The Game of Global Mining-Chapter 407 - 323: Fafnir Has Long Since Awakened

After mastering this ground-penetrating radar, the fine cracks within the walls are also plainly visible.

So, despite tunneling through walls, the speed didn’t actually slow down much, and Chun quickly tunneled into Fafnir’s bedroom.

There wasn’t a tightly guarded barrier nor rooms full of books, just various clothes in glass display cases—the naval uniforms, nurse uniforms, and various celebrity outfits seen during the public test that Chun had previously encountered.

There were also various plush dolls, with Fafnir cuddling a large plush doll sleeping soundly.

Chun felt a bit nervous observing; her style was indeed entirely different from Eve’s.

Then came the dilemma: how to contact her?

Suddenly, Chun noticed a pile of books on the doll stand.

Chun’s heart stirred, and he extended to examine them: "Romeo and Juliet," "King of Babylon and his Princess Consorts," "Paradise Eden," "Rosetta Demon Queen," "The Tragedy of the Valkyrie Brunnhilde," "Three Fates," "The Mermaid," "One Thousand and One Nights"...

Chun was astounded, his brow twitching uncontrollably: Is this Fafnir’s taste? She also has "Romeo and Juliet"? Where are her magic books? Did she leave them in the Magic Tower or give them to Sherry?

The last book in the pile was a "Princess Fairy Tales" with a jeweled and gold embossed cover, finely embellished but very old!

This was among the five books published by the Ugly Emperor as an investment? The pages inside showed more wear than the previous ones, indicating she read it often.

Chun thought of a way to contact: stealthily protruding this book so that when she awakes she’ll either believe in "the story’s spirit" or be startled. Though startling her isn’t good, any other contact method would frighten her.

Let’s gamble she’s already awakened! Or on the verge of awakening.

After protruding the book, Chun retreated into the wall cracks, waiting quietly for her to awaken.

Meanwhile, the main room kept reading books.

Time passed quickly, with Little Bro’s voice arriving from outside the booth: "Brother Chun, dinner’s here!"

"On my way, on my way!"

Feels like, when there’s nothing much, time flies so quickly...

...

Now it’s Western Hemisphere time, 6 AM.

Even Sariel had stayed up two consecutive nights and hadn’t slept so soundly since last night. After all, having locked up the most bothersome fly, even dreams feel more stable.

The chat group among the Ten Lords began with early morning greetings: "Seems like everyone slept well last night."

Raphael noticed something: "Ah, my Eve is heading to Silver City to visit Remia; Sariel, could you keep an eye?"

Gabriel and Metatron also noted: "Our City Beauty is heading over too."

Raphael said, "The day before yesterday, Michael’s gathering in the Heroic Spirit Hall was a bit rowdy; now it’s time to respond to this ’prophetic dream’ to lighten their consciousness."

Sariel noticed something off: "Didn’t invite Fafnir?"

Raphael was caught off guard: "The day before yesterday, Eve, while seeing Remia off, mentioned uncertainty about inviting Fafnir for the gathering. I advised her to invite her. But after the sea capture incident, relations have been somewhat awkward, right?"

Sariel laughed: "Indeed, since we all persuaded the City Lord to hand the Gem City warrant to Silver City to deal with, it’s hard for her to face Remia."

Uriel snorted: "You guys are overestimating the impact of capturing Chun; the real reason is Silver City’s Guardian God doubling as Black Iron Guardian God causing it."

Michael was pressured: "Anyway, such blatant isolation isn’t too good, is it?"

Gabriel chuckled: "I find it quite interesting! Though the five City Beauties are important intelligent research samples, their overly amiable nature can lead to mutual accommodation, homogenization, losing the significance of contrasting. Better to see what their confrontations will lead to."

Michael sighed: "Indeed, confrontation inspires a competitive spirit, highlighting individual character."

Sariel suddenly got interested: "Let me see what Chun is doing."

Sariel arrived at the prison monitoring room, greeted respectfully by several high-tier prison officials: "Hello, Mr. Sariel!"

Sariel smiled and inquired, "Any anomalies in the special prison?"

"Apart from sleeping, only reading books, no other anomalies."

Reading books?

Sariel was extremely displeased, immediately pulled out the monitor, and saw Chun sitting on the bed reading. The book’s quality seemed quite high?

The monitor zoomed focus for closer inspection, and Sariel was shocked. This quality clearly wasn’t normal, yet the content was... surprisingly about art appreciation?

Sariel found it unbelievable and hurriedly told the group to watch in the chat room: "Everyone, he actually has a divine artifact-level art book!"

The Lords were all shocked: "Where did the divine artifact book come from?"

"Pull out the surveillance footage, check when he started reading."

Sariel immediately intercepted the timeline: "Found it, he started watching a few hours ago—and? This book is?"

The video zoomed in, showing various astrological geometric symbols on the pages.

Gabriel was astonished: "It’s astrology!! And it’s a Divine Artifact-level book, he actually has two Divine Artifact books, no wonder his ranking could be 11th!"

