Chapter 106 The Behemoth Appears

"Not them?"

Mole's answer made Li Ge full of doubts.

Li Ge looked around, trying his best to take in all the scenes in the mine, but found nothing unusual.

"Do you mean it's not here?" Li Ge asked.

"Of course it's not here!" Mole said matter-of-factly, "There are dangers that need to be avoided. I'm not stupid!"

Li Ge was stunned for a moment, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether this little thing was scolding him on purpose.

He thought of the countless pranks he had done in the past - filling in the tunnels that the mole had worked so hard to dig, and suddenly felt relieved.

So Li Ge coughed dryly and pretended not to hear what he just said.

"Where is the 'terrible thing' you mentioned?"

"It's probably..." Mole pointed in a direction with his short paws, "over there, where the energy is most concentrated."

"Where is the most concentrated energy?" Li Ge thought and frowned.

Although the little mole has evolved, there are still many gaps between its intelligence and that of humans.

Communicating with a mole is as difficult as communicating with a child who cannot understand.

There are always a lot of unclear things in it.

What is a place where energy is most concentrated?

Is the energy gathering due to the high purity of the energy stone?

Or is it because of the large number of energy stones?

Or is it not because of the energy stone at all, but because of that "terrible thing"?

Is the scary thing a dead thing or a living thing?

Mole couldn't understand any of this.

In Mole's own words.

"When you sense something so terrifying, you can't even run away. Who would be stupid enough to approach it?"

Li Ge tried to use his spiritual consciousness to scan the induction.

However, the energy ores scattered around were like lead that could not be penetrated by X-rays, firmly blocking Li Ge's scanning range.

"Is it because the energy is too dense?" Li Ge murmured and guessed.

But even if you guess the reason, what can you do?

The current situation of being like a blind man makes Li Ge very frustrated.

——So much ore, so close at hand!

——Because the existence of Jiuzhou official seems to be far away! You can only watch, but you cannot act rashly!

"Find out the situation first and make a decision before taking action."

…

Fortunately, the passages excavated by the officials of Kyushu Kingdom have long been unobstructed.

Li Ge tried to explore his consciousness along the passage.

Not bad, although I encountered some resistance, I was not blocked at all.

Li Ge speculated that the existence of resistance is probably because the radiation from the surrounding energy mines causes the energy density in the air to increase.

If you want to find out the underground super project of Kyushu, it is by no means an easy and simple matter.

Li Ge's consciousness spread along the corridor, and once it encountered a corner, it would be completely blocked.

"Is there any easy way?"

Li Ge tried to break away from the mole's body and explore as a soul.

However, the moment he left his soul body, a piercing alarm sounded in the mine.

"Abnormal energy peak detected, peak value 2163!"

"Abnormal energy peak detected, peak value 2163!"

…

The alarm sounded repeatedly.

The hard-working miners in the mines took out their weapons in an instant and turned into fully armed warriors.

Li Ge shuddered and stuffed himself back in an instant.

"Quick, quick, move the position first!"

Li Ge ordered.

But needless to say Li Ge, the little mole was also frightened.

It turned its head, its limbs slid wildly, got into the tunnel it dug, and quickly moved away from the scene.

…

"It's really a bad start..."

When the bright noise was left behind, Li Ge murmured to himself.

Regarding this matter, Li Ge had some vague expectations in his heart.

but……

“You always have to try to be sure, don’t you?”

Li Ge already knew a piece of information from Zhou Ranran.

——Jiuzhou officials attach great importance to this operation!

The large machinery we saw next and the ultra-long tunnel that went 4 kilometers underground also proved this point.

The manpower and material resources consumed are no joke.

So how does this project guard against extraordinary creatures?

Now we have the answer.

Elite warriors everywhere and corresponding warning systems.

But why didn't the mole trigger this warning system?

If strictly speaking, the mole can be considered extraordinary.

Is it because... it's not strong enough?

The alert system is likely to have a specific threshold above which an alarm will be triggered only if the energy spikes above it.

The more Li Ge thought about it, the more he felt his guess was reasonable.

Yes, there are energy stones all around, and the energy stones themselves must have energy peaks.

If the alarm trigger line is set too low, the surrounding ore may cause the alarm to ring throughout the mine.

Not only would such a setup fail to serve as a warning, it might even make those elite warriors annoyed to death by the noise, which was really not worth the gain.

In this case, only a single monster with a relatively low energy peak can approach the human mine quietly.

