Nono from another world

Chapter 159 The Living Mine

Nuonuo was about to ask for clarification, but at this moment, there was a slight noise in front of him, which was very clear in this empty mine tunnel.The three of them looked at each other, and they all saw a trace of vigilance in each other's eyes.

Before they had time to think about it, the three of them immediately and cautiously moved towards the place where the noise came from. However, after walking for about 20 meters, the three of them didn't even see a ghost.

"Wait, the voice is coming from here!" At this moment, Nuonuo's low voice sounded in the mine tunnel.

Liuli and Nim looked in the direction Nono pointed, and found a crack of several centimeters on the wall of the mine tunnel.Looking in through the crack, only a dark patch can be seen, but there are intermittent wind sounds coming from inside.Because this mine is almost closed, all the wind from inside can spread throughout the entire mine.

Nuonuo cautiously poked his finger into the crevice of the rock, turned around after a few seconds and said, "It's open inside."

"How can there be another space in the mine tunnel?" Liuli pushed Nuonuo aside and waved at Nim, "Nim, can you get through this stone wall?"

Norton felt uncomfortable and said, "What if the mine tunnel is accidentally collapsed, will the three of us have time to run?"

"Since it is connected, it doesn't matter if there is this stone wall or not..." Nim said coldly. Although she still looked expressionless, Nuonuo always felt that she seemed to despise herself.

"Uh..." Nuonuo had nothing to do with this girl who didn't look like an ordinary robot, so she nodded quickly and stepped forward to help.In fact, with Nim's ability, he doesn't need other people's help at all. It's just that Nuonuo's subconscious masculinity caused trouble. He was driven back by Nim before he reached the stone wall. The reason was that he hated her. It's just in the way.

After pushing Nuonuo aside, Nim took out a sledgehammer out of nowhere.It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a sledgehammer, because this hammer is not only taller than Nim, but also as big as a basketball. I really don’t know where Nim usually puts this thing.

Nim held this big hammer that seemed to weigh at least five hundred catties in both hands, and raised it high without taking a breath, as easily as cutting cloth.Nuonuo couldn't help being amazed, or how can Machina be different from ordinary people, just because of her strength, it's not something ordinary people can't match.

"boom!"

Just as Nuonuo was thinking wildly, a loud sound suddenly sounded.Nim didn't even say hello, just went down with a hammer!
For a while, the dust was everywhere, and Nuonuo couldn't help coughing.Suppressing tears, he turned his head and looked, only to see that the stone wall, which was still in good condition, had now been smashed into a big hole with a width of one and a half meters.Nim put away the big hammer and is now moving the stones out. Her movements were extremely fast, and within a short while, the pile of rubble beside the stone wall was almost cleared away by her.As the last big rock was kicked away by the Machina, a dark passage appeared in front of the three of them.

Nuonuo also forgot to strongly condemn Nim, but came to this dark passage and said, "This place doesn't look like it was dug by hand..."

"Do you smell anything?" Liuli didn't reply, but suddenly said this.

After Liuli said this, Nuonuo noticed that there seemed to be...a fragrance of flowers floating in this passage!
Strange, how could there be a fragrance of flowers in the mine, this is simply unreasonable!Not to mention the fragrance of flowers, there might not even be weeds in this kind of place, right?This is so weird...

The three of them glanced at each other, and finally Nim spoke first, "Let's go in and have a look."

After speaking, Nim planned to walk into the passage.Seeing this, Nuonuo quickly stopped her and said, "I'd better go in first, in case there is any danger."

Hearing this sentence, Nim couldn't help being taken aback, a pair of red pupils flickered slightly, but before she could react, Nuonuo had strode into the passageway.As a result, just two seconds after she entered, an exclamation came over: "I'll go!"

Liuli and Nim were startled, and Nim ran in directly, asking while running, "Nuo Nuo, what's wrong with you?!"

"This has tree roots!"

