Chapter 265 The Seed Has Been Found
Zuo Shan squatted down and cleared away the soil under his feet, revealing a stainless steel handle that looked like... a door handle in a submarine, or... a safe door handle.
Matt quickly summoned an earth-elemental ability user to move the soil around the handle, only to find it was a heavy metal door!
"This underground building is clearly super sturdy; the surrounding walls are only deformed, not collapsed. Why is there a metal door lying across the ground?" Zuo Shan asked.
“If you want to know the answer, just open it,” said Mortilan Shield.
Two metal-type ability users immediately came over and, with great effort, melted the heavy metal door, only to find that inside the door was a thick safe.
After the door of the safe was removed, there was an even smaller safe inside.
Next, one safe after another, like Russian nesting dolls, until the last safe door melted away, revealing a black suitcase about a foot square inside.
However, the two metal-type ability users were unable to melt the briefcase no matter what they tried. They consumed a lot of their abilities, but they couldn't even leave a mark on it.
"Are you sure it's metal?" Mortilan asked.
"Yes, sir! However, this metal is unlike anything we have ever seen before; its hardness and density are beyond our comprehension."
Unless it's placed in a high-temperature furnace, it will be very difficult to open, but once the furnace melts the box, the contents will likely be destroyed.
"Then let's keep it for now and figure out a solution when we get back," Mortilan said.
Continuing down the broken staircase, the direction of the staircase changed; there were no more steps leading down, but instead, it spiraled upwards.
After climbing up the spiral staircase for about a dozen steps, Jian Qiong suddenly shouted, "Master, stop! My little Naga has sent a message: behind the left wall, there is pure wood-type energy, and the seed must be buried there!"
"Open a passage in the direction she pointed out!" the master ordered the earth and metal guards.
Soon, the earth-elemental ability user removed the concrete in the middle of the wall, and the metal-elemental ability user melted several steel bars, creating a doorway in the wall large enough for two people to pass through.
As the group walked through the doorway, they indeed saw a very spacious room.
Inside, the cabinets lay scattered on the floor, some of the metal doors wide open, the interiors empty, the contents of which had been stored nowhere to be found.
Some cabinet doors, however, were preserved intact due to their twisting and deformation. After the metal-type ability user melted the metal doors, he found many metal boxes inside, which were very similar to the one that Zuo Shan dug out from the rat hole, except that they were not rusted.
Everyone was thrilled.
Their goal this time was to find an underground seed bank, and now they've finally found the right place.
What excites people is not just the discovery of the seed, but the fact that for over three hundred years, countless people have searched for this place, either returning empty-handed or disappearing without a trace.
I never expected they would actually find it!
Modilan Shield directly stored all the cabinets scattered on the ground into his spatial button, and said to everyone with a smile, "We'll reward them according to their merits when we get back!"
"My lord, please don't forget what you promised me," Jian Qiong hurriedly said.
“After I’ve sorted them out, I’ll give you five seeds for each variety, but I can’t give you any less than five,” Modilan said.
"Thank you, sir!" Jian Qiong smiled brightly.
Her main reason for accepting his invitation was not so much to obtain the pre-cataclysmic seed, but rather to have the opportunity to get close to him.
Among the world's strongest individuals, this man is undoubtedly the most dazzling jewel. If we can join forces with him, we will surely be invincible in the future.
Unfortunately, after several attempts to test him, she discovered that the man was as hard as iron and had no interest in her whatsoever, despite her beauty and ability as a seventh-tier wood-type ability user.
Since that's the case, she decided to stop wasting her time and emotions on him.
With her current status and position, she could easily enjoy the happiness of being surrounded by handsome men, so why should she lower herself to curry favor with him?
As for that low-ranking Miss Zuo Shan, she never took her seriously. She was just a man's momentary pleasure, and he would discard her like trash sooner or later.
Since she had set aside emotions, she was naturally driven by self-interest. She was willing to condescend to accompany them in searching for the underground seed bank, so she naturally had to accept sufficient compensation.
Matt found a hole in a corner of the room, slightly larger than a dog hole, with traces of rats crawling and dragging heavy objects. It seemed that the metal box in the rat hole had been dragged out from there.
Starting from this room, seven more rooms containing seeds were found. Zuo Shan roughly estimated that there were several thousand seeds found this time.
This should be enough for the agricultural research institute to cultivate crops, right?
But she still had a question: she felt that they hadn't yet explored the deepest level.
While everyone was busy looking for the metal box, she had nothing else to do, so she went back along the passage in the wall to search again, hoping to make a different discovery.
As she walked, she carefully examined the surrounding walls, when suddenly a metal frame on one of them caught her attention.
In these seed storage rooms, several metal frames like these are hung on the walls of each room, with spray-painted instructions for seed storage.
All the precautions here are sprayed on the metal frame, probably because paper items are not durable, so metal products are used and the text is sprayed on them.
Originally, no one paid much attention, since wastelanders don't care about antiques these days. Otherwise, even if the adults didn't accept it, others would definitely have taken down the hundreds-of-years-old metal frame hanging on the wall and taken it with them.
What's special about the metal frame that the left fan noticed is the text on it.
On the opposite wall, there is an identical metal frame, with the same precautions sprayed on both frames.
Hanging two metal frames with the same text painted on them in the same room seems utterly superfluous.
Even if most people saw it, they wouldn't notice it, since who would bother to read such precautions carefully?
However, Zuo Shan, who was very concerned about the preservation of the seeds, took advantage of the free time to read through them one by one. Afraid that she would not remember them, she even took a picture of each metal frame with her wristwatch.
If they weren't embedded in the wall, making them difficult to remove due to the wall's deformation, she would definitely have taken them all.
Even if we take it back for Xiaobao to inhale, it's still better than scrap metal.
That's why she noticed the anomaly in the two metal frames.
Zuo Shan took out a hammer and tapped on one of the metal frames, but... he found nothing wrong and couldn't remove it.
She then picked up the hammer and aimed it at a seemingly inconspicuous metal nail in the center of another metal frame, striking it hard.
The next second, she felt her feet slip and lose her balance, falling into a bottomless tunnel.
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