You head north in the maze. You must have walked for at least half an hour in the same direction. You were quite sure you must have existed out of the maze by now. That is however not what it felt like when you came across a bunch of turning paths like you were still in the maze.
After going north for so long you ended up having to turn and take a few steps going west, north, east, north, west, south, west, north, east, north, and east again. You were sure at this point after a few more turns and twists you had lost track of you just went east or north. That however did not seem to matter.
You realized you were now standing in a massive room. This room was not empty either. There were giant rock-crushing stations, furnaces, and all kinds of different equipment. You had found a mining material processing plant.
You even found where the conveyor belt you had found earlier on the floor feed into the room and sent the material through a process that has pulverized any large rocks into a fine dust. From there it would go through furnaces and other objects to try and purify something.
That is when you realized there was a mound of something in the back. Could it be a bunch of refined Golden Paradox 384? You ran up to it to have a better look.
It sure seemed to look like the stuff with the way it was glowing. It was set up in the back dumped into a hole to cool down from being reprocessed down.
Just to be sure you set up your wristwatch in scan mode and placed it on to of the glowing pile. With how pure the sample size was it did not take very long for the wristwatch to confirm the high amounts of Golden Paradox 384 found.
You took off your backpack and filled it up as much as you could carry. It weighed you down a lot. This stuff was however worth a lot and also proof you found a large amount of it.
If you could only get a message back to your people they could send ships out here to collect the rest of it and to bring you back home. The thought of being trapped forever on this ice planet with the very thing you were sent into the universe to gather was starting to feel a bit heartbreaking.
You finished exploring the rest of the processing plant and the only thing left to check out was a door. That door however required a purple ID card to open.
(Proceed here if you have a purple ID card. If not continue down below. )
While you have collected many different colors of ID cards none of them worked. The ID card was purple and you did not have such an ID. You ended up having backtrack through the double maze and back to the elevator.
While carrying all that Golden Paradox 384 would slow you down on backtracking. You were not letting the stuff out of sight. Your mind was so focused on the benefits this stuff could bring and before you realized it you were back at the elevator again. The card must be elsewhere in the mountain.
Content is written by @Enjar of @Enjargames. AI artwork was created using Playgroundai.
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