Chapter 39 Anomalies at Both Ends of the Balance Sheet
Before the bald man could answer, the woman who had been stopped outside screamed again, ignoring the two men and trying to squeeze through the doorway. Du Yu's safe suddenly jolted.
She pressed down on the safe and turned to look at the woman who was being held down.
She was petite with a sunken face, but her dark eyes shone with an astonishing brightness, surging with a wild, excited light. Two burly adult men held her shoulders, but they could barely hold her down.
She struggled like a trapped beast, her dry, short hair scattering like large dandelion seeds blown away, and her left arm flew off in the process.
The cheap prosthetic body rolled a few times on the ground. The woman stared blankly for a few seconds, her gaze seemingly becoming the conduit for the excruciating pain that clung to the broken pipe, passing through her eyes, settling in her shoulders, and seeping into every nerve. Finally, she had no strength left to struggle, let out a wail, and collapsed.
The man who had been guarding the gate spat, "I told you your prosthetic body has exceeded its usage time, but you're as stubborn as a donkey!"
The woman seemed deaf to all sounds except her own. She rolled on the ground a few times, then struggled to her feet. Blood vessels were visible on the surface of her bulging, fish-like eyes. She let out a long, mournful wail.
"I haven't dug enough for today! I still have one hand, I can still dig! Let me in! It'll be enough soon, it'll be enough soon..."
Her voice grew softer and softer until it was barely audible. The doctor, who arrived late with a stretcher, unsurprisedly had a nurse give her a sedative injection before lifting her onto the stretcher.
Before the group left, a young nurse seemed to remember something, stepped forward to pick up the woman's broken prosthetic body, muttered a few words under her breath, and casually tossed it onto the stretcher.
"Oh, obviously, she's just too eager to work."
A-Wu shrugged and offered a joking explanation, but the person in front of him didn't give him any face. Under the expressionless gaze, he paused for a moment and quickly explained:
"Mining too much of this ore can cause some minor hallucinogenic side effects. Don't worry, our doctors are very good at treating these. It's also very difficult to find workers who dare to work in the gray fog."
The neurotic representative sent by Lange Company did not react, turning his head away as if indifferent, waiting for the guard in front of him to open the mine gate.
The mine is surrounded by high walls, and once inside, you'll find it's frighteningly large, with more than a dozen large pits. A quick glance reveals that there are over a thousand miners, all wearing the same dark yellow hard hats, looking like a swarm of busy worker ants.
What exactly are they digging here?
Du Yu watched as the hunched miner in the distance suddenly stood up, holding something in his hand, and burst into laughter. The people around him glanced at him with envy, and then their digging became even more urgent.
The miner laughed several times, seemingly oblivious to his surroundings, wiped his hands on his work clothes, carefully put the stones he had dug out into his small satchel, and then eagerly resumed digging.
Du Yu looked around and saw that apart from a few bald men standing by the machinery, there wasn't a single supervisor in the entire mine, but the workers' enthusiasm was unimaginable.
When Du Yu encountered the woman in front of the mine, he thought that her inexplicable fanaticism was abnormal. But now, the more than a thousand miners in the mine had a fanaticism in their eyes that was no less than that of the woman who had just gone mad!
What kind of mine could yield such a result? Even addictive drugs probably wouldn't be this effective.
The bald man and Du Yu stopped in front of a semi-circular stone bench. Upon hearing this, he chuckled and said, "This issue is outside the scope of our cooperation."
Du Yu nodded. This lunatic's curiosity was always too strong, but to his surprise, he didn't ask any questions this time. Even he, as an insider, was startled by the strange atmosphere when he first entered the mine.
Ignoring the bald man's surprise, Du Yu glanced at the black crystals for a moment. If he didn't say anything, didn't he have other ways to find out?
But the stone bench in front of me...
They frowned and looked at it for a few moments before realizing why they felt uneasy when they saw it. This thing that looked like a stool actually resembled the altar built in the merge game!
However, the one in front of him was not only shorter, but also lacked the ancient and rustic patterns and had a strange and incongruous structure, so Du Yu did not notice its resemblance to the altar at first glance.
Why is there a building here that resembles an altar?
Du Yu now knows it's not a stone bench, but he hasn't yet discovered its use.
The bald man glanced at the time, pointed to the stone bench, and looked at Du Yu: "Let's begin."
Du Yu looked at the stone bench in front of her, which was not even as tall as her calves, raised her eyebrows, said nothing, took out a strange device from the safe, squatted down, and placed it flat on the stone bench in front of her.
As soon as the instrument touched the stone bench, the balance behind the glass plate, which had been perfectly still, began to wobble slightly.
Du Yu touched the medicine in his pocket, then released his mental energy and injected it into the unremarkable instrument in front of him.
In her pocket was a bottle of magical potion issued by the Blue Company, which could give ordinary people mental power. However, the potion only took effect for a week and could not be taken a second time in a short period of time. It was considered a banned drug among banned drugs.
The company was willing to give it to her so that Dong Shiwu, who hadn't awakened any special abilities, could also activate the device. However, since Du Yu was standing behind Dong Shiwu, she naturally didn't need to drink this junk.
Du Yu touched the cold surface of the medicine bottle. As soon as his mental energy touched the surface of the instrument, the center of the balance emitted a silver light and shook more violently. A strong suction suddenly came!
