"What!?"
A thunderclap of uproar instantly swept through the YoRHa forces. The androids' faces were filled with bewilderment and panic, while questions rose one after another—humans had clearly been safe and sound on the moon, so how could they suddenly have gone extinct?
"Please listen to me, my fellow compatriots," White's voice cut through the noise as she began recounting that carefully woven lie—the reasons and process behind fabricating humanity's continued existence on the moon, while cleverly concealing the use of machine lifeform cores to create Yo—
Most of the bandits had no horses. Most of those who had followed Zhou Jing here were wandering heroes from the Huai and Si regions. Last year, Sun Jian had issued a Heroic Order in Xiapi to hunt down Dian Wei, and most of these wanderers had taken part. Several hundred had surrounded Dian Wei, yet he had slaughtered them until corpses carpeted the ground, then laughed loudly as he charged out of the encirclement with his halberd. Not one of them had dared approach him.
This judgment made Chadenbei pause in surprise. Could it be that Li Zhi had really captured and killed over a thousand Tatars? Had the Tatars fallen into his trap and been played by him? Or were his household guards capable of matching the battle-hardened Tatar veterans?
They had not given Lin Yin life, but they had raised her. Though they had been indifferent, they did not owe Lin Yin anything. Thus, Hatsune had never considered making trouble for them; she only wanted them to go their separate ways from then on.
As the only man among the four, Chen Ji naturally became another mirror for them. Whether it was shoes, dresses, or bags, whenever they liked something, Chen Ji was always the first person they asked.
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