After the ground calmed down again, the leading middle-aged man stood by the hot spring. He asked the other soldiers to stand neatly, with a respectful attitude and awe in his expression.

The thief already understood that the mouth of the spring that erupted with heat mist was the vent on the top of the six-finned carp's head. Now, he wanted to point the copper nail into the vent and throw it in, suppress the carp, and stop awakening.

"Has the copper nail been retrieved?" Yan'er asked the thief softly, "How did you snatch the copper nail from that monster?"

The thief made a booing move, telling Yan'er not to speak. Yan'er looked at him suspiciously, not knowing what the thief planned.

The leading middle-aged man spoke loudly to the vent in Khitan, his voice swaying, tragic and sonorous. The treacherous guessed that he was praying and having some kind of conversation with the carp, but he might just pretend to be a pretender.

After the loud prayer, the leading middle-aged man cut his palm with a scimitar, then held the copper nail, and let the copper nail be covered with blood. Then he threw the copper nail into the carp's vent.

Two more intense hot fog appeared in the vent, like a carp suddenly sneezing. The mountain made a loud bang and vibrated again, but the intensity was more severe than ever. The rocks rolled into the water, stirring up the hot water flow, and pouring towards everyone.

"What's going on? What's going on?" The middle-aged man in the lead could not keep his original indifferent appearance and shouted at the thief.

"Let's leave quickly!" The thief ignored it and took Yan'er's hand. He found a direction and ran wildly with Yan'er.

The ancient costume soldiers who were not wary of the guards in the rear ran around in panic, and many of them were immediately obscured by the hot water flow.

The thief took Yan'er to a place and jumped into the water without saying a word.

Yan'er was frightened and shouted loudly, but when she fell into the water, she realized that the current of water was not the boiling water I imagined, but the feeling of cooling.

"This is cold water!" Yan'er was surprised and happy. She could not imagine that a cold spring would gush out from the small underground lake formed by the hot spring.

"That copper nail is fake." said the thief. "Do you remember that before coming to Hufu Town, someone asked me to fake something. I was in the basement and made it for a long time."

"The thing you forged for someone is the copper nail?" Yan'er asked.

"It was Lao Ren. He gave me the drawings and asked me to do it as I did." The thief said, "This object is so exquisite. I made it for half a month before it was made. Its weight, pattern, and material were exactly the same as the drawings! Later, he asked me to go to a place and replace the original one... I failed, so this fake stayed with me."

"How could you fail?" Yan'er said, "You can't fail!"

"I did fail. That place is the village of the tomb guardian outside Hufu Town. At that time, I didn't know what it had to do with the underground tombs..." The thief said, "I lied to Lao Ren and said that I had successfully replaced it. He believed it. So, you understand. From the beginning, he hoped that the copper nail would have no effect, but to make the six-fin carp turn around alive. He let you suppress the carp with the copper nail, and he was simply to send you to the death!"

"Then you come with me!" Yan'er yelled at the thief.

"Old Ren has made great calculations, but he didn't expect that the copper nail you were holding was real..." said the thief, "But it's a pity, that really was snatched away by a monster. If we find the copper nail, we still have a chance!"
Chapter completed!