69novels Chapter 158 An Unexpected Surprise
Chapter 158 An Unexpected Surprise
Long You filled his three-month vacation with part-time jobs, practice, and exchanges. Perhaps it was because he was relaxed, but on the first weekend after returning home, Long You's soul power level broke through level 48 and entered level 49, officially beginning his attempt to break through the level 50 bottleneck.
With a month to go before the start of the semester, Long You received a communication request from Huo Yuhao. This chosen one of the world, who had been asleep in the far north ice plains for more than two months, had awakened and returned to the academy.
Squinting slightly, Long You considered what he needed to do next semester and decided to return to the academy first.
Firstly, while there are some things that are difficult to tell Huo Yuhao, or rather, telling him wouldn't be of any use, these are things that can be told to Tianmeng. Longyou needs to go back quickly and tell Tianmeng some information, to prepare this million-year-old demon for the worst.
Secondly, there's something interesting happening in the Panlong Realm. Long You plans to go and join in the fun after returning to the academy.
As for how to say the former, Long You already had a draft in mind; he only needed to communicate with Tianmeng Ice Silkworm privately using his mental power.
As for the latter, that's much more interesting. Remember North Frost City? Remember the sandworm swarms outside North Frost City? Recently, almost all the Soul Guidance Department students who were able to log into the Panlong Realm have turned their attention there.
According to the message He Caitou passed on to Long You, the incident actually started with Song He, this little fat boy.
He Caitou said that one day Song He, the chubby boy, approached Lin Zhengze and told him that he had never suffered such a loss since he was a child.
So what exactly was the loss? According to the chubby guy, "I've been busy working on North Frost City since it launched, and after all that work, I didn't even get to eat anything good. And to make matters worse, those beasts took over my territory. What kind of nonsense is this?"
"What? The mission is complete? Even if the mission is complete, it's still not enough! We only made a little bit of rare metal on North Frost City's territory, which isn't even enough to cover everyone's hard work. This deal was a huge loss!"
"Good heavens!" Long You exclaimed on the spot. Song and this chubby guy are even more like Li Yunlong than Li Yunlong himself; it would be a loss not to take advantage of them!
However, it was precisely because of this chubby little guy who was determined to cause trouble for the sandworm swarm that everyone might not have discovered the benefits that followed.
After the chubby boy complained to Lin Zhengze, Lin Zhengze, unlike Song He who felt he had been wronged in Beishuang City, also felt that Song He's explanation was not quite right.
To put it bluntly, Panlong Realm is just a game. Being bullied by the sand worms in the game to the point of abandoning your home and running away seems rather embarrassing in retrospect.
No, we have to get our face back.
With this in mind, Lin Zhengze and Song He, the two fellow disciples, spent several days grinding in the Panlong Realm online game.
They dismantled two crudely made tracked armored vehicles and converted them into a fully-equipped off-road RV (with a soul-guided laboratory area). Equipped with a ground-penetrating soul-guided device and other detection soul-guided devices capable of effectively detecting sandworm swarms, they left Ironwood City and began a stakeout and patrol operation outside the actual control range of the sandworm swarms around Northfrost City.
This pattern lasted for about a week. Just when the two were running out of supplies and were about to head to Ironwood City, the closest city to Northfrost City (they had started from Ironwood City, which was the central city of the Northern Alliance), a surprise occurred.
The Earth-penetrating soul guide device displayed a dense array of feedback signals representing rare metals.
Note! The rare metal feedback signal here refers to rare metals, not rare metal ores that still need to be refined!
According to Lin Zhengze's later description, Long You felt that when the two discovered that place, their first reaction must have been to check the soul-guided detection device.
Even now, Long You still finds it incredibly unbelievable.
The detection soul guide can detect the spatial volume of the feedback signal of the finished rare metal, which is the size of ten football fields, multiplied by a depth of about twelve meters.
The space was so large, completely filled with refined rare metals; it felt surreal no matter how you looked at it.
If it were a rare metal mine, that would be one thing, since North Frost City is, after all, a mining city, and there are indeed various rare metal deposits scattered around it.
Even if the sandworm swarm is targeting the mineral deposits around Northfrost City and the city itself, temporarily ignoring such a small mineral deposit (its volume is large for a warehouse, but completely insignificant for a mine) is not entirely unacceptable.
However, according to the feedback from the soul-guided detector, that area was filled with finished rare metals. When did the unit of measurement for rare metals shift from weight to volume?
Furthermore, after careful analysis of the detection feedback signals, it was discovered that the rare metals buried in that place were not of a single type, but rather a chaotic mix of all rare metal mineral deposits in the vicinity of North Frost City.
Given this situation, how can one not suspect that there is a problem with the soul-guided detection device?
Long You no longer knows how Lin Zhengze and Song He handled the situation at the time. All Long You knows is that the final research result was that these rare metal products, which were likely of very high quality, were actually the excrement of sandworms that could devour rare metals and other types of minerals.
An unbelievable cause led to an unbelievable result. After confirming the authenticity of the news, all the Soul Guidance Department students became excited.
The number of sandworm swarms is terrifying; such a small space could never possibly contain all of their excrement. This means that there are likely many more of these underground warehouses filled with high-quality finished rare metals.
For a Soul Master who deals with rare metals every day, the possibility of a supermarket where you can buy all kinds of rare metals at rock-bottom prices opening up is such an exciting thing!
Therefore, even though there is still about a month before the start of the semester, most of the Soul Guidance Department students, like Long You, are preparing to return to school early.
Of course, this early return to school further exacerbated Long You's dissatisfaction with the current state of the Panlong Realm virtual world. It also strengthened Long You's determination to quickly complete the full set of blueprints for the War God Palace.
During the holiday, students are prohibited from going to work or returning to school. Even if returning to school is not for the purpose of studying, it is still not allowed.