Chapter 458: The whole mountain trap
"Go this way." After feeling for a moment, Jiang Xueying raised her hand and pointed to the road on the right.
In fact, she didn't know whether the road she pointed to was correct, because she could only feel the distance between the other party and the distance had no direct connection with which road to take. It was like you were driving on the road with a navigation map, and the navigation map showed that you were getting closer and closer to the target location. When there were only ten meters left, you realized that there was a river between you and the target map, so you had to take a long detour from the beginning.
However, this inaccurate guidance is better than no guidance at all. If it weren't for Jiang Xueying, they would only be wandering around in this underground city and getting lost.
After Xia Xiaoyu came in, she didn't say a word and just kept looking at the map. Studying the map here is a very difficult task. Even Jiang Yichuan gave up after looking at it. It was not because he couldn't understand it, but because the memory capacity was too large and it was extremely easy to make mistakes.
The maps on the ground are flat, but the maps here underground are three-dimensional. It is like an ant nest with countless secret passages and huge spaces, interconnected and complicated. Only people who are extremely proud of their IQ and memory would go to such lengths to look at the map that looks like a ball of wool.
People like Su Ming only need to know whether their depth is rising or falling, and they don't care about anything else.
"If they keep digging like this, won't they hollow out the island?" Su Ming asked.
"No, the iron element grows here like plants. After growing for a long time, it will turn into sacred steel. Don't treat the iron ore in the Smelting City as a non-renewable resource. It is better to treat the steel here as cabbage. What they are doing is not digging a hole, but growing vegetables." Jiang Yichuang explained.
After Su Ming heard this, he immediately thought, "Wow!" He thought that this was another place as counterintuitive as the Endless Caverns, where he could keep taking advantage of the situation.
If humans can really master the method of suppressing weirdness, then the speed of social development will surely rise like a rocket. After all, energy is no longer conserved in this world, and perpetual motion machines can be built at will.
"I can't go any further." Jiang Xueying suddenly stopped.
The others stopped and looked at Jiang Xueying in confusion.
Jiang Xueying explained: "I can sense him, and he can sense me too. Judging from the aura I sense, his power of chaos is weaker than mine, so his detection range is also smaller than mine. But if I continue to get closer, he will be able to accurately sense that I am walking towards him."
"I understand. It seems that it is not difficult to achieve the goal." Jiang Yichuang said.
Since this Iron Demon with Chaos Fragments is most likely weaker than Jiang Xueying, Su Ming alone can kill him. As long as they know the exact location, they will be able to do it alone.
"Where is the approximate location?" Jiang Yichuan asked.
"Over there, a little bit higher, about three hundred to five hundred meters away from here." Jiang Xueying said.
"I understand. Let's move on. You stay here, sis."
"Remember to bring the Chaos Fragment back. It's very important to me." Jiang Xueying emphasized with a frown.
"knew."
Just as Jiang Yichuan was about to move forward, Su Ming suddenly said, "Wait a minute, there seems to be something wrong here."
"Is there any problem?" Jiang Yichuang looked around vigilantly, but found nothing wrong.
Su Ming looked up at the top of the tunnel which was five meters above his head. He jumped up, hooked his hands on the steel frame at the top, and pulled himself up with a pull-up. He leaned his head above the steel frame and saw a khaki thing.
There is no mistake, it is the kind of explosive pack that you often see on TV.
"There are explosives." Su Ming said.
When Jiang Yichuan heard about the explosives, he immediately rushed towards Jiang Xueying to protect her. Zhou Yuhao's expression changed and he was ready to activate his spiritual armor.
But then Su Ming immediately added: "Don't worry, there is nothing to monitor us, he doesn't know we found the explosives."
"Are you sure?" Zhou Yuhao asked nervously.
"Sure." Su Ming loosened his hands and dropped to the ground.
He was sure there were no such things as surveillance cameras, because if there were, he would definitely notice it sooner, as he was very sensitive to hostile gazes.
But now he didn't feel that kind of sight, which proved that the other party only placed explosives here but did not install surveillance cameras.
The reason for this is probably that it is easier to place explosives, while installing surveillance cameras is complicated and can easily be detected and removed by the authorities.
"Hey, can you please move aside? If this place really collapses, you won't be able to stop it with your body!"
