It doesn't matter what the lord is.

No matter how willful she was, she knew that once a war was launched, countless people in Yunhai would die. Bai Huang was a kind person after all, and a kind and normal person. Between the lives of countless people and Irene, she would choose the former without hesitation. In this way, she had no reason to ask the Lord of Yunhai for help.

"Your second brother is right. It would be better for you to go back to Yunyang."

Lord Yunhai said calmly:

"Ah Huang, we tried to stop you from coming back before, but you always felt that there were many things that only you could do. So you came back with Lid, and now I ask you, after you come back, what do you think you can do? You are too naive. You tried to play the emotional card with me, hoping to use my power to subdue your two brothers; you also tried to play the emotional card with your second brother, hoping that he would give in. All these have failed. I can even imagine that even if you see your eldest brother, all you can do is throw a tantrum. Do you think this can solve the problem?"

Bai Huang opened his mouth and lowered his head in silence.

She clenched her fists tightly, not knowing how to refute.

Lord Yunhai sighed in disappointment and continued:

"When you were in the capital, you managed to get things done by accident, so you think you are very capable. But that's because you have Yunhai's support behind you. Those people are not giving you face, but giving face to me and your two brothers. Now that you are back in Yunhai, you still want to use this method to do things. How can it be effective? Blame me for always pampering you. You should wake up, Ah Huang. Your life has been full of ups and downs, but if you look closely, you have always relied on others and never stopped..."

Bai Huang's waist slowly bent and his body fell heavily.

Lord Yunhai wanted to say something else, but a very calm voice came from near the door:

"Almost got it."

In front of Bai Huang, Reed didn't say anything particularly hurtful. After all, this was actually someone else's family affair.

Lid walked to Bai Huang's side, and the guards around Lord Yunhai immediately took a step forward nervously. Lid sneered and looked at the guards with disdain. If he really wanted to kill Lord Yunhai, Lord Yunhai would have died eight hundred times since he entered the door. He just didn't want to make things too ugly.

Lid patted Bai Huang's shoulder and said:

"I say the same thing, Xiao Huang, don't worry about what others say. Just do whatever you want to do. Since I'm in Yunhai, I have a way to cover it for you."

Bai Huang wiped his eyes with his arm, raised his head, and said to Lord Yunhai:

"I want to protect my family... I will do my best! Dad, you taught us to care for our brothers and sisters since we were young. I don't want to watch them die. I am not as heartless as you."

Lord Yunhai looked at her with an expression of neither sadness nor joy, and made a gesture to see her off.

When stepping out of the lord's mansion, Reed turned around and looked inside.

He also didn't want to see foreigners trampling on human territory, but he always felt that something was wrong.

After thinking it over, Lid suddenly realized the problem: According to Pingzi's report, a large number of marine soldiers have gathered on the coastline. If they just wanted someone, there was no need to mobilize so many troops. Just send someone to notify them. The Cloud Sea Lord was not a fool. How could he hide Irene and go to war with the marines at this time?

They really want to fight!

37. The Lost Crown

Some people clearly have the ability to control the situation, but for various reasons they just stand by and watch.

Some people are obviously immature, but are pushed to the forefront by life.

From a certain perspective, what Lord Yunhai said was right. Currently, Bai Huang was just messing things up. He seemed to be in the front, but he didn't have any effective output, which gave people the impression that he was a bit confused. But Lid just couldn't bear to hear him blame Bai Huang, because now Bai Huang was trying to solve the mess he left behind. If he had made up his mind to establish a crown prince a few years ago, there wouldn't be all these messes now.

Lid already had an idea in mind. It was useless to compromise blindly at the moment, so he planned to sneak into the Yunhai Lord's mansion tonight to find out the whereabouts of Irene. This move was equivalent to falling out with the Yunhai Lord, but as long as he did not touch the Yunhai Lord, the Yunhai Lord would at most prohibit him from entering and leaving the Never-Sleeping City, and it was unlikely that he would directly engage in war.

After all, Lid itself is a hot potato now.

If Lid is alive, he can continue to cause trouble in Yunhai; if Lid dies, He Yue and Fang Shisan who stay in Yunyang will not care about the justice of mankind, and will definitely take advantage of the invasion of the Ocean Tribe to go south directly, even if it means exhausting Yunyang's family resources to destroy the entire Yunhai. Therefore, unless the Lord of Yunhai finds a chance to capture Lid alive, he can only tolerate his insolence to a certain extent.

"Let's go to Zhiluo Mountain again."

Lid said calmly, but he was thinking about something else. Since they had decided to sneak into the Yunhai Lord's Mansion, Alayya, Baihuang and Heji could no longer stay in the Never-Sleeping City. Otherwise, if a city-wide manhunt occurred, it would be difficult for them to escape.

"What are you going to do in Zhiluo Mountain?"

Bai Huang asked, his tone still filled with the grievance he had just suffered in the lord's mansion.

