Chapter 33: The Mithril Mine
Rickety and bumpy, Meng Kang had a little dream in which he got into a canoe and drifted on the sea in the dark night, drifting into the fanged mouth of the giant beast in the sea.
Without oars, he could only paddle with both hands, hoping to escape the bloody mouth.
However, the effect was limited, and the canoe still floated into the mouth of the giant beast.
"Ding, there are 178 treasures in the surrounding ten meters."
A crisp bell woke Meng Kang up from his dream, and Meng Kang, who woke up, shook his head vigorously to expel some residual images of the nightmare, and began to look at his surroundings.
Here is a dungeon, with a few drops of cold ice water oozing from time to time overhead, and hard stone walls on three sides, only one side is a rusty iron cage door, the door is welded from more than a dozen iron rods, with a rotating shaft above, and a thick iron chain tied to a fixed iron rod below, and a huge lock hanging from the middle of the chain.
"Ding, after the detection, there are 174 treasures that are eighth-level rare ores: Mithril Mine, and 4 pieces are ninth-level rare ores: Shenyin Mine, which is a mineral-rich Mithril mine with extremely high value."
The greed badge in his brain gave the final detection result, Meng Kang touched the smooth and cold stone wall, and pondered in his heart: "Is this the secret of the Pingyang Guild?" It's no wonder that when I held the auction, there were only two guilds competing, and the Pingyang Guild was hiding here to mine ore.
No, it's only been a few days since the game started? It is impossible for any player to mine the ore of level 8, could it be that this is the place where the poisonous unicorn was discovered, and the intention of the city guards is also to develop this mythril mine, right? ”
Meng Kang took a look at the other people lying in the dungeon, it was those people in the city guards, including Fang Hao, there were many people, it was probably that their resistance to the poisonous qilin's poisonous gas was not as strong as that of the player, so they hadn't woken up yet.
While the NPCs were still unconscious, Meng Kang unloaded all the packages of each city guard and threw them into his storage ring.
He did this for two purposes, one was to collect money, and the other was that everyone in the city guard had communication props in their packages, and as soon as they woke up, they would notify the magic energy cannon to fire, and Meng Kang didn't want to die in the collapse caused by the magic energy cannon bombardment.
The package of the NPC is different from the player, the player is the package given by the system, which is opened with the operation bar, and there is no entity, but the NPC is a real package on the body, and because of this, Meng Kang can take it all.
Looking at the rusty iron cage door, Meng Kang took out a dagger to attack, a crisp metal symphony sounded, the dagger collided with the iron cage door and sparks, and only a layer of rust fell on the iron pillar of the cage door, leaving no trace.
"Damn, it's sturdy." Meng Kang sat back in place.
I don't know when these city guards will wake up, Meng Kang began to rummage through the packages of the city guards in the storage space, they are all spare weapons, not too good weapons, they are all ordinary, and they are more than thirty levels, useless.
However, Fang Hao's package contained a piece of black iron-level equipment, but Meng Kang couldn't use it, and found the last backpack, and Meng Kang found a skill book inside.
Take it out and see that it's a thief, it's not a combat skill, it's not a passive skill, it's a special skill: unlocking.
As the name suggests, you can pick the lock after learning, and you can pick the lock without anything, of course, there is a success rate and a failure rate.
Open the skill book to learn.
Unlock: Level 1, upgradeable. Consume five mana points to conjure up a ******, and use this ****** to unlock the lock has a 5% success rate.
Meng Kang immediately used the lock-picking skill on the lock on the iron cage door, and a thin iron piece appeared in Meng Kang's hand, inserted it into the lock, and turned it at will.
"Smack."
If it is broken, it will disappear into white light, and the system will prompt that the unlocking fails.
I tried many times, but I failed, and the indomitable Meng Kang kept using the lock-picking skill, and when the mana was empty, he drank the blue medicine, and then continued to open.
I don't know if he has failed dozens or hundreds of times, Meng Kang's lockpicking skills have accumulated enough proficiency and he has been upgraded to one level.
The success rate has risen to 10 percent, but Meng Kang tried several times but still failed.
This time, Meng Kang regretted not leaving the opportunity to upgrade the skills of the Greed Badge behind, so he had to keep reusing the skills.
