Since this man's mind was not very sharp, I thought I should still be able to get something out of him.
"Your boss must be quite formidable, right?"
"Mm, our boss is definitely formidable. He's much stronger than I am." Whenever the man mentioned his boss, his face filled with pride, as though he were the impressive one.
The other two men following him said nothing and did not stop him from talking to me.
I could tell that, like this man, they did not seem particularly bright either.
"Then can you tell me what your boss is called?"
"His name is Ang Yi."
"Ang Yi? You're Snake people?"
"I can't tell you whether we're Snake people. You only need to know that we're here to kill you."
I secretly found that amusing. His words had already revealed that they were Snake people, and they most likely came from that planet in R5.
"You can't kill me."
"Why?" The big man froze again, his eyes full of curiosity as he looked at me.
"Because I'm also a Snake person. We're of the same kind. Do you really want to harm one of your own? Aren't you afraid of being severely punished for it?" I was bluffing him. Xiao Qing had told me that Earth Core Snake people were forbidden from harming their own kind. If such a thing happened, they would be severely punished, perhaps even executed.
Since the men before me were Snake people too, did they follow that rule as well?
"Huh? How could you possibly be a Snake person? If you were, why would the boss send us to kill you?" The man immediately fell into a dilemma.
One of the men behind him spoke up as well. "A Qiu, we can't harm our own kind."
Although