Chen Lin had not expected these two to have some genuine feeling in them. The sincerity in their voices did not seem feigned.
It seemed he had been right to intervene.
"No need to stand on ceremony, Magistrate. We are acquaintances, after all, even if we have only met once. You also helped me a great deal last time. Lending you a hand was only right."
Chen Lin exchanged a few polite words.
Although he had saved the man's life, he could not consider himself superior because of it. He would still need the man's help in the future, so there was no reason to leave him feeling uncomfortable. That would mean working hard only to earn resentment.
Then he glanced at the slowly fading corpses of Zhu Sankui and his two companions. His eyes flickered as he asked, "It seems you and these three bandit chiefs all entered the Nightmare Realm through projection, Magistrate. May I ask which plane you come from, and whether there is a way to leave?"
Besides wanting to obtain merit, Road Guides, and other items in the future, he had helped the man partly because he wanted to learn about his origins.
As the magistrate here, the man would surely know if this scenario had any other nodes.
The Black Bear Magistrate sighed and shook his head. "At this point, there is no reason to hide it from you, brother. Jin Zhenshan, Zhu Sankui, the others, and I all come from a plane called the Eight Immortals Realm. Based on what I know of the various planes, ours can be considered a major world."
Chen Lin's expression froze at his words.
The Eight Immortals Realm?
He had never heard that name before, but it contained the word "immortals." Could it be the legendary Immortal