Witch Special

Although he spoke very grandly, when it came to implementation, Lin Zhenxi was still quite cautious.

After all, the fact that they could build a base so deep underground didn't mean that Lin Zhenxi looked down on the people in City Z, but they really... No matter from which angle you consider it, those people in the main urban area didn't seem to have the ability to do so.

Therefore, Lin Zhenxi was almost certain that the secret base hidden 1,500 meters below the abandoned city was either owned by bad guys or weirdos, but it was definitely not a soft persimmon that could be easily exploited. Therefore, if Lin Zhenxi wanted to use that underground space, he needed to plan carefully and make further preparations.

However, the people in the underground base were completely unaware that they were being targeted. Lin Zhenxi had the advantage, as the enemy was aware of the situation while they were unaware. She could leisurely make preparations, maximizing her advantage, and then attack the enemy's lair with the force of an avalanche, completely burying them in the grave they had chosen for themselves.

After all, at a depth of 1,500 meters, there are countless ways to kill someone. A single roof explosion, a burst of water, or a gas explosion would make the chances of rescue infinitely close to zero. Even if the monsters were incredibly strong, with the pressure of 1,500 meters of mud on their bodies, unless every monster below had Saitama's physique, they would be buried alive and unable to escape.

Of course, it is not completely impossible. After all, there are huge gaps between people, and the gaps between monsters must be even greater. There is no guarantee that there won't be freaks that can drill through 1,500 meters of mud and crawl out from underneath. So, to be on the safe side, Lin Zhenxi also needs to bring Saitama, the bodyguard, to be foolproof.

According to superstition, during the construction of every large building, human pillars are used to stabilize the columns, such as casting living people into the load-bearing columns... Of course, this is nonsense and impossible in reality. However, if the human pillars used in the construction of the signal amplification tower were monsters or villains from another world, then Lin Zhenxi would not feel any pressure at all.

After selecting the approximate location for building the signal amplification tower, Lin Zhenxi first sent his construction intention to the municipal government of City Z, telling them that he had roughly selected a location and would be carrying out some major projects next, so they just needed to not make a fuss.

Although they will definitely be scared later and will definitely come over to ask questions, it is better to do it as late as possible.

Then, Lin Zhenxi began to arrange for Baizhi's employees to lay two new electrical lines to bring high-voltage electricity from the main urban area to directly above the underground space.

The line can't be drawn directly from Baizhi, but rather requires rewiring. This is because Lin Zhenxi will be using the grid's electricity instead of her own magic power to perform large-scale spellcasting operations. This will instantly put the grid under immense pressure, potentially burning out entire branch circuits. Baizhi's production workshop is currently churning out memory crystals needed to supply the entire world. If the circuit were to fail at this moment, the economic losses would be enough to warrant building several new circuits from the main city. Therefore, it would be better to build this circuit, which is destined to be expendable, in advance. Once Lin Zhenxi begins to draw power from the grid and convert it into magic power, the circuit leading to Baizhi can be temporarily removed from the entire grid. This way, Baizhi's factory won't suffer losses from Lin Zhenxi's power withdrawal. With the power originally allocated to Baizhi freed up, the grid's capacity will be increased, allowing the entire Z city grid to withstand Lin Zhenxi's tragedies.

The reason why two circuits have to be laid instead of one is, of course, because Lin Zhenxi needs to borrow the power grid of City Z twice. The first time is to eliminate the monsters and bad guys below, and the second time is to complete the main structure of the signal amplification tower. Both actions require drawing electricity from the power grid to complete. I can only hope that the power grid of City Z is strong enough to support it.

Anyway, just don't affect the production of my factory - the evil big capitalists who only care about making money for themselves and don't care about the lives of other people in the main urban area, Lin Zhenxi thought.

It didn't take long to pull the cables, as they were ready for immediate use and destroyed after just one use. There was no need to worry about overhead installations. All that was needed was to purchase a sufficiently long cable and pull it all the way from the high-voltage substation in the main urban area. However, City Z simply didn't have high-voltage cables that long. His subordinates quickly replied, stating that City Z's buyers would need to urgently procure the cables from nearby major cities. Because transportation between cities was extremely difficult, and cables were notoriously heavy, it would take approximately five to seven days to deliver all the cables.

Well, before they were delaying time under the pretext of transporting supplies, but now they really have to wait for the supplies to be transported to their destination, look at what this incident has caused.

Although the lack of cables meant Lin Zhenxi couldn't convert the vast amounts of external electricity into magical power for her own use and control, relying solely on her own magical power, she wasn't sure if she could compact a cubic kilometer, or a billion cubic meters, of earth, and bury the secret base below and the creatures within. If she ran out of magical power at the beginning, it would alert the enemy, which would be disastrous.

