Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 990 - 273: Difficult Steps, Promising Future (Part 2)

At this moment, the warriors of the Spirit Breath Clan are busy inside, setting up the biological ore machines. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

These machines are tool-like life forms cultivated using the biotechnology of the Spirit Breath Clan.

Resembling giant worms, their surface is covered with hardened biological armor. Their heads lack eyes, featuring only a spiral-shaped mouthpart filled with thousands of tiny tentacles.

Utilizing a feeding-style mining method, the ore machine affixes its mouthpart to the rock wall, secretes a dissolving liquid, then stirs the rock with its tentacles to explore inward and devour the ore into its body.

Inside the ore machine, the ore undergoes preliminary purification, while the waste is expelled from the tail, forming crystallized fecal stone.

A small portion inside the ore machine is absorbed and digested, serving as nutrients for the machine's growth.

As the size of the machine increases, its mining efficiency also follows suit.

This is a growth-type mining tool with a normal lifespan of up to 35 years.

During the digging and mining period, each ore machine, upon being satiated, follows the guidance of the Spirit Breath Warriors back to the ore storage area to expel the Spirit Ore held within, which the Spirit Breath Warriors then transport back to the clan land for secondary refining.

However, the ore machine also has its drawbacks.

Being a life form, exposure to radiated Spirit Ore can damage the machine's life structure, causing irreversible mutations within its biological tissues.

In mild cases, it merely affects the metabolic system, causing the secreted dissolving liquid to become unstable, making it difficult to effectively decompose the ore.

The ore machine can still be used at this stage; however, as the radiated energy of various Spirit Ore accumulates, the machine will experience tentacle shrinkage, fall off, and distortions in its mouthpart's spiral structure, eventually losing mining capability altogether.

Preliminary testing in this mining area has reduced the ore machine's lifespan from 35 years to 1-2 years.

Recently, the Bone King stated that the life structure of the ore machine needs modification to curb its ability to grow by devouring Spirit Ore.

All will be changed to short-term use to generate the maximum value within a limited lifespan.

This is a type of adaptive technology update carried out by the Spirit Breath Clan to adapt to the Monster World.

There is also a consideration to cultivate a new type of ore machine with stronger radiation resistance in the future.

To continue exploring deeper into the cave.

Many segments of the rock wall can be seen enveloped in a layer of luminous haze.

Through decomposition analysis, it's known that the rock wall covered by the haze is regenerating Spirit Ore.

Although this mining area was once violently mined, in the Monster World, time is the greatest healer.

The resource regeneration process is swift, akin to mining points in a game that can refresh indefinitely, enabling new resources to be mined after an era passes.

Even the quality may be better than what was cultivated in the previous cycle.

This issue has been discussed by research party players on forums.

Research party players believe that Monster World is rapidly growing, each day with descending forces bringing land, elements, and energy at an ever-increasing rate.

This enhances the speed and quality of resource cultivation in Monster World, elevating every minute and second.

Monster World can even be viewed as a living world continuously absorbing, merging, and evolving.​​

All material and energy brought by descending forces are digested and reorganized, ultimately transforming into a part of Monster World.

Essentially, descending forces are the nurturers of Monster World; they fight and plunder within, ultimately heading toward extinction, with everything cycling within Monster World's system.

The explanation by a research party player on the forum left a deep impression on Little Mage.

In a straightforward manner, he introduced why Monster World can derive various resources.

He stated: if Monster World is viewed as a life form, then everything becomes easy to understand.

The behavior of various clans mining and extracting resources in Monster World is akin to humans trimming nails or hair.

Monster World's resources are similar to nails or hair, capable of continuous regeneration.

Once a nail is clipped, it will regrow; as hair falls off, new hair emerges.

But such regeneration is not a replication of the original pattern; it is the result of "Monster World" adjusting dynamically according to its own changes.

For example, people long deprived of protein will have dry, brittle hair and might even develop transverse grooves on their nails.

​Monster World's resource regeneration follows a similar logic.

When a mining area is fully exploited, the earth vein doesn't mechanically "refresh" the same ore.

Just like a human body healing a wound, Monster World regenerates better quality Spirit Ore based on the current area's energy concentration and its growth speed.

The intensity of resource generation directly correlates to the strength of the world.

Therefore, even if the entire Monster World is fully exploited, it isn't considered a significant issue as these are all metabolized materials.

What truly can impact Monster World is only the world rules; they are the framework of Monster World's life, akin to organs and bones within a human body… Rules constitute the underlying logic of Monster World.

Destruction to the rules is the only way Monster World could be severely affected.

This is one reason why Primordial Monsters cannot be truly killed by external forces.

Each Primordial Monster is a projection of the world rules; they can only be truly killed unless the framework of Monster World's rules is destroyed.

But this point is difficult to achieve even for the Black Tide, let alone small forces like the Spirit Breath Clan.

Engaging in violent mining in an area is akin to barely using a file to scrape nail powder in terms of strength against Monster World.

Upon completing the inspection of the mining area, Little Mage inquired of the Spirit Breath Warriors responsible here about the approximate quantity of Spirit Ore mined daily, its average quality, and the rate of output increase.