Little Fool and Xu Yang sat on metal benches next to each other. The soldiers and miners took out each other's supplies to share. Due to the previous improvement in the environment, the fish stocks had recovered, and the miners took out their frozen fish and frozen crabs.
, eels and oysters, and their long-stored turnips, turnips, and potatoes.
The soldiers took out their marching rations, including stewed pork, stewed beef, diced chicken, biochemical beast jerky, and the essential nutritional paste.
All this food was poured into a large copper pot, and the miners' wives got to work, filling the pot with boiling water, then filling it with powdered bonito soup, and mixing everything into the boiling bonito soup.
In the middle, it exudes bursts of umami flavor, and all the ingredients are floating in the hot soup.
Then they opened many more cans and poured in the premade bamboo wheels, fish balls and kelp, making the food in the copper pot in front of them appear more colorful and diverse.
"I'm gonna start now!"
The frank person spoke first, and the others raised their chopsticks and started making food around the copper pot.
The wolf girl can maintain the beast form for a long time. At this time, she is leaning against the heater with her tail swiping around on the ground. She looks like an oversized wolf monster. The little fool picked up a plate and carefully brought it to the wolf girl.
, she opened one eye, stretched out her long tongue and quickly rolled all the hot food into her throat, swallowed them all, and then closed her eyes again.
"Be good...be good..." The little fool reached out and touched the wolf girl's forehead.
Xu Yang saw that there were more winding areas deep in the mine. He was curious, ate something and then left the dining table to find his way into the darkness.
The little fool also followed Xu Yang's example. After eating something, she followed Xu Yang. She walked behind Xu Yang. Snowball and the wolf girl looked at each other and got up to follow the little fool.
"There are deeper... natural rock cracks here. I don't know where they lead." Xu Yang looked at the dark rock cracks. They were quite wide and he didn't know what area they were connected to.
"Wow... you can't go there." A village militiaman who was not at the table was smoking a cigarette. He saw them looking around and hurried over.
"What's inside?" Xu Yang raised his hand and pointed to the dark natural tunnel. There were gusts of cold wind inside, making people shiver all over.
"Ancient mine tunnels." The young militiaman explained. Judging from his expression, he didn't quite know what was inside.
"Is there anyone in the village who knows more about this?" Xu Yang asked.
The militiamen went to a banquet and invited an old miner back. The old miner knew more about this hidden mine tunnel, and his expression changed even more at this time. He knew that Xu Yang's existence would help them survive, so he refused to let him
adventure.
"That mine tunnel is only used by people of my grandfather's generation. They go into the heart of the mountain... to dig for a more rare mineral." The old miner said cautiously.
"What kind of strange mineral?" Xu Yang was curious.
"I don't know...its name is made with a very strange sound. Because of that mineral, this village became famous for a while." The old miner explained.
If you want to use a strange sound to describe it, it is most likely a secret text. Xu Yang speculated that there is a mysterious mineral described in a secret text at the bottom of the mine. Sure enough, Yibei City has always been a dangerous place on the frontier, and there are many secrets that no one knows.
"Is anyone else going in now?" Xu Yang asked.
"Many companies sent people to investigate, some teams, they got into the tunnels and were killed... There were some kind of monsters living in the tunnels. After we mined the outermost minerals, we didn't dare to go in.
, I am afraid that I will die in the mine like the exploration teams sent by the company." The old miner explained.
The company people have plans for many occult projects, but they may not work. Xu Yang looked sideways and turned on the night vision function of his helmet. His sight penetrated the darkness in front, allowing him to see the ancient mine tunnels ahead.
It branches into different roads, extending upwards with man-made rope ladders, and extending downwards with long primitive stone steps. The pits are scattered with rocks, dead bodies, and large chunks of ice and snow, and are surrounded by a bottomless abyss.
Xu Yang thought about the location of several surrounding mines. They were roughly distributed around the edge of the mountain. They probably all had secret passages and legends leading to this ancient mine, but the versions were different.
"There are stone steps leading to the top? How high?" Xu Yang looked back at the old miner.
"Can you see clearly? It is said that it can lead to the top of the mountain. But you can't go in, it's too dangerous." The old miner frowned.
"I have to climb a road to the top of the mountain. The signal there is better. I can contact the company troops here to clear out the enemies, and then I can evacuate you to a safer place." Xu Yang nodded. If external signals can be connected here,
That would save trouble.
The old miners thought about it again and again. Although it was very dangerous inside, if they succeeded, they would be able to communicate with the large army in one go. This would be more beneficial to the miners, so they just lent them the miners' equipment without any further obstruction.
words.
Xu Yang went in through the crack. There were no-passage signs and artificial roadblocks everywhere to prevent the ancient monsters in the mine from crawling out. When he came into the darkness, Ise Hanai received the news and followed with a big sword.
Come, little fool and her zoo are following.
They all had tense expressions and did not dare to speak. The surroundings were dark, and only the sound of footsteps and the scraping of armor could be faintly discerned, and there was a chill in the air.
Xu Yang walked to the bottom of the cliff and grabbed the rope ladder. It was quite strong and made of steel cables and metal plates. He grabbed the ladder and walked up, lifting it up little by little. He saw the cold wind coming from the top.
As he poured water down into the cracks, the hazy white light shone on the snow-covered rocks, he realized that the rope ladder could indeed take him to the top of the mountain, at least to a place where he could be exposed to the outside air, and once he climbed from the mine to the surface, he could
Think of yourself as a signal tower and guide Nistor's air strike force to clear out the frost giants.
