"Jackal" Kanus gave a bitter laugh.
This crafty, cunning "Corpse Eating Dog" seemed never to have spoken the truth.
Now that he was telling the truth for the first time, he actually did not know where to begin.
"Listen, it was precisely because I wanted to cooperate with you for the long haul, to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, rather than make this a one-shot deal and go our separate ways—or even turn on each other—after obtaining the Holy Mountain Inheritance, that I told you the truth—even if this truth does sound contradictory and utterly absurd."
The Wolf King said seriously, "If I wanted to deceive you, I could have made up one—no, a hundred—perfectly reasonable lies, guaranteed to leave you unable to spot the slightest flaw, instead of using such a hole-ridden truth to invite your suspicion.
"Haven't you heard this saying? 'Only lies are flawless; the truth has no logic at all'!
"As for why we clearly opened the Holy Mountain Temple last time but did not venture deeper inside... it was because we were attacked at a critical moment."
"Attacked?"
Meng Chao's brows shot up. "Attacked by whom?
"Why did I not find any traces of fierce battle at the bottom of the Giant Cave?
"And if someone really attacked your previous exploration team and stopped you from entering the Holy Mountain Temple, where are those attackers? Why did they not go deeper into the temple and investigate it? And what makes you so certain that they have yet to discover the Holy Mountain Temple's secret, rather than lying in wait deep within it, having prepared a certain-death trap for us?"
The barrage of questions left the Wolf King speechless.
His mouth hung half-open. After staring blankly for a long while, he finally said, "With your