After many failures, Meng Kang stopped for three or four seconds, withdrew his hand and rubbed it, calmed down and stabilized his mood.
Release the skill, insert the lock pick, turn slowly, "click".
This time it was the sound of the lock opening, and the system prompted Meng Kang: "Congratulations on successfully opening the intermediate door lock, gaining 50 proficiency points and 1 ordinary honor value." ”
Meng Kang didn't expect that he had just learned the lock-picking skill and turned out to be the hand of the intermediate door lock practice, the more advanced the lock-picking skill, the lower the success rate of the door lock, and it also gave the honor value that I don't know what it is used until now, I know how difficult this door lock is.
Untying the iron chain, Meng Kang pushed the iron cage door open, returned to the inside and shook Fang Hao vigorously, trying to wake up Fang Hao and escape.
"Captain Fang Hao, Captain Fang Hao......" Even after calling ten times, there was no sign that Fang Hao was about to wake up, Meng Kang was so anxious that he even used the method of slapping his face, but it still had no effect.
There was no way, Meng Kang had no choice but to get out of the dungeon alone, and by the way, he locked the cell door again and restored it to its original state, he just hoped that people passing by would not notice that someone had escaped here.
Out of the prison door, Meng Kang looked at both sides of the passage, both sides were the same scenery, both were mine tunnels lit with magic lamps, and he couldn't tell which side was the exit and which side was the way to the depths.
However, before Meng Kang could make a judgment, he heard the sound of many people talking from the side, and when he heard the footsteps getting closer and closer, Meng Kang knew that someone was coming.
Meng Kang immediately entered a stealth state, leaning his body close to the wall of the mine, holding his breath and not daring to act rashly.
The sound of talking, the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer, a nine-person team appeared in Meng Kang's sight, and seeing the formation of these people, Meng Kang was a little panicked.
The mine road is not wide, there are six people in this nine-person team walking side by side in front, three in the back, and the six people in front can just walk away, if they pass through Meng Kang, there is a chance that they will meet Meng Kang.
Meng Kang inhaled fiercely, put his stomach away, and pressed against the wall to watch everyone approach.
"Yikes!" One of the female players on the far side screamed.
Everyone hurriedly asked, "Xiaozhu, what's wrong!" ”
The little bamboo pointed to the place where Meng Kang was hiding and said, "Just now I came across a soft thing there, like meat. ”
Everyone hurriedly tested with their swords, and slashed a few times at the place where Xiaozhu said, only to hear the sound of gold and stone colliding.
"No, Xiaozhu, are you watching ghost movies again, why are you suspicious."
"No, I really feel it."
"But there's really nothing, forget it, don't think about these things, hurry up and take all the people in the dungeon to the innermost part of the mine."
Meng Kang used all his strength to support him in the corner above the mine tunnel, and after he was just discovered by the player named Xiaozhu, he quickly moved here, watching the people below open the cell door and carry Fang Hao's team out from inside.
Meng Kang's sneaking time had passed, and he showed his figure, as long as a person looked up, he could be seen.
Looking at the cooldown countdown of the stealth skill, Meng Kang felt that time was passing so slowly. The stealth level lasts for 30 seconds, but the cooldown also increases to 40 seconds, and fortunately all the people are busy getting out of the NPCs for 10 seconds, and no one is looking around.
Some male players are carrying two NPCs, and one player counts the number of people and asks, "How many people are coming?" There are eleven of them here. ”
"It must be eleven, the cell door is locked, are you still afraid that someone will run away? Besides, we have to hurry, the time for this poison to take effect is almost up, and if we don't send it in time, we will be hacked to death by the NPCs who wake up, don't ink. ”
As soon as the players heard that they would be killed, they quickly closed the cell door and left, Xiaozhu carried an NPC on his shoulder, muttering "It always feels wrong." Then he glanced around, and finally looked up, and there was nothing, indeed nothing.
Meng Kang's body that had just entered the stealth state again was scared out of a cold sweat, he was not afraid of dealing with these people, he just didn't know how many people were in the front and back passages, this was very likely to be the base camp of the Pingyang Guild, he didn't think that he could escape the pursuit of the fifty-level poisonous unicorn without an antidote.
Watching the players of the Pingyang Guild go away, Meng Kang jumped down from above, quietly followed behind, and advanced to the depths of the mine.