Ripples appeared on the opaque membrane as the car drove through it.
"Master, someone's here." As soon as the front of the car passed through the membrane, Xiao A warned, and Shen Muyu immediately put his finger on the laser weapon activation button.
As the control tower section also passed through the membrane, Shen Muyu finally saw what was ahead.
Before him was a huge circular cave, and several people who had heard the commotion were walking toward Shen Muyu.
The people who came over were dressed in very primitive clothing. They had nothing on their upper bodies, and their lower bodies were covered with something like a skirt made of yellow dry grass. They carried simple weapons made of wood and stones.
Shen Muyu glanced at them a few times before turning her gaze to the stone walls surrounding the cave.
Scattered around the stone wall were people hitting things with stones. Most importantly, they didn't even have any clothes on. However, the dust covering their bodies wasn't noticeable unless you looked closely.
They mechanically repeated the pounding motions as if they hadn't heard the commotion.
However, Shen Muyu saw someone secretly turn around and glance at her, but the next second she was kicked by the person behind her who was wearing a grass skirt and holding a simple weapon.
"Is this due to class difference? Or are they prisoners?" Shen Muyu wondered, looking at the situation before him.
At this moment, the group of people who had gathered around had already reached the car.
"Sharp, sharp…kara kara…guji guji…" The people standing in front of the car started babbling in some words that Shen Muyu couldn't understand.
"Little A, can you understand what they're saying?" Shen Muyu asked, her lips twitching slightly.
"Sorry, Master, Little A doesn't understand." At this moment, several question marks also appeared above the pixelated figure of Little A on the screen. What are they saying?
Shen Muyu really didn't know what kind of feedback to give them, so she simply ignored them.
But as soon as they stopped talking, they suddenly started hitting and banging on the vehicle with makeshift weapons.
"Xiao A, drive the car over there." The car doors are usually locked, so Shen Muyu wasn't worried about them opening them, but accepting attacks pointlessly wasn't her style.
As soon as the car drove away, those people seemed even angrier, turning around and shouting at the others.
Upon hearing their words, the other grass-skirted people who hadn't come over began to raise their makeshift weapons in response. Then, the numb laborers all ran towards Shen Muyu's car, carrying stones.
"Don't look at what you shouldn't look at," Shen Muyu muttered to himself as he selected a side and began to aim.
After the stones came flying at him, Shen Muyu immediately pulled the trigger.
A laser beam shot out, and people along the way instantly had their wounds vaporized and collapsed to the ground, unable to get up.
Those nearby were frightened and tried to run away, but the grass-skirted people surrounding them started stabbing them with makeshift weapons, so they had no choice but to run back.
The person who lost the stone started banging on the car. Shen Muyu took a deep breath and then made Xiao A crash into it.
Since they couldn't communicate due to the language barrier, Shen Muyu decided to go through the opaque membrane to see what was behind it, knowing he couldn't expect to find anything there.
"Master, we can't get through." With a jolt, Shen Muyu leaned back and almost fell off the ladder.
The car crashed into the plastic sheeting and was unable to pass.
Shen Muyu looked around several times but found no other exits, and by then the people had already surrounded him.
"Damn it." Shen Muyu couldn't help but swear. Did they really have to get rid of all these people?
"Give it a try." Shen Muyu released the trigger, clenched his fist, wiped the sweat off his hands, and then pulled the trigger again.
This laser weapon is very powerful, but its shortcomings are also obvious: it cannot be fired continuously because it requires energy storage.
Shen Muyu fired a shot every few tens of seconds. After firing a few shots, the people who had surrounded him were obviously terrified and began to flee in all directions.
At this point, the laser weapon was clearly no longer effective, so Shen Muyu switched back to the rifle and began firing at the grass-skirted people who were still yelling.
After the last grass skirt person fell, a cave entrance suddenly appeared out of thin air on the other side of the cave, also covered by an opaque membrane.
"Little A, drive over there," Shen Muyu said, looking at the people around him who were burying their heads in the stone walls, trying to deceive themselves.
"Yes, Master." A moment later, the car squeezed through the newly appeared hole.
"Is this back to where it was before?" Shen Muyu asked in shock, looking at the scene that was exactly the same as when she first came in.
"Master, it seems that's indeed the case." Little A replied after analyzing the situation. The layout and even the protrusions of the stones here are the same as before.
"Let's keep going." Shen Muyu said after returning to the driver's seat, still wondering what kind of situation this dungeon was.
The route was similar to before, but Shen Muyu noticed that there were more small caves on both sides.
As they walked, the opaque membrane reappeared, and Shen Muyu returned to the control tower once again.
"This cave seems to have gotten bigger? And the weapons and tools have also improved." Shen Muyu analyzed carefully as he looked at the cave in front of him.
The people who gathered around this time wore grass skirts and also had something woven from withered grass that looked like a raincoat.
What they were holding was no longer the previous block of stone, but a black, reflective sheet-like object.
Of course, what remains unchanged is that incomprehensible, garbled language.
The steps were slightly different, but the result was still correct. This time, Shen Muyu directly shot the leading grass skirt people, while the rest of the "tool people" trembled and squatted by the wall, not daring to move.
The hole in the opaque membrane reappeared, and Xiao A drove through it.
This process was repeated time and again, resulting in more and more small caves on the rock wall, and the caves behind the opaque membrane becoming larger and larger.
The miners inside are becoming more and more "dignified," at least they are now wearing clothes made of some unknown material and their tools have changed to iron pickaxes.
The grass skirt people can no longer be called that, after all, they have upgraded their weapons and put on armor.
The hammer in the foreman's hand had been replaced by a leather whip, and the original long, rambling opening remarks had become much simpler. Unfortunately, Shen Muyu still couldn't understand them. Only a few individual characters seemed somewhat familiar, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what they meant.