My different world is game mode.

Chapter 576 Gold Miner
"Cough cough cough-"

The development of the territory is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Lindsay, far south of the banyan forest, takes time every day to dig tunnels in the mountains in between dealings with the insect tribe.

Underground with flickering fire.

Every time the meteorite pickaxe was swung, a piece of raw stone in front of Lindsay was broken, and a square rectangular passage extended forward.

As Lindsay brought down another pickaxe.

There happened to be a piece of brittle powder behind the rock, which caused dust to fly all over the mine.

"Damn-"

“Is there any uncompacted soil in this deep mountain?”

"If I wasn't physically strong enough, I would have contracted an occupational disease in a few days."

Lindsay wiped her face and complained.

He casually sprinkled some clean water in the air, waited for the air in the cave to return to normal, then lit a torch next to it, and continued to dig a way forward under the light.

A quarter of an hour passed.

There was still a solid mountain in front of Lindsay, but after he opened the map, a look of joy instantly appeared on his face.

"Mine?"

“We’re finally there!”

The map showed that there was a complex underground passage ahead.

Although this gold mine is hidden in the mountains.

But it is not that it was once unknown, but that it has experienced a long period of mining.

“Abandoned gold mine.”

"Or, in other words, a gold mine that was abandoned helplessly in the crisis of the end of the world?"

Lindsay breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing the target in front of him, he swung the meteorite pickaxe a little faster.

I started calculating this distance in my mind.

"It normally takes five days to get from the canyon of the insect tribe to here, crossing the mountains and hills."

"But now follow the path I have blazed."

"Even if an ordinary person comes here, they can complete the round trip within a day. This is much more efficient!"

Lindsay gained momentum and continued to speed up his digging forward.

The last distance was quickly dug through by him.

click-

As the earth and rocks collapsed, a hole appeared in front of Lindsay.

He didn't have time to expand the tunnel, so he lowered his head, stepped forward, and went straight in.

What appeared in front of Lindsay was first a piece of ground illuminated by the meteorite pickaxe, and then another hand came in with a torch, and the scenery inside the mine tunnel became clear.

“This is the gold mine…”

Lindsay looked around.

His current location was not an area where mining was taking place, but a tunnel leading underground.

On the ground of the straight passage, there suddenly appeared some rusty iron objects placed horizontally or vertically.

Lindsay stepped forward to take a closer look:

"Nails, iron sheets, and right-angle irons..."

"Are these things used to fix the support frame?"

Lindsay picked up the scraps, looked at them carefully, and found that they were just some normal rusted iron parts.

He raised the torch in confusion and looked upward.

On the top of the mine tunnel and the surrounding walls, there were indeed some traces of wood that had once held up the mountain, and each trace corresponded exactly to the rusty iron pieces that had fallen on the ground.

"The support structures that once held the tunnel in place."

"Now these iron objects have fallen to the ground, but the wood that supports the main body has disappeared?"

Lindsay looked around in confusion.

He had done similar soil reinforcement when digging some underground places himself, so he was not surprised.

But it’s different in the mines.

Lindsay could understand that as decades passed, the wood became rotten and brittle, but it would not disappear completely.

Even if it is checked in and taken away by some idle person.

But why are these iron parts connected to the wood left here?
The scene before my eyes was totally contrary to common sense.

"..."

"Sure enough, let's explore it carefully."

Lindsay made up his mind and continued to walk deeper into the gold mine.

After things here were settled, Lindsay also planned to have his subjects come over to mine the ore. If there were any hidden dangers below, he could solve them in advance. Lindsay went all the way down, opening the map during the process.

But even though he expanded the scope of his reconnaissance, he still didn't find anything dangerous in the mine.

Only some cave creatures linger here.

When they heard Lindsay's movements, they were often scared away immediately without showing any active aggression.

A few more minutes passed, and there was finally something different ahead.

They were white objects scattered randomly on the ground, placed in a completely irregular manner.

"bone?"

“And they are human bones?”

Lindsay walked forward, looking even weirder.

Human bones were scattered on the ground in the mine.

He switched the modules and the [Puzzle Game] displayed more specific information.

[Human skeletons - the skeletons of people who fell to the ground while escaping, and finally struggled and died in pain.]

"..."

Lindsay put the clues together in silence.

It has been so long that the footprints can no longer be traced.

But fortunately, there were enough skeletons on the ground, and human phantoms appeared one by one under the influence of the skills. They ran deep into the mine in fear, wailing in despair, as if something was chasing them from behind.

"..."

Lindsay followed the shadow and continued downwards.

The terrain in the gold mine is chaotic.

These phantoms were running around and could get lost in the panic at any time.

Once they fell to the ground, they soon began to struggle in pain, and then became motionless and turned into white bones on the ground.

"..."

Lindsay looked serious.

The further he went down, the more sights he saw, and the more confused he became.

[Puzzle Game] The feedback on the case is always accurate, and there will be certain traces of the attacks suffered by the deceased.

But these phantoms did not.

They fell to the ground, their fingers waving around their bodies or in the air.

There were no beasts biting, no attacks with sticks, knives or guns, and no obvious effects of source skills were seen.

It was as if the air in the mine was poisonous and they could only die slowly while struggling.

"..."

Lindsay looked around again.

As more escape images appear, the supporting structures of the surrounding mines begin to emerge.

His inference was correct, there was indeed a supporting structure here.

But just like those dead humans, the wood supporting the mine quickly decomposed and decayed for no apparent reason, and eventually disappeared.

An iron device originally used to fasten and connect wood.

As a result, it fell to the ground and was arranged in its current neat shape.

"..."

"Could this phenomenon be the poison of corruption?"

The first thing Lindsay thought of was the Bugman Canyon not far away.

If the corrupt poison there were to break out here, it would certainly cause similar results.

But Lindsay carefully surveyed the air and ground around him.

Every detail here is clean, with no signs of the corruption that in the valley.

"This...can't be some haunted gold mine, right?"

Lindsay made his way down, almost to the bottom of the tunnel.

The further he went down, the more human skeletons he saw. It was like a huge cemetery hidden in the mountain.

But apart from this, Lindsay really couldn't find any additional clues.

hum-

Just as he was standing at the bottom of the tunnel, at a loss as to what to do.

The [Sky Compass] that had been silent for several months began to vibrate, prompting him that there was a hidden space nearby!

Lindsay was startled at first, then became excited:
"what?"

“Finally, there’s something!”

(End of this chapter)