The Game of Global Mining-Chapter 461 - 351: Collecting Rune Samples, Void Rescue

Chun hadn’t rested for long when the internet café attendant brought dinner.

The attendant casually mentioned what’s happening outside: "Brother Chun, Silverlight Village in Azure Sky has been defended. The top five Chinese players are staying there to keep developing. Great God came back to do a quest and even received 20,000 Silver Mine Coins from Azure Sky."

Chun was really surprised: "That’s equivalent to 20,000 bucks?"

"Yeah, Silverlight Village is like a money printing machine; it can make its own currency. Great God really earned a little. Also, suddenly a top-ranked mage expert, Little Mountain God, appeared near Black Iron City. He PKs every Chinese player he sees, acting all arrogant, so Great God will return to keep things in check."

Chun was dumbfounded: "That name, which country is he from?"

"Heard he’s a Baka, and his last name is Little Mountain. Nothing else much, Brother Chun, take your time eating..."

Alright then.

Hearing the tales from the game world, Chun felt eager to join in but was helpless.

After dinner, Chun logged back in.

The main account was still with Aileen browsing the Treasure Identification Book, while the sub-account Earth Lotus was still keeping watch invisibly, unmoving next to the Void Egg.

Wait! It’s a little closer to the egg!

Chun then realized his sub-account had moved forward a few steps during his break.

Chun was bewildered: "Earth Lotus, what’s going on?"

Earth Lotus whispered: "Father, don’t speak. Earth Mother wants me to sync my heartbeat with the egg’s and get closer..."

Alright! Apparently just observing wasn’t going to work, got to step up and touch it. Earth Lotus is in the plant form, advancing harmoniously...

Sure enough, Chun felt himself slide forward by another centimeter! Exactly, like a smooth slide, no steps taken.

This harmony, eerily smooth, how’s Earth Lotus achieving it!

Chun grew intrigued, watching as he inch by inch moved closer, until half an hour later, the egg was within reach!

The voice of Earth Mother sounded again through the Eye of Dibilon: "Little one, carve the runes of Mother Goddess of Fertility on the eggshell, maintaining the heartbeat’s rhythm and be careful with the engraving..."

Earth Lotus: "Understood!"

Holy Shit!? Though Mother Goddess of Fertility seemed to be an achievement reward from advancing to divine-level Rune Technique! Chun immediately checked the attributes:

——Mother Goddess of Fertility: Increases basic attributes by 100%, boosts overall status recovery speed, accelerates crop growth, grants Fertile Domain. Within the Fertile Domain, Entanglement and Absorption series plant attack and defense effectiveness are significantly enhanced.

What?

Chun was puzzled! Wasn’t the plan to study these never-before-seen runes on the egg? How did it turn into engraving divine-level runic words on it?

Okay, probably treating the egg like a crop, hatching it will make me its godfather?

Chun watched as Earth Lotus used her hand to precisely engrave on the eggshell as if rhythmically burning a disc...

Finally, with the completion of the last rune, the runic words shone brightly, the eggshell’s glow suddenly becoming intense, and then visibly, the purple Mineral Crystals around the eggshell seemed to evaporate into purple energy streams that got rapidly absorbed into the shell, its heartbeat growing steadier and stronger!

Earth Mother spoke: "Now there are two choices, one, keep holding the eggshell until it hatches, it might recognize you as a family at first glance. Two, quietly move away now, ensuring it doesn’t see you first, otherwise, it might consider you, along with these Mineral Crystals, as the food left to it by its mother."

Holy Shit!?

Chun was shocked: "Ma’am, must I choose?"

Earth Mother sighed: "Because I truly don’t understand the runes on this eggshell. We can only let it hatch, observe its post-hatching state and deduce further. Some creatures, like frogs and butterflies, have entirely different forms as young and adults..."

Chun’s heart skipped, not like maggot-flies Beelzebub, right?

Earth Mother said: "The egg blessed by Mother Goddess of Fertility will absolutely far exceed individual peers, smooth growth shouldn’t be a problem, and it should be easier to observe!"

Holy Shit! Far exceeding individual peers makes squashing me easier too!

Chun only felt one thing now: facing the unknown, neither former Guardian God Old Deng nor Earth Mother seemed reliable, more like struggling students.

Chun’s cautious nature hesitated to gamble: "I choose 2, better sneak away."

After all, Fafnir said there’s been no instance of Void Creatures being tamed, probably someone tried this conventional approach of hatching and failed.

Earth Mother said: "Then slowly retreat to a spot far from the exit, little one, still follow the rhythm from before and retreat, no talking afterwards. Our kind of spatial communication could possibly bother the egg..."

Earth Lotus: "Got it!"

And so Chun smoothly slid away, centimeter by centimeter. Suddenly, Chun started regretting, Earth Lotus syncing harmoniously with the egg definitely differed from previous failures, maybe he should have tried choice 1...

As Earth Lotus kept moving back, the egg continued absorbing the surrounding Crystal Ore, its shell began developing cracks. Those absorbed Crystals turned into grayish-white crystals and continuously crumbled into powder...

Finally, with a piece of eggshell shattering, a purple serpent-like head emerged from the shell. Its first action was to eat the surrounding eggshells, then its claws broke the shell, continuing to eat, its whole body gradually revealing itself!

Chun was astonished to discover this creature somewhat resembled a lizard but only had two front claws with no hind legs, appearing utterly incongruous!