Whoosh...... Whoosh......

......Shh

A large amount of steam was expelled, and a steaming cloud swirled around it.

Huang Mao held a cigarette in his mouth, skillfully manipulated the steam link, demonstrated it to the kobold apprentice in front of him, and said with a grin:

"Pay attention to these vapors, if you touch them, they burn through your skin, you know? don't rush to vent, familiarize yourself with the specifications of the operating manual. ”

The kobold apprentice nodded seriously and said gratefully: "Thank you, Lord Yellow Hair, if I complete the internship period, I will definitely use all my salary to buy the best wine on the plantation and dedicate it to you!"

"No, I don't like to drink. Huang Mao shook his hand, "Work hard and dedicate your strength to the construction of Xijing City, which is the greatest reward for me." ”

As he spoke, he left with his hands behind his back.

As the leader of the steam engine working group in the Yuexi Mine, Huang Mao is already a professional master-level figure, and as his apprentices gradually set foot on the job, he can finally be a hands-off shopkeeper.

From time to time, guide and guide newcomers, observe and observe minerals, and the days are also comfortable.

Compared with the bitter squatting in the mine at the beginning, working day and night, he was bullied and whipped by the supervisor, and discriminated against and abused by the werewolf guards. Today's life, for Huang Mao, is a completely fantastic earth-shaking change.

Have your own independent house, stable and sturdy, clean and transparent. There are fresh vegetables, fruits and meat, silver eagles and gold pounds, cigarettes, friends and brothers, and a loving working environment.

"It's time to find a suitable wife and form a small family...... Huang Mao thought happily, but he was a little worried.

There are no women in the kobold miners' group. A large number of women are left in Razor Ridge by the wolf clan as a tool for reproduction. Even when a miner had a family, the women or their descendants were forcibly left in Razor Ridge and treated as slaves.

Whenever he thought of this, Huang Mao would put his hands on his chest and silently pray for the lord. Pray that the great god of the wilderness will bless the equally great lord with a safe life.

The lord is the savior of the Yuexi Mine and the savior of the kobolds.

Huang Mao sighed in his heart, paced, and went down to the mine again.

Kobolds who are naturally interested in mining are actually always idle. Even if I am on a shift today and have no work schedule, I will go to the mine and chat with my friends and workers.

As soon as he walked a few steps, there was a muffled sound of Peng, which shook Huang Mao's ears.

But the people of the entire Xijing City are not surprised by this phenomenon. Ever since the lord experimented with "gunpowder", this kind of sound has been emitted from time to time in all corners of Xijing City.

Blowing up rocks, opening roads, experiments, dropping bombs, etc., happen almost every few days.

Huang Mao rubbed his ears and continued to walk down as if nothing had happened.

Coming to the underground space like this underground kingdom, Huang Mao looked around familiarly, looking for a few familiar workers.

Today, under the mines, the pomp and circumstance of work is completely different.

There are steam engines humming in the depths of each mine, and the power of machinery assists manpower, and some jobs even replace manpower, so that the efficiency of kobold miners is increased tenfold and hundredfold.

Huge numbers of kobold miners shuttled back and forth, basket after basket of ore being thrown onto a conveyor belt and pulled away by the steam unit outside the mine. Moreover, the miners are uniformly gray and black, wearing iron hats, and obey the norms of safe production set by the lord.

"Hey, Yellow Fur, this way!"

A familiar voice shouted.

Huang Mao raised his eyes and saw that there was a guard standing guard in the laboratory of the research institute, waving his hand and shouting here.

"Red Gong?"

Huang Mao happily ran over and looked at the monkey guard in front of him.

Honggong was wearing a well-fitting set of standard leather armor, and the originally messy monkey hair was combed smoothly, and his head and face looked energetic. A cowhide belt around his waist, and batons and whistles were tied to brass buckles.

"Didn't you enter the Fighting Ape Independent Battalion? Why are you not training?" asked Huang Mao in surprise, handing over a cigarette roll casually.

"You can't smoke cigarettes while standing guard!" Red Gong refused with a serious expression.

"Ahem...... Yes, I understand the rules!" Huang Mao praised, raised his big fingers, took back the cigarette and wanted to put it in his mouth, but after thinking about it, he still put it in his pocket.

