The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

The charred rocks pierced the gray-yellow sky like the ribs of a giant beast.

The figures of Shen Ge, Camille and York were like ghosts blending into the shadows. Under the cover of rugged rocks and twisted dead trees, they quietly approached the Black Mountain Mine, which was brightly lit and exuded an ominous atmosphere.

York bent his waist and moved with extraordinary skill, like a hyena that had lived in the shadows for many years. It was obviously the experience he had accumulated over the years of living in the wilderness.

He led the two of them along a narrow path hidden by huge fallen rocks and wind-eroded gullies. The road was extremely steep and rugged, covered with loose gravel, and below was a bottomless dark rift. But for York, who was used to surviving in the wilderness, it was as easy as walking on flat ground.

Shen Ge did not interfere with York's "guidance" throughout the whole process. Consistent with his feeling when he came here, he always felt that this York and the tribe were not that simple.

He wanted to figure out what York was trying to do, so he let him lead the way and he followed behind, releasing blood spiders along the way to explore.

If Shen Ge were to take action directly and activate the three characteristics, no one would be able to detect Shen Ge's infiltration except for the weirdness that seemed to be at the seventh level.

Of course, this is the most ideal situation, but when Shen Ge entered Black Mountain, he found that the complexity of the situation here was far beyond his expectations.

First of all, the concentration of the strange energy black fog and the intensity of the strange energy fluctuations are so high that normal people cannot survive here at all.

But what's strange is that not only was a base built here, but a large number of slaves were also escorted here to dig out crystals. It can't be that the humans in this fragmented world have a higher resistance to the erosion of strange energy?
And there is one very strange thing. Although Shen Ge did not activate the three characteristic states, ever since he entered Black Mountain, he felt that a strange power had locked onto him, as if a pair of eyes were staring at him in the dark night. Whenever he used the strange power, this strange feeling became even stronger!
Shen Ge tried to use his strange power several times, and was immediately locked by this "eye gaze", but strangely, the other party did not take any further action.

And this feeling becomes stronger the closer we get to the Black Mountain base.

And as Shen Ge was "locked", the reaction of the strange energy group that the strange eye saw below the Black Mountain base became stronger and stronger, as if some huge monster was about to wake up.

Before he could determine what that thing was, Shen Ge could only reduce the fluctuations of his own strange energy to prevent himself from being targeted by the other party.

"Over there... is the back wall of the mine." York lowered his voice and pointed to an area below that was shrouded by a huge shadow.

That was the back of the mine wall, which seemed much more lax than the tight defense at the front. The wall was made of huge, unpolished black rocks and rough metal rivets, towering and cold. There were no sentry towers on the top of the wall, only a few dim searchlights lazily sweeping below at long intervals.

What is even more striking is that at the base of the wall, an inconspicuous narrow hole half-covered by huge weathered rocks is vaguely visible.

There were some fresh traces of excavation and scattered black warning fragments at the edge of the cave.

"That's the entrance to the abandoned mine tunnel that was secretly dug by the quarrying team. It was sealed many years ago... I don't know if we can still get inside." York's voice was a little nervous.

Shen Ge looked at York and asked calmly, "It seems you are very familiar with this place?"

"..."

After a brief silence, York let out a long breath and nodded: "Yes, in fact, I was once a slave captured here, but I escaped by chance. Because of this, I know how dark and scary it is here. I must rescue Xiaoya and the others!"

Shen Ge just glanced at York indifferently. York was very nervous, but still chose to face Shen Ge's scrutiny, as if he wanted to prove that he was not lying.

Shen Ge did not continue on this topic, and looked at the cave in front of him: "Then let's try to go in from here."

The invisible strange domain spread silently like water waves, instantly covering an area of ​​dozens of meters near the cave entrance. And at the moment the strange domain spread out, the feeling of being "targeted" appeared again.

"Master, the strange energy fluctuations underground are becoming stronger and stronger!" Classmate Xiaoqi reminded.

As soon as Shen Ge retracted the strange domain, Xiao Qi immediately detected that the strong fluctuation disappeared, as if his strange power had attracted a sleeping guy.

