Lou Gao extended a slightly trembling hand and pointed at the cave wall.
"Look at this rock wall! It burns to the touch! It's definitely over seventy or eighty degrees! This is nowhere near the level normal geothermal energy could reach! And..."
Lou Gao crouched down and carefully examined the ground Larvitar had cleared beneath his feet.
"The color of these rocks... isn't right! They're too red! It's like... they've been tempered from within by high temperature for a long time!"
Lou Gao abruptly looked up at Larvitar, who was still digging furiously ahead, though its movements seemed to have grown somewhat heavy from the heat. Then he looked into the deep darkness ahead, where only the faint glow of Firefly Stones provided guidance. It was as though a massive, burning Geocentric Furnace lay hidden there!
"Xiao Xia! Something's wrong! The heat source underground... is far stronger than it was over a decade ago! And... this heat is too concentrated! It's like... something down there is... burning wildly! Or... waking up?!"
Lou Gao's expression turned exceptionally grim. His years of prospecting experience had allowed him to scent an aura of extreme danger.
Lou Gao instinctively tightened his grip on the AK Rifle in his hand. Even the cold metal body of the gun could not drive away the chill in his heart.
This abnormal high temperature was absolutely not a natural phenomenon!
Thinking of that mysterious cry from more than ten years ago, a hair-raising thought rose in his mind.
Could it be... that their excavation this time had already disturbed that sleeping... "thing" capable of commanding countless beasts?
Under the orange-red light of the Firefly Stones, the darkness deep within the Ore Cave resembled the open throat of a giant beast, radiating suffocating heat and unknown terror.
"Larvitar! Stop!