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"I feel the same kind of mental pressure I experienced when I encountered the Devouring Beast last time. Do you think there might be a sleeping Devouring Beast here?"
Qianli's idea surprised everyone.
Jing Yuan then began a mental scan.
After scanning, he could confirm that there was no trace of the Devouring Beast in the vicinity.
“Although we don’t know what’s going on, I feel that it should be safe down there. It’s just that ordinary workers can’t withstand this kind of mental pressure, but the Awakened Ones can! Chief Uto!” Qianli said, “Since your workers can’t come down, why don’t you let the Awakened Ones mine it?”
Uto smiled and said, "As you know, the price of hiring an Awakened One is not the same as the price of hiring an ordinary worker."
Shattered Star glared at Uto.
The deal was agreed upon, but they failed to complete it, so the responsibility lies with them.
Uto understood, so he offered, "However, if you mine the minerals yourselves, you won't need to hire anyone else!"
While Suixing hesitated, Qianli below said, "Then let's do it ourselves!"
Uto waved his hand and said to the person next to him, "Send them a set of tools."
Shattered Star asked, "If we were to mine it, how long would it take you to refine it?"
Uto thought for a moment and said, "According to the original schedule, it would take at least a week. However, this time the problem was ours. As long as you can mine enough, I will have them use all their energy for refining. In a maximum of two days, we can make up for the shortfall."
At this point, Sui Xing had no choice but to agree, "Okay!"
Below the mine, Qianli and Guayan began mining ore. As awakened beings, they possessed greater strength and endurance than ordinary people, allowing them to mine faster.
However, due to that strange mental pressure, they couldn't hold on for long.
Soon, the two of them came up, and Sui Xing and Jing Yuan went down.
Jing Yuan never expected that coming here to make a transaction would involve mining!
Jingyuan, out of curiosity, followed Suixing down to the bottom of the mine.
Using the searchlight, Jingyuan saw that the rock walls of the mine were just ordinary rock strata, nothing special.
However, when they descended to a depth of about 100 meters, some crystals appeared around them.
Shattered Star said that this was the mineral they wanted.
Jingyuan asked curiously, "What exactly is this?"
Shattered Star said indifferently, "A kind of ore."
Seeing that Jingyuan was not satisfied with the answer, she added, "I'll tell the boss to count it as part of your workload, and you won't have to come out with me next time."
Jing Yuan smiled, "I can do the work, but you have to let me know what this is! Otherwise, I won't do it!"
Sui Xing felt somewhat helpless; Jing Yuan was not the kind of person who could be easily fooled.
Just then, Jingyuan sensed a faint sound.
"coming!"
Jingyuan suddenly said.
"What's coming?" Shattered Star hadn't even reacted yet.
"That's the voice they were just talking about!"
Sui Xing frowned. She hadn't heard any sounds, nor had she felt the mental pressure they were talking about.
"Gone!"
Jing Yuan was also puzzled; the voice suddenly disappeared.
Shattered Star said, "I didn't hear it, and I didn't feel it."
Jing Yuan looked around in confusion, while simultaneously scanning the surroundings with his mental power.
At one point, Jingyuan noticed something unusual in the rock strata.
Jingyuan's mental power can only sense life force at long distances. Only when he gets close can he sense inanimate objects.
Fortunately, Jing Yuan came down; otherwise, even if he had scanned from above, he wouldn't have been able to discover what was underground.
"Shattered Star, have them send down a few drill bits, just any drill bit will do."
"how?"
"I've found something! But I need to drill through the rock wall to take a look."
Shattered Star quickly said into the walkie-talkie, "Chief Utopia, could you please send down a few drills? We've made a discovery."
Soon, three drill bits were brought down.
Jingyuan directly controlled the turning head to begin digging into the rock wall.
With telekinesis, all three drills can operate simultaneously, resulting in a fast digging speed.
Before long, they drilled out a small hole three meters deep.
As the drill bit continued forward, it struck a hard object, producing a harsh metallic scraping sound.
"There is something."
Jingyuan shone a searchlight in the direction and found that there was indeed an object in front of him, with a metallic sheen on its surface.
He initially intended to pull it out using his telekinesis, but discovered that it was very large and that he needed to clear away the surrounding rock layers before he could remove it.
no way.
Jingyuan could only slowly clear away the rocks around the object.
After about ten minutes, Jingyuan finally cleared a path and took out the object.
At this moment, Shattered Star had already ascended.
With the help of those above, Jing Yuan was slowly pulled up. The object, controlled by Jing Yuan's telekinesis, also followed.
It wasn't until Jing Yuan took the object out of the mine that he could see its appearance clearly.
It was actually a two-meter-tall metal cylinder!
Everyone was very surprised when they saw this thing.
Uto never expected that there would be such a thing in his own mine.
He asked with a puzzled look, "What is this thing?"
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When the metal cylinder was unearthed, everyone looked on in surprise.
Even the people of Steelflame Fortress didn't know what this thing was.
This is a mine shaft; before the excavation reached this location, these things were buried underground.
Uto immediately sent technical experts to examine the object.
While waiting for the experts to arrive, Jing Yuan asked, "Chief Uto, why don't you send two more workers down now and see if they still faint?"
Uto looked on with suspicion. Jingyuan's words simply meant that he believed this thing in front of him was the culprit that caused the worker to fall into a coma.
However, Uto himself was also very curious, so he immediately sent two more workers down.
While the people of Steelflame Fortress were conducting experiments on the workers, Jingyuan took the opportunity to carefully observe the metal cylinder.
The entire cylinder is about two meters high and about 40 centimeters in diameter, and has a metallic silver-white luster.
The surface of the metal cylinder has no trace of splicing, and it looks like a single piece of metal.
Its surface is very smooth, and it looks like it is not a natural creation, but an artificial one.
Moreover, achieving this surface requires a high level of industrial expertise.
This is all that Jingyuan can observe with his eyes; the rest will have to be examined by technical experts using instruments.
Meanwhile, after the workers were lowered to a position 100 meters below, a sound came back.
This time, the two ordinary workers did not fall into a coma.
This is the first time in several days that an ordinary worker has gone down into the mine without losing consciousness.
Jingyuan walked over and said to Uto, "Lord Uto, since they are not unconscious, the next mining task will be handed over to them."
Uto glanced at his subordinate beside him, who immediately gave the order via walkie-talkie.
Uto walked to the metal cylinder and asked Jingyuan in confusion, "How did you find this thing down there?"
"My potential lies in having extraordinary perception!"
Jingyuan just made up a random sentence.
Soon, the technical experts from the base also came over, bringing a bunch of instruments and equipment.
Through measurement, they first obtained the basic data of the cylinder.
Height: 218cm; Circumference: 128cm; Weight: 281kg.
The surface is made of an unknown alloy.
By measuring the surface alloy density and the average density ratio, it was determined that the cylinder is hollow at the center.