The Game of Global Mining

Chapter 563 - 414: Time Freeze_2

At this moment, Mina had a new discovery: "Master, I found Essence of Dreams in the hospital basement!"

Sure enough, a faint bright spot appeared below Chun’s field of view. Is this directly penetrating beneath the ground?

Chun was amazed: "We’re in the real world, right? Can your Treasure Hunting Skill be used too?"

Mina was quite excited: "It might be because I’ve become stronger, or perhaps the other party’s essence is too dazzling. When the Dark Soul Witch was alive, she would also find Essence of Dreams targets in advance and send us out at night."

Chun was feeling idle: "Alright, let’s try our strength with others first."

Thus, Chun and Mina started looking for places like basements but felt unprofessional circling around and found nothing. Maybe possessing the Black Cat to enter the sewers? But it’s the hospital’s sewer, full of viruses and stuff, not great?

While hesitating, the bright spot suddenly emitted a flash of red light and then disappeared!

Chun was stunned: "What happened?"

Mina was dumbfounded for a while, somewhat fearful: "If it’s red light, it might be related to extreme fear, and it’s not normal Essence of Dreams."

Chun was astonished: "Could it be an advanced Nightmare?"

Mina was a bit confused: "I don’t know, but Master’s Soul Artifact is so powerful; even if encountering an advanced Nightmare, at least we can escape, right?"

Indeed, it’s a Divine Artifact-level Soul Artifact, its special skill is Time Freeze reversal, sounds explosive, and probably costly to use, so gotta find something powerful to test it with; no nameless ones under the blade!

Chun decided: "With the target lost, let’s return to the Black Cat’s body."

At this moment, the Black Cat was perched atop a treetop, also eyeing the ground, its ears flickering, fur bristling.

Chun was amazed: "Tom, did you notice something below?"

"Meow!"

Chun asked: "Can you find your way there?"

"Meow!!"

"Alright, go find it. Be careful."

Under the cover of night, the already invisible Black Cat floated down from the tree into the sewer pipes. Then, a flash from the cat’s fur enveloped it in a Magic Shield.

Ah? Good, with a shield, no need to fear any mud or poisonous bugs, right?

Chun wasn’t idle either, activating both Beelzebub rank skills, Holy Tracing and Filthy Tracing full on! No Holy to be had, but Filthy is everywhere, opening up the map, instantly revealing the surrounding sewer networks.

Then the Black Cat’s Shrinking Earth was reactivated, shuttling from one sewer section to another, back and forth.

Finally, the Black Cat suddenly stopped at a spot with flowing water, and Chun felt the flow wasn’t quite normal either, there should be a pipe underwater.

Then the Black Cat decisively jumped in, starting to crawl like a cat!

Chun was astounded; this was the guy who needed several female players to hold legs and hands down while bathing the other day, now actually diving in such filthy water!

Though it had a shield... Chun’s Cleaner Fish quickly went to work, immediately purifying the dirty water.

Purification Technique formed a whirlpool around the Black Cat, unexpectedly boosting its swimming speed!

——System Notification: Your Grandmaster-level Module Combination successfully combined your Master-level Swimming Technique, Expert-level Artistic Swimming, Grandmaster-level Spatial Technique with team member Tom’s Phase Shift skill; Tom has comprehended Intermediate Swimming Technique Level 10!

Chun was shocked, the Black Cat comprehended swimming! Can it really be done this way?

But before the shock was over, the Black Cat’s speed increased again, and another system notification came:

——System Notification: Your Grandmaster-level Module Combination..., Tom has comprehended Advanced Swimming Technique Level 1, comprehended Advanced Artistic Swimming Level 1!

Holy Shit, Artistic Swimming!

Mina was taken aback: "As expected of the Master, the Master is an outstanding leader, capable of enabling a cat to quickly improve!"

Your praise is perfectly timed!

