Lu Guichi was not afraid at all.

In fact, he didn't need to be afraid, because the snake man had no intention of attacking him. After approaching him, it circled around him a few times and wrapped the tip of its tail around his wrist, a very intimate gesture.

Obviously, he was as close to Lu Guichi as he was to Lin Wu.

Lu Guichi looked at the snake man coldly.

The snake man shrank his neck, reluctantly let go of his hand, hissed and returned to Lin Wu, then tested Lin Wu with the tip of his tail.

Seeing that Lin Wu had no intention of rejecting him, he began to actively circle around Lin Wu, not at all restless.

This scene made Lin Wu's expression slightly frozen, and his throat seemed to be strangled, making it difficult for him to make a sound.

"you……"

Lin Wu thought of something at an inopportune time.

She looked straight at Lu Guichi who was not far from her and walked slowly towards him. With every step forward, the thoughts in her mind became clearer.

She asked bluntly: "Lu Guichi, did you already know that I had a tattoo when we were at Pier 9?"

Lu Guichi was silent for a moment, and then he hummed frankly: "I know, so what?"

"It's nothing, it's just that when I got the Buddha head under the Ninth Pier, I remember you seemed to say something to me at that time." Lin Wu suddenly said.

This sudden topic made Lu Guichi stunned, but he quickly understood why Lin Wu brought it up.

Lin Wu said: "In that situation, I really couldn't tell what you were talking about. I just felt like it was something like... I finally waited for it, something I couldn't understand."

"A lot of things happened afterwards. When I learned about the underground city in Sishui Prison and that the Buddha head was taken out from there, and that the content on the phoenix tattoo would only be revealed when it was close to it, I realized that you and the Huo family put the Buddha head there in order to test whether a tattoo was truly useful, or to test the person who had such a tattoo."

"Obviously, I happen to be that person."

Lin Wu finally stopped two steps away from Lu Guichi.

The Lu Guichi in front of him looked a little unfamiliar to Lin Wu, not only in appearance and figure, but also in identity.

She stared at him as if she was meeting him for the first time. “I thought what happened at Pier 9 was a coincidence. I just happened to have this tattoo and happened to encounter those things.”

Lu Guichi was listening and was about to say yes, when he suddenly heard Lin Wu say -

"But I overlooked one thing - how I got my tattoo."

Having known Lin Wu for so long, Lu Guichi almost instantly anticipated what Lin Wu was going to say next. His face changed slightly, "Wu Wu, that's enough..."

"Not enough, I haven't finished what I'm saying yet."

Lin Wu interrupted him decisively, without any intention of avoiding the issue.

She said, "You know I have a tattoo. I thought it started at Pier 9. But now it seems that it is not at Pier 9."

"You obviously knew it a long time ago! You just weren't sure, so you showed up in the warehouse area under Pier 9 to guide me to find the Buddha head that belongs to the underground city, right?"

Lu Guichi said: "This is just your guess. When will you change your habit of imagining things?!"

"Because the time doesn't match!"

Lin Wu spoke.

Lin Wu looked at him with an expression that was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry, and laid out everything in front of him bit by bit.

"Lu Guichi, because the time doesn't match."

"If you only knew I had tattoos from that Buddha head a few months ago, then what's up with this snake man?!"

"He has been here for at least five or six years, and no one has ever entered this underground palace before. This includes you and me. But since you have never been here in recent years, how do you know what is here and how do you know that he will not hurt me?"

"This is enough to prove two points. First, you are related to the person who built this place. So you are familiar with this place and know where the exit is. Of course, it is possible that you have been here before. But this possibility has been ruled out by the injuries on your body."

Lin Wu looked at Lu Guichi's body. His injuries were not much less serious than Zhang Shan and Xiao Yang.

Perhaps it was because of his amazing recovery ability that he was able to stand in front of her and talk to her for such a long time.

She said slowly, "You have definitely never been here. Otherwise, you wouldn't be so unfamiliar with the dangers outside the underground palace, nor would you be familiar with the road, and you would get hurt after entering. So I guess you only know roughly what is in the underground palace. And this rough idea includes whether the snake people will not harm people with tattoos, or will not harm certain specific people?"

Lu Guichi’s face froze.

Lin Wu looked at the palm of his hand. The wound had healed, leaving only a shallow scar.

"I think, no matter how powerful this tattoo is, it can't change a person's bloodline, right? After all, tattoos are just painted with special pigments, and they don't act on a person's genetic bloodline."

"But my blood can open this place and let the things below come out."

"According to what you said, you only confirmed that I had a tattoo a few months ago. How did you know that my blood would be useful? In such a short time, you didn't have the opportunity to get my blood for experiments, let alone bring it here to try."

"So the second point is obvious. Long before Pier 9, you had already guessed that I had a tattoo and that I was special. The existence of the Buddha head only provides evidence for your guess."

As soon as these words were spoken, a suffocating silence filled the entire tomb.

Lu Guichi closed his eyes tightly.

Lin Wu's expression was unusually dazed, even absent-minded.

"This brings us back to what I just said, the problem I ignored - when and how I got my tattoo."

"Lu Guichi, since you already knew I had a tattoo, that means you know a lot about it, and you might also know how I got it, right?!"

Lu Guichi couldn't remain silent any longer, and finally opened his eyes to face her, saying, "Yes, just as you said, I might have... known it a long time ago. But I never thought of using you on this before."

Lin Wu stared at him.

Lu Guichi said desperately, "When I knew you were going to go down to the Ninth Pier, I tried to stop you. If you hadn't gone down at that time, nothing would have happened later! Later in Sishui Prison, I didn't think of involving you. It was you... who was setting a trap for me! Even when we went down to the mine this time, I warned you in every way to stop you!"

His expression showed some confusion and hurt.

"Wuwu, I have always regarded you as a friend and never thought of harming you. I have advised you so many times, why do you insist on investigating and getting involved in these muddy waters? Why can't you just pretend that you know nothing..."

"Always be friends?"

Lin Wu thought this was really ridiculous, he pulled the corner of his mouth and asked only one question -

"Since you already knew that I had a tattoo, was it a coincidence that we met six years ago, or did you do it on purpose?"

Lu Guichi's voice suddenly stopped.