Fu Yao furrowed his eyebrows questioningly, "Why does he keep apologizing to you? Did something happen?"
San Lang also asked him a question, one far more specific, "Ke Mo said earlier that the Head Reverend went to the Central Plains after a clash broke out between the two troops. Are you also involved in that?"
After being reminded like that, and remembering what was written on the memorial stone beforehand, a few things were later recalled by Xie Lian, but that was only a little. "Um ..."
"That's to save me." Said Ban Yue, who was still prostrate on the ground.
Everyone turned to look at the Head Reverend and then he murmured, "General Hua came in and was involved in the battlefield to save me, and he was leveled."
Hearing him say "flattened" brought Xie Lian's memories back to what happened at the time, and she remembered the sadness of being stepped on by thousands of people, but with two other people watching her reaction, she pulled herself back hurriedly and said, "No so. Not so severe as that. "
Fu Yao didn't look arrogant like before, and said awkwardly, "Well, aren't you a saint." Xie Lian immediately waved, "Oh no, no. It's not like that at all!"
He rubbed his temples and said, "I don't remember exactly what happened at the time, but I thought there might be children playing in the middle of the battle, and I intended to take them away and run away. But we were not fast enough and caught between the two forces. "
"If that's the case," Fu Yao said, "How can you not remember something like that?"
Xie Lian looked at him intently, "Don't you know how many hundred years I am? So much that can happen in just a decade, there is no way to remember everything in detail. Besides, some things should be forgotten. Instead of remembering how I could butchered and trampled hundreds of years ago, I'd rather remember that I ate delicious meatbread yesterday, right? "
"Sorry, this is all my fault," Ban Yue said.
Xie Lian turned to him and sighed, "My dear Ban Yue."
He doesn't know what tone he should use, and squeezes his words briefly before speaking softly, "If you want to apologize for what happened in the past, that's not necessary. Saving you is my choice so it's not your fault. If you have to apologize, then it's supposed to be for someone else. "
Ban Yue was silent.
"I don't know why you opened the castle gate to let the enemy in and carry out a massacre of all the people of Ban Yue, and I don't know why you released the scorpion snake to attack everyone, but ..." Xie Lian stopped, then continued, "But maybe it's because the impression I have of you comes from two hundred years ago, I never thought you were the type of person who could do things like that. So, will you tell me what really happened? "
Hearing those words, Ban Yue prostrated several times in front of her and finally straightened up again.
Pearls of tears began to roll down her cheeks, "Opening the gate is my fault, but, General Hua, I accidentally released the scorpion snake."
Xie Lian was surprised, "What?"
"My strength has weakened," Ban Yue said, "The scorpion snake doesn't listen to me anymore."
Hearing this, Fu Yao became impatient and rolled her eyes, "I've heard too much crap like this before. Who wouldn't say things like that once they were captured? There's no point for you to say it was something unintentional. . "
Ban Yue wiped her face quickly, drying her tears, "That's right, General Hua. I'm not lying. But the people who were injured while crossing the Small Road were really attacked by a scorpion snake, so it's really my fault. You can catch me. "
Without hesitation, the girl held out both hands to tie, gesturing surrender. Fu Yao immediately took the God-tied rope and captured Ban Yue and also Ke Mo, then said, "Alright. We have reached our destination for this trip. Everything is finished now."
But Xie Lian hadn't thought that all of this was over, and bowed his head deeply. Next to him, San Lang spoke, "He has no reason to lie."
Xie Lian nodded, agreed with his opinion, and looked towards Ban Yue, "Can't you control your snake?"
Ban Yue shook her head, "I can control them, and they will obey me for most of the time. But it's the time when they won't obey my orders. I don't know why."
After some thoughts, Xie Lian said, "Why don't you call them and show them to us?"
Ban Yue stood up and nodded. Immediately, a burgundy snake scorpion crept out from under the corpse of warrior Ban Yue, raised his head and curled up on a pile of corpses, and silently wagged his tongue at the group of people there.
Xie Lian was about to look closer at the snake but saw Ban Yue widen his eyes, his face looked strange. Xie Lian's heart fell and thought, "Oh, no."
As he was thinking, after snapping his tongue the snake opened its mouth intending to pounce towards him in an attack.
It was a sudden attack, but Xie Lian had put on a standby position, and would have taken the snake during Boom! Something exploded. When he opened his eyes again to see what had happened, the entrails of the snake had scattered on the ground, completely destroyed. It was a calculated explosion; no poison spilled. Xie Lian immediately recalled another similar incident before where a snake died like this before they entered the ruins of Ban Yue, but there was no need to say who did it at this time. He didn't even have the chance to see San Lang before a red arm crossed before him, blocking and separating it from Ban Yue.
On the other hand, Fu Yao also said calmly, "I know he lied."
