Chapter 534: Chapter 15: Underworld 2

"What kind of idiot set up these Magic Arrays? Turning such precious energy into common Undead Energy... what a fucking waste!"

"Chenxi!"

"Here!"

"Relay my orders. Gear up. We’re moving out!"

"We need to hurry and clear out these virus nests. We can’t let them waste all this precious energy!"

"Yes, sir!"

’Once I clear out these viruses, this planet will be my territory. All this energy will naturally be mine.’

’These damned viruses are wasting my energy. I have to destroy them!’

...

Before setting out, Lin Yu summoned more members from his territory to find more virus nests.

The scouting force, led by Zolt Hard, spread out across the entire planet. At the same time, Lin Yu also summoned some dwarves and researchers, then used his personal dimensional space to bring in countless equipment parts from his territory.

He planned to have these dwarves and researchers build a satellite launch base at Camp One (the first camp outside the canyon) and attempt to launch a satellite on this planet.

Although he didn’t have mature runic satellite technology himself, the satellite tech from Glacier World was readily available. As long as he followed Glacier World’s blueprint, what could go wrong?

...

The multiple tunnels connected to the cavern emitted large amounts of Undead Energy and viruses at night. So, to speed up the exploration, Lin Yu summoned another 1,000 Death Devourers.

Adding them to the original 500 Death Devourers and the increased number of Baining’s offspring from the past few days, he formed three cleanup teams to enter the different tunnels.

With their prior experience cleaning out the cavern, this operation went incredibly smoothly.

Soon, the three cleanup teams reached the ends of their respective tunnels—three different caverns.

Similar to the first cavern they had cleared, these three also contained massive quantities of viruses and viral creatures, as well as the same Array and a large, elliptical sphere at the core.

Following the previous strategy, the three cleanup teams cleared out the viruses but didn’t touch the central sphere, instead waiting quietly for Lin Yu and Chenxi to arrive.

After Chenxi led her people to purify the sphere, revealing the withered tree inside, Baining, who had come with Lin Yu, touched the purified tree and cried out again, "Ah, my poor friend! What a miserable death!"

Lin Yu asked curiously, "Is this also that friend of yours who burst from being too full?"

"This one looks more like him. The last one was a bit too big."

"So... would you like me to give it to you?"

"No, it’s alright. You can take it for your experiments. It would be best if you could find a way to reverse the process."

"Alright~"

Then came the third and fourth withered trees. Baining wailed every time it saw one, making Lin Yu suspect that Baining had completely forgotten what its friend looked like. After all, it had no eyes and could only feel things with its roots.

After the three caverns were cleared, Chenxi modified the Arrays within them as well, preserving the Energy Reception Arrays. Watching the high-grade natural energy that occasionally pulsed from the Arrays, Lin Yu felt his heart bleed.

’What an incredible waste!’

After clearing the three caverns, Lin Yu discovered that all four were interconnected, and there were no more.

He found this a great pity. If only all the virus nests were connected, he could have wiped them all out in one go.

"Let’s go. This virus nest is clean. On to the next one!"

Lin Yu left some personnel behind to collect the high-grade natural energy coming from an unknown source, then led his people away from the nest.

In the past few days, Zolt Hard had found several new virus nests, and Lin Yu was quite interested in them.

However, the entrances to these nests weren’t large. Lin Yu and his group could enter, but Baining could not.

Having no other choice, Baining had to wait outside the cave with its oversized offspring.

"TAP TAP TAP~"

To the sound of footsteps, Lin Yu, Chenxi, and Rose entered the cave, leading 1,000 Death Devourers and 300 heroes.

Along the way, they encountered countless viruses and viral creatures clinging to the tunnel walls. They all died silently under the deathly aura of the Death Devourers.

An hour later, Lin Yu looked at the pitch-black tunnel ahead, then glanced back at the equally dark passage behind him and sighed, "This place is way too deep!"

Through his innate, sharp senses as a Druid, Lin Yu knew they were rapidly descending deep underground.

"My lord, should we continue?"

"Perhaps we should let the Death Devourers go down first to see how deep it is?"

Chenxi suggested. This virus nest was exceptionally deep, and she was worried they might encounter danger that could harm Lin Yu.

"No need. Since this nest’s structure is different from the ones we cleared before, its function must also be different. We might find something unexpected. If I only send a few Death Devourers in, I’m worried they won’t gather complete information."

At Lin Yu’s insistence, the group continued deeper.

Two hours later, the tunnel still hadn’t ended.

Three hours, four hours...

After an unknown amount of time, the tunnel grew even narrower, forcing everyone to crawl forward on the ground.

Finally, just as the passage was about to become too narrow to proceed, they reached its end.

Here, there was a vertical shaft leading straight down. The shaft was not large, but it was just barely passable.

Lin Yu transformed into a rat and squeezed to the front of the group. Peering down the shaft, he saw a Molten River below. The scorching air was thick with potent fire elements, without a single trace of Death Energy.

Recalling the scarcity of viruses and viral creatures in this last stretch of the path, Lin Yu began to suspect they had taken the wrong way.

"Chenxi, do you remember when the Undead Energy started to decrease along the way?"

"My lord, the Undead Energy concentration was highest in the first half of the tunnel. In the latter sections, it grew progressively weaker."

’Did we really take the wrong path?’

Lin Yu’s self-doubt deepened. However, he eventually remembered the scouting team’s report and decided to wait until nightfall to see what would happen.

"No one goes down yet. We’ll wait here for a bit."

"For now, let’s widen this passage. It’s too cramped and uncomfortable!"

"Yay!"

"We can finally stop squeezing!"

Everyone’s spirits lifted. They cheerfully began using Magic to widen the surrounding area.

A long time passed without them noticing, and outside the tunnel, the sky slowly began to darken.

The group, busy excavating, was oblivious to the time, single-mindedly digging into the rock wall.

As the sole transport, Lin Yu busily weaved through the excavators. He packed the excavated rocks into his personal dimensional space, and his main body then deposited them into the territory’s stone warehouse.

As he once again passed by the vertical shaft, Lin Yu sensed something was wrong.

A faint trace of Undead Energy had appeared in the air. It was so weak that if not for his sharp senses and the fact that he was standing at the shaft’s entrance, he wouldn’t have noticed it.

"Something’s wrong!"

"Everyone, stop what you’re doing and gather immediately! There’s something unusual happening!"

Lin Yu shouted, then lay down at the edge of the shaft and looked down.

Down below, the Molten River’s color had dimmed at some point, and an eerie wind was now blowing across its surface.

The once-active, roaming fire elements were scattered by this eerie wind, and the air was no longer as scorching.

"Where is this wind coming from?"

Lin Yu watched the changes below with confusion, wanting to go down and investigate, but his reason held him back.

As time passed, the sunlight outside gradually vanished. The eerie wind below grew stronger, howling as it swept gusts of Undead Energy up through the shaft.

Watching the Undead Energy above the Molten River become almost tangible, Lin Yu knew he was getting close to the cause of this planet’s mutation.

But before investigating the truth, he needed to take some precautions.

"Chenxi, take some people and use Earth Magic to restore the tunnel. We don’t know what will happen next, so it’s better to be cautious."

Chenxi followed his orders. She and the heroes cast their spells, restoring the entire tunnel to its original state.

Of course, the space they had carved out behind the tunnel walls still existed, and Lin Yu and the others hid there.

Lin Yu installed a special monitoring device at the mouth of the vertical shaft.

Through the feed from the device, everyone watched the astonishing changes taking place on the Molten River below.

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