Chapter Sixty-Eight: In the Mine
There are 36 peaks in the whole mountain, the highest peak is 3,760 meters high, and the lowest peak is 1,208 meters high. The mountain peaks are surrounded by a fence, and it looks like a crown from a distance, so Horse Ge Mountain is also called Crown Mountain.
At that time, the location where the fine mine was discovered was under its second peak, Yuezhang Peak. Although it has been abandoned, the pit of the past can still be found there, and the 084 mercenary group is missing here.
Xiao Ming and the others came to the ruins of the pit under Yue Zhangfeng.
"Master, you can enter the pit from here. According to the records I found, this pit went deep into the ground, almost hollowing out half of the bottom of Yuezhang Peak. Later, in order not to have an accident, some backfilling work was carried out, but it was too expensive, so I finally gave up. But fortunately, although the backfilling work of that year was not completed, it also stabilized Yuezhang Peak, so there is no need to worry about safety. But the mines inside are criss-crossed, and after so many years of geological changes and backfilling, it is very easy to get lost!"
Jelly is talking about official sources.
"The fine mine has the ability to interfere with the holographic scanning wave, so it is impossible to carry out holographic scanning and locate it by ordinary means. But that's not a problem for me. Master, wait a minute, I'll send a machine to scan it now!" Jelly finished talking about the official information, and began to be proud again.
In Zhubu Island, the little girl has evolved again, and her ability has been greatly improved, so a small interference has no effect on her.
"Yes, okay!" Xiao Ming nodded, and sat down with Tifa Yingluo to wait.
Jelly remotely operated hundreds of insects into the mine and began a comprehensive scanning work.
"It's a nice place to be!" Tifa smiled as she pulled out some food from her space bracelet. It's all snacks. It's not so much about hunger as it's about satisfying hunger.
Yingluo is a standard foodie. I can't stop when I see something to eat. Regardless of Xiao Ming and Tifa, he hugged it and began to eat.
In fact, what Tifa took out was for Yingluo. She and Xiao Ming have no love for this.
"The air at this time is a little wrong, it's very dull!" Xiao Ming is now temporarily out of combat, but his intuition has greatly improved.
"Don't you say I haven't noticed it, it's a little stuffy, but it's not the feeling of lack of air circulation, I always feel like there's something wrong in the air!" Tifa said after a careful sense.
"The air is not debris, on the contrary, the air here is very clean. If there really is something. Maybe it's something spiritual!" Jelly affirmed.
"Do you feel it?" When it comes to spiritual power and soul, Xiao Ming is naturally an expert in this aspect, but now that his soul art has been sealed, he can no longer intuitively observe the existence of the soul.
Xiao Ming closed his eyes and sensed carefully for a while, then shook his head: "I have some feelings, but they are not clear, it seems that every qiē here is controlled by a force." We weren't welcome here, and although there was no malice, it was very repulsive!"
"I don't have the intuitive feeling you have, though. But there is also the feeling that someone is watching us. It doesn't look like it's easy here!" Tifa said with a frown.
"Quite interesting, isn't it?" Xiao Ming smiled faintly.
Tifa also smiled.
The so-called art masters are bold. Xiao Ming and the three of them are exactly like this.
This time, Jelly took a lot longer to scan the mine than Xiao Ming and the others thought, and after half an hour, Jelly said that the mine had been searched.
"Master, the map of the mine has come out. I've already found the bodies of those ten guys!" Jelly said as she projected the map.
What appeared in front of Xiao Ming's eyes was a three-dimensional map, in which thousands of passages could be seen crisscrossing and crisscrossing. At the bottom of the map, there is a shadow area, and in front of the shadow area, there are ten people upside down.
With the sight of Xiao Ming and the others, the location of the ten people began to be magnified, making Xiao Ming and the three of them feel as if they were there.
Ten people, eight men and two women, dressed in uniform clothes, have the emblem of the 084 mercenary group on their epaulettes, which can confirm the identity of these ten people.
All ten of them were dead, but the situation was quite strange, and ten people sat in a circle, holding hands, cross-legged. All of them had their eyes closed, and their expressions were hideous, fearful, confused, greedy, and so on.
Judging from the time of the mission, the ten people had been dead for at least twenty days, but the bodies of the ten people had not changed at all, and judging from the number of jù scanned by the jelly, the ten people looked more like they were asleep than dead. But all their physiological activities have indeed stopped. Both the heartbeat and the brainwaves were gone, so it was certain that they were dead.
"The surrounding environment is very hot and humid, and it stands to reason that twenty days is enough to decompose these corpses, but the time of these corpses seems to have been frozen and completely stopped!"