Seeing the snake, Ban Yue's face turned pale, and desperately cried, "I didn't do it! I already said there were some snakes that disobeyed my orders, and that was one of them!"
Fu Yao did not believe a word in what Ban Yue said. "Are they obedient or do they disobey your command? Everything is clear."
"That one wasn't even called by me." Ban Yue said.
Xie Lian would speak when two burgundy scorpion snakes emerged from under different corpses, snapping their tongues and watching them carefully. Then the third, fourth, fifth ... the scorpion snakes continued to emerge from the mountains of corpses, and from all corners of the hole, brought countless scorpion snakes!
Everyone looked at Ban Yue who was kneeling on a pile of corpses, and Fu Yao began to raise and spin the ball of spiritual energy in the palm of his hand, shouting at him, "Make them leave! There's no way they all disobeyed your orders!"
Ban Yue closed her eyes and began chanting a spell, as if trying to chase away the snakes. But the scorpion snake appeared more and more, curved and crawled, gliding closer. The bite from one or two snakes might not kill them, but it's hard to say if there are hundreds and thousands. Even if they don't die it won't look beautiful at all.
Xie Lian raised her wrist to call Ruoye, but when she saw that when the snake crept closer to them at a certain distance, they would stop and look doubtful, forming a strange circle around her and San Lang. The snakes were aware of Xie Lian's presence and he glanced at the boy next to him. He watched the snakes with disgust. Scorpion snakes seem to be able to read their eyes and don't dare to come any closer. They backed away little by little, their heads looked down as they did, and pressed on the ground like a servant. But it seems that there are other forces controlling them, making them unable to leave an attack and go completely. As such, many snakes turned and crept towards Fu Yao.
Fu Yao waved his hand and bursts of fire erupted from his sleeve, killing the snake line. It won't last long, and Xie Lian said, "Let's go up and get out of here first!"
Whoosh, Ruoye shot out of Xie Lian's arm and flew up. But immediately, another whooshing sound rang out and Ruoye returned to Xie Lian's arm. Xie Lian was shocked and raised her wrist, reprimanding her ribbon, "What are you doing here? The array here has been released, hurry and go!"
But Ruoye remained silent and wrapped her arms around, looking shaking, as if she had hit something scary at the top. Xie Lian still rebuked him when suddenly, a rope fell. 'Plop', the rope fell on Fu Yao's shoulder. Fu Yao immediately went to get it, and his face changed as he carried it before his eyes - it was another scorpion snake that fell from the sky!
This made Fu Yao off guard and after he was bitten, he threw the snake at Ban Yue. Even with his hands tied, he still unconsciously tried to catch the snake, and after catching it, the dark red snake curled up on his arm and did not attack. At that moment, another 'plop' sound was heard again and a second scorpion snake landed on the ground.
Xie Lian could guess why Ruoye refused to go up now.
Borrowing the dim light from the moon, Xie Lian raised her head and had just seen this scene: hundreds of tiny burgundy dots had fallen rapidly into the Sinner Hole in the sky.
Rain snake!
The red dots were getting closer and Xie Lian shouted, "Fu Yao! Fire! Fire rows of fire up and get them out of the way!"
Fu Yao bit his palm to tear his skin, swung his hand, and a row of blood trickled out, turning into a curtain of fire, hovering over the hole. The fire that immediately swept over the place then rose more than ten feet and hung in the air, destroying all the scorpion snakes that touched it, turning them all into ashes, dissolving the Snake Rain there.
For a while it was safe, Xie Lian heaved a sigh of relief. "That's good, Fu Yao! Thank you."
But the spell consumed enormous strength, and after one round, Fu Yao's face looked pale. He turned and lit the ring of fire, chased the snakes off the ground, and shouted at Ban Yue, "You! You said the snakes didn't obey you? If you didn't control them, why didn't they attack you?"
San Lang laughed, "Maybe it's because of your bad luck? They didn't attack us either."
Fu Yao turned to look at him, his eyes narrowing as he looked at the two.
Xie Lian could feel the problem that was about to occur. With a lot of clues he got that he didn't have time to set it in his head, he didn't want to see the two of them start fighting and say, "Let's find out what happened to the snakes first."
Fu Yao grinned, "What happened? Either this Head Reverend Ban Yue is lying, or the person next to you is starting to say nonsense. Which would you believe."
Xie Lian looked at Ban Yue, then looked at San Lang, and said, "I don't think it's one of them."
His tone was soft, but firm. That is the conclusion he got after thinking long. However, Fu Yao must have thought he was deliberately protecting them; the face illuminated by the flame did not look good, Xie Lian could not confirm whether he was angry or laughing.
"Your Majesty," said Fu Yao, "Never pretend when you know the truth. I'm sure you are well aware of who is the real trash next to you. I won't believe you didn't realize it at all!"