Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Beginning of Everything Is Difficult
Yi Hui's Bolt barely led him for dozens of kilometers, and finally he had a problem with his control due to excessive wear and tear on the way to escape from the chase of the lord velociraptor and he had to walk to the meeting point with Gilji.
In the dark night, it was difficult to distinguish the direction, Yi Hui walked on the plain in a hurry, it was already the last day from the appointment. If they can't catch up with the team, although there is no big problem, but Jirji, who only knows the general location of the Mithril Mine and does not have a magic map to guide them, they just look for the location of the mine and don't know how long it will take.
In a hurry, Yi Hui thought of the method of "signal flare", but fortunately, Gilji waited until late at night, and finally at the last moment, Yi Hui still caught up with the team.
The sporadic light from nearly a thousand mecha headlamps could already be seen in front of him, and Yi Hui finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hurry up, hurry up, finally catch up." Yi Hui thought to himself.
"Master Yi Hui, you're finally here, it's been a good time for us to wait for the past few days! Are you alright? It's okay to watch, it's okay, hahaha! As soon as Gilji found in the telescope that Yi Hui's figure on foot appeared in the direction of the plain, he immediately drove his mecha to greet him, greeting him with a smile.
"It's okay, I've killed that monster, it's been a hard fight. There's a little problem with the bolt, let's get back to camp. Even the rush made him very tired, Yi Hui didn't need to be polite to Gilji, he couldn't sit down in the dwarf cockpit, he directly sat on the top of Gilji's patriarch mecha and returned to the camp with him.
The bolt number was taken out of the space ornament by Yi Hui and handed over to a few skilled technical backbones personally ordered by Gilji to repair and debug, and the rest of the dwarfs dispersed, and Yi Hui also had to find an idle tent to sleep on him. Since Gilji waited for Yi Hui to arrive, his heart was relieved, and he took Huck back to the tent to rest.
The next day, the bolt was repaired by the technicians and renewed, and some of the more fragile areas were reinforced.
"Let's go!" The team re-marched under the leadership of Gilji and Yi Hui.
The location of the Mithril Mine is in the North Broken Sword Mountains, and at this time, Yi Hui's location is at the intersection of the Broken Sword Road, a transportation hub, and there are three roads here, one is to go to Miluz through the South Broken Sword Mountains, which is where Yi Hui and the others came, the second is to go to Grenoble through the boulevard between the large forests, and the third is to walk east through the Valley of Broken Sword until the Silver Moon Forest where the wood elves live.
None of these three roads lead to the Mithril Mine, and Yi Hui has to find his own way forward at this three-way intersection.
To reach the Mithril Mine, Yi Hui and they had to travel along the mountains of the Northern Broken Sword Mountains, all the way in a northeasterly direction, thousands of kilometers away. Since it was a mountain road, it was impossible to travel too fast, and it would take more than half a month to reach the Mithril Mine.
Fortunately, the mecha has super off-road ability, and the rocky mountain roads with potholes are difficult for Yi Hui and them, but the tracked vehicles that were originally used to transport materials can no longer be used, and all kinds of materials are scattered to each mecha.
This time, Yi Hui was not careless, he was deeply aware that his purpose now was to lead the Bolt family to the Mithril Mine safely, not when he was a personal hero, and he drove the Bolt to explore the road ahead.
There are many rock walls on the mountain road, and it is impossible for too many wild beasts to survive in such an environment, so Yi Hui and the others did not encounter any danger except for walking the rocky road along the way.
Speaking of danger, Yi Hui and the others startled a large flock of rock eagles when they passed through a cliff.
The rock eagle is a large bird of prey, the adult rock eagle body length can reach about three meters, they generally live in the middle of the mountain or on the top of the mountain, their eyesight is very good, generally in groups of activities. When Yi Hui led the team to pass by, a rock eagle discovered the Bolt Family's group of mechas. Spotting the Bolt family that had invaded their territory, the rock eagle immediately let out a loud chirp.
With this chirp, a large flock of rock eagles glided down from the mountainside at the top of the mountain in an attempt to lay siege to the Bolt Family's team. If it were an ordinary team, there was no way to deal with this bird of prey soaring in the sky, but they encountered the Bolt family.
At Gilgil's command, the gunners raised their guns and pointed them into the sky, and after a volley, several rock eagles were shot and fell down in a whirlwind. The rock eagles suffered a big loss and didn't dare to fly too low anymore, just squatting on the high mountain rock and looking down at Yi Hui and them.
