Chapter 212: The Scepter of the Earth - The Vein That Runs Through the Earth (3)

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"The boss got up to buy something" Chen Kai slapped the shopkeeper's table heavily, waking him up from his fragrant sleep. After being woken up, the shopkeeper was naturally not in a good mood, and he glared at the person who woke him up with wide eyes, only to see three pairs of redder eyes.

Chen Kai felt that he had been deceived because he saw a few zero eggs under the sword. He had only sold for a little more than a gold coin when he sold it, but now he saw 3 zeros and a 2 under the sticker price.

It's a pity that no matter how angry Chen Kai is, he can't do anything about the shopkeeper, after all, it is the nature of businessmen to chase profits, and when the two sides complete the transaction, Chen Kai can't care whether the shopkeeper recasts his own weapons, or picks up the materials to make other weapons.

It's just that what Chen Kai can't accept is that the shopkeeper actually made the weapon into its original shape, and even the color is the same. It's just that the sword body is a little more wide, and looking at the material of the weapon, Chen Kai knows that the shopkeeper must have made one of the two weapons together.

"If you want to buy garbage, go to the foot of the wall to find it, and I'm not a grocery store here, I don't accept rags," the shopkeeper looked at Chen Kai's appearance, then supported his head with his hands and yawned and said, in his eyes, Chen Kai is the kind of unsatisfactory adventurer.

"Who wants that garbage to give me two sets of plate armor, a set of leather armor, two big swords and three daggers" Chen Kai took a money bag from Wang Xuewen's hand and slapped it on the table fiercely, and the sound of gold coins hitting the table suddenly woke up the sleepy shopkeeper.

Chen Kai looked at the shopkeeper's round eyes, as if he had seen a hungry wolf. Then he only saw the shopkeeper's body flash, and immediately disappeared from behind the counter, and when he reappeared, he was already standing next to Chen Kai and nodding his head, with a few more sets of armor and weapons around him.

"Distinguished guest, this is the latest full-body plate armor of our store, the whole body is made of Maglan steel, and the defense ability is extremely strong, and it can resist sharp arrows and weapons" The shopkeeper affectionately pulled Chen Kai and asked him to look at the two sets of plate armor beside him.

Chen Kai felt that he couldn't accept the enthusiasm of the shopkeeper, especially when the other party was holding his hand. That feeling made Chen Kai have an urge to swing his fist and smash it into the other party's face, and this urge was very strong.

However, Chen Kai finally held back, because he didn't want to be arrested by the guards in the city as robbers and sent to the wooden prison. So in the end, Chen Kai still pinched his nose and gritted his teeth to resist his impulse, and after bargaining for half a day with great perseverance, he bought two sets of finished armor and various weapons and materials.

"Damn, this profiteer's eloquence is so good, he actually made me spend so much money" Watching the shopkeeper count the gold coins one after another, Chen Kai suddenly felt that he had been slaughtered by the other party again.

"Hey, don't be busy leaving, I have something better here, would you like one?" The shopkeeper looked at Chen Kai's face and was about to go out, and hurriedly grabbed the other party. In Chen Kai's opinion, the other party does not plan to give up if he does not squeeze out the gold coins in his money bag.

"Want a map of the Great Rift Valley? Not a road in the rift, but a faster and more secluded road. The shopkeeper said in a very secretive and seductive voice, as his fingers pulled out a parchment drawing from under the counter.

"As long as 1 purple gold coin, this map is yours" Looking at Chen Kai's face, the shopkeeper gently said his offer, no matter from which point of view, the price of this map is a bit high, but if it is true, then it must be worth the money.

"I need to check the map!" Chen Kai thought quietly for a while, he had to confirm the authenticity of the map, and the best way was to directly record the map with video projection, because then Chen Kai would not have to pay.

"No problem with a deposit of 10 gold coins, my old Sola is a kind person" The shopkeeper happily pushed the map towards Chen Kai's body, but he still pressed it with his hand until Chen Kai put the money in the shopkeeper's hand.

When the map was in hand, Chen Kai felt a sinking under his hands, and the texture was not an ordinary sheepskin map, but a heavier strange leather. After opening the map, Chen Kai's face became ugly, because there was nothing on the entire map.

