Chapter 105 Four Thousand Meters Underground

Li Ge must know how much of his territory has been exposed under the surveillance of Kyushu officials.

Is everything visible on the ground?

Or has everything above and below ground been explored?

Have officials already speculated on the existence of the ontology?

These questions popped up in Li Ge's mind one after another.

What follows is an increasingly strong sense of crisis.

"No, this problem must be solved!"

Li Ge decided to suspend the decision to expand the land to the northwest.

Because, before expanding his territory, Li Ge must find a way to deal with official surveillance.

Otherwise, I have painstakingly managed several forces and put on several different vests.

Then Jiuzhou Kingdom easily took off all its vests!

All the stories I made up turned into ridiculous self-directed performances, and were under the eyes of the Kyushu Kingdom...

Li Ge wanted to commit suicide just thinking about such a scene!

What a shame!

However, although Zhou Ranran can currently use his soul body to detect information, he still has no way to contact the core of power in the Kyushu Kingdom.

what to do?

——I need a breakthrough.

Li Ge thought secretly, and suddenly thought of Jiuzhou Kingdom's actions this time.

"Ran Ran, are they going to mobilize these troops near the 'No. 2 Domain'?" Li Ge asked.

"Do you know the exact location?"

"Well..." Zhou Ranran hesitated, "I'm not sure, but they mentioned the mineral veins several times.

"Ore vein?"

Li Ge's eyes were filled with confusion, and he thought carefully about the only clue.

"They said... my domain expanded into dangerous territory, which led them to defend the mines."

"In other words, the boundary of my domain is already very close to this mineral vein."

…

Li Ge decided to use the mineral vein as a breakthrough.

If we can catch a few higher-ranking people from the mine, we may be able to get the answer Li Ge wants from them.

But where exactly is the mine?

All of a sudden, all the people in the area mobilized.

Five gyrfalcons patrol the sky day and night.

On the ground, an army of ants was searching across the border.

Even bees will go to the outside world to see what's special between collecting and making honey.

pity……

Nothing was found.

There is no strange sight.

There are no large numbers of people coming in and out.

Nothing at all.

"Fuck!"

Late at night, Li Ge numbly threw all his energy on the land reinforcement, and all his mind was thinking about the mineral veins.

At this time, two sneaky little fur balls appeared in the moonlight.

The gray-furred ball mole crawled out from under the ground.

This guy seems to have made friends with a weasel recently.

At night, everything is quiet.

And these two little things will engage in a social activity.

——Worship the moon.

This event originally only had a weasel and a rat.

Li Ge has seen it more than once, a solitary rat, leaving a long silhouette in the cold wind at night.

Now, one is fat and the other is thin.

At first glance, it seems quite harmonious.

Li Ge didn't intend to pay attention to them, but...

"Huh? Aren't they going to worship the moon today? Are they going to take a holiday for themselves?"

The abnormality of these two small animals attracted Li Ge's attention.

Two furries, one fat and one thin, gathered together and chattered.

Then they picked up a shiny stone.

With a stroke of the mole's paw, the stone immediately split into two halves!

These two little things are half for you and half for me. I hold them in my hands and start chewing them.

Li Ge was stunned.

"What the hell? Using rocks as snacks?"

However, in the next second, the two little things lit up with an upgraded light at the same time.

Li Ge quickly opened the properties panel.

"Mole (lv2)

Weasel (lv2)"

Li Ge: "..."

——It shouldn’t be.

During this period, I didn't inject any energy into these two little things.

However, their upgrade speed is the fastest among the people!

Just over twenty days!

and……

Li Ge recalled their behavior before promotion.

"Is that the stone?"

"Is this the treasure it dug out?"

"The little mole digs holes every day, isn't it because..."

"Are you too busy?"

…

Li Ge's palm was spread out, with a translucent cyan stone placed in his palm.

The material of the stone is somewhat biased toward jade, and it reflects warm light under the moonlight.

Li Ge clenched his fists and felt the vigorous and stable energy in his palms.

The energy dispersed gently and was absorbed by Li Ge's soul unconsciously.

"Is this a stone containing energy? Is this what Kyushu officially calls a 'mine'?"

"Zhazhazhazha!"

Mole, who was usually taciturn, was now jumping around anxiously.

Li Ge raided his hometown and took out all his inventory.

"Okay, stop arguing."

Li Ge turned to look at it with a smile on his face.

"I didn't expect you to be of great use! Have a good rest tonight and take me to see where you dig up treasures tomorrow."