"I've finished my recruit training, yes, see what, squad leader. The red gong triumphantly pointed to his left arm, which was covered with a copper coat of arms. The pattern is the silhouette of a monkey with swords crossed, and it reads "The Fourth Combat Team of the Fighting Ape Independent Battalion".

The establishment of the army in Xijing City is tentatively set as an independent battalion. Each battalion is composed of 500 people, and there are 10 combat teams, each with 50 people.

"Yes!" Huang Mao raised his thumb again, then beat the chest of the red gong, and said with a smile: "You actually don't say it, when will you celebrate!"

Honggong scratched his head embarrassedly and said with a smile: "Recently, the guards of the research institute have been understaffed, so I was temporarily dispatched to stand guard, and I didn't have time to tell you." ”

The two were talking, when suddenly a kobold miner, panting, ran over, saw Huang Mao's eyes lit up, and shouted: "Head, we have found a strange big black hole! There seems to be a strange person hiding in it!"

"Strange people?" Huang Mao turned his head, his face full of doubt, "What's the situation?"

The kobold miner said urgently, "Go and see, bring the guards, we don't know what to do?"

"Let's go!" Huang Mao picked up the red gong and immediately followed the kobold miner towards a newly developed mine.

At the entrance of the mine, seven or eight kobold miners had gathered, all of them hesitantly exchanging heads, as if what was happening inside had surprised and shocked them.

"Let's let!, let's let!, Lord Yellow Hair is here!" the kobold miner shouted, and squeezed in with Huang Mao and the red gong.

Inside the mine tunnel, there is a rubble ruin, which is supposed to be being excavated and developed.

But in front of Huang Mao's eyes, a huge black hole collapsed downward. It looks like the ground is sinking, but there is a faint light inside, like another large space.

Around the black hole, there are layers of thick fog. Like the previous blocked mines, the fog was filled with phosphorescence, mysterious and strange.

Yellow Fur cautiously approached the black hole and looked in.

"Wow!"

Huang Mao couldn't help but let out a terrifying scream.

Because he had just looked down, a head appeared below him. The two looked at each other, and they were both startled by each other.

Honggong grabbed Huang Mao's shoulders to prevent him from falling, and he leaned over to look down with a baton in his hand, and couldn't help but shout: "Someone!!"

I saw a short figure lying on his stomach at the mouth of the black hole below, revealing his eyes, looking at the yellow hair and the red gong with a shocked face.

"Who are you?" Huang Mao roared.

"Who are you?" the black shadow below also roared without showing weakness.

Honggong saw clearly again that the person under the black hole was not a black shadow.

It's because of this person, who looks black.

Because of the light, this person is dark again, so it is indeed a little scary to see it suddenly. But when Honggong took a closer look, he realized that this man was not a monster.

It has a stocky and stocky body, thick arms, legs and feet, a black beard on its face, human-like eyebrows and eyes, a large nose, and slightly thick lips. Wearing a set of dirty animal skin robes, the skin of the fruit dew is like a hard shell.

The man had an iron pickaxe in his hand, and a ring of small bottles hanging from his belt around his waist, which contained sparkling fine stones, as well as gold and silver nuggets, which looked comical.

"Is it also a miner?" said to Honggong, a strange thought.

Because this short and stout weirdo is dressed like a miner.

"We are the Xijing City Yuexi Mine Team, who are you?" Huang Mao continued to ask.

The sturdy strange man below touched his black beard inexplicably, and asked, "Why haven't I heard of it, is there any Xijing City nearby? Isn't this the land of burning embers? It's the territory of the evil orcs, where did you come from?"

"Hurry up and inform the lord!" Red Gong keenly sensed that something was wrong.

Immediately, a kobold miner nodded and quickly ran out.

However, after a while, Li Mo, who had a questioning face, and the three female deputy gods, hurried over when they heard the news.

Li Mo squatted at the mouth of the black hole, staring at the stout stranger below, and couldn't help but jump in his eyelids.

Regardless of the appearance, this short stranger is similar to the "dwarf" in his image. The only difference is that it is slightly taller and the skin is too dark.

Li Mo clearly remembered that he had asked Lao Bi that there were indeed no dwarves in this world! There were no elves, let alone dragons!

In order to confirm this, Li Mo said in a calm tone, and asked the stout stranger, "We are wilderness people, what race are you?"

The stout stranger frowned and said, "I am the Black Iron Clan, the Black Iron Stone Spirit. ”