Beneath the boundless snow curtain, amidst the thick snow, the two sides stood facing each other, each holding their own ground. However, one side was clearly losing ground and showing signs of shrinking back, simply because the endless power emanating from the cold muzzle of the other side's cannon was truly terrifying.
The outside superhumans were so frightened by the actions of the B City base that they all took a step back, and the scene became tense, with time slowly passing by.
Jiang Yue never raised his eyelids, his eyes fixed on the terminal on his wrist, not only for these foreign superhumans but also for a hint of expectation in his gaze.
Only two minutes had passed, but for these superhumans, it felt like an eternity. In this weather, their foreheads were already covered in sweat. Finally, one of them couldn't hold on any longer and whispered, "Captain, when we came here, didn't you say to try not to fight? Think about the people we encountered on our way here."
The captain glanced at him, knowing full well that this was giving him a way out, and immediately waved to the people behind him. The superhumans behind him saw the gesture and immediately walked towards their helicopters.
After everyone had boarded the plane, the captain took one last deep look at Jiang Yue, who was still staring at the terminal, before finally turning and walking toward the helicopter next to him.
They came with orders, and going back like this would definitely result in punishment. Going back was out of the question, but with the B City base being so powerful, they had no choice but to leave.
Once the helicopters were far away, Jiang Yue lowered his arm, raised his head, and looked at the dozen or so helicopters that were flying into the sky one after another. His eyes were deep and serious. Only four minutes and thirty seconds had passed. He was just a little bit away from teaching these people a lesson.
He turned and walked toward the fighter jets beside him. The fighter jets took off one after another and continued to circle back and forth within the base area, conducting a close patrol.
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Lin Ruo, on the other side, was unaware that the scene she had expected to be so exciting had ended so quickly. She was now underground in the pre-apocalyptic city of B, dozens of kilometers underground.
The geological structure in this area is mostly hard rock, much harder than that at the foot of Hengshan Mountain. This makes the geology relatively more stable and less prone to disasters like earthquakes.
Therefore, before the apocalypse, City B basically did not experience any natural disasters such as earthquakes, and there is some basis for this.
But as she continued to descend deeper, she soon sensed familiar energy fluctuations within a few kilometers of the mantle.
Unfortunately, the energy fluctuations were very weak and could hardly be detected unless you looked closely.
Having descended so many times, Lin Ruo had roughly guessed some of the reasons. The reason why the energy fluctuations on these surfaces were so weak was probably related to the substances beneath them.
The black stones at the foot of Hengshan Mountain are a "susceptible" medium and are probably quite rare. Lin Ruo hasn't found a second similar place in all this time. Otherwise, she could have found more "collecting areas" and wouldn't have to worry about her family's animals running out of food.
Her spiritual power continued to expand underground in City B. At such a deep location, there were no living creatures around, not because of insufficient energy, but because the temperature underground was quite high.
She didn't notice it at first, but the temperature got hotter and hotter as she went down. At her current depth, the temperature had reached 70-80 degrees Celsius, a temperature at which many underground creatures could not survive.
She frowned slightly. She had never experienced this situation in the places she had explored before. In other places, one could only feel the scorching temperature when one went through the Earth's crust to touch the mantle inside. But City B was different; she felt it right outside the crust. This was not right.
With her mental power unleashed to the maximum, Lin Ruo teleported continuously underground, activating her spatial domain. Although she wasn't an earth-type ability user, she could move freely among the thick rocks. Each time she teleported to a certain place, the rock layers there would be manipulated by spatial energy, rapidly shifting apart in both directions.
She was like a soil turner underground, turning over everything in her path. She wanted to find out why, so she teleported dozens of times. Her mental energy followed the gradual increase in temperature and she finally saw a few clues.
There's actually an underground volcano? City B has existed for so long, and I've never heard of anything like this underground.
Calling it a volcano isn't entirely accurate; it's more like a crack several hundred kilometers long that has opened up between the Earth's crust and mantle. The heat from inside the mantle seeps out through these cracks, making the outside so hot.
She frowned. She didn't know much about geology and didn't understand what this meant. She didn't know if it was newly formed or had been there before. She just instinctively felt that something was wrong.
She suddenly thought about the current timeline. The blizzard had been going on for so long, and the next natural disaster would be coming soon. Could this crack be related to the next natural disaster?
She lowered her gaze, her eyes shifting slightly, and still wrote down the question, intending to look it up in the documents later. If necessary, she could also consult the geological experts at the B City base. After all, the crack was right there, and she could just make up an excuse that it was discovered by chance.
If it is indeed related to the next natural disaster, then early detection might allow for early resolution.
After circling around below again and finding nothing else unusual, she used spatial folding to teleport up from below.
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