After a little thought, Shen Ge reclaimed the Strange Domain and chose to activate the "Invisible" feature. Sure enough, only when using "Invisible" could the opponent be unable to lock onto him.

After York pushed away the rubble and rotten wood piles blocking the cave entrance, a strong, foul air mixed with dust, sweat, blood, and some indescribable mineral smell instantly rushed out of the cave entrance. Then he was the first to enter the cave entrance, followed by Camille.

Shen Ge waited until the last batch of blood spiders crawled into the cave before following them in.

The mine tunnel was pitch black, with no sight of one's hand in front of one's face. The air was suffocatingly dirty, and underfoot was slippery, sticky soil and scattered ore fragments.

Camille quickly turned on the low-light night vision goggles on his tactical helmet, and a dark green, narrow and depressing passage suddenly appeared in his field of vision.

The cave walls were rough and covered with digging marks. In some places, they were barely supported by rotten wooden stakes, as if they would collapse at any time.

York lit up a strange plant root that he carried with him, which emitted a faint fluorescence, barely illuminating a small area in front of him.

He nervously identified the direction and whispered, "This is an abandoned mine. Generally, no one patrols here. Go this way and you should be able to reach the waste dump of the old mine area... It's very close to the slave concentration camp. Captain Shen, if you want to gather intelligence, you can capture the two supervisors and interrogate them."

Shen Ge nodded and didn't say much. He used the excuse he had made up before to fool York and others, saying that the convoy wanted to find out a way to leave the wasteland from the Black Mountain base.

York and his family have lived in the wilderness for generations. Although they are either migrating or on the way to migration all year round, they have never left the wilderness.

According to them, the "hunters" came from outside the wasteland, and they would go wherever there were "crystals". They should have a map of the route out of the wasteland.

However, compared to the so-called map, Shen Ge is more interested in the space-time crack in the Black Mountain Base, because the crack is the key to leaving the multiple strange spaces!

York held his breath and walked through the narrow, oppressive mine tunnel that looked like the intestines of a giant beast. The further he went, the more polluted the air became, and the stronger the smell of blood became. From time to time, he could step on some small, hard things like bones.

I don't know how long I walked before I heard a faint light and vague voices coming from the front.

York raised his hand to signal the two people behind him to stop. The passage ahead seemed to be connected to a larger space. He moved forward silently along the cold rock wall, while Camille followed carefully behind him.

Shen Ge was walking at the back, with the holographic image reflected by the blood spider in front of him. In other words, he already knew what was ahead.

He felt that York's situation was not as simple as he said. He was definitely not just a slave who escaped from the Black Mountain Base, and his strength was definitely not as weak as he seemed. When York was not paying attention, Xiao Qi controlled the sesame-sized blood spider to test York and found that his physical strength was even twice as strong as that of a professional anti-ghost warrior like Camille!
He wanted to see how long York could hide.

At the end of the passage is a huge, abandoned mine.

It was obvious that mining had been stopped long ago. The huge mine pit was like a hollowed-out mountain belly, with a mountain of black ore waste and garbage piled up at the bottom of the pit. A few dim electric lights were hung high up, barely illuminating this huge space.

However, what made Camille's pupils shrink suddenly was not the abandoned scene, but the scene at the edge of the mine!
Along the edge of the pit, rough wire mesh and rusty iron plates were used to separate the small, dirty "cages" that looked like cattle sheds. Each cage was packed with people!

Most of them were shirtless or wrapped in tattered cloth, skinny and bony, with whip marks, burns and dirt all over their skin. Their eyes were empty and numb, like bodies without souls. Some people's hands and feet were even locked with rough iron chains, fixed to the cold rock walls.

The air was thick with the stench of excrement, sweat, and rotting wounds.

In the slightly more "spacious" area in the center of the mine, some slightly "stronger" men were being driven by several supervisors holding whips, wearing dirty leather jackets, and carrying old-fashioned shotguns on their waists. They used simple backpacks or carts to transport the "crystals" found in the black ore pile out of a deeper mine entrance and dumped them onto a huge waste dump.

Every dumping was accompanied by the overseer’s harsh curses and the crisp sound of the whip hitting flesh!

