Chapter 69: Unexpected Joy!

"Boom—!"

Violent tremors erupted from deep within the earth without warning, as if a primordial beast that had slept for a thousand years was awakening.

The hard rocky ground began to heave and surge violently!

Inside the mine pit, countless rocks rolled down the cliffs, and several already wobbly searchlights exploded in the violent shaking, spraying showers of electric sparks.

"What… what's happening? An earthquake?!"

"Stand firm! All of you, damn it, stand firm!"

Lei Shi's band of marauders instantly descended into chaos, their homemade firearms clattering to the ground.

And the hostages, amidst this heaven‑shattering, earth‑splitting scene, let out even more desperate screams.

Lei Shi clung desperately to a protruding rock beside him.

An earthquake?

No!

This isn't an earthquake!

He could clearly feel it—as if the entire mountain had come alive and become his enemy!

"This… this is impossible…"

He jerked his head up, looking toward the indifferent young man not far away.

Lin Yue stood there silently, letting the earth beneath him churn, his posture as steady as a boulder, as if he had merged with the trembling mountain range.

A cold, god‑like curve slowly formed at the corner of his mouth.

"Your territory?"

Lin Yue's voice was soft, yet it carried with unquestionable authority to every ear.

"No, from the moment I stepped in here."

"The whole mountain is my domain."

The instant his words fell!

A sudden aberration arose!

"Whoosh—!"

Between the marauders and hostages, the hard rock‑salt floor suddenly split open a bottomless black fissure!

Immediately after, a massive stone wall several meters thick and over ten meters high shot up from the ground!

Its surface was mirror‑smooth, as if finely carved by divine craftsmanship; it was an impassable heavenly chasm that, in less than a second, perfectly divided the marauders and hostages into two separate worlds.

"My heavens… this… this is…"

"A divine sign! It's a divine sign!"

The survivors sheltered behind the stone wall stared dumbfounded at the unimaginable sight before them, their minds blank.

As for the marauders faced with such a scene, they were momentarily at a loss.

"Hostages! The hostages are gone!"

"A wall! How could there be a wall here?!"

Their greatest trump card vanished in an instant!

Lei Shi's reaction was not slow.

At the moment the stone wall rose, he already realized he had probably provoked an existence he could not possibly contend with.

The instinct to survive instantly overwhelmed all his greed and brutality.

Without a hint of hesitation—he didn't even glance at his subordinates—he spun around and bolted frantically toward a secret escape route he had prepared.

That passage was hidden behind abandoned mine equipment, extremely concealed, his last retreat!

If he could reach it, using the passage's labyrinthine terrain, he was confident he could escape alive!

He turned himself into a black blur!

However, just as he was about to rush into the passage entrance,.

However, just as he was about to rush into the passage entrance, his face even showed the wild joy of having survived a disaster.

The passage entrance before him was suddenly completely sealed by a pile of falling rocks! Tight as a seam, not a single gap remained!

"No——!!!"

Lei Shi let out a roar, frantically blasting the pile of rocks with his weapon, but it was to no avail.

"I said it."

Lin Yue's icy voice sounded again.

"From the moment I stepped in here, the whole mountain is my domain."

At this moment, Lei Shi finally understood what it meant to have no way to heaven and no door to earth!

Because he and all his subordinates were now trapped in a cramped space formed of rock.

"No… don't kill me! City Lord Lin! I was wrong! I really was wrong!"

"I'm willing to surrender! I'm willing to give you everything I have! Just spare my life!"

Finally, Lei Shi and his underlings' psychological defenses collapsed completely; they all knelt on the ground, frantically kowtowing to the surrounding stone walls, their voices filled with mournful wails and trembling.

But the only response they got was a sheet of icy silence.

Lin Yue was never a soft‑hearted person.

For such a demon whose hands were stained with the blood of innocents, he felt even a second glance was superfluous.

"Black Tortoise."

He uttered the two words lightly.

"End it."

In the next second, the cramped space imprisoning Lei Shi and his men, the stone walls on all sides, began to slowly squeeze inward.

"Creak……creak creak creak……"

"Er……ahhhhh!!!"

The muffled sound of rock friction, the terrifying crisp sound of bones being snapped bit by bit, and the bandits' shrill screams, warped by extreme pain and fear, mingled together, forming a deathly melody.

But soon, all sounds came to an abrupt halt.

When everything returned to calm, the rock walls in that area had become smooth and flat again, as if nothing had happened.

Lei Shi and his gang of vicious bandits had been squeezed and crushed alive, completely merging with this mountain mass.

After doing all this, Lin Yue's face showed not the slightest ripple.

He simply closed his eyes slowly, and through his mental link with Black Tortoise, carefully sensed every inch of this mine.

Suddenly, his eyebrows twitched slightly.

Directly below the so-called conference hall where Lei Shi was, about fifteen meters underground, he sensed an unusual hollow area.

"Any unexpected gains?"

Lin Yue's mouth corners curled up slightly.

With a thought, the floor inside the conference hall suddenly cracked open, revealing a cunningly disguised alloy hidden door.

Lin Yue did not rush down, but instead had Black Tortoise control a strand of earth and stone element to scout first.

After all, he was still just a flesh-and-blood body; a single bullet could take his life.

Looks like we can only wait for Black Tortoise to reach level 4, unlock the System Mall, and then talk.

Soon, Black Tortoise sent back the message—safe.

Below was a basement of about fifty square meters.

To Lin Yue's surprise, there were no piles of gold and silver treasures here, only a few rows of shelves stocked with various supplies.

Several dozen boxes labeled with military tags containing precious antibiotics and bandages, several boxes of ammunition and weapon parts, and…… even a few boxes of unopened top‑grade liquor!

"No way! There shouldn't be any military supplies in a mine!"

Lin Yue found it strange, because these things could not possibly be possessed by the Green Mountain Refuge!

He still did not know that Lei Shi and his gang were bandits.

If he had known, he would not have found it strange.

"Forget it, I won't think about it. First, I'll deal with those absentee workers."

Seeing that he couldn't figure it out, Lin Yue also didn't dwell on it, and returned to the conference hall.

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