Lid made up an excuse:

"At present, our clues are broken, but considering all the previous situations, I think it is very likely that your elder brother is in Zhiluo Mountain. First of all, it is not far from the Never-Sleeping City. Your elder brother has the opportunity to come over and assassinate Bai Feng, and he can also clearly see the changes in the situation here. Secondly, it is the only barren mountain around, and the mountain road is difficult to walk. It is difficult for Bai Feng to send a large army to encircle and suppress it. Even if he goes, your elder brother will most likely escape. If I were Bai Ye, I would probably stay there and wait for an opportunity."

Bai Huang's eyes suddenly brightened up a lot, after all, this was a good opportunity to meet Bai Ye. But she quickly regained her composure, such a large barren mountain, Bai Ye was a master of the tenth level, if he didn't want to see Bai Huang, it would be almost impossible for Bai Huang to find him.

Reed tricked Bai Huang and the others into coming to Zhiluo Mountain. He wandered around outside for a day seemingly doing nothing, then got rid of all the eyes at night and returned to the city that never sleeps alone.

He first met Pingzi at the address Pingzi left last time, and told her that there would be a large-scale search in the Never-Sleeping City in the near future, and asked her to notify the Anbu members here to pay attention to safety; in addition, he asked Pingzi to send more people to the towns near Nanyang to pay attention to the movements of the Ocean Clan. After making sure that the Anbu organization in Yunyang would not be implicated by him, Lid concealed his breath to the extreme, and silently entered the Yunhai Lord's Mansion like a ghost in the dark night.

He slowly searched the huge lord's mansion, room by room, looking for Irene's whereabouts. He believed that Irene must be in the lord's mansion, otherwise the Lord of Yunhai would not have sent so many masters to guard it. Finally, Lid found a basement, but there were so many masters guarding inside that Lid had to use his ultimate secret - summoning Ghost Sauce to solve the trouble on the scene.

Walking down the stairs into the basement, Lid saw a spacious space in front of him. This didn't seem to be a dungeon, but a secret storage room, but it was ridiculously large. Among the numerous treasures, there was a large temporary swimming pool with ripples in it. A pink-haired girl was staying in it, blowing bubbles sadly.

Hearing the footsteps, the girl raised her head, and when she saw Lid, she suddenly poked her head out of the water and called out in surprise:

"Big brother!"

A few splashes of water splashed out of the pool, and Irene's true appearance was revealed. Below her waist was a pink fish tail, and her scales were thick and thin like the stars in the sky. Her soft waist seemed very elastic because she often swam in the water. Her upper body was only wearing a layer of snow-white corset, and her long pink hair soaked by water stuck to her smooth back. Her ethereal temperament was more dazzling than the countless jewels piled here.

Perhaps realizing that her current form was very different from before, Irene looked at Lid awkwardly and stammered:

"This...this is..."

Finally, I apologized:

"Feel sorry."

Lid didn't mind it. He and Irene weren't close enough to expect her to be open with him, and he wouldn't blame her for this. He just walked to the pool and asked:

"That's a powerful illusion. Where did you learn it from?"

Irene replied sheepishly:

"It's a family tradition. It's not actually an illusion. We can always transform into human form, so we can move freely on the shore. But I haven't mastered this skill yet. I was tricked by that strange old man, and I was so shaken that I changed back... Big brother, can you take me out? I have something important to do."

Lid looked at her and answered deliberately:

"No."

Irene clasped her hands to her chest and whispered:

"Why, why?"

Lid smiled and said:

"You are the princess of the Ocean Tribe, right? There are rumors that the Ocean Tribe is about to attack us, just for you. Many lives are at stake with you... Of course, this is just an excuse. The most important thing is that our relationship is not that good."

Irene couldn't help but swim forward twice, pinched Lid's sleeve, and said nervously:

"But! I ran away from home just to save lives. If I were sent back, the ocean tribe and the human race would go to war right away! In fact, whether I go back or not, it won't have any impact. Big brother, are you willing to believe me?"

Lid turned around and confirmed that no one had come to check yet, so he stepped forward and said in a low voice:

"Tell me more about it."

Irene said quickly:

"My father has just ascended the throne and does not have enough prestige to subdue the ministers. The conflicts within the Ocean Clan are very intense, and they can only shift the conflicts through external wars. I heard that the older generation of fishman grandmothers said that there is only one way to help my father sit firmly on the throne and prevent war, and that is to find a lost holy object of the Ocean Clan... But that holy object is no longer in the Ocean Clan. The fishman grandmother guessed that it might be in the hands of the human race, so I wanted to run out and look for it..."

Lid asked:

"What holy object?"

Irene shook her head.

"I haven't seen it, but I heard from the merman grandmother that the holy object is called the Lost Crown. I guess it should be like the name, a crown inlaid with gems... right?"

38. Bad Woman

When he heard the "Lost Crown", some memories were triggered in Reed's mind.

He crossed his arms, squinted his eyes, and came close to Irene, asking seriously:

"Your ancestors didn't believe in any weird religions, did they?"

Irene folded her hands in front of her chest and answered with a slightly angry look:

"How is it possible? We in the Ocean Clan have been believers of the great race Kungu for generations, and we have never had any other strange beliefs!"

