Chapter 629 Ancient Tunnel

The little fool and Xu Yang sat on metal benches next to each other, and the soldiers and miners took out each other's supplies to share. Fish had recovered somewhat due to earlier improvements, and the miners brought out their frozen fish, crab, eels, and oysters, along with their long-term stores of turnips, turnips, and potatoes.

The soldiers took out their marching rations, including stewed pork, stewed beef, diced chicken, biochemical beast jerky, and essential nutritional cream.

All this food was poured into a large copper pot, and the wives of the miners went to work, filling the pot with boiling water, and filling it with bonito stock powder, and mixing everything in the boiling bonito stock In the middle of the soup, there are bursts of umami, and all the ingredients are ups and downs in the hot soup.

Immediately afterwards, they opened many cans and poured premade bamboo wheels, fish balls and kelp into them, making the food in the copper pot in front of them more colorful and diverse.

"I'm gonna start now!"

The frank person spoke first, and the others raised their chopsticks and started making food around the copper pot.

The wolf girl can maintain the shape of a beast for a long time. At this time, she is leaning cross-legged next to the radiator, her tail sweeping back and forth on the ground. It is a huge wolf monster. The little fool put the thing on a plate and carefully brought it to the wolf girl. , she opened one eye, stretched out her long tongue and quickly rolled all the hot food into her throat, swallowed them all at once, and then closed her eyes again.

"Good... good..." The little fool stretched out his hand to touch the forehead of the wolf girl.

Xu Yang saw that there was a more winding area in the depths of the mine, and he was curious, so he ate something and then left the dining table, looking for a way into the darkness.

The little fool also followed Xu Yang's example, and followed Xu Yang after eating something. She walked behind Xu Yang, Xueqiu and the wolf girl looked at each other, and also got up to follow the little fool.

"There are deeper... natural rock fissures, I don't know where they lead." Xu Yang looked at the dark rock fissures, which are quite wide, and I don't know what area they are connected to.

"Wow...you can't go there." A village militiaman who was not present was smoking a cigarette. Seeing them looking around, he hurried over.

"What's in there?" Xu Yang raised his finger and pointed to the dark natural tunnel. There was a gust of cold wind coming from inside, making people tremble all over.

"Ancient mine tunnels." The young militiaman explained, judging from his expression, he didn't quite know what was inside.

"Is there anyone in the village who knows more about this?" Xu Yang asked.

The militiaman went to the banquet and invited an old miner back. The old miner knew more about this secret mine, and his expression changed again and again. He knew that Xu Yang's existence would help them survive, so he refused to let him adventure.

"That mine tunnel was only used by my grandparents' generation. They went to the heart of the mountain...to dig a rarer mineral." The old miner said cautiously.

"What rare mineral?" Xu Yang was curious.

"I don't know... Its name is pronounced with a very strange sound. With that kind of mineral, this village has become famous for a while." The old miner explained.

To use a strange voice to describe, there is a high probability that it is a secret text. Xu Yang guessed. There is a mysterious mineral described in secret text at the bottom of the mine. Sure enough, Yibei City has always been a dangerous place on the frontier, and there are many secrets that no one knows.

"Is anyone still going in now?" Xu Yang asked.

"Many companies have sent people to investigate, some teams, they got into the tunnel, and then they were killed... There are some kind of monsters living in the tunnel. After we mined the outermost minerals, we dare not go in , afraid of dying in the mine tunnel like those exploration teams sent by the company." The old miner explained.

The company folks have plans for many occult projects, but they don't necessarily work out. Xu Yang looked sideways and turned on the night vision function of his helmet. His vision penetrated the darkness in front of him, allowing him to see the ancient mine tunnel ahead. It divided into different roads, extending upwards to man-made rope ladders and downwards. There are long primitive stone steps, scattered rocks, dead bodies, and large pieces of ice and snow in the potholes, surrounded by a bottomless abyss.

Xu Yang imagined the locations of the mines around them. They are roughly distributed around the edge of the mountain. There may be secret passages and legends leading to this ancient mine, but the versions are different.

"There are stone steps leading to the top? How high is it?" Xu Yang looked back at the old miner.

"Can you see clearly? It is said that it can lead to the top of the mountain. But you can't go in, it's too dangerous." The old miner frowned.

"I have to climb a road to the top of the mountain. The signal is better there. I can contact the company's troops to come here to clean up the enemies. Then I can evacuate you to a safer place." Xu Yang nodded. If you can connect external signals here, it will save trouble.

The old miners thought over and over again. Although it was very dangerous inside, if they succeeded, they would be able to communicate with the large army in one go. This would be more beneficial to the miners, so they only lent them the miner's equipment and did not say anything to stop them words.

Xu Yang went in through the crack, there were no-passing slogans and artificial roadblocks everywhere, to prevent the ancient monsters in the mine from crawling out. When he came into the darkness, Ise Huaren also brought a big sword to follow after receiving the news. Come on, and the little fool and her menagerie will follow.

They all looked tense and did not dare to speak. The surroundings were pitch black, only the sound of footsteps and armor rubbing could be discerned, and there were bursts of chill in the air.

Xu Yang went to the bottom of the cliff and grabbed the rope ladder. It was quite strong, and it was made of steel cables and metal plates. pouring down through the fissures of the mine, and the hazy white light on the snow-covered rocks, realized that the rope ladder would indeed take him to the top of the mountain, at least where he had access to the outside air, and that once he was out of the pit to the surface, he could Think of yourself as a signal tower to guide the Nestor Corporation air strikes to clear the frost giants.

