"Voyage, you...... Aren't you human? Xiao Xue said this.

"What?" Rong Yuanhang was stunned.

Xiao Xue said: "'Another world', isn't that the underworld? ”

Rong Yuanhang looked at her blankly, and suddenly couldn't cry or laugh. In Xiao Xue's extreme imagination, the other world can only be the legendary 'underworld', where can he imagine the multiverse?

"Mother-in-law, you are really, hehe, haha......" Rong Yuanhang looked at her almost innocent beautiful face, and felt funny for a while, laughing and laughing, holding his stomach and laughing. provoked the guards on the construction site to look at it one after another, and Xiao Xue blushed with laughter.

As if feeling that she had done something wrong, Xiao Xue lowered her head and asked puzzledly, "You, why are you laughing at me?" ”

"Okay, I won't laugh anymore," Rong Yuanhang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Mother-in-law, it's not what you imagined, well, I'll show you when I have the opportunity......

"Elder Rong! Elder Rong ...... "At this moment, Cai Meng, the deacon from the mining area, hurried over, with excitement on his face, he walked up to Rong Yuanhang and asked, "Elder Rong, where did you get these tools?" It's so easy to use! Do you want to get a batch for the mining area as well? ”

"Deacon Cai, don't ask about the origin of the tool in the future, you know?" Rong Yuanhang said unhappily.

Cai Meng was stunned when he saw his unhappy face, but he said very knowingly: "Yes, yes, my subordinates have lost their words, eh, this ......"

"Tools for the mining area?" Rong Yuanhang said and stood up, "Anyway, I've never seen what Yuanjing Raw Mine looks like, Deacon Cai, why don't you take me to the mining area to see the working environment inside, I know what kind of tools I need." ”

Cai Meng was overjoyed, spread his hands and said, "Okay." Elder Rong, please! ”

Rong Yuanhang turned his head to Xiao Xue and said, "Mother-in-law, go back, the sunlight here is too poisonous, go to the house and do your best, ah." ”

"Hmm. I see, you're busy. Xiao Xue nodded with a smile, and Cai Meng gave her a slight salute during their conversation.

……

Rong Yuanhang and Cai Meng went to the mining area, Xiao Wu and Cailong, the two divine beasts, also followed him, where the master went, they followed there, Rong Yuanhang didn't pay much attention, anyway, he should be a follower.

The mining area was filled with mud and was filled with the figures of bare-shouldered miners. Cai Meng said, "Elder Rong, come with me, and my subordinates will take you to see the No. 3 mine." ”

After walking a few hundred meters, he came to a relatively remote mine, and the mouth of the shaft was guarded by two tall and sturdy women, who had a long scimitar hanging from their waists, and seemed to have good skills. As soon as they saw Cai Rong, the two of them came over with the little colorful dragon. The good-looking woman on the left bowed and saluted: "Lord Deacon! ”

"Hmm." Cai Meng nodded indifferently, took a step back and introduced, "This is Elder Rong. He's going down the well to see. ”

The two women glanced at Rong Yuanhang, the other party was not wearing the uniform of the elder, but Cai Meng's introduction must not be wrong, so the two of them knelt on their knees, just knelt on the dirt, and kowtowed to the ground on their foreheads to make a big salute: "The slave is gentle and clean (Gao Youjingui)." See Elder Rong! ”

"Elder Rong, these two are the chief and deputy general managers of female miners. Wen Jie is positive, and this Gao You is the vice. Cai Meng said.

"Get up, no need to be polite." Rong Yuanhang waited for them to kowtow before smiling and telling them to get up, and then asked, "Deacon Cai." Do we still have female miners in the mining area? ”

Cai Meng replied: "Yes, there are 1,367 female workers, and last time the well collapsed, 60 people were buried at once, and they were not rescued, but it is a pity." ”

Rong Yuanhang's heart sank when he heard this, and he said with a cold face: "Let's go, go down and have a look...... Cailong, Xiao Wu, you two are waiting for me here. ”

……

Usually miners need to use hanging blue when going down the mine, but Rong Yuanhang and Cai Meng are both great masters of the beginner level of the Martial King, and the sixty-meter mine goes down to the surface with a few kicks on the wall of the mine. Then, the general named Wen Jie also came down.

Sixty meters underneath the ground was dark, and the lights in the shafts were candles and oil lamps, and there were oil lamps hanging every twenty meters on the low walls.