"What is this shadow zone?" Tifa pointed to the large shadow area around the corpse.
"This is a fog, and no interference waves have been found in it, but the scanning waves cannot penetrate, and the insects will lose contact with me as soon as they enter, so I can't find out what is going on inside, but according to the comparative analysis of the surrounding environment, it should be a main mine. And according to the official information, it was the main area of the backfill!"
"Anyway, let's go down and have a look!" Xiao Ming stood up and said.
"Master, let the escort plane out of the way, no matter what, your current defense is still too weak!" Jelly said. The little girl said that it was naturally the five eleventh generation machines, since Ji Qiaoyu gave it to Xiao Ming, Jelly has been upgrading these five guys, and it was also used as a carrier for the infiltration training of Team Zero for a period of time, and then it was redesigned and rectified. Now these five guys are quite amazing, and they already have B-level combat power.
Of course, this B-level mainly refers to the transformation of people, after all, the fighting style of the machine qì people is more like a transformation person.
Generally speaking, the combat power of a transformer below the C level is equal to that of a person with the same level of ability, or even higher, after all, the vitality of a person who transforms is much stronger than that of a person with an ability. As for the C-level and B-class, the modifier can also have a tie with the Ability after using the special combat power armor. But when it comes to A-level, the gap between the transformers and the supernatural will be quite large.
As a matter of fact, reforming people originally followed the line of the army, and the grassroots forces on the battlefield were fighter jets and reforming people. Adepts are more like special forces. Because there are a lot of abilities from Adepts that aren't suitable for the Legion. For example, if you put the ability to devour or foe on the battlefield, it will lose even your own abilities.
And now the combat power of Xiao Ming's five escort planes is equivalent to that of a B-level transformer wearing combat power armor. Because the main ability is guarding, it is extremely strong in defense. Some of the key components have been replaced by jelly with Liuyang gold, and the control of the light brain is basically a jelly's clone.
However, as Leng said, the light brain will never be able to understand the realm. Therefore, when encountering realm masters, such as these people in Team Zero, these five escort machines are still not enough to see. But at this time, when Xiao Ming's strength has not recovered, the five big guys are still very useful.
Xiao Ming didn't object. Nodding his head, he released five escort planes.
The five machine qì people use the colors of gold, red, blue, yellow, and green as the base colors, and are called the five elements by jelly.
The Five Elements Guards are all three meters tall and very tall, and the weapons they use are swords, guns, halberds, swords and shields, and sticks. The number of battles is set by analyzing Xiao Ming's battles, if you don't count the realm, the five elements guard is quite discerning when using these five weapons.
After some preparation, the group entered the mine.
Because they had a complete map, it took Xiao Ming and them an hour to come to the pit where the ten corpses were.
As soon as they entered the mine, Xiao Ming and the others smelled an extremely unpleasant smell. But this smell is not the smell of corpses, nor is it the miasma produced after the lack of air circulation, but an indescribable smell, and the three of them all have a feeling of dizziness when they smell it.
"There's nothing in the air that doesn't contrast. But master, you smell an uncomfortable smell, is it soul power?" Jelly said in a deep voice.
Xiao Ming nodded: "Indeed, there are a lot of souls here, although I can't see them directly now, but there are too many souls here, so I can feel them." Those fogs are actually fragments of souls!"
"Is it the same purple mist under Zhubu Island?" asked Tifa.
"It's similar, but it's different. That purple mist was the same as the mist of the Nightmare Tree, a natural soul fragment. But the fog here, in a situation like I am now, I can sense the feelings of these soul fragments, and there is too much resentment and anger in these feelings, which can only be produced by people or soul fragments of high-intelligence star beasts. Xiao Ming said.
"In other words, a large number of people have died here, or are they high-intelligence star beasts? The probability of star beasts is not high, then it is human?" Tifa said with a frown.
"Maybe! Let's get out first, we can't stay here for long!" Xiao Ming pulled Tifa and Yingluo out of the pit. Fortunately, the soul fragments were only concentrated in the mine, and did not disperse.
"Ming, cold!" Yingluo said, holding her arms.
"I also feel a little cold, strange, the activated cells in our body have the ability to keep warm!" Tifa also felt a cold breath invade his body.
"It's not cold, it's yin. I don't know much about this either, I've only heard about it before, so you guys wait for me here. I'll go in by myself!" Xiao Ming thought for a moment and said, and then he told Yingluo: "Wait for me here obediently." I'll be back safely, so don't mess around when you hear anything, can you?"
Yingluo hesitated, but nodded obediently in agreement.
Xiao Ming nodded to Tifa again, and then entered the pit again. (To be continued......)