Chapter 8: Hard work will always be rewarded

On the afternoon of the third day, it was still a good day, and I took a set of logs from my backpack and set out on the path home. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 Info is going to take a short rest, and then accompany Akai to dig rocks and repair the mine tunnels by the way, because when the mines are longer and deeper underground, it is very difficult to get up from the middle of the mine to the surface, and it is not easier than digging a pit. As for children's shoes that ask why, try to find a very tall building and start climbing the stairs, boy, and then you will have a deep feeling.

And the most important thing is that I'm sure Akai never makes stairs in this mining road, you must know that each stone has a height of 1 meter, and if you don't make stairs, it will be very tiring to climb the stones.

When I walked for ten minutes and returned to the cave, I put all the materials in my backpack into the box and walked to the mouth of the hole that Akai had dug in the cave.

The mouth of the narrow tunnel, which stretched deep into the ground, was brightened up by torches inserted at intervals, but I found a serious problem.

Each stone is one meter high, which means that if you want to dig deeper, you have to set up a staircase all the way through the tunnel, otherwise, although there is nothing to do when you go down, it will be very difficult to come up. It takes a lot of physical effort to climb out of a one-meter-high stone, and even if our physical strength is strengthened by this world, it will not be enough for a long time. So, the staircase project was classified by me into a very important level, and listening to the slight tapping sound from below, I shouted down to confirm the situation:

"Akai~~~~~ what's going on~~~~~!" There is only one tunnel, and there is no echo. After a while, Akai's voice came up.

"You're back, I've dug four sets of stones here, but I still haven't seen the iron ore, it's a tragedy." It seems that the good news is that there are a lot of stones, and the bad news is that no iron ore has been dug up.

I thought about it and replied: "I'll finish the stairs first, and then I'll dig with you~~~~!" "That's great! What time is it? Akai's voice came from below.

"Wait, I'll go see the sun." So saying, I went outside the cave and looked up at the sky, where the sun was forty-five degrees above the horizon, about three o'clock in the afternoon. After confirming the time, I ran back to the cave and passed the message to Akai. Then I walked over to the workbench, picked up two sets of stones from the wooden box, and made the staircase.

Minecraft Crafting Recipe: Staircase, you can make a four-section staircase by placing six stones in the shape of a staircase in the shape of a staircase.

After a quarter of an hour, I took a set of nearly one and a half staircases, made two handfuls of stone manuscripts out of the remaining materials, took some charcoal and wood, and set out down to meet Akai in the mines. As for the food, I said that we haven't eaten half of the meat of a whole sheep, and fortunately it won't spoil in the backpack, otherwise I don't know what to do, and of course I brought the boiled water down as a supply.

As I walked down, I set up a staircase made of stone, and as the tapping below grew louder, I knew I was getting closer to Akai.

Two minutes later, I finally paved the stairs to Akai.

"You're finally here, I'm dying of exhaustion!" As soon as I got to the side, I heard Akai's complaints.

"Are you still tired? I'm tired from cutting down trees, and even during the day, the woods are risky, zombies and skeletons only burn when they are exposed to the sun's rays, and if they happen to be under the trees, they can escape. Give, this is a replenishment. ”

"Oh, thanks, let me see. Oh! Not bad, yes, although it's exactly the same as yesterday's stuff...

After a short break, we plan to dig until we want to sleep, as for the rest time, we don't need to think about it for the time being, compared to going out at night to fight monsters, the danger of staying underground and mining is obviously much lower than outside.

‘bing! bing! bing! ’*2

The sound of percussion one after another, although boring, but the two of them can at least chat together, and they can take care of each other when something happens.

"Hey, Asha, when do you think we'll be able to dig a natural mine, I can't wait for a full armor suit." Knocking down another rock and putting it in his backpack, Akai shook as he kept waving his somewhat sore hand.

"How do I know, don't you claim to be a mining expert, you haven't found iron, and now it's the two of us digging together, it's faster than you alone, and besides, you listen carefully to me, if there is any empty rumor, then we have won the lottery." Stopping, I rubbed my wrist as well and said to Akai.

That's when (that's a beautiful word) --

"Whew!!" There seemed to be a very iconic roar coming from next door.

