Chapter 52: Dwarven Deposits
Together with Pantony, he came to a house at the foot of the mountain, which was a pure wooden house, the house was not small, the only characteristic was that it was short, and Higg and the others needed to bend down to enter it, although the facilities were simple, but it was also complete. Unable to bear this oppression, the few men walked out of the house, leaving only Pantony to enjoy the wine inside.
Higg said, "I guess we're going to be staying here for a while!" ”
Nicole said, "Higg, tell me about your plan, we can't be completely passive!" ”
"Let's not talk about plans, Daniel and Thomas and I are responsible for building the house, you and Die Caiyun are responsible for collecting materials, fresh water, food, and we will discuss the specific plan and build the house together."
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Life on the island is monotonous, and the occasional storm makes people upset and miserable, especially Thomas from the arid steppes, where the humidity and rain make him cry every day. Nicole and Butterfly also complained that the hides they got from Pantony were simply made into ugly clothes, which was the most unbearable for them.
Higg and Anthony don't care. Higg's mind is not on these at all, and Anthony's indifference lies in his mentality, in doing everything as he pleases, which is not a kind of masterful practice.
For more than a month, Higg was rarely quiet, sorting out his qi origin and water origin, and by the way, studying the use of qi spirit beads and water spirit beads, so that the use of first-order and second-order qi magic skills and water magic skills has been greatly improved, and water magic skills can even be used as they want without meditation.
"Daniel, what's the discovery?" Higg asked impatiently when he saw Daniel hurrying in.
"I've followed him a few times, and Pantony seems to be wary, and this time I followed him far behind and found him in a pit under that volcano!"
At this time, Nicole also walked into Higg's room and asked strangely, "Have you gone into the pit to see?" ”
"I didn't go in for fear of disturbing Pantony, the mouth of the pit is very hidden, so we haven't noticed!" Daniel said.
"I'll go check with Daniel tonight, Nicole, you three stay behind, stay safe!"
"I'm going too! "Don't try to dump me, I'm not a timid person. ”
"What about Thomas and Butterfly Cloud?" "Don't forget, this island is weird, we can't know each other yet, don't be willful!" ”
"We'll go too!" At this time, Thomas and Butterfly Caiyun also walked in, "We share the responsibility for something, we don't need protection!" ”
"Nicole, I originally wanted to keep you, one is to protect them, and the other is to let you spy on Pantony!" Higg thought for a moment and said helplessly, "Forget it, since you all have to go, let's go and prepare, there may be danger at night!" ”
In the evening, Pantony, who was closely watched, returned. As usual, when he entered the house, he picked up the few remaining bottles and began to fill them with a full bottle, and then began to fall asleep.
Sigg felt that Pantony was almost asleep, so he beckoned Daniel to lead the group to the mine.
Although the island is not big, the road is difficult to walk, especially when it rains frequently, and it is a night road, it took more than half an hour to reach the hidden pit mouth in the dark, and just near the pit mouth, I smelled a pungent and unpleasant smell.
"It's a sulphur mine!" Higg said, then cast a spell with his left hand, lighting up a small fireball, "Watch out! ”
In addition to the unpleasant smell of sulfur in the pit, it was also very hot, which made Thomas and Butterfly secretly regret coming with them.
Walking down the dark tunnel, it is obvious that the pit is still mined, but no miners have been found, and the sulfur mined is not very hidden, and there is no place for the sulfur to be stored.
The tunnels got deeper and deeper, and the air became hotter and hotter, but there was still no movement. What exactly is Pantony's secret here? Why do you come to this pit every day? Higg and the others became more and more confused.
Coming to the intersection of the three forks of a tunnel, Higg saw a small hall, the small hall was not big or high, and even Higg and the others had to bend down to enter. The walls of this small hall bear the marks of fresh chiseling, as if they were opened up not long ago.
Higg picked up his sword and slashed at the newly hewn wall, which was so strong that the sword didn't cut much into it.
"Empty?" Higg was surprised, "It's empty behind the wall!" ”
"Is there anything dangerous hidden in the clearing?" Thomas asked, surprised.
"It can't be some kind of treasure, right?" Daniel was greatly interested.
"You'll know if you chisel it!" Nicole said.
"What if there's danger?" Die Caiyun said.
"Stand back, vigilance!" Higg said, running the magic power, and the air in the small hall immediately fluctuated, and Higg's hand immediately condensed into a huge air mass, which slowly turned into a bright and flickering atmospheric hammer. Higg raised his atmospheric hammer and slammed it into the wall, shattering with a thud, revealing a huge space behind the wall.
An even more pungent smell filled the small hall, and everyone coughed violently. I saw that the huge space behind the wall was filled with yellow sulfur.