As he walked up, a scream suddenly came from the bottomless darkness at the bottom, followed by the sound of some monster crawling rapidly.
Xu Yang continued to climb up, while Ise Hana Rei and the others below remained on guard to prevent any monsters that might attack.
Whoosh!
A pale spear shot out of the darkness and quickly shot at Xu Yang's back.
The people below were all frightened, but Xu Yang remained unchanged. The ebony ring that Mond gave to Xu Yang flashed quickly, and a translucent shield lit up around him. The spear hit the shield and disintegrated into countless fragments, scattering
On the ground.
A more intense roar sounded from the abyss, seemingly angry because of her failure. The wolf girl recognized its location from the sound and quickly roared and rushed down.
"Be careful!" Ise Hana Rei followed with the big sword, but not as fast as the wolf girl.
The sound of huge beasts entangled and biting each other came from the darkness, and the movement was extremely terrifying. Xu Yang first climbed to the top of the cliff, scanned the situation below, and then shot a red warning beacon from the weapon slot of the nano-armor, which hit
The monster in the dark clings to its shoulder.
It roared violently, with red light shining and bursts of smoke. Now they could see clearly what kind of monster it was. It was covered with pale scales, its head was protruding like a lizard, and its eyes were gray and white, like a pair of
It expanded violently like blisters, and seemed like a blind monster.
It had an almost humanoid appearance, smaller than the Wolf Girl, and its tail and claws were quite powerful, at least stronger than the Wolf Girl. When it swung its claws hard, the Wolf Girl roared and was knocked back.
The wolf girl's body shrank back, and the scaly blind monster jumped back. Its snout expanded rapidly, orange flames quickly lit up in its throat, and then it breathed fire at the wolf girl.
"Quack!" The little fool quickly opened his hands.
Just as the wolf girl was about to raise her claws to block the explosive flames, an invisible wall of air appeared in front of her, directly absorbing many flames and reducing the risk of her being ignited.
The little fool couldn't hold on for long. Xu Yang picked up the gun and shot the blind monster in the neck. The bullet penetrated its scales. What came out was not blood but flames. Its bright throat exploded quickly, and its whole head quickly exploded.
It burned into a ball of fire, and the entire upper body exploded instantly!
Blood and high-temperature red flames flew towards the wolf girl, and the aftermath of the explosion hit the wolf girl. Her body shook. Fortunately, she was heavy enough, and Ise Hana Rei came to help her, otherwise the wolf girl would have been killed by this.
The big explosion blew off the cliff.
"Are you okay?" Xu Yang greeted.
"Ouch..." The wolf girl indicated that she was fine.
They looked down and saw that there were even deeper and more tortuous traces of man-made structures at the bottom of the tunnel, and they didn't know where they were leading.
"Let's get rid of the upper ones first." Xu Yang climbed up and saw some old wooden structural frames, which were extremely strong and at least two hundred years old. They seemed to have been built reluctantly by the previous miners.
After reaching the end, he saw the "mine" embedded in the rock wall. Only then did he see relatively complete excavation traces on the wall. Close to the mountain, there was a section of something almost like a "background" of some kind of creature.
Leg" dents.
Judging from those carvings, Xu Yang could clearly distinguish the shapes of thighs, calves and joints. It was as if people dug out a fossil about 8 to 10 meters long. Could it be that these ancient miners worked hard to dig out the mysterious
Minerals are these frozen skeletons?
He looked around and saw that there were some smaller excavation marks around him. The upper space should be the last mine they could exploit. They did not dare to face the blind and scaly monster below.
Xu Yang carefully recorded the images he captured, and then walked to the snow-covered corridor connecting the outside. It turned out that what they called "connecting to the top of the mountain" meant that there was a narrow circular pit above his head, and the wind continued to blow down from above.
The cold wind and snow piled up a cone-shaped snow bulge on the ground.
Xu Yang climbed up the ice and snow pile and looked up at the sky. It was like a different world connected to the cold sky above his head. Due to the relatively closed structure, the mine was actually warmer than the ground.
At the top of the snowdrift, which was perpendicular to the hole, Xu Yang looked towards the light above and finally connected to the precious satellite signal.
With this, he sent a message to Nisto headquarters, asking them to use the air force to clean up the cluster of frost giants raging on the outskirts of Yibei City, fight against the mysterious aerial beast, and then organize a larger-scale search and rescue and recovery of the city. The situation is worse than anyone imagined.
Due to the bad weather, it would take about a day before he could take action. Xu Yang walked back, all the way to the edge of the dark cliff, then grabbed the metal rope ladder and climbed down, taking the others back to rest, while cleaning up the scene and cleaning up the corpse of the scale monster. and blood, and then take it back to the miners to let them know about the existence of this monster. They were surprised to see Xu Yang and his party retreating unscathed.
After everything was settled, Xu Yang and the others also took a rest, and the little fool and Xu Yang got into their respective sleeping bags.
"It's so scary." With only her little head exposed in the sleeping bag, she was surprised by today's exploration. The outside world is so different from the city. The little fool learned a lot from the reactions of adults.
"You are acting very brave. Get some rest... There are still many secrets in this place, and what we have seen is just the tip of the iceberg. We must go to Yibei City and find local records to find out what was used here before." Xu Yang closed his eyes. eyes, while thinking about how to solve these weird things, big and small, and still feel at peace.
"Oh!" The little fool closed his eyes and slept obediently.