Mole's small black eyes rolled around, looking at the energy stone in Li Ge's hand with nostalgia, seemingly unwilling to do so.

Li Ge raised his eyebrows.

"Don't worry, this thing belongs to you and I won't steal it."

After saying that, the energy stone in his hand drew a light parabola in the air and fell to the ground.

As if the mole had found a treasure, he picked up the energy stone on the ground with his two front paws, nodded, and returned to the cave.

Li Ge also took this opportunity to recuperate.

"Tomorrow... will there be a head-on collision with the Kyushu official?"

…

The tunnels moles dig underground are winding and winding.

Li Ge possessed the mole and allowed it to crawl downwards.

The corridor is extremely narrow.

As he crawled, Li Ge could feel the mole's hair scratching against the edge of the corridor.

If it were a human of the same size, he might not even be able to stretch his limbs.

Fortunately, the mole's body structure is designed for such geographical terrain.

Its four short legs are busy quickly.

Behind is a source of light that is getting farther and farther away and getting thinner.

Ahead is a passage with no end in sight.

From the perspective of gravity, Li Ge could feel that the mole was always pointing downward.

In other words, he is heading deeper into the ground.

This way of walking in the dark took a long, long time.

It took so long that Li Ge became impatient and doubted whether he had reached the depths of the earth.

Suddenly, light appeared in front.

"Are you there?"

Li Ge cheered up and asked.

"This is it." Mole replied in a thin and weak voice, "Be careful, there is something terrible here."

Li Ge's consciousness spread upwards and found that their depth at this moment was already 4 kilometers.

Li Ge took over the control of the mole's body and crawled forward cautiously.

There was a strange sound coming from the front of the corridor.

Li Ge listened carefully.

The sound was very complicated. To describe it in a general way, it was like the sound of several large machines constantly operating.

There was the rumble of an engine roaring.

There was the clatter of the robotic arm running and stopping.

Of course, there are also the sounds of the collision of iron tools with rocks, the sounds of digging and the collapse of rocks.

"Could this be Kyushu's secret factory?"

Finally reached the end.

Li Ge carefully stuck his head out.

suddenly see the light.

This is a mine, but not an ordinary mine.

What does a normal mine look like?

Dark and cramped.

The miners wore helmets with searchlights, shining beams of light in the darkness.

However, it is impossible to overpower the darkness in any way.

The darkness in the mine followed him like a shadow, like death.

But here...

"Is this a construction site for an underground palace?"

Li Ge was speechless and even a little at a loss.

The place is unusually spacious.

The height at which Li Ge poked his head was probably in the center of the mine.

Looking down, to the mole, it looks like an abyss.

With your head tilted upward, the space at the top is spacious and high.

Rows of lights are extremely bright, illuminating every corner.

Inside the mine, four huge machines are working non-stop.

There are three machines that are like spiders, with eight huge long arms, like an excavator on steroids with several extra arms.

These three machines are facing different walls and are continuously carrying out excavation work.

With the sound of mechanical friction, one stone after another was knocked off the rock wall and piled aside.

The mine is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Another machine is printing load-bearing columns.

That's right, that thing is like a printer. It uses a material that solidifies very quickly to print out several pillars standing tall in the mine!

They even built load-bearing columns!

They don't know how much space they have to dig out here!

Here, humans seem to be subordinate to machines.

They were so small, compared to the huge machinery, they were like little ants.

They were busy moving the gravel on the ground to a special transport belt, and then the gravel disappeared.

That’s right, conveyor belts.

There is a wide corridor that appears on one wall of the mine.

Li Ge made a simple visual inspection and found that the corridor was 10 meters wide and five or six meters high.

The corridor at such a height is enough for these machines to enter and exit smoothly.

Looking at the edge of the corridor, it seems that it has been reinforced with concrete.

"Super project."

These four big characters popped out of Li Ge's mind.

Although Li Ge was no longer a human at this time, he felt a sense of pride in his heart for no reason.

"This is Kyushu Kingdom!"

"This is 4 kilometers underground!"

The mine 4 kilometers underground should have been filled with fear, darkness and despair.

Yet it's solid, clean, bright and busy.

Li Ge couldn't help but laugh a little when he thought of the "terrible things" Mole said.

——For a little mole, these large moving machines can indeed be called "scary things."

"These things are not scary, they are just dead objects that are controlled by humans." Li Ge comforted.

However.

"But I'm not talking about them," replied the Mole.