Three minutes later, inside a fairly well-hidden abandoned building.
On the floor, seven goblins tied into a bundle wriggled around like worms.
He Zheng kept washing his hands in disgust, looking at Ye Lin with utter bewilderment.
While he was tying up the goblins, one of them had actually wet itself in fear, getting urine all over his hand.
He simply couldn't understand why these things would appear in an examination, especially a team battle.
"Ye Lin, why did we bring these things back?"
"I know you want to ask them something, but they don't understand human speech. We won't get anything out of them. We might as well just kill them."
Ye Lin said nothing. He merely looked at the most unusual of the seven goblins, the purple goblin, his mind racing.
Capturing them seemed to have been a waste of effort. They might as well have killed them on the spot.
He Zheng had questioned this goblin for ages, but all it did was babble incomprehensibly, just like the others.
It was so noisy that He Zheng had simply taken off a sock and stuffed it into its mouth. The stench had brought tears to the goblin's eyes, leaving it able to do nothing but whimper.
"No, it might understand us."
"And it's probably seen people like us before."
Ye Lin suppressed the strange look in his eyes and walked over to the purple goblin.
"When it first begged for mercy, it kept changing its intonation."
Before He Zheng could react, Ye Lin crouched directly in front of it.
"Stop pretending. When your companions begged for mercy, they repeated the same phrase over and over. Only you kept changing your intonation when you were caught."
"Any creature will instinctively speak its native language when frightened, so you were