Chapter 495: Corpses
The members of the search team got together and discussed it, and finally decided to abandon the original plan to go down the mine from the mountain pass in order to prevent an encounter with the ancestors of the Nangren people, and instead make a detour to the back mountain and enter the mine through the discharge port of the scrap yard. Because the ship had already lifted off, they could not return the four rescued people to their living quarters, because there was no place to place them, and there was no place to imprison Creek Cliff. The last four rescued people and all the talismans on their bodies were sent to the disaster shield of the miners, and Xiziya was still tied with a spirit rope and would be carried by a miner on his back.
After the discussion, Yu Dianying took out the communication charm and called Zhang Yushu. After connecting to it, she asked directly, "Captain Zhang, have you caught the launcher?" ”
"It's been captured. Guys from the military are working on an unlocking modification of it. ”
"Captain Zhang, from now on, without my request, please don't use the emitter to actively launch the aura pack to the gray star, we have to limit the supply of aura on the ground, and save it from being used by that guardian."
"Okay, I see." Zhang Yushu replied.
Those who heard this conversation were well aware that this measure was not just for the Guardians, but for the Ancestors. In the final analysis, both of them rely on the aura emitted by the emitter on the ground to strengthen themselves, and if the supply is cut off, it will be difficult for both of them to become stronger again.
Yu Dianying ended the call and ordered Yue Lingzhi to put away the talisman array of the rune shield, and everyone reopened their respective shield talismans. The operation of the disaster shield was also changed to Yue Lingzhi's control, and he was responsible for monitoring the miners and Xizi Cliff inside. The crowd was more careful to get back on the road.
"The combat power of the surname Xi is really extraordinary, and it takes the strength of the four of you to take him down. No wonder he claims to be the first in his force in the entire spaceship. Starlight sent a message to Yu Dianying and the Moon Administrator. He wanted to euphemistically explain his relationship with Xiziya to the other two people from the Tian-surnamed Mansion. And he finally got rid of the big trouble of Xizi Cliff, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Otherwise, he and Yun Rouxia would have been under the threat of violence from this person. He estimated that even if Xi Ziya was sent back to the Pink Star, the bigwigs of the Citizenship Committee would not let him go, and at the least, he would be imprisoned for decades.
"Alas! What I am most afraid of is this kind of nouveau riche who has no family background at all, knows nothing, knows nothing, but thinks that he is rich, powerful and capable, and he does not know the importance of fooling around. If the committee does not introduce measures to suppress them, sooner or later they will cause trouble. Chief Moon said.
"yes!" Yu Dianying also sighed: "The rebellion of the sac people is much more complicated than the world knows, if this ancestor of the sac people returns to Blue Star and learns the truth, I am afraid that there is no need to wait for the big attack of the soul eater, and the world will be in chaos directly." ”
The topic of the sac people seemed to be a taboo among the five heavenly mansions, and the three of them didn't want to continue to communicate on this topic. After a moment of silence, Mr. Moon turned the subject back to him. "This project on the gray star is so important, why would the military let a medium Tianfu like this Xifu be developed without strong intervention to control it?"
Yu Dianying smiled bitterly and said, "No one knew that this matter was so complicated in advance, and everyone always thought it was a simple rune bone mine, so no one paid attention to it. It wasn't until the last two years, when the rune bone samples mined by Gray Star were studied, that the matter was revealed. The military did not expect this to be the case beforehand. ”
The deep-seated reason for this matter of Xinghui Awakening has a lot to do with the fact that the High Heavenly Mansion is conservative and does not want to forge ahead. At present, the emerging industries on the Pink Star are all bravely researched and developed by the Middle Heavens, and in order to protect their own vested interests, the Higher Heavens have instead become a force that suppresses scientific research and discoveries and hinders social development.
