CHAPTER XXIV
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The next day, Stephen set off early in the morning.
There are a lot of mercenaries going to the mining area, because the underground mine tunnels in Dragon City are very large, there are three entrances to the mines on the side of Vala Town alone, and since the collapse in the depths of the ground, many underground creatures have flowed to it, and at least fifty or sixty miners have been killed in this week.
Stephen's target is Mine 1.
There was also a team of six people who set off with him today, mostly Normans, and the captain was a burly man with a two-handed greatsword, who looked at Stephen with a strange face along the way, as if he were looking at a dead man.
Cave No. 1 is not far away.
An hour and a half from the town of Vala, there were many tents pitched near the mines, and groups of heavily armed soldiers stood guard outside.
"Be careful. The man who looked like an officer said to the group in front of him: "Recently, the rats that have come out of below have become more and more ferocious. Take heed when you camp at night. ”
With that, the officer's gaze fell on Stephen's.
"You're alone?" he looked at Stephen with a strange expression, then waved his hand, "Okay." Let's go over. ”
When Stephen walked a little farther away, he sighed in a low voice, "Another guy who came here to die." ”
There are always people who think they are extraordinary and dare to act alone, and most of these people have already fed the rats.
Torches are planted at the entrance to the mine.
Because the mining area of Dragon City has been mined for a long time, there are also simple mining tracks here, but the ore is pulled out by manpower. There are torches every ten meters or so along the way, but there are no torches about two hundred meters deep into the mining area. The surroundings gradually became dark, and a series of mine tunnels in all directions appeared in front of me.
Those who had set off before Stephen had entered Mine Road Three, which had a map of the mine area and signs at each entrance.
They went straight to the next floor.
The mining area of Dragon City was mined layer by layer, first as surface veins, then as they were mined and continued to explore the shallow veins, and then they learned the dwarven technique and began to dig deeper and deeper into the ground.
"Taling 1. Scan the map!" Stephen spun around, found a dark corner where no one was around, and gave the order.
A cold mechanical voice sounded, "Yes." Master. Start scanning the subsurface structure! 3D models are created simultaneously...... ...... in data analysis"
A red light, invisible to the naked eye, emerged.
The light, which only the Psychic Eye could see, spread rapidly, scanning from where Stephen had first entered, directly penetrating the matter and scanning the topographical map within three hundred meters of the vicinity. At the same time, in Stephen's mind, the three-dimensional three-dimensional model of the first layer of the mine is slowly taking shape. The strength of Taling 1 is still too small, as the terminal structure of the once floating city, it can directly scan and analyze everything within a radius of hundreds of kilometers when it is the strongest. If there is a floating city's energy supply, a planet about the size of the Earth can complete the basic scan of the surface part in about ten days and half a month.
"Ding! Discover a vein of metal!"
"The specific location is 120 meters on the right, 15 meters in the rock layer, the size of the vein is [miniature], and the preliminary scan is gold ore, which belongs to the shallow vein fault. ”
Hey?
Rewarded so quickly?
Stephen turned around in surprise and took out the manuscript to dig into it.
The Taling 1 body has many functions, and using psionic energy fluctuations to scan metal minerals is only one of them, and the material plane is much easier to scan because of the relatively small energy interference. If it is on the elemental plane or a special planet, the ability of Taling 1 to scan the underground will be greatly reduced, and if it encounters a place with a strong magnetic field and energy radiation, it can basically only scan in a small area, and the energy consumption will be increased by more than several times. Unexpectedly, there were still fish that slipped through the net on the first layer of the mining area, so Stephen picked up the manuscript and excavated all the way, about 15 meters into the rock layer, and he mined some light gray ore with light gold interspersed.
"The gold content is a bit low!" said Stephen, picking up a piece of gold ore and weighing it.
After all, it is only a shallow vein, and the gold content of this small vein is very low, a bit like a gold-bearing quartz vein ore, there are a lot of impurities in it, and the entire fault is only a dozen cubic meters, and it is estimated that all the gold extracted will not exceed 15 pounds.
"No matter how small a mosquito is, it's meat!" Stephen pouted and continued to work.
In any case, this is gold ore, and it is good to be able to dig up gold from a good start.
"If only there were prospecting potions. Stephen muttered.
In order to find the underground veins, the alchemists gained a lot of knowledge through trading with the elemental djinn, and finally they used this knowledge to refine the prospecting potion, which can temporarily give people the perception of the earth elemental djinn, and can perceive the energy of the ore veins near the underground.
However, this potion is very difficult to refine, and it can only be refined by an alchemist at least level 15 or above.
The effect of ordinary people using the potion is very poor, generally speaking, the higher the perception of the person after drinking the prospecting potion, the more obvious the effect, and the clearer the distribution of the veins that can be sensed.
Half an hour passed quickly.
Stephen's natural abilities led the way in mining, and he put away his tools when the vein fault was hollowed out.
"Squeak!"
Just then, there was some strange noise nearby.
Then in the dark corners, some rats about the size of cats came out, and they were not much different from the common mice, with protruding sharp fangs, sharp claws, and slightly reddened eyes.
"Species: Ferocious rats. ”
"Challenge Level: 1. ”
"Danger level: very low. ”
The results of the scan from Taling 1 made Stephen's face sink and he muttered, "Sure enough, it's a ferocious rat! Mutant! Is there any source of pollution under this mining area?"
Most of the ferocious beasts are mutated from the radiation field.
If there is no radiation source, the beast is just an ordinary form and will not mutate, and there are more than a dozen mice running out of the dense crowd in front of it, which is obviously a large-scale radiation field to mutate.
Sonorous.
Stephen pulled out his long sword, the strength of the ferocious rat is about the same as that of ordinary people, the strength is close to that of a wild cat, the speed is relatively fast, if you are careful, ordinary adult men can also deal with it, the only thing that is more troublesome is that they carry diseases, and these mutated creatures have a certain chance of infecting people with plague.
This is the scariest thing!
Typically, the Ferocious Rats have a higher danger priority than adult Dragons, as their presence spreads the plague.
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