Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi
Chapter 543 - 367: The Goal—Dig Through Earth! (Part 2)
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Actually, even without the Human Body Glow to illuminate the surrounding area, he could still detect the rocks through his other four senses. However, the Human Body Glow wasn’t something he actively emitted. Strictly speaking, the state without the Human Body Glow was his intentionally suppressed state. At this stage of life and energy density, if he didn’t control it slightly, his body would release a blinding Human Body Glow. Wang Ye needed to deliberately restrain his energy to reduce the brightness of the glow.
And now, in this mine, with no one else around and needing light, Wang Ye simply lifted the suppression.
Facing the granite layer, Wang Ye pondered for a moment before suddenly thrusting his arm forward, digging at the weakest point in the granite with extreme speed. Within a brief moment, he had already figured out the best excavation path for several hundred meters ahead. Next, all he needed to do was to keep his head down and dig along this path.
The Excavation Skill doesn’t just enhance the actions and techniques of excavation but also comprehension of rocks and knowledge of environments as deep as two thousand meters. Having acquired this massive amount of knowledge, Wang Ye is now thoroughly familiar with the geological layers at every depth. He knows where it’s easiest to dig, where he won’t hit dangerous magma, and can determine the weakest point of a rock face using his coordination of the Five Senses like sight, hearing, smell.
This detailed analytical ability, combined with his reaction speed, constitutes his current underground travel speed of over ten meters per second—faster than the maximum sprinting speed of most short-distance runners on land.
Wang Ye’s muscles contracted; his right hand pierced the rock wall like a knife through tofu, sparking Mars as fingertips rubbed against the rock, resulting in countless fragments exploding outwards. Meanwhile, his left arm also rapidly thrust forward, with both hands digging at the speed of more than ten times per second, his form penetrating at speeds exceeding ten meters per second, causing explosive sounds from the pressure bursting through the air.
Boom!!!
His movements were almost like the drill head of the drill, operating at a hundred times the frequency. Ordinary people could barely discern his movements, seeing only a gray silhouette constantly spinning underground, penetrating deeper.
The granite capable of enduring 300MPa pressure seemed as fragile as tofu under Wang Ye’s hands, meaning the pressure released by his arm exceeded this value. The terrifying force from every inch of his muscles was concentrated at a one-centimeter point by his blunt nails, instantly generating pressure to pulverize any rock. Of course, forces reciprocate, so the deformation speed of his nails was very fast, softening and flattening in the blink of an eye.
After noticing the nail deformation, Wang Ye skillfully put them into his mouth, chewed, and swallowed them, converting them back into pure chromium elements. Within about half a second, these chromium elements were re-fused by his body into blunt nails appearing at the ends of his fingers.
Everything seemed extremely smooth and fluid.
After the nail generation, his forearm continued to sweep horizontally through the cave,
with countless rocks being crushed into debris by the shear force released from his forearm,
and these debris happened to fill the passage behind him, preventing collapses.
In the process, his Excavation Skill smoothly leveled up to lv5, acquiring a new Trait: 10% increase in underground movement speed. With this new Trait, Wang Ye’s excavation speed took another step forward, increasing from ten meters per second to twenty meters per second.
Then four hours later, the Excavation Skill upgraded again, becoming the Extraordinary Skill [Earth Escape]. Thus, his excavation actions completely transformed from near mole-like exterior digging movements into those resembling the rotating drilling method of geological drill heads, greatly enhancing his excavation speed and movement efficiency while reducing nail wear and consumption because this rotating excavation method was more scientific, shortening the nail’s stroke.
Gradually.
One night passed.
The next day, many officers heard about this matter and came here.
They saw this bottomless, extremely deep pit.
Someone tried various methods to measure the depth of this pit but couldn’t obtain a result.
This means the depth of this pit might have far exceeded several thousand or even tens of thousands of meters.
So much so that the methods they had for measuring depth were useless here.
One day earlier, this was complete flat ground before Wang Ye arrived here.
Yet one day passed, and how has such a deep pit appeared here?
While everyone was surprised.
Wang Ye climbed up from the underground, and the long-term high-intensity exercise and excavation had greatly consumed his energy, causing a trace of fatigue to be visible on his face.
Ning Junyi, who was most acquainted with Wang Ye, began to ask, "How many meters did you dig?"
Wang Ye pondered for a moment and then replied, "It’s probably 14681 meters now."
"Fourteen thousand meters?!" Ning Junyi didn’t know how Wang Ye said such a precise number, but this numerical level was enough to shock him.
The surrounding officers and soldiers were also astonished. In just one day, Wang Ye had dug over ten thousand meters deep. Note that this depth is unattainable even for the Kola Superdeep Borehole—Wang Ye managed to reach it with bare hands?
Is it just energy research, why did he need to dig, and to such depths? Did he need some kind of mineral from underground? Or is he exploring Earth’s core?
But they dared not ask more, as Wang Ye’s current wisdom and strength have far surpassed all of them. Moreover, the orders they received were to unconditionally support him in training and research as long as Wang Ye wasn’t doing anything illegal.
After observing the pit a bit more, they gradually left the area.
At the same time, this incident gradually spread among the domestic high-level circles.
In just half a day, Wang Ye’s feat of being able to dig tens of thousands of meters deep into the earth was regarded as a strategic resource because the deepest exploration currently achievable by humans is only twelve thousand meters. Yet Wang Ye easily surpassed this limit by bare-handed excavation, continuing deeper.
No one knows what rare metals or undiscovered Dark Matter might be hidden deep underground,
This capability, if applied to research, would undoubtedly accelerate China’s rapid development in geology and other sciences. Therefore, everyone unanimously began keeping this secret for Wang Ye.
However, some worried if Wang Ye’s actions would trigger geological activities like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, etc., or disturb the Earth’s core, affecting the geomagnetic field, potentially leading to mass suicides of organisms, and submarines or satellites reliant on geomagnetism losing functionality.
Nevertheless, most still trusted Wang Ye because given his intellect and responsiveness shown so far, he doesn’t seem like the kind of idiot who’d engage in self-destructive behavior. So after an afternoon of discussion, the high-level decision was to allow Wang Ye’s actions.
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Meanwhile,
in that now historically deepest pit,
Wang Ye continues digging deeper,
At this moment, he’s reached a depth of fifty thousand meters,
The pressure here has escalated to an alarming 1GPa,
Wang Ye halted his movements, feeling the unceasing pressure on him from outside, his eyes narrowing slightly.
"This should be enough."
He sat down cross-legged, mobilizing the Carbon Atom within him, beginning to compress them using the external pressure. The external 1GPa pressure, combined with his Primordial Qi, steadily increases the pressure borne by the Carbon Atom.
Buzz...
With the release of energy, the fog surrounding him grew denser,
Finally, at one point, the Carbon Atom within him formed some kind of structure, transforming into translucent crystals...