The Game of Global Mining

Chapter 974: Chapter 811: Divine Tomb of Bronze City

Bronze City Divine Tomb.

Alpha and Beta’s infiltration run hit an accident. The Teleportation Mirror that had been pre-placed in the Divine Tomb’s furniture hill suddenly shattered mid-teleport, causing the teleport to fail. At the same time it inflicted damage on Alpha similar to a Shattering Strike.

Alpha had a vague bad premonition. But he couldn’t rule out that it was just an accident—after all, the furniture mirror they’d set up beforehand had already existed in-game for a hundred years, it was already dilapidated, and Alpha’s level and strength had improved a lot lately; a broken-down mirror might simply not be able to withstand the teleport and shatter.

Since they couldn’t teleport, then they’d just walk and sneak underground. Of course, as Shadow Demons, that was called shadow-walking. Shadow Demons don’t have physical bodies; as long as there’s a gap they can slip in. This is also the huge advantage Shadow Demons have in Treasure Hunting.

After several hours of exploration, the Divine Tomb was getting closer and closer.

At the same time they could feel, coming from the gaps, a violent surge of energy Impact.

Alpha’s bad premonition was once again confirmed: "Buddy, what’s going on?"

Beta was baffled: "Under normal circumstances, the Divine Tomb’s Death Qi is loose and scattered. In this situation, it feels like an Evil God has already appeared?"

Alpha’s heart jolted: "Loose Death Qi accumulated over a hundred years can spontaneously give birth to an Evil God. That’s also the theoretical basis of our Evil God condensation project!"

Beta said, "We still have a chance. While this Evil God doesn’t yet have a clear self-awareness, we can still control it!"

Alpha said in a deep voice, "Exactly. Judging by the current extent of the energy spilling out, it’ll be discovered by the Guardian God very soon. If it doesn’t have the self-preservation awareness to restrain itself, that just confirms it has no self-awareness!"

"Then hurry up!"

Bracing against the wind pressure, they passed through the gaps. Suddenly, a squeaking sound came from up ahead.

Alpha froze for a moment: "What sound?"

Beta wasn’t too sure: "A mouse?"

He immediately started recording and replayed it several times: "Definitely not the sound of wind. Probably a mouse."

Alpha said in surprise, "There’s serious Death Qi here. How could a mouse possibly survive?"

Beta was puzzled too: "But it’s still a mouse after all. Maybe it’s like how a Demonic Puppet accidentally manifested in the Oak City Divine Tomb—maybe here a Plague Rat that isn’t afraid of Death Qi will be born?"

Alpha deeply agreed: "Very likely. This squeak sounds different from an ordinary mouse; it should be a mutation. If this run succeeds and we can pick up a mutant mouse, that’s bonus loot..."

The two finally entered the Divine Tomb and saw, in the darkness, a fluorescent glowing Bone Dragon already fully formed. The surrounding dark Death Qi had turned into Black Wind howling madly through the tomb, and mixed in the Black Wind were all kinds of bone fragments and furniture shards. They also saw the shattered mirror glass from earlier.

Now they finally understood why the mirror had broken.

Just then, the Bone Dragon spoke: "Who?"

It can talk? It has Wisdom?

That makes things both easier and harder!

Alpha and Beta shouted from within the gaps, "Your masters are here! Control your energy outburst, or the Guardian God will notice!"

The Bone Dragon was stunned: "What masters?"

Female? And Alpha felt that her tone wasn’t as manic as the Black Wind, which made him instantly bolder.

The two immediately slipped out of the gaps, the dark shadows condensing into two humanoid figures. Each pulled out a Divine Artifact Crystal Pot: "This is the symbol of the master."

The Bone Dragon stared in a daze for a long moment, then lowered her posture; her dragon head directly lay on the ground, and the howling Black Wind indeed weakened a lot. Her tone was incomparably reverent and gentle: "Master, what is this thing?"

She directly acknowledged them as masters?!

