Resurrection Empire

After the heat-cutting edge cooled, he crawled in.

The traditional radar in the scanner was finally unobstructed and could directly probe downward.

An ultra-long passageway, over ten kilometers long, extending downward into the earth appeared in his armor's information model.

Activating the anti-gravity engine and the magnetic absorption module of the armored boots, Ren Zhong began to swiftly sprint downward, perpendicular to the horizontal plane.

About eight kilometers later, he stopped.

A lateral branch appeared next to the circular passage.

Ren Zhong looked at the gradually increasing radiation index and decided to turn into the branch.

Walking roughly three hundred meters along the horizontal branch, Ren Zhong saw an elliptical cylinder nearly a hundred meters long.

Inside the elliptical cylinder space, there was a large heap of small to medium-sized equipment that had been deliberately destroyed.

Ren Zhong approached to inspect them one by one and began to speculate about their functions in his mind.

In the 21st century, Dr. Ren's top-notch papers were in the field of biology, but his abilities in the field of environmental protection were equally good.

The biggest characteristic of studying environmental protection is knowing a little bit about everything, but not needing to be proficient in anything.

Thanks to his degree and academic ability in environmental engineering, he had visited various types of enterprises in person.

This included steel plants. He knew what ordinary steel plant equipment generally looked like inside.

Using the armored assistant brain for restoration calculation, these destroyed devices were roughly outlined in their "living" form. Ren Zhong first felt they looked familiar, then clapped his hands and said to himself, "This is a steel plant!"

Although the specific principles of the equipment must be different from those on Earth, due to similar functions, they bore some resemblance in form.

Ren Zhong also found several nameplates on the equipment wreckage.

He accurately identified three types of equipment: electric furnace, ladle, and mold casting equipment.

Functionally similar, the overall forms looked very much alike, but due to differences in materials and power supply methods, the equipment sizes were significantly different.

These devices would be quite miniature on Earth, theoretically impossible to be effective.

But here, obviously, they were useful.

There were also some special devices that Ren Zhong did not recognize, presumably used for purification.

In short, this was an ultra-small-scale mineral refining workshop.

Indeed, Yang Bingzhong's private harvesting project included not only mining but also small-scale rough processing.

Ren Zhong took a walk around the workshop, feeling slightly surprised.

He didn't see any corpses or human clothing.

Until he reached the end of the workshop, he discovered a large door.

Pushing open the door, there was a hemispherical space about twenty meters in diameter ahead.

A sturdy dome constituted the upper part of the hemispherical space.

There was no alloy structure below the hemisphere, just black soil beneath.

Ren Zhong jumped down.

His combat boots sank slightly into the ground.

The ground appeared soft, and black water seeped out.

A strong stench of rot surged into his nostrils, and Ren Zhong silently shut off the armor's external air circulation, switching to internal circulation.

Activating the analyzer, Ren Zhong learned what these were.

A variety of partially burned, shredded woven materials.

He had found the dumping ground of bodies.

This was the place.

At least one hundred thousand Starfire Town wild people were buried here.

The Ruined Beast liked to feed on humans and also favored metals.

To the wild people, the Ruined Beast was both prey and predator.

But to Yang Bingzhong, the Ruined Beast was the best accomplice.

Thanks to the Ruined Beast's help in destroying the bodies, this place was never full.

Unfortunately, the Ruined Beast had no interest in clothes and other items.

Over the years, there were no corpses piled up here, but the clothes and other personal belongings of the laborers piled up as relics.

Yang Bingzhong chose to periodically incinerate them.

Heaven knows what massive and principle-based air circulation system he had established here.

Ren Zhong roamed over the black ashes, then slightly dug the ground with a mechanical arm attached to the armor.

From top to bottom, woven materials in the ashes showed differences in age.

The incompletely burned clothing fragments at the bottom were at least ten years old, barely burned through, but were mostly decomposed by microbes, crumbling into powder upon excavation.

As for the ones at the top, although damaged, the remaining fragments appeared quite new.

Ren Zhong silently walked around.

He strived to control his emotions.

After a long while, he made a new decision.

Considering the family members of his team might be found here, such as Wen Lei's missing parents, Yujin's father, and Ou Youning's mother, he decided to search carefully to see if he could find any related relics.