The young man smiled. "I'd like to know who I am too, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't remember. Maybe I'd been in this place for too long."
Bullshit. Could staying somewhere too long really make someone forget who they were?
I looked at Sister Lin, asking with my eyes who this young man was. But Sister Lin shook her head. She didn't know him either.
"I only want to take her away," I said to the young man. In truth, I was admitting defeat. I was indirectly telling him that I hadn't come to make enemies with them. I was only here to rescue someone.
The young man shrugged and made a welcoming gesture.
"I just happened to be here," he said. "Whatever happened between you people has nothing to do with me." Like hell I believed him.
If it had nothing to do with him, would he have had more than a dozen bows aimed at me?
"Where is Miss Ke'er? Didn't she come? And Zhang Dawei? Are they still on Terrifying Ridge?" I asked.
The young man lightly clasped his hands and slowly rubbed them together. "They're indeed still on the mountain. They can't come down either. That's their foundation, and they're plagued by curses. If they rashly leave Terrifying Ridge, the consequences will be unbearable. Disappointed? Feeling like you're in danger now that they didn't come?"
I said nothing. I knew that, here and now, this kid's words carried the most weight.
"Actually, you don't need to be afraid. I won't hurt you. Mr. Jiang, didn't you want to leave? Then leave."
He had completely thrown me off balance.
Especially when he told me to leave—I actually didn't dare move recklessly.
Who knew whether he was speaking sarcastically?
Sister Lin leaned close and