Alpha and Beta were simply overjoyed beyond measure. To directly subdue a fully formed, obedient Evil God—this saved them so much trouble in one go!

Alpha was extremely satisfied with her attitude: "The Resentment Pot. It boosts Resentment refinement efficiency by more than 100%. Right now your energy is vast, but the quality isn’t good. You need to use the pot for further refinement..."

...

Bronze City sewers.

Seizing the cover of night, Moore air-dropped into the city, then immediately rushed forward, accelerating along the same route she had taken with the Black Cat last time.

Last time Moore completed the Slime Monster’s quest and received the full skill set reward: Spatial Perception, Space Indentation, Instant Teleportation Invisibility. (Chapter 622.) So even without the Black Cat carrying her this time, just relying on Space Indentation, her speed was pretty damn awesome.

The key point is: squirrels are small, Mana consumption is low, so the endurance is even more awesome.

So this is exactly what the Slime Monster meant by "being weak has its upsides."

But as she got close to the Divine Tomb, the downside of being weak hit—this Black Wind poison, the little squirrel just couldn’t handle it!

No way, how can you flop at a critical moment like this?

She could only squeak with all her might. There were lots of gaps here and the echo effect was good. She could only hope the Slime Monster had grown much stronger after absorbing the Divine Tomb’s energy and could hear her, since her quest was to deliver a message.

Right as Moore was squeaking like crazy, a crystal-clear water sphere suddenly shot out from the gap ahead.

Was that the Slime Monster? A Green Name? It was—it heard her!

The water sphere immediately wrapped around the little squirrel, forming a Water Shield that isolated the Death Qi. The Slime Monster’s voice followed: "Little one, just you? Tom didn’t come?"

Moore didn’t waste words and hurriedly delivered the message: "It’s urgent. I came alone. I’m here to inform you, my lord, that the Bronze Flower on the Bronze City announcement wasn’t captured by Pirates, she escaped on her own. My lord, don’t act rashly."

The Slime Monster instead asked, "Just you alone? But clearly two more have come too."

Moore was dumbfounded!

It didn’t pick up the thread—that meant the message hadn’t been successfully delivered. After all, that’s just how quest mechanics work: players can babble all sorts of nonsense and NPCs will remain unmoved; only specific keywords or events will trigger a response—but that wasn’t the main issue right now!

Two more came? They were definitely enemies, not allies!

Moore first dealt with the pressing matter: "They must be enemies!"

The Slime Monster said blandly, "Doesn’t really matter. I’ll just wipe them out later."

Moore’s mind spun rapidly: "At the very least we should find out who they are, right? My lord, could you let me quietly take a look at them?"

"Sure, come on."

Moore was very conflicted. On this point, she was actually quite cooperative—which meant a quest event was being triggered, right?

The Water Shield floated Moore into the Divine Tomb, and then the scene before her shocked her. This was the same type of Evil God that had appeared in the other four cities!

But this time it was different. She and it were allies—no, Moore distinctly felt that meeting it was being orchestrated by an invisible giant hand, and that hand could only be Brother Chun’s, right?

With its single-word opening of "Who," two humanoid dark silhouettes appeared from another set of gaps.

Moore was stunned—players! Tatami and Xiximi, both on the top-200 leaderboard!

The team had actually suspected these two for a long time. They felt like they had suddenly popped out of nowhere, shooting into the top 100 of the Black Iron City rankings right before the Evil God appeared in Black Iron City. Moore hadn’t understood it back then, until she became an Imperial Spy and got the option to change her name, then she finally guessed the general idea.

Now the two had finally shown themselves, and sure enough they were connected to the Evil God!

Watching the two pull out a pair of obviously Divine Artifact items, Moore instantly realized these were the key items to triggering the quest event, so she boldly improvised: "My lord, those two are holding Divine Artifacts. Pretend to submit to them first, trick them into handing them over, then kill them!"

The Water Shield also sounded rather astonished: "They are indeed extremely high-end Divine Artifacts..."