Although the fortress of the Devouring Eel King is huge, it is not very complicated inside.

Even if one evolves limbs and develops intelligence, it is impossible to change habits.

Only after they were sure that there was no passage in the fortress connecting to the ocean did Gao Han and Zhongli Tingzhou leave.

"What do you think?" Gao Han asked Zhongli Tingzhou after coming out.

"There is most likely a place at the bottom of the lake that leads to the ocean." Zhongli Tingzhou said without hesitation.

Gao Han nodded in approval. "I thought so too. A freshwater inland lake cannot have deep-sea creatures. One or two species may be an explanation, but more than dozens of species is impossible."

"Not only that, this Muluo Lake has now turned into the smell of sea water."

“That’s one of the reasons why I’m skeptical.”

"This lake is so big. If we really want to look for it, we may not be able to find it even after searching for ten days." Zhongli Tingzhou's deep gaze fell on the wealth in his hand.

Ever since Fugui was threatened by the previous host to throw it away, he no longer dared to stay on his shoulder.

What bad ideas is its former host planning now?

Gao Han followed his gaze and saw Fugui, and immediately understood, "Then catch a few and give it a try."

Of course, it would be best if they had their spiritual intelligence awakened, so those deep-sea creatures that had their spiritual intelligence awakened, were irreconcilable with humans, and actively ran into the muzzles of guns were captured.

After the two men caught one, they let Fugui torture it, then killed it, caught another one, and tortured it again, until Fugui nodded, indicating that it was enough, and then they let these unlucky guys go.

"Now it's your turn to perform, Fugui." Gao Han took out a handful of spirit beads.

The spiritual energy contained in the spirit pearl attracted nearby creatures, and another group of them came to die.

After these creatures were dealt with, Gao Han turned around and found that Fugui was motionless, only his mouth was moving.

"What's wrong?" Gao Han asked.

Fugui swallowed the food in his mouth, picked up two or three spirit beads and threw them into his mouth. After a few crunching sounds, he broke the spirit beads into pieces and ate them into his stomach.

Gao Han's face suddenly turned black.

Zhongli Tingzhou laughed, "It must have regarded the spirit pearl you gave it as a snack, thinking you were rewarding it?"

It seemed to be the case. Gao Han had to admit this fact. Seeing that its claws were still restlessly touching the spirit pearl, he could no longer bear it and knocked it on the forehead.

"You only know how to eat. How many crystal cores have you eaten in the past half hour? Aren't you satisfied?"

Fugui covered his head with his hands in grievance. He didn’t eat much, just about a hundred.

If Gao Han knew what it was thinking, he would probably beat it up again.

A hundred or so aren’t a lot? The worst of those crystal cores are level four, and the best are level eight or nine.

Fugui sighed, life as a rat is really hard.

No, it is clearly a silver lizard, not a black rat!

"Since there is no need for rehearsal, then lead the way." Gao Han collected the remaining spirit beads. There were seventy or eighty spirit beads, but he only walked for a while and more than a dozen of them were eaten by it.

Fugui slumped his shoulders and walked in front, leading the way resignedly.

Some intelligent deep-sea creatures are very smart, but there are always exceptions.

Awakening of spiritual intelligence does not mean being smart, just like humans, some are smart and some are stupid.

They happened to catch a stupid one, and when threatened, it told everything.

Fugui's body floated in the water, and his limbs moved forward like a dog crawling.

In the end, because he was too slow, he was pulled back by Zhongli Tingzhou and stuffed back into Gao Han's arms.

"Which direction?"

Fugui immediately pointed in a direction.

Zhongli Tingzhou, along with Gao Han and it, was like a sword cloud across the sky, leaving a long splash in the water. It disappeared before the splash could react.

No matter how big the bottom of Muluo Lake is, it takes less than ten minutes for the two people and the beast to reach the end.

There is a soil layer at the end, and there is no so-called passage.

"Are you sure it's here?" Gao Han tried to touch it with his hand. The soil was very hard and there was no illusion.

Fugui nodded affirmatively. This is what the deep-sea creature said. As for why it couldn't find it, it didn't know, but it was right here.

Gao Han and Zhongli Tingzhou searched everywhere but still found nothing.

"Did we guess wrong?" Gao Han couldn't help but think so, but he quickly denied it. They couldn't have guessed wrong, otherwise the deep-sea creature that Fugui was interrogating would not have said it was here.

"There must be a passage here." After Zhongli Tingzhou said this, he suddenly moved slightly and looked down.

Gao Han followed his gaze and saw a huge shadow below.

If there is any place I haven't looked for, it's the shadow below.

The two swam downstream and finally saw what the shadow was.

It was like a huge stone, at least fifty meters long and wide.

"Could there be such a big stone here?" Gao Han asked, reaching out to touch it.

"Be careful." Zhongli Tingzhou suddenly pulled him and disappeared on the spot.

Dozens of thin and long thorns suddenly emerged from the surface of the stone that Gao Han was about to touch, and these thorns were densely packed where he had just stood.

