Chapter 58: The Terrifying Dry Well (10)

  I observed carefully all the way, and it seems that there is no ventilation facility inside this dry well. How can there be wind? Another thing is that according to the data and the tragic accident of coal and gas gushing out just now, this place is obviously a high-outburst mine. But the data on my gas detector doesn't show any abnormality, as if there's not even a bit of gas here. What's going on?

  Is there anything in this mine that is the same as the outside world? Along the wolf's tooth-like glow, I stared at the surrounding coal wall in amazement, unable to think of what situation this scene was.

  "Tie Yi, do you feel like there's a faint breeze here?" I said to Tie Yi's back.

  "You felt it too? It seems like there's wind." Tie Yi's response confirmed my guess, apparently it wasn't just my psychological effect.

  "Perhaps this wind is the clue to finding the Millennium Black Gold." I muttered to myself, suddenly having a sense of being possessed by Detective Bao and Di Renjie.

  ……

  I took another look at the gas detector in my hand, and the data was as natural as it would be on the ground. Looking at the coal head in front of us, we had obviously reached the deepest part of the dry well, with no way to go.

  Further ahead is the coal wall, and if you want to continue walking, you need to assemble a roadheader first.

  Along the gleam of wolf's teeth, I saw that there were many black withered bones scattered all over the coal ash near the coal head, which should be the remains of those who were mining at the coal face when the accident occurred!

  The sound of the mountain call from the well mouth clearly told me that these yin souls had already gone through six cycles of death after I and Tie Yi arrived here.

  Judging from the situation, that middle-aged man called Shuishu should be appearing soon. As expected, several steps in front of me, that robust figure covered with coal dust and sweat reappeared, piercing through my body, while I seemed like transparent air.

  Watching Uncle Shui's figure quickly disappear from my sight as he ran, I felt my eyes gradually becoming blurry.

  Sometimes life is just so cheap, starting in the same world and ending in a different one. That's life! I don't want to say anything because many times I'm just an onlooker in the crowd, without the qualification to comment.

  I suddenly became very curious about that piece of thousand-year-old Wujinshi, which I had only heard of but never seen. What on earth is this thing, and how can it isolate this place to such an extent?

  But these strange scenes also clearly tell me that this thing is undoubtedly here, if it weren't for the existence of the thousand-year-old black gold, I really can't find a more far-fetched reason to explain everything I've seen and experienced here. But in this place that's not big but not small either, finding a stone with a color similar to the ore body might be right under my nose, what should I do? I should have hired more people to help before coming here.

  "Tie Yi, you say that this thousand-year-old Wujin is good or bad? Are we right or wrong in searching for it? If it's good, why does its existence cause these innocent people to repeatedly experience unimaginable suffering, like purgatory, in this unknown underground?"

  As the explosive sound continued behind me, I somehow felt a bit of resentment towards the legendary Millennium Black Gold. Perhaps it was because all this had happened too many times and was too shocking, and the root cause of all this might be that piece of stone we were looking for, which made me somewhat unable to let go.

  Tie Yi shook his head, wiping the sweat from his forehead with a casual hand. "The Thousand Year Black Gold is just an object, it's there, neither good nor bad, it depends on whose hands it falls into and what they use it for!"

  Good people naturally do good things, bad people naturally do bad things! Good and evil are not in themselves, but in people, in their hearts! The most beautiful thing in this world is the human heart, and the most vicious one is also the human heart.

  Everything here can be considered an accident, but the root cause of everything is undoubtedly human heart, a heart that is darker and colder than this coal stone.

  "Don't imagine things, hurry up and look for it. I have a feeling that the Millennium Black Gold Stone is around us. Let's take another careful look." As he spoke, Tie Yi began to feel his way along the coal wall on the right side.

  "It seems reasonable, we can't just randomly search and possibly throw it away as trash, that's not a solution!"

  I'm feeling my way along the left coal wall, trying to find this thing whose name I know but not its appearance, which should be a black thing judging from its name.

  We were searching inch by inch at the forefront of our work, and from time to time, a burst of noise came from the wellhead behind us. I don't know how many times we've died in a loop today, and I couldn't help but sigh.

  Just as I was nursing my emotions, the iron-clad figure beside me suddenly rushed towards me, shouting "Get out of the way" before grabbing me and tossing me aside. This sudden move almost broke my backpack. Just as I was about to get angry, I saw that a huge stone slab had collapsed right where I was standing just moments before. If I had been hit by the previous falling rocks, at most I would have gotten a head wound, but if I had been hit this time, I would have been crushed to death. Looking at the pile of stones, I broke out in cold sweat.

