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[GESD] Chapter 391: Yellow-Silver Ore
Sep 8
Hu Chan kept clapping, "Woohoo! We've struck it rich this time!"
The joy on his face was overflowing.
As if he had just won the jackpot.
Qin Siyang pressed the gas pedal, fleeing for his life at top speed.
The sandworm was still chasing from behind.
Qin Siyang spat, "That sandworm's so huge, yet it keeps chasing me, and still moves this fast, does it not feel tired at all?"
Hu Chan's eyes lit up again, "Makes sense! Maybe sandworms don't feel fatigue at all! Another new point for a hypothetical research theory!"
Then he gave Qin Siyang a thumbs-up, "Boss Qin, you really do have something in you!"
Qin Siyang gave a perfunctory smile.
Inwardly, though, he thought that Hu Chan, obsessed with his research, was no different from a fool.
All the way it was just "woohoo woohoo" nonstop.
Like having a monkey constantly shrieking at his side.
Qin Siyang even thought that, even if Hu Chan didn't need research to save his life, he would still end up a research lunatic.
The steering wheel was in his hands, what mattered now was escaping with his life.
After nearly half an hour, they finally shook off that sandworm.
At this moment, his fuel tank was already half-empty again.
Qin Siyang didn't dare show himself on the surface anymore.
He punched open a tunnel underground big enough for one person to pass through.
Surely the sandworm couldn't track him underground as well.
He came to the fuel tank and started pouring in Sequence potions again.
"Boss Qin, you always dump dozens of bottles of Sequence potions into the fuel tank each time. Isn't that a bit too extravagant? Shouldn't you be saving some resources for when you break through Sequence level six?"
Hu Chan's words carried a hint, probably wondering why Qin Siyang wasted potions like this.
Qin Siyang answered calmly, "This is for escaping with your life, how could you be stingy? Be careful, or you'll end up with potions but no life left to spend them."
After filling the tank again with Sequence potions, Qin Siyang sat back in the driver's seat and restarted the drill cabin.
He glanced at the map.
They had now escaped to a place over 300 kilometers from the safe zone.
They'd have to take a detour again.
"Boss Qin, are we heading to the safe zone now?"
"Of course not. I just hunted a minor god and spent over a hundred bottles of Sequence potions, no way I can just let it go at that."
"At least one more kill."
"Everything follows Boss Qin's plan!"
After seeing a research future in following Qin Siyang, Hu Chan had clearly become much more patient with him.
He had more or less figured it out.
Qin Siyang looked like he wasn't much, but actually he had some rules.
If you gave him some benefit, he would return the favor.
He wasn't the kind to eat clean and deny it afterward.
He helped Qin Siyang kill the Abyss Hound, and in return, Qin Siyang immediately told him everything he knew about sandworms, without worrying that Hu Chan would just research it himself and kick him aside.
Of course, Hu Chan wasn't planning to burn bridges either.
Though young, Hu Chan wasn't inexperienced.
He already understood that life was full of rivers blocking the way.
Cross this one, and there would always be another.
But if he burned the bridge this time, selling out Qin Siyang, there was no guarantee he'd ever find another bridge-builder as reliable again.
At the very least, he had to get some profit from Qin Siyang, say, the core of a Vine Beast, before even thinking about parting ways.
Hu Chan quietly sneaked another glance at Qin Siyang.
Qin Siyang definitely had secrets he didn't know, maybe even some immense hidden wealth.
Following him wasn't exactly dishonoring his own status as a Holy Son.
Just as Qin Siyang was going full speed ahead, suddenly there was a loud boom.
BOOM!
The shock flung the two people inside the drill cabin in all directions, leaving them dizzy and stunned.
Luckily, the drill cabin had a safety system. Airbags popped out instantly and shielded them both.
Otherwise, Qin Siyang really worried he might have smashed his head on the control panel.
It took a while for them to gather their senses and realize what had happened.
"Boss Qin, didn't this drill cabin come with the most advanced underground shifting tech? How could it crash into something? Shouldn't it either go around or directly pierce through?"
Qin Siyang had no answer either, he was just as baffled.
He looked first at the coordinates on the control panel.
It showed they were about 2,000 meters underground.
Holding his head, his mind was full of doubts.
That shouldn't be.
He'd always traveled at this depth before, stones were completely ignored.
So why crash now?
Qin Siyang pushed aside the airbags and turned on the floodlight.
A dark golden glow immediately reflected back.
Looking closer, he saw it was actually a massive yellow ore with a strange shape.
"What's this?"
Neither Qin Siyang nor Hu Chan recognized it.
Fortunately, Qin Siyang had the identification software that Chang Tianxiang had given him.
He scanned it, but it didn't return any results.
Thinking for a moment, he suspected the drill cabin's glass had blurred the ore's appearance.
So he stepped out of the drill cabin, picked up a chunk broken off by the crash, and scanned it again.
Hu Chan leaned in to read the info on the screen.
[Yellow-Silver Ore]
[A rare, extremely hard ore that only appeared after the apocalypse descended.]
[Named Yellow-Silver Star Ore because its color is yellow and its structure is close to silver ore.]
[Although rare, no practical applications have been discovered yet. Its hardness is incompatible with god-hunting tools. Considering everything that appeared after the apocalypse has its reason for existing, the research world generally believes Yellow-Silver Ore has development potential.]
[Some say Yellow-Silver Ore is related to Yellow-Silver Star Ore, and have consulted Professor Zhong Dingming. But Professor Zhong doesn't know the relation between the two.]
'Yellow-Silver Ore?'
Related to Yellow-Silver Star Ore?
Qin Siyang muttered, "If they're unrelated, why are the names so close?"
Hu Chan explained, "I heard the reason Professor Zhong named it Yellow-Silver Star Ore is because it looked almost identical to the previously discovered Yellow-Silver Ore, except it had some grayish-white substances. Under light, those substances sparkle like stars."
Qin Siyang weighed the Yellow-Silver Ore in his hand, it seemed a little heavier than normal stone.
Remembering Hu Chan's love for research, Qin Siyang asked, "Do you want to study this Yellow-Silver Ore?"
Hu Chan waved his hand.
"Forget it. If so many professors couldn't figure anything out, why should I waste my time on it?"
"Better to focus on our sandworm research. That thing has big impact, quick results, and high cost-performance."
"True."
But Qin Siyang felt that the drill cabin being unable to bypass Yellow-Silver Ore surely meant something mysterious.
Perhaps he could discuss it with Lu Daoxing.
Following the principle of better to take mistakenly than miss out, he decided to bring the Yellow-Silver Ore with him.
Taking it wasn't easy though.
He first dug a hole beneath the ore, punching out a huge space with his fists.
Then he enlarged the tier-four storage box that Lu Daoxing had given him and placed it in.
After that, he broke through the soil between the ore and the box, letting the Yellow-Silver Ore fall into the storage box.
Then he put the box away.
Operating underground was too difficult, the entire process took more than half a day, leaving Qin Siyang dripping with sweat.
Since the storage box already held Ice Crystal Moths, Lava Crocodiles, Titan Grass, and other rare materials, to avoid revealing anything, he kept Hu Chan locked inside the drill cabin the whole time.
By the time he finished and returned to the cabin, Hu Chan was already lying asleep.
Hu Chan suddenly woke with a start, seeing Qin Siyang come back, "Why did you take so long… If we're going to hunt a god, we need to hurry. I still have other matters to attend to later."
"Too much time wasted. Let's not hunt any more gods for now, let's head to the safe zone."
Hu Chan immediately sat up, "Really? We're heading back already?"
"Yeah. If nothing unexpected happens."
"Woohoo!"
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