Chapter 433

Miss Ailuo Si extended her right palm forward and pushed out a crimson fireball.

That fireball whistled to the front of the two fire snakes and crashed into the ground.

Amidst the booming sound, it swept the fire snakes into its own explosion, preventing the two from rushing toward the bronze coffin.

Albus made no further effort, picked up the carbide lamp, and stood up.

He looked at Miss Ailuo Si and said with a grin:

"You really do know something, don't you?"

Albus then mocked Lu Mian:

"You don't know anything."

*Damn! If the occasion wasn't wrong, I would definitely have to 'spar' with you... * Lu Mian only then understood that Albus's recklessness just now was a test, a trap.

"This is the Red Tianebao of the Solomon family," Miss Ailuo Si did not directly respond to Albus, but merely stated a fact.

*She is saying, I have the bloodline of the Solomon family, and I have lived in Red Tianebao for almost six years. Isn't it normal to know something? *

Albus cast his gaze toward the white candles that had gone out by nearly a third, and as if he hadn't heard Miss Ailuo Si's words, asked directly:

"What are you doing in the depths of the underground palace? If you don't say it, how can we cooperate with you and help you?"

Miss Ailuo Si looked at the bronze coffin and, contrary to Lu Mian's expectations, gave an answer:

"I want to come and see this place known as the family forbidden area, where only a few people can enter, and figure out if the curse in our bloodline is related to this."

"You are an Einhorn. Do you really think of yourself as a member of the Solomon family?" Albus Medici mocked this lady.

*This is both mocking Miss Ailuo Si for not telling the whole truth and also sowing discord between her and the Solomon family, making her recognize her own identity. Is there no need to help the Solomon family hide some secrets? * Lu Mian heard two layers of meaning from Albus's words.

This made him suspect that the other was already a "Conspirer," and the always annoying appearance belonged to a disguised trap.

Miss Ailuo Si was not provoked and sighed:

"I have half the bloodline of the Solomon family and am also a 'Hunter,' and I am equally troubled by that curse."

Speaking of this, she looked at Albus Medici and said:

"What are you doing in the depths of the underground palace? You don't really want to play my foolish cousin's childish game, do you?"

Albus said in a tone that was half-sighing and half-sincere:

"The curse of the Solomon family should end.

"And to break this curse, one must first figure out the nature and source of the curse."

"Would you be so kind?" Miss Ailuo Si no longer showed obedience and restraint.

Albus laughed:

"You don't understand. This is called the highest level of love and compassion; benevolence has no boundaries, and I am just such a person."

*I believe you're a fool... However, a true 'Conspirer' wouldn't just tell lies; they are always half-true and half-false, or even entirely true, just lacking the key parts... What was true in Albus Medici's answer just now? He wouldn't really want to help the Solomon family break the curse, would he? Miss Ailuo Si said it, I still believe it. How could an outsider who has nothing to do with the Solomon family have such kindness... Is this a result that will inevitably accompany his completion of his real goal? * Lu Mian listened quietly, analyzing the answers of his two "teammates."

He also did not truly believe Miss Ailuo Si, thinking that what she said should only be part of the truth:

*She suddenly changed her temperament and ordered the black spiders to leave. This matter doesn't look like something a girl who lives at her grandfather's house and is not valued could accomplish! *

Miss Ailuo Si evaluated Albus's explanation with a disdainful smile, and then the two looked at Lu Mian simultaneously, asking in unison:

"Why did you come to the depths of the underground palace?"

"Me?" Lu Mian pointed at himself with his empty left hand and answered very honestly, "Someone entrusted me to investigate the reason for the decline of the Solomon family and even gave me some things."

The client refers to Gardner Martin, and the things refer to the dangerous pollution in the building at 13 Market Avenue, but Lu Mian did not say whether he accepted it.

Albus smiled. Knowing Lu Mian's "true identity," he expressed approval of this lie.

Miss Ailuo Si's eyes moved slightly, as if she were quickly analyzing which parts of Lu Mian's words were true and which were lies or incomplete.

After a brief silence, Lu Mian sighed and took the lead in accusing Albus and Miss Ailuo Si:

"You 'Hunters,' you've said so much, yet not one of you has taken a step forward!"

The three people were still blocking the entrance, no one rashly entering the hall, all waiting for teammates to step on a mine.

"Communicating with you is really a waste of time," Albus remarked.

He still didn't take a step forward, saying "tsk tsk":

"At this time, if only there were a Beyonder of the 'Sailor' pathway."

"Don't think that Beyonders of the 'Sailor' pathway are necessarily irritable, reckless, careless, and impatient. Potions do bring a certain influence, but the most important factor determining a person's behavior is still their personality and experience. If you use this stereotype to deal with Beyonders of the 'Sailor' pathway in the future, it will very likely become a characteristic," Miss Ailuo Si mocked Albus.

Lu Mian did not join their quarrel and asked thoughtfully:

"If we hadn't chosen the middle path and the 'Gate of Madness,' would we also have arrived here?"

"Yes, but some rooms would be more dangerous," Miss Ailuo Si looked at the scene in the hall, motionless.

Lu Mian nodded and asked further:

"Would we encounter monsters at the demigod level?"

