"Take him to the dungeon first. Once I'm done here, I'll come pay him a visit..." Madam Qianrou smiled with her red lips pursed, her face alluring and coquettishly innocent.
After receiving Madam Qianrou's order, Old Zhang dragged Lin Bai to the dungeon.
Hearing that Madam Qianrou held Lin Bai in such high regard, even Old Zhang couldn't help turning around to take a couple more looks at Lin Bai on the way to the dungeon.
"Boy, what exactly is your background?" At the dungeon entrance, Old Zhang still couldn't resist asking. "Which sect do you come from? And what position do you hold in your sect?"
Lin Bai vaguely sensed that when they "captured people," they seemed to care a great deal about the other person's identity.
But for the moment, he still hadn't figured out whether a higher status was better—or a lower one.
Before he fully understood the situation, Lin Bai decided to hold something back and not reveal everything.
After thinking it over briefly, Lin Bai stared at Old Zhang and said, "I can answer your questions, but you have to answer mine too. That's only fair."
"Who are you people? Where exactly is this place? Who ordered you to build a city here? Does the Chu imperial family know of your existence?"
"Why are you capturing people? And what exactly do you intend to do with them?"
Lin Bai hurled out a barrage of questions.
But Old Zhang merely smiled calmly. From his smile and eyes, Lin Bai could tell that he was probably not the first person to ask these questions. Anyone who had previously been captured and brought here had likely asked the same things.
"You'll know the answers to those questions soon enough." Old Zhang chuckled. "Who knows? We might even become