Chapter 325: Ore Transformation
I knew there was something wrong with the information that woman gave. It's completely possible to dig up enough White Ore here.
Before long, Lin Ye had dug up ten pieces of White Ore.
After helping Old Arthur dig enough ore, the two of them carried the White Ore back toward the initial mining area.
Fortunately, each piece of White Ore wasn't too large, only slightly bigger than a fist, otherwise they would have had to consider how to transport the ore back.
"...You go first, I need to rest for a while."
Old Arthur suddenly stopped walking, his body swaying as he grabbed the mine wall with one hand.
The White Ore they had worked so hard to dig out fell to the ground, scattering everywhere.
"Here, eat this."
Lin Ye tossed Old Arthur a processed mining rat, one he had casually caught while mining earlier.
"You're giving this to me? Are you sure you're okay?" Old Arthur hesitated for a moment, but hunger had already destroyed his remaining rationality, and he stuffed the entire mining rat into his mouth.
"I can still hold on, but after eating small mining rats, we might get attacked by large mining rats. Be careful of your footing."
Lin Ye wasn't sure if Old Arthur could avoid the ambush of large mining rats, which was why he hadn't given him the small mining rat earlier.
"Compared to hunger, that's nothing."
After eating the mining rat, Old Arthur clearly looked much more energetic.
"Then let's hurry, and don't forget to pick up the ore from the ground."
After Old Arthur collected the scattered ore, Lin Ye continued leading the way. They had only walked about two hundred meters when they suddenly felt the ground beneath their feet begin to tremble.
Sensing the direction of the vibrations, Lin Ye quickly ran toward the area with the strongest tremors, holding a piece of ore and his mining pickaxe. Soon he encountered a group of miners wearing prison garb.
The position with the strongest vibrations rapidly approached Lin Ye. Lin Ye charged toward the miners, taking a large step over that position as masses of flesh and organs growing on the ore surged out from behind him, leaving them in his wake.
The miner leader threw ore at Lin Ye, who in turn threw a spinning piece of ore. Though Lin Ye wasn't as strong as the miner leader, when the two pieces of ore collided, the miner leader's ore was deflected, grazing past Lin Ye's head and smashing the flesh and organs that were closely following him.
The opponent wanted to continue throwing ore, but by then Lin Ye had already closed the distance, bringing his mining pickaxe along with him.
Lin Ye used part of his Heavy Strike technique, driving the pickaxe upward through the miner leader's skull from below.
The surrounding miners closed in, several pickaxes swinging toward Lin Ye's head and upper body.
Releasing his pickaxe, Lin Ye used boxing footwork to move in front of one miner, the distance between them less than two centimeters.
The pickaxes behind him missed their target. Lin Ye grabbed the miner's body, disrupted its balance with a kick, and spun it around to his back.
Several pickaxes stabbed into the miner's body. Lin Ye used the momentum to continue spinning the miner's body, using the pickaxe in its hand to pierce through another miner's skull.
The remaining miners pulled out their pickaxes and continued attacking Lin Ye, who used the miner's corpse as a shield to block attacks while borrowing momentum to attack other miners with his pickaxe. Before long, Lin Ye had killed all the remaining miners.
Lin Ye wasn't completely unscathed either. Due to his fragile body, while using various techniques and borrowing momentum, his muscles and bones had suffered some damage.
After Lin Ye killed the miner leader, those flesh and organs retracted underground, and the ground tremors quickly disappeared.
"Are you okay?"
Old Arthur dragged his injured left leg over. He had been ambushed by a large mining rat earlier, but fortunately he was prepared and only had his left leg bitten off.
"I'm fine."
Lin Ye went back to pick up the White Ore from the ground. The corpse of the large mining rat lay there, its head smashed in.
After gathering their belongings, the two continued toward the initial mining area. Less than a hundred meters from the initial mining area, a girl appeared before them.
She held a long-barreled hunting shotgun in her hands.
"Who are you? Why are you blocking our way?"
Lin Ye wasn't confident he could dodge shotgun pellets, so he could only talk to the other party, trying to distract her.
However, the girl didn't waste any words, directly pulling the trigger aimed at Lin Ye's chest.
Bang!
Lin Ye dodged to the left through prediction, but still got hit in the shoulder by a pellet.
Old Arthur lunged at the girl, only to get shot in the neck by the shotgun. But he didn't stop, continuing to charge at the girl and using his body to block the remaining pellets in the girl's gun.
Seizing the opportunity, Lin Ye darted out from behind Old Arthur and punched the girl in the head.
The girl tried to fight back, but Lin Ye gave her no chance to resist, punching her repeatedly until he literally beat her to death.
It wasn't just the girl who died. When Lin Ye went to check, he found that Old Arthur had also stopped breathing.
"...What a pity."
Lin Ye sat resting beside Old Arthur's corpse when he suddenly noticed the girl's body had disappeared.
"Damn! She can still resurrect even after having her head blown apart?"
Lin Ye wasn't some idiot who didn't know about finishing moves. To prevent the other party from resurrecting, he had specifically used his mining pickaxe to deliver several additional blows to her head.
Finding no trace of the body around, Lin Ye suddenly looked up, his headlamp moving to reveal a corpse covered in various colored ores hanging upside down from the mine shaft ceiling.
Their eyes met, and the corpse lunged at Lin Ye. Before Lin Ye could react, he was torn into pieces of flesh.
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Buzz buzz buzz...
Lin Ye opened his eyes, finding himself back in the familiar prison transport vehicle, surrounded by the familiar D-Class personnel.
【Remaining Simulation Attempts: 8】
'Damn, what the hell was that corpse? That speed made it impossible to react.'
'Do I need to destroy her body immediately after the girl dies?'
'No, destroying the body is meaningless. The trouble isn't the corpse itself, but those differently colored ores.'
'Those ores were probably things the girl collected. Can I destroy them in advance?'
'Hard to say, those ores look extremely dangerous...'
'So it's better not to kill the girl before leaving...'
'But that girl is determined to kill us. If we don't kill her, we can't get out at all.'
Lin Ye contemplated methods to take the ores. Now that he had found the mining location, as long as he could deal with the girl, they could bring the ores back.
But the girl was the most troublesome part of the entire process. He had to kill her, but after killing her, the ores would transform.
'Then can I take the ores from her body in advance?'
'Touching those ores might carry certain risks. If I do that, I might be the one who transforms.'
Lin Ye considered various methods to handle the girl, but even when the prison transport vehicle stopped again outside that strange building, he still hadn't found a solution to the problem.
There wasn't much an ordinary person could do in such a situation.