"The vast majority of Beyonder characteristics at the demigod level have been recovered, but many below the demigod level remain in the underground palace, turning this into a restricted hunting ground, convenient for members of the Solomon family to hunt and improve themselves," Miss Ailuo Si seemed to have no intention of hiding it for the Solomon family.

*Recovered the vast majority... that is to say, there is still a portion in the depths of the underground palace? Is this a situation that appeared with the complete disappearance of some core members? Does the Solomon family not want to recover them, or do they not have the ability to recover them? *

*Well, Miss Ailuo Si's description matches the current situation of the Solomon family. There are not many demigods at the Saint level, but there are not few either. Many core members are scattered in the military, politics, and business, all having fairly good strength... What they lack is higher-level power? No angels, only '0' level sealed artifacts left, or is there only one angel? * Lu Mian looked left and right, discovering that Miss Ailuo Si and Albus were both very patient, as if they had fixed themselves in place.

Frankly speaking, Lu Mian really wanted to see the fortune of Miss Ailuo Si and Albus, to see what kind of fate they would have next, to judge the danger level of entering this hall in the depths of the underground palace, but considering Miss Ailuo Si's abnormal temperament change just now and Termiboros's recent abnormal silence, he gave up this plan.

That not only carried great risks but could also mislead him!

Just at this moment, Lu Mian suddenly had a certain dangerous intuition.

He turned his body fiercely, casting his gaze and the light of the carbide lamp toward the rear simultaneously.

Albus and Miss Ailuo Si also made the same movement.

In the corridor sloping upward, a palm with deep red, almost black veins protruding root by root stretched out from the darkness, pressing on the surface of the wall stained with yellowish light.

Lu Mian's eyelids twitched, remembering the scene that left the deepest impression on him in those nightmares caused by the King Cake game:

Inside the bronze coffin surrounded by white candles, a palm with deep red, almost black veins protruding root by root suddenly reached out, holding a shriveled, blackened heart that was seeping a little blood!

*Has that dangerous creature inside the bronze coffin come out? * Before Lu Mian could react and use "Spirit Realm Shuttle," he felt intense fear, which made him want to submit, his waist and back bending down involuntarily.

Amidst instinctive resistance and struggle, he, Albus, and Miss Ailuo Si subconsciously took a step back, stepping into the hall.

In an instant, hallucinations appeared before their eyes simultaneously.

Lu Mian "saw" that hall covered by illusory purple flames, as if it were a burning hell in myths and legends.

The core of the purple fire was that bronze coffin, which became transparent, seemingly without a physical body, revealing an iron-black ring pressed beneath it.

That ring was embedded in the ground, and in the middle was viscous, blood-colored spring water with no bottom in sight, in which multiple shriveled, blackened, withered hearts sank and floated from time to time.

Around the iron-black ring, lines of blood spread outward, some wrapping around the bottom of the bronze coffin and drilling inside, others connecting to those white candles one by one.

The next second, Lu Mian heard an illusory roar that was crazy and violent, as if coming from the depths of the earth.

His mind buzzed, and his whole person lost consciousness instantly.

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In the darkness with no end and no boundaries, Lu Mian, who was confused and not yet awake, vaguely heard magnificent, overlapping sounds, but he didn't know what the other was saying.

He tried his best to listen in a daze, and the melodious melody hummed by Aurore and the ethereal flute sounds of the shepherds echoed in his ears.

"I am the elf of spring..."

Those sounds gradually became noisy, and Lu Mian felt his right palm a bit hot.

That heat became obvious quickly, presenting a burning pain.

*Pain... pain! * Lu Mian woke up suddenly and opened his eyes.

He saw a crimson fireball in front of him and felt that he was restrained by a metal frame, forced to stand straight.

At this time, a black-robed man with a dense, bright red beard, like a humanoid lion, was standing in front of the metal frame, holding softened white wax, pressing it onto his body surface piece by piece.

Lu Mian did not hesitate, did not do any extra inspection or fighting, and directly activated the black mark on his right shoulder.

With a flash of ghostly light, he disappeared into the metal frame with some white wax.

At the entrance of the underground labyrinth of Red Tianebao, Lu Mian's figure was quickly outlined.

He looked around quickly, and seeing no abnormalities, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately after, Lu Mian patted the white wax off his body surface while checking the items on his body.

He was somewhat stunned to find that not only were the original magical artifacts, gold coins, banknotes, and various potions all there, but even the "Wax Artist" Beyonder characteristic and the shriveled heart obtained in the underground palace were all there.

*No one searched me? * Lu Mian was surprised, and discontinuous scenes flashed in his mind:

That was the scene of him losing the carbide lamp and walking silently in the darkness.

In those scenes, his expression was dull, his face stiff, like a wax figure.

Finally, he walked to a room by himself, drilled into the metal frame, and waited calmly for the "Wax Artist" to make him into a wax figure.

*This doesn't look like me at all... * Lu Mian rubbed his head, which was throbbing with pain, and chose to go up the steps to leave the underground labyrinth.

He soon returned to the large living room on the first floor and saw the poet Eilert happily drinking absinthe.

"You're back too?" Eilert asked curiously.

"Yes." Lu Mian, who had calmed down, sat on the sofa and said with a smile, "I got separated from them."

As soon as he finished speaking, Albus, with reddish hair, also appeared at the entrance of the large living room.

(End of chapter)