Chapter 431 Luoyang Shovel

Qi Lin is very familiar with this wave of radiation, and it is exactly the same as the pile of crystals dug out from the monster's young body that he just absorbed!

Qi Lin couldn't believe how many such crystals were buried on the dome of this underground cave, even though the thick permafrost layer like a barrier could still emit such strong energy fluctuations.

For Qi Lin, this crystal can be directly absorbed and completely transformed into his own strength and level!

Qi Lin's breathing couldn't help becoming a little short.

After checking the entire underground cave and confirming that there were no living creatures except himself, Qi Lin raised his head and looked at the dome emitting the energy fluctuations unique to crystals.

This underground cave has a large area, but the height of the dome is not high. The average height is only about five or six meters, and the highest point is less than ten meters. The location where the crystals are buried is just above this average.

Since the hinterland of the Herons area is completely a battlefield like a plain except for the iron-like mountain range outside, Qi Lin did not carry any ropes, hooks, etc., but this is not difficult He, Qi Lin, after confirming the location of the excavation, Qi Lindang immediately began to move the piles of pitchblende ore and put them under this location.

Generally speaking, uranium ore in a natural state is very stable, and the radioactivity released naturally through its slow decay is not strong, and like fuel rods made of highly enriched uranium, humans can even take them directly with their hands—— The reason why the reactor at the Hellens Power Station produces such a high level of radiation is that the spent fuel that has undergone fission reactions is exposed to the outside.

Of course, in addition to the spent fuel, those fuel rods that have not been used will also rapidly undergo fission reactions under the action of the monster's special catalytic ability, thereby releasing enough powerful radiation energy for it to absorb.

And this lode is the same.

Although the radioactivity of the pitchblende itself will make people who have been around for a long time feel uncomfortable, the radiation dose will never reach the level of fatality in a short period of time, but after the catalysis of these monsters, the original radioactivity is not as strong as imagined. The ore is completely changed.

Under this unknown catalysis, the uranium-235 and uranium-238 inside the ore started a slow fission reaction in the presence of a large amount of impurities, thus emitting a large amount of radiation into the environment.

If ordinary people are exposed to these ores without any protection, they will experience symptoms of dizziness and nausea in less than ten minutes. If they come into direct contact with these ores, the skin at the contact area will become red, swollen and itchy in a short time, and then It's blood blisters, peeling...

This vein, or this part of the vein around this underground cave, is no longer a normal uranium vein. This place is like a super nuclear power plant that has leaked—with the existing human technology and Without the ability, the uranium contained here cannot be mined at all, but for these radiation-eating monsters, this place is a perfect lair.

Qi Lin is constantly carrying these dangerous and deadly ores. These radioactive ores are hard to avoid for ordinary people, but for Qi Lin, he thinks that this little bit of radiation energy is not enough to fit between his teeth. .

After more than half an hour of Qi Lin's hard work, a conical circular platform with a height of nearly five meters and made of piles of pitchblende ore appeared in the underground cavity. He rubbed his dirty hands on his pants, Qi Lin climbed to the top of the round platform from the slope on one side of the round platform.

It is less than one meter away from the dome of the underground cave. Qi Lin can barely keep his head from hitting the dome only by squatting on the top of the round platform.

In this position, the energy wave that Qi Lin felt became more intense.

Stretching out his hand, touched the frozen soil layer above his head, and tapped lightly again. The dull sound made Qi Lin understand that in this underground cave and the space above his head that might store that kind of crystallization, the frozen soil layer The thickness is at least half a meter.

The hardness of frozen soil is very high, that is because almost all the water in the soil exists in the form of ice crystal particles, and the density of the soil itself is very high, and there are a lot of fine gravel mixed in it.

Most people want to dig deep pits in the permafrost. The most commonly used tools are excavators and pickaxes. With the metal folding engineering shovel that Qi Lin carries with him, the half-meter-thick permafrost layer can’t be dug halfway. No matter how good the quality of the engineer shovel is, it has to be scrapped.

However, this problem is not a problem at all in front of Qi Lin, who is already a fourth-level evolutionary.

With a slight movement of his mind, a uniquely shaped "bone shovel" appeared in Qi Lin's hand. This bone shovel has a perfectly ergonomic curved handle, and the half-cylindrical shovel head at the end is two feet long. Ten centimeters, the edge of the shovel head is extremely sharp, with Qi Lin's nearly forty points of strength, it can cut into the hard permafrost like cutting tofu.

And the semi-cylindrical shovel can easily carry out the excavated soil—if anyone who is keen on tomb-robbing novels or archaeologists sees this weird shovel made by Qi Lin with bones, he will definitely recognize it. Prototype of things——

This is just like a famous Luoyang shovel!

Qi Lin poked the front end of this bone shovel, which was the same as the Luoyang shovel, into the frozen soil layer, and then turned it half a circle, and a large section of cylindrical frozen soil was separated from the surroundings. Qi Lin pulled out the bone shovel again, bringing When the frozen soil came out, a circular hole appeared on the top of the dome.

Qi Lin made seven or eight identical round holes one after another, and then based on these round holes, they gradually expanded and dug out the frozen soil around the round holes one after another.

In less than an hour, Qi Lin dug out a shallow pit more than half a meter wide and 20 to 30 centimeters deep.

Next, it was mechanically repeated actions—drilling holes with bone shovels, expanding the holes, and finally digging out all the surrounding frozen soil...

After several hours of hard work, there was finally only a layer of frozen soil less than five centimeters thick left between Qi Lin and the space where the crystals were hidden.

Across this layer of frozen soil, the energy fluctuations were already very obvious, and even the energy-gathering vortex in Qi Lin's body was pulled by this energy fluctuation, and the speed could not help but speed up a bit.

After tapping a few times, Qi Lin was able to confirm that above this underground cavity was another hidden hollow cave.

Although I don't know how the slug-like monster dug up the frozen soil and then sealed it, or that there is another secret passage in the cave above, but Qi Lin understands one thing - that is the crystals stored on it, Definitely enough to be promoted to a fifth-level evolutionary by yourself!