The next time Wilbur stopped to look at the walls of the tunnel, he saw the mark he had made just now. It seemed like he had been walking in a circle.


    Wilbur frowned. If he was walking in circles, he would never make it out of this mine. He would have to think of another way.


    After pondering for a while, Wilbur looked up to see five tunnels in front of him. An image shed through his head. He felt as if he had seen this exact sight before. Wilbur''s mind raced furiously before his eyes lit up in realization!


    That parchment map that the liquid woman had asked the shopkeeper to pass to him!


    Wilbur suddenly remembered that he had seen these exact five tunnels on the map before and took the piece of parchment out at once. Sure enough, the sight before him matched the map exactly.


    This was a map of Tuttle Mine, after all. Wilbur was excited, as there was a sign marking the exit of the mine. He followed the sign and walked for a little over ten minutes before he heard an audible drop of water.


    An ominous feeling rose up in Wilbur''s chest at once. After all, water hardly appeared in these tunnels. This must mean that he was at the deepest part of the mine.


    This was clearly not the exit, but the deepest part of the mine. Wilbur realized that he had been tricked by the liquid woman and tore the parchment to shreds. "That evil woman."


    Just as his words echoed in the tunnel, a woman''s voice could be heard from the darkness ahead, "Surely, you must be far more evil than I could ever be. You killed my son, after all. My son is dead, but here you are, still alive. How is that not mocking me?"


    "Who''s that?"


    Wilbur took a few steps forward, and the white light above his head lit up the area in front of him. There was a ck puddle with the liquid woman''s face in it, leering at him with a cold stare.


    "Oh? It''s you?"


    Wilbur was a little confused, but it did not take long for him to understand what was going on. The liquid woman was the shadow of the axis that the universe spun on, which gave her control over any and all liquid on Earth.


    That was why the hundreds of kilometers between Mosarto and Eweyn were nothing to her.


    The liquid woman''s stare made Wilbur rather ufortable, and he took a deep breath before saying, "I''m sorry about what happened to Adam, but I''m sure Senior Fremont has made it clear why things turned out that way. Adam''s actions brought about his own demise. No one else is to me."


    "Is that your answer?" The liquid woman''s gaze was cold as ever as if she did not seem to care if Wilbur would give her any satisfactory exnation at all.


    Wilbur knew that there was no way she would let him go, regardless of what he said. If that was the case, he would rather just get straight to the point. "So, are you here to kill me?"


    "No. I''m just here to make a trade with you."


    "What trade?"


    The liquid woman turned her back on Wilbur. "You should know I''m the Dark Tree, and I control all forms of water on this. I can go anywhere as long as there


    is water, so I know where the pieces of the ninth dragon cauldron are located."


    "What?"


    Wilbur was overwhelmed with emotion. "You know where they are?"


    "Yes."