But no matter how much ore they mined, it could never compare to their original reserves.
All resources were finite and had to be carefully budgeted. This kind of life... was rather straitened indeed.
Looking at the ore, Zhang Ming felt his urge to scavenge stirring, instinctively wanting to become a garbage collector. Then he chuckled despite himself. This pyrite stone, black jade, and Qinghai stone were not actually worth much. They could be found everywhere in the mineral veins beneath the Demon God's Sea. Converted into human currency, they were worth only tens of thousands per ton. Collecting them was only worthwhile if an entire civilization mobilized its resources.
As they passed the mountains of ore and moved away from the sunlight outside, Zhang Ming suddenly felt a sinister chill rapidly approaching. He hurriedly took a step back.
"Here it comes!"
The very next second, a strange sound rang out!
A mass of dense shadow crawled down from the stairway.
Looking closely, they saw a slug-like creature roughly eight meters long dart to the Snake Person Heilin's side at incredible speed! The larger a Shadow Beast was, the greater its fighting power. At eight meters long, this one did not count as a powerful specimen, but its speed was simply lightning-fast.
After two slimy, blue-green tentacles touched the black scales on the Snake Person's body, they actually began sticking together.
Dense darkness and cold assailed his mind, making Heilin roar, "Aah!"
The team of four naturally realized they were under attack and reacted as quickly as possible, each aiming their gun at the Shadow Beast.
Heilin, in particular, bore the brunt of the attack. Though he had long known how terrifying Shadow Beasts were, only by experiencing it himself did he understand their power and strangeness.
That icy sensation