[Loyalty: My lord, Victor has steadied the Burning Knights. The crisis is over...]
Yu Yuan looked at the message Hans had sent.
"Now that Victor's on our side, crude oil supplies won't be a problem anymore. His ability to sense underground veins should also prove useful in the Dead Mine. We need to locate the uranium ore as soon as possible."
A message from the Alpha Wolf arrived as well.
[Alpha Wolf: My king, we've located the Dawn Consortium's nuclear weapons testing ground. We've also begun reconnaissance of the Twin Towers in Merri City and have a good grasp of the enemy's strength.
The most effective way to take down the Dawn Consortium is to jam electronics across the entire area. Once all their electronic equipment is disabled, their greatest threat will be gone. The rest should be straightforward.
Also, nearly all the supplies from Reis Town have been transported. We can finish withdrawing within two days at the latest.]
Yu Yuan read the message twice, paying close attention, then closed the Virtual Light Screen.
"Mm... Once I'm done here, it'll be time to take down the Dawn Consortium too."
As he spoke, Miemie carried him to Fuel Town.
Miemie came to a stop.
Below them, black oil had flooded what should have been a snow-covered landscape.
Oil should have solidified in such extreme cold, yet this oil still flowed slowly, seemingly unaffected by the temperature.
According to Victor,
the oil beneath Fuel Town was light crude oil.
Light crude oil generally had a pour point—the lowest temperature at which it could still flow—above −20°C.
At the current temperature of sixty or seventy degrees below zero, it should have solidified into wax long ago.
That alone showed how unusual this place was.
And then there were the Oil Creatures crawling