But this matter is not suitable for discussion here, so he explained matter-of-fact: "The space exploration company was originally initiated by Xifu and several Tianfu with the technology of launching talismans. They have a clear division of labor. Those were responsible for obtaining the consent of the military to build the emitters in the orbit of the gray star. Xifu provides two technologies, one is this improved disaster shield technology, Xifu has greatly improved the sealing ability of this ordinary disaster prevention cover, delaying the escape of internal aura, making it possible for miners to work in a spiritless environment. Another technology is the spider excavator, which is produced in Xifu with a large energy storage capacity and long working hours, which also provides essential support for mining on the gray star. I've heard that the military didn't follow up until after the discovery of the minerals, and the military wasn't interested in their project at all. ”
The three of them walked around and talked, and soon went around to the back of the mountain. Everyone is a spiritual power, and even in this place where there is no aura, the action is still very fast. Seeing that the discharge port was in front of him, Starlight took a few steps closer to the crowd and stepped forward to check. He found that there were quite a few monster paw prints at the exit, and they were four different paw prints, one of which matched the paw prints left by the guardian in the living quarters, while the other three he had never seen before.
When Starlight was wondering, the Moon Manager stepped forward to look at the paw prints, and he saw Starlight's confusion, so he explained. He said the other three may have been left behind by a smuggling gang from Blue Star. He'd heard of these nether people peeling off the thick leather armor of the Soul Eater as completely as possible, making it into a simple spacesuit. It is likely that the three men had just sneaked here to pick up ore, and after receiving the order from his communicator, they left in a hurry.
Starlight stepped forward to inspect the marks on the ground, and found that two of the three paw prints were very light, which was unusual compared to their considerable size, which only indicated that their owners were very lightweight. The other paw print, though slightly darker, is still underweight compared to a real Soul Eater. He leaned down to take a closer look, and found that the center of gravity of these three paw prints was in the middle, and the tips of the four claws were basically not stressed. The characteristics of these claw marks are exactly what the Moon Governor said, which are the paw prints left by three humans wearing the shells of monsters. He looked in the direction of the paw prints and saw that they were in the other direction of bypassing the mine. This also explains why they didn't meet these three people on the way to come, because they were walking around the other side of the mountain.
"How? Is it safe? Yu Dianying asked.
"Safe. Three Blue Star Smugglers had just passed by, which meant that the Guardians weren't nearby and should be fine. Starlight replied.
Yu Dianying waved her hand, and everyone lined up and began to climb up the waste mouth.
In order to facilitate the dumping of the waste, the discharge opening is designed to be very steep and the cave walls are made very smooth. It wasn't until everyone walked out of the dumping area that the passage was smooth again, and the walls of the cave were roughened, showing the scratches left by the spider rune machine when it dug and cut through the hard rock. Starlight could tell from these traces that the miners who had worked here were skilled old miners, and the volcanic rocks in the passage had been removed as much as possible, but the runes below were unharmed.
Xingguang had heard a little about the mining procedures of the rune bone mine, and knew that the collection of rune bones was planned as a whole and collected systematically. After removing the debris, the experts should first plan the entire rune skeleton, divide the area and dividing the line, and then start from the low-level rune bones, from low to high, and collect them step by step. This is because the top-level and high-level rune bones are wrapped by a large number of medium- and low-level rune bones, and only in this way can mining not cause damage to the middle and low-level rune bones in order to dig out the top-level or high-level rune bones as soon as possible, so as to maximize the benefits.
But now, they are heading towards the brain, the brain, which is at the heart of the mine. They decided to dig up the most important rune bone in the mine. With Xiziya being controlled and losing the right to speak, Yue Lingzhi was the only shareholder member in the search team. But Yue Lingzhi is now the leader of Weiyu Dianying, and has long forgotten his responsibility as a shareholder representative to protect the interests of the prospecting company. So Yu Dianying and others can carry out destructive mining as they like.
