Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 7123 (Seven Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-Three) - Listen First

The brown-handed man laughed and said, "You've got it figured out."

Grayhand said, "You just think I'm confident. Why don't you just tell me directly?"

The brown-handed man said, “You chose ‘denied what the Lord said,’ which is correct. I did deny what the Lord said at the time.”

“Otherwise you would have been punished then,” Grayhand said.

“See, the fact that you said that means you have a plan,” said the brown-handed man.

The gray-handed man asked, "So this is reliable? What's your basis for saying that?"

“You said it as if it were the most natural thing in the world,” the brown-handed man said.

The gray-handed man said, "You're only listening to the tone, not the content?"

The man with the brown hands said, "Of course not. I listened to what you said first, and then judged based on your tone. What you said itself shows that you have a plan."

"How come the content itself has become a representation that I have something to rely on?" Grayhand asked.

“You said, ‘Otherwise you would have been punished back then,’ which means you think it would have been better for me to choose to deny what the Lord said, otherwise I would have been punished by the Lord. You think I chose to deny what the Lord said in order to avoid being punished by the Lord,” said the Brown-Handed Man.

“That sounds reasonable,” Grayhand said. “You heard what I said first, and then you judged based on my tone. How did you make that judgment?” Grayhand asked.

The brown-handed man laughed and said, "When you said, 'Otherwise you would have been punished back then,' the tone was one that implied I had no other choice. Actually, I've already analyzed it; when you said it, the tone was one of self-righteousness. I repeated what I said."

The gray-handed man said, "That's a pretty good repetition." "What does that mean?" the brown-handed man asked.

“After hearing you say ‘that tone implied I had no other choice,’ and then hearing you repeat what you said before, I think you’ve put it all together very well,” said the Gray-Handed Man.

"That's pretty good, isn't it?" the brown-handed man asked.

The gray-handed man laughed and said, "Yes, at least after you repeated it this time, I agree with what you said."

The brown-handed man said, "Haha, is that so? Let me tell you another fact."

"What facts?" the gray-handed man asked.

"When you said 'Otherwise you would have been punished back then,' did you think that if I denied the Master's words, I would never be punished?" the Brown-Handed Man asked.

“No,” Grayhand said. “Actually, I didn’t think that much about it. I just know that if you don’t deny the Master, you should be punished by the Master. That doesn’t mean that if you deny the Master, you will definitely not be punished. After all, some of the Master’s actions are hard for us to predict. It’s just that in my opinion, if you don’t deny the Master at that time, the punishment will come instantly.”

“So you don’t think that denying the Lord’s words was the only option I had at the time,” said the Brown-Handed Man.

The gray-handed man said, "Yes, I don't really believe there's any single choice. Maybe no matter what you choose, the Lord will punish you."

The brown-handed man said, "Then why did you say those things in such a matter-of-fact tone back then?"

"Perhaps my tone at the time was too matter-of-fact," said Grayhand.

“But the content of your words is there too,” the brown-handed man said, “and it matches your tone quite well.”