0825 Underground Situation
When the miners chose to work at the entrance one after another, Lin Chen estimated the orientation of the main part of the spirit stone vein and drilled into a hole in that direction.
The passage in the small cave was so deep and narrow that it was almost impossible for a person to stand upright. Every ten or twenty zhang distance, there is a relatively open area. Many miners excavated the rock walls around the open cavern.
Lin Chen went all the way in a straight line, passing through at least twenty open caves. As he walked, he was keenly aware that there were a number of men who were not paying attention to their work, and they were more focused on the harvest of the other miners. In every open cave, there was such a man who looked directly at Lin Chen with unkind eyes.
After thinking about it for a while, Lin Chen understood that most of these people were the 'mine tyrants' here, the kind of people who didn't work hard.
Lin Chen didn't care. It's good that these people don't mess with him. If you provoke him, you will just enter the seed world to make a 'living sacrifice' to the seed. It may be a little difficult for the seed world to take the initiative to accept monks, but it is not a problem to take these mortals at all.
The further you go inside, the fewer miners work in the open cavern. Lin Chen secretly analyzed it according to what he saw in front of him, after all, the underground of the Seven Star Mountain Canyon was the tail of the spirit stone vein, and the output of spirit stones was not high. Before the miners dig into the main body of the vein, the output is about the same, no matter where they dig. Therefore, after many miners find out this law, they are generally reluctant to go too far.
So the deeper you go, the fewer miners there are.
Soon, Lin Chen came to the deepest part of this mine.
In the last open cave, Lin Chen looked at it slightly. There were seven or eight miners in this open cavern. There's only one Mine-like thug here. These miners must have just arrived and have not yet figured out the law of spirit stone production.
Except for the miner who glanced at Lin Chen a few more times, the other miners turned a blind eye to Lin Chen's arrival and just concentrated on their own business.
Lin Chen smiled slightly, and walked straight to the direction that led to the main body of the ore vein.
'Jingle Bell'
Lin Chen wielded the first pickaxe of his miner career.
More than 1,000 feet underground, the soil and rocks are very hard. Fortunately, it was the magic weapon and pickaxe refined by the monk that was able to dig up these earth and stones. If it's a mine pickaxe made by mortals, yes
After a few clicks, it will curl up.
Lin Chen's luck seemed to be a little bad. It took him two or three hours to dig a hole the size of a man a foot or two deep, but he found nothing. After all, he is not familiar with the situation yet, and he cannot rashly resort to means to do it.
The mine tyrant who had been paying attention to Lin Chen frowned, walked over and patted Lin Chen on the shoulder.
"New boy, do you have a long head? There are obviously no spirit stones in this direction, what's the use of you digging here all the time? The miner shouted arrogantly.
"Hey, big brother, didn't I just come? I also saw it along the way just now, and the spirit stones are not found in every direction. Maybe I'll have a few more pickaxes and I'll have a spirit stone. Lin Chen pretended to be honest and said.
Lin Chen rarely fights with others. Before others touched Lin Chen's substantive interests, his measurement was generally relatively large. The current behavior of the miner is still within his tolerance.
"Yo, you kid seems to be naïve, but you have some ideas. Okay, you just keep digging here. I also want you to dig a good hole. Remember, the daily harvest must be handed over to the fourth floor of our 'Earth Dragon Society'. The mine bully thug actually said reasonably.
Lin Chen almost sprayed rice. The Nima Tulong Club is really vivid. But why don't you just call it a turtle?
"Ah, big brother, why should the spirit stone I dug be handed over to you forty percent?" Lin Chen pretended to be stupid and asked.
"Stupid! Don't understand this? Let me tell you, this underground has been excavated by millions of miners for almost a year, and the tunnels are deep and twisty, and from time to time people get lost in it and lose their lives. I don't think you want to get lost and lose your life, do you? The thug said with a hint of ruthlessness.
"Big brother, the mine path I choose now basically leads directly to here, so I shouldn't get lost?" Lin Chen continued to play stupid.
"Hmph, you won't get lost on your own. But have you ever heard of 'getting lost'? "The thugs began to threaten.
Lin Chen almost laughed again. I didn't expect that in the mortal world of the cultivation realm, there are also the kind of 'bankrupt' and 'bankrupt' on the earth. The grammar of the word "kill" is "been". This benevolent brother is really talented, and he speaks such elegantly about threatening people. Looks like he may have some ink in his stomach.
"Lost?" forest
Tatsumi blinked, pretending to finally understand, and showed a little scared expression at the right time.
"Big ...... Big brother, if you do this, don't the immortal masters who receive the mine care? Lin Chen pretended to be unwilling and said.
"Hmph, the immortal masters will care? Make your autumn dreams! I'm not afraid to tell you that there are millions of miners in this mine, and hundreds of thousands of people disappear silently every day. Immortal masters have to practice, where can they manage it? And in the eyes of the immortals, we are like ants. A few ants died, and they just continued to recruit outside. Anyway, there are a lot of people who want to come to this mine to make money. The thug explained dismissively.
So far, the attitude of the thugs, although a bit arrogant, is not overdone overall. After all, in their eyes, every miner who is not their gang is their money-making tool. Before Lin Chen didn't show obvious non-cooperation, he still had to work hard to do 'ideological work' for Lin Chen.
The thug's words made Lin Chen's heart even more joyful. It turns out that it's normal for people to go missing every day. In this way, he will disappear silently and cause no other waves.
Seeing that there was hope, Lin Chen's biggest worry was that something unexpected would happen. Now it seems that he can take those worries away.
Of course, the old and sophisticated Lin Chen even knew some causes and effects that he might not even know about the thug in front of him. That is, with these mortal turtles of the Earth Dragon Society alone, they will definitely not be able to eat forty percent of the miners' harvest. Not to mention forty percent, even if they move a little, they will be detected in time by the keen monks and crushed into slag.
However, the Earth Dragon Society is rampant in the vast underground world, and it doesn't even care about killing people. What does this mean, this shows that there must be monks behind them to support them, and they are the 'white gloves' of some monks in Tianshui Pavilion who damage the public and private interests.
This chain of interests must be very close and long, and maybe even many high-level officials of Tianshui Pavilion are involved in it.
But these are none of the things that Lin Chen has to do with anything. These situations were not only harmless to Lin Chen, but were greatly beneficial.
Lin Chen was in such a good mood for a while that he even turned a blind eye to the offense and contempt of the mortal thugs for him.
He looked at the pit he had dug out, and seemed to see through the dirt the mountain-like spirit stones, and saw the rapid growth of the seed world and the bright prospect of his early return to Earth to reunite with his relatives.