  I looked up at the dilapidated roof support, which was almost all old wood, and not even a single strand of wire mesh to reinforce it. In such an environment, coal mining is fraught with the risk of death at any moment.

  It can be said that staying in this place for a long time, living is accidental and death is inevitable, it's simply the rhythm of hell on earth!

  "Kid, you really have a couple of tricks up your sleeve! I feel like my cells are still pretty well-developed!" I couldn't help but laugh at the sight of Iron Clothes.

  "I really suspect your structure. What are you thinking!" But hearing this iron lump's concerned words, it's not bad.

  I said, "After all, I've also worked as a coal mine technician. I didn't expect you to be even more professional than me. You're really good, I'm praising you." This guy faced such ridiculous language and yet had no expression on his face, it was very clear that his facial nerves had been severely damaged.

  In the future, if there is an opportunity, I will definitely take this guy to the hospital for a full-body examination to see if he has any physical problems or depression. Otherwise, how can one person's expression be so cold?

  Having narrowly escaped disaster, I suddenly felt that this being, supposedly the wisest of all living things, was as insignificant as a speck of dust in the face of nature.

  Just now, nothing seemed to be wrong, but the more I think about it, the more I'm afraid. It's very clear that my spare clothes are already soaked with sweat. Although I'm a self-proclaimed "born-to-die" person, this frequent and thrilling feeling of brushing against death is terrifying, even though I've become half a ghost myself.

  I took a few deep breaths repeatedly, slowly stabilizing my emotions. Then I walked towards Tieyi's direction, at this moment Tieyi was on the west side of the coal mining area, as if he had discovered something.

  "What's wrong? You look so focused, have you found something?" Tie Yi was crouched on the ground with a wolf-tooth flashlight in hand, his intense expression piquing my curiosity.

  "Look" in the direction of Tie Yi's finger, I saw several iron shovels and other tools scattered on the ground. If I'm not mistaken, they should be used for manual coal mining. But what's strange is that the metal surface of these tools has become riddled with holes, with many small bullet-like marks, as if they had been shot at by a dense barrage of small bullets. If you don't look at the size, it looks like a common sieve found in every household in the north.

  I picked up a iron shovel and shone it at the wolf's teeth, feeling very eerie. "It can't be that these tools are all seriously unqualified, fake and inferior products killing people!"

  Tieyi shook his head, "Looking at the situation, it shouldn't be formed by wind erosion. I seem to have heard of it somewhere, let me think for a moment." As Tieyi fell into deep thought, I listlessly held my flashlight and looked around, "This boulder is really hard to find..."

  Before I could finish what I was saying, I felt a rustling sound in my ear, and this sound was the first time I heard it since I came here, it must have nothing to do with the cycle of death.

  I followed the sound and looked over, the voice should be coming from the position where the stone slab just fell.

  As we spoke, the spot where the stone slab had fallen suddenly lit up with a few faint glows, which grew more and more numerous, pouring out and landing not far behind us, looking very much like fireflies.

  As soon as Tie Yi said a sentence "Not good, the Golden Armored Ants" Hearing this name, my heart tightened, although I still don't know what thing Tie Yi is talking about, but listening to Tie Yi's tone, it's definitely not something good.

  Following the discovery of the wolf's fang shining in Tie Yi's hand, I suddenly found that a large number of insect-like creatures about the size of crickets had crawled out from the cracks in the wall. What was strange was that these things were reflecting a faint fluorescent glow all over their bodies. At first, it was just a few scattered points, but after a few minutes, they had become patches of green light. This thing is something I've never seen or even heard of before.

  I subconsciously prepared to catch one and take a look, it really looks cute.

  "Don't touch those insects, they look like golden armored ants. " Looking at the cute little bugs, I don't know why Tie Yi is so tense, it's not the demeanor a martial arts master should have.

  "It's just a small bug, what's the big deal?" I expressed my incomprehension towards Tie Yi's tension.

  Tie Yi said, "I last saw this Golden Armored Ant in the Eighteenth Layer of Hell!"

  "Oh... what? Say it again? Hell?" Hearing Tie Yi's words, I hastily retreated backwards.

  "The fluorescent bodily fluid secreted by the Golden Ant King is corrosive to a degree one hundred thousand times that of aqua regia; if it comes into contact with something, not only will the bones be corroded and disappear, but even the soul will dissolve and disperse."

  These insects are called hell ants, have you heard of hell's torture?

  The executioner of the hellish punishment of lingchi is actually a type of ant!

  As soon as I heard Tie Yi's words, I almost peed my pants and scrambled backward, but behind me was the thick coal wall. At this moment, we were surrounded by the executioners of hell, with our lives hanging in the balance!