My different world is game mode

"Cough cough cough——"

The development of the territory is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Lindsay, far south of the banyan forest, takes time to dig tunnels in the mountains every day between dealing with the insect tribe.

Underground with flickering fire.

Every time he swung the meteorite pickaxe, a piece of rough stone was broken into pieces in front of Lindsay, and a square rectangular channel stretched forward like this.

With another pick from Lindsay down.

There happened to be a piece of brittle silt behind the rock. As a result, the dust flew up, and the mine was filled with dust.

"Damn-"

"Is there any uncompacted soil in such a deep mountain?"

"If I hadn't been physically strong enough, I might have suffered from occupational diseases if I continued like this for a few days."

Lindsay wiped her face and complained.

He casually sprinkled some water in the air, waited for the air in the cave to return to normal, and inserted a torch next to it, and then continued to dig forward under the light of the light to clear the way.

A quarter of an hour passed.

There was still a solid mountain in front of Lindsay, but after he opened the map, his face instantly showed joy.

"Mine?"

"Finally it's almost here!"

The map shows that there are complex passages in the underground ahead.

Although this gold mine is hidden deep in the mountains.

But it is not that it was not unknown, but it has gone through a long period of mining.

"Abandoned gold mine."

"Or, in the crisis of the end of the world, the gold mine had no choice but to be abandoned?"

Lindsay breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing the target in front of him, he swung the meteorite pickaxe a little faster.

I also began to calculate the distance in my heart.

"From the canyon of the Bug tribe to here, it normally takes five days to cross the mountains."

"But now follow the path I have made."

"Even if ordinary people come here, they can complete the round trip within one day. This is much more efficient!"

Lindsay gained momentum and continued to dig forward faster.

The last distance was quickly penetrated by him.

Click——

As the earth and rocks collapsed, a hole appeared in front of Lindsay.

He didn't have time to expand the tunnel, so he lowered his head and stepped forward, diving directly in.

What appeared in front of Lindsay was first a piece of ground illuminated by a meteorite pickaxe, and then another hand came in with a torch, and the scenery in this mine tunnel became clear.

"This is a gold mine..."

Lindsay looked around.

The location he is currently in is not an area being mined, but a tunnel leading underground.

On the ground of the straight passage, some rusty ironware suddenly appeared, either horizontally or vertically.

Lindsay stepped forward to take a closer look:

"Nails, iron pieces, and right-angle iron..."

"These things are used to fix the support frame?"

Lindsay picked up the junk and looked at it carefully, and found that they were just normal rusty iron parts.

He raised the torch in confusion and raised his gaze.

On the top of the mine tunnel and the surrounding walls, there are indeed some traces of logs that once held up the mountain, and each trace corresponds to the rusty iron pieces that fell on the ground.

"A support structure that once held the tunnel in place."

"Now these iron objects have fallen to the ground, but the wood that was the main support has disappeared?"

Lindsay looked around in confusion.

He himself had done similar soil reinforcement when excavating some underground sites, so he would not be surprised.

But it's different in the mine.

As the decades passed, the wood became decayed and fragile, which Lindsay could understand, but it would never completely disappear.

Even if it is checked and taken away by someone who has nothing to do.

But why do these iron devices that connect wood stay here?

The scene before me was completely inconsistent with common sense.

"..."

"As expected, let's explore it carefully."

Lindsay made up her mind and continued walking deeper into the gold mine.

After the matter here is settled, Lindsay plans to let his people come over to mine the ore. If there were any hidden dangers down there, he could solve them in advance.

Lindsay went all the way down, opening the map in the process.

But even if he expanded the scope of his reconnaissance, he still couldn't find anything dangerous in the mine.

Only a few cave creatures linger here.

When they hear Lindsay's movements, they are often frightened away immediately without showing any active aggression.

A few more minutes passed, and the front finally looked different.

They were white objects scattered randomly on the ground, completely irregularly arranged.

"bone?"

"And it's human bones?"

Lindsay stepped forward, looking even weirder.

Human bones were scattered on the ground of the mine tunnel.

He switched modules smoothly, and the [Puzzle Game] displayed more specific information.

[Human skeletons—Human skeletons that fell to the ground while escaping, struggled, and died in pain. 】

"..."

Lindsay assembled the clues in silence.

It has been so long that the footprints can no longer be traced.

But fortunately there were enough skeletons on the ground, and human shadows still appeared one by one under the influence of the skills. They ran towards the depths of the mine in terror, wailing desperately, as if something was chasing them behind them.

"..."

Lindsay followed the shadow further down.

In the gold mine tunnel, the terrain is chaotic.

These phantoms were running around, and they could get lost in the panic at any time.

Once they fell to the ground, they soon began to struggle in pain, and then they stopped moving and turned into bones on the ground.

"..."

Lindsay's expression was serious.

The further he went down, the more scenes he saw, and the more confused he became.

[Puzzle Game] The feedback on the case was always accurate, and there would be a certain degree of traces of the attacks on the deceased.

But these phantoms did not.

They fell to the ground, and their fingers were waving around on their bodies or in the air.

There was no bite from wild beasts, no attacks from sticks and knives, and no obvious influence of source skills.

It was as if the air in the mine was poisonous, and they could only die slowly in their struggle.

"..."

Lindsay looked around again.

As more escape images appeared, the supporting structures of the surrounding mines began to emerge.

His inference was correct, and there was indeed a supporting structure here.

But just like those dead humans, the wood supporting the mine quickly decomposed and decayed for no reason, and eventually disappeared.

The iron parts that were originally used to fix and connect the wood.

As a result, they fell to the ground and were arranged in the neat and tidy shape they are now.

"..."

"Is this phenomenon the poison of corruption?"

The first thing Lindsay thought of was the Bugman Valley not far away.

If the poison of corruption there broke out here, it would definitely cause similar results.

But Lindsay carefully investigated the surrounding air and ground.

Every detail here is clean, without any signs of being infected by the poison of corruption like in the valley.

"This...can't it be a haunted gold mine?"

Lindsay went down all the way, almost to the bottom of the tunnel.

And the further he went down, the more human skeletons he saw. This place was like a huge cemetery hidden in the mountain.

But apart from that, Lindsay couldn't find any extra clues.

Buzz——

Just when he stood at the bottom of the tunnel, at a loss.

The [Sky Compass] that had been silent for several months began to tremble, prompting him that there was a hidden space nearby!

Lindsay's eyes were startled at first, and then he became excited:

"Ah?"

"Finally there is something!"