Chapter 695: Killing the Spirit, Ship Wreckage, Spherical Instrument

The spirit confinement force field was a type of force field specifically designed for spirits, as recorded in that【Non-Physical Life Research Institute Notes】.

By using a force field generator, one could achieve the effect of confining spirits.

Previously, Masier had been the one researching these. The force field generator had just been completed.

This time, Yu Yuan had specifically brought it along.

Upon hearing this, Mona immediately pulled out the force field generator. It was an instrument similar to a lantern.

As the force field activated, a special field enveloped the group.

Quis manipulated the fully automatic mining cart to reach the mine wall, and the rotating cutter disc began to spin.

Rocks tumbled to the ground.

But Mona's expression shifted.

"It's coming!"

A red, shadowy figure emerged from that section of the mine wall, its wooden face etched with confusion.

It was a resentful spirit in the likeness of a miner, instinctively looking around for its target.

Soon, its gaze landed on Yu Yuan and the others.

The moment the resentful spirit looked their way, the spirit confinement force field took effect, and the spirit was immediately frozen in place.

"Leader, it's contained!" Quis revealed a delighted expression, a porcelain bottle appearing in his hand.

-- The Spirit Containment Bottle.

This was what Yu Yuan had given Quis back then, to collect spirits.

As it turned out, he had been overthinking it. With the patrol team's strength, there was no way they could control a resentful spirit.

They could only manage to kill them.

The Spirit Containment Bottle had been sitting idle ever since.

Finally, it had a use.

Quis stepped forward, aiming the Spirit Containment Bottle at the resentful spirit. A suction force emerged.

The resentful spirit transformed into a streak of light and was sucked into the bottle.

But at that very moment, Mona's face drastically changed.

"Quis, get back!"

Quis reacted extremely quickly. His left foot stomped hard against the ground, and his body leaned backward.

He reacted fast, but the enemy reacted even faster.

A grayish-white hand emerged from the ground, grabbing Quis's ankle in an iron grip.

Quis's expression visibly stiffened.

His eyes became numb and vacant.

But just in the nick of time, at the critical moment, the lava whip, wreathed in blazing flames, lashed out at that arm.

Although spirits have no physical body, they are still a type of energy entity.

And lava flames, after all, possess the characteristics of psychic ability, also being a type of energy entity.

The strike of the lava whip directly carved a black, scorched mark onto that arm.

The hand loosened its grip.

Yu Yuan had already grabbed Quis's body and pulled him back.

"Hm? Something's wrong!"

Yu Yuan looked at Quis. His skin was ice-cold to the touch, and his skin color had already turned grayish-white, with only his head barely retaining a hint of flesh tone.

Hiss--

Yu Yuan drew in a sharp breath of cold air.

Quis was a Bronze-tier lifeform, after all!

He had only been grabbed by that hand for less than a second, and he had already become like this.

This resentful spirit was undoubtedly Silver-tier in strength.

"Careful, this is that Silver-tier resentful spirit. It's very strong!"

Knight had already completed a half-transformation state. The underground space wasn't enough for him to fully transform.

He could only spread the power of lava flames throughout his body.

"Knight, hold it off. This is a Silver-tier spirit. It should be very valuable for research."

Yu Yuan quickly marked a teleport point here, then activated the motor lodge teleport to return to Dead Mine Town.

Mie Mie detached from the equipment state.

"Mie Mie~~"

As the Hoofprint Spring and Dawn's Call abilities were unleashed.

The negative energy on Quis was purified clean. The grayish-white skin gradually receded, and the icy chill on his body slowly dissipated.

"Take care of Quis."

Yu Yuan handed Quis over to the soldiers for care, then teleported back to the Dead Mine.

By this time, Knight was already locked in combat with a spirit whose body was nearly solid.

The space around the spirit was distorted, causing Knight's every attack to be deflected to a certain degree.

Yu Yuan watched this ability with surprise.

Knight was clearly also invigorated by the distorted force field, looking as if the fight was intensifying.

But the underground mine couldn't possibly support such a fierce battle between them.

At this point, forget about capturing this rare spirit. Even relying solely on Knight, they couldn't completely take it down.

"Since we can't take it down, then we'll have to purify it."

Yu Yuan immediately re-equipped with Mie Mie.

"Mie Mie, that spirit!"

"Mie Mie~"

Mie Mie raised both front hooves, and a dazzling light rose from its golden ram horns.

【Dawnbreak】illuminated the Dead Mine.

"Knight, fall back now!"

Knight had already sensed it the moment Mie Mie appeared. As a demon creature, he was extremely sensitive to beings like Mie Mie that had a restraining effect on him.

Hearing Yu Yuan's words, he didn't hesitate for a moment. He abandoned the attack he was about to land and directly retreated.

And just as he pulled back.

A blinding white light descended, enveloping that Silver-tier spirit.

The light of dawn shone upon the Silver-tier spirit.

The effect of attribute restraint immediately manifested.

Phantasmal flames appeared on the spirit's body, continuously burning it. It opened its mouth wide, letting out agonized wails.

Even with Silver-tier strength, facing Mie Mie's【Dawnbreak】attack was futile.

Its body was gradually reduced to ashes under the scorching flames of dawn.

Yu Yuan looked at the grayish-white powder scattered on the ground.

"That thing must have been what killed those two patrol squads!"

Mona stepped forward to collect the grayish-white powder from the ground, also feeling a lingering sense of fear.

"This spirit was too terrifying. Quis is, after all, Bronze-tier in strength, and just by being touched by it once, he nearly died."

"Perhaps... this spirit's method of attack is different!"

"Different?"

"That's right. It should be able to ignore a creature's physical defenses and directly attack the soul. After all, as long as the soul dies, no matter how powerful the physical body is, it's nothing more than an empty shell."

Yu Yuan analyzed.

His gaze fell back on that mine wall.

"Mona, can you still sense the energy behind this wall?"

Mona tucked the small bottle containing the grayish-white powder into her pocket and looked at the mine wall.

"Yes, I can. And the moment the Silver-tier spirit died, I sensed a fluctuation in the energy behind the wall."

"Oh~ is that so!"

Rumble rumble rumble--

The sound of the fully automatic mine cart digging into the mine wall rang out once more.

When the tunnel had been excavated about fifteen meters, the fully automatic mine cart came to a stop.

【Underground cavern discovered. Underground cavern discovered. Please confirm the environment is safe!】

The fully automatic mine cart issued a warning message and backed away.

A hole appeared in the ground.

Knight stepped forward to check the situation. His expression shifted slightly, and he turned his head to look at Yu Yuan.

"Leader, perhaps you should come take a look."

Even his voice was trembling slightly.

Yu Yuan immediately stepped forward, looked into the hole, and saw a scene he had never imagined.

"This is...?"

A broken ship wreckage appeared before his eyes. The ship had almost completely collapsed, leaving only a spherical instrument still emitting a faint glow.

And around the sphere stood over a dozen translucent humanoid figures. They stood motionless around the instrument, bathed in the weak red light it cast. Thin red threads connected them to the spherical instrument.

Mona also saw the instrument.

"Leader, the energy is emanating from this instrument. There's no mistake!"