"Don't you see? Whatever you take, you die at the hands of something. Tyre's end is already obvious!" Zhao Yuan rebuked angrily. He really couldn't understand how this orc was so bold.

"How do you know if you don't give it a try?"

Zhao Yuan closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, it was already a condensation. He saw that Mason was next to him without saying a word, and his heart was slightly cold, knowing that Mason was testing his attitude.

So he didn't plan to rub it out more, and said word by word: "You have to take it yourself, if something happens, I won't help you anymore, just turn around and leave!"

As soon as he said this, a look of disbelief appeared on Angku's face: "How can you do this!"

"Why can't I do this?" Zhao Yuan sneered, "Are you doing something wrong, all I promised at the beginning was to help you open that stone door, if Liam hadn't disappeared, I wouldn't have entered this ruin at all." Now I came here to help you on a journey, this is my kindness, not an obligation!"

"But if you hadn't taken a fancy to Liam, he wouldn't have disappeared—" Unku's next words were abruptly interrupted by a loud slap from Mason, who covered his face and looked at Mason, unresponsive.

"Shut up, Angku! Liam has only fallen to this point because he has let his guard down, and His Excellency Zhao Yuan has done his duty to us!" Mason said sharply.

"You all go forward first, and I will say a few words to His Excellency Zhao Yuan alone. Mason said, glancing at Aiden, who had been silent beside him, Aiden immediately understood, put one hand around Onku's shoulder, and forcibly took Onku, who was still in shock and dazed.

It wasn't until the two left a certain distance that Mason said to Zhao Yuan apologetically: "Your Excellency Zhao Yuan, I'm really sorry just now. You must think that I wanted to test your attitude to do this, but I didn't, I just wanted to see what was going on in Onku. I suspect that Onku is the same as Tyre now, he has been bewitched since he touched that bottle, but for some reason he was not as strongly bewitched as Tyre, but judging from his performance just now, it is indeed very different from the past, you know, Onku's personality has always been calm, and today's words don't seem like he would say it at all. ”

Mason's words calmed down Zhao Yuan, who was on the verge of rage, he knew that Mason was not a short-sighted person, and his words were indeed reasonable. "And what are you going to do next?"

Mason smiled bitterly and said: "I can't really ignore Angku, as long as he doesn't move, I still hope to bring him back, after all, there are only a few powerful subordinates under His Second Highness." ”

Indeed, for the second prince, two sixth-order lion clans and three fifth-order lion clans were already the limit of what he could recruit, and a large part of them were still due to his personality charm, otherwise it would be really unbearable for him to be able to support these staff members with his savings alone.

Fortunately, Mason and Liam follow him wholeheartedly, Mason has a long-term vision, does not covet immediate interests, not only refuses olive branches thrown by other princes many times, but also often helps the second prince take care of his finances, so that the second prince's financial situation is much easier. And Liam can be said to have grown up beside the second prince since he was a child, and he is even more loyal to him, as long as he has something to eat, he cares about money.

Therefore, every staff member is very precious to the second prince, and Mason, as the right-hand man of the second prince, naturally thinks about the second prince everywhere, which Zhao Yuan can also understand.

"Then it's up to him to perform, and if there's anything wrong with Onku, don't blame me for being ruthless. Zhao Yuan said in a deep voice.

Mason nodded hurriedly: "That's natural, Your Excellency Zhao Yuan." ”

After the two discussed, they followed the people in front of them, Aiden glanced at Zhao Yuan and the others, seemed to realize something, his eyes swept over Angku, and he didn't say anything. Zhao Yuan nodded secretly in his heart, in this team, in addition to him, Aiden's mind is the most determined, although Mason is usually very rational and calm, but he is still too young, he doesn't understand, sometimes a moment of hesitation or irresoluteness can drag people into the abyss.

And he always felt that he was an outsider, and he was not interested in any treasure, and he just wanted to find a way home.

The group continued to march silently towards the unknown front, and in the long corridor there were only the distinct footsteps of a few people and the shaking shadows on the walls, which were inexplicably cold.

I don't know when, everyone's footsteps were mixed with a "click" sound, Zhao Yuan looked down, but saw that the corridor was already covered with stagnant water at some point.

Aiden, who was walking in front, stopped first, he handed Liam on his back to Zhao Yuan to support, and then carefully squatted down, put the torch close to the ground, and frowned to observe the stagnant water.

"What's the liquid on the ground?" Mason said.

