Chapter 1397 - The Mines of the Little Bat (2/2)

Hessiana met Lorrisa during the Holletta tour. They were no friends but acquaintances. Hessiana knew that Hao Ren brought people from the Plane of Dreams for an experiment in the surface world, so she was not surprised to see Lorissa here. “You must know a lot of things. The lost dimensions here are mainly brought from the Plane of Dreams. You may be of help if the city is related to Holleta,” Hessiana said with a nod.

“In this case, then let us get ready,” Hao Ren said, looking at the others. “Who would like to follow me there?”

Hands raised in the air, which included the cat maiden’s feet.

Hao Ren buried his face in his hands. “Well, then let us go check it out. By the way, where do you guys find the enthusiasm? We have just arrived home a few days ago.”

“We are not going to go,” Nangong Wuyue said as she waved her hand. Her brother, Nangong Sanba, was beside her. “The two of us have to help out at our parents’ restaurant. Also, there has to be someone at home looking after Lil Pea.”

“That’s right. Somebody has to feed Noobie too.”

Lily edged closer to Hao Ren and said, “Did I just hear ‘somebody has to feed Snoopy’?”

Hao Ren was confounded.

With the MDT’s teleportation function, and travel necessities stored inside Hao Ren’s dimensional pocket, Hao Ren could have gone to Mars to set up a colony at any time without needing much prior preparation. Without ado, everyone got changed and headed straight to one of the territories of the Hessianite Family through teleportation. They emerged in an excavation site.

Stepping out of the portal, Hao Ren saw a vast flat valley covered with gravel. There were towering mountains on both sides with undisturbed nature, which meant it was far away from human settlements. In the vast valleys, however, there were a group of large machinery and engineering vehicles, a simple concrete road extended from the entrance of the valley to the end of the gravel beach, where there were rows of instant houses, which looked like the corrugated steel dormitory on the construction site.

It was an excavation site—not of archaeological excavation but more like an old mine.

“Here is the south of Brazil, far away from the city. Other than the mountains, rocks are everywhere. The mountains and rocks themselves are treasures,” Hessiana said while walking in front. “The Hessianite Family has been operating quarries and integrated mining in the area since 1942. I have been looking forward to finding some gemstones, but as it turns out, rocks are omnipresent.”

“Battie, I have more than once doubted whether this little bat is really your split,” Lily said as she quietly poked Vivian’s arm. “She is doing so well, but you are still broke as a joke.”

“It is survival of the fittest,” Hao Ren jested.

Vivian’s face scowled, but she could not refute what Lily and Hao Ren said. “Hessiana, how large your business empire has become in the human world?” Vivian asked, steering away from the original topic.

“Among all the families in the Athens Sanctuary, the Hessianite Family has the biggest business empire in the human world. It is more interesting to do business in human society than to deal with the oldfags in the Athens Sanctuary. At the very least, we get to earn some money out there,” said the little bat with a smug face. “But I did not start the mining business here to make money in the first place.”

“Then what have you been doing here all this while?” Hao Ren was perplexed.

“Back at that time, Hitler was digging holes around the world. I heard that he was looking for something called the Earth’s axis or the axis of the world. I thought it was some treasure. So I followed suit. After digging in Brazil for two years, only I began to find out that bugger had been sending men to Tibet. I tell you what, if not for that World War II has ended, I would have to go to Berlin to beat the daylights out of that bugger!”

Hao Ren was rendered speechless.

Again, Lily poked Vivian’s arm. “Battie, I believe now that the little bat is your split. Just look at her attitude—it’s the exact carbon copy of yours.”

Vivian was stupefied.