"Go ahead and scream, no one will come to save you even if you scream your lungs out." Zuan chuckled. He had to admit, playing this kind of role seemed to be quite an experience.

No wonder villains love doing things like this; they must be addicted!

Upon hearing this, Shang Hongyu couldn't help but glare at him. Was this guy really acting? How could he perform so convincingly?

"If you come any closer, I'll kill you right here and now." She was prepared, and immediately took out a hairpin and held it to her throat.

"Alright, alright, I won't come over, okay? I'll just talk to you like this." Zu An played along, but his heart sank. Their voices weren't loud, but they weren't quiet either, enough for the palace maids and guards outside to hear. But no one had come to check on the situation for so long. It seemed that the situation was worse than he had imagined.

"Get out! I don't want to talk to you!" Shang Hongyu shouted while secretly conveying the same concern through telepathy.

"These palace maids and guards are all unfamiliar faces. It seems that all the people around us have been replaced these days."

"Alright, alright, I'll stay away from you for now, okay?" Zu'an deliberately stood a little further away, as if afraid of provoking him, and answered inwardly.

"I inquired beforehand, and the commander of the guards is called Kachir. Do you remember him?"

Shang Hongyu hummed in agreement and replied in secret: "In my memory, Kachir was a warrior of the Shark Clan. He was very brave in battle and was previously recruited to serve in the Dragon Palace. However, at that time, he was only responsible for patrolling the outer perimeter of the Dragon Palace and did not become the leader of the Dragon King's personal guard as he is now."

“He has most likely been replaced by those mysterious guys. I can sense that he is deliberately hiding his cultivation level, and his true strength is probably no weaker than that fake Dragon King.” Zuan looked somewhat worried.

"We don't know anything about these guys. We originally wanted to quietly capture one or two for interrogation, but now that we're surrounded by their men, it probably won't work," Shang Hongyu said with a distress.

“Based on my judgment, they probably don’t exist in this world. They might come from beyond the heavens.” Zuan frowned. “But I’ve already eliminated those extraterrestrial demons and reinforced the seal. So where did these guys come from?”

“It might not have come from outer space, but from the abyss,” Shang Hongyu suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said.

"The Abyss?" Zaun was taken aback; this was the first time he had heard of this name.

"I only overheard the Dragon King mention it casually back then. He was drunk at the time and suddenly sighed, saying that the King of the Sea Clan looked very imposing, but he was just a watchdog of the abyss." Shang Hongyu said thoughtfully. "I was very curious at the time and asked him what was going on, but he seemed to wake up and refused to say another word, saying that I must have misheard."

"I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but now that you mention it, it reminds me of this."

Zaun fell into deep thought: "The abyss, huh..."

Actually, I felt something was strange when I first entered the Dragon Palace. I couldn't understand the purpose of many of the magic arrays. Could it be that they were actually seals, sealing a place called the Abyss?

Then, some time ago, due to the invasion of extraterrestrial demons, the world barrier was damaged, so some monsters came to that place called the Abyss.

But why don't they invade the world? Why do they pretend to be the Dragon King? It doesn't make any sense.

Zaun had various guesses in his mind, but unfortunately there was too little information to make an accurate judgment.

"By the way, did Kachir suspect my return?" Shang Hongyu suddenly asked.

“I fooled him, but he was still not at ease, so he gave me this.” Zuan said, taking out the porcelain bottle. “He said that this thing can completely control you and make you work with us. It must be some kind of poison, but I didn’t have a chance to ask him about it or check it.”

Shang Hongyu breathed a sigh of relief: "That's easy. Just tell them that I've already taken the medicine."

"Hmm." Zuan nodded, of course he couldn't actually let the other party take such a strange drug.

At this moment, Shang Hongyu curiously picked up the porcelain bottle: "But we should first study what kind of medicine it is and what its effects are, so that when you respond to them later, you won't be suspected."

As she spoke, she opened the bottle cap, and a cloud of pink smoke sprayed directly onto her face. Shang Hongyu was startled and hurriedly threw the porcelain bottle aside.

Zu An rushed over to support her: "How are you? Have you been poisoned?"

He then tried to take her pulse, but Shang Hongyu blushed slightly and awkwardly pushed his hand away: "Actually, it's not really poison, but rather a 'Carefree Dew' made from the slime of the North Sea Giant Kraken."

Zuan: "???"

He certainly knew what the Kraken's slime was used for; in fact, he had collected some a few days ago when he was on the ship.

The medicine made from this stuff is called "Xiaoyao Lu" (逍遥露), which is obviously something you can't tell what it is.

"Are you affected?" Zu'an asked hurriedly. "Don't try to expel the poison with your internal energy. This stuff can easily spread to your limbs and bones if you try to expel it. Let me go get you some clean water to wash your face."

Shang Hongyu looked at him with a half-smile: "Do you want me to be affected, or not?"

Zuan glared at her, annoyed: "What time is it? You still have the mood to make jokes like this."

As he was about to go find water, the other person stopped him: "Don't worry, I'm not stupid. Knowing it was poison, how could I not be on guard? I held my breath and focused my mind, and at the same time, I circulated my energy to form a protective layer around my body. I wasn't poisoned."

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