Game Universe: Awakening and Enhancing Everything at the Start

Chapter 97 Bone Mine

Huang Hong didn't care about the departure of the Flame Core Colossus. He had fulfilled his promise, and now it was up to Andy to decide.

In fact, Huang Hong also noticed that Andy was keeping something from him, but that was to be expected. They were just strangers who had met by chance, and it was already a rare opportunity to complete a pleasant collaboration. There was no need to consider anything else.

Earlier on the way, Andy had already told Huang Hong the location of the passage to the sixth floor and some general information about the sixth floor, so his purpose was clear at this moment.

About half an hour later, Huang Hong arrived at a valley. In the valley, there was an inconspicuous fissure. What was somewhat out of place with the overall lava environment of the fifth level was that this fissure was constantly releasing a cold aura.

Huang Hong picked up a stone and threw it into the crevice. After a while without hearing any movement, he shrugged and then jumped in.

The moment he entered the crevice, the scorching heat of the lava vanished, replaced by a bone-chilling coldness that seemed to slow even his thoughts.

The "qi" within the body slowly circulates, dispelling these auras.

A few minutes later, Huang Hong broke free of the rift and arrived at the sixth floor. He used a little force in mid-air to land lightly on the ground.

Looking around, the place is a maze of interconnected passages, like an abandoned mine. Occasionally, you can see some skeletons in the corners, some of which are humanoid and others are non-human.

There are planned railway tracks on the ground, but they are almost completely rusted, and only a few faint traces can be seen.

Looking up, the top of the mine pit was only seven or eight meters from the ground, and there was a crack directly above it, which was the passage between the two levels.

This is the sixth level of the underground cave... the skeleton mine.

Although Huang Hong learned a lot about the Bone Mine from Andy, he didn't have any information about the way to the seventh floor.

Therefore, his simplest approach now is not to search aimlessly like a headless fly, but to find some adventurers on this level and trade information with them.

With that in mind, Huang Hong randomly chose a direction and started moving forward.

He hadn't walked far when he saw faint lights coming from around the corner ahead, accompanied by a regular "ding! ~ding! ~" sound.

Huang Hong walked over and saw a semi-transparent figure repeatedly striking the wall with a rusty pickaxe.

Strangely, even though the figure and the pickaxe were illusory and did not cause any damage when they struck the wall, they made a sound as if they were solid objects hitting the wall.

This is one of the most common monsters on the sixth floor... the Wraith Miner. They have no intelligence or reason whatsoever, and they will not attack others unless attacked themselves. They will only mechanically and repeatedly perform mining actions.

Huang Hong approached the vengeful miner, but even though he was right next to him, the latter paid him no attention.

Huang Hong thought for a moment, then stepped back two steps and used his decomposition ability on the vengeful spirit miner.

Suddenly, under the influence of an invisible force, strands of light emanated from the vengeful miner's body, and its form quickly became transparent from its original illusory state until it disappeared.

The entire process lasted less than a second from start to finish. During this time, the vengeful miner seemed to react somewhat, but before it could take any further action, it simply vanished.

Source energy +23

23 points of source energy isn't much, but the advantage is that it can be directly decomposed without much resistance.

Huang Hong fell into deep thought.

By now, Huang Hong has gained a considerable understanding of the decomposition ability of the Myriad Manifestations Enhancement. Normally, he cannot directly decompose living beings; he must wait until they die.

This "after death" does not refer to the so-called undead life. In the decomposition judgment, undead life is not much different from other life. Huang Hong has verified this with the undead monsters he occasionally encountered.

The criteria for decomposition are more about self-awareness at the level of consciousness, and a life field formed around this "awareness".

With the 'life field' present, Huang Hong's decomposition ability cannot directly affect it. Correspondingly, once a creature dies, its self-awareness immediately disappears, and its life field collapses, making it naturally decomposeable at will.

As for the previous vengeful miner, it had almost no self-awareness, and its life field protecting itself was extremely weak and chaotic. With Huang Hong's current control over the enhancement of all phenomena, it could easily defeat it and directly decompose it.

The vengeful miners do not appear to be normal undead life forms, but rather energy polymers born from the current environment.

While the above conclusions did not significantly improve Huang Hong's current strength, they served as the starting point for his research into his own talent.

Collecting his thoughts, Huang Hong continued forward, occasionally encountering vengeful spirit miners. He also tried other methods besides direct decomposition.

Whether Huang Hong attacks proactively or makes a slight, non-hostile touch, it will directly enrage the vengeful miner, causing the latter to attack him.

Besides, even if he circled around the vengeful miner, the latter would ignore him.

Besides the vengeful miners, the Bone Mine also harbors other types of undead life, such as ghouls embedded in the walls that will suddenly attack you as you pass by; rotting corpses wandering aimlessly through the mine tunnels; and swarms of foul-smelling insects that can devour flesh and blood...

The Bone Mine is not only inhabited by undead monsters; there is also a type of monster called the Gold-Eating Worm, which feeds on the metal in the mine and is extremely adept at burrowing.

The monsters in the Bone Mine were fairly numerous. Huang Hong only wandered around for a few hours and gained a considerable amount of experience and source energy, but unfortunately, he did not encounter any other adventurers.

Just as Huang Hong calmed down and continued his search, he suddenly stopped. He placed his hand on the wall and indeed sensed a very subtle vibration.

After briefly determining the direction, Huang Hong headed towards the source of the tremor.

Because he had a clear target, Huang Hong moved quickly, but what bothered him was that the mine's passages were too interconnected, making it a large maze.

Two or three times he thought he was very close to the source of the tremors, but he was blocked by a wall and had to take a detour.

Huang Hong had already tried to break through the walls in the mine before. They were not impossible to break, but it would take a lot of time and effort and could easily cause a huge commotion. So unless absolutely necessary, he would rather take a detour than try to break through the walls.

When Huang Hong reached the correct passage, he saw a natural cave at the end of the passage, about half the size of a football field, where a battle was taking place.

Both sides in the battle are undead beings, but one side is the native inhabitant of the Bone Mine, while the other side is an outsider.