91: Chapter 91 The Return of Industrial Blood

On the tip of the shovel, a dark brown, viscous liquid stretched into a long strand.

It dripped onto the permafrost, instantly covering it with a layer of dazzling, jet-black oil film.

Zhao Mengmeng twitched her nose.

Her expression changed abruptly.

"Brother Lin, this smell isn't right!"

Lin Ye raised the military shovel.

A pungent, heavy chemical odor rushed straight to his brain.

Zhao Mengmeng blurted out: "Holy crap, this is crude oil!"

Lin Ye squatted at the bottom of the pit, gently pushing aside the edge of the black soil with the tip of the shovel.

More black liquid squeezed out from the cracks, slowly spreading in all directions; it still hadn't solidified even after coating the crushed ice.

To maintain such astonishing fluidity in this extreme cold weather.

The quality is absolutely top-notch!

Zhao Mengmeng stomped her feet in excitement, nearly slipping from the edge of the pit.

"Brother Lin, did we dig into an oil field?"

"Hush."

Lin Ye raised his hand, his left eye flashing open instantly.

In his vision, the black water at the bottom of the pit shed its original color.

Deep underground, a vast expanse of blinding green light covered the entire depression!

Beneath the green, the gray spots representing pollution were minimal.

This was a high-purity oil reservoir of terrifying scale!

It was even more exaggerated than the range he had estimated from a distance yesterday!

After just one look, his temples throbbed violently.

Lin Ye closed his eyes, cutting off the visual connection.

Zhao Mengmeng rubbed her hands anxiously: "How is it? Can it be used?"

Lin Ye spat out two words: "It can be used."

Zhao Mengmeng punched her fist: "We're rich! We're really rich this time!"

Great Xia Live Stream.

[Crude oil! It's really crude oil!]

[The strategic resource Great Xia is currently lacking the most!]

[Brother Eye dug out an oil field with a military shovel; who would believe this if it were said out loud!]

[The French buddy sent this shovel just in time; I apply to erect a monument for him!]

[Don't be happy too soon! How are you going to bring this thing back?]

As this last bullet comment drifted by, the deafening carnival in the livestream came to an abrupt halt.

All the viewers simultaneously realized a fatal dead end.

The scanning frame of the upload terminal only had an initial volume of one cubic meter!

The oil vein was hidden underground, distributed in continuous layers; it was impossible to cut or manage.

The Challenger had no buckets, no pumps, and certainly no large-scale drilling equipment in his hands!

Even if there was an entire sea of oil in front of Lin Ye, he could only use that broken aluminum box to bring back a mouthful!

Zhao Mengmeng had obviously realized this too.

The ecstasy on her face collapsed instantly.

"Wait, that's not right!"

She stared fixedly at the pool of black oil at the bottom of the pit, her voice trembling.

"Brother Lin, we can only upload one cubic meter per day, and it has to be a complete, independent item!"

"This stuff is spread out in a pool; we can't dig it, we can't pack it, and we can't cut it away!"

"We can't just scrape it off along with the ground and soil, right?"

At the same time.

Bullet comments with prefixes from various countries flooded into the Great Xia Live Stream.

[USA: Hahahaha! You guys must be dying of anxiety! You found it but can't take it away; isn't that even more painful than not finding it at all?]

[Japan: The expressions of the Great Xia people are truly wonderful; I suggest you lie on the ground and lick a few mouthfuls to taste it.]

[South Korea: The oil field belongs to the Void Sea, not to Great Xia, simida.]

[Kangaroo Country: Lin Ye could consider drinking a full belly's worth and then uploading himself.]

[John Bull: The mechanism rules are the absolute iron law; no matter how smart the Great Xia people are, they can't get past the one-cubic-meter hurdle.]

[France: This shovel is our Lucas's! France must have half of this oil field!]

...

The mockery from the overseas internet was overwhelming.

Zhao Mengmeng at the edge of the pit was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

"Brother Lin, why don't we use the aluminum box to pack a canister of samples and send it back first?"

"We can't just leave empty-handed!"

Lin Ye gripped the shovel handle with his right hand and wiped the black mud off with his thumb.

"No packing."

"What?"

"With such a large oil vein, only uploading one canister is too wasteful."

Zhao Mengmeng almost jumped up.

Being able to squeeze a bit of meat from the teeth of the supreme will was already a miracle from the ancestors; who cares about being wasteful now!

Lin Ye ignored the bullet comments and Zhao Mengmeng's anxiety.

He pulled up the terminal on his left wrist.

A translucent, pale blue light screen popped up in front of his right eye.

