Chapter 0546: Enemies Underground
The excavation work is going very well.
Thanks to the strong support of the goblin royal family, the entire camp was extremely well prepared with food and supplies. The magic energy battery used as an energy source has been transported to hundreds of boxes, enough for more than 200 construction machinery on site to run continuously for a month.
More than 30 drilling rigs drilled a large hole in the ground mixed with mud, sand and rubble with their high-speed rotating bits, and then disappeared from everyone's sight. With a bit of luck, they may be able to burrow hundreds of meters into the ground in one go. But there's a very good chance they'll hit the exterior wall of a metal building, or a huge mountain of rock......
Either way, it's not a good thing for a fragile drill rig.
Either the machine is destroyed and people die, or the drill bit strikes, and you can only stay in place and wait for rescue from above.
Of course, there are those who are lucky enough to find a zigzag downward path among the many broken rocks, fragments of stone statues, and parts of metal buildings.
As a result, as the ground clean-up work continues to deepen, the general situation of the underground space is also revealed.
At the beginning, the steel capital was built on the top of a towering mountain, and the belly of the mountain below was hollowed out nearly sixty percent and transformed into underground tunnels and large and small crypts and secret rooms extending in all directions. In order to enhance their sturdiness, the goblins laid a large number of metal tunnels and special chambers with all-metal components during the excavation of this underground space.
With the explosion, all of the underground tunnels were broken into countless sections, and the metal chambers were distorted and displaced.
Later, the underground space collapsed, and the mountain above, along with most of the buildings in the steel capital, collapsed, and was then buried in trillions of earth and broken rock for nearly a kilometer underground.
To be honest, I want to find out the former steel capital from the depths of the earth, and find out the things in the original underground space. This kind of difficulty is no less than hollowing out this huge mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles, and the amount of work is simply staggering.
However, as a project promoted by Grim, the wealthy goblin royal family could only grit their teeth and take on it, and put most of the power under their control into it.
In the goblin camp in the clearance area, there are as many as 70,000 goblins stationed here, and hundreds of construction machines are constantly cleaning the ground day and night, pushing a large number of discarded debris and debris to farther areas. In just five days, they have excavated 150 meters into the ground, and cleared out tens of thousands of tons of earth and rock, including various gravel and metal fragments.
And in the center of the goblin camp, there is such a small tent standing alone with a pestle, and no goblins dare to approach within a hundred meters of the surrounding area. It was only when the excavation team found something strange that they had never seen before that they sent someone to summon the overseer, Lord Bilis.
And even when the other party goes out, he will hide himself in a thick black burqa, almost never revealing any skin.
In the camp of Nuoda, except for a few goblin commanders who knew the true identity of the other party, the rest of the goblins knew nothing at all.
Returning from Goblin Engineering Command once more, Billis sat cross-legged on his blanket, a fist-sized crystal ball glittering with a faint red glow in the center.
Billis stretched out his strange right hand, covered in dark carapace, and pressed it to the crystal ball.
In the next second, a familiar spiritual consciousness flowed into his mind.
"Billis, what's going on with the goblins?" it was Grimm, who was far away in the wizarding world.
With the connection between the Teleporter and the Flame Throne Witch Tower, the sorcery connection between the two planes is no longer a big problem.
"Master, today they dug down another 17 meters. However, he came across the remnants of a huge stone statue and was trying to pull it out after blasting...... In addition, they also found a metal building roof that stretched for nearly 3 miles, and it should be possible to find the remnants of the steel city after the explosion in a short time. At that point, there may be some meaningful discoveries......"
After listening to Billis's report, Grim in the distance paused slightly, and then asked, "Then what did you find here?"
With the cunning and suspicion of wizards, how could they pin a single hope on the goblins. So Grim stationed Bilis here, on the one hand, to supervise the progress of the goblins, and on the other hand, with the help of the special abilities of the worm witch, he used his own means to find treasures underground.
"My little ones are almost 500 meters underground, and yesterday we found one or two suspected metal tunnel faults, and today we also found an underground warehouse, but it is full of ordinary materials. At this rate, it will take about three or four days to reach a kilometer depth. ”
Hearing this answer, Grim finally nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "The closer you get to the location of the explosion, the more careful you must be." In addition to the spatial fracture zone hidden in the dirt, you also have to watch out for the presence of enemies. I have a feeling that the other person is not completely dead. As soon as you find signs of life, you will notify me immediately, and I will rush to the ...... as soon as possible."
