Ding Ling had already arranged everything here in advance to ensure that our "work" would not be disturbed—she had cleared all irrelevant personnel out of the ruins and set up a cordon and watch posts across a wide area around the mine entrance to prevent anyone from accidentally approaching the place. This was all experience they had accumulated over the years, because Imperial ruins were generally not very safe. There had once been incidents involving explosions of items within ruins and minor psionic energy leaks: a "minor leak" by Shilin Apostle standards was a catastrophic disaster by human standards. Boundless Love and the Esper Team had been put through quite an ordeal back then, so whenever any secret organization on Earth encountered these dangerous "alien ruins" that glowed blue, they treated them with utmost caution.
"Only the few staff members who saw the Holographic Projection in the ruins are inside," Lin Feng said as he led us toward the mine tunnel fissure emitting blue light. "They're our own people, but it'd still be best to wipe their memories. A human from Earth appearing in alien ruins, and even a senior Boundless Love official at that—if word got to the Esper Team, they couldn't keep it secret either."
The dark, cramped incline shaft was filled with foul, murky air. Even the powerful fans constantly ventilating the tunnel could barely disperse the smells that had accumulated over half a century. Still, it was not unbearable, so we did not bother putting up shields. At the end of the shaft, we confirmed that the blue glow was emanating from several broad cracks in the ground and the lower walls. Beside the shaft was a small passage that had obviously been excavated recently, and the blue light inside it was even brighter. It clearly