Qin Siyang looked outside the drill cabin.
He had to admit, it was really sturdy.
After such a violent collision with the Yellow-Silver Ore, the drill head actually didn't show a single trace of damage.
Qin Siyang couldn't help but find it strange.
The crash had been that hard, yet the Yellow-Silver Ore wasn't damaged, and the drill cabin wasn't damaged either. That was strange.
His Sequence level five body had almost been shaken apart, so both sides should have had at least some flaw, right?
He looked more carefully.
Only then did he discover that the front of his drill cabin still had a layer of soil about one fist thick that hadn't broken through to where the Yellow-Silver Ore was.
That meant the drill cabin hadn't actually collided with the ore.
"Damn! What's going on? It didn't crash, but it felt like it did?"
"Like a collision?"
Qin Siyang clicked his tongue again and again, "Professor Lu's research really is impressive."
In the future, if he got the chance, he had to learn a trick or two from Professor Lu.
No, not in the future. When the term started, he was going to become Professor Lu's personal direct disciple.
He got back into the drill cabin, restarted it, and prepared to move on.
But as soon as it powered up, Qin Siyang immediately sensed something was wrong.
After testing a few times, his entire back went cold.
Seeing the sudden pale color drain from Qin Siyang's face, Hu Chan's heart immediately tightened.
"Boss Qin, what happened?"
"The speed control function seems to have broken down from the collision just now."
Qin Siyang swallowed, "Which means right now we can only go full speed ahead."
"Then what about braking? The brakes don't work either?"
"If the brakes worked, then I could change speed, couldn't I?"
Hu Chan's eyes widened, "Then what do we do?"
"There's only one way."
"What way?"
"Wait until the Sequence potions in the fuel tank run out, then it'll stop by itself."
"Oh… huh? Boss Qin, didn't you just fill the fuel tank to the brim just now?"
Qin Siyang's eyes were full of weariness, "Yes."
"How far can a full tank of Sequence potions run?"
"Over a thousand kilometers."
"A thousand kilometers? Your drill cabin is way too long-lasting!"
"Nonsense. With Sequence potions as fuel, how could it be the same?"
Inwardly, Qin Siyang cursed Lu Daoxing.
He had bragged to the skies, saying it could smash even mid-level gods.
Yet it got blocked once by a piece of ore, and now the brakes and speed controls were all broken.
What's the point of the outside being so sturdy?
Inside, one bump and it all shatters, facing danger, they'd still die.
"Boss Qin, what's your plan now?"
"What plan, my ass. Just circle around outside the safe zone, and when it stops, we'll leave it to fate."
Hu Chan glanced at the fuel gauge, the needle was pegged to the far right.
This was going to take a while.
"Boss Qin, how about you drive to near the safe zone surface, drop me off, and then you can keep burning fuel? I still have things to deal with inside the safe zone."
Qin Siyang shook his head, "No way, too dangerous."
"Dangerous? It's fine. I'm Sequence level five too, at this speed, even if I jump out, nothing would happen to me…"
"You're overthinking. I meant it's too dangerous for me."
"…"
"The drill cabin is my trump card for leaving the safe zone. If others see it, it'll be extremely dangerous for me. This thing must stay secret."
Then he glanced at their current location, "So if you want to jump, I can only put you in a place absolutely deserted."
"Absolutely deserted? Where's that?"
"The wasteland, seventy or eighty kilometers from the safe zone."
"No way!"
"Absolutely not!"
Hu Chan slapped the chair in protest.
"Then there's no choice. Just wait with me until the Sequence potions are gone, then we walk back to the safe zone."
Hu Chan ground his teeth in fury.
But he still didn't dare travel more than a hundred kilometers back to the safe zone alone.
Because that was just too dangerous.
"Where do you plan to burn out the fuel?"
"The wasteland, seventy or eighty kilometers from the safe zone."
"…Can't you get closer to the safe zone?"
"Closer to the safe zone is too dangerous."
"Farther away is even more dangerous!"
Qin Siyang ignored Hu Chan.
He just kept driving the drill cabin.
To burn through fuel, he had no choice but to take a zigzag route, twisting and winding toward the safe zone.
After several hours at full speed, Qin Siyang suddenly felt a brief flash of light ahead.
Then it went back to complete darkness.
He frowned in confusion, "What was that just now?"
"You saw it too? I thought it was just my imagination."
Qin Siyang immediately turned the drill cabin back toward the spot.
Whoosh!
Another fleeting streak of light flashed before his eyes.
Qin Siyang looked at the fuel gauge, one-sixth of the Sequence potions remained.
"I think this must be some kind of rare material. Let's stop here."
"Stop here?", Hu Chan glanced at the coordinates, his eyes almost popping out, "This is a hundred and twenty kiometers from the safe zone!"
"You think you can survive walking back from that far away?"
"Why panic. Making a fuss, so much for being a Holy Son."
Qin Siyang looked disdainful, "We stop here, grab the treasure, then burn a little more Sequence potion to keep going back. Simple."
Hu Chan, however, disagreed, "Your drill cabin's speed control is already broken. Are you sure it'll restart after shutting off?"
"Relax, no problem."
"I think it's a big problem."
"Then get out now and walk back yourself!"
"…Qin Siyang, aren't you being a little too greedy? This could cost our lives and you don't care? And you don't even know what that material is!"
Qin Siyang smirked, "No one gets rich without windfalls. Little Holy Son, people like us absolutely can't pass up a single chance to turn things around."
"I think you just can't pass up a single chance to die! You're blinded by money."
"Enough. Don't be like some toad sneering at uglier creatures. When that sandworm's drool was about to drip on our heads, you didn't panic. Now you complain about me?"
"How's that the same! Sandworms are major gods! That was our chance to approach the secrets of the higher realm!"
"Yeah right. With your scrawny frame, the more secrets you know, the faster you'll die."
"That's still better than your money-over-life nonsense!"
Qin Siyang scoffed, "If I didn't put money over life, would you have gotten to use Titan Grass inner leaf fragments?"
"I…"
"You wouldn't happen to think treasures just sprout legs, run over to flatter me, and fall neatly into my hands, do you?"
After being hit with two retorts in a row, Hu Chan had nothing to say.
Only one thought lingered in his heart.
If Qin Siyang could get his hands on that many rare materials, he wasn't going to feel jealous ever again.
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