"Doesn't that seem strange? Because this is a secret map, you need this kind of thing to see clearly" said the shopkeeper slowly dropped a drop of purple potion onto the leather, accompanied by a faint purple light, the map slowly showed its original appearance and recorded information.

It was a map with the entrance from under a cliff north of Altinis, and it seemed that the entire road was underground, which meant that if Chen Kai and the others walked this road, they would have to walk slowly underground for more than a month. Because all the underpasses are very dangerous, and the most important thing is that they are narrow and cannot be ridden.

Chen Kai observed the information on the map and recorded all the content on the map with a video, but the more he looked, the more information came out. This includes the environment around the various roads, as well as the deadly traps and monsters that are found underground. Looking at the information that appeared and disappeared immediately, and there was no time to record it, Chen Kai knew that those shopkeepers had played tricks to prevent him from remembering them.

"What if the map is wrong?" Chen Kai closed the map, too much information and characters made his eyes swell a little, but he had already determined the authenticity of the map on a certain level. This is because the two places mentioned on the map are the published underground lava roads, which are the necessary routes to the Guò Rift Valley.

These roads are notoriously full of forks in the road, and without official maps or guides, you might just walk straight to the underworld. In fact, this happens quite often, and many merchants end up disappearing into the underworld and never reappearing.

"Don't worry, this isn't the first map I've sold, and I've often used that path myself, after all, there are more opportunities for this road than going through the Great Rift Valley," the shopkeeper said and winked at Chen Kai and smiled with a very intriguing smile.

Looking at the shopkeeper's smile, Chen Kai suddenly felt like vomiting, and anyone who saw a fat old man smiling with a feminine smile would feel very uncomfortable. So Chen Kai directly withdrew his hand holding the map, and stood behind Su Xinghe and motioned for him to bargain with the other party.

Su Xinghe, who was instructed by Chen Kai, had a bad face, just now the four of them took turns to fight, but the piece of armor killed by the shopkeeper was not left. Almost no discount at all, and they were fooled into buying a bunch of miscellaneous things, if they hadn't finally returned them, they would have to carry a lot of things such as hammers and scissors to leave the store.

Sure enough, after more than ten minutes of fierce firefighting, Su Xinghe was still defeated after bringing Fei Yun and Wang Xuewen in a row. In the end, they had to pay for a purple gold coin to buy the map, along with the Permanent Manifestation Potion.

"Damn, this damn profiteer, Lao Tzu's money" Wang Xuewen looked at his shriveled money bag, and felt a sad feeling surging in his heart.

"Okay, don't scold, how can you say that at least there are a few hundred gold coins in it, isn't it?" Chen Kai patted Wang Xuewen on the shoulder, now he was going to buy some things, and then go to the underground passage to investigate. If it is confirmed that the passage is stored, then immediately notify Xu Fei and let him rush back.

If there is no zài in the channel, then run back to the shopkeeper to settle accounts, and when the time comes, he will definitely have to make his head bloom and become a pig's head. Chen Kai was very sure that he would do that, because he wanted to beat that profiteer into a pig's head now.

A day later-

A place north of Altinis is called the Valley of Anchi, which is the northernmost territory of the whole of Altinis, and beyond that is the territory of the Great Wasteland. The whole area is unusually inhospitable, except for the nearby grazing antelope, and the only thing left is a few bighorn bison roaming the vicinity.

Of course, in addition to these, there is also a kind of monster that gives Chen Kai an extreme headache, that is, those wasteland hooligan bucktooth rabbits who are constantly cursing and swearing next to Chen Kai and them. These bandit-like creatures had no interest in Chen Kai and the other big men, although they kept following them, at most they were just hiding in the distance and constantly swearing.

And as soon as Chen Kai rode Lal to them, these long-legged rabbits immediately ran away without even a shadow. Therefore, the bucktooth rabbit here made Chen Kai feel more uncomfortable than other places, and those swear words poured into his ears constantly ignited the anger in Chen Kai's heart, but they just didn't let him have a place to vent.

