"Well, it wasn't anything much, just went to protect you." The third-in-command, who had just been quite flustered, suddenly came up with a perfect excuse because he suddenly remembered that the last time he went down the mountain was to protect the Boss.
After a pause, he continued, "Boss, you're back now. Big Brother is probably coming back soon too."
But Xue Zhiyi didn't believe such an excuse at all. The third-in-command's behavior was too abnormal, and he could see that something was definitely up. He had to find out because he absolutely wouldn't allow anything shady to happen in the stockade.
He knew they were not ordinary people. When they came to him, they were poisoned. He felt a bit guilty because the poison was made by him, so he took them in.
Seeing they seemed honest and straightforward, each of them were men of iron, he let them manage the stockade.
He hadn't questioned much about their identities, but now it seemed he should, "Why were you poisoned back then?"