He walked up, and suddenly there was a scream from the bottomless darkness at the bottom, followed by the sound of some monster crawling quickly.

Xu Yang continued to climb up, while Ise Huaren and the others below kept alert to prevent any monsters that might attack.

Whoosh!

A pale spear shot out from the darkness, and quickly shot towards Xu Yang's back.

The people below were shocked, but Xu Yang did not change his actions. The ebony ring that Mond gave to Xu Yang flashed quickly, and a translucent shield lit up around him. When the spear hit the shield, it disintegrated into countless fragments and scattered on the ground.

A more intense roar sounded from the abyss, as if annoyed by her own miss, the wolf girl recognized its location from the sound, and quickly rushed down roaring.

"Be careful!" Ise Hualian followed up with a big sword, but not as fast as Wolf Girl.

In the darkness came the sound of huge beasts entangled and biting each other, and the movement was extremely frightening. Xu Yang first climbed to the top of the cliff, scanned the situation below, and then shot a red warning beacon from the weapon slot of the nano armor. It hit the monster in the dark and stuck to its shoulder.

It roared fiercely, glowed red, and burst into smoke. Now they could see what kind of monster it was. It was covered with pale scales, its head protruded like a lizard, and its eyes were gray, like a pair of monsters. It swelled violently like a blister, like a blind monster.

It has a nearly human-shaped posture, smaller than the wolf girl, and its tail and sharp claws are quite powerful, at least stronger than the wolf girl. When it swung its claws vigorously, the wolf girl roared and was repelled.

The wolf girl's body flinched, and the scaly blind monster jumped back, its snout swelled rapidly, orange flames quickly lit up in its throat, and then breathed fire at the wolf girl.

"Gah!" The little fool quickly opened his hands.

The wolf girl was about to raise her paws to block the explosive flames, when an invisible wall of air appeared in front of her, directly absorbing a lot of flames, reducing her risk of being ignited.

The little fool can't last long. Xu Yang picked up the gun and shot at the blind monster's neck. The bullet pierced through its scales, and what came out was not blood but flames. Its bright throat exploded quickly, and its whole head quickly burned into a ball of fire. The upper body exploded instantly!

The blood and high-temperature crimson flames flew towards the wolf girl, and the aftermath of the explosion hit the wolf girl. Her body shook a bit. Fortunately, she was heavy enough, and Ise Hanaren came to help her, otherwise the wolf girl would definitely be killed by this The big bang blasted off the cliff.

"It's okay!" Xu Yang greeted.

"Oh..." The wolf girl indicated that she was fine.

When they looked down, there were traces of man-made buildings that were more deep and tortuous at the bottom of the tunnel, and they didn't know where it led.

"Let's get rid of the upper ones first." Xu Yang climbed up, and he saw some old wooden frames, which were extremely strong, at least two hundred years old, and seemed to be barely built by the previous miners.

After walking to the end, he saw the "mine" inlaid in the rock wall. Only then did he see that there were relatively complete excavation marks on the wall, close to the mountain, and there appeared a section almost like a "background" of some kind of creature. legs" dents.

From those notches, Xu Yang can clearly distinguish the shape of thighs, calves and joints. People seem to have dug out a fossil about 8 to 10 meters long. Could it be that these ancient miners have painstakingly dug out the mysterious Are the minerals these frozen bones?

He looked around, and there were still some smaller excavation marks around. The upper space should be the last bit of mine they could use, and they didn't dare to face that blind scaled monster down below.

Xu Yang carefully recorded the images he took, and then walked to the snow-covered corridor connecting to the outside. It turned out that what they said "connecting to the top of the mountain" meant that there was a narrow circular pit on the top of the head, blowing continuously from above. The cold wind and snow piled up a conical snow bulge on the ground.

Xu Yang climbed up this snow bank and looked up at the sky, it was as if his head was connected to a frozen world. Due to the relatively closed structure in the mine pit, it was warmer than the ground.

On the top of the snowdrift, that is, the place perpendicular to the hole, Xu Yang turned to the light above and finally connected to the precious satellite signal.

In this way, he sent a message to Nisto headquarters, asking them to use the air force to clean up the swarms of frost giants raging on the outskirts of Yibei City, to fight against the mysterious sky behemoth, and then organize a larger-scale search and rescue and recovery of the city. The situation is worse than anyone imagined.

Due to the bad weather, it will take about a day before he can act. Xu Yang walked back, all the way to the edge of the dark cliff, and then climbed down holding the metal rope ladder, and took the others back to rest. At the same time, he cleaned up the scene and cleaned up the corpse of the scale monster. and blood, and bring it back to the miners to let them know about the existence of this monster. Seeing that Xu Yang and his party retreated completely, they were amazed.

After everything was settled down, Xu Yang and the others also took a rest, and the little fool and Xu Yang got into their respective sleeping bags.

"It's so scary." In the sleeping bag, she only showed a small head, and she was surprised by today's exploration. The outside world is so different from the city, and the little fool learned a lot from the adults' reactions.

"You acted bravely. Let's rest now... There are still many secrets in this place, and what we have seen is only the tip of the iceberg. We must go to Yibei City and find the local chronicles, so that we can find out what this place used to do." Xu Yang closed his eyes. Eyes, while thinking about how to solve these big and small weird things, and make one side stable.

"Oh!" The little fool closed his eyes and fell asleep obediently.