In fact, it's not just Chen Kai, but everyone else is the same. Wang Xuewen and Fei Yun were extremely angry at these annoying bucktooth rabbits, one of them turned nearly half of their magic power into a spell to vent it on them, and the other directly wasted two boxes of crossbow arrows, and as a result, they didn't even get a single rabbit hair.

So they can only try to plug their ears and not let those annoying sounds enter their heads. Fortunately, the place marked as a passage is no longer the territory of the bucktooth rabbit, after entering the Anqi Valley, the bucktooth rabbit that followed Chen Kai and them all scattered away, and the only thing left was the swearing that made Chen Kai and the four of them turn pale.

"Next time, next time, I must destroy them" Chen Kai almost roared and scolded at the bucktooth rabbits who were far away, and the other three who were also angry did the same, raising their fists and roaring at the bucktooth rabbits.

After venting fiercely, Chen Kai and the four of them left a lot of weeds and broken wood at the mouth of the valley, and then slowly walked towards a cave under a cliff in the valley. Because although the map is marked in detail, there are still discrepancies in reality, after all, it is not a military map, and some places are just crudely marked with some text. But even so, this map is much more detailed than the usual map, which only has a place name or a few thin lines.

"It should be here" Looking at the dark cave in front of him, which was like a dark abyss, Chen Kai slowly took out the map and compared it. In order to determine the location on the map, several drawings of the surrounding markers were drawn, and of course text was used as annotations.

After carefully comparing the text with those simple pictures, Chen Kai finally made sure that he was not looking for the wrong place. Because once he finds the wrong place, the next path will definitely be wrong, and it will not be good for him to lead himself into a dead end.

"That's it! Let's camp here and rest today, and then go down tomorrow when it is dawn to explore the road, we just need to find this fork in the road" Chen Kai said, pointing to a three-fork road on the map, which is an important place to determine whether this map is real, because from a fork in the road there you can reach the Great Rift Valley.

"It's really dark here," Fei Yun lowered his head and glanced into the cave, but he saw nothing but some rocks nearby, and only a few meters in sight.

"Chief, where do we sleep? Inside the caves, or looking for a place to camp outside? Wang Xuewen shook the tent in his backpack and said, this is a double tent he specially bought, so that they can sleep at night, after all, it is much safer to sleep in a tent than outside.

"Let's wait for Lao Su to accompany me to check the cave, if there is a place to camp, just camp in the cave, looking at the weather, it is estimated that it will rain again at night. NND's ghost weather rains twice in three days, which is even more troublesome than the rainy season in reality" Chen Kai looked up at the sky, obviously it was only four o'clock in the afternoon, but there was no light in the sky. In the distance, there was a constant rumbling of thunder and the light of lightning, which signaled that a heavy rain was about to arrive again.

"Boss, we won't have trouble at night, last time it rained, we met that cheap saint, and last time it rained, we encountered a bug keeper who was bitten alive, this time it won't run out of the head of the dragon to eat us, right?" Fei Yun looked at the dark cave and trembled a little, after all, the fear of the dark place was too great.

"How can it be so coincidental..."Chen Kai said boldly, to be honest, listening to Fei Yun's words, he felt a little uneasy in his heart. It is estimated that the number of prayers has been too few recently," he comforted himself in his heart, and then he and Su Xinghe slowly walked towards the depths of the cave with torches, or the depths of the cave entrance.

Watching Chen Kai and Su Xinghe slowly walk towards the cave with torches, Fei Yun and Wang Xuewen slowly rubbed their hands and began to prepare food for the evening. Of course, there are also things to light the campfire, especially firewood. After all, if the road could be walked, they would have to stay underground for a long time, and without enough firewood, they would probably have to live by eating dry bread and cold water underground.

"I hope this rain will come slowly" Fei Yun said hello to Wang Xuewen and walked towards the grove on the side with an axe and a saw, there were basically no large beasts in this valley, at most some herbivores. Of course, there are occasional exceptions, at least when Chen Kai and the others were looking for the cave, they saw a family of wild boars, but at this time they were all washed and stripped and lying in Chen Kai's backpack.

For the wild boar family that took the initiative to provoke and attacked, Chen Kaike, who had been driven a little crazy by those bucktooth rabbits, showed no mercy to his subordinates, and directly rushed up and chopped off their heads. The speed of the action almost let the others have no chance to do it, of course, because of the high-speed sprint of Ral, the current Ral's body is a full half a head taller than the other Andean horses, and the speed is more than a line.

