What exactly is going on?
Fang Ming couldn't understand the situation of this world, so he could only pull Nannan and run towards the depths of the mine again.
Everything around was the same as when he first saw it, with no difference.
"Rumble..." The familiar sound.
It's that miner! The only miner he had met so far who could talk to him!
"Nannan, prepare to stop him. We absolutely cannot let him escape again." Fang Ming's expression was solemn, his gaze fixed on the direction from which the minecart was coming.
"Stop who?" Nannan was a little confused. She felt like she couldn't understand Fang Ming's words.
"The miner who is coming soon."
The sound of the minecart grew louder.
"Prepare to act!"
In the distance, a minecart roared towards them. Nannan didn't hesitate. She stretched out her small hand, and countless strands of hair emerged from the void, precisely piercing the minecart and forcing it to a halt.
"Who?" The miner emerged from the minecart, angry, looking at Fang Ming and Nannan with annoyance.
"Who are you people?"
Fang Ming ignored him and said to Nannan, "Destroy the minecart and capture this guy."
Nannan's hair exerted force, and with a bang, the minecart was instantly torn apart. The miner was also thrown out, smashing hard onto the ground.
"Crack." A bone-snapping sound was heard. The miner's head twisted at a strange angle, and he instantly lost all signs of life.
Fang Ming: "..."
Nannan: "..."
"Fang Ming, I didn't mean to." Nannan said sadly. She hadn't expected this guy to die from the fall.
Fang Ming's lips twitched, but he didn't blame Nannan. He also didn't expect the guy to die like this. He was a煞种 (Sha Zhong, a type of malevolent spirit), and it was too embarrassing.
"It's okay, it's okay, let's keep going." Fang Ming patted Nannan's head to comfort her.
Nannan was still a little sad, feeling like she had caused trouble.
"I don't blame you, don't be sad. Let alone you, I didn't expect this 煞种 to die from a fall," Fang Ming said with a smile. After comforting Nannan for a while, he continued when she was no longer upset.
The situation continued to be the same as the first time. They encountered the miner who was constantly striking stones again. Without saying much, Fang Ming directly took action and killed him.
Fang Ming was so scared by this guy that he was almost developing a psychological complex.
Soon, the two reached the end of the mine and saw the busy group of miners in the cavern. This time, Fang Ming didn't act rashly, but carefully observed the miners' movements.
This group of miners were like automatons, sorting the ore in a streamlined manner and then throwing it into a furnace. The furnace melted the ore, and golden liquid flowed into the ground through channels.
"It's all gold..."
Fang Ming looked at the molten liquid and recognized at a glance that it was all gold. This meant this was actually a gold mine?
Fang Ming looked up at the cavern ceiling. Railways from all directions of the mine were constantly speeding in.
Thinking of this, Fang Ming became curious about what the scenes in other mines were like.
"Nannan, let's go to other mines. We'll leave this place for now."
"Okay, Fang Ming."
"Let's go."
Fang Ming's arm transformed into claws, and he grabbed the wall, climbing towards other mines. Nannan's feet lifted off the ground, ready to follow Fang Ming.
Suddenly, as they left the mine and entered the cavern area, they felt their bodies sink, and then they fell uncontrollably towards the ground.
"Bang!" Fang Ming landed and frowned. He couldn't climb up?
That's right, the cavern ceiling had an unknown force that repelled them. Any external force would be pushed down, and even Nannan couldn't resist this repulsive force.
"Roar!"
"Living person~"
"Eat, eat."
Numerous miners discovered Fang Ming and pounced at him ferociously.
Fang Ming didn't act this time, letting Nannan handle it. He wanted to see if killing these miners would trigger a轮回 (lunhui, reincarnation/cycle).
"Nannan, act."
Nannan stretched out her hand, and the miners instantly froze. Then, all the blood drained from their bodies, converging into a ball in mid-air. A giant blood ball grew larger and larger.
The miners fell one after another, and soon they were all easily killed by Nannan.
As the last miner fell, Fang Ming's vision twisted again.
"Ding~"
Fang Ming's eyes went black, and when they brightened again, he found himself back at the starting point.
"We're back again?" Nannan said in surprise.
"Hmm?" Fang Ming looked at Nannan in surprise. "Do you also retain your memories from before?"
"Yes, I still have my memories. Nannan nodded matter-of-factly. "We must have triggered the condition for this world's轮回, so this world has cycled again."
"Is that so..." It seemed that as long as they killed those miners, they could retain their original memories.
