Generally speaking, there is always undulating terrain between the mountains.

These changes in topography will divide the entire mountain range into different peaks.

After Lindsay climbed to the top of this outermost mountain.

Originally, it was expected that there would be a natural slope that would extend downwards in the future.

But actually......

The terrain was indeed descending, but it was not the mountain valley he expected. Rather, it was a vast area of pitch-black scorched earth that was sunken downward, looking like a scar left by the torn ground.

Especially when Lindsey looked ahead.

You will find that in the center of this scorched earth, which is at least a kilometer in diameter, there is a huge crater of unknown depth.

Looking over from his current position, all he could see was pitch black.

On the contrary, it was the sudden smell of burnt paste in the air, reminding Lindsay of the peculiarity of his vision.

"This is a crater? Impossible! ”

"A meteorite that can hit such a large crater will never be as small as it is recorded in the book."

Lindsay looked confused.

At high altitudes, this is unlikely to be the case on the summit of a mountain.

But to say that this scorched earth, and the crater that smashed deep into the ground, are all traces left by the meteorite a hundred years ago......

According to Lindsay's shallow knowledge.

A meteorite capable of smashing out a crater of thousands of meters falls to the surface.

Placed on Earth, it is enough to cause major earthquakes and tsunamis on a global scale; Causing mass extinctions and altering geological conditions is no problem.

But before his eyes?

The mountain at your feet didn't even collapse in the impact a hundred years ago.

Not to mention that in the "Almanac" records of the border town, the impact was only a slight earthquake.

"Is it because there are differences in the world itself......

At this time, Lindsay's mind flashed.

He remembered what he had found earlier when he was under the bell tower lighthouse, checking the distance to the edge of the world.

A hundred years ago, the lighthouse was established to the present day.

The ground of the hidden frontier world has expanded a hundred meters to the border of the world.

This phenomenon is also inexplicable by his common sense.

Maybe the traces left by the meteorite in front of you are also related to some unique rules of this world?

At least on Earth.

There must not be any giant vines connecting the two worlds.

With that in mind, Lindsay walked in the direction of the scorched earth.

As soon as he entered this strange area, he immediately picked up a few pieces of scorched earth and used his commodity skills to identify them.

【Soil: Scorched Earth】

[The coastered soil contains a strong fire inside.] 】

[There is little to no sale value. 】

"Hardly worthless ......"

Lindsay muttered, confirming it again on the workbench.

Sure that the scorched earth was really worthless, he threw it away and moved on.

The rest of the journey was a bit of a hassle.

The area is messy and scorched, with sharp and irregular edges that can easily cut through clothes, and the surrounding temperature is rising.

A distance of a few hundred meters is even more difficult to pass than in a dense forest.

Wait until Lindsey arrives in front of the pit in the center of the scorched earth.

At this time, the surrounding temperature is estimated to be about 30 degrees, and there is even an illusion of going from cold winter to midsummer.

In front of the huge pothole, Lindsay leaned out and looked down

A fiery red that danced in the pitch-black abyss immediately caught his attention.

"Fire? Still burning in here? ”

"What are you kidding, it's been more than a hundred years."

"It's not going to be like this meteorite crashing into the ground and hitting an underground coal mine, right?"

Lindsey was incredulous.

But when I took out my binoculars and looked down, it turned out to be so shocking.

In this dark meteorite cave, there are irregularly distributed fiery red stones. They resemble sparkling red gemstones, and some of these stones have orange-red flames burning on their surfaces.

The color that Lindsay saw was the fire on the stones.

And he could also tell that these stones were definitely not coke that burned red, but the mineral itself, which had such special properties.

"That's where the temperature and the burnt smell come from."

"These things should be fragments from the meteorite falling, right?"

Lindsay raised an eyebrow slightly.

Curious about what's going on below.

Moreover, the purpose of this expedition was to collect meteorites.

This suspiciously huge crater is definitely going down today.

The problem now is that the craters that go vertically down do not have terrain that is convenient for human activities, and the few bulges that can be climbed are as sharp as the gravel on the surface.

Even Lindsay is confident in his own strength.

But in this kind of place, if something goes wrong, it's not a joke.

"Let's try it with a rope first."

On the first attempt, Lindsay took out the rope she had prepared from her bag.

He uses his resource skill to give it a trait, and he can make one end of it stand firmly on the ground.

Following the dark walls of the crater, Lindsay descended as she laid a rope.

It's fast, but the rope consumption isn't slow.

More than 100 meters later, only one bundle of Lindsay's standing three bundles of rope remained.

“……”

"Let's keep these for later."

Lindsay sighed and gave up the quick landing with the help of a rope.

Continuing to transform other objects now will consume a large amount of essentia, which is not enough insurance.

He simply took out the workbench, made a pickaxe with iron ingots and wood, and then turned the pickaxe into a survival item with the ability to resourc, and a new descent strategy came out.

"If there is no way, I will open the road myself!"

Along the edge of the crater, Lindsay excavates a spiral-down slope tunnel.

His own physical fitness is quite exaggerated, not to mention the tools he uses after recycling.

This intensity of repetitive labor is completely bearable for Lindsay's physical strength.

With his mechanical digging movements, a passage spread across the charred walls, extending downward like a threaded tap.

About half a day passed.

When Lindsay knocked off the scorched earth in front of him again, a scorching red appeared before his eyes.

This is the kind of ore that can burst into flames!

"That's you."

Lindsay's face was overjoyed, and she knocked it with a pickaxe without even thinking about it.

Bang!

The pickaxe and stone made a muffled sound that was very different from normal digging.

The unexpected happened to Lindsay.

The iron pickaxe struck the fiery red ore, and it was completely unable to shake the stone, but immediately bounced back.

Lindsay blinked, and immediately reacted:

"A low-grade pickaxe, can't mine high-grade ore?"

In some survival games.

In order to give the player a clear path to advancement, there will indeed be a similar setting.

Lindsay hadn't used these tools to mine high-grade ore before, and naturally he didn't expect this kind of setting to exist.

"It's really!"

"In this situation, where can I find materials to make a high-level pickaxe......"

A moment of distress because of this.

Lindsay was suddenly stunned, and then laughed herself:

"Hehe......"

"I'm really stupid."

"This isn't a real game world, and you can't dig it out with a resource-based pickaxe, so wouldn't it be nice if I could dig it out myself?"

(End of chapter)