"The trees here are good and quite tall, it is estimated that it will take half a month to cut down two" Fei Yun touched a big tree, the whole tree pole was half a meter wide, and because Fei Yun picked a hardwood, it was not easy to cut down hardwood. Although it is not easy to burn, it tends to burn for a long time once ignited.

"Cutting wood, this file really still has to be a macho man, hey, it would be good if the pillar was here, he must be more suitable for this thing than me with so much strength" Fei Yun sighed while swinging the axe vigorously to cut a hole in the tree pole, because the quality of the tree he picked was too hard, and it took him half a day to cut a small hole.

"This has to be cut until Ma Yue" Fei Yun felt a little depressed looking at the tree pole that was nearly half a meter wide, and at this time, a small drop of rain gently fell on his face, followed by a huge silver lightning bolt that pierced the sky and illuminated the surrounding snow.

"It seems that we have to get some firewood back quickly, this tree will be cut down tomorrow" Fei Yun felt the heavier and heavier raindrops, and hurriedly stuffed all the firewood collected on the ground into his backpack and ran quickly towards the place where the cave was. There, Wang Xuewen had already begun to raise a bonfire and worked hard to support the tent, but there was no Chen Kai and Su Xinghe.

"Mosquito Brother Shui, haven't they come back yet?" Fei Yun quickly shook his body, shook off the dripping rain on his body to the ground, and vigorously dried his hair with a dry towel. Although there is no cold in the game, there is still a wind chill, and it is not a good thing to get sick or something.

"No, but didn't you watch the team channel? They found a vein of iron ore down there, and they dug up the stones there!" Wang Xuewen took some fresh firewood from Fei Yun's hand, slowly put them in a dry place to preserve, and then continued to set up a tent in the cave.

"Isn't that talking about exploring caves? Why are you digging stones?" Fei Yun thought it was very strange, but after checking the information in the team's channel, he finally understood what was going on. It turned out that Chen Kai and Su Xinghe easily checked the situation at the entrance of the cave, there were basically no monsters in the entire cave except for a few bats, and they also found some household garbage to prove that there were people in and out of the cave.

Fei Yun stood at the entrance of the cave with a torch and listened to the jingling sound coming from inside, and understood that Chen Kai and Su Xinghe were really digging stones there at this moment. After all, everything would be much easier after determining the path, all they had to do now was just wait for Xu Fei and them to come, and then continue to explore the underground passage. As for the rest of the time, it is much simpler, using to store firewood and food for the underground passage through Guò.

Then the orange torches, Fei Yun quickly found the two muscular men who were working hard in the underground cave. Miners are not a very popular profession in the game, generally because all kinds of ores are controlled by those lords, and the mineral deposits in the wild caves are very troublesome to find, and once found, there will be a large number of people running over to draw a circle.

In fact, there are only ten mining areas occupied by ordinary players in the entire game, which is really small compared to the hundreds of mines in various empires. The most important thing is that these places are all deflated and deflated, and the most people around are not players but monsters that roam the world.

Therefore, being a miner in the game is a very hard and extremely dangerous thing, and of course there are some barren mines in some places for players to practice their skills in. However, the number of players was so large that the mines were dug up and collapsed several times in a matter of months.

After all, mining is the fastest and easiest way to make money in the early stages of the game, and if you are lucky enough to mine a few hundred kilograms of iron ore in a day, you can earn at least dozens of gold coins. You can also exchange ore and blacksmith for some equipment, which is much cheaper than spending money to buy it.

However, Chen Kai and Su Xinghe are not mining for money, or money is secondary, their main thing is to increase some mining experience. After all, an area of ore that is rarely mined is a great place for a junk blacksmith to practice, at least he doesn't have to worry about running out of materials when he uses them to forge weapons.

"What kind of ore is here, boss?" Fei Yun, holding a torch, slowly approached where Chen Kai and the others were, and according to the route he recorded from Chen Kai's map, Fei Yun found that he had actually walked into a fork in the road, and this fork was not marked on the map.

