Daigrick froze slightly as Ye Chen brought up the past again.
"Uh... I-I remember."
Ye Chen pressed on:
"Can you briefly describe how you found me back then?"
Daigrick scratched his head and answered hesitantly:
"Uh... back then, you really scared me so badly that I ran back to the city. The next few days were calm and peaceful, nothing happened, so I tried going back into the mountains. Then I happened to find you lying naked at the foot of a slope, and in the end, I told Grandpa about it..."
After hearing this, Ye Chen immediately questioned him:
"Calm and peaceful? After you ran away, didn't the mountains make any huge commotion?"
He clearly remembered that, with the resolve to perish together with the Abyss, he had commanded Little Python to unleash the Python King Blood Cannon at maximum power directly at himself.
The force of that attack had been so terrifying that even melting all the mountains and ground within several kilometers would not have been surprising. How could things possibly have been calm and peaceful?
Yet, faced with Ye Chen's doubts, Daigrick looked utterly confused.
"Now that you mention it, I think something like that did happen, but I didn't pay much attention to it. Maybe I was just too scared at the time. Anyway, Sin City wasn't affected. When I got back to Sin City, the streets were still as bustling and noisy as ever. That's all I remember."
Ye Chen frowned, paused briefly, then turned to another point.
"Fine, let's put that aside for now. Didn't I scare you senseless before driving you away?"
"Weren't you afraid at all? How did you dare go up the mountain by yourself again just a few days later, only to stumble into me by chance and have