Chapter 13: The Mine

"Still not," Nataya nibbled on an apple as she leaned into the corner.

"Tomato, just have silk, let's not go, other panic, is there more silk here?" Dwarf Pea Ding also puffed out his cheeks and said inarticulately. The little man was nibbling on a fruit about the size of his face in one hand.

"It's not good," Nataya slapped the back of the dwarf bean's head. "When the battle in the sky is over, you think you will still have a chance to find food, so many insects have fallen to the ground, and there is no place to hide outside, so you will wait for them to eat you. Hurry up and go to the next block! ”

After grabbing the dwarf peas and putting on the motive armor, the golden armor was backpacked------ which was already filled with all kinds of cans that he couldn't normally afford to buy, and even a small bag of apples found in the freezer, and a brand new food synthesizer that didn't smell like socks.

Nataya closed her eyes and focused, and the other side of the world appeared in front of her. Since reversing the spirit vortex, Nataya has not found any other problems except that she can't release the mental power shield. The perception that was originally sensitive to the external environment was even worse, for example, before breaking into the settlement this time, Nataya found that she could feel the spiritual power spread by the brain worm in the air, and even the spiritual power detection waves swept every hour could be seen! Whenever she noticed the detection brain wave sweeping over her from a distance, she stopped all actions and thoughts, treated herself as a stone, waited for the black detection wave to sweep over her body, and continued to act. After the initial adaptation, Nataya can now cooperate seamlessly with the brain worm, and in the brain worm's opinion, a target that should be as obvious as a searchlight in the dark night has suddenly disappeared.

"Huh" The girl frowned, she found a strange phenomenon, every time the detection wave of the brain worm passed through a certain area, it would avoid bypassing, before because of the distance, she didn't care too much, but now because it is very close, this obvious circumvention has attracted Nataya's attention.

"Open the map" Nataya's helmet screen projects the entire neighborhood of the settlement. "It's around here" Nataya closed her eyes again to determine the direction, less than five blocks away from herself, to the southeast, this is... The same location of the map on the helmet screen was circled, and several large characters were written in the circle------- "Xinghai Mining Company Laupa Mine Star Headquarters"

That's right, Xinghai Mining is the largest mineral crystal materials and energy company in the Federation, and the official mining rights of the three major mining areas are in their hands, so the rich enterprises are even better equipped than the local army, not to mention short-distance aircraft, and even small airports. Nataya clearly remembers that on Chinese New Year's Eve last year, she saw with her own eyes the celebration held in the settlement square, and the administrative director of Laupaxing nodded very politely to the head of Xinghai Mining Region....

It's just....Nataya glanced at Dwarf Pee... Forget it, don't tell him where to go, he can't see outside anyway.

Deftly bypassing a few street corners, Nataya had already arrived at the gate of Xinghai Mining. The tall walls and sentry posts had collapsed, and the infantry power armor and stumps scattered on the ground had confirmed the fate of the guard team that had killed Dwarf's mother.

"Sure enough, the concentration of the mental mist of the brain worm here is surprisingly low, and the detection wave has also been bypassed... There's definitely something strange in there."

Nataya flashed inside, this is the first time she has walked into the door of Xinghai Mining, people have always been full of all kinds of fantasies about the life behind this door, they think that Xinghai Mining is such a rich company, employees must eat fresh ingredients every day, and fruits that are more expensive than gold, rather than synthetic food.

Behind the gate is an open plaza, which should be a loading and unloading area, and all kinds of containers and minecarts loaded with ore crystals are stacked neatly or scattered all over the place. In the center of the square is a building that is not tall but very large. Nataya walked through the square to the door, the door of the building was not closed, and the scattered armor fragments and blood stains showed that there had been heavy fighting here.

Stepping through the door of the building, Nataya saw a screen wall more than ten meters high. This is probably the central monitoring room, the huge screen wall has been pitch black, there are more than a dozen rows of consoles in front of the screen wall, each row of workstations has about 20 workstations, each workstation has the number "RD101,TS3781,WD609.......", and the desktop screens of these workstations are also black.

After passing through the central monitoring room, you will come to a fork in the road, which has two doors, one side is marked with high-energy radiation, and the other side is marked with three large characters in the living area.

"No, what's the ..... feel like this..."Nataya was about to turn around and choose her living quarters when a palpitating mental fluctuation came from behind the floodgates sprayed with high-energy radiation imprints, which were very faint but very clear.

Nataya returned to the door, pressed her hand to the door, and focused on feeling. Sure enough, here it was again, very faint, but incomparably clear.

The golden mech opened the manual lift valve, and when the door opened, a dark hole was revealed, which was not part of the building, but more like a natural mine. Nataya turned on the searchlight on the power armor and walked inside.

"Sister, it's so dark outside" Nataya was startled, half of Dwarf Pee's head rose up, and her two hands were on the place where the breastplate and helmet were connected, revealing two eyes just enough to see the movement outside. "Yes, there's something wrong here, don't talk" The golden mecha with two pairs of eyes on it, turned on the searchlight, and walked into the not spacious mine. Before she had gone far, Nataya felt as if she had stepped out of a small hole, and now she saw an even larger vertical cylindrical cavern, with a long spiral descending path around the four walls of the cavern, and the searchlight could not shine down at all.

"Sister, it looks so deep down there, are we sure we want to go down?" Dwarf Pee was tucked into his breastplate, trying to look down.

"Since you're here, you have to go down and have a look," Nataya walked down the wall of the huge vertical cavern, and after walking for about ten minutes, she suddenly stopped.

"No, not down there," Nataya felt herself move farther and farther away from that mental fluctuation.

She began to walk up, back to square one, and looked up. It was still pitch black where the searchlight could reach, but when she closed her eyes, she felt that just a few hundred meters above her head, there seemed to be a mental fluctuation constantly vibrating.

"Sister, it looks darker up there," Orlando pouted, he had always been afraid of dark places, and he didn't want to come to such places if it weren't for the fact that they might be eaten by insects outside.

Nataya didn't pay any attention to him, the mysterious fluctuations and darkness overwhelmed her like a monster. Extreme curiosity, irresistible attraction, and deep fear are not pleasant when they overlap. The golden armor withdrew the five-fingered manipulator, stretched out the claw-like three-finger manipulator to collect mineral samples, and then leaned on the wall and inserted it. When the three-fingered mineral harvester was inserted into the rock wall with a robotic hand, it was as easy as inserting tofu, and the golden robot began to climb up against the rock wall.

When she crawled to the place where the spiritual power fluctuation came from, Nataya found that it was nothing more than a flat gap, and her power armor could barely squeeze into it. The golden robot tumbled through a crack in the rock, and then there was a loud "boom", and the whole mine fell silent again.

"Sister, I fell to death... How is it so high inside! The golden armor sat on the ground, and Nataya looked at the crack in the rock five or six meters above her head, if it weren't for the cushioning system of the power armor, she estimated that her bones would have broken.

"Sure enough, here, Alright, Orlando, keep quiet." Nataya had already felt it, and the mental fluctuations were very clear and intense, very different from the feeling outside the crack. She swept her searchlight around, and saw that it was a small cavern, and mental power fluctuations were emanating from the rock walls.

When the detection light focused on the top of the wall, Dwarf Pee still couldn't help but jump out of the sentence.

"Sister, look, there's a painting on the wall!"