Lin Yue placed the stone walls blocking the Underground Ruins Stone Gate into the Storage Space piece by piece, and gently pushed open the gate that he had sealed for a long ti.
Behind the heavy stone gate, bursts of cold winds kept blowing from inside.
Entering this pitch-black space, both Bai and Xiao ng were constantly on guard, watching the surroundings.
Lin Yue lit the torches on the wall, and the light illuminated this vast space.
He discovered that the stone wall he had previously covered over the cave entrance had already shattered halfway, with the broken stones scattered all over the ground.
Lin Yue looked at the gap chiselled out in the stone wall and unexpectedly found that it was created by sothing like a pickaxe.
Strange.
If they could use a pickaxe to destroy this stone wall, why didn’t they destroy the stone wall blocking the stone gate?
With questions in mind, he turned on the flashlight, put the unhard side into the Storage Space, and proceeded down with Bai and Xiao ng.
"Is this... blood?" There were scattered bloodstains on the floor of the tunnel, and the area was not small.
Is this from the Survivor or the Lizardman?
The flashlight’s beam continued to explore ahead, while the faint firelight on both sides of the road had dwindled considerably, leaving only the sound of footsteps from him and his two partners in the entire tunnel.
"Ga-wu..." Finally reaching the junction, Bai called out towards the mine tunnel, seemingly reminding Lin Yue to check over there first.
Lin Yue had exactly this intention.
Before fully exploring Zone F, he indeed wanted to check the mine tunnel first.
Although he had scavenged quite a few minerals last ti, the quantity wasn’t much since the Storage Space wasn’t as large as it is now.
But things are entirely different now.
Moving cautiously towards that direction, he quickly entered the familiar mine tunnel, and Xiao ng, the warrior, eliminated four Golden Poison Thorn Spiders, resulting in Lin Yue obtaining 40 milliliters of Spider Venom.
The Spider Venom had already yielded considerable results when used on the Monster Winged Dragon before. Lin Yue thought, if possible, he wanted as much of this as he could get.
Even diluting so water to neutralize it would probably still offer strong effects.
"Ga-wu..." Bai called out again, looking into the cavern.
Lin Yue felt the continuous cold winds blowing from inside, sothing that hadn’t happened last ti.
Cold winds... the Ice Lizards have erged?
The flashlight beam flickered, and Lin Yue stepped into the cavern, yet he noticed sothing new on the rock walls on both sides that hadn’t existed before.
Bloody handprints!
Soone has been here? Moreover, with the bloody handprints...
"Ugh..."
Suddenly, there was a human voice from the front, causing Lin Yue to raise the M19 in his hand.
"Ga-wu." To his surprise, Bai didn’t issue any warning but calmly cried out, as if the human voice just now was rely an illusion.
Lin Yue activated the infrared aiming and continued to move forward cautiously, but Xiao ng darted past him and rushed ahead.
He chased Xiao ng forward as the faint sound from before resonated again, and this ti, Lin Yue also caught a whiff of a faint bloody sll!
Xiao ng in front stopped at this mont.
The flashlight illuminated Xiao ng and the dark figure in front of him.
"Human... is it a human?" Lin Yue noticed Xiao ng had not moved, resembling as if awaiting his command, standing beside a human leaning against a rock with closed eyes.
This person’s body still had faint fluctuations, his complexion was extrely pale, there was a dagger buried deep into his abdon, all the fingers of his right hand were missing, and the aroma of blood filled the surroundings.
"Ugh..."
The person seed to sense the flashlight’s beam, muttered sothing again, but his eyes remained closed, his left hand trembling slightly.
Lin Yue glanced around slightly, the person’s trousers were soaked with blood, and the blood even spread to the ground.
Severe injury...
He shook his head, no chance of saving him.
Light injuries could be helped, but severe injuries in this Otherworld ant nothing but death.
Lack of dicine, lack of doctors, lack of environnt.
Although Lin Yue had so dicine and bandages, he wasn’t a doctor and didn’t possess bandaging skills.
The person in front of him was also at death’s door, having lost too much blood and sohow moved to this cold environnt, seemingly for a long ti.
Even in a suitable environnt with a doctor, it would be impossible to save him.
Sure enough, as Lin Yue stepped closer to examine the injuries more carefully, the person’s head suddenly tilted, and the faint breath completely disappeared.
Lin Yue watched life fade before him, yet he felt no heavy emotions inside.
During these three weeks, he had witnessed the death of countless lives, even personally killing raiders for self-defense.
He imagined.
If he ever beca careless, would he also end up like this person, dying silently in a remote corner?
At that ti, everything related to the Shelter, resources, weapons, would beco aningless.
In this Otherworld, survival requires utmost effort.
But death only needs a trivial reason.
[You have acquired 2 cubic ters of Storage Space!]
Lin Yue took away his Storage Space, rummaging through it slightly, but found nothing significant; there were so water and food, yet they seed already consud by him.
"2 cubic ters, better than nothing anyway."
Lin Yue didn’t take these, he stood up, looking towards the deeper part of the cavern, but as the flashlight beam illuminated that direction, he noticed it was entirely blocked by an enormous ice block!
"Is this done by those Ice Lizards for self-preservation?" Lin Yue realized that proceeding further was probably impossible; this ice wall couldn’t be broken through in a short period, and even if it could, he’d likely be attacked by the Ice Lizards, even with Bai by his side.
No matter how strong those Ice Lizards are, they are mutated creatures and haven’t been successfully tad.
Like Xiao ng, although his combat capabilities seem good, he couldn’t fully obey Lin Yue’s commands, often darting off on his own, a clear contrast to obedient Bai.
After all, Bai was hatched in front of Lin Yue, unlike Xiao ng who erged as a Little Ice Lizard, thus tad more successfully.
Lin Yue looked at the corpse’s abdon, at the mortal wound, and suddenly realized it wasn’t caused by a Lizardman’s stone spear or blade, but by sothing he found extrely familiar.
"Isn’t this a dagger? A normal quality dagger!" Lin Yue gently pulled it out, observing carefully. It’s clearly made according to system blueprints, but how did it end up here?
Wait, does it an...
His worry about avoiding disasters on the surface, only to encounter an "unforeseen disaster" underground, might have already unfolded?
Could this person be...
"Ga-wu!"
Just then, Bai suddenly called out towards the cavern entrance, and almost simultaneously, rhythmic "Sa! Sa!" sounds began resonating throughout the tunnel!
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