"Hurry up! You bunch of lazy maggots! The new god needs sacrifices! Needs crystals! If you delay the progress, you will all be thrown into the 'furnace'!" A burly overseer with a scar on his face, brandished a bloody whip and roared with spit flying.

"Woo..."

A thin old man couldn't bear the weight, his footing slipped, and he fell to the ground with the backpack. The heavy ore hit his legs, making a crisp sound of breaking bones.

"Ah——" the old man let out a shrill scream.

"Old thing! You're looking for death!" The scarred supervisor grinned and raised the whip to hit him hard!
at this time--

"stop!!!"

A roar filled with deep hatred, despair and crazy rage, like the roar of a wounded beast, suddenly exploded from the entrance of the passage where Shen Ge and his companions were hiding!
It's York!
His gaze was like a flaming sword, fixed on a small figure huddled in a corner next to the scrap heap!

She was a little girl, skinny as a bone, with dry yellow hair, her face covered with dirt and tears, and she had only a tattered piece of linen that could barely cover her body. The scars on her exposed skin showed that she had suffered inhuman abuse here.

The most unacceptable thing is that even though she was tortured like this, she still had a backpack on her small shoulders that was not much smaller than her body, and it was filled with several heavy crystals.

At this moment, she was looking at the fallen old man and the supervisor who raised the whip in horror, her body trembling like a dead leaf in the wind.

"Xiaoya!!!"

York's eyes were bloodshot, his reason was completely burned out by anger and the ecstasy of reunion in an instant. He no longer cared about hiding, and rushed out of the passage like a mad bull, running towards the small figure.

"York!" Camille wanted to pull him back, but was a step too slow.

This sudden action made Shen Ge obviously stunned. He thought that York had some deeper connection with the Black Mountain Base, and might even be a member of the Black Mountain Base. This "acting" was just to lure them into the trap of the Black Mountain Base.

But the anger and roar just now obviously didn't seem to be acted.

"Who is it?!" Scar-faced supervisor was stunned by the sudden roar, and then saw York rushing out, his face instantly filled with ferocity.

"Damn it, it's you bugs from the wasteland again. Since you've come to my doorstep, then just put on the backpack and carry the crystals! Go, catch him!" After Scar's monitor shouted, the supervisors and guards in the mine reacted instantly. The two guards who were close to him immediately raised their guns and aimed at York.

Camille's face changed drastically, and she raised the energy rifle in her hand almost the moment York rushed out. However, York's speed was much faster than she thought.

Almost in the blink of an eye, York rushed more than ten meters away like a cheetah.

Shen Ge narrowed his eyes. It turned out that York had been hiding his strength. His combat capability might even be higher than that of Lieutenant Hawke.

With such powerful strength and speed, if he chose to continue sneaking in and use this secret passage in the mine, he might be able to rescue the person, but he was exposed early because of his impulsiveness.

boom--

boom!
As a burst of gunfire echoed in the mine, York actually dodged the bullet and pounced on a supervisor like a cheetah.

Shen Ge then noticed that York's hands had grown claw-like nails, which pierced through the throat of the supervisor he had knocked down, and then he leaped over and knocked down another person.

The supervisors all shot at York, but the strange thing was that except for the first gunshot, the entire space seemed to be isolated from sound and no sound could be heard.

This was naturally the effect of Shen Ge's Silent Mysterious Domain. He didn't want to be "wanted" because of York's momentary impulse before he could figure out the situation of the Black Mountain base.

Of course, there is another reason.

He wanted to try using the Ghost Domain under the "Invisible" attribute to see if he would still be locked by the seventh-order Ghost King underground.

boom--

Rumble!
At this moment, the whole mountain shook violently, as if a major earthquake had occurred deep underground. Shen Ge also clearly felt that the "locked" feeling appeared again!

He took back the Silent Mysterious Domain, and the whole mountain became "calm" again, as if he had become the key to "activating" the mountain.

As the Silent Domain disappeared, the surrounding sounds returned to normal, and the supervisors shouted in fear: "The New God, the New God is angry!"

"Quick, one team will take care of that bastard, and the rest of you will have someone send the crystal to the 'altar'!" (End of this chapter)