Chapter 108: The Mine
The reddish-brown soil here is completely different from the desert scene outside Jincheng. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere is almost no grass here, only a few tenacious ones, and the leaves flutter in the air.
There are hardly any people walking around here, and the only people who come and go are the miners here, pushing small carts to carry a freshly excavated white jade-like stone back to the city.
Before they came, at the feast, they had mentioned that all the building materials had been taken away overnight. The white jade-shaped stone in the cart should be that kind of building material, it looks really good, and the decorative building should be very beautiful, and it can be sold for a lot of money.
It's just that Yufu frowned, but Jincheng is still quite far away from other snail settlements, how can this batch of ore be transported out without a trace, this is a big problem. It's not something that can be folded.
But if it is not shipped out and sold locally, it is simply impossible, after all, it is such a large batch of materials, how can it be a little rough in the market.
Walking around the outside of the mine, I didn't find anything unusual, but it was even stranger.
According to Gongsun Jin's subordinates, it has not rained in the past few days, and the wind and sand are not heavy, so it is unlikely that the evidence will be wiped out that night. In addition, the reddish-brown soil here is very soft, and if you step on it, your feet will sink.
The one in front of the jade whisk was the road to the golden city, and the route to the outside was only one route to the city except to climb over this mountain, and it was impossible to transport a large number of stones into the city without being discovered by the guards.
However, the jade whisk soon flew to the top of the mountain, looking at the route found all the way up the mountain, there were not a lot of rut marks, indicating that it did not pass here. Didn't find anything strange, isn't it even stranger? How on earth did they manage to get things out overnight?
Derpy, the old man Xue Dingshan and Gongsun Jin, the lord of Jincheng City, could only slowly walk towards the mountain. The line of sight is to follow the figure of the jade whisk, all of them are full of eyeliner, the vast majority of people in the world, I am afraid that they will not be able to fly out of thin air with their feet off the ground in their lives!
When they stood at the entrance of the mine, Gongsun Jin offered to go back to deal with urgent business.
Jade Whisk agreed, after all, it was useless for a mortal like him to stay here, but he noticed that Derpy looked at him more, and seemed to smell something unusual.
"What's wrong?" Jade Whisk asked back.
Derpy just shook his head, he wasn't sure what was wrong yet, he had to wait and see.
The cave was dimly lit, and the excavation could only be judged by the torches on the surrounding walls and their skilled excavation. Besides, they take out the rough stone first, pull it back and then process it, so there is no difference between high quality and inferiority, as long as the size is right.
But the bigger the ore is not the better, generally there will be a particularly large mother ore in the minerals, leaving it, over time will evolve more sub-ores. If you don't touch the mother mine, you don't have to worry too much.
Yufu listened to Xue Dingshan talk about the situation in the mine, which she had never been exposed to before, and it was quite interesting to listen to. But Derpy swayed from side to side, looking around, not knowing what he was thinking.
Jade Whisk walked forward, noticing some problems.
The miners in this cave are scattered all over the place, some are sorting out the ore to be moved, some are digging new mines, and they are working together.
They have been mining here for a while, probably because this ore material is good, the price is beautiful, and the sales are quite hot, so almost the miners dig here almost day and night, and rarely go out to see the sun a few times a month. Only when transporting ore together can you go out to help and go back to see your relatives, change your clothes, and take a beautiful bath.
Therefore, the mine is full of sewage cross-flow, and even a lot of domestic garbage is everywhere, in such a hot and unbearable weather near Jincheng, the more you go inside, the more you can smell a burst of stench. The cave is not ventilated.
Yu Fu suddenly remembered a skill he had learned from Ouyang Zimo, and after using it to hold his breath, he felt a little more comfortable. It's really hard to imagine how these people can stay.
"If it were me, I wouldn't want to mine here!" Derpy said disdainfully.
Xue Dingshan sighed, "This is also something that can't be helped, but many of the miners who work here come here voluntarily." They used to be beggars and often couldn't eat, but later it was the kindness of the city lord who thought of a way to let them all work. The lord of the city also promised that after they had finished digging the mine, they would be able to work for the city guards. ”
Derpy sneered secretly: It's really empty talk.
Generally, a mine, a small one has at least a few miles of land, such a small number of manpower, if you want to dig a mine, it is not easy, this is simply too cheap for him, just give him some food, he uses a lot of free labor, no money.
This Jincheng City Lord is really wishful thinking.
Derpy had already decided that the item he had stolen from the City Lord's Mansion would not be returned like this. And even now it's well enough to add a brilliant excuse to this behavior!
Jade Whisk struggles to ignore the terrible and sordid illusion in the cave, but discovers something as she walks.
On the walls of the caves on both sides, there were small flags neatly planted in the places where they had once mined.
Derpy, who was standing next to him, saw Jade Whisk walk up to the little flag and pull it out, probably trying to take a closer look and look down.
Derpy suddenly felt a subtle fluctuation of spiritual power in the air, it didn't feel right, and she wanted to stop Jade Whisk, but found that Jade Whisk hadn't left her sight for a few seconds, and the place where Jade Whisk was still staying just a few meters in front of her completely disappeared.
Derpy is amazed! "What's going on?"
She jerked Xue Dingshan next to her. A child who was more than one meter tall tightened an adult's hand, making him completely powerless to break free, and Xue Dingshan was also startled.
"Former ...... Senior, don't get excited, you have something to say! As soon as Xue Dingshan opened his mouth, he begged for mercy.
Derpy stares at him viciously, feeling that something is wrong with them at first, and has been on guard, but she is careless, and she is too confident in her own judgment, thinking that as long as she doesn't leave her, she will be fine.
"Tell me, where was she teleported?"
"Don't worry, senior, that senior girl was just teleported to another mining site, and she is very safe. Besides, this flag was also pulled out by the senior himself, and it has nothing to do with me! ”
Xue Dingshan began to shirk responsibility at this time, he didn't expect that he thought he was just a low-level entourage, but he didn't expect that he didn't even have the ability to shoot at him. Looks like I have to keep a friendly relationship with them all the time!
Derpy stares at where Corundum Whisk has touched it, and the flag reappears on the cave wall.
She shook off Xue Ding Mountain and pulled up the flag on the cave wall with a bang!