There is no more time to delay, Yi Hui has no idea of farming monsters on the spot for the time being, just teach these flat-haired beasts a little lesson, the important thing at present is to hurry.
Although it was a year and a half before the competition between the Thieves Guild and the Assassin Guild, more than a month had passed on the way to open the mine with the Bolt Family, and this period of time could be said to have been lost on the road, and Yi Hui felt more and more that time was pressing.
After a long journey, Yi Hui and the Bolt family finally arrived at their destination, the Mithril Mine.
In Farder's book "My Explorations and Discoveries", this place is only noted as having a Mithril mine here, and specifically states that "too many impurities" are not easy to mine, and this "impurity" is the magic ore, a very important source of energy for the gnomes. So this place is rarely visited, and it doesn't even have a decent place name.
As soon as the bolt family arrived in the place, they began to work intensively on the construction of the foundation of the permanent surname camp. It's a mountainous area, thousands of kilometers to the west, a green eye swamp with a lot of stone and wood for construction, and it doesn't take much effort to build a camp with the mechanical arms on the mech.
"From now on, this will be our new home." Gilji made a rough turn around the hole of the Mithril Mine, Mithril didn't see much, the magic ore was evenly distributed on the wall of the cave, and a large piece could be found at will, this situation made him smile from ear to ear in Gilji's eyes, if you want to describe it, it was a mouse falling into the rice tank.
According to a rough estimate, the open-pit mine on the periphery of the mine alone can provide the entire machinery of the Bolt family with energy for more than a year, and it is possible to find more if you dig deeper.
The gnomes skillfully erected the mining machinery and set up a group of men to level the land for growing food. After all, this is already a long-term residence, so the more carefully prepared everything is, the better.
"Master Yi Hui, please come up with a name for our new home." Looking at the busy clansmen in the mining area, Gilji felt busy and fulfilled, but he did not forget that the person who made him make up his mind to lead the clansmen to such a good place was Yi Hui, so he handed over the right to name it to Yi Hui.
"Since this mine is mined by your bolt family, it is convenient to call it the bolt mining area." Yi Hui also saved trouble, and directly named the things related to the bolt family "bolts", and the same is true for mechas, and the same is true for the name of this mining area today. But it's also appropriate, in fact, the simpler things are the closest to the essence.
Yi Hui's naming was unintentional, but it made Gilji happy for a long time.
Watching the bolt family gradually get on the right track, Yi Hui felt that he could also leave for a while, and the tossing of this period of time made his cultivation basically in a state of suspension, and he had a copy of Argent's thief's experience without calming down to practice, which made Yi Hui very ashamed.
Before leaving, Yi Hui explained to Gilji and said: "Your mining area is getting better and better day by day, which is very good." Although this is a mountainous area, it is still relatively advanced from the swamp, and the defense work should still be paid attention to, specifically refer to the style of the 'bunker' I said before, and if you can arrange hundreds of bunkers, plus musket defense should be enough to protect yourself. I'm going out for a while, and I'll come back to see you from time to time, and there are a few things I need your help with. ”
Hearing Yi Hui's request, Gilji immediately patted his chest and said, "Master Yi Hui, you say, as long as I can do it, I will never shirk." ”
"It's nothing, I just want you to help make some training equipment, I might use it when I come back." Yi Hui then told Jirji about the general requirements for the evasion items in the thief exam and the layout of the examination room for the attack speed and accuracy items. If these examination rooms can be successfully set up in the bolt mining area, Yi Hui will be able to train here solidly.
Gilji seriously wrote down what Yi Hui said, he said: "Our bolt family does not have a record of relevant mechanical devices, but according to the information provided by Master Yi Hui, it should not be difficult to set up these devices, and it is a matter of time before they are made, please rest assured, when you come next time, we will definitely do these things according to the requirements." ”
"Okay, try to do it, it doesn't matter if you can't make it exactly the same, it's just about the same function. For the rest of the year, I will be training in the Green-Eye Swamp to the west, both to familiarize myself with the nearby terrain and to improve my Rogue skills. This is also very important for the development of the entire mining area. ”
"The Bolt is obviously not adapted to the activities of the swampy terrain, and you are too busy with the infrastructure of the entire mining area to spare your hands to modify it immediately, so you can leave it by your side and slowly study and improve it." After Yi Hui explained everything and checked the expedition items, he didn't stay too long before leaving for the Green-Eye Swamp.
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