Chapter 440 Past Events in the Center of the Earth (6): Cause and Effect Return to Ruins

"The mining process in the Omega Sector is more difficult than they imagined."

The entire Omega Sector is traversed by a huge underground fissure.

I don’t know when the crack was formed. In the next half month, the exploration team of Sparrow Industries discovered many unnamed animals in the crack, including fluorescent moss that survives in the dark, relying on the snake-snout rock.

Flowers that are released for photosynthesis as a light source, bugs made of a material similar to moldy vines...

There is a completely different ecosystem underground than on the ground.

It is worth mentioning that in this ecosystem, the group of snakes is a very important part - the exploration team found traces of the passage of huge snakes here. These traces are almost everywhere, but they have not affected the underground

It affects other organisms - the snake is a member of the entire ecosystem, and it lives in symbiosis with the ecosystem.

The concern is that in order to mine, they must cause some degree of damage to the ecosystem.

Destroying other people's homes is a very irritating thing. James Parrett had seen how powerful the snake was, and he became more cautious when dealing with this matter.

"They bought some very expensive equipment... Well, they also hired some extraordinary butchers like those from the North Bureau, and asked those people to follow the mineral exploration team to carry out exploration operations."

"I was no longer in the mine at that time. I had only heard about it, but I didn't know who they were."

"Later... later, they succeeded. The underground creatures were driven into the distant darkness like rats in the sewer, and they established a fortress-like mining machine transfer station underground because they discovered the Omega Sector.

Further down, there are rich deposits of snake-nose rocks everywhere!”

When Chen Yan heard this, a word popped up in his head for no reason:

colonial.

Hmm...it's not the same as colonization. The process of colonization is accompanied by population transfer, and what Sparrow Industries did was only war invasion and economic expansion, and did not allow more humans to live underground.

"Later, the deeper they dug, the more they felt something was wrong. Why were there rich ores everywhere?

Continuously for hundreds of kilometers - I really am not exaggerating in the slightest - it is full of green, high-purity ophisite rock - a high-purity ophisite ore that can be used as a power source for electrical appliances without even purification!"

"Even with the blessing of the God of Luck, such a miracle would not be possible!"

"At that time, James Parrett also sensed something was wrong, so he paid people from the surface to investigate."

"The results of the investigation shocked everyone - the entire Omega Sector - an area about half the size of Yanan City. The reason why it is all high-purity snake-kissed rock is because it is actually the Big Snake.

A tribal graveyard for such creatures!”

Chen Yan couldn't hold it back anymore: "Hold the grass."

Spherical Tunguska continued: "They speculated at the time that the high-purity snake-nose rock rich mineral area stretching for hundreds of kilometers had been transformed into snake-snout rocks by countless generations of dead bodies of the serpent tribe."

"Out of awe of the unknown, James Parrett spent a lot of money - what this bastard is most in need of is money - he purchased new equipment, hired superhuman guards, and monitored the mining machines and

The mine tunnel has been updated to strengthen its defense capabilities, and an army has been created underground to resist the big snake!"

"But then... at least before I came out a few days ago, the big snake didn't even appear once - not only did the big snake not appear, but the group of big snakes didn't appear either, not even a small snake similar to the big snake appeared."

"Except for the long-corrupted corpses underground, the Orochi clan... seems to not exist."

Chen Yan interrupted:

"You said before that that thing just looks like a big snake, but I don't actually know what it is."

Spherical Tunguska affirms:

"Yes, they just look alike."

It grinned, as if it didn't want to tell what was going to happen next.

"Later... just before I was about to leave the underground, something happened in the Omega Sector."

"The accident this time was not because of monsters like big snakes, but because of hauntings."

Chen Yan repeated the phrase it said:

"Haunted."

It nodded slowly:

"Yes, it's haunted... There are always people who commit suicide inexplicably, using mining picks, or using sharp stones, or swallowing the original ore of Snake Nose Rock..."

"According to the miners, these people who committed suicide had talked to themselves before they were alive. They seemed to be talking to someone... They spoke very clearly and did not look crazy at all."