Fang Ming rested his chin on his hand, thinking. He had no idea how to break the deadlock. They could only advance, reach the cavern, fall to the ground, fight the miners, wipe them out, and fall into轮回 again.
It could be seen that the death of all the miners was the key to triggering the world's轮回. What would happen if they didn't kill the miners?
Thinking of this, Fang Ming pulled Nannan and ran towards the depths of the mine again.
The minecart rumbled its way over again.
"Nannan, stop it, and we'll get on too."
"Okay."
Once again, they stopped the minecart. The miner emerged and started shouting, but Fang Ming didn't give him time to blabber. He directly had Nannan tie him up, and then they both jumped onto the minecart.
"Rumble..." The minecart started again.
"Hey, who are you people? Let me go! If the mine owner finds out about you, you're finished! He'll kill you!"
The miner shouted from the side.
Mine owner? A new, unknown character.
Could this mine owner be the怨煞 (yuan sha, vengeful spirit) behind this world?
"Take us to the mine owner, or we'll kill you!" Fang Ming grabbed the miner's neck and threatened him coldly.
But unexpectedly, the miner was not afraid and continued to shout, "Let me go quickly, the mine owner will kill you!"
"Stop shouting! I'm asking you, where is the mine owner?" Fang Ming asked in a cold voice.
"The mine owner... the mine owner... is... The miner suddenly lost the light in his eyes, and his neck seemed to lose the strength to support his head. It instantly snapped at a strange angle.
Fang Ming: "..."
Damn it, is this mine owner that ruthless? To prevent his whereabouts from being exposed, he made the character in his world commit suicide.
However, this snapping angle seemed a bit familiar?
Wasn't this the same angle his neck snapped at in the second轮回 when Nannan accidentally killed him?
It seemed it wasn't Nannan's mistake, but rather that once a certain condition was triggered, this miner would die!
"Rumble..." The minecart was still moving at full speed. Fang Ming had an idea upon seeing the dead miner.
"Nannan, turn into a 煞纹 (sha wen, a pattern or mark associated with Sha) and hide. I'll pretend to be this miner and sneak into the cavern to see if I can find any clues."
Fang Ming had no good solution for the time being and could only try to infiltrate the enemy's ranks to see the situation.
Nannan responded, transformed into a 煞纹, and hid.
Fang Ming stripped the miner's clothes and, without caring, put them on himself. Then, he disguised himself, making his aura similar to that of a miner.
The minecart roared along and suddenly plunged into a wall. Fang Ming, sitting in the minecart, was surprised.
"Holy cow, no wonder! So this minecart ended up somewhere else!"
He had wondered why the minecart miner still had some sanity, and if they reached the cavern, they wouldn't act like zombies and rush at them.
It turned out that the minecart had gone to another place through a wall.
"So..." Fang Ming pondered, "Is that cavern actually a trap?"
However, now that he had found the right path, he had inadvertently broken an unsolvable situation.
The minecart sped along for an unknown amount of time. Fang Ming felt like he was dozing off, but the minecart showed no signs of stopping.
Something's wrong!
Fang Ming suddenly woke up. At the speed of this minecart, he must have traveled for at least four or five hours, enough to cross half a province. How deep could a mine be? Was it trying to drill through the Earth?
There was something strange.
Fang Ming quickly tried to call out to Nannan: "Nannan, come out and stop this minecart."
There was no response.
Fang Ming's heart skipped a beat. He pulled open his clothes and looked at the 煞纹 on his body. There was nothing!
The 煞纹 were all gone!
This is impossible!
"Calm down, calm down..." Fang Ming forced himself to calm down. The 煞纹 couldn't have disappeared. If Nannan and he were suddenly separated, she would have exploded long ago, and even the怨煞 behind the scenes wouldn't have had an easy time.
Since that was the case, it meant that everything in front of him was not the real situation, which meant he had fallen into another trap!
He had to break free from this situation.
Fang Ming's thoughts raced. Suddenly, he focused his gaze on the minecart. Since he couldn't stop it, he would destroy it!
With this thought, Fang Ming's body began to change rapidly, transforming into a massive, ferocious beast in an instant. The small minecart could barely contain him.
"Hah!" Fang Ming pushed with both arms, striking the sides of the minecart. The entire minecart instantly shattered into pieces, and Fang Ming was flung forward by the powerful inertia.
"Bang!" Stones flew everywhere, and Fang Ming slammed hard into the wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
"Cough, cough." Fang Ming stood up, clutching his chest.