"Is it because of the special power of this water that suppressed the sensing of the key?" Looking at the jade token that had not changed in his hand, Wu Lie couldn't help but have a guess in his heart, but soon he shook his head and negated it: "No, if the power of this water can really limit the sensing of the key, then it would be impossible for me to sense the direction of the secret rat path through the key before."

After removing the greatest possibility that the key did not respond, Wu Lie began to guess other reasons, but he did not stay in a place and thought about it. Instead, he was thinking about the problem while looking for clues in the ruins of this urban area.

Although Yecheng has been sinking to the bottom of the lake for many years, there is not much silt in the urban area. This may be related to the special water pressure in this water area. As long as there is silt floating over, it will be squeezed out to the periphery by the powerful water pressure. It is precisely because of the lack of silt that Wu Lie's search for clues became very easy. He searched every house in this urban area without much time, and soon he found clues related to the rat path in a house.

This house was just an ordinary house in Yecheng at that time. Houses like this could be seen everywhere around it. But the difference from the surrounding houses was that there was a pattern engraved on the bluestone foot at the door of this house. Because of the years of being trampled, the pattern was worn seriously, and it was difficult for ordinary people to see the specific details of the pattern clearly. However, Wu Lie, the owner of the rat nest cave, could tell at a glance how the pattern looked when it was complete, so he could also judge that this house should be the house of the Rat Road Guardian.

The owner of the Rat Nest Cave who have mastered the rat path in the past dynasties would arrange his most trusted confidant to serve as a gatekeeper at both ends of the rat path and guard the entrance to the rat path. Although the position of the gatekeeper is just a idle position, he must always beware of someone destroying the two realms magic circles at the entrance to the rat path, so the gatekeeper must also have very strong strength. For example, the Rat Road mastered by Wu Lie specially built a city at the end of the mountain world, and sent an elite desolate soldier of 100 people to garrison there, while the end of Qingzhou was guarded by him.

However, not everyone is like Wu Lie who sends people to stay at both ends of the rat path with great fanfare. Some rat paths mastered by the rat nest cave are either very secret or very special. In order to avoid exposing the location of these rat paths, the rat nest cave master who masters the rat path will not only use some special methods to cover the entrance when transporting goods, but may even kill all the people who transport goods. For such a secret rat path, the gatekeepers arranged by the rat nest cave master are usually ordinary people who do not understand the situation. They will use certain techniques to trap these ordinary people here for the rest of their lives, allowing these ordinary people to do some simple maintenance work.

Wu Lie inferred from the traces left by the janitor where the janitor lived, this janitor was just an ordinary person, so it is not difficult to infer that the rat path he was looking for now was probably a special rat path.

With this answer, Wu Lie became extremely happy, and could even be said to be ecstatic, because in his memory the value contained in a special rat path is definitely more than ten times that of an ordinary rat path.

When Wu Lie began to take power in the Rat Nest, the civil strife in the Rat Nest had begun to calm down. Nearly eighty or ninety percent of the owners of the Rat Nest Cave died in the civil strife, and those owners of the Rat Nest Cave who mastered the special rat path were all on the death list.

The reason why these Rat Nest Hole Masters who master the special rat path become the target of public criticism is mainly because these Rat Nest Hole Masters have too much wealth, so much that the wealth of all other Rat Nest Hole Masters who master the special rat path cannot compare with the wealth owned by any Rat Nest Hole Master who masters the special rat path.

However, the owner of the Rat Nest Cave, which has such a huge wealth, is only a small part of the many owners of the Rat Nest Cave, and their strength is not much greater than that of other owners of the Rat Nest Cave. The reason why they can intimidate the heroes is more due to the power of the Litian Palace who built the Rat Nest. Once the big man himself is unable to protect himself and give up everything in the Rat Nest, the owner of the Rat Nest Cave who lost his backing will naturally become the target of siege. The uneven distribution of spoils caused by the huge wealth in their hands has become the main cause of the expansion of civil strife to the entire Rat Nest.

After the civil strife subsided, the surviving lords of the Rat Nest and the newly elected new lords wanted to find the keys of the special rat paths, but in the end they found that all the rat path keys mastered by the lords of the Rat Nest who died of the civil strife were all invalid, and the keys of the special rat path were also included. Originally, the lords of the Rat Nest also expected that these rat path keys would only be temporarily invalid, but as time passed, there was no sign of recovery of the rat path keys. Only those who mastered these rat path keys gave up their expectations and regarded these keys as ordinary collectibles. In the future, the ups and downs of the power struggle within the rat nest, these keys also fell among the people in the mountains.

