This action made Lu Guichi stunned.

Lin Wu behind him looked at him with a darker look and pursed his lips slightly.

After just a few seconds, Kate paused, as if he had finally found it. He stared at Lin Wu, then tilted his head and tore it hard, and actually tore off a human skin mask from his face! Immediately, Lu Guichi's face changed slightly.

“Pah—”

Kate let go, and the torn human skin mask fell to the ground.

It was a very slight sound, but it struck Lin Wu's heart deeply.

She involuntarily took a step forward and stared at the young man not far away.

The other person tilted his head slightly, and the loose hair hanging down in front of his forehead almost covered his eyebrows and eyes, making it difficult to see clearly.

After a pause, the young man took a deep breath, raised his hand to push back the loose hair on his forehead, turned his head to look at Lin Wu, and his face also appeared in Lin Wu's eyes.

Different from the ordinary just now, the man now is completely different from the ordinary and low-key one.

He was handsome, with single eyelids, sharp brow bones, a high nose bridge, and deep red lips. The curve of his lips that he habitually raised made him look cold and thin. He had a very strong and aggressive face that left a deep impression on people at first sight.

But when people look at him, the first thing they notice is definitely the faint teardrop mole under the end of his right almond-shaped eye, which adds a bit of enchantment and neutralizes the sharpness of his appearance.

So when he looked at people with a cold and dangerous look, people could not help but ignore it and remain silent in the face of his half-smile and half-smile gaze.

Most importantly, his appearance and demeanor were indescribably similar to Lin Wu.

Lu Guichi was surprised to reveal his identity.

“——Gu Shiqing?!”

"Why are you here??"

That's right, the one who was revealed after taking off the human skin mask was Gu Shiqing! He did not answer Lu Guichi's words, but looked at Lin Wu first, his face full of trepidation.

Although they were not far away, Gu Shiqing suddenly felt that Lin Wu seemed to be very far away from him.

He took a step forward involuntarily, "Wuwu, I..."

Lin Wu took a step back.

Gu Shiqing stopped immediately and dared not move.

Lin Wu looked at him, closed his eyes, and asked slowly: "What's going on?"

Gu Shiqing hurriedly explained, "Wuwu, Second Brother didn't mean to hide it from you and pretend to be someone else. In fact, Second Brother wanted to find you more than half a month ago. But at that time, I suddenly received a task from my superiors and had to leave here first. And the content of my task is related to the forbidden area mine."

"My colleagues and I discussed for a long time how to complete the task, and finally we set our sights on the person in charge of this mine—Kate. Because we also have something we want here, and in the mine, if we want to get it quietly, it is most convenient to pretend to be someone from the forbidden area."

"So we researched a lot of his information, and after we confirmed that we were familiar with him, we found an opportunity to kidnap Kate, and I put on a human skin mask to disguise myself as him."

"Is that you pretending to be Kate in the back?!"

Lu Guichi stared at Gu Shiqing.

Gu Shiqing glanced at him and said, "Yes. I didn't know that the real Kate had been replaced by the Huo family at that time. In the past half month, in order to reduce the possibility of exposure, I have been avoiding contact with the people around him, that is, you. So I have been in the forbidden area and rarely went to the mine until the real action was about to take place."

He also didn't expect that Jia Shen was not real either. Not only had he been impersonated by someone long ago, but the impersonator was Lu Guichi.

This fact obviously confused Lu Guichi.

Lin Wu felt something was wrong. "Wait, the time is wrong. Wasn't Lu Guichi still with me in Sishui Prison half a month ago?"

Lu Guichi opened his mouth, not wanting to explain.

He put down his hand, his tone was filled with indescribable fatigue, and said, "Because at that time, the person sent by the Huo family to impersonate Jia Shen was not me, but someone else. Since you have found this place, you should also know that there is a kind of ore here that can be used to make the kind of tattoo that the Huo family wants, right?"

"Know."

Lin Wu looked at him indifferently.

Lu Guichi sighed, "The mission of the Huo family to send people here is just to mine the ore and take it back. But... I know there is an underground palace here, and it's time to take out the things here. So when I knew that the Huo family sent people here, I took the initiative to come here and replace the person pretending to be Jia Shen."

He was shot several times at that time, but fortunately he had amazing recovery ability and those injuries had little impact on him.

Gu Shiqing also nodded, "Yes, I heard from the people who followed Lu Guichi earlier that this time they came here mainly to mine some specific ores."

Looking at Lu Guichi again, Gu Shiqing said, "The appearance of black fog was indeed beyond our expectations. I originally thought about evacuating and going down in another way. But Lu Guichi told me that he had a way to resist the fog, so I did not change my plan."

"It can be said that if it weren't for the path Anna mentioned, according to my assumption, I should have continued to dive deep with Lu Guichi's blood as protection, and then find an opportunity to complete what I want to do."

He turned to Lin Wu and said, "That's why my second brother wanted you to leave the mine."

Lin Wu frowned.

At this time, Bo Yuting stepped forward, walked to Lin Wu's side, and came to the edge of the round platform.

He looked at the stone platform not far away, where the things on it were still quietly placed.

"You have said so much, but you haven't made the most crucial point clear." Bo Yuting suddenly asked, "——Why did you all come here? Now it seems that your purpose is similar. You all want to get the contents of the box that appeared here after using Lin Wu's blood to open it?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere that was about to be relaxed froze again.

Lu Guichi subconsciously looked at Gu Shiqing and met his slightly cold gaze.

The auras between the two people conflicted, and there was a hint of tension.

Lu Guichi turned around in an instant, bypassed Lin Wu and Bo Yuting at lightning speed, strode onto the round platform, and blocked the way of the three people.

"I've finished talking nonsense, it's time for you to go."

He tilted his head and glanced at the three people out of the corner of his eye.

"The things here have nothing to do with you, and you are not capable of bearing the consequences of taking them away, and I will not let you take them away."

"Don't worry, the snake man will take you out."

After he finished speaking, Lu Guichi waved.

The snake man, who had been drowsy while holding his tail, immediately woke up and swam to Lu Guichi.

Lu Guichi raised his hand and touched the snake man's head, and said a few words to him in a language they could not understand.

The snake man hissed a few times, and finally swam listlessly to Lin Wu, hooking her hand with his tail, as if seeking comfort.

"I've told him that you just need to follow him. He won't hurt any of you."

"By the way, there are Guan Chen and Anna. They are both still alive. I told the snake man their location, and he will lead you to find them."

Not sure if it was an illusion, but Lin Wu could hear a hint of complexity and depression in Lu Guichi's words.

Immediately, Gu Shiqing's voice was heard.

"What if I must get that thing and take it with me?"