The excavation work went very well.
Thanks to the strong support of the goblin royal family, the entire camp was well prepared with food and supplies. Hundreds of boxes of mana batteries used as energy sources were shipped in, enough for more than 200 construction machines on site to run continuously for a month.
More than 30 ground drilling machines drilled a large hole in the ground mixed with mud, sand and gravel with their high-speed rotating drill bits, and then disappeared from everyone's sight. If they are lucky, they may drill hundreds of meters into the ground in one breath. But when they get there, there is a very high probability that they will hit the outer wall of a certain metal building, or directly hit a huge broken rock like a hill...
Either way, it's not a good thing for a fragile drill.
Either the plane crashed and people died, or the drill bit went on strike, so they could only stay where they were and wait for rescue from above.
Of course, there are also those who are lucky enough to find a zigzag downward space among the plethora of broken rocks, fragments of stone statues, and parts of metal buildings.
Therefore, as the ground cleaning work continued to deepen, the general situation of the underground space also emerged.
The original Steel City was built on top of a towering mountain, and nearly 60% of the mountain below was hollowed out, and transformed into underground passages extending in all directions, large and small crypts, and secret rooms. In order to enhance their sturdiness, when excavating this underground space, the goblins laid a large number of metal corridors and special secret rooms with all metal components.
With the occurrence of the big bang, all the underground tunnels were broken into countless sections, and those metal chambers were twisted and deformed, and shifted.
Later, the underground space collapsed, and the mountain above it, together with most of the buildings in the Steel City, collapsed, and then they were buried nearly a thousand meters deep in the ground by billions of trillions of mud and broken rocks.
To be honest, I want to find out the former steel capital from the depths of the ground, and find out the things in the original underground space. This kind of difficulty is no less than hollowing out this huge mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles. The amount of work is so huge that it is simply staggering.
However, as a project promoted by Greem, the rich and powerful goblin royal family could only grit their teeth to undertake it, and put most of the power under their control into it.
In the goblin camp in the clear area, there are as many as 70,000 goblins stationed here alone. Hundreds of construction machinery are cleaning the ground day and night, pushing a large amount of discarded sundries and residues to further areas. In just 5 days, they have already dug 150 meters into the ground, clearing out tens of thousands of tons of earth and rocks containing various gravel and metal fragments.
And in the central area of the goblin camp, there was such a small tent standing alone, and no goblin dared to approach it within a hundred meters of it. Lord Billis, the overseer, was sent for only when the excavation team found some strange objects never seen before.
And even if the other party went out, he would hide himself in a thick black burqa, almost never showing a little bit of skin.
In Nuo Da's camp, except for a few goblin commanders who knew the real identity of each other, the rest of the goblins knew nothing at all.
Returning from the Goblin Engineering Headquarters again, Billis sat cross-legged on his blanket, a fist-sized crystal ball in front of him was faintly glowing red in the center.
Billis stretched out his strange right hand covered with black carapace, and pressed it on the crystal ball.
In the next second, a familiar spiritual consciousness flowed into his mind.
"Billis, what's going on with the goblins?" It was Greem who was far away in the wizarding world.
With the connection between the teleporter and the flame throne witch tower, the witchcraft communication between the two planes is no longer a problem.
"Master, they dug down another 17 meters today. However, they came across a remnant of a huge stone statue, and they are trying to find a way to blast it and pull it out... In addition, they also found a metal building roof that stretches for nearly 3 miles. It should be short-term You can find the remaining main body after the explosion of the Iron City. By then, there may be some meaningful discoveries... "
After listening to Billis' report, Greem paused slightly in the distance, and then asked, "Then what did you find here?"
With the cunning and suspiciousness of the wizards, how could it be possible to pin their single hope on the goblins. So Greem sent Billis here, on the one hand to monitor the progress of the goblins, and on the other hand to use the special ability of the bug witch to use his own means to find treasures underground.
"My little ones are about to reach 500 meters underground. One or two suspected faults in the metal corridor were discovered yesterday, and an underground warehouse was also found today, but it is full of ordinary supplies. According to this progress, it is probably still there. It takes three or four days to reach a kilometer depth."
