The bones landed on the crystal and soon began to char. Li Ke ignored them and continued with her own business. When she looked up again after descending a few meters, all the bones had disappeared.
Li Ke was sweating profusely, but the situation was still bearable. Thinking that those bones would be dissolved so quickly here, while her body only produced some sweat and her protective suit was not damaged much, Li Ke no longer harbored any resentment towards the space.
As the light from the energy mine below grew brighter and brighter, and his eyes became increasingly dry and uncomfortable, Li Ke stopped making tools and sped up the process of collecting the crystal pile.
After collecting all the piled-up crystals, the problem arose again. They had already reached the mining site, where the crystals and light energy ore were connected to the underground. If Li Ke wanted to collect them, he could only work hard like a miner.
Having found a suitable tool, Li Ke began to work on the nearest solar energy mineral, about the size of a baby's fist, buried beneath the crystal.
At first, it took some effort to find a method, but after successfully collecting the two solar energy minerals into his space, Li Ke's mining skills improved significantly.
However, her outermost protective suit had already begun to brittle and fall off, and the fragments disappeared into the air without even touching the ground.
Li Ke's skin was being baked by the heatwave, and not a drop of sweat could be seen on her body. After collecting two considerable amounts of light energy, she tried to enter the space or retrieve some items, but to no avail.
She tried to lift her foot to move upwards, but the downward force still made her heart pound. Helpless, Li Ke could only continue to focus on her target and work diligently, constantly urging her spatial awareness to improve, otherwise they would really be melted here.
The reconnaissance team entered the underwater base near dusk, almost twenty hours after they learned of the bomb in the mine. The fleet captain above the base was increasingly convinced that the bomb story might be a hoax, or that it had not yet been planted.
The leader of the exploration team was a tall, rugged, and fierce-looking white man. After entering the base, he took over all the work within the base and asked if there had been any discoveries.
There are essentially three things to do: First, find the missing kidnapper Li Ke and the base leaders. Second, find clues as to why the warehouse was emptied. Third, observe the changes inside the solar energy mine.
So far, there has been no progress. None of the missing people have been found, and the items in the warehouse seem to have vanished into thin air, with no signs of being moved or found anywhere else.
The situation in the mine was even stranger. It seemed as if everyone inside had vanished. They sent people down the elevator twice, but still received no response or contact from anyone.
After the white leader cursed a few times to no avail, he told them to distribute the food they had brought, which was canned food made from a mixture of mutated fish and other plants and animals.
It won't kill you in one go, but eating too much will definitely cause problems. Those who can withstand it may experience changes in their bodies, while those who can't may eventually die a painful death from poisoning.
But these are not things they need to consider. The people here have already been abandoned by those above. Continuing to feed them is just to let them make the most of their remaining energy.
"Make sure there's enough food. Let those people eat their fill and get them to start mining. We need to take the results with us when we leave," the team leader continued, giving orders to the captain in charge.
After the man left, the team leader began to lead his men to search and investigate the base. By the time he and everyone arrived at the mine, three hours had passed.
The search within the base yielded nothing; now, the last hope lies within this mine.
The white leader stood at the cave entrance and looked down for a while, then felt a bit stuffy and couldn't help but wonder what kind of madman would choose to come in here and cause trouble.
Actually, he suspected that it was their own people in the base who were behind it, but they had just checked and found that so many things were indeed missing. Even if they wanted to hide them, it wouldn't be easy.
The team leader instructed his subordinates to change into protective suits and go down to check the situation.
These subordinates knew the mission was risky, but because they had learned about it beforehand, were wearing protective suits, and couldn't resist, they could only obediently stand on the elevator platform.
Of the three exploration teams, only one was composed of white people; the other two teams knew they were expendable.
After the elevator descended to a height of 700 meters, the bell rang continuously. The white team leader thought that some new discovery had been made, so he ordered the elevator to be raised again.
Five minutes later, five people with torn protective suits and severely burned bodies appeared before everyone. The team leader frowned and ordered his subordinates to carry them back from the elevator platform.
The team members were in a terrible state, and the leader showed no intention of helping them. He only had someone give them some water and then pressed them to tell him what they had found down there and how they had ended up in this state.
Of the five, only three could manage to answer, their fragmented replies finally allowing the others to understand.
The five men encountered nothing, but when they reached a depth of 700 meters, their protective suits became completely ineffective. Going any deeper, they would only be burned to death by the intense heat.
The situation below was nothing like what they had imagined. Wearing protective suits, they could descend thousands of meters deep. They only reached 700 meters before they were already on the verge of death.
Upon hearing this response, the team leader coldly dispatched two more people, instructing them to don double protective gear and take the five wounded men down again, using these five dying men as human shields.
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