Li Ge turned back and glanced at the distant light.

"I wonder if the Ant Talisman doesn't meet such standards?"

…

Going deep into the mine for the second time, next to the chubby mole, a bunch of soil belonging to the kingdom of life followed him like a shadow.

Qinxue Jade is wrapped in the soil.

It's the boundary gate.

In the realm gate, some ants are already ready to attack.

As they quietly approached the human mine, ants crawled out from the tiny cracks in the air one by one.

They followed the passage dug by the mole and moved forward silently, surrounding the human mine from the outside.

The soil of the Kingdom of Life quietly retreated with its Qinxue Jade.

——If it is not necessary, the true nature of the Kingdom of Life must not be exposed to humans. This is Li Ge's current insistence.

The ants approached the mine, and the alarm went silent.

The humans in the mine were busy with their heads down, not noticing anything strange at all.

Li Ge smiled slightly.

"My guess is indeed correct. The individual energy peak of ants is extremely low and will not trigger an alarm."

"Now that the testing is over, let's get to work!"

…

The underground passages built by humans are brightly lit.

The originally uneven stone walls were reinforced with an additional layer of concrete.

In the light, a cold light is reflected.

"Zizi——"

The conveyor belt is running all the time and making noise.

Under the cover of this busyness and noise, the tiny scratching sounds disappeared without a trace.

“Chachacha…”

In a dark cave.

The mole's evolved claws were extremely sharp. It scratched the concrete and scraped off layers of gray-white debris.

The last claw, suddenly relaxed.

There was a small hole in the front.

Light came in from the stone wall that had penetrated in front and shone on the mole.

The hole in front is not big enough, at least the mole's body will never be able to pass through it.

However, the Mole turned around and walked away, looking for the next breakthrough point.

Then 3 or 5 ants crawled over and guarded the entrance of the cave.

The size of the hole is just right for the ants.

If they want, they can rush out from here at any time and launch an attack on humans.

…

Such tiny holes appeared one after another on the cement wall of the passage.

One after another, ants are here, quietly observing humans.

Li Ge jumped repeatedly on these ants.

By quickly changing the possessed animal, quickly moving position, and quickly scanning the surrounding environment with spiritual consciousness.

A rough map gradually formed in Li Ge's mind.

"There are four large mines in total, and only these four mines have machines operating."

"The exit of the mine is probably to the east. However, the tunnel has extended eastwards for a long time. There is no obvious upward trend and it has remained about 4 kilometers underground."

"This means..." Li Ge thought deeply for a while and found it quite unbelievable: "This means that the exit of the mine may not be nearby at all, but in a very far place!"

"Why do they do this? Doesn't it cost money to build such a long underground passage?"

"Or...are they trying to hide the connection between the entrance and the true location of the mine?"

Thinking of this, Li Ge quickly issued an order.

Several ants moved in response, climbed out of the hole, and lay quietly under the ore.

These ants will be transported to the entrance along with the ore on a conveyor belt.

After doing this, Li Ge turned back and continued thinking.

"Looking at the direction in which these machines are digging, the mine is constantly expanding to the southwest, and the depth is getting deeper and deeper."

"This direction..."

"Isn't this the direction the Mole is pointing? That's where the 'terrible thing' he talks about is."

"If the officials continue to dig, they will definitely come into conflict with that thing."

…

To the southwest of the mine, continue down for about 1,500 meters.

That is about 5,500 meters above ground.

In an open cave, water flows gurglingly.

This is an underground river.

It is a very beautiful underground river.

Here, there are staggered rocks and rugged terrain.

The water flows on this high and low ground.

On the stone wall, there are high-density energy stone mines, emitting weak fluorescence.

This fluorescent light is like stars in the sky, reflecting the stars inside the cave, making it look like a dream.

A huge round stone lies there quietly.

The diameter of the stone is about 9 meters, but its appearance is extremely round, as if it had been specially polished by humans.

Suddenly, a white and tender thing was poked out from under the stone.

That thing stretches longer and longer!

Finally, it was revealed in full.

That's a huge mollusk!

The part that sticks out is like a thin white snake!

then……

Article 2…

Article 3…

A total of 5!

5 items.

5 mollusk heads.

They stretched their necks, pressed their faces against the stone wall, and began to eat energy ores quickly.

After one area was eaten away, they began to move slowly - carrying the huge boulder on their backs.

Not a stone at all!

It’s the shell of a mollusk!