Jiang Xueying pushed Jiang Yichuan away. Jiang Yichuan walked aside silently. After a while of silence, he looked at Su Ming and asked, "Bombs alone cannot destroy this place. The steel structures here are all made of sacred steel. Physical attacks are useless. Let's see if they have made any moves in other places."
"Just now, I saw that there must be some tampering with the place where the beams are fixed. Although it can't be blown up, it will fall apart. It's more than enough to bury this place." Su Ming patted the dust on his hands and turned to look deep into the tunnel. "Since there are no surveillance cameras installed, it means that he is using another method to monitor us."
…
Wang Mingcheng sat in the shadow where the light of the mining lamp could not reach, silently chewing the iron ore at hand. The hard stone was like hard and crisp glass candy in his mouth and was easily crushed. He chewed and absorbed the iron elements in the iron ore, and then spit out the other dirt and impurities.
"Boss, how is it?" Iron Monkey, who was sitting next to him, asked softly, "Are they coming over?"
"The Demon of Love stopped. She must be afraid that I would notice her. Unfortunately, she miscalculated." Wang Mingcheng's voice was calm, as if he had already expected that Jiang Xueying and her group would come here to find him.
"You are worthy of being the boss. You have calculated everything!" Ganglong admired him from the bottom of his heart.
Wang Mingcheng’s plan was actually very simple. He would spread the news to the outside world and let people outside know that he was here, and the Demon of Love would definitely come to him.
At that time, he had already set up a dragnet around himself. As long as the other party reached a fixed position and detonated the explosives, the mine would collapse layer by layer like a house of cards, burying all those people underneath.
The gravity of the mine itself, as well as the sacred steel ore mixed in it, would make it impossible for the psychics buried inside to survive.
Once this solid structure is destroyed, those indestructible divine steels will fall down and bury all those people like the Five Finger Mountain. Even if the Demon of Love is very powerful and can destroy one divine steel after another, it is nothing compared to the divine steel buried above their heads.
The most likely outcome is that everyone will die the moment he detonates the bomb!
After that, he only needed to dig deep afterwards, dig out the body of the Demon of Love, and eat the chaos fragments on the other party.
Of course, several requirements must be met when executing this plan.
First, the other party had to come to the designated location. Because the space inside the mine was too large, it was difficult for them to tamper with all the steel structures in a short period of time, and tampering was also very dangerous, so they could only detonate locally.
And this is why Wang Mingcheng is the bait here.
Second, after the other party arrives at the designated location, they must leave in advance, otherwise they may be affected at close range.
"Boss, now that they are in position, shouldn't we detonate the explosives?" Tiehou looked excited, staring at the remote control in Wang Mingcheng's hand with red eyes.
He wished he could detonate the explosives right now and bury that damn woman alive!
The reason why he and Steel Dragon lost an arm was because of that woman!
"Idiot! Are you trying to bury us underneath by detonating it now?" Wang Mingcheng glanced at Tiehou coldly, his eyes devoid of any emotion. "Detonating just one layer won't have much effect. We have to bury it deep enough. We have to leave here first before we can detonate those explosives."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Mingcheng's face suddenly changed. He felt that the other party began to retreat and soon left the range of the explosion.
This is very strange. They just entered the explosion range, why did they retreat immediately ? Did they notice it?
Impossible! His preparations were very covert, and it was impossible for him to be recognized at first glance.
"They changed their route. They must be trying to find me from another route," said Wang Mingcheng.
Steel Dragon frowned and asked cautiously: "So are we still waiting here?"
"Yes, we can't move. At least we have to lead them into the range of the explosion. Don't worry, I have prepared a retreat route. As long as they go a certain distance deep, we can immediately evacuate the explosion range and bury them all underneath."
As Wang Mingcheng spoke, he picked up a black stone at hand and put it into his mouth. He chewed it twice, spit out the residue, raised his head, and looked towards the end of the tunnel in front of him with his deep eyes.
After a while, his perception of Jiang Xueying became very vague, which meant that Jiang Xueying was quite a distance away from him, and he could only barely identify a direction.
At this time, Wang Mingcheng felt that something was wrong. The opponent took too long to approach him, as if he had given up chasing him.
