Chapter 428: Chapter 428

"Is that... a pyramid?"

Lin Yue gazed at the pyramid-like structures on the ground, reflecting a faint white glow under the moonlight, feeling momentarily dazed. Follow current novᴇls on noᴠelfire.net

When did I enter the Secret Realm?

How can pyramids appear in the Otherworld?

But it wasn’t long before Bai landed directly on one of the ’pyramids’ that Lin Yue realized what these things were.

These are unexpectedly huge stone mountains made of countless stones, coal blocks, and iron blocks!

Coming down from this small mountain roughly fifty meters high again, Lin Yue saw the machine dogs still at work.

"Wow, these guys are really diligent," Lin Yue remarked, looking at the one beside him and then at the other four nearby, feeling quite impressed by these metal little creatures.

Does it mean working from day to night until they’re almost out of charge, and then resting until dawn for solar charging and continuing their work?

Unconsciously allowing the machine dogs to enjoy the benefits of a 24-hour working day with lunch breaks, Lin Yue, the great exploiting capitalist, inspected their labor achievements while confirming that their operating temperature wasn’t high and they still had about ninety percent power remaining, considerately refilling their magazines.

Turn them off? Impossible.

Unless they are truly broken one day, otherwise they can clearly achieve more by self-charging and freely allocating their working hours.

In the current situation where resources are lacking in various aspects, Lin Yue couldn’t just let them stop, even though the stone materials and iron blocks of these five ’pyramids’ were already a considerable reserve.

Come to think of it, shortly after coming down, Lin Yue felt waves of heat surging in from all directions, making him quite uncomfortable.

"This damned weather, really uncomfortable."

The sound of machinery operating rang out, and Lin Yue saw two more machine dogs drawing out ore.

They turned their round cameras to glance over, observing Lin Yue and Bai carefully before activating again, moving further to the other stone mountains, placing the ores from the mechanical arms to the sides.

Finally, they returned one after another to the mine pit, acting quite swiftly without any sign of delay or snag.

"Efficiency really is remarkable, seems like I made the right call after all." The machine dogs’ work efficiency is extremely high, and they keep operating even during the night, far surpassing his own efficiency.

Lin Yue descended into the mine pit, moving through the much more spacious passage inward.

Temperature instantly dropped, yet it remained considerably uncomfortable.

Continuous clinks and clanks of metal and rock striking echoed within, and under the flashlight’s glow, Lin Yue suddenly realized he had entered a tremendously vast space!

"This scale... It’s almost comparable to the nitrate ore mine over there, right?"

Looking at the bottomless, even wider than before underground mine pit, Lin Yue couldn’t help but exclaim!

The original mine pit has now transformed into an ’entrance,’ with downward and surrounding spaces exceedingly deep and wide!

Moreover, Lin Yue also noticed the flashlight’s beam elicited a reflection as it passed through the center of the mine pit!

Reflection? What could that be?

"Gawoo." Bai indicated that if Lin Yue wanted to go below, it must take him along, as the underground hollow has become quite deep, making a simple descent quite impossible.

Lin Yue was picked up by Bai, spiraling rapidly downward.

He discovered that perhaps he was indeed somewhat naive earlier, as the depth likely reached close to a hundred meters!

After all this time, they finally landed on the ground, with two mining machine dogs approaching and returning to their posts upon seeing Lin Yue and Bai, continuing their knocking work.

Surveying the surroundings in the wide and deep passage, Lin Yue truly couldn’t believe this was crafted by mere two machine dogs.

He walked to the reflective spot he had noticed earlier, discovering its true nature!

"Is this... crystal?" Lin Yue found that the center housed massive transparent or semi-transparent purple and white prisms; if not crystal, what could it be?

He conducted a system inspection, revealing the presence of some tiny other minerals inside, like malachite, though in quite small quantities.

Lin Yue searched around slightly and indeed found a corner with an opening over a meter tall and three meters wide.

With the flashlight’s beam passing through, Lin Yue quickly confirmed that this was a crystal cavern, incredibly deep within, and its interior space size unknown.

If machine dogs fell in... they might struggle to climb out.

Lin Yue brought both machine dogs over and reconfigured their settings, excluding the option of mining crystals.

When finding suitable usage directions, these decorative items weren’t necessary to him.

Collecting all crystals in the mine pit’s center, Lin Yue had Bai take him back to the surface, returning to the pyramids.

"Taking the crystals back doesn’t serve much purpose; better build a shelter to collect them," Lin Yue immediately used four shelter design maps, quickly establishing a ’storage’ on the ground.

A large storage space is evidently better, but lacking alloys in hand meant resorting to extra shelter design maps as storage space.

Once there are sufficient alloys, establishing a permanent storage will suffice later.

After storing the crystals inside, Lin Yue approached a ’pyramid,’ quickly commencing the transport work.

However, just at this moment, Lin Yue suddenly heard intense gunfire, accompanied by screams!

Lin Yue immediately prepared for battle, yet the gunfire ceased soon; two patrolling machine dogs circled back around him.

"Gawoo." Bai indicated the enemy had fled, taking him to the site of the incident.

A pile of Lizardman corpses lay there, none left breathing.

Furthermore, he noticed a deep hole nearby, seemingly where these Lizardmen emerged from.

The commotion gradually faded away, eventually disappearing entirely, and the remaining Lizardmen indeed fled.

These came out unable to stand the heat?

Filling the Storage Space, Lin Yue had Bai take him back as quickly as possible, returning just outside the shelter.

"Bai, go rest in the shelter for a while; it’s too hot outside."

The perceived body temperature felt similar to the daytime, seemingly continuously rising; sleeping inside the shelter without ventilation could likely lead to suffocation.

The extreme heat... the real terror of this disaster perhaps lies in this aspect.

Inside the shelter, closing windows and doors makes it more stifling and uncomfortable; these circumstances might worsen even further at night.

Nonetheless, opening windows and doors...

Would allow mutated creatures outside to feast.

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