There are all kinds of alleys extending in all directions like rat holes, all the lanes are rectangular, and the walls and tops on both sides are only supported by strips of wood, these mortise and tenon structure of the wood square look stable and strong, but Rong Yuanhang feels very unreliable.

The walls are pitted, and they are all a solid substance with a gray-black mixture of minerals and earth, and there are faint water stains when you touch it with your hands, and water drips down from the top from time to time when you walk in the well and alley.

"In which channel is mining?" Rong Yuanhang faintly heard the sound of hammers and chisels beating, but these sounds came from countless alleys.

"Elder Rong, the slave will show you the way." Wen Jie took a step forward and walked in front of the two of them and saluted.

"Okay, you lead the way."

Perhaps limited to the technology of the wooden support structure, the shaft roadway is relatively narrow, the largest one of the main roads is as high as two meters high, more than two meters wide, and the rest of the roadways are two meters high and one or five meters wide.

After walking with Wen Jie for a while, he suddenly heard the jingling pickaxe sound coming from front of him more and more intensely, and then, Rong Yuanhang saw a scene that surprised him: he saw two shirtless women carrying a basket of mineral soil in the alley in front of him......

Immediately afterwards, more and more female miners appeared, and these women were generally undressed: dirty all over, with two large chests. The movements of the tits are swaying, which is very stimulating to the man's eyeballs. Most of the female workers still have a shabby short skirt tied to their lower body, and some are simply naked!

"Why, why are they not wearing clothes?" Rong Yuanhang asked in surprise. Milk fat. The eyes of the buttocks are shaking.

"Hehe," Cai Meng chuckled lightly and said, "Restricted by the environment, Elder Rong, you can get used to it when you look at it." ”

Wen Jie, who was next to her, bowed down and replied: "My lord, the environment here is very dirty, if the sisters put on their clothes and do their homework, it will take less than a quarter of an hour for their clothes to become dirty, and their clothes are easy to wear, so they won't have to wear them after work." What's more, there is a shortage of water in our mine, and it is not easy to clean clothes when they are dirty, so everyone is not used to dressing when they come to work. ”

Rong Yuanhang nodded. He didn't answer, but walked to the end of a shaft, where four or five female workers were gathered around digging for minerals. They worked together, one wheel sledgehammer, one held a long chisel, and the other three women carried the remaining mud. Sometimes the woman with the sledgehammer gets tired and goes on top of another woman......

Seeing Rong Yuanhang and the others coming, the five girls saluted in surprise, and then continued their operations under Wen Jie's command.

The soil here is unusually hard, and when you hit it with a hammer, sparks flew everywhere, as if it had hit steel. What they dug was a black ore on the wall, about the size of a meter. It is noticeably different from the surrounding soil. Rong Yuanhang looked curious, turned his head and asked, "Is this the Yuanjing Raw Ore?" ”

Cai Meng nodded and replied: "Yes, there must be Yuan Jing in this raw ore, but I don't know what the quality is." However, it is generally white crystal. ”

"How many yuan crystals can be produced from such a large piece of ore?"

"Is this...... It depends," Cai Meng thought for a while and said, "But it usually won't be more than one penny." ”

"What, such a large lump of ore produces less than a penny?" Rong Yuanhang asked in surprise. One penny. In a modern unit of measurement, it is three .7 grams. If it is white crystal, according to the current price of sixty taels of gold per tael. Then its value is only six taels of gold. Moreover, according to what Cai Meng said, such a large piece of Yuanjing may not be able to produce a penny.

"Deacon Cai, such a large raw ore must weigh a ton, right?" Rong Yuanhang said: "If it is all this kind of raw ore, wouldn't it be very laborious to transport it to Black Iron City?" ”

"A ton?"

"Uh......, I'm talking about weight. It's probably only about 20 stones. ”

Cai Meng shook his head and said with a smile, "Elder Rong, it's not what you said. After these mines are dug out, they have to be washed here, and the pickaxe is shot out of impurities, and the volume is about one in a hundred. After rough refining, the resulting raw ore is sent to the Black Iron City for refining, and the Yuan Crystal is easy to melt under high temperatures, but the associated ores around it are extremely stubborn, requiring high firepower to analyze them. This is where the Alchemist comes in, and only Black Iron City has such a noble figure. Black Iron City is close to the port and it is convenient to transport fuel, so generally the refineries of the major families will be located there, even our Wang family. ”

"Oh, I see, the melting point of metacrystalline ore is different from that of associated ore." Rong Yuanhang nodded. But I felt that this kind of mining was a bit more than worth the loss, but I didn't say much.

