When Chen Changan and the other two emerged from the cave, the people outside grew excited.
Chen Changan glanced at them. They were still hanging their heads, and he said helplessly, "You don't need to keep your heads down. The problem with your bodies has been solved."
"You can hold your heads high again."
Chen Changan's words sent a jolt through everyone!
Solved?
Had the problem really been solved?
When they heard this, their first reaction was joy, but suspicion and doubt quickly took its place.
Could something like this really be solved so easily?
Besides, just because he said it was solved, did that mean it really was?
"We went into the cave earlier, but we didn't find any of you there."
"Where exactly did you go? Have you already discovered the secret of the Rootless Land?"
"Are you worried we'll try to seize it, so you're saying this to trick us into looking up?"
"That makes sense. Don't believe him, everyone. He's trying to trick us into looking straight at him so we'll turn into plants."
"What a malicious man."
"Hmph, I almost fell for his trick just now."
He had gone out of his way to do a good deed, yet no one believed him. Chen Changan merely shrugged, unconcerned.
"Do you know why I don't like doing good deeds?"
"Because it's a thankless task."
"People are better off doing whatever they please."
"There's no need to make things difficult for yourself for someone else's sake." Chen Changan smiled faintly.
"Why don't they believe you?"
"You really did help them solve their problem." Su Yihuan asked, puzzled.
"That's human nature."
"They have every reason to be wary. If it were me, I wouldn't blindly believe what a stranger told me either."
Chen Changan didn't mind their reaction.