Many of the people present understood that when this rune bone remains was alive, it was definitely a powerful high-level Soul Eater body, and it was able to escape from the Blue Star and reach the Gray Star while fighting with the ancestors of the Sac People, which was enough to prove its strength. From this point of view, it is likely that the top-level rune bones will form in its body, which is commonly known as magic crystals. As long as it doesn't give birth to the True Seed to pass on its memories before it dies, then they're likely to get a Magic Crystal with a memory content. If they can bring the magic crystal back, if they are lucky, they may be able to extract a lot of useful information from it, and even find out the prehistoric anti-monster history of Blue Star in one fell swoop, and maybe even get a glimpse of the truth about the creation of the Five Ancestors. This information is worth it for people like Xing Hui and Yu Dianying who want to find out where Bai Yuxing is going next, even if they let them exchange their lives. Of course, it would be better if it was to trade someone else's life.
Starlight followed the man in front of her, not worried about going the wrong way. Because Yu Dianying in front of him had the topographic talisman inside the mine that he got from Fu Yisui there, and there were also four or five of the mine slaves who were old miners in this mine, who had participated in the excavation of the passage and were quite familiar with the passage. Coming to a fork in the road, the line came to a sudden stop. Xing Guang saw Yu Dianying take out two shield charms and hand them to Yue Lingzhi, Yue Lingzhi handed them to the two mine slaves, and after the two opened the shield charms, they released them from the disaster shield. Then the Moon Governor led the two miners to the fork in the road. After a while, two miners crawled back in two spider machines.
The procession continued on until it came to a place where small passages were dense and leading in all directions. In the center of the passage was a huge spherical object with the height of three people, and Yu Dianying stepped forward to touch it, and then beckoned to Xingguang and the Moon Chief. So Starlight and the Moon Master stepped forward and examined it carefully.
The outer layer of this large bone ball was completely wrapped in intermediate rune bones, and it was unusually solid. The Moon Supervisor said suspiciously, "The magic crystal will be protected by layers of rune bones, which is very consistent, but not only is there a dense passage here, but this thing also seems to be too big. Is there really a magic crystal in this? ”
Yu Dianying took out the terrain talisman to check it and said, "But according to the theory in the mining guide, this location is usually where the magic crystal is located. Could it be that this body is too powerful, so its protection against the magic crystal is also greater and stronger? ”
Starlight reached out and touched it, and sent a message to the other two, "The outermost rune bone is not like a rune bone transformed by bones, but a form formed by the drying of the muscles. As he spoke, he looked around the passages around him again, and also stepped forward to touch them, and then said: "These cave walls are also runic bones made of muscles and flesh, which is not like a channel where the body is delivering nutrients to it, but as if it is formed by restraining it. ”
"Whatever it is, let's dissect it first." The Moon Administrator said.
Yu Dianying thought about it and beckoned the miner to step forward and start work. These two miners were indeed master craftsmen, and the spider machines they drove, except for the two standing hind legs, the other limbs moved in unison, dancing a cloud of phantoms. And even when they are engaged in destructive mining, they try to keep the stripped ore intact and try to preserve their value as much as possible.
The further you dig in, the harder the rune bones become. When the ball is peeled to the height of two people, the quality of the rune bone has become advanced, and when it is close to the height of one person, the quality of the rune bone is completely top. Everyone was excited when they saw such a large piece of top-grade rune bones.
The two spider machines have each been infused with a balloon three times by the Moon Manager. The operations of the two miners also began to shake. Xingguang guessed that the two of them might never have had such a destructive experience of mining high-grade runes, and maybe they felt like they were committing a crime when they started it.
The two miners turned back from time to time, hoping that Yu Dianying would shout to stop, and they would not have to suffer this crime. But Yu Dianying's gaze was firm, staring at the shrinking rune bone ball motionlessly. The two miners finally gave up, stopped looking back, and worked with their heads bored. Suddenly, the last layer of top-level rune bones was shaken by the trembling limbs on a spider machine, and it instantly collapsed, and this huge rune bone ball suddenly revealed its true face inside.
I saw a lifelike corpse of a capsule talisman presented in front of everyone's eyes. After careful distinction, everyone found that it was exactly the same as the white-bearded and white-haired old fairy who appeared just now!
Everyone felt a chill down their spines, this top-level rune bone corpse was obviously transformed by the corpse of the ancestor of the capsule, but what was the old immortal who appeared just now?