The story is more complex and convoluted, thought Xie Lian, and he then asked, "General, why did Chief Reverend Banyue open the fort's gates to the enemy?"
Instead of answering, Ke Mo instead said, "You have killed my brothers, I will not be willing to answer your questions! I will fight with you!"
"I killed them. He didn't do anything," San Lang continued, "You can answer the question, and fight me later."
Well, that's irrefutable logic, thought Xie Lian. Ke Mo shouted angrily, "You two take orders from that bitch, this won't change anything!"
Xie Lian immediately said, "General Ke Mo, I think you have mistaken about all this. We have taken a mission trip across the Gobi desert in order to get rid of Reverend Ban Yue, how can we possibly be his subordinates?"
Hearing that Xie Lian was really there to destroy the same Head Reverend as he was targeting too, Ke Mo was silent. He then asked, "If you don't help him, then why did you kill my brothers? Only he would do such a thing!"
Xie Lian explained logically, "Isn't that because you threw us into a hole and we had to defend ourselves?"
Ke Mo shouted angrily, "Nonsense! I didn't even throw one of you! I even just caught you! You all jumped down of your own accord !!"
Now Xie Lian really didn't know how to continue the conversation, after really thinking about what had happened. So he said, "Um, ahem, even if we were not really thrown, there would definitely be other people who would be victims to be thrown next, so it's impossible for us to just sit still and watch everything just happen. You eat a person man, for God's sake! "
Just hearing what Xie Lian had said seemed to make Ke Mo boil in hatred, "Eating a human is that bitch's fault!"
It seems like the hatred he has is very deep. Xie Lian said, "General, we are all stuck at the bottom of this hole now. Stop cursing and let's think of a way out. What is the real story behind Reverend Ban Yue's head?"
Ke Mo said coldly, "You two are cunning and unfair, fighting against me two against one. I admit I can't win but I won't answer your question again."
Xie Lian felt a little annoyed, and rubbed his forehead. "I only hit you once. Only once."
He doesn't mind being called underhanded or unfair. If the situation demanded that, let alone two against one, he could bring down one hundred against one, who would care about fighting one on one. But before that, San Lang clearly had the advantage even when he was carrying himself, and told Xie Lian not to fight with him. Ke Mo seems to think he can win if it's just him and San Lang, and Xie Lian feels sad for him.
San Lang didn't feel that was a bad thing at all, and happily said, "Yes, I beat you. Is that a problem?"
Still trying to be tough, Ke Mo said, "You guys fight me together, now talk to me together and corner me. Too sly! I won't answer anything!"
Ke Mo was very uncooperative, but Xie Lian did not show any concern. Ke Mo seems to be the type that can be easily made to spill beans, and they also still have time, no problem. San Lang, on the other hand, did not have the same patience, and reluctantly said, "You better answer the question, for the sake of your brothers."
"You killed them," Ke Mo wrathed and shouted, "Don't think you can use them to threaten me!"
"They are dead, but their bodies are still there." San Lang replied.
Ke Mo seemed to be worried, "What are you going to do?"
San Lang grinned, "That depends on what you want to do."
Only with his voice, Xie Lian could imagine San Lang tilting his eyes, "Do you want their next life to be something unintentional or reborn as a pool of blood?"
Ke Mo was silent, but soon understood what San Lang meant, and he again exploded in anger, "YOU ?!"
Ban Yue people take death and funeral very seriously. They believe that however deceased they die they will be the same as how they will be born again. For example, if the deceased lost their arms in their deaths, they will be reborn in a state of disability. If the corpses in this hole are destroyed, then what will their birth look like?
From his attitude and actions, it was clear that General Ke Mo was a pure Ban Yue person, and would hold that trust in his heart. Using his valuable 'brothers' to threaten him was not a bad idea. As expected, on the other side of the dark hole, Ke Mo held his breath in his anger, but finally relented helplessly, "Don't touch the bodies of my brothers. They are good and brave warriors. It's been a tragedy to be stuck in a hole for all these years. I don't know whether being killed by you is a blessing or not, but I will not let their bodies be destroyed! "
He stopped and asked, "Are you really here to kill that bitch?"