The two talked in a low voice, and after making sure that nothing was missing, they cut off the expensive remote contact.
When the red glow in the crystal ball completely dissipated, Billis, the worm witch, retracted his right hand and sat frozen in place without moving. Of course, he didn't sleep or meditate, but immersed himself in the scorpion under the thick earth.
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In the dark dirt 573 meters below Billis, a basin-sized scorpion used its strange instinct to clear the dirt and dig down.
Under its strange multi-repetitive glances, the dirt in front of it was not all dark, and it was mixed with countless strange substances. These include green branches of trees that are not fully decayed, metal fragments that glow with energy, bones left by goblins, oddly shaped broken rocks, and a large number of broken materials that are difficult to discern from their original appearance......
Instead of congregating together, the thirteen scorpions spread out, searching for a hidden passage to the bottom in the loose dirt and debris.
Although most of the original underground tunnels are broken, there are still some remnants. As long as you find them, not only are they easy to locate, but you can also follow the trail to find some high-value targets.
However, just as the scorpion was digging through the dirt, it suddenly stopped what it was doing and began to feel a strange shock from the depths of the earth.
The epicenter is not far away, it seems to be only a few tens of meters away.
And judging by the amplitude and frequency of the vibrations, it seems to be ...... It seems that something is stealthily digging upwards underground, and it's not slow.
This unexpected discovery immediately caught the attention of Bilis, who was on the surface, and under his remote command, thirteen scorpions began to stealthily approach the epicenter from all angles. Before reporting to Grim, he felt compelled to find out the truth about that epicenter!
With a target, the speed of the excavation is much faster.
Only ten meters away from the epicenter, under the command of Billis, the rest of the scorpions stopped digging and went into a latent state, while only one scorpion cautiously continued to advance.
Just when the scorpion was only a meter away from the epicenter, a strange black claw pierced through the thick layer of soil and grabbed it.
Instantly, the earth exploded and the light loomed.
In a small cave that could only be accommodated, two tall figures, one fat and one thin, were crowded inside, and the one who held the scorpion was the stronger one.
Grabbing the scorpion and shaking it, shaking off the dirt residue attached to its body, the tall figure opened its mouth without hesitation, and actually stuffed it into its mouth and bit it down.
The stinging scorpion's originally tough alloy shell was useless in the mouth of this tall figure. With a strange crisp click, the shell of the worm cracked, the blood of the worm splattered, and the scorpion was swallowed alive.
Billis, the worm witch, let out a sharp hiss, and felt a sharp pain in his skull.
He had a feeling that the other party had not only devoured the stinging scorpion, but he was afraid that even the wisp of spiritual power that he attached to the stinging scorpion had also devoured.
Damn, it's it!
Billis endured the pain and opened the contact crystal......
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When Grim got the news, he was actually dealing with a matter at hand.
After a long period of setting up and controlling, the major event he had been planning for a long time finally had a glimmer of eyebrows.
The fish has taken the bait!
Lester Vic, the man who left behind his Origin blood to infect Mary as an alien vampire, has finally resurfaced after seventy years of hibernation.
He left the bloody castle in the Cadathron region and began to intervene frequently in the local affairs of the Vic family, spending his days in aristocratic banquets and erotic salons.
As it sounds, this seems like good news. But with the good news comes big bad news.
Unfortunately, that Lester Vic also managed to become a Tier 2 vampire.
This undoubtedly raised his status in the Vic family to the point of being on par with several family elders!
Even with the strength of Grim's second-order Fire Witch, he was promoted so many years earlier than the other party, and it was not so easy to capture it in one fell swoop. Even if one is not good, even Grim may be folded in his hands.
After all, vampire wizards are famous even in the scattered Tallinn region!
But for the sake of Mary's future development, it is important to exchange blood for her as soon as possible.
While Grimm was silently planning a plan to hunt down a Tier 2 vampire wizard, Billis, a worm witch far away from the goblin plane, suddenly sent back a powerful enough news.
The enemy has appeared!