Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 283: Chapter 273: All Enter

When Tang Mo opened her eyes again, she was back at the bottom of the tunnel, leaning against a stone wall. She was now a good distance away from the bizarre, mirror-like surface in the cave’s center.

”What’s wrong? What happened down there?”

Coincidentally, just as Tang Mo emerged from the world within the mirror, the people waiting above slid down the tunnel one by one.

They had, of course, seen the scene within the mirror. But Tang Mo, the first one to descend, was now passed out on the side for some unknown reason. At this moment, no one dared to make a rash move.

”What happened?”

Tang Mo immediately grasped the situation. She narrowed her eyes slightly and rubbed her head.

”Why are you all down here?”

”Didn’t we agree you’d send word back up after you went down first?”

Wenqing demanded, grabbing Qin Fen’s arm.

”I hit my head hard on the way down. I just woke up, and you’re all already here. If you were in such a rush, why didn’t you come down first? Do I owe you something?”

Tang Mo shot back. She wasn’t about to take crap from anyone.

”You...” Wenqing’s face flushed with anger, not expecting Tang Mo to retort so directly in front of so many people.

”That’s enough. This isn’t the time to be arguing.”

Qin Fen pulled Wenqing aside. He knew what was more important right now; clearly, the treasure below was far more valuable than bickering with Tang Mo.

”There’s nowhere else in this cave to hide a treasure besides that large mirror in the center. The goods must be down there.”

The cave wasn’t very large, maybe eighty to a hundred square meters at most. It was so empty that everything was visible at a glance. Anyone could figure out that if there was a treasure, it had to be inside that strange mirror.

Since Tang Mo had apparently just woken up, they had no more questions for her.

”I don’t care what you all do, but I’m definitely going down there.”

Qin Fen gazed at the scene within the mirror. He’d actually had some information about this place before he came.

People had long since sensed a tremendous energy here—an energy identical to that found in Crystal Coins. Given its sheer magnitude, it was most likely a Crystal Stone Mine.

As he was coming down, Qin Fen had already secretly used a tool to scrape at the stone wall.

The cave walls were just ordinary rock, not Crystal Stone, let alone a Crystal Stone Mine.

The only explanation was that the Crystal Stone Mine was beneath the mirror’s surface.

”Since we’re all down here, of course we have to go take a look.”

Zhang Chao’s faction had also received news of the Crystal Stone Mine. If it weren’t for what was down here, who would bring ten top-tier, high-attribute superpower users to the Apocalypse Garbage Dump just to pick through trash?

This mention of ten high-attribute superpower users wasn’t referring to the ten people Zhang Chao had just recruited.

It referred to the ten ”diggers” who had been with him from the very start.

Each one of them was an incredibly formidable member of Zhang Chao’s faction.

As for the people he’d recruited, they were simply cannon fodder for the mission.

Initially, upon seeing Qin Fen, Zhang Chao hadn’t wanted him to come along. After all, one had to be wary of the Qin Family.

But Qin Fen’s initial attitude had annoyed him. He figured he might as well leave him here forever, in a place where no one would ever know.

Zhang Chao had made a ruthless decision: besides his own men, no one else was getting out of here alive. Thus, his attitude did a complete one-eighty, and he didn’t bother being polite even to Qin Fen.

The ten diggers were clearly led by Zhang Chao, while the more recently recruited members now looked to Qin Fen as their leader.

The reason was simple: Zhang Chao’s change in attitude had made everyone deeply uneasy.

If something went wrong with Zhang Chao and he decided not to take them back, Qin Fen was the only one who could call a helicopter to take them back to S Base.

Therefore, currying favor with Qin Fen had become the most important thing on everyone’s mind, second only to the treasure.

Qin Fen was clearly enjoying the flattery. He seemed to stand a little taller, and he began speaking with the air of a true leader, which Tang Mo found rather amusing.

”You all go ahead. My head still hurts from that knock I took. I’m going to rest a while longer.”

Tang Mo had already been inside once and had no desire to enter a second time.

She didn’t want to spend another second in that cold, impersonal world. ’Completely pointless.’

Besides, she now had more important things to do out here.

”You go first.”

Zhang Chao pointed to one of the diggers beside him.

Whatever training the digger had received, he faced the situation without a single word of protest and simply walked toward the mirror.

The moment his foot touched the surface of the mirror, his entire body vanished.

He truly vanished into thin air, disappearing right before everyone’s eyes. Not even his clothes were left behind.

Zhang Chao immediately opened his ID Watch to contact the man who had disappeared.

No connection.

”Looks like there’s another world entirely beneath this mirror.”

Far from being alarmed, the people here were delighted. Didn’t the existence of another Space below prove that the Crystal Stones were very likely stored there?

Having gone to such great lengths to get here, there was no way they would turn back without going down.

”Everyone, follow me.”

Zhang Chao was a decisive man. Once he had made up his mind, he led his men one by one onto the mirror, and they vanished into the Space.

”As long as you listen to me, not only will I get you back to S Base, but everyone will also receive ten High-level Crystal Coins when we return.”

Ten High-level Crystal Coins! Besides Tang Mo, who among them had ever seen such an enormous fortune? They all nodded eagerly.

Never mind that Qin Fen could get them home; he was also promising them something as precious as ten High-level Crystal Coins.

And even without that, they weren’t about to give up on the treasure beneath the mirror. Every single one of them agreed enthusiastically.

Qin Fen was very satisfied, seeing how this group was ready to follow his every command.

He had come here so secretively, without his own men, because he was afraid that mobilizing people from the Qin Family would alert Qin Ling to something unusual.

He had gone to great trouble to get this information about the Crystal Stones. Everyone knew how precious Crystal Stones were now and their immense future potential; he wasn’t about to hand this opportunity over to someone else.

’As for their reward... once I have the Crystal Stone Mine, I’ll have all the Crystal Stones I could ever want.’

And so, with a consensus reached, the group followed Qin Fen, stepping onto the mirror’s surface one by one.

Tang Mo shook her head as she watched the people, now clearly split into two factions.

She now had a pretty good idea of how to get out of the world below. ’For these people, getting back out won’t be so easy.’

But that had nothing to do with her. Right now, she had more important things to do.