Chapter 63: Mining
"Get up and go to the mines. Zhao Chun, who had been chatting with the two miner brothers for most of the night, was sleeping vaguely when he suddenly heard this voice.
The two miner brothers got up and dragged Zhao Chun out, without any dressing and washing, even if it was a special force that was carrying out an emergency assembly, the speed was probably not as fast as theirs.
When they rushed outside the barracks, they found that the thirty or so miners in Area A had been gathered in an open field, and two guards were lazily handing out toolsβa special pickaxe and a small basket.
The two guards saw that Zhao Chun and the others were late, their faces were a little unhappy, but they didn't say anything, they just threw the few broken tools that others picked up and left, especially Zhao Chun's, which could no longer be called a hoe, just like a stick with two more sharp corners.
Zhao Chunzheng was about to find the guard theory, but the two miner brothers immediately grabbed him and whispered: "Don't do this kind of stupid thing, this will only make them give you small shoes to wear, and your life will be sad in the future, and you won't gain anything on the first day of mining, just endure it." β
Zhao Chun had no choice but to give up, and then a group of people walked along the edge of the Batu Cave, to Zhao Chun's surprise, the two guards did not follow, asked the two miners, and replied that they were designated tasks and areas, and they were not afraid that these miners would be lazy or run away.
The closer you get to the abyss, the stronger the wind, the lower the temperature, and the more miserable the sound, but this team of miners in Area A has to keep going, because all the easy digging in front of them has been dug up, and only a few are left near the abyss.
It wasn't until they felt they couldn't move any further that the miners jumped into small pits in the ground and began to dig.
The two miner brothers invited Zhao Chun to dig in a pit with them, but Zhao Chun wanted to study what was going on with these spiritual iron concentrates by himself, so he politely refused them.
Zhao Chun jumped into a small pit, this small pit can only accommodate two people, only more than a meter deep, obviously there were miners who couldn't dig anything here before, so it was abandoned.
However, this was not a problem for Zhao Chun, because he himself did not expect to be able to harvest ore on the first day of mining, and that kind of luck was too good.
The yin wind in the pit was indeed much smaller, but to Zhao Chun's surprise, there were still a lot of yin winds coming out of the soil and from the cracks in the rocks, as if these yin winds were originally buried in the ground, and now that the temperature in the ground has risen and the pressure has increased, they have seeped out of the ground.
After studying these yin winds, Zhao Chun picked up the hoe like a stick and began to dig the ore, but as soon as he knocked it down, he saw sparks splashing everywhere, and he could only knock down a stone as big as a thumb with this hard blow - the ground here is too hard, and it seems that it is really not easy to complete the task of handing in a piece of ore in a month.
Zhao Chun frowned and thought about it, and suddenly fed the heat flow into the iron rod, but he found that the iron rod turned red instantly, and when he hoeed the ground hard, he actually hoeed it with a "poof", and then hooked it up, and a rock as big as a fist was hooked up by him.
This made Zhao Chun feel very happy in his heart, but also felt a little regretful, if this hoe was the same as theirs, maybe he could dig out bigger stones, so as to improve efficiency. But soon he came up with a solution, which was to turn the hoe around, burn it red with a stream of heat, and then stab it down with all his might, this time with a stone as big as a human head.
By using this method, Zhao Chun lowered the pit by one meter in just one hour. Poor Zhao Chun has rarely even done housework since he was born, let alone the heavy work of mining, if it weren't for the magic of heat flow, he would have collapsed.
However, this mysterious heat flow is obtained through that unknown grass, which is not the same as the aura absorbed by ordinary monks, so he can't be replenished through cultivation like ordinary monks, so although the chakra sea he opened up is very large, and the heat flow has liquefied to form a vortex, but if it is not replenished, there will eventually be a time when it will be consumed, and now it is used to mine stones, which is really too luxurious.
Three hours later, when Zhao Chun dug about four meters above the ground, there was a "snap", and the hoe like a stick was broken. And after this piece of ore as big as a human head was pried up, Zhao Chun found that the layer below was full of this kind of ore, and it seemed that the reason why the miners said that the spiritual iron concentrate ore was scarce was probably because they didn't dig deep enough.
The living environment here is so harsh, and the mining tools are so simple, if you want to dig so deep, the difficulty is not ordinary.
"The Spiritual Iron Concentrate you dug has some effect on me, and I can lend you ten permanent charm points in exchange. The system, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly said.
"Oh, I thought you were hibernating, and nothing happened. Zhao Chun said angrily, since the system was promoted, he has become a lot lazy, and only occasionally took out a few loans, which made Zhao Chun very puzzled, but when he asked it the reason, it came up with all kinds of unreliable reasons to prevaricate, and Zhao Chun couldn't do anything about it.
"How do you speak? You're hibernating, your whole family is hibernating!" the system replied angrily.
Zhao Chun didn't bother to bother with it on this kind of issue, if it was before, he would have jumped up from bed in the middle of the night to agree, but now in such an environment, he really didn't have the mood to pay attention to his charm, after all, he was also a person who knew how to take it seriously. So he said, "If I ask you to borrow that kind of heat flow in the sea of wheels, can you do it? If you can, I only need a little charm value, and I can provide you with as much of this spiritual iron concentrate as you want." β
The system rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Why do I want so much spiritual iron concentrate?But how do I feel like the sun is coming out of the west, you kid doesn't want to be charmed, don't you want to be handsome all the time?"
Zhao Chun said very aggrievedly: "My life is about to be saved, what's the use of asking for charm points? β
"Well, if it is to supplement your little wheel sea alone, theoretically I can copy a small amount of that energy, after all, everything in the world is just a different form of energy conversion, but I have also studied, the kind of energy in your little wheel sea is more advanced than the aura, I need to pay a lot of money to convert and copy a small amount, you exchange this spirit iron concentrate is obviously not enough. β
"Well, hurry up, what do you need in exchange, just mention it, as long as I can do it, I will definitely satisfy you. β
"I haven't thought about it yet, I'll talk about it later. However, the contract can be set upfront, and I will need about three of your health points to fill up the energy in your chakra once. β
"Yes. Zhao Chun agreed, thought about it and said, "Take advantage of this opportunity, I will dig up more spiritual iron concentrate for you to store, maybe it will be used soon, the current situation is very unfavorable to us, if we can't stop it in time, I don't know how many living beings will die in this man-made disaster." β