Chapter 954 - Chapter 954 Chapter 661 The Visitor_2
Chapter 954: Chapter 661: The Visitor_2 Chapter 954: Chapter 661: The Visitor_2 “I’ll handle it, have your men seal all the mine entrances– How many are there?”
“Only two, I will block them up completely!”
The returning Guard’s face was ashen, and his lips quivered, but he mustered the courage to respond.
“Do you need me to notify your companions?”
“There’s no need for now, it’s better if I handle this alone.”
Although Golden Pupil hadn’t seen the end, Duanmu Huai had some speculations, which might explain why neither the Priests nor the Sacred Knights had noticed the problem. It had exceeded their knowledge and common sense. Just as Divine Arts or Magic might seem like tricks to people from other worlds, some things were equally unfamiliar to the people of this world.
The mine entrance was located halfway up the hill behind the town, where railway tracks still lay. One could see the empty mine carts around– It was clear that they had seen better days, but now the dust and cobwebs covering the carts indicated those days were long gone.
“Stay away from here, do not approach, no one is to come in.”
Before entering the cave, Duanmu Huai turned around and spoke to the mayor and the Guard Officer.
“If you wish to enter, do so at your own risk.”
“Is it dangerous inside?”
“You don’t need to know that.”
Duanmu Huai’s icy gaze stopped the mayor’s foolish and curious inquiry.
“Feel free to enter if you want, I’ve already warned you.”
After saying this, Duanmu Huai turned and left, while the others swallowed hard, exchanged glances, and then backed away one after another.
They weren’t fools.
The mine was dim and lightless.
Duanmu Huai clenched his fists and took large strides into the mine. This narrow space was not suitable for swinging the Thunder Warhammer or the Power Sword, but it didn’t matter. Just his fists were enough to turn any creature that dared stand in his way into a pulp.
Even more effective than the War Hammer.
“Click… click click click…!”
As Duanmu Huai ventured deeper into the mine, strange noise emerged from his helmet, but Duanmu Huai wasn’t surprised by this noise; in fact, he had anticipated it!
“As I thought, damn radiation!”
Seeing the radiation warning from his helmet, Duanmu Huai clenched his fists tighter.
This was what he had suspected from the last scene he saw through Golden Pupil: in the Magic World, it’s not unusual for stones to glow, and many gems glow as well. However, Duanmu Huai quickly recalled what the Tyler Priest had said before about their investigation yielding nothing.
If the stone’s glow was the result of some magic, then they couldn’t possibly have missed it. But what if it wasn’t magic?
Could radioactive material be detected with spells for detecting toxins or curses?
Duanmu Huai wasn’t sure what these magics were based on for detection, but as it seemed now, these magics had no effect on naturally occurring radiation.
So, was this merely an accident?
Duanmu Huai didn’t think so. The reason was simple: this was an iron ore mine. If radiative ore had been here for a long time, then the miners from Locke Town would have died off long ago. But the notion of a recent discovery didn’t make sense either, as could be deduced from the historical state of the mining carts– since the ore had been exhausted, Locke Town hadn’t been mining for a long time, so that possibility was excluded.
This meant someone had deliberately placed a radioactive ore here to poison people downstream– Radiation contamination causing fetal deformities and miscarriages was not newsworthy anymore. Therefore, the distorted shapes of the Locke Town’s stillborn babies could be understood. The only oddity was that this process seemed a bit too fast, and similar incidents hadn’t occurred elsewhere.
Perhaps because Locke Town was the closest, it was the most severely affected?
This was also why Duanmu Huai didn’t want Anhe Ma Li and others to come with him; a Judge’s Power Armor could withstand all radiation and extreme temperatures and operate freely even in a vacuum. But he didn’t believe Ann’s magic could protect him from radiation contamination.