These events were later explained using one concept — Stockholm Syndrome.
When perpetrators oppress their victims, eliciting strong emotions, and the victims come to believe in the perpetrators' ideas, they begin to feel as though they are participating voluntarily and might even take the initiative to work for their oppressor.
So many people over so many years, there must have been some who were affected.
Looking at it now, quite a few have been brainwashed by that cannibalistic couple.
Su Nanzhi watched Gu Juncheng, who was shivering while fiddling with things uncontrollably, and then turned to Jiang Beiyu, who was motionlessly staring at a group of souls tearing at each other, and once again felt that indeed, among the living and the dead, there are differences.