Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster! Chapter 526 - 266: Living Metal

"What do you an it’s alive?"

Huang ng swiftly jumped off the tank and crouched beside Jin Zhong.

At this mont, Jin Zhong had already picked up a handful of silvery tallic powder from the ground, spreading it on his palm.

"Is there anything wrong?"

Huang ng watched Jin Zhong’s actions in puzzlent, but Jin Zhong didn’t respond, rely using his finger to gently stir the powder.

Soon, a peculiar phenonon began to unfold.

The scattered powder at a farther distance remained unchanged.

But those that were relatively closer began to slowly move, drawing closer to each other.

Huang ng stared in disbelief at the changes in the powder, and shortly after, a tiny tallic sphere ford in Jin Zhong’s hand.

A silver-gray, smooth, and rounded tallic sphere.

Although the sphere was quite small, as Jin Zhong rolled it around in his hand, it quickly attracted the rest of the powder, causing its size to gradually expand.

"This is..."

Huang ng reached over and took a sesa-sized tallic ball from Jin Zhong’s hand, frowning as he asked:

"So kind of magnetic powder?"

"Not quite."

Jin Zhong shook his head slowly.

"If it were magnetic powder, it should attract tallic objects."

"But look..."

Jin Zhong drew out a dagger and moved it close to the tallic sphere, which showed no reaction whatsoever.

"Not a magnet."

"Then what is it?"

Huang ng tentatively pinched the tallic ball and then said:

"It’s very hard—earlier it was clearly in a powder form, but now it seems to be fully fused?"

"Very heavy...small, but you can distinctly feel its weight."

"Give it a try."

He said as he handed the tallic ball back to Jin Zhong.

Jin Zhong weighed it a few tis, frowning as he said:

"It seems heavier than gold."

"How do you know?"

Huang ng asked in astonishnt:

"Can you even feel that? Is it so special ability?"

Jin Zhong smiled awkwardly, answering:

"The chanical God Sect used to distribute stipends directly in gold, so we’re quite sensitive to weight...but that’s not the point."

"I’ve never heard of anything heavier than gold."

"Did you hear about such a thing during your studies?"

"No."

Huang ng answered without hesitation.

He had already completed basic chemistry courses and grasped so elentary theories and knowledge.

"It’s not that no elents are heavier than gold, it’s just that an elent heavier than gold wouldn’t exist in this form."

"It might be a new elent...but where does it co from?"

"Is it related to the disaster preparation works beneath the Shen City ruins?"

"Or perhaps, related to the Cataclysm?"

Huang ng raised several questions in a row, to which Jin Zhong had no answers.

After a mont of contemplation, he spoke:

"Focusing on this is pointless—the object has gone beyond our ability to explain."

"Take it back to the commander, maybe they’ll have answers."

"We must set off for the Shen City disaster preparedness base as soon as possible."

"Not much ti left, we’ve been away from Base 011 for too long, we need to return quickly."

"Understood."

Huang ng nodded, swiftly returning to the tank.

Though nominally in a superior-subordinate relationship with Jin Zhong, Jin Zhong’s extensive combat and battlefield experience proved extraordinarily valuable to this Penetration Company.

Thus, he wasn’t opposed to Jin Zhong’s suggestion.

The squad continued its advance, guided by drones, even without support from inertial navigation positioning; they still navigated the ruins by the shortest route, directly penetrating the area where the subsurface disaster preparation works were located.

"Right here."

Huang ng pointed to the ground, simultaneously glancing at the portable altiter.

"The altitude doesn’t match...the elevation here is 6.4 ters, but according to Fu Xi’s information, the entrance to the disaster preparation works should be on flat ground less than 3 ters above sea level."

"The base’s entrance is completely covered...Fu Xi!"

Huang ng called out, transmitting information via cellular network, with Fu Xi’s response coming swiftly.

"I’m here, go ahead."

"Can you access the Shen City subsurface disaster preparation works network?"

"Unable to access."

Fu Xi answered again:

"No abnormal electromagnetic signals detected around the works, inferred to potentially be damaged and incapacitated."

"Recomnd organizing excavation on-site, evaluate further once the main passage is uncovered."

"Understood."

Huang ng exhaled deeply.

A 3-ter deep layer of piled soil is neither too deep nor too shallow.

If they had to dig by hand, it certainly wouldn’t be an easy task.

Fortunately, this squad ca prepared for the disaster base.

In addition to necessary combat equipnt, they also carried an octopus-style multifunctional excavator.

Huang ng decisively issued orders, and the operator imdiately started the excavator from the trailer, initiating the tense excavation task.

The rest of the squad spread out around the excavation site establishing vigilance, while Huang ng and Jin Zhong remained on guard beside the excavation site, keeping a close watch on the loose soil being thrown up.

"The deeper we go, the higher the concentration of this tallic powder."

Jin Zhong said in a deep voice:

"The surface layer of the soil barely has any powder, just a thin layer."

"But now, digging deeper than one ter, even the color of the soil has changed."

"Silver-gray...are you serious?"

"Even if this belongs to a tallic mineral, how could there be so much of it?"

"In terms of mineral wealth, this would count as an unprecedentedly rich mine, wouldn’t it?"

"Indeed."

Huang ng’s expression grew serious, realizing that what his team had discovered might just hold greater value than the subsurface disaster preparation works themselves.

Strange tal, unusual enrichnt thods...