Chapter 6: Mithril Ore
"I can't answer your question, maybe I'm really Mick! β
Mick thought for a moment, feeling like he couldn't figure it out.
"I don't care, anyway, it's my brother Mick standing in front of me, you have Mick's body and memory, then you are Mick. β
With that, Miya rushed into Mick's arms.
Mick didn't refuse, the hug made his heart melt, and at this moment it seemed that it didn't matter who he was.
"Do you really want to go to the Academy of Light with me?" I tell you, no matter who I am, I must go to the Cloud Peak Country for revenge, this road is extremely dangerous, you may die for a lifetime, even then are you willing to follow me?" Mick asked.
Mei Ya didn't speak, but nodded firmly.
"Okay, one sheep is also herded, and two sheep are also herded, so I'll earn your tuition too!" Mick said with a smile.
"Hahaha. Mei Ya in her arms also laughed.
"Let's go, go home!"
After saying that, Mick took Mia's hand and walked home.
Mick gradually felt that it was good to be with this girl, she was so simple and kind, and her happiness was so simple. It's so easy to be with her.
"But I don't think we can get married so early. Mick said suddenly.
"I know! Didn't I hear you were leaving! That's why I said that in a hurry. β
"Good. β
"Brother Mick, what kind of person is the fiancΓ©e you mentioned earlier?" asked Meyya.
"Her name is Ivy, and she's a very nice girl, and we've known each other since we were very young, just like you and me, but now she's probably someone else's wife. β
"That's it!"
Mick nodded helplessly.
"Can you tell me a little bit about Chiasu?"
"Yes, but not now, I'll tell you slowly, and I'll tell you for the rest of my life. β
"Brother Mick, you're so sour!"
"Huh?
Mei Ya nodded heavily.
"Are you going to mine tomorrow?" asked Meya.
"That's right, this time I sold the corpse of the fire poison ant for two silver coins and fifty copper coins, plus the money my uncle gave me was only three silver coins, and the tuition fees for the two of us were ten silver coins in total, ah, far apart. β
"Then I'll go with you tomorrow. β
"No, it's dangerous to have fire ants in there. β
"Then I'll wait for you outside chopping wood, and then I'll bring you food at noon." β
"Good!"
Mick rubbed her head indulgently.
The next day, the two of them went to the mine together, and now Mick is getting more and more comfortable with mining. And every day at noon, Mei Ya will bring food to herself, so his efficiency has also improved a lot. He was sometimes even afraid that Mr. Hope would not be able to use the iron ore.
And Mick is getting more and more bold in the face of fire poison ants, and he kills more and more fire poison ants every time, but this is also thanks to the improvement of his physical fitness, and the physical fitness improvement Xia Yasu's combat skills can be used.
Soon a week passed, and Mick went to the mine as usual, but there was no trace of the fire ants after mining, so Mick decided to go deeper into the mine to investigate.
He didn't know where the nests of the fire ants were, so he had to follow the map all the way down. But soon he found some forks in the road, and it seemed that he could only find it one way at a time.
He looked at the map and chose a path.
..........
The road is all the way down, and the stairs here are in disrepair, so they creak as soon as you step on them. To be honest, Mick didn't dare to continue to go down, because the side of the stairs was an abyss, in fact, Mick was not afraid of heights, after all, he was a Skywalker in his previous life, and he rode a flying horse in the sky all day long, but now the abyss under his feet is dark and there is no light at all, and the light of the mining lamp shines down like a stone sinking into the sea.
And every time Mick poked his head out of the stairs and looked down, he could feel the cold wind howling below.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey"
Mick tentatively shouted down, only to hear his own echoes coming from again.
Mick continued to walk downward, walking for nearly half an hour and still nothing, just going down and down.
Mick wondered why a man-dug mine was built so deep, and why the stairs were built so steeply.
"Whoa!"
Mick stepped into the air and almost fell into the abyss, he quickly retracted the foot that was already hanging in the air, he looked forward tentatively, it turned out that the stairs were here, and there was nothing in front of them. It's not that the staircase breaks here, it's that the staircase comes to an abrupt end at this point.
Mick broke out in a cold sweat.
Mick looked at the map, and it turned out to be the blurred part of the map.
But since there were no stairs, how did they dig out underneath?
It seems that he has found the wrong way, and this cannot be the nest of fire poisonous ants.
So he turned back to another fork in the road.
This fork in the road is much safer than the previous one, it is a tunnel in the mountains.
Mick has been gone for a long time.
Suddenly, Mick reached the end of the tunnel, and the light of Mick's miner's lamp could knock him off.
In front of him was a wriggling white thing, so large that it was more than a man tall.
"This is the queen of the fire ants. Oh my God. β
The queen ant was squirming slightly, looking a little disgusting.
Mick looked around, and there wasn't a single fire ant around to protect it. It seems that they were all killed by Mick as 'scouts'.
Mick approached the queen, who twitched, clearly sensing Mick's presence.
This was definitely a good opportunity, and at the moment the queen had no soldiers, and Mick would have been able to kill it easily.
So Mick lifted the knife.
But Mick thought about it and didn't cut it down, because he saw the dense eggs behind the queen.
The fire ants made their home in this abandoned mine because they disturbed them, and they had killed so many fire poison ants, so they couldn't be wiped out for money.
Mick put down the knife, he knew that this must be Mick's idea, if he was still Siasu himself, he would never think so. Chiasu's character is something that works for me as long as it is useful.
Sometimes Mick is very conflicted, he should listen to the voice in his heart, but then he thought about it, it would be good, Xia Yasu was beheaded because he was too public, and Mick was killed because he was too cowardly, so now Mick has almost no flaws in his personality.
So Mick turned and left.
"Kala!"
A crunch rang out behind Mick.
Mick hurriedly looked back. He saw a stone on the ground between himself and the afterman, and the stone was the size of a fist.
Where did this stone come from?
"Gollum. β
The queen squirmed.
"You gave it to me?" Mick asked tentatively.
"Gollum. β
The queen squirmed again.
"Oh, no, I'm sorry to kill so many of your soldiers, it's really forced by life, and you can't blame me all, right, if I don't kill them, I'll be your meal, ......right?" said Mick.
"Gollum"
The queen squirmed again.
If the queen ant could speak, he must urge him to leave quickly, it is too abrasive.
"Then I'll go first, we'll meet later!" said Mick and left with the stone.
By the time he walked out of the mine, it was getting late, and Mick was in a bad mood. Meiya was still waiting for him outside the mine.
Sure enough, as soon as he came out of the mine, he saw Mei Ya's figure.
"Why did you just come out. Mei Ya asked.
"I walked deeper into the mine. β
"Did you find anything?"
"I found the queen ant, but it looks like it's supposed to be guarding the fire eggs, so I didn't kill it. It gave me this though. β
Mick took out the stone that the queen had given him.
"Is it so amazing for you?" said Mei Ya, feeling a little incredulous.
"That's right. β
Mei Ya picked up the stone and observed.
"It gave it to you with its own hands?"
"Not with your own hands, but with hands! Can you tell what it is?" asked Mick.
Meiya shook her head, and it seemed that she had to go back to Mr. Hope's residence and ask him.
Moments later, the two arrived at Hope's house.