While waiting for the cable to arrive, Lin Zhenxi had plenty to do. The most pressing task, of course, was to gain a firm grasp on the secret base below. If the villains weren't too formidable, she could simply lead Saitama, her powerful summoned beast, in and wipe them out. If they were too strong or too numerous, she could pre-draw a magic circle around them. Once the cable arrived, she could simply connect the power cord and activate the magic circle to begin exterminating the underground pests.

Lin Zhenxi's current forecast is still very optimistic. After all, Saitama lives here. The powerful monsters nearby should have been almost wiped out long ago. How could there be any particularly strong monsters left?

Since there was nothing else to do now, Lin Zhenxi decided to start investigating the underground space directly, while the work of drawing the magic circle on the ground would also proceed as normal.

The underground space reconnaissance could be left to familiars. Lin Zhenxi had signed familiar contracts with many magical creatures, including those suitable for underground space reconnaissance. However, she had to draw the magic circle herself. At least in this world, she couldn't find anyone else to help her except Yanyan.

Riding a magic broom, Lin Zhenxi landed right above the underground secret base, above an ordinary group of unfinished buildings, and began to plan the various nodes of the next magic circle.

This place was no different from the rest of the abandoned city, filled with half-finished or recently completed buildings. From the outside, one couldn't tell there was such a massive underground structure hidden directly beneath it.

Perhaps the developers who built this place didn't know what was going on below. Even a geological survey wouldn't have been able to reach below a thousand meters.

Lin Zhenxi found a flat surface, heated the tip of the magic wand, and burned the shape of a summoning magic circle on the ground. Then, he pursed his lips and bared his teeth, cut his palm with a silver knife, clenched his fist, and let his blood drip into the center of the magic circle, completely filling the small depression at that location.

After draining the blood, Lin Zhenxi immediately pulled out a test tube of potion from the Space Cube and poured it onto his hand. The wound quickly disappeared under the influence of the potion. However, due to the heavy bleeding, Lin Zhenxi's face turned pale.

There was no other way. The elder wand was not good at casting healing magic. If Lin Zhenxi was injured, she could only use these external objects to heal. Fortunately, she was also well aware of this flaw of the elder wand, so before coming to this world, she went to the wizarding world and bought many potions to deal with various situations.

After treating the wound, Lin Zhenxi began to chant the spell to summon a familiar, summoning the magical creature with whom he had signed a familiar contract from another world.

However, seemingly due to the distance between worlds, the ritual of summoning the familiar proved difficult, with the signal constantly intermittent. This forced Lin Zhenxi to repeat the summoning spell and increase the amount of magic power supplied to the summoning circle. Finally, after Lin Zhenxi had invested twenty times more magic power, the magic circle finally lit up with a blood-red light. The shallow pool of blood flattened and spread outward, quickly covering the entire magic circle. Then, a strange creature, covered in black fur and with a long snout, resembling a black platypus, but with claws for digging instead of webbed feet, emerged from the pool of blood.

As soon as this guy came out, he pressed his nose tightly to the ground and began to sniff hard.

Lin Zhenxi looked down at the black thing crawling around him close to the ground, then he took out two glittering silver coins from his pocket and rubbed them lightly between his fingertips, making a crisp metallic collision sound.

The black thing raised its head with a "swish" and stared at the two silver coins in Lin Zhenxi's hand with its pair of small black bean-like eyes, its eyes full of desire.

The Niffler is a particularly money-hungry magical creature in the wizarding world. They have a passionate penchant for anything glittering, are adept at silent digging, and can sniff out gems and precious metals over a large area. While kind and affectionate towards their masters, their possessive nature often leads them to choose their master over their treasure, making them incredibly realistic magical creatures.

When Lin Zhenxi signed a familiar contract with the Niffler in that wizard's world, he was actually thinking of using it to find treasures buried underground when he returned to the main world or went to other worlds. After all, this guy has the same function as a treasure-hunting rat in a sense. In those worlds without magical defenses, it is the most unstoppable treasure thief.

However, Lin Zhenxi wasn't using it to hunt for treasure. Instead, he wanted to leverage its powerful digging ability to quietly dig into the underground space and gather intelligence. In order to get this creature to work properly, instead of just doing it half-heartedly, Lin Zhenxi had to pay it some extra compensation after summoning it out: two shiny silver coins.

This little guy just likes to collect shiny things and doesn't care much about their actual value, so he is actually quite easy to fool.