223: Giant cells

He walked in the very front, yet remained completely unharmed, avoiding all traps, which clearly indicated a problem.

Han Huohuo didn't want to expose himself, but he also didn't want to die. There was no choice; between death and exposure, he could only choose exposure. Besides, he didn't really care much, as these Three-Eyed People here posed little threat to him.

The only one who made him feel a hint of threat was Ali, who was beside Cold Blade. Every move Ali made displayed immense strength and incredibly fast reactions.

Ahead, there was a fork in the path.

Han Huohuo knew his chance had come. Both of these paths led to the deepest part of the Miku Maze, but one of them, if stepped on, would tilt and flip, transferring them to another passage.

He deliberately stopped, looking left and right at the fork for a moment, then suddenly turned around, grabbed Mu Jiu and Hua Mulan, and together, he leaped with them towards one of the paths ahead.

Cold Blade was stunned. What did this mean?

This guy pulled two people along so suddenly, and it looked like these two were quite cooperative; it was clear they were working together.

Could these be spies who infiltrated the team?

Cold Blade was extremely clever. He had long noticed Han Huohuo was acting strangely and only wanted to use him as a guide to reduce the deaths of the Three-Eyed People. But now, seeing Han Huohuo's actions becoming increasingly outrageous, he was about to order his men to seize these three when suddenly, the passage ahead made a gurgling sound, completely flipping over, and that passage suddenly disappeared!

All the Three-Eyed People were dumbfounded.

They all looked back.

Cold Blade's expression was grim.

Ali sighed and stepped forward: “You all follow behind me!”

Having seen all sorts of traps along the way, Ali was confident he could dodge them at the last moment, and among all the Three-Eyed People, only he had this ability.

Not to mention their arduous journey through the other passage.

Let's talk about Han Huohuo and the two women.

After the passage flipped, it became a slide, and the three of them rode this strange slide all the way down into the depths.

“Pay attention, this passage leads to the Blood Dissolving Pool. Once we enter the Blood Dissolving Pool, we're dead. Just before we reach the very bottom, there's a platform on the side. You need to work with me and jump onto it together.”

“Understood!”

The two girls were very nervous, clutching tightly to Han Huohuo. Ahead, they heard the pleasant sound of flowing water. Han Huohuo roared, stomping his foot on the skateboard, making it shake for a long time before he suddenly leaped up, landing perfectly on a platform on the side.

Standing steadily on the platform, he could see the crimson blood-colored pond ahead, right at the bottom of the slide.

And yet, it emitted a very pleasant sound.

But Han Huohuo knew that it was a death pond, capable of instantly dissolving any carbon-based life form into blood.

“Let's go!”

Behind the platform was another passage, and the three walked into it.

“Your memory is really good. How did you remember such complex traps?” Mu Jiu exclaimed. She still remembered that night under the moonlight, the dense network of passages and small explanatory notes; she hadn't remembered a single one, and she wondered how Han Huohuo could.

Han Huohuo was also puzzled. After thinking for a moment, he said, “I don't know what happened, but after my second advancement, it was like I suddenly had an epiphany; my memory improved a lot.”

Mu Jiu smiled, “Sister Mulan and I are also about to advance to the second stage. I hope I can be as smart as you.”

Han Huohuo gave a silly chuckle. This was the first time in his life someone had praised him for being smart.

How could he, a cheater, suddenly become smart? Was this even logical?

The group made several turns, going deeper and deeper, passing through many traps, until they reached a small room.

This was a strange, fleshy room. In Han Huohuo's memory, this place was marked as a storage room.

Since it was a storage room, there must be treasures inside.

“I feel like we've gone in a spiral?” Mu Jiu asked.

“You're right, we've gone in a circle. We're now directly beneath the Blood Dissolving Pool,” Han Huohuo chuckled.

“Sounds very dangerous,” Hua Mulan said, taking out her axe.

“The danger here, an axe won't help. We just need to be careful.”

Hua Mulan still gripped her axe tightly. This girl was a battle maniac; she only felt secure with a weapon in her hand.

There was a dripping sound inside, and Han Huohuo was also nervous.

Not a single drop of water from the Blood Dissolving Pool could touch them.

The room had no door. Han Huohuo led the way in. It was safer than he expected, and he saw a bottle.

This was a small, square room with black sewage slowly dripping from above, and a bottle below, collecting the sewage.

The sewage was very black. Han Huohuo smelled it, and it felt somewhat familiar; his eyelids kept twitching. Wasn't this the resource he was familiar with?

Then he realized this bottle was a treasure, and a top-tier one at that.

【jade purification bottle】: S-rank treasure. This is a spatial container that can hold various liquids, with a maximum capacity of one hundred million tons. It possesses a unique spatial structure, and the bottle's weight is only one hundred millionth of its actual weight.

Han Huohuo had never seen such a massive spatial container. Its only drawback was that it could only hold liquids.

As for the weight, even if it was filled with one hundred million tons, it would only weigh one ton, which Han Huohuo felt wouldn't be too much of a problem for him to carry.

Han Huohuo looked at the sewage. He smelled the scent of black oil.

So, this sewage was all black oil!

This matched his understanding, because black oil was originally formed from decaying organisms and was also a metabolic product of this massive creature.

Therefore, this bottle had been collecting black oil for at least a hundred years, and every drop of black oil was concentrated essence, extremely heavy. He wondered how much black oil was inside the bottle.

Han Huohuo didn't care what would collect the sewage in the future; he walked over and picked up the jade purification bottle.

As soon as he picked up the jade purification bottle, Han Huohuo's expression changed. This small bottle weighed at least a hundred kilograms.

His heart trembled.

The actual weight was one hundred million times more, meaning there were ten million tons of black oil in this bottle?

One barrel of black oil is 200 kilograms.

One ton of black oil is five barrels!

Converting that, it meant there were fifty million barrels of black oil here!

Instant riches!

This was definitely an overnight fortune!

Spatial containers cannot be placed inside another spatial container; the magnetic repulsion would cause an immediate explosion. Fortunately, his strength was astonishingly great now, and a hundred kilograms wasn't too big of a problem. He put the jade purification bottle directly into the pocket of his Cursed Armor.

He now felt like leaving; just this bottle and the black oil inside made his trip worthwhile.

He hesitated in place for a moment.

Greed gradually took over.

He remembered that this was just a small storage room, not a very important place in the Miku Maze.

If he had to make an analogy, this was merely the bladder of this strange creature. It couldn't excrete on its own and temporarily stored waste in the bottle. By taking the black oil from the bottle, he might even be helping it.