The Game of Global Mining-Chapter 457 - 349: Void Expedition, Wrongly Suspecting a Loyal Subject?
After finishing the explanation, Chun had one final detail to handle, which was to fill and seal all the Vine pathways connecting the three estates, especially the leaking path in the Silver Flower’s bathroom, before leaving.
Scanning with ground-penetrating Radar, excellent!
Even if the big shots used high-tech inspection, as long as it didn’t reach the level of ground-penetrating Radar, it would be as if he was never there.
In the last moments, Chun crawled to the hiding hole newly excavated at the bottom of the city and went invisible to wait.
— System Notification: Your Illusion God effect has disappeared. You need to provide enough energy to the "Irrigation" Rune to activate it again.
Ah, as expected, the Rune’s energy was exhausted!
But how to restore this high-end product provided by Grandmaster Niu?
The next moment, Chun restored his long-lost human form once again, resembling a majestic eagle perched on a cliff.
So, like an eagle, the man activated the Space Fire and took off!
The next moment, a blaze erupted within Chun’s body, and the surrounding space seemed to be blown open with a hole, then everything around became blurry.
Chun was flying through this blurred space!
Chun was amazed; this was clearly the kind of Other Plane transfer that the Black Iron Guardian God played with! With this kind of technique, it wasn’t only invisible to the eye, but even normal anti-submarine surveillance couldn’t easily detect it. Just like a Demon Teleportation skill!
Just as he was indulging in novelty, Chun felt the scene stagnate for a moment, as if breaking through a layer of bubble... What was this? Had he broken through the boundary of the Golden Divine Throne? Or was he scanned by something like the Radar?
As long as no red warning light appeared, it was fine; he was already prepared to make some noise anyway.
Chun passed through one Floating Asteroid after another, indeed seeing the pitted surfaces of these celestial bodies from excavation, along with honeycomb-like crater openings and various machines coming and going.
Then he faintly saw a ship resembling an Airship in the distance.
So this was the Void Mining Ship, not as cyber-sci-fi as he imagined.
At this moment, the feeling of breaking the bubble reappeared.
Chun’s heart tightened; maybe he was scanned by the Radar on the mining ship? Quickly find a Floating Island to loop around and block it...
After half an hour, Chun finally flew to the dangerous area marked on the map. At this time, the Golden Divine Throne shone like a bright star on the horizon. The small celestial bodies here were covered with purple and white crystals, just like the promotional CGs for the game, and showed no signs of mining.
Chun felt a wind blowing, and the flight started to become unstable.
— System Notification: Warning! You have entered a Void Storm zone.
Then he saw a familiar electric light flashing shadow in the distance.
Holy shit! Isn’t this the Void Electric Spike? This place is indeed dangerous!
Chun scanned the surrounding, deciding to land on a Floating Asteroid with seemingly the least amount of Crystal Ore, as places with fewer resources usually don’t have strong opponents.
Landing, Space Fire state terminated, immediately go invisible!
Chun quietly lay on the mineral heap, cautiously aware of the surroundings while the "ground-penetrating Radar" of Earth Vein Perception was also activated.
The surroundings seemed quiet, but the Radar’s detected images were continuously shaking!
This situation had never been encountered in either the Silver City’s abandoned mine area or the Heroic Spirit Hall’s underground, could there be a monster underground?
Chun immediately flipped through Fafnir’s notes: "... It is said that Void Creatures will tunnel into the Mineral Star’s core to lay eggs. These tunneled paths later become mining tunnels; the eggs hatch into extremely aggressive creatures when disturbed, with no known case of domestication. During tunnel excavation, one might face attacks from the nearby patrolling parent bodies."
So that’s it!
That means the vibrations below are the eggs, which are used for leveling! Fine, with his dual-trained Attribute Battle Technique and Power of Chaos supplemented by Earth Lotus, he’s at least a little Boss; he should be able to handle an egg at least.
But where is the patrolling parent body around?
Chun cautiously looked into the surrounding Void, still no movement!
No matter, continue to activate Earth Vein Perception, find the channel!
Soon, a hollow section was found on the Radar imaging, leading to a large hollow cave. The cross-section was similar to human mining shafts, indicating the parent body’s size... far smaller than the Void Electric Spike, no wonder it could only lay eggs at the very edge.
Chun located the exit position of the section, well camouflaged by the parent body, indistinguishable from its surroundings.
But to Chun’s Radar, which could detect even gaps in wall fissures and rocks, it was indeed lax.
Then let’s dig, the small account’s specialty is "Essence of Hand-to-Hand," and the beauty of bare hands is that it can quietly scrape without making noise like a Mining Pickaxe.
Earth Lotus said, "Father, let me loosen the soil with Rune Technique!"
Chun, still feeling uneasy, glanced at the Void: "Be gentle! Try not to make a sound."
"Got it, Father! After three days as the Vine, I’m quite confident in controlling the soil’s looseness."
Very well! Back then Earth Lotus couldn’t control the force well and dismantled the sewer in Dark Moon City over an expert level Rune...
Sure enough, under the Rune’s effect by Earth Lotus, the ground near his hands gradually loosened like quicksand.
But just then, a sharp scream came from the Void!
Chun froze; did he just alert the parent body? Was there some alarm restriction at this exit?
Without thinking further, he could only dive into the freshly loosened quicksand!
Earth Lotus was also startled, "Tighten the soil!"
The surrounding quicksand immediately solidified; although it might not return to its original state, it was indeed stiff and uncomfortable, she really didn’t hold back...
