The Wood Puppet Monster is a problem that all camps around Redwood Ridge must face; none can avoid it.
If it is not resolved, everyone is just waiting to die, without a doubt.
Hong Gang and the other three understood that even if they left, Luo Ming would not ignore the issue.
So, when they previously proposed to leave, it was not without the thought of leaving the matter to Rogel Camp to solve the problem alone.
But clearly, Luo Ming wasn't foolish.
Shi Qing wanting to leave is understandable.
Too many have died at Da Shi Camp; if the two don't leave, the few hundred people there would either starve or freeze to death.
But for the other four camps, the losses were still within an acceptable range.
Luo Ming certainly wouldn't force them to stay, but he is also not an overbearing person, so he did not resort to coercion to make them stay, hence his words.