Cai Meng looked at his expression and said with a slight smile: "Actually, the associated ore of Yuanjing Mine is also a precious thing, called Black Iron, and the origin of the name of Black Iron City may also come from this. It is as valuable as gold, extremely hard, and when smelted, is an indispensable material for crafting sophisticated weapons. ”

Rong Yuanhang nodded suddenly, it turns out that the associated ore is also a valuable thing!

"You ...... Let me try? Rong Yuanhang saw that a few naked female miners couldn't take the raw ore after beating for a long time, and he wanted to understand the difficulty of taking the ore for a while.

Several women are all black, and they can't even see their faces clearly, except for the bewitching lines of their breasts and bodies, they don't look very sexy. Wen Jie asked them to stop, and everyone had a chance to rest for a while.

Rong Yuanhang rolled up his sleeves and held the chisel in one hand and the hammer in the other. Approaching the past: "Ding! With a hammer blow, the sparks burst suddenly, and it was really hard and abnormal!

The strength of each hammer is no less than 100,000 catties, and after several hammers in a row, the black raw ore has been loosened, but most of it is still hidden in the soil and mud is not exposed, and it is necessary to loosen the surrounding solid soil while cleaning out the remaining mud, so that a piece of raw ore can be completely taken out.

"Ding-click!"

The thick long chisel broke in response!

"Damn, that's too hard!" Rong Yuanhang looked at the chisel in his hand that was broken by him and apologized, but he was helpless for a while.

"My lord, there's another one here." At this moment, a female miner spoke in a hoarse voice.

"I'm not going to do it, come on." Rong Yuanhang didn't know the skills of mining, he just wanted to experience the difficulty, so he quit and let a few workers re-mine.

Rong Yuanhang stood there stunned, and Cai Meng and Wen Jie didn't dare to scratch it. Several naked women have different movements, one of them pouts her ass and bows down to move the soil, the woman's long hair is tied up with hemp rope, her figure is tall and plump, the two balls of meat on her chest are dangling, and the middle portal of the round two gluteal muscles is exposed, and the posture is extremely attractive.

At this time, Wen Jie saw that he seemed to be fascinated, so she dared to approach his side. He said cautiously: "My lord, if you fancy which one...... Slaves and maidservants can ask them to serve you. ”

"Presumptuous!" Suddenly, Cai Meng on the side shouted angrily, which frightened Wen Jie and the five female workers.

"What is Elder Rong's identity? How can you fall in love with you lowly slave girls? Hmph, save it, I don't know what to say! Cai Meng glared at Wen Jie and scolded.

"Yes, yes, please forgive the slave for trespassing!" Wen Jie was so frightened that she knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously.

"You get up." Rong Yuanhang hurriedly helped her up. said to Cai Meng: "Deacon Cai, don't scare them, it's not easy. Let's go and have a look at the men's mining area......

There is no difference between the working conditions in the men's and women's areas: the workers eat, drink, and lazar in the mines; The lighting is insufficient, the tools are primitive, some are even shovels made of wood, and there is a great lack of baskets, ropes and other tools for moving earth. There are no protective equipment for the body, such as knee pads, hand socks, shoes, etc. The most common are some naked men, their hands and feet are rotten and so on......

Out of the underground mining area. Captain Rong Yuan let out a long sigh, he thought to himself: If there are a few Titan Giant Ape on the construction site, it will save a lot of manpower, it seems that the trouble of finding the Extreme Imperial Sect will be on the agenda, so I will go to the mine of the Extreme Imperial Sect tonight to spy on the situation, and by the way, find an opportunity to steal a Titan Giant Ape and come back.

"Deacon Cai, I will find a solution to the tools that are missing in the mining area." Rong Yuanhang said to Cai Meng beside him: "You don't have to follow, you are busy with you." ”

Cai Meng was overjoyed, arched his hand and said, "Then there is Elder Lao Rong." You go, Cai won't send it! ”

……

At dinner time in the evening. The stone courtyard is lively again. Wang Guanglin, Gu Panpan, Wang Guangming, Long Yurou, Wang Ruonan, Xiao Xue and Rong Yuanhang sat around the table with a lot of people in the whole residence.

For dinner, we will eat braised venison, mushrooms from the bottom of the mountain, and thornless cacti from the small desert.