"There are only some pyrite and the grade is not high, but the associated ore is not bad, this thing is for you" With the help of the dim torch, Fei Yun quickly saw Chen Kai and their current appearance. A bright silver armor had been thrown into Chen Kai's backpack, two muscular men were working hard to mine hard ore with a mining pickaxe, and what Chen Kai threw over was a fist-sized amethyst.

"How can iron ore still be associated with crystals?" Fei Yun held the crystal in his hand in a daze, although the purple crystal was not valuable, it was a very good thing, at least it was worth a few gold coins. Of course, the value can be multiplied several times if polished into a crystal ball, but it is a very lucky thing that a fist-sized crystal can finally be polished into a crystal ball bead the size of half a fist.

"Who knows? And you can also dig vanadium titanium ore here, although it is only a piece the size of a thumb" Chen Kai took out a small piece of ore from his backpack, the small ore is very inconsistent with its own value, it can be said that it has no connection with the vanadium titanium ore worth thousands of gold coins and a kilogram.

"But why isn't there anyone digging here?" Fei Yun looked at the thumb-sized ore in Chen Kai's hand for a moment, he didn't have a lot of research on ores, so he was naturally inferior to Chen Kai and the other blacksmiths. But what made him strange was that it was very close to Altinis, but there were no miners coming here to mine.

"I don't know! If you knew, this place wouldn't be so unremarkable, do you think those miners would give up such a good place" Chen Kai accentuated his voice on the word miner, of course, referring specifically to those professional miner players who rely on mining as their source of livelihood.

"I guess it's abandoned private mining," Su Xinghe stopped the pickaxe in his hand and said, the private mining in his mouth is worth the mineral deposits mined by those unscrupulous businessmen, usually they only dig some valuable ore. They don't bother to mine barren veins, because they don't have that time, after all, mining precious ore for a long time is going to be locked up.

At this time, a whole clicking sound came from the depths of the mine, and Chen Kai, who had heard this sound countless times, reacted to what those things were in an instant. It also understands why the pit was abandoned, because there are dead creatures in it, and there are quite a few of them.

"TMD's has been fooled by that profiteer again" Looking at the red glow that kept lighting up in the darkness, Chen Kai and the three of them scolded again, aiming directly at the shopkeeper who sold them the map.

"Ah sneeze~~~" At this time, in Altinis's blacksmith shop, the shopkeeper who sold Chen Kai their map was counting the gold coins, but a sneeze forgot all the numbers he counted. "Hell, which bastard is scolding me behind my back? Could it be those silly boys from yesterday? Let's hope they won't be greedy for money and run into the Death Mine, where there are a few Skeleton Knights, guilty of sin," the shopkeeper thought as he rubbed his nose, but soon he continued to devote himself to the great business of counting gold coins.

At this time, in the mine tunnel, Chen Kai and the others were running hard, and the mine road hundreds of meters long seemed so long to Chen Kai and them. Because behind them, more than a dozen bone swordsmen who exuded a strong aura of death were trying to catch up, and there seemed to be more dead creatures slowly reviving and acting farther away.

"Damn profiteer, why didn't the ancestors tell Lao Tzu that there are so many dead creatures here" Chen Kai ran very desperately, he felt that he had really fallen home recently, and almost every rainy day would encounter unlucky things. Or rather, he hasn't been down since he arrived in the Great Rift Valley, first he was thrown off a cliff by two dead creatures and fell to his death, then he was beaten and hung up by a group of Movics, and then he met a slut Sword Master and was almost hung up again, and finally he was just bitten to death by a large group of bugs.

Now he had come across a group of resurrecting dead creatures, and the strong smell of death in the distance made him instinctively frightened, and then he turned around and ran. Chen Kai's U-turn and ran surprised Fei Yun and Su Xinghe, but they also followed very decisively, and their judgment proved to be very accurate. As they left the place, they heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the mine, which naturally did not live normally, only the skeleton horses of the Bone Knight would live in this kind of place.

"It's the Bone Knight, I hope they won't chase them out, otherwise we will have to go back to our hometown again" Su Xinghe was stunned when he heard the sound of the horse's hooves behind him, and then quickly accelerated the pace of running, and suddenly rushed to the front.

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