CHAPTER 230: 230: YOU ARE TOO FAMOUS.

"It’s not that I’m amazing, it’s that you’re too famous."

Li Yan’s deep pupils harbored a hint of inquiry. He looked towards the source of the voice and said flatly, "The first set of data I received showed that you are the leader of this group of bandits! You’re the number one target in this operation."

Zhou Li’s curled-up body trembled, yet he still remained silent. In the dark, he clenched his fists tightly in a painful silence. No one could understand the extent of his discomfort or his complex emotions right now.

"Surprisingly, you actually appeared at the place of detention. It made me doubt the information I received once again!"

Since they had already colluded both inside and outside, the information in Li Yan’s hands was surely adulterated. Changing the roles of a couple of key people among them would be a piece of cake.

"Don’t want to talk?"

Just now, Zhou Li was still reminding him, but after being called by name, he stopped speaking. This was enough to greatly intrigue Li Yan. Zhou Li was one of them, and also the leader listed in the information. Now he was being held here by them.

Li Yan could accurately judge that the amount of information he held was enormous!

"Devil King, you’re military and I’m a bandit, what could we possibly talk about, cough cough..."

Zhou Li coughed violently and said, "Talking to me is nothing but wanting to extract information and understand the current situation of Taiping Mountain, cough cough... But you and I are both caged birds, utterly unable to escape. What’s the use of me talking to you..."

"We’re both down and out, what’s the harm in chatting a bit? I also have no one to talk to."

Li Yan’s bound hands rested on his knees. He crossed his legs, without any consciousness of being a ’hostage’.

"The matters of Taiping Mountain are far from peaceful, and it’s not something that can be explained in a short time..."

Zhou Li, however, was moved to chat. He had been locked up here for far too long. Besides the bandits who periodically delivered food and water, he hadn’t seen anyone else. In the darkness, he had no one to talk to. Apart from fear and loneliness, he had no other emotions.

"Words surely aren’t spoken in a day! We have plenty of time!"

Since Chuan Er captured them, he naturally wouldn’t let them out. So they were probably going to spend several days in the dark.

Li Yan calmly looked into the darkness, his whole being sinking and merging into it. He said leisurely, "How did you get here?"

How he got here...

Zhou Li let out a bitter laugh, a trace of desolation filled his eyes, and he said, "For me to end up here is payback..."

The data Li Yan had taken before was not heavily adulterated, but it wasn’t entirely accurate because it recounted the situation from a few years ago. Back then, they had just decided to establish their hideout at Taiping Mountain, and Zhou Li was indeed their leader at the time.

However, many contradictions surfaced later, and the situation changed. Zhou Li wanted to turn over a new leaf, which brought about many disasters. The bandits, unwilling to accept change, all opposed him, leading to his current predicament.

Looking back now, it’s all karma. This was the evil cause he planted back then, so it led to the bitter fruit now. The path of the bandits is a road of no return, and they cannot find an end.

Maybe because he had been cooped up for too long, Zhou Li talked more and more, saying whatever came to mind, regardless of whether Li Yan understood or not. He recounted all his stories and experiences.

Li Yan closed his eyes, savoring the solitude of the darkness. Zhou Li’s words were like an accompanying melody, but his mind did not rest. Instead, he collected and organized Zhou Li’s words, absorbing and digesting all of it.