CHAPTER 498: CHAPTER 376: SURPASSING OTHERWORLD’S LAWS, A TERRIFYING DISCOVERY!_2

Bai volunteered to step forward and tried for a while, but there was no reaction.

It seemed that it was likely locked from the inside.

However, this wouldn’t be a problem for him. Since brute force couldn’t break it, let’s use high technology!

Lin Yue took out the High-Precision Research Workstation and immediately touched it to the Alloy Door!

[You’ve acquired 5 blocks of Titanium Alloy!]

Oh wow, Titanium Alloy!

However, just as the large cover disappeared, a cloud of gray-brown gas suddenly emerged from inside!

Lin Yue was held by Bai as they jumped back a big step, dodging this "sudden attack."

In the next second, Lin Yue put on the Gas Mask, staring at the hole emitting the strange smoke.

In just a few seconds, it returned to normal, but Lin Yue still didn’t approach and instead looked towards Bai.

At times like this, Bai’s sense of smell was the most acute.

"Gawu." Bai shook his head at this moment, indicating to Lin Yue that there were no enemies inside the Alloy Door.

"What was that peculiar-looking gas just now? Could it be..." Lin Yue removed the Gas Mask, discovering a rotting, decaying smell permeating the air.

He was very familiar with this smell.

This was the smell of death.

However, it had been so long that while it was rotten, it wasn’t unbearable.

He looked at the hole, waited around ten more minutes, put on the Night Vision Device, and also took out the flashlight.

There was no danger in this shelter, and the stench just now also proved that the survivors inside were probably all decayed.

Yet, it was only 35 days that had passed.

Furthermore, within 35 days, having an Alloy Shelter... no, I myself only acquired the Alloy Shelter around twenty days in.

Could it be that someone had already obtained the Shelter Design Map before him, and even managed to make a door from titanium alloy, even successfully establishing this Alloy Shelter?

Moreover, this shelter might also be somehow connected to the mining and refining platform he had collected earlier?

From any angle, this person seemed to be one of the leading ones, but yet...

No, no.

The more Lin Yue thought about it, the more it seemed impossible.

"I still have to see it with my own eyes; otherwise, it’s all speculation right now."

Lin Yue took a deep breath and approached the edge of the hole, with the sunlight soon revealing to him what was beside the hole.

"A wooden ladder, that’s not surprising, it just doesn’t quite match with this Alloy Door." The two-meter-diameter cover made it easy for him to enter, but not for Bai.

Unless the little guy knew how to shrink his bones, he definitely couldn’t fit through.

Lin Yue stepped on the wooden ladder, and his first step smashed it into pieces!

"How old is this ladder?" Lin Yue raised an eyebrow, feeling that he was facing something that didn’t quite fit into this Otherworld.

Using an Iron Block from the Storage Space, he crafted an iron ladder, taking away the original broken one, and extending the iron ladder downwards until it touched the bottom.

"Bai, keep watch up here. Since there are no enemies inside, there’s no need to worry. If anything happens, I’ll come back up right away."

After speaking to Bai, Bai nodded, looking very calm.

Lin Yue felt more assured in his heart.

There shouldn’t be any danger in this underground shelter, which is why Bai could be so at ease.

He stepped onto the first rung of the ladder, holding onto it as he gradually moved downwards.

Soon, his feet landed on solid ground, and the flashlight in his hand also turned on!

Yet, a horrifying, terrifying skull suddenly appeared in the flashlight’s beam!

Lin Yue’s scalp tingled instantly, and as he took a step back, he raised the gun in his hand.

But he quickly realized it was just a skull on the skeleton, lying face-down on the ground, with a long spear stuck in its back. He then wiped away the cold sweat on his face with one hand.

He took out the Outstanding Iron Spear, and with the flashlight illuminating the sportswear-clad bones, he used the spear to poke at its clothes. However, the clothes broke like a fragile crust, and the long spear clattered to the ground!

Looking at the rust-covered spearhead, Lin Yue muttered: "No, no..."

The more Lin Yue felt about this place, the more it differed fundamentally from the world he knew!

"Could it be... no, it can’t be, how could it."

He squatted down, examining the bones, finding a layer of dust on them, and the color of those bones seemed like something that would take years to become.

But, it had only been 36 days since all of humanity crossed into this Otherworld!

What was going on with this skeleton?!

Lin Yue felt his heartbeat speed up wildly.

At the same time, he recalled something that seemed to have been forgotten long ago.

Those clay pots filled with human bones beside the passageways in the Underground Ruins...

Back then in the Underground Ruins, humans had just arrived in this Otherworld, but those bones appeared not to have emerged in a short period!

"No way..." Lin Yue wiped his face’s cold sweat again, as if something was already beyond the comprehension of reality.

He took a deep breath, stood up again, and shone the flashlight forward.

This was a narrow passage, still flanked by metal, but uncertain if it was alloy.

Reaching the end of the passage, Lin Yue saw another half-open door, tied the flashlight to his arm, and raised the gun, putting on ear protection.

Though Bai said there was no danger, he absolutely shouldn’t let his guard down!

Moreover, the skeleton just now had indeed given him a huge shock, feeling that even more incredible things could be inside this shelter!

Lin Yue, holding the gun, entered through the door and soon discovered the second, third, and fourth skeletons.

They lay or were draped over various strange poses between the room’s tables, chairs, and sofas, with two even shattered all over the place.

The commonality was that a long spear was stuck near them or on them, with rusty spearheads, though grasping similar weapons like machetes near their hand bones.

Did something once happen here?

Lin Yue shone the flashlight around, discovering that inside the shelter was square-shaped, covering roughly two hundred square meters, with many tables, chairs, and sofas arranged, seemingly a resting place. However, Lin Yue also noticed that there were quite a few cylindrical water storage tanks piled up in the corner, with numbers like "1, 2, 3" written in paint on them.

"This shelter seems different from mine and everyone else’s shelters..." Lin Yue said with a sigh as he searched around.

Soon, in a corner of the room, he found a metal staircase going down.

Going down the metal stairs, Lin Yue quickly entered a space similar to the one above.

Here were many metal shelves, but upon inspection, he found little left on them. Most of it was decayed machinery and tools, with no food found at all.

"Search first, then collect them." As they say, no opportunity should be missed, but that must follow a search first.

Continuing to turn around, he discovered two more corpses with their skulls separated from their skeletons, also with weapons in their grip, the cut marks on the skulls and necks very apparent, their deaths quite tragic.

This, like those above, were all killed, right.

By what or who, though.

Lin Yue checked their bone color and clothing decay, same as those above.

"Something major happened here... was it attacked, or could it be an internal affair?"

All these skeletons unequivocally faced the direction of the main door, with one even reaching as far as the ladder, making Lin Yue think it was likely an internal issue, or an enemy had infiltrated.

But, all that aside.

The appearance of these bones definitely couldn’t have developed in just a few dozen days!

Lin Yue looked towards another staircase leading down and continued to walk forward.

Upon reaching this layer, he found himself in a new space once more.

The space was more expansive, and...

Even more skeletons!