[Today's upload permission: Available]

[Resource Anchoring Plugin: (Consumable, 1 time)]

[Core function: After anchoring a continuous, homogenized resource target, you can ignore the physical volume limit of the scanning frame and perform an overall upload!]

The corners of Lin Ye's mouth slowly curled up.

"Who said I can't take it away?"

Zhao Mengmeng looked up sharply: "You have a way?"

"Your Brother Lin specializes in curing all kinds of impossibilities."

Lin Ye locked his gaze on the light screen.

[Load the Resource Anchoring Plugin?]

[After loading, you must complete the target anchoring within 60 seconds.]

Lin Ye tapped his fingertip into the void.

[Confirm Loading]

The terminal on his left wrist burst into a slight hum.

A translucent blue grid, centered on Lin Ye, crashed down onto the permafrost layer beneath his feet!

The blue light penetrated the black soil, reaching straight to the underground oil vein.

[Target identifying...]

[Resource type: High-quality light crude oil]

[Structure determination: Continuous, homogenized resource]

[Anchoring range confirming...]

[Anchoring successful]

[Consume the Resource Anchoring Plugin to upload this continuous resource?]

Lin Ye pressed down heavily.

[Confirm Upload]

Boom!

A muffled, extremely deep roar came from the depths of the depression.

The pool of overflowing black oil at the bottom of the pit suddenly sank, dragging the surrounding mud and sand into a miniature vortex, disappearing without a trace!

The massive blue light grid contracted rapidly underground.

The underground oil vein, stretching for hundreds of meters, was forcibly extracted by high-dimensional power!

The permafrost cracked, and the rock layers trembled.

The blinding blue light flashed wildly along the cracks on the surface of the snow.

The moment the light extinguished.

The entire oil vein was emptied.

[Resource upload successful]

[Great Xia Challenger: Lin Ye, successfully uploaded supplies!]

The grand broadcast of the Endgame Simulation exploded over every country on Blue Star.

[Large-scale resource: Low-sulfur light crude oil reservoir]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Triggered a 9,000x critical hit!]

[Due to the first appearance of a large-scale resource, the critical hit multiplier has increased...]

[Triggered a 90,000x critical hit!]

[This resource has been deployed to the depleted oil fields within Great Xia.]

[The overflowing part will form new oil-bearing layers near the original oil fields.]

Blue Star, Northwest old oil region of Great Xia.

Deep inside an abandoned oil well that had been dry for seven full years, the pressure monitor's data went off the charts!

The duty officer had just stood up holding his instant noodles when the red alarm light blinded him.

"Pressure is rising!"

"Damn it! The underground oil pressure is skyrocketing!"

The sealed wellhead erupted with a shrill roar.

The jet-black, pure crude oil broke through the pipeline valves, turning into a black fountain tens of meters high that pierced the night sky!

Not just here.

Northeast old oil fields, offshore drilling platforms... dozens of depleted giant oil regions across Great Xia were reviving simultaneously!

The command hall of the Disaster Prevention Administration was completely out of control.

The head of the Energy Group tore off his headset, slammed the table, and his voice was torn.

"It's not just one well! It's an entire cluster of oil fields that have come back to life!"

"The reserves are ten times larger than before they were depleted!"

Director Wei Tiejun pressed his hands firmly on the table, veins bulging on the back of his hands, his eyes red.

"This kid Lin Ye..."

"Really reconnected the blood vessels of Great Xia!"

The bullet comments in the livestream were so numerous that the server started to lag.

[90,000x!!!]

[The oil fields are alive! Our industrial blood has returned!]

[Kneeling and begging the foreign masters to continue mocking! Say something!]

[Where is the USA? Where is Japan? You were quite capable of barking just now!]

The overseas trolls who were just celebrating were collectively silent at this moment.

What followed was an even more tragic breakdown.

[USA: Cheating! This is definitely using a system loophole!]

[Japan: This is a cheat! Great Xia must spit out the resources for the whole Blue Star to share!]

[John Bull: Ignoring volume rules? This completely violates the fairness of the Endgame Simulation!]

[Russia: Hilarious, crying cheat when you're not as good as others; where is the pride you had when you were mocking just now?]

The frenzy brought by the jumping numbers was still continuing.

In the Void Sea, Lin Ye at the bottom of the pit did not smile.

Click.

An extremely crisp, strange noise came from right under his boot soles.

Click, click, click!

Cracks spread wildly along the surface of the permafrost!

The massive underground oil reservoir was extracted, and the originally solid soil layer lost its support!

The snowfield for a hundred meters around suddenly collapsed downward!

Zhao Mengmeng lost her balance at the edge of the pit and couldn't help but shout:

"Brother Lin! The ground is collapsing!"