The satellite phone was unaffected at this moment.
The phone Pang Fei provided was unexpectedly high quality—waterproof, shockproof, and impact-resistant. Even in this eerie mining area, the signal was just as strong.
"Hello, this is the Anomaly Bureau... it’s you again!"
The familiar voice instantly woke the operator up, her voice filled with deep resentment: "What’s the matter?"
"I’ve found another abnormal place, at the gathering site of the Seventh Mine in West City Suburb. There is a man-made extraordinary event here, with more than a hundred fatalities."
Baiyu spoke succinctly.
The batch of corpse zombies earlier numbered at least twenty, and that was just one spot in B Mine.
The entire mining area had hundreds of deaths; this is a conservative estimate.
"Wait a moment, let me check... Seventh Mine gathering site, hasn’t this been handed to the Bounty Hunter Association? There was indeed an extraordinary event before, but it was caused by normal anomalous items."
The sound of flipping through files came from the operator’s side.
"The Bounty Association didn’t pay much attention, the situation here is much more serious than the report suggested. I recommend dispatching personnel to personally investigate, but, of course, it’s just a suggestion."
Baiyu chose his words carefully.
I currently sense substantial danger here, but since it’s not confirmed, if I exaggerate and people come but find nothing substantial, it’d be hard to explain.
He hung up the phone.
Jiang Xi, who had been exploring the surroundings, returned slowly: "There should be a Simulation Realm here; the terrain changed when we entered. I traced back the original path but reached a cliff edge."
Jiang Xi nodded: "We can only go further in; we can enter but not exit, and waiting in place won’t work. I saw many corpse zombies crawling out from underground just now."
"Then let’s move further in."
Baiyu scanned the surroundings; there were indeed many faint red outlines, obvious corpse zombies closing in because they harbored murderous intent toward him, thus revealed by the Pupil of Chongming.
Seventh Mine gathering site.
Tang Quanming was resting comfortably in the office when a phone call rudely woke him up.
"What? No, only over ten miners died on this side of the mine. I halted development the moment deaths were detected."
"You want to send a High Tier bounty team?"
"Alright, alright, I’ll prepare and cooperate with your work."
Tang Quanming hung up the phone, his smile gradually fading: "Those kids, their signal should’ve been blocked once inside, didn’t expect them to still reach the outer world."
I thought it was just a simple bounty hunter squad.
These people have a complex background.
Being able to directly contact the Anomaly Bureau, pressure the Bounty Hunter Association through them, and forcibly change the mission’s difficulty level...
The bounty hunter squad should send a rescue team.
"No, my operations here can’t be interrupted."
"If exposed, I won’t be able to escape either."
"I thought losing a few teams meant no one blind enough would take this job; trouble just had to arise now."
Tang Quanming gritted his teeth, took out a thick stack of blueprints from the desk, filled with strange patterns, among which was the map of the Seventh Mine.
However, the map was densely marked with symbols.
This thick stack of paper, he ignited with a lighter, burning it to ashes in the ashtray. He then processed a lot of other documents similarly.
After finishing, he dialed another number: "Lord Charman, there’s a risk of exposure for my Blood Refining Array here."
Sitting in a wheelchair under dim lights, Charman’s expression was changing: "Trigger it before exposure; now it’s ripe, Linjiang can’t handle it quickly. By the time they realize the gravity, it’ll be unstoppable."
"Yes, I’ll proceed immediately."
Tang Quanming hung up the phone, a gleam flashing in his murky eyes: "Destruction Day... just waiting for Destruction Day to arrive."
Baiyu and Jiang Xi moved forward together.
Apart from corpse zombies, there were also mutated animals. Each was fiercely aggressive, obsessed solely with biting and killing.
But these creatures couldn’t withstand even one punch from Jiang Xi.
This young girl didn’t even need to undo her bandages, pressing straightforwardly with a front punch, the force of which scattered like flames, shredding anything blocking the way.
This was the most violent bodyguard Baiyu had ever seen!
More fierce than a female tyrannosaur!
However, he also spotted the underlying issue.
With Jiang Xi continually acting, the negative emotions within her accumulated rapidly, at a much faster pace than others.
Her negative emotions were still the same two.
Several times, Jiang Xi turned her head, making Baiyu feel like he was perceived as a piece of juicy meat.
"Close to the critical point again."
The two were nearing A Mine’s edge, the surroundings suddenly changing.
The grass and trees were coated with a gray-black hue, as if drained of all life force.
Corpse zombies and Corpse Beasts emerged continuously, only to be shattered by Jiang Xi.
Through Purification’s sense, he detected Jiang Xi’s pressing negative emotions again reaching the critical point.
This had happened several times before.
Each time reaching the critical point, a mysterious force within her would suppress the emotions instantly.
Baiyu didn’t know how she did it.
Enhancing and suppressing negative emotions this way should push oneself into a distortion danger line, pollution level rising swiftly.
Yet she consistently pulled back from the "cliff."
A strange phenomenon.
Truly an extraordinary occurrence.
Could this girl be a traveler too?
His own pollution level didn’t remain stagnant, only fluctuated slowly, rarely surpassing ten points. Negative emotions couldn’t find fertile ground after Purification.
To put it another way.
He was a one-of-a-kind, a collision of various coincidences.
Besides, Jiang Xi clearly suffered greatly under the influence of negative emotions, always suppressing them.
The bandages wrapped around her should be to restrain that terrifying explosive power?
"Here we are, A Mine."
Jiang Xi took a deep breath, shook her right wrist: "You scout ahead, I need to eat."
She pulled out compressed food from her backpack and stuffed it into her mouth.
Baiyu noticed for the first time.
Jiang Xi’s backpack, besides spare clothes, was filled entirely with frozen pork.
She didn’t even process them, almost tearing open the packaging and biting into it like ice, her teeth frighteningly strong.
"Hey girl, your teeth..."
"Because of my ability. Also, I’m sixteen."
Jiang Xi coldly glanced at Baiyu, compelling him to shut his mouth.
Not someone to provoke.
If she took a bite anywhere, every piece of flesh would be eaten.