Yang Yi did not visit any other settlements. He intended to infiltrate directly through the mining area here, so he entered the chute.
This time, he did not hit the wall. He had prepared himself, slowing down in advance and landing steadily on the ice.
By now, Yang Yi also understood how these people got in and out.
They did indeed enter through the chute, but they took another route out, using a hot air balloon to travel through a separate vertical passage.
Along the way, they also had to shift their position, because the passage was not straight and had transitional S-shaped sections.
That way, even a collapse would not easily affect the entire area, and snow would not fill it up.
After passing through the curtain used to insulate against the cold, Yang Yi entered the mining area.
There was no one here. It was so quiet that only Yang Yi's footsteps echoed, and the temperature was extremely low, much like the frozen settlement above.
But this mining area was clearly larger than the first one Yang Yi had visited. It contained three enormous cavities of exactly the same diameter, all fifty meters across, with almost no deviation.
These dimensions also matched the cavities in the other mining areas, suggesting that they most likely were not naturally formed.
Su Na believed these were traces left by some kind of large geological drilling machine, which would reasonably explain why the cavities were so close in size.
Yang Yi took out the Pure White Potion he had just obtained, crushed it hard, then ate it along with the ice shards and the Reagent Bottle, making crunching noises.
Crunch, crunch.
``` [...You have taken the Pure White Potion. Sanity -25. You have gained the temporary ability-"Pure White Body," lasting eight hours.