"There are zombies!" "Prepare for battle!" Akai and I said at the same time, Akai quickly put away the stone manuscript in his hand, and took out a stone sword that I had polished in my spare time, although the sword body was smoother and sharper, but the relative durability would drop a lot, after all, it was made of stone instead of iron.

I leaned my ear against the wall and listened to the sounds, pinpointing the location of the hollow.

"Huh~~~~Huh~~~~~Huh~~~~~"

A moment later, I was sure it was to the left of our mine, and the occasional zombie cry confirmed my thoughts. Picking up the pickaxe, I struck to the left, ready to strike the next stone first, Akai holding his weapon behind me.

"Be careful, Asha, stay away when you dig." "Good!"

With the crisp sound of stone knocking, I dug through our artificially dug tunnel and a certain dark passage underground, and the light of the torches shone into the dark tunnel, and we walked into it with torches in one hand and weapons in the other.

"Whew!!" Suddenly, in the darkness, a square hand covered with wrinkles of cyan skin stretched out, and a two-meter-tall zombie pounced on me, so I had to drop the torch on the ground and dodge backwards with my sword in both hands.

"Hmm~~~!!!" I missed, and the zombie roared and rushed at me. "Look at the move!!" A stone sword flew past me and stuck it in the zombie's chest, causing the zombie to froze and I quickly stepped back to Akai's side.

"What to do? It's not easy for us to fly kites so close. Staring at the zombies, I asked Akai.

Without much thought, Akai immediately replied to me: "I still have 5 stone swords in my bag, I will help you buy time, you use stones to block this road, at least block this guy's footsteps, so that our chances of winning are much greater, fighting melee is the rhythm of finding death." Quickly cut out two stone swords from the backpack, one on each of the left and right hands, and Akai threw the sword on his left hand with great force, and the impact and damage made the zombie who looked strong but was actually very strong enter a state of stiffness again. I immediately took out the stones, placed them on the ground, piled up a two-meter-high wall, and left an opening.

Luckily, the passage wasn't big, and I was already blocking the road by the time Akai threw his third sword. That's when we had time to take a closer look at the zombie.

"I've been staying underground without sunlight, so I've become stronger?" Breathing a sigh of relief, I observed this tall zombie, the two-meter body was very intimidating, but unfortunately I still couldn't change that square head.

"I'm afraid that's what it looks like, let's get rid of it first." This time, Akai took the bow and arrow out of his backpack and shot it at the zombie's head. "At such a close scum-like distance, even a novice like me can shoot in the mouth!" A wooden feathered arrow whizzed into the zombie's head, hitting the bull's-eye. The zombie's head flicked backwards and randomly pounced on the stone wall, and Akai loaded a second arrow, aimed it at it, and shot it into the zombie's head.

After spending 5 arrows, the zombie finally fell unwillingly. I removed the stone wall with a manuscript, put the stone into my backpack, and sighed: "I almost knelt, and sure enough, I still need two talents insurance for mining in the future." "I feel the same way." Akai had the same expression as me.

Walking next to the zombie's corpse, a little green light floated out, and finally turned into 6 green balls floating on the ground, and the zombie's body began to turn into pieces, and soon changed into nothingness. "A lot of experience, at least the experience of two ordinary zombies, Akai, your experience~" I gave the experience ball to Akai, because for now, experience and level are useless to me.

"Thanks, we won't have to be afraid of these zombies when I get my bow and arrow skills to a very high level." After taking the 5 arrows scattered on the ground back into his backpack, Akai absorbed all the experience, and the level suddenly went from level 0 to level 2, and then he used the experience of level 2 to upgrade his bow skill to level 3.

Level 3 archery skills already have a 3% chance of stunning monsters, and Akai feels like he can shoot an arrow faster.

The so-called rate of fire is not a simple thing, from taking out the arrows, loading them into the bow and arrows, then bending the bow, taking the arrows, and then aiming, and finally shooting, this is a process, although increasing the rate of fire does not seem very obvious, but when the level of the skill increases, each stage can save a lot of time. Skills are just auxiliaries, the real ability still has to be practiced by yourself, if one day, Akai can skillfully shoot an arrow in a few seconds, then at this time, the increase in skills is quite terrifying.

I told Akai these thoughts, and Akai nodded in understanding.

So, we began our journey to explore the first strange mine path after coming to this world.