Yet Kenping Yuelai seemed to show no suspicion at all. Hearing Uchiha Madara's words, he smiled and replied, "We didn't expect there to be so many people either."
"At first, the order from above was to recruit a little over a hundred people, but later they told me there was no longer any limit on the number."
"So I let everyone who came here join us," Kenping Yuelai said with a smile. "This is everyone you see now."
"Among these people, how many are your own, and how many are outsiders?" Uchiha Madara continued asking.
Hearing Uchiha Madara's words, Kenping Yuelai smiled and said, "Yesterday, you said I was somewhat suspicious of you and wanted to keep you by my side."
"But today, you've asked me so many questions at once. Aren't you afraid I'll become suspicious of you?" Kenping Yuelai asked.
Yet the more Uchiha Madara acted this way, the less Kenping Yuelai suspected him. The boy thought that if someone were truly clever, they naturally would not ask him so many questions.
"If there's something I'm curious about, I should ask it," Uchiha Madara said with a smile. "After all, this is extremely dangerous. If I have questions, I should ask them now. Otherwise, I might not live long enough to find out later."
"Are you really prepared to face death?" Kenping Yuelai asked.
"I still have some hope," Uchiha Madara replied with a smile. "If I truly thought I would die with absolute certainty, then I wouldn't have come here."
"Since I came, I must be hoping to survive. No one wants to die, especially not in a place like this," Uchiha Madara said.
"The more than four hundred people you saw ahead are all recruits for this mission, just like you," Kenping Yuelai said.
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