Ma Xiaoling: "Hurry up, Third Level Hell Difficulty, I’m pressed for time. I really have to go to battle by five o’clock tomorrow morning."
Ju Qingmeng asked, "How was today? Was it dangerous? Was the workload heavy? How did you feel?"
Ren Zhong smiled, "Not bad. I gained a lot today, you could say it was an eye-opener."
For some reason, he suddenly had an urge to get a photon imaging system and take a random cell sample from Ju Qingmeng to see if the dodecahedrons in the atoms in her body looked the same.
He was purely curious.
Ju Qingmeng: "Well, you still need to be careful. Let’s cut the chatter and get started."
"Thanks for the hard work, both of you."
A few minutes later, the full set of equipment, referencing Lin Wang’s Third Level Exoskeleton and making several minor improvements, was automatically stacked onto Ren Zhong.
The square filled with an endless wave of Third Level Ruined Beasts.
Ren Zhong took a deep breath and charged forward with his dual guns.
The road ahead was still long and arduous.
The destination was not only beyond his eyesight but even beyond the bounds of his imagination, yet he still advanced steadily, step by step.
I really have no way out.
Today was an exceptionally special day.
Yesterday, within the remaining 43 mining workers, someone got lucky and picked up a small Mineral Source Stone.
After handing it over to the Chenhui Company, the lucky one received a reward of 100,000 points.
She only needed to pay a 10,000-point cut according to the resource recovery company’s rules and could keep 90,000 points for herself.
Though it wasn’t exactly an overnight fortune, she was so delighted that she treated all her mining co-workers to a delicious meal.
Today, for the first time this year, Mengdu Group’s Life-buying Car would appear outside the gates of Starfire Town.
Before getting out of bed in the morning, Ren Zhong specifically sent a message to Yujin, who was already wearing a First Level Wrist Watch, asking him to pay close attention to his mother’s condition.
Yujin thanked Ren Zhong for caring about his affairs despite being so busy and informed Ren Zhong that he had fully talked with his mother a few days ago.
Also on this day, after completing the seventh underground excavation work yesterday, Ren Zhong finally completed the full magnetic line network model of the Chenhui Mine in his wrist watch before getting out of bed.
With this model, combined with a deep understanding of the weak electromagnetic interactions on the planet, Ren Zhong decrypted the formation mechanism of the Chenhui Mine.
This is indeed a planetary excavation technology that surpasses Earth’s scientific knowledge.
Purple Crystal Mining spent over two hundred years using a technology that could directly influence electromagnetic forces, slowly pulling countless metal elements, initially scattered and randomly distributed within a few hundred kilometers around the Chenhui Mine, into this area, eventually aggregating into this abnormal giant mine mixed with black, non-ferrous metals, and metallic compound ores.
And still on this day, Ren Zhong almost died.
Really, just by a hair.
He also missed a Mineral Source Stone.
But he still obtained two Mineral Source Stones!
He felt like he had used up all his luck for the entire month.
Lin Wang’s team encountered a Level Five Ruined Beast deep in the mine, known as the Mud Cave Leech.
Once aggregated, its body was over fifty meters in length and indistinguishable from mud. It lurked at the edge of an underground river, its body dispersed and merged into the water-rich rocks and soil, creating a diffusion radius of over eight hundred meters when spread out.
The first one to run into the Level Five Ruined Beast was the rash Song Qianlian.
He drove the Screw Rock Excavator right into the body of the dispersed Mud Cave Leech, waking up this terrifying Level Five Ruined Beast.
It then began to act, aggregating its body, while sand and mud infiltrated Song Qianlian’s excavator transmission device, slowing the drill’s rotation speed.
Song Qianlian tried to change direction and escape while sending a warning to Pan Fenglian, the nearest person to him, but it was already a step too late.
Pan Fenglian’s excavator, just over a hundred meters away from him, also started showing anomalies.
Of course, Ren Zhong actually wasn’t aware of this information.
He deduced it himself.
At the time, the closest person to Song Qianlian and Pan Fenglian was Ren Zhong, about a kilometer away.
Ren Zhong received a request from Pan Fenglian for cooperative action, instructing him to speed along a planned route to a certain point on the 3D map to investigate.
Ren Zhong couldn’t refuse this request and could only comply. Then, with a steady, precise, and fierce stance, he bore down on the location of the Mud Cave Leech’s Crystal Chip.
Consequently, the Mud Cave Leech gave up on the other two targets, fully aggregated its body quickly, and vowed to wrap Ren Zhong, along with his excavator, into its body.
Pan Fenglian and Song Qianlian relied on Ren Zhong as a decoy to escape safely.
Before bolting, Pan Fenglian sent a message to Ren Zhong, feigning a warning, telling Ren Zhong to run quickly.
She said she only sensed something unusual earlier but was busy setting up a Blast Trap with Song Qianlian to ambush a regular Level Four Ruined Beast, not expecting a big one to be lurking here.
Ren Zhong wasn’t stupid.
He completely understood Pan Fenglian and the Armored Soldier Song Qianlian’s dirty trick.
He also knew that such an act couldn’t have happened without Lin Wang’s tacit permission.
This was a betrayal, through and through.
Although mentally prepared, knowing that the friendly relationship formed by the combination of interests was extremely fragile, the honeymoon phase between Ren Zhong and Lin Wang still ended early.
The fully aggregated Mud Cave Leech broke through the dirt with overwhelming force and lunged at Ren Zhong’s Screw Rock Excavator.
Its speed in the soil was 55 kilometers per hour, slightly faster than the Screw Rock Excavator.
The red alarm in the cockpit was extremely piercing, and the blood-red border on the giant screen indicating a high-risk state made one’s blood pump with anxiety.
But Ren Zhong did not complain.
After observing the distance between himself and the Mud Cave Leech and calculating the location of the nearest Second Level Magnetic Line Node to both sides, he made a decision in an instant.
The Second Level Magnetic Node was a classification made by Ren Zhong himself.
In the Chenhui Mine, there is only one First Level Magnetic Node, which is the largest central node radiating throughout the mine.
Beneath this central node, there are several dozen slightly smaller nodes depending on the largest counter-radiation cone columns, named the Second Level by Ren Zhong.
Apart from the central node, which Ren Zhong merely deduced the location of but never visited, the several dozen Second Level nodes are the most likely to produce Mineral Source Stones.
Earlier on, having passed through that region, Ren Zhong knew that due to the excessive chunkiness of the metals at that node location, no Ruined Beasts resided there.
There are many incidental factors, but that is the fact.
According to the mining site’s evolution rules, the possibility of a Mineral Source Stone existing there is higher than 80%.
He proceeded towards that location at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour.
The Mud Cave Leech was chasing from nearly three hundred meters away at a speed of 55 kilometers per hour.
When he was caught up by the leech, both sides would arrive at the Second Level node likely containing a Mineral Source Stone at the same time.
Given the Ruined Beasts’ desire for Mineral Source Stones and magnetic line nodes, it was highly likely the leech would change its target.
Then he would survive.
No time like the present.
Go all in, risk it all, make or break!
So that’s what he did.
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