"Yuanhang, those three big iron boxes you got back are very good housing!" Gu Panpan looked at him and said with a smile.

Rong Yuanhang was full of food, nodded, swallowed before saying, "Well, the container can be used as housing with a few windows." It's better than living in a house made of trees and mud. ”

"By the way, the voyage," Wang Ruonan asked, "One of the three big compartments is full of bags, what are those?" What is it for? ”

"Those are cement, for the construction of pools." Rong Yuanhang said: "But it's not enough, I'll teach them how to use it when the pool is dug." The cement should not get wet. Otherwise, it won't be used in the future. Aunt Ruonan, please explain to them tomorrow. ”

"Oh, okay." Wang Ruonan agreed, but his face was full of doubts, and he didn't know where Rong Yuanhang's endless strange things came from, but he had said something earlier, and now he could only hold back his curiosity and not ask.

Gu Panpan said again: "Yuanhang, how much did it cost to bring back those supplies?" Is the fifty taels of aquamarine you given enough? Do you want to make it up? ”

"Uh...... This," Rong Yuanhang was stunned by the question.

"Don't be embarrassed," Gu Panpan was embarrassed to see his appearance, and said, "These things you bought are for the use of the entire mine, they belong to the public, and the amount of money spent is from the family." Give me a number, and I'll give it to the elders when the time comes. ”

Rong Yuanhang replied a little awkwardly: "It didn't cost much." ”

"Then there's got to be a number, huh?" Gu Panpan said.

These materials didn't cost a tael of blue crystal coins at all, how could Rong Yuanhang answer? But before, Gu Panpan forced another fifty taels of blue crystal to herself, and now since she said so, she can only return it.

"Third grandma, I didn't spend any money. Well, I'll give you back the money later. "Rongyuan Fairway.

"Ouch, you kid, are you outside?" Gu Panpan was a little flustered, and hurriedly said: "You misunderstood me, alas, okay, even if those materials are fifty taels of blue crystal, now that Elder Long, Fourth Uncle and others are here, everyone has a testimony, I have to have a number to write down, right?" ”

Long Rouyu persuaded: "Yuanhang, don't lose yourself." ”

"Alas, I really don't care if I don't have money," Rong Yuanhang said helplessly, thought about it and said, "Okay, it's not in line with the rules if you don't reimburse...... That, it's just twenty taels of aquamarine, the third grandmother, I'll return the rest of the money to you after eating in a while. ”

Twenty taels of blue crystal is twenty thousand taels of gold, but the prices in the Black Iron City are amazingly high, much higher than those in Tianshou City. Among them, the most prominent is grain, the same bucket of rice, but the price difference between the two places is more than 100 times! This is all due to regional differences and wars.

Gu Panpan wanted to say more, but Rong Yuanhang changed the topic and said: "By the way, third master, I will take a leave tomorrow, and I have some personal matters to handle." ”

Wang Guanglin said: "Yuanhang, as long as you can complete the task of sending the raw ore to the Black Iron City on time, you don't need to ask anyone for leave, the third master has no right to control you, you can directly take care of you." ”

After everyone finished eating, Rong Yuanhang returned to the room, Xiao Xue brought a pot of hot tea with a tray and followed him back to the room, poured a cup and sent it to him with silent hands, and said softly: "Yuanhang, you have a cup of tea." ”

"Yo, mother-in-law, you're so polite." Rong Yuanhang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly took the teacup with both hands.

Xiao Xue said a little shyly: "Yuanhang, don't say it, I'm willing to serve you, not to mention that I'm still your maid." ”

Rong Yuanhang smiled bitterly and said, "Why should those jokes be taken seriously? Mother-in-law, I can't afford to do this again. ”

Xiao Xue suddenly fell silent, with a little loss on her face.

"What's wrong?"

"It's fine."

"By the way, I'm going out tonight......"

"Voyage," Xiao Xue interrupted him, but turned around and lit the oil lamp in the house with a lighter, and said, "Do whatever you want, don't tell me." …… You go take a shower, put your clothes there, and I'll wash them for you tomorrow morning." ”

It soon got dark, Rong Yuanhang took the time to put Cailong and Xiao Wu into the space, and the clothes worn by the two divine beasts had to be picked up and put into the house, and while Xiao Xue was not here to take a bath, he sneaked out outside. Find an empty and uninhabited land, summon the Crowned Mountain Eagle and fly straight to the territory of the Extreme Imperial Sect...... (To be continued......)