Enforcer Manual
Chapter 588: Don’t Pick Up and Eat Things Off the Ground_1

Chapter 588: Chapter 588: Don’t Pick Up and Eat Things Off the Ground_1

Spiritual Energy opened up a path to the depths of the "mine" for the trio, and along the way, any aberrant constructs they desired were annihilated in the presence of the invincible Bug Swarm Queen, and Song Lan also took stock of this forbidden territory that not even the believers of the Lunar Eclipse Sect had touched.

According to records, this place was once a mining field within the territory of the Third Neutral Country, and later it became a forbidden place for the imprisonment of Consciousness Entities and aberrant constructs.

Indeed, they also encountered Consciousness Entities along the way, which were different from the aberrant constructs.

Most of them still retained the appearance of humans, wandering like ghosts in the depths of the "mine."

Father Bruno had mentioned that in order to eliminate these Consciousness Entities, born from the evil thoughts in the believers’ hearts, they had tried countless methods, but they had never truly killed them. Out of desperation, they had driven these entities into the "mine."

Thus, this place step by step turned from a mining field into a prison for the confinement of aberrant constructs and Consciousness Entities.

But now, Song Lan found that Father Bruno was spouting nonsense.

Because in the presence of the invincible Bug Swarm Queen, all Consciousness Entities turned into imperceptible residue amidst the fluctuations of Spiritual Energy. If one were to analyze from the perspective of "Walk Close to Science," he suspected that these entities, which had troubled the Lunar Eclipse Sect for many years, might belong to the same category as those Shadows.

Once the noise around his ears had quieted, Song Lan finally had time to focus on geological exploration.

Watching Song Lan’s figure touching here and there, Lu Xiang suddenly felt an uncontrollable irritation—this was the most dangerous forbidden territory in the Third Neutral Country, perhaps even one of the most dangerous areas in the world, yet Song Lan was as leisurely as a tourist, and had even formed a makeshift "mine one-day tour" team with Yeying.

"Don’t pick things up from the ground and eat them!"

Considering that Yeying might very likely become a member of the Bug Swarm in the future, Lu Xiang couldn’t help but correct some of her poor habits.

The biggest bad habit of this girl was that she liked to pick up anything she hadn’t seen before and take a bite out of it to test the waters.

Under Song Lan’s encouragement, she had even drunk a mouthful of water from a blood pool.

However, judging by the twisted expression on Yeying’s face at the time, the taste of the blood pool must have been horrendously bad, given that she would excitedly run over to pick up remnants of aberrant constructs and swallow them down before.

This was the third time Lu Xiang reminded Yeying.

It proved that the stern image Song Lan had established for her had a significant impact on Yeying, with each stern lecture silently taken to heart.

She had gone from picking up things and eating them indifferently at the beginning to now sneaking things into her mouth when Lu Xiang wasn’t looking.

But with Lu Xiang’s keen perception, Yeying’s little movements were inevitably discovered.

She stuck out her tongue and spat out the half-swallowed creature that looked like a lizard, and the moment she placed it on the ground, the frightened lizard darted into the blood pool and disappeared.

"And you, stop exploring around for addresses!"

Lu Xiang had been silently observing Song Lan for a while now, and the latter’s actions made her suspect that if he had a miner’s pick in his hands, he might chisel out a gemstone from among the minerals illuminated by the blood pool.

She felt the final battle was imminent, and this was disrespectful to the Archbishop Helifis as well as the Moon God.

"Don’t you have a peculiar feeling?"

Song Lan stood on tiptoe and wiped a mineral substance from above his head that looked like stalactites. A few minutes ago, he had asked Yeying to help analyze the composition of these minerals, which seemed to belong to none of the known minerals in this world.

And it was sweet when chewed, though somewhat tough on the teeth.

It was after delving deeper into the "mine" that Song Lan discovered another function of Yeying.

Often, her habit of picking up things and chewing on them wasn’t due to gluttony, her taste buds could actually discern the composition of objects, and any biomatter deemed beneficial by her genes would be swallowed into her stomach.

The illuminating blood pool ahead gave him a vague sense of familiarity—it was like when he tirelessly mined in "My World" until he finally struck the heart of the earth, a scene rewarded to the persistent.

"No."

Lu Xiang raised an eyebrow.

She had never played "My World." In fact, she never had any time to play games since she was a child. However, she did figure out why Song Lan was so popular with children and why he could mingle with them so easily.

This guy definitely had the king of kids’ genes; Yeying now clearly treated him as the leader of the adventure squad, seeming to put even Archbishop Helifis, deep within the "mine," out of his mind.

Whatever Song Lan told her to eat, she would eat.

"I’m serious."

Song Lan said, "Ever since we entered deeper into the ’mine,’ there have been fewer mutated constructs and consciousness entities, and other non-aggressive life forms have started to appear."

Like the lizard Yeying had just caught from a rock near the blood pool.

The composition of this lizard’s scales was somewhat similar to the unknown minerals above their heads. Tasting sweet, this was why Yeying unhesitatingly put the lizard in her mouth.

"And the path under our feet, it’s like it was constructed by someone, leading us deeper into the ’mine.’ If you imagine the blood pools on both sides as torches, can you feel it now?"

Song Lan’s spread out spiritual energy had already detected more than 20 types of unknown animals, suggesting there was also an independent and complete ecological chain here.

The deeper they went into the "mine," the more it felt like an independent and complete world to him.

"Do you think those mutated constructs would come here to pave roads?"

Song Lan wasn’t being dismissive of his mutated construct companions, but judging by their rowdy behavior and the way they rushed forward at the sight of living creatures, it was a good thing they weren’t causing destruction; constructing roads and buildings was simply beyond them.

"Do you mean there are other humans living here?"

Lu Xiang immediately remembered that Father Bruno had said they used to send people who committed grave sins, along with heretics, into the "mine." Additionally, before the archbishop’s official ban, some miners and believers seeking the secrets of the "mine" were forever lost in this perilous forbidden zone.

They were generally believed to have died somewhere in the "mine."

"To put it conservatively, there should be intelligent creatures here. Even if they were originally human, having lived in this hellish place for so long, they’ve probably mutated into other beings, perhaps even evolved into cavemen," said Song Lan.

Song Lan couldn’t help thinking somewhat inappropriate of the caveman jokes popular in the neighboring Fourth Neutral Country.

Perhaps those who lived underground in the Fourth Neutral Country could never imagine that right next to them, in the "mine," there might actually be real cavemen.

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