Following Elizabeth into the Lun Mine, Li Wei was rather surprised by the sight before him.
Unlike other cities, almost all the houses in the Lun Mine were built inside caves dug into the rock walls. The sight reminded Li Wei of the fantasy novels he used to read. If this world had other races, he could easily have believed this was a dwarven city.
The sloping roads were also much wider than they had looked from the air. From the airship, Li Wei had thought they resembled narrow trails along mountain cliffs, barely wide enough for one person to edge along sideways, where a single misplaced step could send someone plunging to their death. Only after arriving did he discover that these "narrow trails" were actually broad enough to park dozens of trains side by side.
He used that comparison because these roads were covered in tracks. According to Elizabeth, those tracks were the lifelines of the entire Lun Mine. The coal essence people mined was hauled out on minecarts, which then carried supplies from outside back in.
And each of those minecarts was so enormous that it was practically indistinguishable from a freight train... These were nothing like the little minecarts in games that could only seat one or two people.
Almost all the trains had been shut down now, however, to prevent the infection from spreading. Elizabeth also said that, early on, quite a few miners from the lower levels had hijacked trains and tried to break through the blockade to escape the Lun Mine. They had all been shot dead.
So the trains had now stopped running altogether. As for how long the supplies on each level would last... that depended on when this crisis could be brought to an end.
If the plague could be