Chapter 50 Mining (づ￣3￣)づ╭? ~……

Lin Zhi came to his senses and found it unbelievable.

He looked at Lu Yuan, "You weren't..."

"It's different now than before." Lu Yuan lowered his eyes.

"What's different?"

Isn't it still a neck ring?

Lu Yuan chuckled, "There are many differences, but regardless, isn't this better? It also provides an extra layer of security for subsequent operations."

Objectively speaking, yes.

Lin Zhi didn't say anything else, but simply logged the remote control into his terminal. "Lu Yuan, you'd better not give me a chance to press it."

Enigma's condition is unstable. If he really needs to press the button, the situation will not be optimistic.

"I'll try my best." Lu Yuan looked at Lin Zhi with a smile.

The subsequent exercises went smoothly.

In order to maintain the stability of pheromones as Lu Yuan said, Lu Yuan and Lin Zhi also shared the same two-person mecha.

Lan Heng and others were dumbfounded.

—Your Majesty and Advisor Lu are piloting a two-person mecha together?!

Not the same team, but... in the same mech, and driving together with perfect coordination!

The sun rises in the west? ?

Although the Upper and Lower Cities were now cooperating, and Lu Yuan and Lin Zhi had publicly expressed a good relationship, and even Lin Zhi had previously used the Lower City District to bring down the powerful, the Alliance Army of Desolate Planet had previously watched them quarrel and feud. Now... such a drastic change?!

Everyone stared at the two of them curiously, but their behavior was normal. They didn't look particularly intimate nor did they seem to be deliberately keeping their distance.

I can't see anything!

After the two got on the mecha, they could not see anything and could only vaguely see the cockpit shaking.

...I don't know if they're secretly fighting inside.

Some people curiously grabbed the shadow and asked.

"What's wrong with them?"

The shadow laughed and said, "Didn't you read the recent gossip about that mysterious Omega?"

Recently, there has been a heated discussion on the forum about Lu Yuan’s relationship status.

The cause of the incident was that Lu Yuan seemed to have brought his lover to the fighting arena. According to the description of the mercenaries in the lower city, this was not the first time Lu Yuan brought someone with him. They seemed to have been secretly in love for a long time, but their identities were unknown.

This must be an Omega from Uptown, otherwise why would they be so sneaky? I also heard someone say they saw the cloaked Omega from a distance and initially mistook him for an Alpha, perhaps because of his regal demeanor.

[I also think they're from Upper City. Oh my goodness, what kind of forbidden love is this?! It was a clandestine relationship before, but now that the Upper and Lower Cities are openly reopening, Captain Lu is openly displaying his affection in the fighting arena, right?]

[Who is it?]

The shadow said, "Is it possible that His Majesty is also an Omega?"

“…”

“…???”

Several people looked at each other, and then showed expressions of disbelief.

"impossible!!"

"Right!! Absolutely impossible!"

Their reaction was the same as the mercenaries that Sombra faced before.

The shadow shook his head.

Just wait, you idiots!

…

The exercise went exceptionally smoothly, perhaps due to the ingenious design of Blue Eyes 04, or perhaps due to everyone's already advanced skills. Lin Zhi's command was particularly well-organized, with Lu Yuan also helping Lin Zhi keep an eye on the situation. As a result, everyone's exploration of the West District was advanced, departing the next day.

Heading to the West District again, to the planet they named Icefield 01, Lin Zhi still felt as if he was in another world through the glass of the mecha.

The last time he came here, his relationship with Lu Yuan was still hot and humid. But the first time their relationship broke the ice was also here, because of Black Shadow's loss of contact.

"Bang--"

After the mecha left the battleship and landed on the ice field, the glass of the mecha was quickly covered with a layer of fog.

Lin Zhi glanced around. It was almost the same as last time. There were flying ice crystals in the sky and cracked ice fields on the ground, but the position of the storm circle not far away seemed to have changed.

"The range is larger." Lu Yuan also commented: "It seems to have shifted from the center."

Lin Zhi observed for a moment and nodded, "It's closer to where we landed, but it shouldn't have any impact on us."

This time, Lin Zhi adopted a different team arrangement.

There are only two teams. One team is led by Black Shadow and goes to the canyon they went to last time. Although the canyon is dangerous, it has more NE resources than other plains. Now the performance of their mechas has been improved, and Black Shadow and others are more experienced.

The other team, led by Lan Heng, dug in the center.

They focused on excavation and transportation, but Lin Zhi, as the commander-in-chief, did not participate in the excavation. His task was... to search for a cave in the eye of the storm with Lu Yuan.

According to research, although the underground environment is more harsh, it also has richer resources than the ground, and the entrance to the core of the earth is the cave.

But the locations where the holes appear are too random. After all, the climate of the desolate planet and the movement of the underground crust are too changing rapidly.

So Lin Zhi's interruption was that if a cave was discovered during this operation, he would ask Lan Heng's entire team to come over and dig hard. If he and Lu Yuan could not find it, there would be no loss.

After everyone was in their positions, Lin Zhi and Lu Yuan also began to act.

"Do you remember the location of the cave you saw last time?"

Lin Zhi nodded and marked a red dot on the map.

"I remember it was to the right of the center of the storm."

"good."