"They also chatted with 'Air' about some very common topics, such as what to eat tonight, when will the loan owed to the company be repaid... The shrimp people, crab people and pirate peons usually chatted like this.

The topic, if you don’t talk to the air, no one will feel that something is wrong at all.”

"At first, this matter was not taken seriously, because human life was not valuable at that time, and there were too many miners working in the mine. A large number of mutants and a large number of Smoky Lake pirates poured into Spyro Industries, because here

Having wages and food to eat is much better than hunting in the water."

Chen Yan was stunned and felt that this scene was very similar to the scene when farmers around Yanan City were attracted to the factories in Yanan City due to industrialization.

"Until one time, a driver drove a shuttle mining machine loaded with Snake Rock and rushed into the parking lot where the mining machine was parked."

"The explosion destroyed most of the underground stronghold and finally attracted the attention of Spyro Industries' senior executives."

"All mining operations in the Omega sector were urgently stopped, but the miners who were stranded in the Omega mining area at that time were prevented from returning to the office building - they were blocked underground because no one could bear the sudden rampage after they came back.

risks of."

"But you know, how can such a thing be stopped? Even at the moment the ban was issued, there were still a large number of shuttle mining machines traveling between the Omega sector and other sectors."

"Deep underground, within the Omega Sector, those miners who may go crazy at any time must have spread to other mining areas."

"I was so scared that I found an opportunity to secretly board a transport ship to the surface in the office building and left there."

After a moment of silence, Chen Yan spoke:

"Now that the poltergeist is over, mining operations in the Omega Sector have begun again."

The immortal Solar is one of the miners of the Omega Sector.

Spherical Tunguska was a little surprised:

"Ah, is that so...The reason for the haunting should have been found out...or maybe not. Those pirates are all madmen. If they urgently need the Snake-nosed Rock, they might really risk their lives.

There's a risk that someone would go crazy and mine the Ophiosaurus...or maybe they'd have taken other measures."

Chen Yan asked thoughtfully:

"Where is the dam that the Bei Bureau built underground back then?"

Spherical Tunguska replied:

"Based on the location, it's probably between the Beta sector and the Gamma sector... Why do you ask..."

Chen Yan put his right hand on his knee and tapped his knee lightly with his index finger.

"The dam prevents most of the water from entering the City of Dieshang in the Abyss. In other words, the bottom of the Abyss where the City of Dies is located is probably very close to the Omega Sector...or maybe, the City of Dies is located.

The bottom of the Abyss is actually at the same depth as the "ecological rift" where the Omega Sector is located.

Spherical Tunguska thought for a while and said in a hesitant voice:

"Probably...right...I haven't compared it before. What's the point of comparing it?"

Chen Yan pointed to its scales and said:

"I remember that if the animals in Tunguska enter the aging stage, their scales will soften and turn white locally, their appetite will not be as good as before, and they will even have diarrhea from time to time when eating."

The spherical Tunguska is silent.

Chen Yan continued:

"You have entered the next stage of aging."

Spherical Tunguska said nothing.

Chen Yan just continued according to his own thoughts:

"Have you ever thought about why when you got married to that gramophone, why did it tell you that after you get married and eat it, you can continue the race - the race of the [Brain Ball Strain]?"

"Of course, that gramophone must not think that it is a [brain ball strain] as defined by humans - it must have its own special identity. I think that will be one of the reasons why the strain is rampant in the City of Mountains."

"After eating it, your lifespan was extended, but you did not continue the continuation of the ethnic group. How long has it been since the 'wedding' ended? Five years? Six years?"

Spherical Tunguska announced a number in a deep voice:

"Eight years."

Chen Yan nodded:

"Eight years is exactly the lifespan of a normal spherical Tunguska, but I think you should be able to live longer. I think... if you open your chest now, there may be no internal organs inside, but full of bacterial strains."

He looked at its panicked eyes with a kind smile on his face:

"Don't panic, I'm just joking with you."

His tone was full of sincerity:

"Have you ever thought that if you carry out the 'continuation of the ethnic group', your life span may be extended again?"

The spherical Tunguska did not speak, and the silence showed that it had obviously thought about this matter.

After a moment, it repeated the words at the beginning of the conversation in a firm tone:
To be continued...