At this moment, the dead soldiers who had fallen to the ground to greet the envoy, as well as their families, did not know that the man in black robes in front of them was not the envoy they had thought he was.
According to the rules, on the day when the antidote was to be distributed, all the dead soldiers and their relatives had to line up in advance in this tens of thousands of square metres hall and kneel down to greet the envoy the moment they saw him.
When Ye Chen saw so many people fall to their knees, he was shocked by the sight before him.
The underground world, which was tens of thousands of square metres in size and had a height of over ten metres, with the huge support pillars and the daylight lighting at the top, made the space feel like a magnificent ancient palace, plus when thousands of people were kneeling in front of them, saying the same words in unison, the echoes made the whole underground space tremble.
Ye Chen looked at these people and could not help but frown as he asked in a loud voice, “Did they force you to kneel, or did you take the initiative to do so?”
With a single sentence, all the dead soldiers were asked with horrified faces.
This was the first time they had ever heard the envoy say anything other than the established lines.
The so-called established lines were just to thank Lord Ying for giving the antidote, and that everyone should do their utmost to serve him, and so on and so forth.
Therefore, in their impression, the envoy was more like a human repeater who only had two things to do every time he came over, one was to supervise the primus guards in distributing the medicine to the dead soldiers, and the other was to repeat nonsense that the dead soldiers would not believe or care about at all.
The fact that Ye Chen suddenly said such a sentence out of the blue really shook them to their core, and they couldn’t understand what was wrong with this envoy, who dared to speak in such a way, and even said “they”.
Who were they? Aren’t they the Qing Breaking a*sociation?
But wasn’t the envoy himself also a member of the Qing Breaking Society?
Then he should have said “we”, not “they”!
Just when everyone was confused, Ye Chen asked again, “Who is the commander among you? Stand up and speak!”
A middle-aged man in the centre of the first row slowly stood up and said in a loud voice, “I am Thirty Nine Zero, the person in charge here.”
Ye Chen grunted and asked him, “Answer my question just now, did they force you to kneel here to greet the envoy, or did you take the initiative to do so?”
Thirty Nine Zero looked around and said with a somewhat apprehensive expression, “Lord Envoy, it has always been a tradition for us to kneel here to greet you as well as the antidote given by the British Lord, why are you suddenly asking such a question?”