Lin Mu thought over it and realized that he didn't know who was the mayor before this.

"I don't know Senior." Lin Mu replied.

"Hmm, then perhaps that is what we need to find out. That could be the key to the identity of the culprits." Xukong said.

Lin Mu nodded and started to move towards the exit of the tunnel. It was already starting to get a bit hard for him to breathe here and he understood that the air was thinning out. It would take a while before this area was breathable again.

But then he realized that the sludge pool will probably turn the air foul again, and he may have to repeat the same thing as before again.

'Wait, the foul smell was not just from here, was it? I was able to smell it on the very end that too beyond the river, where the air was fresh. The foul smell should have dissipated there, but there was still some of it in those tunnels.' Lin Mu thought.

"Senior, I think this is not the only sludge pool and they are more of them. Or the air would not have been so bad in other tunnels." Lin Mu stated his concern.

"That does seem likely." Xukong acknowledged.

Lin Mu soon reached the end of the tunnel, and the sound of the river could be heard again. He continued following it and reached another branch where there was a bigger tunnel heading deep. Lin Mu saw the runes carved there as well, and the uncomfortable feeling that was coming off it.

"Seems like you found another one," Xukong said.

into multiple branches, but this one had less than before. There was a bigger one that had a large gate at its end which was impassable and another tunnel that had a

mind and realized that this one was a bit to the northern direction of the previous one.

and the tunnels that would branch out. In all, he found

were the tunnels placed around. The wells were particularly helpful for Lin Mu to get a rough estimate of

river and had reached a point where he could not continue anymore. The river had entered an underground path that was completely flooded and he could not walk there. He thus went back and found

the closest to the surface and then used the combination of Blink and Phase to climb

had spent nearly three hours underground and had crossed the entire city to

and pinpoint the location of the blocked area."

to see what wells were located where in the city. While he had seen them from the inside, he could only tell the short area around the well as that was all his spirit sense could extend

a half checking all of the wells and

was the first well that Lin Mu had discovered which was none other than the one that

one single location and the blocked gates must lead there as well. With this in

ancestral temple! It's roughly below it…" Lin Mu

sense any caves below the temple?" Xukong

deep into the ground beside the ground below the temple was also quite dense and mostly made up of rocks which my spirit sense could not penetrate." Lin

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