Tatiana's situation was a little absurd. Since the main rune stone veins here all lay within the area covered and enclosed by her body, they had to work around her to mine the rune stones.
The mining teams displayed both exceptional professionalism and a certain degree of humanitarian concern.
Although Tatiana had said that those structures had no nerves and could not feel anything, so cutting them off did not matter—Jia Xiu had already cut some away, after all—the miners still did their best to preserve her intact.
It felt like they were deliberately making things harder for themselves.
In any case, after a flurry of operations, they had "picked" Tatiana out of the rock and earth, even using all kinds of support frames to keep her in her original shape.
Judging from the structure—paths stretching in every direction, interwoven and connected, vanishing beyond sight like countless spiderwebs threaded together from different angles—the original insect nest had indeed been enormous, large enough to house all those insects.
They had clearly not excavated it completely yet. Many sections remained embedded in the rock, and no one knew what proportion of the whole had been unearthed so far. Naturally, the center where all those branches converged was where Tatiana lay.
Honestly, with its current half-dug-up appearance—dense pathways of flesh converging upon a massive tumor, with a living humanoid outline capable of movement on the tumor's surface—
It had more than a touch of cultish installation art about it.
"Are you sure we came to the right place?"
Tatiana asked as she looked around.
"I feel like we've arrived at some place where an evil cult performs obscene rites. Places like this, I usually used to chop my way in."
"Didn't you see what it looked like here before?"
Jia Xiu asked in