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Chapter 78 Another Punch

Northwest desert.

Daxia Nuclear Waste Storage Base.

An expert with graying hair, the head of the base, and a nuclear waste maintenance worker...

Each of them wore a worried expression and paced back and forth like ants on a hot pan.

"It's been three hours!"

"He started digging the well, and it's been a full three hours now!"

The person in charge, who originally had a square face, now had his entire face wrinkled up, almost turning into a round face.

"Xiao Liu!"

"Did you get a response when I asked you to call him?"

He called over the interns who had just joined the base.

"No, no."

Xiao Liu's voice was a little hoarse at this moment.

What a pity.

He had been shouting 'Ember' into the pager for two whole hours.

Until the very end...

He felt like he was turning into 'embers'.

"Keep calling!"

The person in charge issued the order.

"it is good!"

Xiao Liu answered with a forced smile.

Time passes slowly.

Another hour passed.

The sky above the northwestern desert has begun to show a pale, fish-belly white hue.

It was six o'clock in the morning, and dawn was breaking.

But the embers...

Since they went down into the well, there has been no further movement.

"no!"

"We can't let him mess around like this, something bad is going to happen!"

"Xiao Liu!"

"Put on your protective suit, I'm going down to find him!"

The person in charge shouted.

only……

The voice just fell.

Swish-

Two heavily armed figures blocked the way for the person in charge.

"As ordered—"

"No one may interfere with Ember's actions without his permission!"

"You must get Ember's permission before you go down the well!"

The young man with the buzz cut spoke each word clearly.

"..."

The person in charge's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

But he also knew that it was absolutely pointless to reason with these two.

For them, obeying orders is their duty; everything else is just empty talk.

but……

He couldn't just stand by and watch the embers disappear after they went down the well.

Although he didn't know Yu Jin's exact identity, if something happened to a young man who could get Yin Shan Hai's personal approval and endorsement...

The person in charge was sweating profusely.

"No."

"Give me permission to speak with Mr. Yin on the phone!"

The voice just fell.

Da da--

Several middle-aged men wearing thick glasses and work clothes stumbled over.

"Dou, Chief Engineer Dou!"

"Radiation..."

"The radiation level is decreasing!"

……

……

Northwest Base.

Data monitoring room.

As a site for burying 100,000 tons of nuclear waste, one of the important tasks here is to monitor nuclear radiation data.

But at this moment?
Dou Qingfeng, the head of the base, stared blankly at the continuously declining curve on the big screen.

The curve represents radiation intensity.

Dou Qingfeng has been at this base for a full twenty years.

He had seen the radiation curve rise slightly each time waste was buried, but he had never seen...

The radiation curve is decreasing!

To know.

The half-lives of those highly radioactive elements can be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years!
Logically speaking.

With a human lifespan of only a hundred years, it is simply impossible for them to witness a decline in the radiation curve, let alone such a significant and sustained decline...

"Embers?"

"What did he do?"

"He moved tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste to me?"

"No, that's impossible!"

"He's just one person; let alone moving 10,000 tons, he couldn't even move a single solid waste column..."

Dou Qingfeng stared at the screen, becoming more and more confused.

His scientific understanding and worldview, built up over many years, were shattered at this moment.

After a while.

He made up his mind.

"Go down the mine! We have to go down the mine!"

"I want to see what he's up to in there!"

If.

Previously, he was worried about something happening to Yu Jin, but now, he is truly seeking the truth and unraveling the mystery.

After all, he had dedicated decades to the field of nuclear waste disposal, and he truly couldn't understand the situation unfolding before him.

If it weren't for repeated verification, he would have thought that there was a problem with the instrument monitoring the data.

Half an hour later.

Dou Qingfeng's request to speak with Yin Shanhai was approved.

five minutes later.

Toot——

The landline phone rang.

Dou Qingfeng picked up the phone, first offering a standard and sincere greeting in Mandarin, and then briefly reporting the unusual situation that had occurred at the base to Yin Shanhai.

There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone.

"Application to go down the mine is not approved."

"We will fully support the work of Yu Jin."

After leaving sixteen words for Dou Qingfeng, Yin Shanhai hung up the phone.

Dou Qingfeng stood there, unable to recover for a long time.

this moment.

He suddenly began to question the meaning of life.

this world……

Is it really still the world he knows?
……

……

Time passes slowly.

It's twelve o'clock sharp.

Northwest Base.

Dou Qingfeng received news that greatly surprised and delighted him.

"Ember has replied!"

But it's a pity.

Dou Qingfeng's surprise lasted only two minutes.

"Uh……"

"Ember wants us to continue lowering the hoisting platform."

"He said he wanted to go to a flat area 1000 meters underground."

Dou Qingfeng really wanted to ask Yu Jin what he was doing down there and how he managed to reduce the radiation.

but……

He didn't even have a chance to ask a question.

Because Ember had already hung up the pager, and subsequent calls could not be connected.

"Lower the drilling platform!"

"Target depth, one kilometer!"

Dou Qingfeng took a deep breath and gave the order.

……

……

boom--

Rumbling--

The axles of the hoisting platform roared.

Yu Jin stood on the platform, his eyes glazed over.

He wasn't putting on airs or trying to avoid responding to Dou Qingfeng's call.

But...

He can't hold on much longer.

It's not that they can't withstand nuclear radiation.

For someone who is already at the eighth level, mere radiation is nothing to worry about.

What truly overwhelmed him was the eighth-order energy crystal.

For the past 11 hours, he has been working non-stop to clean up the nuclear contamination and also constantly taking crystals.

Ember had no idea how many Tier 8 crystals he had consumed...

He was numb.

but……

As more and more crystals were consumed, that familiar, intense feeling of dizziness and vertigo returned.

"No, I can't sleep!"

Yu Jin bit the tip of his tongue.

But such painful stimulation was no longer enough to keep him conscious.

"I still need to break through to the ninth rank, and I also need to purify Aomomo before I transmigrate..."

Yu Jin kept telling himself this.

When the hoisting platform came to a stop.

He was almost numb as he moved his body down the platform.

then……

He repeated the previous process.

Splitting into physical clones, manipulating and sensing elements with metal, condensing a torrent of metal, unfolding a spatial black hole...

as well as.

Snap!
Never at any moment.

Yu Jin felt that 'consuming crystals' was such a painful and torturous thing.

That intense dizziness went beyond the limits of physiology, reaching the deepest part of the soul.

Even though Ember was already at the eighth level, he was completely unable to resist.

"No, I can't sleep!"

Just as Ember's consciousness began to wane once more, and his vision was about to be completely plunged into darkness.

He gritted his teeth and suddenly raised his hand to clench his fist.

He slammed down hard between her legs.

"what--!"

A bloodcurdling scream, piercingly painful, echoed a thousand meters underground.

Just five minutes later.

Under the effect of [First-order proliferation attribute ability: Cell regeneration lv1].

The limbs that Yu Jin lost were restored to their original state.

but……

Snap!
After swallowing another crystal, Yu Jin's consciousness once again became hazy.

"Fuck!"

Ember cursed and swung his fist again...

(End of this chapter)