He drew closer almost instinctively. The monotonous dive had nearly driven him mad.
But when he saw the construct with his own eyes, he froze.
It was a huge spherical construct with a few damaged patches, and it looked very familiar.
When Elliot reached one of the damaged patches and peered inside, his eyes widened instantly!
-Inside, oval, egg-shaped blood cocoons were packed together in dense masses!
He immediately realized what this sphere was. It was actually a mine!
Elliot hurriedly covered his mouth and tried to minimize his presence, not daring to make the slightest sound for fear of drawing a blood vampire encirclement.
But...
How could this mine be so enormous?
Elliot had inspected several mines not long ago, and even combined, they were less than a tenth of this one's size.
He narrowed his eyes and examined it closely, spotting a few artificial traces on its exterior. Was this a mine that had been developed?
Impossible. There had never been a record of a mine this enormous.
He activated his spirit sense and soon detected something unusual.
There seemed to be fissures across this enormous mine, and the structures built on it were somewhat misaligned.
Elliot soon guessed the truth.
This enormous sphere had actually been pieced together from multiple mines!?
But weren't mines inanimate? How could they combine?
Elliot narrowed his eyes slightly as he watched the blood cocoons pulse as though breathing:
Perhaps these blood vampires weren't the only things that had come alive. Were the mines alive too?
He remembered the enormous hands reaching out of the Seabed, as well as the ore the Difference Engine had labeled [Flesh Chunk].
Some of the attacks on Maeve's backside had indeed come from blood vampires, but more had come from enormous hands reaching straight out of