Chapter 175: Mining Disaster (End)
Rebecca made this call not only to vent to Everly, but also to tell her that the mining site had likely unearthed something very bad from underground.
She hoped Everly would pass the message to Old John: for the time being, it would be best not to drive into downtown Micano, because the mining site lay along the only route from the gas station to the city, and that area was currently very dangerous.
Everly was extremely grateful for Rebecca’s warning.
Her memories from her previous life were rather vague, but with Rebecca’s description as a trigger, Everly faintly recalled a monster thriller that might match what was happening at the mine.
She couldn’t remember the title of the movie anymore—only some of the plot.
At the beginning of the film, a mining company accidentally unearthed an ancient underground ruin during excavation. Worried that the discovery might interfere with further mining operations, the company briefly inspected the site. Finding nothing valuable, they chose to conceal the discovery, flattened the ruins with bulldozers, and continued digging deeper.
What they didn’t know was that the ruin had been built by Native Americans to seal away an ancient creature.
Once the ruin was damaged, the creature imprisoned within gradually began to awaken.
This creature could move rapidly through layers of soil, triggering sinkholes, earthquakes, rockfalls, and other geological disasters. When it first awoke, it killed and devoured the people in the mine by causing the tunnels to collapse.