Lu Yuan controlled the hand lever of Blue Eyes 04, while Lin Zhi managed the system and direction. The huge Blue Eyes 04 spread its iron legs and began to move.

The numbers on the side began to count down.

59:59

They have one hour, which is more than enough compared to last time!

After the blizzard began, the cold wind from all around kept hitting the glass, making a sharp "squeaking" sound.

Lin Zhi saw the red dot representing them slowly moving towards the destination on the screen.

Ten minutes later, they arrived at the same place, but the hole was gone.

"Normal." Lu Yuan said, "Let's look around here."

After walking around several times, Lin Zhi frowned slightly.

Perhaps because he had been reading and handling official business since he was a child, which cultivated his photographic memory, Lin Zhi had a good memory. He looked at the scene in front of him and fell into deep thought.

It is normal for the entrance of a cave to change position due to crustal movement, but trees and mountains do not.

At least that's what the documentation says.

but……

Lin Zhi asked, "Do you remember where the entrance to the cave you visited last time was? Is there anything nearby?"

Lu Yuan: "I roughly know the direction, but in this blizzard, all these dead trees look the same. How can I remember? What's wrong? Can you remember it? What did you think of?"

I can remember it, but I’m not sure if it’s correct.

Lin Zhi thought for a moment, then said, "Let's return to the battleship by the same route."

"ah?"

The battleship is outside the storm circle. Has Lin Zhi given up the search?

Lin Zhi wanted to explain and convince Lu Yuan, but he saw Lu Yuan said decisively: "Okay."

Looking at Lu Yuan who was directly operating the mecha, Lin Zhi was still a little stunned.

How could she be so obedient? She didn't even challenge or question his decision.

Wow.

Lin Zhi withdrew his gaze and refocused.

The two of them came to the battleship and left the storm circle. Lin Zhi marked a point not far away and said, "Come here."

Lu Yuan looked carefully and saw that they were twenty minutes away from the warship, and even farther away from the storm circle.

Maybe after they go there, Lan Heng and the others will come back.

However, Lin Zhi would naturally not make a meaningless decision. He must have his own deep meaning.

So Lu Yuan continued to follow.

After arriving at his destination, Lu Yuan was stunned. On the plain before him appeared a...

—A hole in the ground?!

Lu Yuan turned to look at Lin Zhi.

ah? !

"How did you find that out?"

Lin Zhi didn't expect that he would guess right.

He said, "Everything is in the same location as the last time we came here, except for the storm circle. If you look closely, the storm circle hasn't shifted much, but it's a mirror image. Last time, the left side of the storm circle was larger, covering the cave, so it looks closer to where we landed after the shift. Not only that, the dead trees and mountains inside the storm circle are also in a mirror image."

"So I'm thinking that maybe it's not the crust and the eye of the storm that's moving, but the entire planet."

Lu Yuan was slightly stunned.

This phenomenon has occurred on other planets before, but who would have thought that this seemingly indistinguishable desolate planet would also have this phenomenon?

Lin Zhi's observation skills are indeed extraordinary.

The entrance to the cave was not big, so the two men put on space suits and left the mecha.

Lu Yuan tied the rope and jumped into the cave.

"Hiss..." After landing, Lu Yuan hugged Lin Zhi, who followed him down, with one hand, holding the lamp in the other and sighed, "Now we don't have to worry about energy."

He put away the lamp.

There were stones all around that were gleaming with blue light. Some of these stones were on the mountain walls, and some were spreading out from the mud. This was the first time they had seen mud on this planet.

There were enough stones to light up the surrounding area.

Lu Yuan turned his head and saw Lin Zhi's gem-like blue eyes shining brightly in the faint blue light.

At this moment, those eyes were sparkling with joy and excitement, so bright that Lu Yuan felt soft in his heart.

"Very good……!"

Lin Zhi said in a trembling voice: "Lu Yuan! There are more energy minerals around here than we thought!"

The ore spreads all the way to the distance, with no end in sight. However, to go deeper into the distance, one needs to step into a cave. The terrain seems a bit steep to the naked eye - inside is an even more violent blizzard and layers of mountain walls and stalactites.

But this is still worth being happy about. Lin Zhi is happy not only about the current resources, but also about the future security.

If the movement of this planet is regular, then they only need to choose to mine at this time - when the cave turns outside the eye of the storm, so that the mining efficiency can be improved!

Do we still need to worry about not having enough NE now?

Lu Yuan also said: "When the time comes, we will smash the entrance of the cave open, let the mecha in, and then dig deeper. Even if it is more dangerous at the deep end, it is more efficient than digging above. Moreover, we can rest here at any time, and there is no need to disperse the team to prepare for special situations."

"That's right."

Lin Zhi looked at the terminal and said, "They should be back soon. Let's get them over here!"

The two were about to return to the mecha to send a message when Lin Zhi climbed back to the ground and was about to pull Lu Yuan up with the rope...

Boom——!

Following the loud bang in his ears, Lin Zhi heard Lu Yuan suddenly approaching.

"careful--!"

Then Lin Zhi's eyes went dark, and he was hugged by Lu Yuan, and his whole body was lifted into the air and he dodged to the side.

Lin Zhi saw that a hole had been blown open at their original location.

“……!”