EBE Chapter 46 "Holy crap! Could this be...?"
Chapter 46 "Holy crap! Could this be...?"
Once the mechanical mouse returned, Huang Hong gave it new instructions.
The mechanical mouse nodded, and after a mechanical transformation, its four paws became wider before it plunged into the ground to begin digging.
Unlike before, when only the mechanical mouse had to pass through on its own, this time the cave it dug was spacious enough for Huang Hong to move freely through.
As they descended in a spiral, they soon reached a depth of 300 meters. The ground here was extremely hard, and the mechanical rats' digging speed began to slow down drastically.
At a depth of 500 meters underground, the surrounding temperature began to rise rapidly, and the air became thinner. Huang Hong needed to surround his body with "qi" in order to adapt to the environment.
At a depth of 700 meters, the geology here is as hard as steel, and continuing to dig would cause too much damage to the mechanical rats.
Huang Hong placed his hand on the ground and activated his decomposition ability.
Before long, the surrounding supernatural power was completely decomposed by Huang Hong, losing its supernatural effect. The hardness of the ground was greatly reduced, and it became something that mechanical rats could easily dig out again.
Huang Hong's lips curled into a smile, which then turned into a loud laugh.
After a moment, Huang Hong suppressed his joy and went to a depth of 300 meters to begin digging towards the metal mountain.
When they were only a dozen kilometers away from the giant metal mountain, they began to dig downwards again.
Indeed, Huang Hong's plan was simple: since there were battlefields in the sky, on the ground, and underground, Huang Hong would go deeper underground and take a detour to enter the metal mountain.
Even the deepest underground creatures or machines have a limit to how far they can go.
But Huang Hong was different. He only needed to extract the extraordinary power from the strata to make digging easy, thus bypassing the three battlefields and entering the metal mountain.
A distance of over ten kilometers would be covered in just a few minutes on the ground at Huang Hong's current speed, but underground, where he needs to decompose his supernatural power while digging, his speed will naturally be much slower.
It took Huang Hong about three days to reach the underground part of the giant metal mountain.
Once Huang Hong actually came into contact with the metal mountain, he understood why the mechanical legion was so single-minded in fighting those giant beasts, instead of diverting some of their strength to hold them off while the rest of them recklessly broke through the metal mountain to seize the treasures inside.
The hardness of this metal mountain is tens or even hundreds of times that of a 700-meter-deep stratum!
Whether the mechanical legion's target is the metal mountain itself or the treasure that may lie within, they need to deal with the giant beasts guarding the surrounding area before they can focus on excavation.
Collecting his thoughts, Huang Hong placed his hand on the giant metal mountain. To increase efficiency, he controlled the disintegration range, creating only a small opening large enough for him to pass through.
Previously, Huang Hongcai could not have achieved such precise control, but after three days of continuous use of the decomposition ability, his control over it has reached a new level.
After all, unlike decomposing those stone pillars, Huang Hong only needed to expand the decomposition range as much as possible in order to pursue efficiency. However, underground, in order to speed up progress, Huang Hong learned the technique of extending his decomposition ability forward as much as possible at the cost of sacrificing some of the range.
The metal mountain contains a wealth of source energy. While excavating it, Huang Hong was also thinking that if there was no so-called treasure in the metal mountain and it was just a solid resource, then the harvest in terms of source energy alone would not be a loss.
As he was thinking this, Huang Hong glanced at the source energy that had been restored to 2000 points, and then unhesitatingly strengthened his basic combat skills.
Increasing basic attributes not only improves strength but also enhances overall strength, so no matter what, it's always good to strengthen skills that increase basic attributes.
Soon, the max-level basic fighting attributes were displayed before Huang Hong...
[Basic Fighting]
Quality: Rare
Rating: 10/10 (max)
Attributes: Strength, Agility, Constitution +20%
Skill Specialization: Convergence of Hundreds of Techniques. During combat, for every 3 different fighting techniques successfully used, Strength and Agility are temporarily increased by 3% for 10 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.
The improvement in basic attributes is immediate, and the acquired skill specializations are clearly combat-related. Among them, "fighting techniques" refers to punches, kicks, throws, etc. Of course, using different skills also counts.
The metal mountain is not the typical mountain shape; it is more cone-shaped, so the base structure is not as extensive as one might imagine.
This is also the fundamental reason why Huang Hong is carrying out the current plan; otherwise, mountains that are normally several thousand meters high would have base structures with diameters of tens of kilometers, making them impossible to excavate.
Huang Hong silently estimated that the excavation distance he had designed for himself was two kilometers. If he still hadn't found the interior of the metal mountain after exceeding that distance, he would have to consider retreating.
Because the metal mountain contained too much energy, Huang Hong's decomposition speed became extremely slow. Only the rapidly increasing source energy brought him some comfort.
It must be said that Huang Hong was indeed lucky. When he dug to a depth of 1.7 kilometers, he discovered through the feedback from the decomposition ability that there was an empty cavity ahead.
Huang Hong narrowed the area of the decomposition again, leaving only a hole large enough for the mechanical rats to pass through.
More than ten minutes later, the mechanical rat finally dug through the mountain, revealing the huge space inside.
Through the mechanical mouse's perspective, Huang Hong witnessed an extremely bizarre scene...
A large number of metal fragments were suspended in mid-air inside the mountain. Beams of energy were refracted through these metal fragments, illuminating the interior of the mountain extremely brightly.
On the ground, numerous metal clusters grow, from which strands of golden energy flow out, meandering and floating like water, connecting with each other.
The ground was irregular, but it had regular patterns like a circuit board, with light occasionally surging within it.
In the center of the mountain, surrounded by a cluster of metal, lay a robot. Compared to the giant beasts outside that were often hundreds of meters tall, it was not tall, only about ten meters. However, the aura it emitted was extremely terrifying, even comparable to the giant purple tree that Huang Hong had seen in Anyue City.
At this moment, the robot's condition was extremely poor, or rather, it seemed to be 'somewhat' dead!
His body was covered with numerous tearing and shattering marks. His head looked as if it had been struck by a huge object with blunt force, with a large area of collapse. One of his legs was completely broken, as if it had been forcibly torn off by some kind of brute force.
Only above the chest, there was a faint golden energy vortex that continuously attracted the golden energy from the metal clusters and injected it into the circular structure on the chest.
Upon seeing the scene within the mountain, Huang Hong blurted out, "Holy crap! Could this be...?"
"Transformers?!"