Zhang Heng frowned.
The other party's words clearly seemed to be an attempt to evade the main point.
What does their survival have to do with your decision to enslave them?
Zhang Heng was not naive enough to think that the Lord of the Abyss was kind-hearted and enslaved these powerful people in order to save them.
In his eyes, the Lord of the Abyss has nothing to do with "mercy" or "compassion".
Not to mention him, even Meili showed suspicion, because she knew very well what kind of personality her elder sister had.
Not to mention, saving them means depriving them of both their souls and their selves?
The strong men enslaved by her would not be like the soldiers of the Holy Prison Army, whose strength would improve rapidly under Ying Xiaoxiao's influence.
Besides, Ying Xiaoxiao recruited the Holy Prison Army soldiers entirely on a voluntary basis.
However, Zhang Heng only muttered these words in his heart and did not say them out loud.
He had already seen that the reason the Lord of the Abyss answered in this way was obviously that he was unwilling to reveal more.
Since further questioning was bound to be fruitless, he was just asking casually.
So Zhang Heng simply spread his hands and joked.
"It seems that it was indeed you, Lord of the Abyss, who saved them. However, their situation has only gone from precarious to dire straits."
"Tsk tsk, but the way you called her 'Your Majesty' was quite respectful and submissive. Lord of the Abyss, I didn't realize you had such a hobby."
After a day of getting along, Zhang Heng and Mei Shuangyin became much closer, so he made this joke.
"My hobby is so funny to you?"
"But you, the Western Rat Overlord, keep calling me the Lord of the Abyss. That sounds even worse."
"Am I just going to keep you at a distance?"
Mei Shuangyin suddenly turned her head, her dark pupils staring straight at Zhang Heng.
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