Chapter 161: Duke Enterprise I
Due to the fact that the crocodile duke tried his best to suppress the communication with the water system magic medium, and dissipated most of the energy contained in his body, the strength of his body was greatly reduced, and he was slashed by seven spatial cracks. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info But fortunately, the healing ability is amazing, and within a few seconds of completing the teleportation, the body that is torn apart but remains in place is reconnected intact, so there is no major problem except for bleeding.
These seven spatial cracks were two when they went, and on the return trip, due to the destruction of the space capsule once, the defense power was reduced, and the spatial cracks increased to five.
After inspecting the space capsule, Jiao Ming asked Duke Crocodile about the user experience again. The crocodile duke was stumped by this strange question, rolled his eyes a few times and repeated: "It's just a bit interesting, a very novel experience." ”
Jiao Ming pursed his lips and realized the problem, for a person who has never seen a mobile phone, he can't give any useful evaluation after playing with a mobile phone for the first time. Only those enthusiasts who have flashed countless computers can give a highly suggestive user experience. And for the crocodile duke, who was teleported for the first time, there is no way to say more.
"Is this a success?" asked the Crocodile Duke.
Jiao Ming nodded reluctantly. Of course, the verification experiment was a success, but this humble iron box was still far from Jiao Ming's expectation of 'teleportation magic for humans'. Duke Crocodile took the lead in raising his arms and cheering, and the crowd of onlookers echoed, while Jiao Ming covered his ears and withdrew from the crowd.
After the cheers, it is time to continue grinding the iron box and forging new space capsules. Jiao Ming applied to go out for prospecting, and after briefly explaining the distribution of ore veins, reserves and other issues and the route of prospecting, he was easily approved. Jiao Ming did not delay, set off directly, and the four of them and one ox headed towards the northern castle manor.
In fact, the purpose of prospecting is only one of them, and the second purpose is to find the old door board to work and act as a breeding consultant. Because with the expansion of trade with the Xuqin people, Changteng Town is now full of cattle and sheep, flocks of chickens and ducks, and the smell is unbearable.
The land trade between the crocodile leader and the Xu Qin people was mainly based on cement and grain for livestock clothing, and the upper lord family of the crocodile leader from the initial resistance to wait and see, now moved by cheap livestock, took the initiative to expand trade, and was eager to eat meat. The small families of the lower classes and the side branches of the sub-families naturally follow suit, exchanging labor for meat. This is also one of the important reasons why the cement kiln has all the support of the crocodile collar.
However, the Xu Qin people obviously did not have the awareness of anti-dumping, and the cheap cement quickly seized the small market of the Xu Qin people. Several six-ring fire magicians who made cement had gone bankrupt and moved into the army as a fort. The royal family of the Xuqin people also proposed to expand the palace, but they were advised by their subordinates to go back, which caused tension among the ministers.
The first ones were what Jiao Ming saw with his own eyes, and the later news that was difficult to distinguish between true and false came from the mouth of the businessman, and then Luo Hua told Jiao Ming. At this time, Jiao Ming was lying on the bonfire resting and waiting for dinner, while listening to Luohua, who was cooking, relaying these gossips, a feeling of comfort and happiness swelled in his heart.
However, there is no hope for the authenticity of the rumors, in Jiao Ming's opinion, the words of the merchant are audible or unheard except for the price, but seeing that Luohua and Huang Xia Zimang's sisters and brothers are inexplicably excited and proud, they have a bad taste in their hearts and say:
"Businessmen are inevitably suspicious of greeting when they speak. Guess what these merchants will say on the side of the Xu Qin people?" Seeing the stunned appearance of the three people, Jiao Ming smiled, imitating the flattering demeanor of the businessman, and said: "The ice lotus that produces cement on the side of the crocodile collar is already so tired that he vomits blood, as long as the Xu Qin people buy some more cement, the crocodile collar will face a battle for the heir at the same time." ”
The three of them had wandered around the cement kiln countless times, and of course they understood that Binglian was only occasionally involved in the production of cement, not to mention that they were so tired that they vomited blood. But after thinking about it, judging by the small amount of information that Xu Qin people know, this statement is quite marketable.
"Wouldn't it be beneficial for us to buy more cement after the Xu Qin people believed the rumors?" asked Luo Hua as she handed Jiao Ming a small iron lunch box, which contained freshly cooked sorghum rice and salted duck eggs.
This small iron lunch box was secretly made by Jiao Ming, a total of seven, three were given to the Binglian family, and the remaining four were brought out in the name of trial this time, which can be regarded as a small attempt to make iron life.
