Kabal in Story Mode confusion question!? (May contain spoilers)

Alright, so after kabal beats -that one guy that some people claim not to know is in the game-, sheeva comes up and she says something about him defeating his lin kuei brother....
but Kabal has NOTHING to do with the lin kuei...
is she asking this because he looks like a robot because of his equipment...or for some reason i don't know about

prolly cuz she confuses him with some robot ass she beat.

She thought Kabal was a robot.