Du Yu had anticipated this. Following the user manual given to him by Bu Manyin, he controlled his mental energy to release a specific channel. The suction force from the instrument paused for a moment, and the next second, the suction force more than tripled!
Damn BlueGrid! What kind of user manual is this?!
If the person operating the equipment here were an ordinary person, Dong Shiwu, she would have suffered a severe concussion at the very least from this blow!
Du Yu's mind was filled with curses against Lan Ge, but she didn't stop moving. In the turbulent space of her mind, clusters of purple flames appeared out of thin air. The spiritual energy that had been drawn outwards was immediately calmed down, and the clusters of purple flames spread in the spirit world along with the suction force.
Before the purple flames could reach them, the device, which seemed insatiable and relentlessly drained spiritual energy, abruptly severed the spiritual connection. With the suction gone, the purple flames leaped a few times in the spirit realm before regretfully returning to Du Yu's body.
The instrument, as if alive, faintly conveyed an emotion of relief. The next second, the swaying scales suddenly stopped, the left side sank down, revealing an invisible, twisted mass in the tray, while the right side tilted up, as if supporting a black hole, emanating a terrifying suction force that instantly spread throughout the entire mine!
The moment the suction force spread, the faces of the surrounding supervisors and the several bald men fiddling with instruments not far away turned pale for a moment. They all looked up thoughtfully, completely oblivious.
In her perception, the unsettling frenzy that permeated the mine suddenly vanished. The miners continued digging without noticing, still working diligently, but without the frenzied drive that had seemed to be sacrificing everything.
But after the fervor subsided, an even more repulsive atmosphere enveloped the mine, like an omnipresent gray fog, obscuring everyone's vision and lingering in every breath.
Du Yu frowned slightly in disgust. If his previous disgust was merely aversion, his current disgust was aversion, bordering on anger.
It's like a corporate slave finally getting home late at night after working overtime, only to find the house ransacked and the cat freed, and then looking up to find themselves face-to-face with a thief – that feeling of burning anger.
But the anger was fleeting, disappearing before Du Yu could even feel it. She suppressed her doubts and focused her attention back on the instruments.
As the suction force increases, the originally stable balance begins to sway again, and the sinking left side slowly rises until the balance becomes balanced again.
With a clang, the balance wobbled, and a silver-gray bead fell out of thin air into the right tray, then rolled into the instrument. The two ends of the balance became empty, at the same height, and stopped wobbling.
Wu Dawei watched as the silver bead rolled into the instrument before he breathed a sigh of relief. He then had the gentlemen in the room take over and led Du Yu out of the mine to the door of an apartment building.
Unlike the Gentlemen's Club, which has a large number of members, Cat Beard and his group take a small but exquisite approach. The Furensa Wharf has remained largely untouched under their control. The apartment building in front of them is clearly a temporary structure built after the Gentlemen's Club took over, but even so, it is much better than the cheap apartments rented by Dongshi Wuzu.
Not only is it spacious and fully functional, but the refrigerator is also filled with expensive natural ingredients, demonstrating an attitude of not wanting to offend Lange.
Du Yu opened the refrigerator door, flicked a tiny flame with her finger, and the small flame instantly spread throughout the room. After confirming that there were no surveillance devices around, she took out a whole chicken from the freezer, soaked it in water, and placed a scented candle in front of her.
With a "whoosh," the candle was lit, and the leaping purple flames danced and circled around the edge of the basin, reflecting on the water's surface like a crystal-clear amethyst.
In the firelight, the chicken twitched a few times, its body shrank, downy feathers grew from its skin, organs grew back from its hollowed-out interior, its chest trembled a few times, and a pair of bright red eyes quietly opened.
"Coo coo coo!"
A pigeon, no different from any other, flew out of the water basin, perched on a nearby shelf, shook off the water, spread its wings, and circled joyfully a few times: "Your partner 166 is at your service! White Dove Express, mission accomplished!"
The one that appeared here was 166, who was supervising the work in the divine kingdom. Its current state is very similar to that of Du Yu, but the container that Du Yu temporarily made for it is only so-so.
The pigeon in front of him was smaller than 166's original body and only had one pair of wings, but as a magical creature that could roam the spirit world, it could do a lot for Du Yu at this moment.
Du Yu took out a small piece of paper that he had written on, found a strip of cloth and tied it to 166's chest, "You slip this letter to that sneaky guy outside, Xu Xunyuan."
Although Xu Xunyuan's "three-hand magic" was very well concealed, Du Yu could directly use her spiritual sense to perceive the believer from a certain distance, and 166 was no exception. Therefore, Xu Xunyuan's disguise had no effect on her.
"After you deliver the letter, go find someone else."
Not wanting to bother two people, Du Yu grabbed 166, who was about to enter the spirit world, and described the woman he had met in front of the mine to it, watching it fly into the void with a "whoosh".
Du Yu glanced at the instrument that was casually tossed on the sofa and lying quietly in the safe, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.
When Lan Ge Pai Dong Shi Wu Shi had a completely consumable-consuming expression, he only told her how to turn on and use the device, and didn't tell her anything else, not even what the device was called.
Based on what just happened, the abnormal blue grid in the mine was obviously involved. What was its purpose?
Clues kept piling up in his mind, and new mysteries arose. Du Yu withdrew his gaze from the safe and turned to walk towards the bedroom.
Cat Beards sent 166 to contact her; she has her own investigation method—spirit world travel!
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