"So just listen to these rumors, but you can't take them seriously. If we believe, it may be of benefit to someone. ”
The gossip came to an end, the four of them camped and rested after eating, and returned to the manor castle the next evening. Early the next morning, Lao Menban ordered the coolies to raise the cattle and drove about half of the cattle to set off.
"There are enough cattle in Changteng Town, and you still bring these?" Jiao Ming asked strangely.
"These cows are well raised and take the lead. There are also a few cows with their cubs, and it is not safe to stay here. The old man explained respectfully: "There are also some of them who have been enchanted by your sister, and I think they are pitiful, and I want to take them to meet the little master." ”
Jiao Ming glanced at the herd, but he couldn't see any pitiful, but the first two reasons of the old door panel were very convincing, so he waved his hand to follow, and he agreed.
At the beginning, Xiao Shi had just comprehended the magic of controlling livestock, and the ice lotus had just begun to burn cement, so there were no magic warriors available, so they could only use animal power and the little ones. Several factors combined to cause the little ones to connect to a cow, but with the discontinuation of the small cement kiln and the childlike nature of the little ones, they soon forgot about these 'big toys' and left them to fend for themselves as if they were put in an old box.
Thinking of this, Jiao Ming asked the old door panel: "Can you really see which one is pitiful?"
"Of course you can, but your eyes are different from other cows. "Lao Men Panel is still confident in his own field of work. Jiao Ming felt more and more that the old door panel was a talent, but fate made people, but it was a pity.
The speed of coolies and cattle is limited, and Jiao Ming is doing the right thing: prospecting. The four of them and one ox cruised within two or three kilometers of the southbound team, Jiao Ming exerted his spatial magic with all his might, taking three exploration points in the east, middle and west every three kilometers, considering the level of the apprentices, the depth stopped at twenty kilometers, and samples were taken every 100 meters.
Jiao Ming believes that such a sampling density is enough to sweep out all the veins in this area. In this way, in the two and a half days of the return trip, such a strip area was explored, and three large and one small four veins were found under the wall of Sicoton, three were iron, and one looked like copper, but it was not certain that Jiao Ming, who was missing a picture reference from a certain system.
This kind of metal distribution made Jiao Ming feel very normal, and at the same time, it also increased his suspicion of the wall of Siccton, no matter how you look at such an obvious line, it is deliberate. Thinking along this line of thought, Jiao Ming felt a chill, as if his deep-sea phobia had recurred, so he had to shake his head and leave it behind.
Back at the castle of Changteng Town, I wanted to ask Zhuoshan and the others about the progress of polishing, but I learned from the small talk of others that the team of fifty children had set off. I thought that these cows were destined not to see their little masters, but I didn't want to hear the babbling sound of the scales.
"Flashing scales didn't go?" Jiao Ming secretly wondered, following the prestige, the shining scales over there were moving stones with a bitter face.
A voice with a tone of hatred sounded behind Jiao Ming: "A few wild and untamable cubs have been left to take etiquette lessons, and it is obvious that they will be embarrassed over there." But it was the crocodile duchess who had already received the news of Jiao Ming's return and rushed together to inquire about the situation, and the words just now came from the mouth of Lady Purple Feather.
Jiao Ming smiled secretly in his heart, moved his gaze back from the shining scales, and asked about business.
"The iron box and that capsule are ready, and what are the prospecting results?" the crocodile replied first.
"Three big and one small!" Jiao Ming replied with a smile.
"That's a good dare, before I go out, open five holes in a row. The crocodile duke waved his hand, full of confidence.
Jiao Ming shook his head and persuaded: "I don't agree to do this for two reasons. One is that we don't have that much mining capacity, and the remaining four holes can only be idle, and this wood that is 8,000 meters underground must have something extraordinary. ”
Both husband and wife nodded, and the crocodile duke sighed: "Eight thousand meters, hey, this wood is indeed a bit evil." ”
"The second is to open five holes in a row, and I am afraid that I will alarm the owner of this wood. ”
"Does this thing have an owner?" said Lady Purple Feather.
"There's no best, but what if. Jiao Ming shrugged his shoulders and continued: "So I suggest that it is best to open a hole in a shallow large iron ore for the time being, and other mines will not run away with long legs." ”
The couple looked at each other, nodded slightly, and the crocodile duke said, "Just do what Mr. said!" After these few words, the apprentices such as Ice Lotus, Zhuo Shan, and a group of high-ring magic warriors also rushed over with iron boxes.
