But when those survivors encountered danger and immediately fled, it meant that all the Contribution Points they had worked so hard to obtain would disappear.
Survivors who had made it this far were basically no fools. Perhaps they didn't notice the Imperial Court's intentions at first, but after experiencing similar situations several times, even the slightly clever ones understood what the Imperial Court was thinking.
However, having realised this, the fact remained that the Imperial Court's strategies were top-notch open conspiracies. There might have been ways to break them, but the likelihood was virtually zero.
The reason was quite simple: Any city established by the Imperial Court only accepted Contribution Points in all its official shops after its completion, and the rewards for tasks issued by the Officials were also exclusively in Contribution Points.