Prison Warden, will you be affected by me too?
The girl in front of him looked at him with innocent, wide eyes.
As she said this, she even licked her lips, her gaze towards him sending a shiver through his heart. The Prison Warden opposite her fell into silence for a moment. After a long pause, he finally spoke.
"Yes."
"But don't think anything of it because of that. It's only because you are a female beast!"
"If you weren't a female beast, I absolutely wouldn't be influenced by you!"
The girl opposite nodded with satisfaction, her eyes curving into a smile, showing no sign of being threatened by him.
"Then shall we go to the mine pit?"
Bringing her along... would be troublesome.
Let alone on this perilous battlefield.
Even on an ordinary, chaotic planet, the appearance of a female beast would stir up a huge commotion.
The presence of a female beast would drive even the strongest individuals to lose their reason. In a way, there was nothing more troublesome than her.
But—Ling Kuang fell silent for a moment. Precisely because of this, if he let her travel across half the war zone with a rabbit that looked so shifty and utterly useless... it would be impossible to safely reach the war zone port where spaceships docked.
She would die.
Precisely because of this.
Therefore, Ling Kuang, with a cold expression, thought to himself that it was indeed better to take her to the mine pit.
"Follow me. And you, with your clumsy rabbit, keep a good eye on it. If anything happens to this rabbit, I will absolutely not save her!"
The clumsy little system, Yue Xiao, let out a cry, but no one paid it any mind. It could only lower its head again and draw circles in the corner!
Damn it... damn Ling Qianhe.
Hmph. What kind of attitude is this? If it had known, it wouldn't have spoken so many good words for him in front of the host!
...
Three days later.
Blood permeated the air, and outside the mine pit, layers of bloody mist seemed to appear. Ling Kuang reached out and touched his chin, lost in thought.
"It seems they had a major battle outside this mine pit."
"To be this brutal. I knew it—how could those scoundrels truly work together... Hmph, they're just a bunch of opportunistic and selfish people!"
Ling Kuang's tone was filled with disdain. Hearing Ling Kuang's dismissive tone, Lin Muci hesitated for a moment, looking at the dark opening.
"Are we really going down?"
"Is it very, very deep here?"
Ling Kuang hummed.
"The mining of magnesium peptide crystals is extremely difficult and cannot be extracted by machines. It requires skilled miners to carefully strip it away, otherwise, it can easily be damaged."
"Moreover, although magnesium peptide crystals are not directly lethal, wherever there are magnesium peptide crystals, there is usually a type of terrifying accompanying ore. That accompanying ore can confuse the mind, making one's eyes conjure beautiful dreams, causing them to fall into them, unable to extricate themselves, and die from exhaustion."
"Therefore, miners often die because of this. The casualty rate for mining magnesium peptide crystals is also the highest."
Lin Muci let out a sound.
"Then why would anyone... why would anyone be willing to come and mine these magnesium peptide crystals you speak of?"
Hearing Lin Muci say this, Ling Kuang raised an eyebrow.
"The reason why people are willing to come and mine magnesium peptide crystals is very simple: the reward offered is extremely high, or their families are being held hostage, or they themselves cannot disobey their superiors' orders..."
"Let's go."
Lin Muci was very flustered.
"What if I fall into an illusion?"
Ling Kuang glanced at Lin Muci.
"Generally speaking, female beasts are not susceptible to illusions. Because you are... too weak. So weak that the hallucinogenic accompanying ore cannot affect you."
Lin Muci made a sound, unsure for a moment if this was good news or bad news.
She had originally wanted to ask Ling Kuang why female beasts weren't used for mining, but then she thought about it, and the answer was obvious. Female beasts were so weak and precious that they couldn't be deployed on the battlefield, which was why they had to use human lives to increase the extraction rate of magnesium peptide crystals.
"Then if you fall into an illusion..."
Lin Muci wanted to ask more clearly.
But Ling Kuang waved his hand and directly pulled her.
"Let's go."
"Let's go in first."
...
Deep within the mine pit, it was pitch black.
In the utter darkness of the mine pit, one could hardly see anything. Lin Muci huddled behind Ling Kuang, too afraid of the seemingly endless darkness. She couldn't help but reach out and grasp his clothes.
Her voice was tiny.
"I'm scared."
The man whose clothes she tugged at felt a mocking cold smile flash across his lips. Then, he raised an eyebrow and said.
"So timid?"
"Female beasts are useless, utterly useless."
He said this, but he didn't shake off the girl's hand following him. Instead, he shielded her feet even more.
The rabbit stayed obediently in Lin Muci's embrace. Then the rabbit's ears twitched and suddenly perked up, its expression revealing a hint of panic and terror!
"Jiji jiji!"
The rabbit wished it could gesticulate wildly. Ling Kuang didn't even look back; he calmly said.
"The smell of blood?"
The rabbit nodded desperately.
"Such a strong smell of blood!"
And when they rounded the corner ahead, they saw scattered mech parts and abandoned mechs lying everywhere.
These mechs, outside, would have made anyone envious, making them want to own one. But here, they were piled up like garbage.
Abandoned mechs, even to the point of being irreparable.
It was evident that a great battle had indeed taken place here!
Lin Muci sighed.
"It's a good thing I left my little pink outside. Anyway, little pink has already recognized its master, so no one can take it away."
She was referring to her medical mech. Ling Kuang glanced at the mechs before him and announced their models.
"Explorer 7450, Scarlet Lotus 7820... these are very valuable on the interstellar black market, worth tens of millions of star coins. Some can even be equivalent to a small ordinary energy vein. It seems those people were indeed willing to pay any price for magnesium peptide crystals."
"Some of them are probably going crazy with impatience. Their desire for magnesium peptide crystals has driven them mad."
Ling Kuang spoke casually as he walked forward.
"We should be able to see the mine pit ahead—Eh?"
He paused, then suddenly frowned.
"How could this be?"
Lin Muci poked her head out from behind him. She only took one look and was also stunned.
Before them lay a scene like hell on earth, with bodies piled up haphazardly. And the smell of blood they had detected clearly came from these corpses!
"How could this be... even if the mortality rate in the mine pit is high, it shouldn't result in no survivors."
Ling Kuang turned to look at the somewhat bewildered girl behind him and said.
"Give me your hand."
Lin Muci was a little flustered.
"Huh?"
"Give... give you my hand? What for?"
She was very flustered. Ling Kuang told her in a matter-of-fact tone.
"To share mental power with you."
"This place has probably undergone some changes. To ensure your safety, I must share mental power with you now. Just relax, and your perception will greatly increase after sharing mental power!"