Jiao Ming carefully inspected the iron box, the lines of the hollow runes were more silky, the corners were no longer scratched, and the surface was much smoother. Nodding with satisfaction, he looked at the sky again, and said, "Without further ado, why don't you leave now?"
"Just what I want!" the crocodile duke laughed, then grabbed Jiao Ming under his armpit, waved his hand, and a group of people galloped.
The coolies and the herd walked for most of the day, and the monsters ran in about an hour. When following Jiao Ming's guidance to the marked place, the crocodile duchess and his wife put Jiao Ming and Binglian down, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled.
According to the plan, Jiao Ming first teleported at the depth of the upper surface of the wall of Sicoton, dug out a cavity large enough to hold the iron box, and then teleported the iron box over. At this time, the crocodile duke was also ready, curled up in the space capsule and stuffed into the iron box on the ground. Jiao Ming took two sips of the magic addiction potion, and cast a spell on the iron box with both hands. The first phase is complete.
Seeing that it was not a good idea for the onlookers to be idle, Lady Ziyu ordered everyone to start mining stones to build houses, after all, there would be hundreds of people living here.
Jiao Ming used the function of an iron box to move some waste materials from the ground. Because he knew that he couldn't help the crocodile in his normal state, he didn't worry about accidental injury. Therefore, in the spirit of experimentation, Jiao Ming directly transmitted some rock formations of the same volume at the same time to experience the laborious situation of the two ways, and found that the effect of this delicately polished iron box was remarkable, and it could save half of the effort.
More than ten minutes passed, Jiao Ming felt the loosening of the wall of Sicoton, and beckoned all the Qi magician apprentices to start work together, and in an instant, a large number of broken wood pieces and black matter were teleported up. After digging like this for more than an hour or so, Jiao Ming began to pay attention to the pieces transmitted from the iron box, and finally found pieces of cloth and other debris, which was the signal of the agreement.
Jiao Ming hurriedly drank two sips of the magic addiction potion and cast the spell with all his might, and then the crocodile duke came out of the iron box with a gray face and a bare face.
"How?" Jiao Ming asked.
"Everything went according to plan, nothing was unexpected. ”
"How many spatial rifts?"
"I didn't have it when I went, and I didn't have two when I came back. The crocodile replied.
"How much is missing?"
"According to the thickness of 50 meters, it should have penetrated two-thirds of the way. ”
At this time, it was getting dark, everyone lit a bonfire, and after dinner, the crocodile duke was surrounded by torches and was once again buried in the iron box and sent underground, while the apprentices of the qi magicians also drank some magic addiction potion, and the speed of digging up the debris was faster.
After another hour or so, Zhuo Shan suddenly shouted excitedly, "It's through!", and the group of qi magicians quickly confirmed this and cheered. And Jiao Ming found the agreement from the iron box again, and then teleported the crocodile duke with all his might. This time, due to the damage of the space capsule, the crocodile duke was covered in blood, but his face was full of excitement and cheered and laughed with everyone. Jiao Ming, who was already tired and paralyzed, didn't have the heart to follow everyone crazy, got into the stone shack that had just been built, and fell asleep in a migraine.
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The next morning, Jiao Ming got up by rubbing his forehead, which was still slightly painful, and as soon as he got out of the shack, he saw Lady Ziyu furious at more than a dozen Qi magician apprentices. Zhuoshan and the other five people stood aside with their heads bowed, obviously suffering from splash damage. Further away is a two-metre-high hill of large and small yellow ore balls, as well as cooking smoke.
Seeing Jiao Ming get up, Luo Hua hurriedly brought breakfast, and at the same time asked Jiao Ming to punish him.
"Why did I punish you? ”
"I was so happy last night that I forgot to take care of my husband. "Luohua has a pitiful face, and her beautiful big eyes are watery.
"Punish you for laughing. ”
"Huh?" Luohua was stunned for a moment, then tried to put on a smile.
"Well, okay, okay, the punishment is over. Let's talk about this night, and what kind of anger is Lady Purple Feather?" Jiao Ming asked as he ate.
"Last night, I brought ten cows from the town of Changteng, and they all ate them, and then they started building houses, and they never stopped. As for Lady Purple Feather's anger, it was because those people were lazy and didn't dig up the ore from below. ”
The vein is located about 10 kilometers underground, or 10,000 meters. For these beginners, not having enough teleportation distance or not grasping the distance accurately can lead to mistracking and digging up some useless stones. And the five of Zhuoshan, as the senior brothers who teach the arts on behalf of the teacher, are inevitably jointly and severally responsible.