Pirated Immortals in the World of Spirit Weapons

Chapter 70 The Black Sphere Underground! A Super-Large Spiritual Artifact!

Zhu Que returned to Jinfeng Town.

Besides returning to the junkyard to replenish the remaining artifacts, he also wanted to study that mysterious, super-large magical artifact.

Although this is not something urgent, who knows when the analysis will be successful and completely change his fate.

His previous judgment about the super-large spiritual artifact was overturned.

The cave is not on a straight line, but it can still be analyzed to determine if the super-large magical artifact is a straight structure.

Zhu Que conducted a new round of experiments.

He took out his phone, first drew a dot at the cave, and then extended more than a dozen lines in a fan shape toward Jinfeng Town.

After selecting some buildings, he began the analysis test.

When he reached the sixth building, the familiar analysis progress indicator appeared in front of him.

"Finally found it."

Zhu Que immediately made a mark on the map.

Then.

He continued testing and verifying the building in all directions, using it as the center.

As buildings were marked one by one, those scattered dots gradually formed a second straight line on the map.

When two straight lines intersect, they form an "L" shape.

"If that magical artifact is L-shaped, what kind of magical artifact is it?"

Zhu Que was incredibly curious.

At first, he thought it was a giant weapon buried underground, like a longsword or a spear.

In many stories, there are similar massive weapons that can pierce through mountains and reach the sky.

But now it seems that this possibility has decreased considerably.

Zhu Que stood by the roadside, lost in thought.

Sudden--

"Thump!"

A deep, muffled thud came from ahead, and even the ground trembled slightly.

Zhu Que looked up and saw that a construction site he had just marked was now churning up dust.

He immediately moved closer out of curiosity.

But before they even got close, a cacophony of exclamations erupted—

"Holy crap! What did we just dig up? It's huge?!"

"Is that a magical artifact?"

"Who buried this huge thing underground?"

"Could it be some kind of ancient treasure?"

"Did they find a coffin?"

"..."

Zhu Que walked through the crowd of onlookers and looked inside the construction site.

In the construction area, a deep pit was exposed in front of everyone.

In the center of that deep pit, there was a completely black object buried in the soil.

Upon closer inspection, the thing didn't look like a magical artifact at all.

It appears to be a sphere, but it is not perfectly round; its surface is angular and undulating, covered with densely packed patterns.

"What is it? Could it be...?"

Zhu Que's gaze sharpened slightly.

He almost immediately thought of a super-large magical artifact.

In fact, he had another conjecture regarding the super-large magical artifact—

The super-large magical artifact is not a single unit.

It may consist of many separate components, connected to each other through some remote mechanism.

If this conjecture is correct, could the black sphere that was dug out be one of the components?

"Hey! Stop looking! Stop looking! Let's go, let's go!"

Just then, several burly men in black came out and began to drive away the crowd of onlookers.

Zhu Que was also driven back.

He observed for a moment and noticed that each of the men in black had a simple lotus flower embroidered on their chest—

That's the symbol of the Black Lotus Guild.

Zhu Que looked up and glanced at the project sign. This construction project was also undertaken by the Black Lotus Guild's construction company.

Before leaving.

He looked back again.

It was discovered that members of the Black Lotus Guild had already covered the black sphere with thick plastic sheeting.

"If, beneath every resolvable node, lies a black sphere..."

Zhu Que thought to himself, "Couldn't I dig this thing out from under my cave too?"

He put the matter aside for the time being.

Then.

He contacted Xiao Cai and handed her the replica of the artifact-controlling gauntlets.

"Sister Cai, could you investigate something for me?"

"What is it?"

"Investigate when the owner of that cave warehouse bought it."

Zhu Que was very curious about that cave.

An abandoned biological laboratory, two skeletons turned to skeletal remains, twelve half-human, half-beast ghosts...

Everything suggests that a buried story must have happened there more than a decade ago.

"Okay, I'll investigate for you."

Xiao Cai readily agreed, took the artifact control gauntlet, and left.

Night was falling.

Zhu Que returned to the junkyard, filled it with over fifty sludge-collecting rings, and then quietly left.

On his way back to the cave, he deliberately took a detour, passing near the construction site.

He had just arrived there.

Then I saw a heavy truck drive out of the construction site.

On the truck bed, a huge sphere was fixed in place.

The sphere was wrapped in layers of plastic sheeting, leaving only a blurry outline, but Zhu Que recognized it at a glance—

This is the black ball they dug out!

Zhu Que waited outside for a moment.

After the truck drove away, the Black Lotus Guild members who had cordoned off the scene quickly withdrew as well.

Zhu Que confirmed that no one was around and quietly approached.

He crouched down outside the construction site and reached out to touch the ground.

"No parsing prompts..."

Zhu Que's heart stirred.

Just recently, when he touched the same spot, there was clearly a progress indicator.

However, after the black ball was moved away, the analysis progress indicator also disappeared.

"At this point, no further deductions are needed; that colossal magical artifact is indeed a distributed structure!"

Zhu Que thought to himself.

Then.

Zhu Que went straight back to the cave.

As soon as he approached the cave entrance, he heard a childish but fierce voice coming from inside the cave—

"This is private property! You are not allowed to enter!"

"Idiot! Your shouting lacks any power! Watch me—"

"Private property! No entry!"

"Yes, yes, no entry!"

"..."

Zhu Que chuckled and opened the cave door, then went inside.

"it's me."

"Hey! Big brother's back!"

Twelve little ghosts suddenly floated over and surrounded him, all staring at him expectantly.

Zhu Que was taken aback, then realized what was happening—

They are hungry.

"Don't rush, I'll give you the bewitching demonic sound in a bit."

"Yay! Yay! I can eat something delicious now!"

The little ghosts cheered with joy.

Zhu Que smiled.

Strangely enough, even though they were a group of ghosts, they somehow gave this gloomy cave a bit more "human touch".

[Current parsing progress: 0.04712%...]

Zhu Que walked to the center of the cave, squatted down and placed his hand on the ground, where the familiar analysis progress indicator appeared.

Looking at the progress of the analysis, he pondered:

"Now that I know this thing exists, I need to find a way to dig out the black ball from the bottom of the cave."

"Don't let the Black Lotus Guild figure it out first..."