Early the next morning, Xiao Chenchong woke up from his deep sleep and found that Mu Xinya had already finished washing her clothes and was waiting for him to go on a tour together.
"Senior Brother Ye, where did you go last night? I haven't seen you back for a long time." When the two went out, Mu Xinya said to Xiao Chen with a smile.
Xiao Chen was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect that Mu Xinya would take the initiative to bring up this issue. He smiled and said, "I'm not used to going to bed so early. I went out to practice swordsmanship."
Mu Xinya smiled and said, "Let's go. I'll fight side by side with you today, so I can see the martial arts skills you have practiced so hard."
Xiao Chen smiled and said nothing, and the boring and boring inspection began again. The two of them had already patrolled yesterday and went out again today. They were familiar with the roads and were no longer as unfamiliar as they were yesterday.
The first group of miners they met were still the group led by Supervisor Li. When Supervisor Li saw the two people arriving, he wanted to come over to be polite. Xiao Chen waved his hand to indicate that they were welcome.
After staying here for a while, and seeing that nothing happened, the two of them started to rush towards another miner. Neither of them dared to be careless on the way. If anything went wrong, they would suffer a lot if they were sprayed by the spirit-devouring worm.
A morning passed like this, and the mine was so calm that it was scary. The tunnel on the eighth floor was much smaller than Xiao Chen originally imagined.
The densely packed lines on the map look scary, but in fact most of them are dead ends, and there are not many places to patrol. This is probably why only two people are needed to patrol here.
In fact, from Xiao Chen's point of view, even if there are not the two of them here, it will not be a big problem. Just pick two of the ten Martial Lords guarding the headquarters and they can easily complete their work.
In just one morning, the two of them inspected the entire mine tunnel, took out the dry food they brought with them, and began to rest on the spot.
Mu Xinya's chatter did not stop for a moment. As soon as she sat down, she asked: "Senior Brother Ye, do you think there is any pattern in the appearance of these spirit-devouring insects?"
During their inspection just now, the two discovered some more spirit-devouring insects, but they all ran away quickly before the two took action, leaving people helpless.
Xiao Chen really didn't notice the pattern in this, so he couldn't help but ask: "What did you see?"
Mu Xinya chuckled and said, "I have a keen eye. Of course I can see it. Where do you think the spirit-swallowing insects we usually find are located? Are they places with miners or places without miners?"
Xiao Chen's eyes lit up, and he seemed to connect with something in his mind. It seemed that there were no soul-swallowing insects in places where miners were.
Spirit-eating insects are not like mummies. They move slowly when they come out, giving the miners time to call for help. They can easily kill these miners by spitting out a few mouthfuls of venom.
But it seems that such a thing has never happened. There is no precedent for the spirit-swallowing worms to attack miners. But what does this have to do with the pattern of the appearance of the spirit-swallowing worms.
Mu Xinya said with a proud smile on her face: "Did you think of something? Looking at the confused look on your face, you must not be able to figure out the joints involved."
"Let me tell you, the spirit-swallowing insects naturally have to devour the raw spirit stones to survive. If you didn't see it, I can only say that your work and rest schedules are different from theirs."
Xiao Chen suddenly understood, and immediately understood the joints, and said: "The two of us started to rest after the miners rested, which means that the spirit-swallowing insects will not come out until we rest."
Mu Xinya nodded and said: "You can actually look at the problem from another angle. It is after the spirit-swallowing worms rest that the miners and we start to work. After the spirit-swallowing worms come out to move around, we start to rest."
Mu Xinya's words were just the reverse of Xiao Chen's words. On the surface, the meaning was the same, but if you taste it carefully, you will find that the charm has completely changed.
Xiao Chen was not stupid, and he quickly thought of the joints. The time for the miners and their work was not set casually, but was set by the people above according to the activity patterns of the spirit-swallowing worms.
The purpose is to avoid the activities of the spirit-eating insects, but why do you do this? The strength of the spirit-devouring insects is not very strong. Wouldn't it be better if they could be gathered together and killed all at once.
Ye once said that the biggest enemy in this mine is not the mummies, but these spirit-devouring insects that make a living by devouring the raw ore of spirit stones.
Could it be that Ye didn't tell the truth at that time? Xiao Chen thought a little, this little spirit-swallowing insect couldn't possibly be hiding something fishy, right
Mu Xinya came over and said in an eccentric way: "Senior Brother Ye, do you think we should go out to collect merit points tonight? I guarantee that we can get at least a hundred points. It only takes one night."
This should be the reason why Mu Xinya came back so late last night. Xiao Chen was moved when he heard her proposal, but then he rejected the idea and said: "These are just your guesses. There is no evidence. say no more."
"But I..." Seeing that Xiao Chen didn't believe her words, Mu Xinya couldn't help but become anxious on her cute face.
Xiao Chen interrupted her and said: "Don't worry, just spend this month peacefully. I always feel a little unsafe staying here, so it's better not to cause trouble!"
Whoops!