Wu Lie quickly passed the information about the special rat path in his mind, and his inner joy gradually cooled down. He also vaguely understood why one of the three major forces in the Lower Realm Heaven would send someone to follow him and kill him. The key to the special rat path in his hands was probably the root cause.

Thinking of this, all the joy on Wu Lie's face faded away, replaced by a hint of sorrow and worry. He looked at the rat key in his hand and murmured to himself: "Is this a disaster or an opportunity?"

The reason why Wu Lie's mood changed so greatly from ecstasy to worry was entirely because of the special rat path key. Unlike ordinary rat path keys, this special rat path key does not require the identity of the owner of the rat nest cave. As long as you hold this key and find the corresponding rat path entrance, you can use the rat path.

Because of this, the mysterious man or force that Wu Lie had previously guessed that the underground forces in Qingzhou who issued a black life mission was not only limited to the Lord of the Rat Nest Cave, but expanded to all those who knew that he had such a special rat path key. Among these suspicious objects, not only included the mountain world, but also other vassal worlds. Judging from the people of the lower realm who had been in the lower realm, the lower realm sky may also be in it, and even Zhongtian is likely to participate. After all, many god-born families in Zhongtian had coveted the huge benefits created by the special rat path.

If the only people who were secretly observing were the Rat Nest, Wu Lie was confident that he could easily solve the problem, even in the entire mountain world, he would not be scared. However, if other vassals, or even the lower realm, he would have no chance of winning at all. If Zhongtian took action, he would have to surrender.

But he just gave up the benefits he got, which made Wu Lie extremely unwilling.

"Do you want to use that thing?" Wu Lie suddenly thought of a solution and said to himself.

In Wu Lie's perception, although those who peek at the keys of the special rat path are very powerful, compared to the strength and power displayed by the mysterious master he surrendered back then, it is a bit slim. As long as he uses the thing left to him by the mysterious master back then, he wants the mysterious master to take action, I believe that this wave of crisis should be easily resolved and even bring his power to a higher level.

But after having this idea, Wu Lie hesitated a little again.

Although the mysterious master did not say anything directly when he handed it to him, he could guess that the mysterious master hoped that he would use the thing when he was in a desperate situation. Obviously, the situation he faced now cannot be considered a desperate situation, and it was not yet time to use that thing. More importantly, the outside world's understanding of his identity was only on the Lord of the Rat Nest Cave. Once he used that thing and asked the mysterious master to help him directly, his identity secret would be completely exposed, and he could feel that if his secret identity was exposed, it would definitely bring a very bad disaster.

After thinking about it for a while, Wu Lie shook his head and said, "This is a double-edged sword that hurts both the enemy and himself. It is better not to use it until it is absolutely necessary."

After denying the simplest and most effective way to solve the current crisis, Wu Lie could not think of a better way for the time being, and it was not the time to consider things at this time. He finally decided to check the specific situation of the Rat Road first and then consider what to do next.

After thinking it through, Wu Lie began to look for the entrance to the rat path. Judging from his connection between the location of the rat path and the long-term residence of the gatekeeper, the entrance to the rat path should be near the gatekeeper's residence, and the location should be very secret and will not be easily noticed.

At the beginning, the first place that came to mind was the sewer of Yecheng.

As far as he knows, because Yecheng is located in a place that rains all year round, if there is no perfect sewer, every time it rains, it will inevitably cause rainwater to flood in Yecheng City. Although the practitioners of Yecheng can use magic to change the direction of rainwater to avoid water accumulation in the city, this can only be said to be a treatment for the symptoms rather than the root cause. Moreover, no practitioner is willing to continuously cast spells to shelter from the rainy season, and the loss of spirit and mana is difficult to make up for and restore. Therefore, before Yecheng began to build, the people who built the city set up a very complete and huge sewer underground in Yecheng, and the sewer of the city is the best place for hiding and hiding wherever it is.

However, he soon dispelled this guess because the rat path is very special, unlike the general two-world channel. Although it does not have the advantages of opening a long time and being able to transmit a large number of items, the rat path also has the advantages of being unable to match the teleportation array, such as continuous use of multiple times, and does not require long-term opening preparations, and the key can be used as long as the point reaches the point. It is precisely because of the special transmission method of the rat path that the rat path cannot be installed underground and must be installed in an open-air place so that the transmission will not be affected.
Chapter completed!