Remove all restrictions and transform into a bizarre girl.

Most of the people who come here to mine are ordinary people.

Therefore, there is a need for these normal mining area work sheds.

Having killed countless monsters, they naturally had no fear.

The iron gate of the shed was half-open, the hinges of which had long been rusted shut. When Chen Nian kicked it open, it emitted a piercing scream.

The shed contained a few cots and empty cans, but nothing else particularly special.

After searching through the room, Chen Nian and the others finally found a notebook under a cot.

She opened it and exclaimed in surprise, "Niannian, look! There's a diary here!"

Chen Nian was also taken aback when she saw the notebook in Su Wanqing's hand.

Who keeps a diary?

Are you sure this isn't a mission item issued by the development team?

But despite her complaints, she naturally had to check the information since it was available.

Chen Nian took the notebook, shone a light from a dark blue crystal, and quickly saw the information on the notebook.

The handwriting was very messy, becoming increasingly hurried towards the end, with the last few pages almost written in trembling hands:

"Old Liu has only been working in this mine for five days, and he's gone mad. He says he sees someone laughing inside the wall. The ore we dig out glows at night. No, it doesn't glow... it breathes! It's breathing."

"On the seventh day, I woke up early in the morning and Lao Liu was gone. The bed was still warm, but he was nowhere to be seen. Someone said they saw him enter the mine. I dug that entrance with Lao Liu, and I remember it clearly. The ore inside... there were three more pieces than yesterday. I counted them."

"On the tenth day, many more workers disappeared. I realized then. These minerals are alive, hahaha!"

The notebook abruptly ends here.

There were red bloodstains on the edge of the last page, as if someone had spat out blood while writing it.

Chen Nian closed the notebook and exchanged a glance with Fang Anya.

The two women simultaneously recalled the minerals they had found on the bodies of those ghost hunters. Those minerals did indeed have a strange warmth to them. At the time, they thought it was just that the ghost hunters carried them close to their bodies and that they were warmed by their body heat. Now it seemed that the minerals were actually alive.

interesting.

"Let's go. Since we're already here, let's go down and take a look. Even if there's something strange, everyone be careful. If there's any problem, we'll just run away," Chen Nian said.

Hearing Chen Nian's words, the girls nodded.

As for the notebook, Chen Nian put it back in its original place. It wasn't very useful, but if a new person came, it could give him some hints.

After a short while, the group finally entered the mining area.

There are countless mines here, making it very difficult to find someone.

However, Fang Anya had already messaged the boss last night, asking him to contact his niece as much as possible and provide useful information to their search and rescue team.

Fortunately, his niece's sequencing ability was quite good, and she transmitted information completely, providing some useful information so that everyone was not completely clueless.

Based on the information provided by her niece.

There are now thirty mines that match her description.

But thirty is still too many. If we search for them one by one, it might take a month to finish.

At this point, Chen Nian and the others finally understood why the authorities couldn't find them after they reported it to the police.

Who can handle so many?

Everyone's eyes were scanning back and forth among these dozens of mine shafts, trying to find the differences and a trace of the boss's niece.

But apart from their different sizes, these mine entrances are no different from each other.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Xia Luoling suddenly spoke up: "The third mine on the left seems a little different."

Everyone was taken aback by Xia Luoling's words.

They all looked towards that mine shaft.

"What's different?" Chen Nian asked Xia Luoling, puzzled.

"I can't quite put my finger on it, it just smells different, but maybe I'm wrong," Xia Luoling said.

After listening to Xia Luoling's words, Chen Nian pondered for a moment, then looked up and said, "I trust your intuition, Luoling. Let's all search inside this mine together."

"Uh-huh."

As soon as I stepped inside, the mine shaft suddenly shrank.

Moreover, it was visibly shrunken, which immediately sent chills down everyone's spines. What the hell was going on?

Are you going to just crush everyone into cookies?

They were about to leave when they stopped a moment later.

The road behind them had also disappeared, clearly indicating that they had been moved.

The mine shaft, which was originally two meters high, was reduced to 155 meters in height. Except for Chen Nian, everyone else had to bend over to move forward.

Even the rock face above Chen Nian's head almost brushed against his hair.

This is terrifying.

"This mine shaft is moving!"

"Everyone be careful, this place is too eerie."

"Everyone, stay close together. I'm afraid that if we separate, the rock face might change again and separate us, and then there will be a few more missing people."

Everyone understood this principle, so they stayed close together, not daring to move around recklessly.

Fang Anya, who was behind her, felt something was wrong. She took out her dagger and plunged it into the rock wall above the mine. Immediately, a yellowish-brown liquid flowed out.

The liquid smelled the same as what Chen Nian and the others had smelled outside before.

Live!

This mining area is eerie.

Connecting all the clues, Chen Nian became even more certain of this idea.

But why didn't the authorities kill it before?

With a question in mind, Chen Nian swung his sword directly at the rock wall behind him.

At that moment, a huge gap appeared in front of Chen Nian, then merged back together. If it weren't for the pool of yellowish-brown liquid left at the scene, no one would have believed what had just happened.

Seeing this, Chen Nian composed herself.

Thankfully, thankfully, the rock wall can be cut open, so there's no fear of everyone being trapped inside.

"If we can cut through, we won't be trapped. Let's keep moving forward," Chen Nian said, suppressing her turbulent thoughts.

The six people huddled together, hunched over, moving through the increasingly narrow passageway.

The rock wall above their heads had dropped to about 1.4 meters, so even Chen Nian had to walk with her head down.

The path that had disappeared behind them never reappeared, and the rock walls on both sides undulated slightly, slowly tightening like closed lips.

The rock face seemed to be intentionally leading them to another place.

However, given the current situation, they haven't thought about this issue in detail.

Instead, they continued along the passageway further inside.

Just as the passageway narrowed to less than a meter wide, suddenly, a sliver of light shone through the darkness ahead.

Like a beacon in the darkness, it guides everyone on their path forward.

Without hesitation, everyone headed in that direction, squeezing through the last narrow gap. They were all stunned by the sight before them.

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