Before entering, Ke Meng brought out Tangyuan to see whether it could withstand the ore disease curse.
Tangyuan shook its body and was completely fine.
Then his bodyguard Shirley proved that she, too, could withstand the ore disease curse.
Ke Meng took the two of them into the newly opened mine tunnel. The people behind him did not follow, as he had stopped them to keep them from facing something they could not withstand if an accident occurred inside.
For now, humans were still a little too weak to deal with this ore disease.
The director and several investigators waited at the entrance, quietly discussing Ke Meng's true standing. The director merely shook his head and did not say much about it.
Inside the mine tunnel.
Shirley held the Illumination Crystal high. She could not emit light herself, but special items could. The white crystal in her hand, for example, gave off natural light that illuminated part of the tunnel. It also had a light-element effect capable of inflicting destructive damage on darkness-type phenomena.
Ke Meng walked quickly. His sixth sense told him that the cries for help were just ahead.
After dozens of consecutive bends, his sixth sense grew stronger and stronger, until clear cries rang out in his mind.
"Save me, save me!"
"Please save me! I don't want to die!"
Agonized pleas echoed in Ke Meng's ears. He could faintly hear human skin, blood, flesh, and bones turning into black crystal ore. The screams assaulted his body again and again.
The resistance within Ke Meng's body repeatedly swept away the newly forming ore disease curse, signaling that the source was close.
Ke Meng stopped in front of a stone wall. Under the Crystal Block's natural light, the surface of the black crystal ore reflected his face.
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