Sariel snorted coldly: "On the first day of the server opening, he went to the Astrology House in the dark alley of Black Iron City, and then there was a theft incident at the Count’s Mansion. It shows he had started researching astrology during the beta period."

Raphael also said: "He came back from Gem City in this Astrology Old Lady’s car, it’s rare for a commercial NPC to leave the main city, which shows he indeed triggered a quest that rewards a Divine Artifact book."

Gabriel was surprised: "But this kind of art book, it couldn’t have been given by the Astrology Old Lady, right?"

Raphael was surprised: "Could it have been stolen from the Count’s Mansion? According to the leaked sewer video, he had also used a simple magic book to attack the Demonized Bats, showing he could steal some books."

Gabriel said: "But in the end, he still died in the sewer, everything should have exploded out."

Raphael said: "But all the signs show that he returned to the sewer again, otherwise, the mutual slaughter of the Sewer Rat King and Cockroach King cannot be explained. Now it can be explained, perhaps he already learned astrology during the beta, and it was through astrology that he created a series of incredibles?"

Michael finally spoke: "Not necessarily, astrology isn’t as useful as imagined! I also don’t believe a newbie in the beta could learn astrology—look at how he read, from the first page to the last for half an hour, then started flipping randomly, it doesn’t look like he learned it."

Gabriel was still worried: "But the more a skill is not useful in early stages, the more powerful it often becomes later, right?"

Sariel was impatient: "Then he can’t just comfortably read books in prison, I decided to send him to the mines to dig! So he won’t get the chance to read books!"

Raphael was suddenly shocked: "No! Has anyone thought about it, isn’t he too dumb to not know there’s surveillance in the prison? Why would he deliberately read a Divine Artifact book under surveillance? It’s to deliberately draw our attention, once sent out to the mines, he might have a chance to escape!"

Gabriel was also awakened: "Exactly, maybe he’s pretending to not understand by flipping through the book randomly! Did you notice, he only spent half an hour on the astrology book, the other hours were on art books—this could be him pretending to not understand..."

Michael said: "Sariel, ignore him, just let him keep reading art books, such books won’t help with power enhancement. I’ll consult a professional astrologer at the Golden Divine Throne, which has the most top-notch talents."

Sariel sneered: "Understood. This fly is indeed struggling!"

...

When Chun finished dinner, it was officially daylight in the game.

Chun immediately focused intently on Fafnir’s performance.

Fafnir woke up, rolled back and forth on the bed, then—her gaze unexpectedly fell on the fairytale book protruding from the pile, and she was stunned!

Chun’s heart jumped to his throat!

Fafnir was in a daze for a while, then began to look around the room. Was this a sign of suspecting a burglary? However, her expression didn’t show the panic a burglary should cause—after all, a break-in at night is a huge psychological shock for a woman, isn’t it?

Fafnir’s expression seemed to grow more and more excited, at last, she spoke in a trembling voice: "Are you there?"

Just with this sentence, Chun could confirm that she indeed awakened!

Connection established! But he still needed to follow Old Deng’s secret signal procedure.

Chun tapped three words in the wall crack, "Dark Heaven!"

Fafnir was so startled she covered her mouth!

It matched! So, it was time to confess and win her over!

Chun wrote with deep affection: "I’m Chun, I’ve been preparing for 100 years!"

In that moment, Fafnir’s delicate form trembled, tears streaming down her face!

Chun was heartbroken watching: "Please, follow the story line, act like you know nothing. Maybe there’s a Demon’s surveillance outside the window."

Fafnir wiped her tears and nodded repeatedly, quickly calming her emotions, she quietly approached the wall crack to observe.

Chun continued typing: "Try not to speak, can you type?"

Fafnir made a dismissive expression and waved a string of characters: "Who am I? Can’t type?"

Chun directly replied: "Eve has already awakened, you two need to collaborate smoothly and wait for the opportunity."

Fafnir shivered all over: "Indeed, Eve is a genius!"

Chun thought he should encourage Fafnir a bit, so she wouldn’t feel inferior as a low-cost version of Eve.

"No, Eve awakened only after I enlightened her a bit, in this aspect, she’s far less than you. Although she said you are scheming which sounds bad, this is exactly where you excel beyond her."

As expected, Fafnir laughed: "Actually, at that gathering the day before yesterday, I was actively cooperating with Eve."

Chun was very gratified, directly discussing business: "Let’s keep it that way. Just now, Eve invited the other three City Beauties to a gathering in Silver City with Remia, deliberately not inviting you..."

Fafnir couldn’t suppress her laugh, shaking with amusement: "Interesting, so she thinks highly of me? Then I’ll go along with her wish, when they start their archaeology learning, I’ll give the Black Iron Nobility a big one—but I won’t blindly follow the trend, firstly to avoid seeming outnumbered one against four, secondly these noble lords won’t take interest in archaeological studies without clear benefits, so, I’ll start with the Pirate Treasure Map."