Xie Lian responded warmly, "I'm not lying. The more we know the more chances we have of winning. Not much is known about Chief Reverend Ban Yue outside, we don't know how to fight him. But you have worked as his subordinates before, maybe you can enlighten us and tell us a few things? "
Maybe it was because they shared the same enemy - Head Reverend Ban Yue - that it was a kind of bond developed, or perhaps in an inevitable abyss, on the corpse of his soldiers, Ke Mo became discouraged, but whatever it was, the general stopped in his desire to attack them. "You don't know why he opened the gate? That's because he is against us! He hates us! Burying us! He hates the kingdom of Ban Yue!"
Xie Lian asked, "How is Head Reverend Ban Yue .."
"Evil witch!" Ke Mo corrects.
It seemed that he no longer even wanted to recognize and refer to the girl in black as the Head Priestess. "Alright, evil witch." Xie Lian said, "What do you mean he hates you? How can he be the Head Reverend?"
Reading between endless curse lines, Xie Lian finally understood the core story of what Ke Mo. had told.
Head Reverend Ban Yue was born to a woman Ban Yue and a man from the Central Plains. Living on the border with endless hatred and fighting, things became difficult, and the man from the Central Plains finally felt that he had enough and then he moved from the border and returned to the Central Plains. Even though their divorce was done well, the Ban Yue woman whom he left behind soon died of heartache.
They left a child aged six to seven years; without a guardian, the child wanders the streets, hungry and hopeless. The couple had received cold shoulders everywhere when they were both still alive, and now their daughter experienced the same thing, she received insults wherever she went. The people of Ban Yue were tall and rich, and they saw beauty in her strength and life, but this girl was born of mixed blood, and looked small and thin compared to the children who came from Ban Yue. He grew full of intimidation, and he became increasingly a moody child. Ban Yue's children did not want to play with him, but some Central Plains children began to notice him.
When this girl was twelve years old, a battle between the two armies then broke out, and after this battle, the girl disappeared. He had no friends or family in Ban Yue, so no one paid attention or cared when he disappeared. The next time he appears is a different story.
It turns out, in the few years he left, he walked thousands of miles and crossed the Gobi desert to the Central Plains. No one knew what kind of meeting he had, but he returned after learning black magic, and could control the venomous creatures that Ban Yue people were most afraid of - scorpion snakes.
After he returned, besides many people were impressed, many were afraid. That was because the girl's personality never changed. She still looked gloomy and unfriendly. It is true that there were many people who bully and taunted him in the past; if he enters the palace and becomes a high official, won't he one day get revenge on them? Therefore, they reported the girl's identity to the kingdom as a criminal, manipulator of a scorpion snake that would bring disastrous downfall to the kingdom, and he had to be hanged.
At that time, Ke Mo had become a formidable and honorable soldier. After working with him several times, Ke Mo rated the girl as someone who was pleasant, reliable, steady, and obedient to the law without any malicious intent that could harm the kingdom. He became his guarantor and helped him fight back the spread rumors. In addition, Ke Mo himself grew up with a lot of intimidation and was able to understand the problem, so naturally he paid more attention. The more he paid attention to the girl, the more he realized how strong this girl was, and thus supported him throughout his journey, he helped the girl reach the position of Head Reverend, becoming what was later noted as the most loyal support of Chief Reverend Ban Yue.
But who knows, the Head Reverend already has a deep grudge in his heart and is adept at disguising his true intentions. He hated Ban Yue's kingdom to the bottom, and only learned black magic to take revenge on the country, and the way he did it was to open the castle gates in the midst of the greatest battles that happened at that time.
Ke Mo, who fought hard against the enemy, became angry when he heard the Head Reverend opening the gates of their kingdom and allowed the enemy forces to enter their territory and cut down everything.