"What's going on?" Wang Mingcheng asked.
Just as he finished speaking, the sound of footsteps was heard from deep in the tunnel behind him. Wang Mingcheng was suddenly startled, stood up from the stone, looked at the tunnel behind him, and his eyes became ferocious.
The Steel Dragon and Iron Monkey beside him also entered combat mode, ready for the battle.
Wang Mingcheng stared at the direction where the sound came from, hesitated for a few seconds, then turned around and walked into the elevator behind him.
"Let's go!" Wang Mingcheng shouted to his two men.
Steel Dragon and Iron Monkey jumped into the elevator without hesitation.
The button was pressed, the gears rubbed against each other, the motor roared, and the elevator quickly rose up with the hissing sound of the cables and pulleys.
Two minutes later, Su Ming, holding a knife, arrived at the place where Wang Mingcheng had been. Of course, there was no one there, and there was a stairwell next to it.
“Run away?!”
Su Ming raised the knife, turned his wrist, and chopped through the safety net blocking the stairwell. He stuck his head in and looked up. The elevator was already very, very far away.
"It's included in the calculation." Su Ming took out his cell phone and called Jiang Yichuan to report his current coordinates.
While he was on his way over, Jiang Yichuang and others had already returned to the ground, ready to intercept the Iron Demon on the ground. No matter whether he failed here or not, the Iron Demon would not be able to escape!
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Wang Mingcheng took the elevator back to the ground. It was early summer now. The warm night breeze was moist. When the wind blew, his skin began to sweat.
The pale moonlight shone on the bare mine, and the entire mine was covered with a layer of gray gauze. Wang Mingcheng looked at this huge iron beast and felt a little regretful.
Wang Mingcheng pressed the button on the remote control with his thumb, but there was no vibration under his feet and no sound of collapse in the stairwell - the explosives did not explode.
It's a bit regrettable, but also expected.
If he had a little money, he might be able to get some explosives that would explode if moved.
Unfortunately, he did not have such strong financial resources, and the amount of explosives required for this plan was extremely huge. What he had achieved so far was already his limit.
Fortunately, he had already prepared a retreat, so it didn't matter even if he failed.
If it really doesn't work, he will temporarily leave the Molten Iron Island.
Sure enough, the other party found the explosives and dismantled them all.
"Failed." Wang Mingcheng frowned.
"Were we discovered by them?" Tiehou looked regretful.
Wang Mingcheng nodded: "We can only think about it in the long run."
"It's a pity. If I can kill the Demon of Love, I should be able to become stronger." Wang Mingcheng looked at the night sky above his head. Between the stars and them, small black spots were moving slowly. Those were other floating islands, the outside world, and unknown possibilities.
I want to become stronger, I want to become a demon.
This world does not exist for humans. They need to evolve into life with more possibilities.
"Did you just come up from down there?" A frivolous and casual voice suddenly sounded behind him.
Steel Dragon and Iron Monkey turned their heads sharply and looked behind them, and saw a well-dressed young man standing on a bare steep slope, looking down at them.
Wang Mingcheng slowly turned around and looked up at the other person. He squinted his eyes and looked at the other person for a long time, then asked, "Are you the royal investigator?"
"No, I have nothing to do with any forces on this island. I just arrived here not long ago. You just came up from downstairs, right? Did you see this person down there? He should be in there too."
Alfred jumped down from the hillside, walked up to the three people, took out a photo from his chest pocket and handed it to them.
"Have you seen it?"
Wang Mingcheng took the photo, took a look at it, and shook his head.
"who is he?"
"A commissioner from the Investigation Bureau. I'm looking for him. Since you don't know, there's nothing else to do." Alfred looked towards the mine at the foot of the mountain. The wind made his hair flutter. He smiled into the wind, as if something good was going to happen soon.
"Aren't you going to leave? What do you have to do here?" Alfred asked with a smile.
Wang Mingcheng looked at the other person deeply, nodded his chin, and said lightly: "I was just about to leave. Goodbye."
"goodbye."
The two of them were like strangers who met by chance in an ordinary place, asking each other questions in an ordinary way and saying goodbye in an ordinary way.
Although Wang Mingcheng had already realized that the person in front of him was not ordinary, he felt that a farewell like this was the best thing for him.
