The group continued onward.
Wherever the lights reached, there were more and more holes punched through, and the walls on both sides of the mine tunnel had been damaged beyond recognition.
The old man counted as he walked, and sweat began to trickle down the back of his neck.
How were they supposed to mine this place afterward?
Just as he was sighing in despair, a faint sound suddenly came from somewhere deep within.
"Crack."
As if something had bumped into a chunk of coal.
Everyone stopped at once.
Their mining lamps probed into the darkness, the dim blue glow lighting the way ahead, but farther in, all remained pitch-black.
"Crack, crack."
The sound drew closer and closer.
Gray-White Text abruptly leaped into view at the edge of Lu Yuan's vision.
[An Eerie presence has been detected approaching...]
It was here.
The next instant, something huge flashed past one of the holes on the right.
It was so fast that the old man did not react in time. He only saw a mass of glossy black dart past, burrow into the hole opposite them, and vanish.
But Lu Yuan had seen it.
It was something made of glossy black chunks of coal.
Grayish-white soft flesh bulged from the cracks between the coal. Its body was stretched long, like a giant worm.
Where its head should have been was something resembling a human face.
Gray-White Text followed immediately, lines popping up one after another.
[Target detected: Heat Eater (Newborn Form)]
[A newly born special Eerie entity that is accumulating heat in an attempt to complete its first metamorphosis. It survives by devouring heat and is drawn to sources of warmth.]
[Weakness: cold.]
Lu Yuan ignored the word "cold" outright.
There was no need for it at all. Instead, that line explained