Chapter 18: There is a mine at home, and he wanders outside

After teaching Duya for a long time, Shelley reluctantly found that he really couldn't change anything, as long as he relaxed, he still looked like a stupid dog grinning and sticking out his tongue. This made her realize that although she looked like a large one-toothed one, she was actually born without a baby for even a day, and her nature as a wolf had not yet been aroused.

So Shelley finally made only two demands on it, one was not allowed to stick out its tongue, and it had another mouth, like a black version of a smiling Samoyed. The second requirement is that it should forage for food in the wild on its own, but not on human livestock.

As for whether it can do it, Shelley can only pray now.

At this time, I noticed Owen and Momo, who were already standing aside.

"Huh? How are you back? Is there a catch? ”

Owen also endured his excitement and said, "It's not that there is a gain, but we have found it." ”

"What? So fast? Shelley's little buttocks, who had just sat down, immediately rose up, grabbed Owen's arm and confirmed with a look of disbelief, "Really let you find it?" ”

Mo Mo hurriedly took out a rust-colored lump the size of a palm from his satchel: "It's the real princess, Your Royal Highness, we did find it, do you see this is it?" ”

Shelley took this thing excitedly, and the starlight in his eyes became brighter and brighter: "That's right! That's it, it's great, it's really good. You've really done a great job. ”

Can she not be happy, because this thing in her hand can instantly increase the development speed of Wule Town by more than ten times.

If Wule Town wants to get up, money and technology alone are definitely not enough, without the most basic source resources, everything is blind. The so-called source resources, simply put, support her advanced technology to achieve the molding of raw materials, there are a lot of them, the most in her heart is coal, if there is a coal mine in hand, it is naturally the best.

But Shelley, weighing the actual situation, abandoned the idea. Because there are so many coal mines in this world, Duke Pokata alone has more than a dozen coal mines in his hands.

Because the research and development rate of coal mines is extremely low, people in this world only use coal mining for the most basic lighting and fire. The high yield and low utilization rate make coal a situation where everyone needs to use it, but they can't use it up no matter how much they use it.

To put it bluntly, its price is extremely low, and if Shelley needs it now, it is more cost-effective to buy it directly than to mine coal by himself. In this way, Shelley can redirect all his manpower to another important target, which is iron ore.

Unlike coal mines, iron ore is not only more difficult to mine than coal mines, but also far less productive than coal, and more importantly, the current demand for iron in this society is much higher than the demand for coal. Therefore, the price of iron was so high that Shelley did not have the money to buy it.

For example, the Duke of Poka, he has two iron mines in his hands, which are heavily armed, for fear that someone will worry about it. As for the coal mines in his hands, Shelley even heard that he gave a coal mine to others, and this is the difference between the two.

For Shelley, whether it is coal or iron, it is a very in-demand thing. But now that coal is so good, we have to put all our energy into the development of iron. But the problem is not to mention the iron mine, there is not even a flowing river near Wule Town where you can pan for iron sand. Where did this lead her to get iron?

At this time, Owen said that he could find iron ore. Then, without even explaining, he took Momo to look for the ore vein outside the town on the spot, and he didn't come back for a night.

Shelley originally thought that Owen was just saying something to comfort her, but he didn't expect that after the night passed, they really found an iron mine. And also brought back a piece of iron ore.

"How the hell did you do that?" Putting down the iron ore in his hand, Shelley raised the question.

Momo explained: "Actually, I didn't contribute much credit this time, and it was all thanks to Brother Owen that I was able to find the iron ore. ”

Seeing Shelley's inquiring look at him, Owen explained why. It turned out that it was all thanks to his superpowers.

It turns out that his ability to make his skin and flesh as hard as steel can not only make his flesh as steel, but also allow him to have the same characteristics as steel, which have both positive and negative characteristics.

The positive characteristic is very simple, it is a strong hardening force, which turns his entire body into an offensive and defensive weapon.

There are several negative characteristics, such as the fracture symptoms of the muscles such as metal fatigue, and once fatigued, the ability must be relieved immediately, otherwise the arm will really break. On top of that, he couldn't use iron weapons, and the reason was because they would attach to his body.

Yes, after the skin is tempered, his body can actually generate magnetic force. This magnetic force can be strengthened and weakened by his control. As for using this ability to help Shelley find iron ore, it was just an idea that came out of nowhere, and even he didn't expect that it would really succeed.

After listening to his explanation, Shelley blinked, what is this? Magneto? Compared with these complaints, Shelley wants to say that if you have the ability to magnet, then say it earlier, she can use magnets to do a lot of things, and finding iron ore is only part of the magnet's ability.

However, they will not understand these words, and she is most anxious about the iron mine now.

"Let's go, take me to the place where you found the iron ore now!"

"What, Your Highness Princess, we stayed out all night and haven't eaten yet...... Mo Mo said a little embarrassed.

Shelley patted his head: "Look at me, I'm excited and messed up, then you go eat first, and I'll change a set of clothes." ”

When the two had finished eating, Shelley had already led his horse and was waiting for them outside the mansion. You can see how eager she is.

After leaving the town, they rode for less than half an hour before they came to the place where they found an iron mine. As soon as I arrived at the place, it was a new surprise.

The reason for the surprise was that they did not find the kind of underground ore vein, but the mountain ore vein that was relatively easy to mine, and it was five mines in a row.

Think about it, and know that it's certainly not as convenient to dig below the ground as it is to dig directly above the ground, so how can you not be happy.

Although these five are not tall, the highest is only about 20 meters. Even in the strict sense of the word, these should not be called mountains, but should be called ore mounds more appropriately. But even so, it was a great thing for Shelley.

From the outside, with them as the center, there is not much vegetation around them, and these five hills are not even bare and there is nothing, and from a distance, there are only a few mounds.

It can be seen that due to the influence of iron ore veins, plants do not like to take root in these vicinity, which also shows that there should be a lot of iron ore here in terms of quantity.

With Owen's support, she climbed halfway up the mountain, picked up some slag at random and observed it carefully, and under the sunlight you could see a dotted metallic luster, not iron sand.

Shelley threw away the dirt in his hand with other miscellaneous items, and said excitedly: "Go!" Now to go back, I need to customize a complete mining plan right away. ”