"Ahem, ahem, extinguish your fireball!" Nicole coughed.
"How can there be so much brimstone?" Higg extinguished the fireball, changed it to directly illuminate it with the Qi Spirit Bead, and began to probe the situation inside, but it was still sulfur except sulfur.
"Damn it, damn it......" Pantony appeared outside the small hall, holding an axe in his right hand and a shield in his left hand, and cried out, "You thieves, why did you steal my sulfur?" ”
"Your brimstone?" Daniel laughed, "The treasure we discovered first!" ”
"It took me more than twenty years to dig up this bit of sulfur, how did it become your treasure!" Pantony said angrily.
"Mr. Island Owner, we don't want your treasure, it's just curious today, it's just a coincidence that the expedition came here, don't get me wrong!" Higg said with a smile.
Pantony said angrily: "You are exploring at night? Clearly trying to steal my sulfur! Higg, don't think I'm scared of you if there are too many of you! ”
"Mr. Islander, I said we have no interest in brimstone, believe it or not!" Higg was also angry, "I ask you, what are you digging for so much sulfur for?" ”
"What's the matter with you?" Pan Dongni said angrily, "I'm bored on the island, digging and having fun, can't I?" ”
"Believe it or not, I burned your brimstone?" Daniel is a quick-tempered man.
"I'll kill you!" Pantony screamed, raised his axe and was about to cut Daniel.
"Wait!" Nicole walked over and shouted to stop Pantony.
"What do you have to say?" The grumpy Pantony asked.
"Nothing to say, just ask a question." Nicole said, "We won't move your sulphur. ”
"Tell me about it!" Pantony suppressed his anger and said.
"Why the hell do you want so much sulfur, you really dug it yourself? They can't be eaten, and they can't be used on this island, so can you get them out? Nicole asked.
"How many questions do you have to ask?" Pantony said.
"That's all!"
"Hmph, you never know a dwarf's feelings about mines, I have lived on this island for twenty or thirty years, can you understand?" Pantony said with a wry smile, "What do you do when you are stranded on a one-man island, with no rescue, no way out, no hope?"
"We dwarves are born with a natural fanaticism for minerals, whatever they are, just as they are for wine, which you cannot understand. I have no wine here, and I can only pass the life by mining mines, and this sulfur is of no use to me, but I will not allow others to touch the fruits of my labor! If you see a dwarf who doesn't develop minerals, you're not a pure dwarf! ”
"Didn't you say you're a battle dwarf?" Thomas asked shouting.
"Aren't battle dwarves dwarves?" Pantony said angrily.
Thomas was speechless, the outcome of the discussion on the question of white horses and non-horses was still up to the irascible dwarven island owner.
Nicole asked curiously, "That is, you are just pure mining and have no other purpose, such as targeting us, Mr. Islander?" ”
"You say I have a purpose, and you dare to insult the personality of a dwarf?" Pantony jumped up in a rage and was about to make a move.
"Okay, don't fight, it seems that it's just a misunderstanding!" Higg smiled and said, "But I'm very strange, you open a mine just a mine, why hide it from us?" What are you worried about, afraid that we will steal your mine? We're not even having a problem with the islands now, and we still have the heart to steal your mines? ”
"I'm hiding it from you, don't you know?" Pantony quibbled.
"Mr. Islander, if you have the opportunity to leave the island, will you give up your own sulfur mine?" Nicole asked, sneering.
"Outlying islands? This ......" Pantony was hesitant and didn't know how to answer.
At this time, the hole in the small hall began to tremble violently, swaying, and the people in the small hall couldn't even stand steadily, and the stones and clods around them fell one after another.
"Oh no, it's an earthquake!" Daniel shouted.
This is an underground mine, it is useless to run, panic only makes yourself more dangerous, everyone knows it in their hearts.
"Isn't this an extinct volcano, is the volcano awake?" Nicole asked.
"Never mind the earthquake and volcano, Pantony, where is the strongest part of your tunnel?" Higg asked.
"Of course it's here, there's no other place, this is the best place to take refuge!"
The earth is still shaking, but it has changed from the previous up and down shaking to side and side, and this shaking is the most deadly and dangerous in the earthquake. I saw that the ground of the small hall began to crack a small crack, and slowly with the intensification of the shaking, it became a crack in the earth, the crack in the ground was unfathomable, and the earth and stones on both sides fell into the middle of the crack, and everyone avoided to the side of the crack, Thomas and Butterfly Caiyun held Higg's hand tightly.
Everyone was even more panicked, because this crack in the ground was still expanding, and there were not too many vacant places in the small hall, and six people were huddled together, standing in a position of a few square meters, leaning closely together, praying that this last position would not be swallowed up by the crack in the ground.
"Ahh......h