Aiden's brows still didn't loosen: "It's water...... But there's one thing that's strange......" He seemed a little confused, and his answer was quite hesitant.

"What's strange?" Zhao Yuan stepped on the stagnant water on the ground with his foot, making a "click" sound, "Maybe there's an underground river ahead?"

No way. Regarding Zhao Yuan's conjecture, Aiden denied it categorically. "The water doesn't smell like living water, but it has a fishy smell. It's weird. ”

When Zhao Yuan heard this, he immediately became curious: "How do you distinguish this, besides, it's normal to have fish in closed waters, right?"

Aiden smiled and replied: "When I say stagnant water, I don't just mean closed water, I grew up by the river, and I can't be more sensitive to the smell of water, and any slight smell of earth and grass can't escape my nose, but the water is clean and clean, except for the fishy smell, there is no smell." ”

Although Zhao Yuan's five senses are also very sensitive, he can't distinguish these three fishy smells at all. Aiden continued: "I wonder how these fish survive if there is no silt in this water and no aquatic weeds. ”

Mason nodded and said, "Anyway, let's go ahead and have a look." ”

Everyone had no objections, but Zhao Yuan glanced at Angku a little strangely. The lion clan jumped up and down just now, but now he didn't say a word, standing aside as if in a daze.

But he is honest and the best, and Zhao Yuan doesn't want to be that ruthless person.

The group stepped on the stagnant water, and gradually walked towards the source of the stagnant water, the more they walked, the more Zhao Yuan could clearly smell the "fishy smell" in Aiden's mouth, and even when they walked to the end of the road, the fishy smell was just like the smell of Zhao Yuan at the fish stall on the street before, and it made people squint.

At this time, Zhao Yuan and the others didn't want to speak, and walked in with their noses wrinkled one by one. To everyone's surprise, there was only a small room of about fifty square meters at the end of the passage, or rather, a small cistern.

And the disgusting smell of fish emanates from this cistern.

Everyone looked at each other, and they all saw the uneasiness in each other's eyes. There's definitely something in this pool, there's no doubt about it.

"Let's try the old way first. Mason said with a pinching of his nose.

Now that there was no Tyre, only Aiden and Onku were left to work, and they handed over the people they were carrying to Zhao Yuan and Mason, and began to set up the ropeway as before.

Just as Aiden was about to slide over and try it, Mason stopped him.

"Let's put something in first. He said.

Aiden understood, and took out a cage containing mice from his bag, Zhao Yuan was dumbfounded, these big packages are really not covered, there is everything in them!

Aiden hung the cage on the ropeway, and a rope was attached to the cage. With a slight push, the cage slid down the ropeway toward the opposite shore.

The cage slid steadily across the ropeway, and it seemed that it was about to reach the opposite side, and the water was still calm, smooth as a mirror, without the slightest ripple. Everyone's hearts were relieved, Aiden also slightly tightened the rope in his hand, ready to bring the cage back, at this moment, only to hear a huge beast roar, and then a gray giant lion rushed out of the opposite passage and swallowed the cage in one bite.

Aiden leaned over, almost dragged into the pool by the force of the giant lion's drag, but fortunately, the people around him quickly grabbed him. Aiden also hurriedly loosened the rope in his hand, and the soft and collapsed rope was dragged all the way by the gray giant lion into the opposite corridor, and part of it inevitably fell into the pool.

What made everyone gasp was that the rope that entered the water melted instantly, as if there was a pool of strong acid in this pool.

Aiden dragged the remaining piece of rope back to see that the tip had turned charred black, and there was a fishy smell that smelled of fish.

"What's in this pool?" Zhao Yuan said with his hands covering his mouth and nose, and said angrily.

Aiden shook his head with an ugly face. To him, the fishy smell was so fresh, but the water—he couldn't imagine anything living in it.

Mason's face changed, as if he had thought of something, he lowered his head and thought for a moment before he said with certainty: "This pool contains hemolysis!"

Everyone looked at him suspiciously, Mason wanted to explain in detail, but he was choked by the fishy smell, so he had to say concisely: "It's similar to the aqua regia made by His Excellency Zhao Yuan, but the materials used are different." ”

This answer made everyone's faces even more ugly. They have seen the power of Aqua regia, but now this pool is full of that kind of thing, and there is a gray giant lion guarding the road opposite, which seems to be completely incomprehensible. In this forbidden demon realm, everyone feels very powerless in all kinds of situations.