised Yuan Zhen not to provoke him, but hid a clause in his words: "as long as you don't harm me and my friends."
That scope of that statement was quite broad.
Clearly, if any other member of the team attacked Yuan Zhen and he retaliated, inflicting damage, then it seemed that would also fall within this scope.
Such verbal traps were not necessarily undetectable to someone as cunning as Yuan Zhen.
But constrained by the System's rules, as long as Ye Weiming was in the process of delivering the task, the reward would have to be given before he could express any grievances.
So, he added a threat later: "For those who betray their promise, a deduction of 500 righteousness points would be applied," which essentially told everyone: if someone violates this agreement not to strike first, they'll surely have their righteousness points deducted, and none of you should want to take that risk.
