Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 596: Purple Origin Star is Just a Colonial Planet

Old Jiu chuckled:

"I studied geology, not civil engineering. Your question is very specialized, does anyone here have a degree in architecture from college?"

A tall and thin person named Feng Ming replied,

"I studied architecture."

Feng Ming is a King Level Evolver from South City.

Feng Ming took a glance at the sketch and said:

"In theory, it is possible, but practically it's very difficult."

"What do you mean?"

"We are over one hundred meters underground. How can we dig out an outlet that is one hundred meters deep to escape to the surface? Besides, according to this sketch, the exit is also in the jungle, and there are too many mutant monsters outside. Wouldn't going out be akin to delivering ourselves to death?"

The others nodded in agreement.

Yang Xiao thought for a moment and said:

"Having an escape outlet allows us an additional way out during dangerous times. We don't need to use this route immediately. We can take our time, dig slowly— if not in a day, then a month, or maybe even a year?

We can use the night time, dig one meter every day, and in one hundred days, we can definitely dig one hundred meters. Instead of waiting to die here, why don't we give it a try?

As for the dangers of the jungle you mentioned, let's set that aside for now,"

After Yang Xiao said this, everyone thought it made sense.

"Given that Luo Meng and others have installed surveillance equipment around the mining area, we'll dig at night but can't remove the mining debris then. We'll mix and remove it during the day, and Luo Meng and the others won't know."

"What if Luo Meng occasionally inspects the mine?"

"These past two months they have barely come down the shaft. We can only take a gamble. We make the entrance of the escape pathway smaller, and dig bigger on the inside. We can use our clothes to cover it up at the entrance. Risks are inevitable, but does everyone really plan to be miners here for life, to dig until death?"

Everyone fell silent.

"Damn it, either way, we're facing death, let's gamble on it."

"Right, even if we get eaten by the beasts outside, it's still better than suffocating to death here."

"Just think about that person from Ice Wolf Island who died."

...

Eventually, everyone agreed to secretly dig the tunnel every night.

A month later, the secret escape pathway had been dug to a distance of fifty meters. According to Feng Ming's design, the escape pathway was at a sixty-degree incline and approximately 120 meters in length could reach the surface.

During this period, Luo Meng and his team did not descend into the shaft.

Everyone tried their best to cooperate with Luo Meng's work, diligently mining, and the production of Purple Origin Crystal Stone increased by an additional 20% this month. Luo Meng privately told Yuri, guessing that after the last escapee was punished, everyone was scared and worked harder.

Now, each month, Yang Xiao and the others could receive a salary of two million Crystal Coins,

Luo Meng opened a ledger card for each person, transferring Crystal Coins to everyone's Crystal Coin Card.

Once, Yang Xiao asked Luo Meng,

"Captain Luo, where can this Crystal Coin Card be used?"

"Hehe, don't worry. It can be used on both Purple Origin Planet and Witch Star."

"Witch Star?"

Yang Xiao was stunned.

Luo Meng remained silent for a moment, then he patted Yang Xiao on the shoulder and said:

"Actually, it's okay to tell you, our headquarters is on Witch Star, and this Purple Origin Planet is just a small asteroid we discovered that has Purple Origin Crystal Stones. Purple Origin Star orbits around Witch Star. Well, let me put it this way, tonight I'll tell you where Witch Star is."

By evening, true to his word, Luo Meng took Yang Xiao out and handed him something like a telescope, pointing at a basin-sized, shining planet in the night sky:

"Do you see that largest and brightest planet?"

"I see it."

"That's Witch Star, that's where our real headquarters is located. Put on the binoculars and have a look."

Yang Xiao, completely baffled, put on the glasses and saw an even brighter blue planet. Although he couldn't make out much, the sight left him utterly shocked and amazed.

After all this time, he hadn't realized that he was merely on a colonial planet.

Yang Xiao put down the binoculars and asked:

"Captain Luo, does Purple Origin Planet have any cities?"

"No, there are only endless mountains and forests here, as well as various Monsters roaming everywhere, of course, there are also the indigenous savages. This planet doesn't have cities, culture, or technology; everything is in a primitive state. The only advantage is that it has the rare Purple Origin Crystal Stones."

"Our base isn't the only mining base, is it?"

"Heh, of course not, we have at least two thousand such bases on Purple Origin Star. We've also established a few cities here; two hundred kilometers away from here there's a small town. One day if there's a chance, I'll take you to see our colonial cities here."

Yang Xiao, holding the binoculars, took another look at the blue planet in the distant starry sky.

On Earth, humans have always wanted to migrate to outer space, the Moon, Mars, and even farther locations, but they had never truly achieved this.

Unexpectedly, this mysterious alien civilization had already accomplished the expansion of the cosmic space, owning interstellar colonial planets. In this way, could Earth have also become one of their colonial planets?

Luo Meng glanced at Yang Xiao and said meaningfully:

"Actually, those who escaped last time were very foolish. Even if they could get out of this base without being eaten by the wild beasts in the forest, what then?

On Purple Origin Planet, only our people exist, they can't find any place to shelter,

and even we ourselves, if a large spaceship from our mother planet does not come, cannot leave this planet."

"Hmm?"

Yang Xiao looked at Luo Meng.

"Doesn't our base have some spaceships?"

"Those can only travel short distances, and they're not fast enough or have enough endurance."

That night, Yang Xiao couldn't sleep, with Luo Meng's words continuously echoing in his mind.

From the scattered information he had pieced together, it was clear whether it was Luo Meng, or Gu Bo, Long Wei, Long Yu, and Jingjing from Earth, they all came from Witch Star.

They not only conquered Lucy's Gamma Planet but also conquered Purple Origin Star, and now, they have also conquered Earth.

This power was far too terrifying and formidable. Initially, Yang Xiao thought about resisting them, but now thinking about it, he is just an ant, while the other party is a giant mountain.

How can an ant shake a giant mountain?

...

Inside the base's recreation hall, dozens of people were playing Go, cultivating their spiritual power.

A middle-aged man walked in from outside,

the people playing chess saw him and immediately stopped playing, all standing up and respectfully shouting:

"Good day, Station Master!"

The middle-aged man smiled slightly,

"Hmm, everyone is playing Go, I specifically came to tell you, the annual Go tournament of Purple Origin Planet is about to start soon, we