You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

Inside the cave is another world.

Outside, the wind howled and lightning flashed, but inside, it was eerily silent, as if even time had stopped flowing.

Only the sound of the wind, weakened by the layers of rock walls, coming from the cave entrance, reminded them, like a low sob, that they were not isolated from the world.

Lin Chen turned on the military-grade high-powered flashlight he carried with him. A bright beam of light instantly pierced through the dense darkness, illuminating the road ahead.

The interior of the cave is much larger than one might imagine.

Countless strangely shaped stalactites and stalagmites emerge from the cave ceiling and floor, displaying various ferocious postures under the changing light and shadow, resembling a natural demon's palace.

An underground river of unknown origin flows gently from the depths of a karst cave. The water is icy cold and gleams with a deep, eerie light under the flashlight beam.

"Follow my footsteps, and don't touch anything else."

Lin Chen whispered his instructions.

Holding Su Qingge's hand in one hand and holding a flashlight in the other, he carefully explored the depths along the edge of the underground river.

His god-like hearing allowed him to clearly distinguish the almost inaudible, subtle buzzing of electricity mixed in with the sound of flowing water, indicating that the Dark Moon Organization had likely planted some electronic equipment inside.

After walking for about ten minutes, around a huge stalagmite, Su Qingge suddenly stopped and let out a suppressed gasp.

"Oh my god..."

Lin Chen followed her gaze, and his pupils involuntarily contracted slightly.

In front of us, the underground river converges to form a huge underground lake with a diameter of over fifty meters.

The entire lake was radiating a dreamlike, ethereal blue light!

The light was not dazzling; instead, it possessed a strange, calming magic.

Countless strange, seaweed-like plants grow in the lake, and it is these plants that constantly emit light, illuminating the entire vast underground space into a magnificent blue secret realm.

The scene was breathtakingly beautiful, yet also eerily unsettling.

"That's it..."

Su Qingge murmured.

"It's exactly the same as the seaweed found on the first body."

Lin Chen's expression, however, was unusually serious; he was not fooled by this fantastical scene.

He squatted by the pool, extended his gloved fingers, and gently scooped up a luminous seaweed from the water.

[God-level mastery of biology]!

[God-level mastery of materials science]!

Two god-level skills were simultaneously being analyzed in his mind!

"No, this isn't seaweed."

Lin Chen's voice carried a hint of solemnity.

"This is a genetically modified symbiotic organism of fungi and algae."

"Look at its roots."

Su Qingge took a closer look and saw that the roots of the seaweed were like magnets, tightly adhering to a large number of silver-gray, sand-like fine particles.

"What...is this?"

"High-purity rare earth minerals and associated metals."

A terrifying glint flashed in Lin Chen's eyes.

"Moreover, based on its crystal structure and energy response, this is an extremely rare strategic material specifically designed for manufacturing high-energy particle weapons and core chips for next-generation quantum computers! On the international black market, one gram costs ten times more than gold!"

He finally understood!

All the mysteries were suddenly clear at this moment!

"The Dark Moon Organization isn't here to perform any sea god rituals or search for any treasure. They're using the island's seclusion and this peculiar symbiotic organism to conduct a form of 'biomining'!"

Lin Chen stood up, his gaze sweeping over the vast lake of glowing fireflies, his voice icy.

"This underground river connects to the deep sea outside."

"Seawater contains trace amounts of rare earth metals, which are extremely difficult to mine using ordinary methods."

"But the Dark Moon Organization has cultivated these 'bio-miners' capable of efficiently accumulating specific metallic elements!"

"They absorb rare earth elements from seawater and, through their own metabolism, transform them into high-purity associated metal particles, which are then stored in their roots."

"They only need to come here periodically and harvest these 'seaweed' like harvesting leeks to continuously obtain invaluable strategic resources! This is hundreds of times more profitable than directly robbing banks or selling arms, and it's also much more covert and harder to trace!"

Su Qingge was stunned, feeling a chill run from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head.

Using genetically modified organisms to secretly mine strategic resources.

This method has completely exceeded her understanding of criminal behavior.

"Then... what about Ah Biao's death?"

"That idiot just stumbled into this place by accident, and probably thought the glowing seaweed was novel, so he just took one with him."

Lin Chen sneered.

"He had no idea that what he was taking away was not some souvenir, but a priceless secret that could lead to his death."

"When the Dark Moon people discover that the sample is missing, they will naturally spare no effort to investigate and even kill to cover it up."

The truth came out.

This seemingly beautiful sea of ​​fluorescent light is actually a huge, sinister, secret mine worth hundreds of billions!

And they were the "uninvited guests" who had barged into the mine.