Chapter 876: Receiving the Vow (2)

"This…" Jin Yishi was at a loss for words, but still stubbornly shook his head, "I still think Miss She Mo isn't lying; she's a good person."

Kelly didn't want to keep arguing with him, she let out a soft sigh: "Jin, you should develop some scam‑awareness, otherwise at the Aotu Competition a pretty older sister might actually trick you, okay? If you're so quick to trust others, you might end up being sold and still counting money for someone else."

"... That won't happen," Ge Rui, who had been sitting beside them with eyes closed, said lightly, "But if it did, I would make the other party pay the price."

As if he had found a savior, Jin turned to Ge Rui pleadingly: "Ge Rui, what do you think? Is Miss She Mo a good person?"

"I don't know," Ge Rui shook his head, "We aren't direct participants in the incident; we can only passively receive information through the sky curtain. Whether she's good or bad can't be easily defined by a few words. However, as a Bu Li person who dared to bring a small robot alone to Luo Fu Xian Zhou, regardless of her purpose, that boldness alone makes me willing to grant her some trust."

"At this moment inside the Prison of the Haunted Captives, Yu Kong had arrived here early, personally interrogating the escorted She Mo."

"... According to the Heavenly Vessel Department's records, this spacecraft originally belonged to the Institute of Knowledge. Now it is docked at the port carrying 102 nameless corpses, and the only ones who disembarked from the ship are a Bu Li person disguised as a fox and an intelligent machine."

"Shan Shi: "..."

The Ming Officer beside them could no longer hold back, shouting, "So, I'll ask again, who killed them?"

She Mo lowered her head: "I can only answer again, this poor monk definitely did not violate the killing vow. But I cannot explain the whole chain of events."

"Your denial is useless, because the answer is self‑evident."

While Yu Kong and the others were questioning, Xing had already arrived at the Prison of the Haunted Captives accompanied by Lu Ka. Yu Kong's expression was stern, her anger like a volcano about to erupt, forced down... Her chest rose and fell violently, as if she wanted to devour the Bu Li person before her alive.

"The matter involves Heavenly Vessel Department affairs, and I was summoned to hear the case. However, given the severity, not only me—if the General could step away, even he would have to personally intervene. As for the two suspects now, one refuses to cooperate, the other remains silent."

Xing looked up and down at She Mo: "Is she really a Bu Li person?"

Yu Kong nodded: "That's right, the Ten Kings Department has already verified her identity. The suspect She Mo is an undisputed Bu Li person."

"Miss She Mo, before the duel you told me 'you must fight for the monks of Danlun Temple and the children,' were you lying to me?" Lu Ka asked.

She Mo said firmly, "I am a vow‑keeping monk of Danlun Temple, I never speak falsehoods."

"Through the documents she carried and the ring she wore, we confirmed She Mo's identity as a Danlun Temple monk."

Yu Kong was rather dismissive: "Danlun Temple... I've heard that name. A group of Bu Li people isolated from the world, observing strict precepts that forbid killing, they built a temple to avoid war—this sounds more beautiful than a fairy tale."

"Now, this 'fairy tale' has been shattered because of you, She Mo. Bu Li people can never change their blood‑thirsty nature. Even if you disguise yourself as a fox, you cannot become us."

Zero Zone.

"Huh? Bu Li people turned into... monks?! And a whole group of Bu Li people? Hahahaha—!!"

Inside the Cunning Rabbit House, Nicole covered her belly, laughing until tears nearly fell out.

"You make Bu Li people forbid killing, which is like forbidding Anbi from ever eating burgers, Mao from eating mackerel, Billy from watching Starshine Knights, and me from liking Denny—what's the difference? In short—it's! impossible!"

"Do I forbid eating burgers? That's indeed unlikely." Anbi glanced at the freshly bought hot burger in hand, expressionless, and took a bite.

"Bu Li people becoming monks—that image is just... terrifying, right?" Mao imagined a group of over‑two‑meter‑tall Bu Li wolf soldiers clad in kasaya, holding prayer beads, chanting scriptures to the star gods—truly hard to picture. Yet why would Bu Li people think of isolating themselves and becoming monks? Have they turned vegetarian?

"I think this is real," Anbi said, "If that group of Bu Li people were merely disguised as monks, they couldn't have hidden it from the Celestial Boat's watchful eyes for three Amber Eras; they'd have been wiped out long ago. It's just that the foxes harmed by Bu Li people refuse to admit it."

"Makes sense, but Bu Li people becoming monks... I couldn't even dream such a scene at night. The combination of Bu Li people, monks, and a prohibition on killing yields only one answer for me: 'Bu Li people ate the monks who forbid killing,' not 'the monks who forbid killing are actually Bu Li people.'"

Nicole restrained her laughter and said seriously, "If Danlun Temple monks invited me inside to burn incense and pray to the God of Wealth, I think they'd most likely be trying to lure me in to eat me."

"Could this be a bias?" Mao, now sitting on the sofa, licked his hand, "Just as among the Celestial Boat people who follow Patrol Hunt there are those yearning for the Abundance Pharmacist King's Secret Transmission, and among the blood‑thirsty Bu Li people there is the vow‑keeping Danlun Temple that forbids killing—each faction has a small group that goes against the grain... By analogy, might the other Abundance peoples also have similar organizations?"

"She Mo lowered her head in grievance: "I—I only wanted to petition the Celestial Boat during the martial arts ceremony... to let you hear Danlun Temple's voice. If I appeared in my true form, I doubt I'd even be able to set foot on Luo Fu."

Yu Kong said coldly, "Regardless of why you came with that wish, you have no chance to have it fulfilled. Danlun Temple will have its reputation ruined because of the blood case you caused; petitioning is out of the question. And all of this is ruined by your hand."

Hearing that, the fox monk's features twisted. She clenched her canine teeth, futilely trying to choke the anger inside.

Lu Ka suddenly turned to Shan Shi and asked, "Miss She Mo didn't lie, right, Mr. Intelligent Machine?"

"... Current status: I uphold the precepts, I do not answer questions from anyone other than She Mo," Shan Shi emitted a cold mechanical voice.

"Mr. Intelligent Machine, if you and Miss She Mo are convicted because you kept the precepts, Danlun Temple will also be implicated. Your precepts are meant to protect Danlun Temple, not to persist in order to destroy it."

Lu Ka's speech successfully persuaded Shan Shi; after the robot emitted a "beep," it replied, "... The inference is reasonable."

"I am the one who wiped out those 102 people. Ask me your questions."