If Zhongli Tingzhou had not pulled him away, he might have been stabbed through the body.

Of course, the surface of the alpine forest is protected and these thorns may not penetrate it, but it is also extremely dangerous because these thorns contain highly toxic substances.

The stone did not pierce Gao Han. Knowing that it was exposed, it pretended to retract the thorn as if nothing had happened.

"It's actually a stonefish." Gao Han identified it and knew the origin of the stone.

A fish that can imitate stone. It has an unremarkable appearance and likes to hide on the seabed or under reefs, disguising itself as an inconspicuous stone.

It will not attack others unless they are attacked actively. But if you accidentally touch it, don't blame it for fighting back immediately. Those barbs are the evidence.

Ordinary people would die instantly upon being touched, but spirit refiners would die more slowly. If they failed to find a wood spirit refiner for treatment in time, they would die of pain sooner or later, because the poison on the barbs would not only make people coma, but would keep them in severe pain until death.

"A normal stonefish is only about 30 centimeters long, but after mutation it reaches 50 meters, a difference of more than a hundred times. I wonder if those larger mutated deep-sea creatures also have a difference of a hundred times." Zhongli Tingzhou said with interest.

"It shouldn't be likely. If a shark is like this, it could be a thousand meters long." Gao Han had never seen such a large shark in the marine life atlas.

"The ocean is a very mysterious place. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist." Zhongli Tingzhou said mysteriously.

Gao Han hummed, "What you said makes sense. Let's not talk about this. How do we deal with this stone fish?"

He just touched it and was stabbed with a bunch of barbs. If he drove it away, it would chase them to the ends of the earth.

Zhongli Tingzhou said, "Let me do it. You find a place to hide. I will lure it away and then come back to find you."

Gao Han knew that this was the only way, so he threw Fugui to him and said, "Take your son with you. If he gets lost, you can find him faster with it."

Zhongli Tingzhou didn't think he would get lost, but he agreed anyway.

If he didn't agree, Gao Han would definitely be worried. When he thought of this, he felt happy.

His boyfriend is becoming more and more like that.

"Don't worry, daughter-in-law, I will come to see you soon. I'm going."

Considering that he was willing to go to the battlefield, Gao Han decided not to bother with him too much. After all, he was just taking advantage of him verbally.

Gao Han quickly hid himself. Because of the angle, he didn't see how Zhongli Tingzhou teased the stonefish. He only knew that violent waves suddenly surged around him.

The huge body of the stonefish finally stopped lying down and began to move angrily, and the camouflage color on its body also returned to its original color.

A pair of big round eyes, like eyes growing on a stone, suddenly opened and rolled like a gurgling sound. When it locked onto its prey, it immediately chased after it. Its huge body was not clumsy.

It is fast, but Zhongli Tingzhou is even faster. This is not his fastest speed. He deliberately keeps it hanging in order to attract the stonefish.

When the water calmed down, Gao Han could no longer see Zhongli Tingzhou and the stonefish, and immediately came to the place where the stonefish had been crouching.

The lake water became extremely turbid because of the movement of the stonefish, and it was impossible to see the bottom.

Gao Han didn't dare to go down to explore rashly, in case there were other deep-sea creatures hiding down there. He would rather be safe than sorry.

The movement in the distance gradually died down until it became dead silence again.

No sound came from the pit after the stonefish left.

Gao Han suddenly remembered something. The reason why he mistakenly thought the stonefish was a real stone was because there was thick moss growing on it.

Thick moss does not grow overnight. This stone fish may have been lying here for many years and never moved, so the moss grows on it unscrupulously.

There are a lot of fish nearby, so the stonefish don't have to worry about having no food to eat. This also explains why no deep-sea creatures came out after the channel was opened.

Of course, the premise is that the channel connecting to the ocean is really underneath.

The passage has been blocked for many years. The stonefish is very powerful, and one of its spines is extremely poisonous, enough to poison a great white shark. The deep-sea creatures outside dare not force their way in, and there is no need for them to come here. Over time, no deep-sea creatures have discovered this passage.

The Devouring Eel King in the lake designated Muluo Lake as its own territory, hoping that no other mutant creatures would come to compete with it for the territory, so it also allowed the stonefish to block the area.

It is also possible that the stonefish blocked the passage as a result of devouring the eel king.

These were Gao Han's guesses. He suppressed his urge to go down and explore and waited until Zhongli Tingzhou came back.

"Are you all okay?" Gao Han asked.

Zhongli Tingzhou enjoyed his concern and automatically ignored him saying it was you guys, "It's okay, I don't know if it will come back, let's go down and take a look first."

"If it is guarding here under the order of the Devouring Eel King, it should come back. Let's hurry." Gao Han nodded.

The hole left by the stonefish was very large, but as soon as the two went down, they discovered that the water flow was different, and they found the passage by following the water flow.

A passage that was more than ten meters wide and high was indeed blocked tightly by stonefish. No wonder they couldn't find it.