Sinmonger Chapter 3: The spire

What appeared before the gunsmith's eyes was the source of the putrid smell, the fish. They lay in twos and threes on the mud floor, emitting the smell of a corpse. Of course, it was impossible for a fish to stand, let alone a dead fish.

The gunsmith observed that this small plateau was less than 100 square meters, obviously higher than the surrounding terrain. He was very curious, why would fish die in such a place, and there were still a lot of them. These tropical fish The varieties are different, and there may be more than thirty or forty pieces in pieces.

He thought at first that it was done by the local indigenous people, but after thinking about it, he didn't think so. Then he wondered if some kind of animal did it, but soon found that it was even more impossible. Animals can't use fishing nets and hooks. They will leave scars on the fish more or less, but the fish in front of them The situation seems to be...

A thought flashed through the gunsmith's mind. He immediately walked to a nearby tree and looked closely at the trunk. Sure enough, there were water marks and it was not completely dry. The lower part of the tree should have been It was soaked in water, that is to say, not long ago, this place was a river or a pond, and the muddy silt under the feet also explained this.

Then, the reason why these fish are dying is that the water level here dropped a few meters in an instant a few hours ago, and they didn't even have time to wander. But this is obviously a high place. If the water level has ever reached such a high place, shouldn't the surrounding areas be submerged under water?

The gunsmith went downhill and checked the surrounding trees again. The exposed parts of the trunk were the same color, and only the bottom roots were soaked in water. As a result, there is only one explanation for the strange phenomenon in front of us. It is not that the water level has changed, but that the ground suddenly swells on its own.

Earthquake? I didn't feel it. Could it be that a huge ancient alien beast turned over under the ground? Just kidding?

Gunsmiths are very curious, and inventors have had this problem since childhood. Once he finds something strange, he doesn't go to find out, it will be uncomfortable.

It was noon at this time, and it was reasonable to say that it was the lunch break, but the gunsmith would not have the appetite to eat until he solved the mystery. So he thought of a very direct method, digging.

He took something out of his backpack and used two pieces of cloth to make simple gloves for himself. Anyway, he didn't need to separate his fingers to do this work. He simply fastened the two cloth covers with the seat belt. It's to keep the silt from getting embedded in the nails, which are then dried with bare hands.

These mud were soaked in the bottom of the water, and it took little effort to dig. The gunsmith's action was like a dog digging a hole.

After doing this for about an hour, he was more than ten meters into the ground. In order to prevent being buried by the mud that slipped while he was working under the ground, the gunsmith did not dare to dig a straight-up well. He dug the hole. It is a funnel-shaped, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Every time you dig a meter or two deep, you have to come back to expand the opening, so the workload will also increase, but he is not a normal human anyway, and he is not too tired to do this work. .

Just when the gunsmith started to feel a little silly in this wild country for such a wild inference, he hit a very hard object with his paw, and his fingers were shaken and painful.

"Stone? Please don't be a stone," the gunsmith muttered to himself, separating the last layer of dirt and seeing what he wanted to see most.

That's really not stone, it's metal.

"Hahahahaha!" The gunsmith laughed wildly, and for a moment, he felt that he had dug up an alien spaceship.

After digging more dirt, the gunsmith gradually rejected the guess, because he had an even more incredible idea - there is a metal pyramid beneath this swamp.

This high ground, or this pond, is just above the spire. For some unknown reason, the building below has risen, causing the ground to rise. If it is not a swamp, the ground may not rise but crack. .

The gunsmith quickly stopped digging. It was impossible to predict what kind of behemoth was under the spire. Maybe it was the size of a city below, and the vertical height from the spire to the ground was too high. The **** outside is dug down, and it may not be reached for a few kilometers.

He stepped on the metal and jumped back to the ground. A fire was lit, and two nutrias that were caught yesterday were roasted, and while they were eating, they wondered what to do next.

The more reliable way is to fill the hole again, and there is a chance to bring an engineering team to make a comeback in the future; but the gunsmith has always been a very unreliable person, and he can't wait to know what is underneath. When was something buried, and why did it bulge only recently? The abnormal magnetic field here must have something to do with this thing, maybe there is some lost ancient civilization in it...

The deeper I think about it, the more the gunsmith's curiosity burns. Since I came here today, it's an opportunity. If I miss the opportunity, it's hard to say whether I can find the position of this spire in the future~IndoMTL. com~ The compass is useless in this place, and the landforms are extremely complex and changeable. It can be said that there is no such store in this village.

He filled his stomach, and the original escape plan was completely thrown out of the sky. Now is not the time to think about a meal and a night. In this jungle that human civilization cannot reach, there is a huge metal buried deep underground. , how can the gunsmith sit idly by.

He checked his luggage, put it on his back, then took out the bone gun, pointed at the metal spire under the pit, and pulled the trigger decisively.

The sound of the bone gun is slightly different from that of a general pistol. The sound is more muffled. The bullet fired by the bone gun is similar to a highly condensed energy block. , strength, and make its own energy change, so the harder the object is shot with the bone gun, the greater the power and energy will be. For example, if it hits the body, the power is similar to that of a normal bullet, while if it hits steel, the power will be increased to the level of an armor-piercing bullet. If it hits a diamond, the overflowing energy may cause an explosion.

Of course, a surface or medium with a breakdown strength that cannot even be resisted by ordinary bullets will not trigger this energy transformation, such as water, air, chemical fibers on the surface of body armor, and so on. This is the gunsmith's unique weapon, and the Empire has not acquired this technology.

The gunsmith thought it would not be too difficult to shoot through the metal. According to his estimation, such a large piece could not be harder than a diamond. His estimate was correct, the spire was not as hard as a diamond, but from the results of the shooting, it was not much worse.

The small bullet hit the metal spire more than ten meters underground, and the power generated was like a C4 explosion. The air wave directly sent the gunsmith flying. He was not mentally prepared. It hung like a monkey on a tree in the distance.