A piercing siren sounded quickly in the mine. The expressions of the two changed, and then they quickly stopped talking and rushed towards the source of the sound.
Before they arrived, they encountered miners running away on the road. Those miners were walking hurriedly in the mine tunnel, looking slightly weird.
Xiao Chen was shocked. Low-level mummies should not be such a deterrent. They actually frightened these miners into such a state. He quickly found the supervisor and asked them.
The supervisor said with a pale face: "You two young adults, run away quickly. I don't know what I dug up this time. Two mutated mummies came out at once. Half of our brothers are dead."
Xiao Chen frowned at the two mutated mummies, and suddenly fell into deep thought. The so-called mutated mummies were the mummies that Ye spent a lot of effort to kill that day.
Today, two heads appeared at once. What did they dig up to lead to the two mutated mummies? Could it be a high-level spirit stone
No matter what, you still have to check the situation first, and you can't believe these people's words.
Just ignore these miners. With such a big thing happening, asking them to mine today is obviously unrealistic.
After taking out the map and asking the supervisor for the location of the incident, Xiao Chen immediately led Mu Xinya towards the place where the incident occurred, and quickly ran towards it, his consciousness spreading over two hundred meters around him regardless of consumption.
"Stop!" Xiao Chen, who was advancing rapidly, suddenly stretched out his hand to signal Mu Xinya behind him to stop. He took the map to check that there was only more than 600 meters away from the incident site.
More than six hundred meters, for a warrior in the Martial Master realm, it is only a few breaths of time.
The strength of the mutated mummy is conservatively estimated to be that of a low-grade Martial Lord. Xiao Chen did not dare to be careless. If he rushed in rashly, he might lose his life if he was not careful.
Turn your spiritual consciousness into a thin thread and slowly put it in.
A moment later, Xiao Chen saw the scene where the incident occurred. The messy ground was full of corpses of miners, and the hearts of the corpses had all been taken out.
The ground was stained with blood. Xiao Chen's consciousness turned around inside, but unexpectedly did not find the existence of the mummy.
Strange, where did these cannibal mummies go? Xiao Chen wondered in his heart, and searched carefully up and down the surrounding area with his consciousness, but still found no mummies.
After repeated confirmations, Xiao Chen took Mu Xinya to the site of the incident and began to look for what the miners said they had dug.
Seeing so many miners die tragically for the first time, Mu Xinya looked a little ugly. When Xiao Chen saw this, he patted her shoulder and comforted: "Don't think too much, this kind of thing is unavoidable. They all signed it before they came." If they die, their families will receive a large amount of compensation."
"For them, there is no regret. They have thought of this since they signed the life-and-death contract."
Mu Xinya's face was still a little ugly, and she forced a smile and said: "I know, hurry up and find what they are talking about!"
The two began to search everywhere. Before arriving, Xiao Chen had used his spiritual consciousness to scan it many times and found nothing. Now I came here in person and started searching, but I still didn't find what the supervisor said.
Could it be that the supervisor was lying, or that the two mummies took away the dug-out things after killing the people
Compared with the latter, Xiao Chen is more willing to believe in the former, because if the answer is the latter, it means that these two mutated mummies already have simple intelligence.
If this were the case, it would be an extremely terrifying thing. A mummy with intelligence would be much more difficult to deal with than a mummy without intelligence and relying only on instinct to fight.
If these two mummies lurk for a long time and continue to practice in this mine, their cultivation may increase even more horribly and become the same existence as the corpse king. Xiao Chen felt a little shuddered just thinking about it.
"Stop looking for it. It's already obvious that the two mummies took the things away." Xiao Chen said slowly, although he didn't want this answer in his heart, but with all these things, the facts are already obvious in front of him. .
It was impossible for the supervisor to lie to him, because he had no way to get out of this mine tunnel. If he lies to him, he will be punished immediately after being found out, unless he dies.
After Xiao Chen finished speaking, he rushed to the headquarters with Mu Xinya. Such a big thing had happened, and it was no longer something they could handle.
Seeing Ye at the headquarters, Xiao Chen told Ye everything. Ye frowned tightly and said, "Where are the miners who survived?"
Xiao Chen replied: "Such a big thing happened, so I asked them to go down and rest."
"Go to the dormitory and bring the supervisor to see me." Ye turned around and ordered one person, and then said to Xiao Chen and the other two: "You are accompanying me to the place where the incident occurred."
Running back and forth, everyone would be a little dissatisfied, but Xiao Chen had no choice but to endure it at the moment and took Ye back to the place where the incident occurred.
After arriving, Ye began to check carefully without saying a word. After a while, the man who was ordered by Ye to bring the supervisor came running over with an anxious look on his face.
"Elder Ye, this group of people was not found in the collective dormitory. Moreover, the miners who were taking turns today and the miners in other places also said that they did not see this group of people at all. I also looked around and couldn't find this group of people. People seem to have disappeared.”
Xiao Chen was shocked and said in a voiceless voice: "How is that possible!