Lid took a deep breath and continued to ask:

"…Then did your ancestors have a fanatical follower of a strange octopus?"

Irene raised her head and thought for a moment before saying:

"Big brother, are you talking about Lord Clenus? Because the Pillar of Eternal Life does not have a very high status among all the Kungu, and it has been dormant for a long time, there are very few believers of Lord Clenus now. But according to the records, my great-great-great-grandfather seemed to believe in him very much. For Lord Clenus, he personally went to the North Sea and... died there."

Lid nodded and raised a finger:

"One last question. Is this lost crown you mentioned about this size and this high? Is it inlaid with Melo pearls, red corals, and the like?"

Irene opened her mouth wide at once, a look of great surprise on her face, and her voice unconsciously became louder:

"Have you seen Big Brother?!"

Lid rubbed his eyebrows unconsciously.

He had seen it before. Back then, at the bottom of the sea, he had personally put the crown on the head of the Lingwu Lord. Later, seeing that the Lingwu Lord liked it, he did not fight with her for it. He just gave it to her. Now, the woman probably still wears it when she has nothing to do, sitting quietly on the throne and looking beautiful alone.

Reed answered honestly:

"I've seen it, and I know where it is. But I'm not sure if I can get it back. The crown you're looking for is in the hands of a very scary woman. The biggest characteristic of that woman is... you can never take advantage of her things. Once something that isn't hers passes through her hands, it magically becomes hers."

Irene tilted her head and said doubtfully:

"Isn't that unreasonable?"

Lid nodded:

"Yes, there is no point in arguing with that woman. No one in the world understands that woman better than me. The logic behind her actions is hard for ordinary people to guess. For example, today I told her that you must give me the crown, otherwise the Ocean Clan will fight with the Yunhai Clan. She will definitely say to me, what does the fight between the Ocean Clan and the Yunhai Clan have to do with me? You, the Yunhai Clan, are unable to protect your own people, so you set your sights on me? There is no point in arguing with this."

Irene bit her lip and whispered:

"Bad woman."

Lid immediately felt that although Irene was young, she was also sensible and had a very accurate vision. She immediately pointed out the core of the problem. Lid sighed and said to her:

"But I'm still willing to give it a try, even though I don't know if I can succeed. But you have to understand that if I help you get the crown, I have to pay some price in order to have a chance to get it. After that, I have to meet your father to discuss some cooperation matters. In short, your father needs to agree to some conditions before I will give him the crown."

Irene smiled:

"I know! Thank you, big brother! As long as it's not too much of a request, my father will probably accept it. He doesn't want to go to war in the winter. We ocean tribes like to spend the winter in the deep sea. Although the food is not that abundant, it's warm there, and we can also ride on the turbulent currents on the seabed to drift around, which is really fun."

Reed held out his hand to her and said:

"Okay. I'll pick you up now. We're going to meet someone later. I might need you to sing another song. Just consider it as a down payment. Also, no matter who asks you, just say that you sang a lullaby and those people at the door fell asleep, and then you sneaked out and ran into me. Got it?"

Irene responded seriously with an "I understand" expression:

"Don't worry, I will never betray big brother! Because big brother came to save me."

Irene put her little hand in Reed's palm and let Reed pull her out of the pool.

The moment the pink fish tail touched the ground, it transformed into a pair of human feet, leaving a trail of water stains on the ground.

Reed took her and left the Yunhai Lord's Mansion quietly.

At the same time, Zhiluo Mountain.

The first person to realize that Reed was missing was Alayya, but she soon saw Reed's coat on a branch with a note inside: I have to go out for something, don't look for me, the Anbu organization is protecting me.

Although Alayya was a little worried, she still followed her master's instructions and stayed in Zhiluo Mountain to wait for him. Around dusk, Bai Huang, who was walking outside, returned to the camp and said to Alayya:

"Hey, why are you the only one here? Where's Lid?"

Alayya handed the note in her hand to Bai Huang.

Bai Huang looked at it and nodded. Alayya inexplicably felt that she was a little absent-minded.

Sure enough, not long after, Bai Huang said to Alayya:

"I can sense my elder brother's presence. Maybe blood is thicker than water. Just now on the mountain, he was looking at me from a distance. I couldn't see him, but I knew he was there. Lid is right. My elder brother is indeed living in seclusion in Zhiluo Mountain. Just now, I suddenly thought of a way that might allow me to meet him."

Alayya asked:

"what way?"

Bai Huang pointed toward the mountain and said to Alayya:

"There is a cliff over there."

Alayya didn't understand what Bai Huang meant.

Bai Huang said softly:

"I'll jump from there."

Alayya understood it in an instant. She didn't know what to say. For a moment, she wanted to say that Bai Huang's idea was a bit naive and radical, but when she saw Bai Huang's eyes, she felt that she could completely understand Bai Huang. It is human nature to want to do something but not be able to do it. The frustration brought by the feeling of powerlessness is likely to accompany you for life. Alayya herself has experienced it. She always feels that her strength is still too weak, which makes her young master suffer a lot of grievances.