Mina continued: "Therefore, as long as I follow the Master, I can quickly grow as well."

Chun felt gratified: "Grow together, grow together!"

The challenge is that the Nightmare is a completely new spirit domain; currently, all skills don’t connect with it, can’t combine modules, right?

Just then, Chun’s Beelzebub Holy Tracing suddenly reacted, right ahead, and it’s huge!

"Tom, we’re almost there, be careful!"

The Black Cat began slowing its swim, eventually stealthily moving underwater. Then, faint light emerged ahead, and the Black Cat silently surfaced!

Witnessed it, the pristine ceiling. Heard it, various footsteps, heavy breathing—This heaviness in breathing, is it human?

Mina whispered: "This ceiling is the surgical room’s diffusive wall, capable of evenly scattering light without shadow."

Previously being a physician, this place indeed looks official!

Chun was a bit flustered: "Tom, you’re all wet, can’t go up yet, need to dry off first."

However, Tom let out a low whimper, shaking off the water gently, and Chun only realized he’d underestimated its oil-slick, water-repellent Magical Cat Fur.

Holy Shit! Last time this shocked me was when my small account transformed into a vine in the Heroic Spirit Hall! The unique traits of magical flora and fauna are unimaginable to us humans.

Tom quietly entered a room, indeed packed with equipment and bottle jars, a surgical room.

As the footsteps gradually faded away, the Black Cat headed towards the direction of the heavy breathing. The closer it got, the more its fur bristled, until entering a hall lined with a dozen or so iron cages, filled with creatures... crocodiles? Giant lizards? Young Dragons!? Holy Shit, these are Young Dragons, right?

Mina was astounded too: "This is a blood extraction machine! It can even extract spinal marrow! It must provide nutrients for hospitalized nobles!"

Holy Shit!?

Chun was amazed: "Have you seen this in Oak City before?"

Mina was baffled: "Read about it in books; I was just a low-tier physician doing dance gigs, no chance to see such scenes. But I heard of a mysterious drug called Crimson, requiring the subject to be in extreme fear to secrete abundantly. Maybe the red dot we saw earlier was the reaction from extreme fear—"

Mina got excited: "Master, we can try going in!"

We’ve come this far, the mission is imperative! Plus, a dozen, and it’s a Dragon’s consciousness space; clearing this batch might roll the snowball to Gem City!

Chun beckoned the Black Cat: "Tom, find a safe place to hide!"

"Meow!"

Then Chun and Mina approached the first cage, the Young Dragon’s mind emitted turbulence weaker than a butler yet much stronger than Pulan. Enter!

——System Notification: Warning! You have entered the consciousness space of a Sub-dragon baby, you will be subjected to strong Dream Creatures attack, respond with full force!

Ah, just a Sub-dragon?

The scene shifted, Chun appeared in a misty blood pool environment, just like when first entering a bat’s consciousness! Can this blood pool be considered a sea? Can contact Merfolk for backup?

The next moment, a blood-soaked Earth Dragon burst forth from the fog, trampling blood waves, roaring in!

Holy Shit, the momentum!

Without thinking, Chun raised the clock: "Time Freeze!"

The chime resonated, an energy wave spread across the space, and the Blood Dragon’s sound ceased abruptly, perfectly frozen!

——System Notification: You activated "Law Pendulum", your spirit has incurred temporary proportional consumption.

——System Notification: Your Grandmaster-level Spatial Technique significantly bolstered the "Time Freeze" effect, you obtained information on Divine Craftsman Level Spatial Technique.

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Mina was elated: "Master, this time let me handle it!"

With that, she flew up, lifted a fire extinguisher, and bashed the motionless dragon head with a thud, causing the entire head to collapse and shatter!

Mina seized the moment, exploded the knee joint with a boom, causing one of its legs to bend, and the massive body crashed down!

Chun was truly shocked, Holy Shit, is the Dragon Soul too weak, or Mina too strong?