After some time, Shi Beng finally calmed down under Li Luo's persuasion.
But he still remained wary of Mo Ling and did not want the Cube to come near.
Li Luo explained repeatedly that the Cube was merely a Relic with self-awareness, not a living creature, and that it did not have any Divergent Vein Disease.
Yet Shi Beng still refused to believe it. He seemed deeply troubled by the matter of Divergent Vein Disease and would rather misunderstand than let the Cube approach.
Mo Ling decided not to provoke him for the moment.
Only after Mo Ling guided the Cube back into the sky did the distorted ripples coursing across Shi Beng's body slowly subside, and the sound of metal and stone gradually faded.
"Can you tell me about Divergent Vein Disease now?" Li Luo asked.
Shi Beng's trembling body gradually settled. He glanced at the Cube in the sky and finally relaxed.
Leaning against the stone wall, he slowly sat down.
As his fear faded, Shi Beng returned to that hollow state. He nodded at Li Luo and began to explain.
No one knew where Divergent Vein Disease had come from.
It was a contagious disease that ravaged the Mineralfolk.
The disease was first discovered during a massive war.
One day, as Iron Clan soldiers went to the mine vein to awaken their newborn companions who had fallen into emptiness, they found a strangely shaped Newborn.
He had originally been an ordinary Iron Clan Newborn, but specks of red light glimmered across his body.
Those red lights dotted the surface of the newborn Mineralfolk's body like grains of sand, making him look utterly different.
Not only that, grain-sized red crystals protruded from his skin, forming glittering crystal clusters.
Although the Mineralfolk were creatures that only knew fear,