Chapter 434: Entering the Mining Area (Part 2)

Zhao Jingguo followed Ye Li's footsteps closely, and carefully stepped into the depths of the resource area.

Not long after, the two came to the innermost furnace.

The entrance and exit of the furnace had been buried by countless iron sands.

The entrance was also blocked by the collapsed iron racks, iron plates and other debris outside.

Ye Li and Zhao Jingguo stood outside, and could hardly see the entrance.

They could only see some broken iron parts exposed outside the iron sand.

"Is it over?"

Zhao Jingguo walked to the front of the furnace with suspicion, raised his hand and knocked on the furnace wall gently. When his fingers touched the furnace wall, a sharp pain suddenly hit him, causing Zhao Jingguo's facial muscles to twitch violently.

"Hiss~ It's so hot!"

Zhao Jingguo quickly pulled his hand back, looked down, and saw that a huge blister quickly swelled up at the fingertips that had just touched the furnace wall.

Seeing this, Ye Li also reached out and touched it, and immediately felt a warm feeling on his hand.

"Is this the Flame Mountain?"

Ye Li said lightly, then picked up the Barrett and glanced at the furnace wall. The red dots were all inside the furnace.

Ye Li frowned slightly, and after quickly scanning the surroundings for a few circles, he said: "I just don't know where the entrance is. It is probably buried underground by these sands and soil."

Zhao Jingguo looked worried and asked quickly: "What should I do then?"

"Back off!"

Ye Li said lightly and retreated to the back.

Zhao Jingguo saw this and hurriedly followed back.

The two retreated nearly 50 meters before stopping.

Zhao Jingguo looked at Ye Li and asked in confusion: "What are you going to do?"

"Haha!"

Ye Li raised the corner of his mouth slightly, revealing a faint smile, and did not answer.

Then, he raised the Barrett in his hand again and aimed at the furnace.

Ye Li carefully adjusted the angle and finally fixed the muzzle at a position 15 degrees to the left of the red dots.

With a loud "bang", a dazzling energy beam whistled out from the muzzle, like a wild python rushing straight towards the furnace.

Wherever it passed, the air seemed to be torn apart.

Even the sand iron remaining in it seemed to be pulled by some powerful force, and began to surge violently like a surging tide.

The energy beam hit the huge and heavy furnace wall with a thunderous force.

In an instant, there was a deafening roar that resounded through the sky, and the whole furnace began to tremble violently.

Countless tiny pieces of gravel burst out from the furnace wall like raindrops, splashing everywhere, and whistling through the air with a sharp wind.

The power of this energy beam was so amazing that it almost encountered no effective obstacles and shot directly through the thick outer wall of the furnace.

After two breaths, Ye Li put away the Barrett, and then strode towards the gap in the furnace wall that was blasted open.

I saw that a shocking big hole had been broken on the extremely hard furnace wall, and a warm air flow was gushing out from this hole continuously.

Ye Li looked at Zhao Jingguo and said, "Go in and take a look!"

"Me?"

Zhao Jingguo pointed at himself.

"Could it be me?" Ye Li asked back, "It's not the one who went to save me!"

"..."

Zhao Jingguo's face was slightly embarrassed, but he didn't say much. After all, Lei Qing was indeed his man.

Zhao Jingguo silently took out a flashlight from the space ring he carried with him, turned on the switch, and carefully got into the scorching furnace.

As soon as he entered the furnace, Zhao Jingguo felt the temperature around him soar instantly, as if he was in a blazing furnace. Beads of sweat soon oozed from his forehead and slid down his cheeks.

There were constant hissing sounds under his feet, and there was a smell of burnt leather.

Zhao Jingguo clenched his teeth tightly, and beads of sweat kept rolling down his forehead. The high temperature seemed to steam him up. He endured the extreme discomfort and moved forward step by step with difficulty.

With every step, Zhao Jingguo felt that his legs were as heavy as if they were filled with lead, and the water in his body seemed to be evaporating rapidly.

Zhao Jingguo couldn't help but look back. When he saw Ye Li always following closely behind him, his heart, which had been hanging, was slightly settled, and his inner uneasiness gradually dissipated a lot, and he continued to move forward.

After walking nearly 200 meters in the narrow space, a horizontal passage appeared in front of him.

The originally oppressive and cramped space suddenly became bright.

Zhao Jingguo jumped down carefully.

The air in the passage was also turbid.

But there was much less sand and dust floating in the air.

The visibility was not as low as outside.

Even the temperature around them dropped a lot.

"This way!"

Ye Li's voice suddenly sounded.

Zhao Jingguo turned around and saw that Ye Li had continued to move forward into the passage.

Seeing this, Zhao Jingguo hurriedly followed Ye Li's pace.

The passage was filled with a metallic smell, mixed with a burning breath, making it difficult to breathe.

After walking a distance, the two came to a spacious cave.

The survivors hiding in the cave were lying on the ground in all directions, lifeless, like dead bodies, motionless.

It was even hotter inside, as if you were in a blazing furnace, making the already thin oxygen even thinner, and a lot of dust rushed in from the explosion just now.

Although there was a hole above, the wisps of air were quickly swallowed and diluted by the heat wave after entering, and breathing was still extremely difficult. Every breath was like swallowing hot magma.

Ye Li turned his head and glanced at Zhao Jingguo beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Go and see if there are any of your people!"

"Okay!"

Zhao Jingguo hurriedly responded, and then he was extremely careful and walked slowly forward with cautious steps.

His eyes swept over the faces of the people lying on the ground one by one.

Just at this moment, suddenly a person lying on the ground sat up without warning.

He wore a mask on his face that was the same as Ye Li and Zhao Jingguo.

He turned his head to look at Zhao Jingguo and Ye Li.

"Brother Zhao...?"

The man squeezed out these two words with great effort in an extremely weak voice.

The voice was a little weak, as if he was about to die in the next moment.