"How have you spent these past hundred years?" Ye Fan asked, placing Kurota back on the ground.
"I still had some food in my ring, and I survived on that..." Kurota answered honestly. "But I finished it the day before yesterday... When I saw those people appear just now, I was planning to snatch some food..."
*Gulp...*
As if to punctuate his words.
Kurota had just said this when his stomach rumbled.
Ye Fan took out some food from his ring and handed it over.
"This is... for me?" Kurota stared intently at the food in Ye Fan's hand, disbelievingly. "You're just going to let me go like this?"
In its understanding, humans were all evil beings.
Despicable, shameless, cunning, insidious, terrifying, brutal...
In short, anything but good words could be used to describe humans...
In reality, it had never met a real human since it was young.
It had only seen images of humans in some books.
And these descriptions of humans were all heard from other members of its family.
Over time, it naturally came to believe this.
Although the human in front of it was somewhat different from the images, such as the angularity of the face, the skin and hair color, etc.
But that didn't prevent him from categorizing Ye Fan into these evil entities.
"I understand!" Thinking this, Kurota exclaimed, "You plan to poison me, don't you?"
Humans were the most evil of beings, and since it had attacked them just now, this was very plausible!
Ye Fan: ???
*Thwack.*
"Your thought process is truly bizarre, isn't it?" Ye Fan immediately smacked its green-skinned head. "Why would I poison you?"
"Then why did you let me go and give me food?" Kurota asked, staring with its small eyes, bewildered. "Aren't all humans despicable, shameless, cunning, and insidious..."
Seeing Ye Fan looking at him with an unfriendly gaze, Kurota wisely shut its mouth.
After all, badmouthing humans in front of a human didn't seem like a wise move...
"You're from the Snow Wolf family, right?" Ye Fan explained, somewhat exasperated. "Then you should know Griffin Snow Wolf, right?"
"How do you know my ancestor?" Kurota was even more confused. "That was thousands of years ago!"
"Because I studied alchemy with him for a few years..." As he said this, Ye Fan's expression changed again. "Wait a minute... you said thousands of years ago???"
"Yes," Kurota replied. "It's been over five thousand years since I was born."
Ye Fan blinked in confusion.
Damn it, this is getting complicated...
Studying alchemy with Griffin Snow Wolf was from another lifetime.
In his own timeline, that was about three hundred thousand years ago from the present.
This meant that in his timeline, he was first hunted by the King of the Underworld, then after a few reincarnations, he transmigrated to the magic world and went to study alchemy with Griffin.
But in Kurota's timeline, it was over five thousand years after he studied alchemy with Griffin that Hades hunted him...
This suggested that it wasn't Kurota encountering time anomalies when he came to the cultivation world, but rather his own timeline had gone completely haywire...
His own timeline branches weren't just growing crookedly; they were jumping back and forth like crazy!
"Are you telling the truth?" Regarding Ye Fan knowing his ancestor, Kurota was clearly skeptical. "What proof do you have?"
"Did your father ever tell you about the Xuanwu Gate Incident?" Ye Fan asked with a strange expression.
When he was studying alchemy with Griffin Snow Wolf back then, they would often chat.
At that time, there were two goblin princes in the Snow Wolf family who had a conflict over the throne, which almost led to a mutiny.
Ye Fan had made a few casual remarks about this, saying it was similar to something he had heard before.
So he casually recounted the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
Somewhere in time, the name of Li Shimin had spread to another world...
And Griffin thought it was a cautionary tale, so he said he would pass it down as a family motto to warn future generations.
"You actually know about the Xuanwu Gate Incident?" Kurota's eyes widened in shock. "Now I believe you!"
His ancestor had indeed passed down this family motto, and it was only known to the princes.
As for why Ye Fan could live for over five thousand years, that wasn't surprising.
Although humans were not good in its eyes, when human powerhouses reached a certain level, their lifespan could indeed become very long.
For example, those legendary Saint Domain mages could live for thousands of years.
"Are you a Saint Domain mage then?" Kurota asked again.
A Saint Domain mage who was friends with his ancestor would definitely be good news for him now!
"I used to be, sort of," Ye Fan shook his head. "It's complicated, hard to explain in a few words."
*Gulp...*
Kurota's stomach growled again...
"Let's chat later, eat up." Ye Fan handed over the food again.
Actually, Ye Fan hadn't expected much when he mentioned the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
After all, he had just said it casually, who would have thought Griffin would actually do it.
Griffin was his old friend, and since he had now met the descendant of an old friend, he naturally had to take care of him a bit.
As for Kurota inexplicably ending up here because he had run away, Ye Fan didn't plan to tell him for now...
After all, he was at fault, and it would be awkward to admit it...
And Kurota attacking him and the others before wasn't really a big deal.
After all, their positions were different, and there was no right or wrong.
With his doubts dispelled, Kurota began to devour the food!
"Oh my god!" he exclaimed while eating. "This is absolutely delicious! Compared to this, the food I ate before was like dog food!"
Ye Fan smiled slightly.
Perhaps the goblins' talent in alchemy and machinery was so high that it resulted in their culinary skills being questionable.
It could only be said that whether one could get a cooked meal from goblins was a matter of luck...
He remembered the first time he saw goblin food and doubted if he was being insulted!
Those black, burnt-looking things were something even a pig wouldn't eat!
And forget eating them; just the smell was enough to make one question life!
As a result, after Griffin tasted his cooking for the first time, he became completely addicted...
In just a few months, the old goblin had visibly gained quite a bit of weight...
And Ye Fan back then was a mage whose mind was filled with nothing but cultivation and fighting, with no interest in cooking.
Let alone comparing him to a master chef, he was far inferior to an ordinary housewife.
This showed just how dark the goblin race's culinary skills were...
After eating two large pieces of roasted meat in one go, Kurota finally stopped.
He was so full he was about to roll his eyes; he couldn't eat any more...
"It's about time, we should go down."
Seeing that Kurota had finished eating, Ye Fan signaled.
Since he had a good understanding of the situation, it was time to go down and retrieve what belonged to him.
"What is this place?" Kurota asked curiously. "Why is it completely different from my previous world?"
He hadn't stopped exploring the ruins during these hundred years.
However, the situations he encountered had made him completely doubt his existence...
Everything was beyond his comprehension, and each one looked more dangerous than the last!
If it weren't for that mech, he would have died long ago...
Due to his naturally short stature, after experiencing danger two or three times, he never dared to explore again.
He spent his days holed up in that seven or eight-story hall, vaguely living out his days...
"We can talk about this later."
Ye Fan activated the flight device and jumped off the rooftop with Kurota.