Hearing this answer, Greem finally nodded in satisfaction, and then sent a message: "The closer you are to the explosion location, the more careful you are. Apart from the space fragmentation zone hidden in the mud, you also have to be careful about the existence of enemies. I There is a feeling that the other party is not completely dead. Once you find signs of life, you should notify me immediately, and I will rush there as soon as possible... "
The two exchanged a few more words in a low voice, and after confirming that there was nothing missing, they cut off the costly long-distance connection.
After the red light in the crystal ball completely dissipated, the worm witch Billis withdrew his right hand, sat there stiffly and did not move again. Of course, he didn't fall into a deep sleep, nor did he meditate, but instead immersed his mind in the stinging scorpion under the thick soil.
...
In the dark soil 573 meters below Billis, a stinging scorpion the size of a washbasin used its strange instinct to push away the soil and was working hard to dig down.
Under its weird multiple repeated eye glances, the soil in front of it is not all dark, and it is also mixed with countless strange substances. Including green tree branches that are not completely decayed, metal fragments that flash energy fluorescence, some skeletons left by goblins, broken rocks with strange shapes, and many broken substances that are difficult to distinguish their original appearance...
The thirteen stinging scorpions did not gather together, but spread out, looking for a hidden passage leading down in the loose soil and debris.
Although most of the original underground tunnels were broken, there were still some remnants. As long as you find them, not only is it easy to locate, but you can also track and find some high-value targets.
However, just as the stinging scorpion kept digging through the soil, it suddenly stopped what it was doing, and began to feel a strange vibration from the depths of the ground with all its strength.
The source of the earthquake was not far away, it seemed to be only tens of meters away.
And judging from the magnitude and frequency of the vibration, it seems... It seems that something underground is secretly digging upwards, and its speed is not slow.
This unexpected discovery immediately attracted the attention of Billis on the surface. Under his remote command, the thirteen stinging scorpions began to covertly approach the seismic source from all angles. Before reporting to Greem, he felt that he had to find out the truth about the source of the earthquake!
With the goal, the speed of excavation will be much faster.
When it was only ten meters away from the epicenter, under the command of Billis, the rest of the stinging scorpions stopped digging and changed to a latent state, while only one stinging scorpion continued to move forward cautiously.
Just when the stinging scorpion was only one meter away from the source of the earthquake, a strange black claw penetrated through the thick soil layer and grabbed it.
Immediately, the soil exploded and light appeared.
In a narrow cave with only room for a person, two tall figures, one fat and one thin, squeezed inside, and the one who held the stinging scorpion was the stronger one.
Grabbing the stinging scorpion and shaking it, shaking off the dirt and dregs attached to its body, the tall figure opened its mouth wide without hesitation, stuffed it into its mouth and bit it down.
The stinging scorpion's shell, which was originally as tough as an alloy, had no effect in the mouth of this tall figure. With a strange crackling sound, the worm's shell cracked, blood splashed everywhere, and the stinging scorpion was actually swallowed alive by it.
The Worm Witch Billis let out a sharp hiss suddenly, and felt a sharp pain in his head.
He had a feeling that the other party not only swallowed the stinging scorpion, but also swallowed up the ray of mental power attached to the stinging scorpion.
Damn it!
Billis endured the severe pain and opened the contact crystal...
...
When Greem got the news, he was actually dealing with a matter at hand.
After a long period of planning and control, the big event he had planned for a long time finally had a clue.
The fish are hooked!
Lester Vic, the guy who left the original blood to infect Mary into a foreign vampire, finally showed up again after seventy years of dormancy.
He left the Blood Castle located in the Kadatheron region, and began to frequently intervene in the local affairs of the Vik family, lingering in noble banquets and pornographic salons all day long.
That sounds like good news. But along with the good news comes a big bad news.
Unfortunately, that Lester Vic also successfully advanced to become a second-level vampire.
This undoubtedly raised his status in the Vik family to the point where he was on par with several family elders!
Even with the strength of Greem's 2nd rank fire witch, it was not so easy to capture him in one go. Even if it is bad, even Greem may be folded in his hands.
After all, vampire wizards are notorious for their difficulty even in the Santetalin area!
But for Mary's future development, the most important thing is to change her blood and rebirth as soon as possible.
While Greem was silently planning a plan to hunt a second-level vampire wizard, the worm witch Billis, who was far away in the goblin plane, suddenly sent back a shocking enough news.
The enemy has appeared!