Lin Wu was feeling appalled at seeing the data window. Not only was most of his stored vital energy was depleted, but when he saw his age he was shocked again.
"Chickie nuggies! Seven days passed by while I was unconscious. Goddammit! This energy source better be worth it or I'll die before I can finish my quest." Lin Wu complained to himself.
~Haah~
'I better get going and not waste any more time. This is already pretty late.' Lin Wu thought.
Having made up his mind, Lin Wu started crawling towards the location of the energy source. The path now was rather straightforward, if not for the upturned ground. Lin Wu had already seen the path from high up, so knew how to proceed. Not to mention, even the system was showing him a straight path when he turned the navigation back on.
"Let's get to it." Lin Wu muttered to himself.
He began his journey back again and reached the edge of the crater after thirty hours.
"Now what do I do?" Lin Wu spoke after seeing the deep and dark crater.
The diameter of the crater was around a hundred meters and its bottom could not be seen as it was hidden in darkness. Though occasionally green glowing light would come from the bottom of it. Even still, it was still difficult for Lin Wu to perceive the depth of the crater.
"How far down is the quest objective at, system?" Lin Wu questioned.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The quest objective is located at approximately 667.93 meters of depth.
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Lin Wu was confused upon seeing the system's answer. He took another look at the crater's size and the back at the system's answer.
"There's no way the crater is that deep. If it was, then the diameter of it would have been at least thirty times as big as this." Lin Wu spoke after thinking for a bit.
"System, why is the crater so deep?" Lin Wu questioned.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The crater itself is about 80 meters deep. It's the quest objective that's located deeper.
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"What? Do you mean the quest objective is buried even deeper than that?" Lin Wu asked.
Lin Wu had automatically assumed that the quest objective that was the extremely high quality energy source was located at the base of the crater. Never would he have expected that it was actually even deeper and that he had just made a misinformed assumption.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The quest objective was indeed supposed to be at the bottom of the Crater, but the impact seems to have broken through some underground caves and has collapsed it further in. This led to the quest objective falling even farther in.
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After hearing the explanation of the system, Lin Wu finally understood the situation.
'There's nothing I can do, anyway. I just gotta keep on going.' Lin Wu thought to himself as he kept on crawling.
He had tried seeing if he could dig in the ground as he would be faster that way, but found out that the ground here was much harder and had even been crystallized in some places due to the intense heat. There was no chance that he would be able to dig through here.
Having no other choice, Lin Wu continued following the system's navigation. While the route down the crater was very straight, Lin Wu still had to be careful to not just stumble and fall in directly. He had already seen the depth of the hole and thus knew that if he fell that far in, he would not survive.
But still, since the path was at an incline, Lin Wu reached the bottom of the crater in an hour. Now came the turn for the next challenge. At the very bottom of the crater was a hole that led to the underground caves. The energy source which landed here punched through the ground and went even far inside.
Lin Wu checked the edges of the hole and discovered that they were actually made out of a flat and hard rock. He tapped on it with his body and determined that it was no different than any common rock. He checked the navigation and saw that it was pointing him towards the other end of the hole.
The hole itself was only two meters wide and didn't take very long for him to cross. He reached the other end of the hole and saw that there was a crack that went all the way down from there. The crack was just wide enough that his body could actually fit through comfortably.
'Am I supposed to go through here? I don't like the feel of this. It's too claustrophobic.' Lin Wu thought to himself.
Nevertheless, he steeled his courage and entered the crack. Lin Wu then started descending through the crack to the bottom part of the hole. An entire day passed and he still had not reached the bottom of the hole. He was still traveling through the crack and could see the eerie green glow illuminating the hole.
While the light was very faint and hard to spot when he was outside the crater, Lin Wu was now able to see clearly due to its illumination. Another day passed, and he had finally reached the bottom of the hole.
But another problem presented to him once he was at this point. There was no way for him to proceed any further as the crack ended in a dead drop. The quest objective was still far according to the map, and even the navigation was pointing him straight down.
"Chickie nuggies! Am I supposed to jump down from here? Won't I be splatted into a paste if I fall this far down?" Lin Wu spoke out loud.
"Oi system, are you trying to kill me by making me jump from here?" Lin Wu asked feeling angry.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The space below the host is filled with water, thus the host will have no injuries when falling down. The host's mass is also not significantly large that it will get damaged by the surface tension of the water.
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Lin Wu read the answer and knew that he didn't have much of a choice again.
"Here goes nothing." Lin Wu muttered before jumping down.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"