No matter how difficult it was, one could not win that fight alone against so many enemy soldiers. But if he is destined to die on the battlefield, he will bring him down to join him!
So he took the lead in leading a small army and rushed to the castle tower, captured the Head Priestess, dragged him to the Sinner Hole and hung his head.
After the enemy forces left the kingdom, the kingdom of Ban Yue became a kingdom of death. The Head Reverend and General who died in this battle also became trapped in it, transforming it into a 'Threat' to themselves.
No one can leave the ruins there, but both of them hate each other. Ke Mo and his soldiers were forever cursed to hunt down the Head Reverend, and each time they caught him, they would hang his 'corpse' in the Sinner Hole once more. He then drew a line of arrays around the hole, making it impossible for anyone to avoid, and would throw the soldiers into it. The soldiers, who were full of feelings of revenge, were only able to eat fresh meat to get rid of their hatred, otherwise they would howl at night without stopping.
To see his brave army had now changed, Ke Mo's heart felt heavy because of the hurt he felt. Luckily the Head Priest's scorpion snake was aggressive, and often left the ruins to hunt. The caravan wounded by a scorpion snake will then enter the ruins of the fort to look for ShanYue's ferns and then be captured by Ke Mo, and then they will be thrown into the Sinner's Hole to ease the hatred of the trapped soldiers there.
Everything continued to happen repeatedly without end until they (xie lian and friends) came.
Xie Lian was fascinated by the story as he continued, and only when Ke Mo stopped for a long time did he think of something, and then he asked, "ShanYue's field in the palace courtyard, was it planted by you? Was that mud face buried by you too?"
"That's right," Ke Mo answered without the slightest hesitation, "The person buried in the mud is a thief who wants to rob the royal treasure. But our kingdom was cleared more than two hundred years ago, so instead they get the royal treasure they looking, he found himself turned into fertilizer. Isn't that a good reply! "
Hearing this, Xie Lian was silent.
He thought Ke Mo might lie at this point.
Or, at the very least, Ke Mo is hiding something.
But apparently that was not.
This Ban Yue warrior group has a conscience to grow ShanYue's fern, even to the point of using living humans as fertilizer, meaning that even if they are no longer human, their fear of scorpion snakes does not diminish. As such, this fear should have been stronger when they were still alive.
However, if the Head Reverend could control their most feared scorpion snake, how could he be easily dragged down from the tower to be hung in the Sinner's Hole? According to Ke Mo, in the past two hundred years, he had arrested the Head Reverend many times, and had hung him up many times.
And snakes that leave the fort to hunt prey also sound interesting. A coincidence? Is there really a coincidence that is so easy like that? Or were they deliberately arranged by the Head Reverend? If that was the case, wouldn't that have helped Ke Mo capture a living human to feed his army? That cannot be described as 'mutual hatred'.
The array around the Penitents' Hole is drawn by the Head Reverend; if he can activate it, he can also deactivate it. That is, even if he let the soldiers fall into the hole, he could also let them out. But then, why did they endlessly fight with each other, pretending to be enemies?
And in all this chaos, there is also a mysterious woman in white and her friend.
After much thought, Xie Lian decided to ask more questions and find out how many words of Ke Mo that could be trusted.
"General Ke Mo, when we first entered the fortress, we saw two women, one in white, and one in black ..."
"Shhh." San Lang whispered and stopped him.
Xie Lian didn't know what was happening but immediately closed his mouth. A strange premonition that suddenly appeared made him look up.
It was the same blue-framed sky as before with the crescent moon still hanging there. But, next to the moon, he saw someone; a silhouette wrapped in black and small clothes peered over the edge and looked down.
After staring at them for a few moments, the shape of the small figure suddenly grew bigger - the creature jumped.
When the figure fell, Xie Lian could clearly see that the creature was thin with long, loose hair. That is the Head Reverend hanging on a pole!