"You … you're poisoned?" The ugly woman was shocked.
"I think so." Your Honor, the future Supreme Magus, looked at his arm calmly.
"But you were clearly the one who chose first … Wait, could it be that you knew which of the two bowls contained poison?"
Luo Bu raised his eyebrows, but before he could say anything, the ceramic doll began to move again. It turned around, took two steps, and then stopped in place, as if waiting for the two of them to catch up.
The ugly woman finally understood why the pottery puppet did not move. It should be waiting for the poison to spread in someone's body until it confirmed that Rob was poisoned. Only then would it bring the two to its master.
Based on the ugly woman's understanding of Claire, the guy was indeed more timid and cautious than the average person, but he was not to the extent that he needed to use poison to control others. She did not know what happened to him during this period of three years. Now she could only comfort someone, "This should be some kind of misunderstanding … Don't worry, when I see Carlisle, I will definitely ask him to detoxify you."
"Oh," Rob said, as if he did not care about the strange purple color in his veins.
The pottery puppet led the way in front of them without saying a word. It deliberately chose some forks in the road, obviously to prevent the two from secretly remembering the path. In addition, the future Supreme Magus, Your Honor also felt the aura of a magic array nearby. It was a low-level magic array, simple but very effective. Its function was to distort the sense of direction within a certain range, but with Rob's mental strength, this kind of magic array would not affect him at all.
After walking for a while, the future Supreme Magus, Your Honor, suddenly said, "Yvette … Is that your name?"
"Huh?!" Just like when they were on the ground, the ugly woman's expression changed after hearing these three words. Her pupils showed a trace of vigilance, and she paused for a moment before saying, "I did not expect that there would be people who know this name."
"It seems that your life is not as simple as you said. The leader of the Nightingale, Saxe, deliberately mentioned this name in front of me in order to arouse my curiosity so that I could ask about its origin. In other words, if I know the meaning behind this name, it is very likely that I will change my opinion of you."
"Do you want to know?" The ugly woman stopped in her tracks.
However, Rob shook his head. "I told you that I'm just a passerby to Ao Grimm, so you don't have to worry. I don't care about your past. I only care about whether you can help me find the person I'm looking for."
The ugly woman frowned, as if she couldn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence. For hundreds of years, no prisoner had ever been able to leave this prison, so she had never thought about this possibility from the beginning. After a while, she said, "You seem to care a lot about your companion?"
"Yes." There was no need to hide this kind of thing.
The ugly woman could tell that a certain someone had said this word without any hesitation. She thought for a moment and said, "She … is someone you like? So was the outside world like this too? Men could disregard their own safety for the girl they liked? Just like you did before, drinking the contents of that bowl without hesitation? But in this way, won't you have a weakness? What if someone uses the person you like to threaten you? "
Rob smiled. "Isn't the reason why people become stronger to protect the person they like?"
The next moment, the magic puppet stopped. It seemed like she had walked a long way, but in fact, she was less than 300 meters away from the stone pillar. The guy named Carlisle lived in a cave between the stone walls. The entrance to the cave was so narrow that it could only fit a child sideways. Carlisle poked his head out of the cave and carefully looked at the two of them. When he was sure that there was no danger, he came out of the cave.
He was a dwarf with a mustache, wearing a sorcerer's robe that was obviously too loose for him. He held a dirty staff in his hand, which made him look a little funny.
As soon as he saw the ugly woman, he couldn't help but curse, "What's wrong with you? Since you left, why did you come back?"
The ugly woman looked at the dwarf and said unhappily, "Carlisle, you're the one who's wrong. Why did you poison the bowl when you knew it was me? Hurry up and take out the antidote."
The dwarf's face was stiff. "Hmph, you've been away from the underground for too long. You have no idea what the current situation is like. But you should be glad that you weren't the one who drank the poison. If not for our friendship, I would have poisoned you too. That way, I could have gotten more rewards."
The ugly woman frowned. "What do you mean, Carlisle? Didn't you say that you would only do research here and not interfere with the underground's disputes?"
"That's why I said that you were looking for death by coming down here without knowing anything. You weren't this reckless in the past." The dwarf sighed. "It's not like it was three years ago. The underground world already has a leader, and we all have to obey his orders. The latest order is to kill all outsiders and not let a single one return to the surface. I only chose one of you to kill because of our previous friendship. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to answer to my superiors."
After saying that, he turned to look at a certain person and snorted. "Don't blame me, kid. If you want to blame someone, blame your bad luck. Besides, I gave you a choice. You could have chosen not to drink that thing. That would have saved us all trouble and we could have pretended that we never encountered it. In the end, you insisted on coming to see me. Although your courage is commendable, it's a pity that you lost your life for nothing."
The ugly woman's expression turned cold. She gripped the dagger on her body. "Carlisle, I brought him here. If you can cure the poison in his body, I'll …"
"What can you do? Kill me?" A mocking expression appeared on the dwarf's face. "Don't forget who saved your life back then. Even if you're ungrateful, do you really think I don't have any way to deal with you? Although the thing you drank just now isn't poisonous, and in a sense, it's good for your body, that's a matter for three days later. In these three days, if you fight with someone, you'll only be able to use less than 30% of your strength. Tsk tsk, you've really been away from the underground for too long. You've even lost the most basic defense. It's common sense not to trust others easily in this place. "
The ugly woman clenched her teeth. "30% of my strength is enough to kill you." After saying that, she was about to pull out the dagger on her waist. However, the next moment, her hand was pressed down by someone. The ugly woman looked up and found that the person who stopped her was none other than Rob.
The future Supreme Magister, Your Honor, did not have the expected anger on his face. Instead, he revealed a somewhat strange expression. He looked at the dwarf. "You said that the underground world has a leader now?"
Carlisle seemed to think that someone was already dead, so he did not hide it. "Yes. Less than a year after you left, ugly woman, a very powerful guy suddenly appeared underground. Everyone either submitted or was killed. So now, there's only one force left in the entire underground world."
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