Nuonuo fell on the ground, squinting her eyes to observe the surrounding situation carefully, her tone full of surprise and disbelief.

Although the passage was completely dark, after strengthening their physiques, the three of them could basically see the situation in the mine clearly through a glimmer of light.Therefore, even though there was no flashlight or anything like that, Nuonuo could probably tell that what lay at her feet were thick and thick tree roots!
If there were only a few tree roots, Nuonuo wouldn't be so surprised. After all, this place has not been developed, and it would not be surprising if one or two tree roots were missed.But after a little bit of faint light, Nuonuo was surprised to find that in front of her, there were hundreds of intertwined tree roots, and the diameter of each root was about ten centimeters.Looking forward, these tree roots seem to have no end, spreading into the darkness.

In addition, Nuonuo also noticed that just seven or eight meters away, there are three or four wide passages extending in different directions, and these passages are also filled with these tree roots.This made Nuonuo's heart skip a beat, and he couldn't help but wonder, is there all such tree roots under the mine?What do these roots grow from?What kind of plant has so many roots, why can't you see anything outside the mine?

At this moment, two soft sounds came from behind Nuonuo, and Nim and Liuli came out of the mine tunnel one after another. They walked a few steps along the passage and saw this scene after meeting with Nuonuo.

In order not to miss anything, Nim even took out a crystal lamp from his pocket, and the passageway was suddenly as bright as day.

"What... what is this?" Seeing the scene in front of him, even Liuli couldn't help exclaiming.

"The root of the plant is alive." Nim squatted in front of a tree root, scraped it carefully with a dagger, and then said.

"So many? They're all alive?!" Nuonuo was amazed. If all these tree roots were alive, how could the people in the mine not notice any movement? It's too strange.

"Moreover, the strangest thing is that the plants outside have obviously started to wither. How come plants grow in the mine instead, and the number is still so huge?" Liu Li asked, holding her chin.

"It's very strange, but what's even more strange is the plants themselves." Nim nodded, and handed each of them a piece of rhizome, "Try and see if you can crush it, remember not to use too much force."

Nuonuo and Liuli took the rhizome, and according to Nim's instructions, squeezed it lightly, and the rhizome, which was the size of two people's palms, was crushed without even a little resistance.

"What's going on here? Why are these tree roots so fragile?" Nuonuo frowned, a little confused.

"I remembered one thing." Liuli said thoughtfully, "I heard that in some impoverished areas of the empire, because there is no food, the locals will use a special fertilizer to promote the growth of crops. The crops here are larger than the crops in other places, but they don’t contain much water, and they will shatter even if you pinch them lightly, but they can barely fill your stomach.”

"In other words, these tree roots are also spawned? How much fertilizer will be used... Besides, who would plant trees in such a place when they have nothing to do? Or the trees that were spawned..." Nuonuo shook with a smile Shaking his head, he felt that things were going more and more strangely.

"It's not impossible." Nim shook his head, "Don't forget, it's not necessarily the so-called fertilizer that spawned them... Here, it's a crystal mine."

Nuonuo was slightly taken aback, and a possibility popped up in his mind, "Is it possible that the people in the village will age because their vitality was deprived of their vitality by some mutated crystal?" , and their vitality is used as nourishment for these plants?"

"It's possible, but...it's really unreasonable. I've only heard that the mutated crystal will turn people into monsters. I haven't heard that the mutated crystal will cultivate plants. Or is this mine She was originally alive..." Nim blinked her red eyes with a rare serious expression.

Both Nuonuo and Liuli were taken aback by Nim's conclusion. After noticing that their expressions were somewhat unnatural, Nim had no choice but to change the subject and said, "By the way, how far is this from the mine where Baker works?"

"Go through the mine just now, and you'll be there a hundred meters away." Liuli said without raising her head. The iceberg girl was staring at the tree roots under her feet with a serious face, wondering what she was thinking.

(End of this chapter)