Chapter 277: Miner's Life
There is no sun on the resource star, and it is in darkness all year round. Inside the abyss, however, it is the opposite, it is under the light all year round, and even the darkest corners are clearly illuminated. Small suspension monitoring devices patrol every corner non-stop to ensure that everyone is working during non-rest hours. The old miner is not the villain he imagined, but cares about the future of these children. So after repeated pleas, Chenping agreed to become a teacher for these children and teach them to learn in his free time. In this way, Chenping began his day-to-day life in the abyss with the professor.
Chenping is not afraid of the Abyssal Mine's administrators, even the Lord of Jumbo Star, Ruth. He didn't care about the treasures. After all, he is just a miner now, and it is not the turn of these big people to deal with him. His only concern was the people lurking in the mines. Because in his mind, the Black Prison of Death is his biggest enemy, and all his actions are under the surveillance of the other party.
After leaving the training base, Morningstar offered to leave Chenping's body more than once and find another parasite outside for the puppet dragon. The drakemon had been imprisoned in the starstripes of Morningping for more than two years, and was now on the verge of collapse. However, Chenping never agreed, after all, he didn't know where the destination was at that time, and if he lost the power of the puppet dragon again, then he would become isolated!
"It's not easy for this beast, and I've been patient for more than two years. Now that you've reached your destination, you can let it go out for a spin! Morningstar spoke as the puppet dragon pleaded.
"Okay!" Chenping also knew that he couldn't trap these two guys anymore, so he agreed: "You become the kind of scout that monitors us and sneaks out, and then go to capture the most powerful ore beast and find out the situation in Treasure City and the mine!" ”
"Don't worry!" With Chenping's permission, two eyeballs immediately flew out of Chenping's body, sneaked into the ore, and returned to the surface through the minecart.
The strength of the mine security guards is not strong, and the puppet dragon alone is enough to sweep away, so Chenping is not worried about their safety. Instead, he repeatedly watched around for fear of being discovered by his fellow companions from the Black Prison of Death. This is the second day of coming to the Abyss Mine, Chenping randomly found a wide cave as his residence, and inserted an "environmental adjustment rod" in the center of the cave to make the cave an environment where humans can live as usual. The device also comes with a simple energy shield that provides little protection, but can be used as a vigilance.
The strange thing is that no one has come to contact him, which makes him feel very powerless, and he doesn't know what to do at all? It's just that the facts are destined to disappoint Chenping, and after a full week, the connector who should have appeared long ago still did not appear, so Chenping had to continue to wait in the mine!
"Teacher, am I writing correctly?" A child wrote a field character on the ground and looked at Chenping with a prayerful face.
"Little Stone is right!" Chenping glanced at the crooked Tian character on the ground, and praised with a smile.
"Thank you, teacher!" The child was so happy when he heard Chenping's praise that he immediately drew on the ground again.
These children are extremely thin and weak, but they still have to go to the mines with their parents every day to earn as much food as possible to fill their stomachs. Therefore, Chenping does not have too much time to teach them every day, but after eating, he takes out ten minutes to teach. But even so, there are many people who have opinions. However, Chenping's physical strength is good, and he can dig several people's ore every day, so that these children's teaching can continue.
"Today, I will teach the three words of worker, field and stone, and if you have time, you can practice more." Seeing that the time was about the same, Chenping stood up and walked towards the depths of the mine.
"Teacher, can Xiao Hei and I mine with you?" The child, named Little Stone, dragged another swarthy child along.
"Yes!" Chenping knew that the parents of the two children had passed away, and it was the old miner who had always taken care of them. At this time, he took the initiative to entangle himself, in addition to pleasing himself, I am afraid that he still wanted to keep his rations.
"Teacher, can you tell us about the outside world?" The child named Xiao Hei whispered a few words in Xiao Shi's ear, and Xiao Shi immediately pleaded with Chenping.
"Blackie, do you want to hear it?" Chenping smiled and touched Xiao Hei's head and asked.
"Hmm!" Xiao Hei nodded seriously, but still didn't speak.
"Outside the mines, you all know there's a Treasure City. But you may not know that Treasure City is a very small place to the starry sky world outside. Even if it's this treasure star...... "Chenping knew that these children were born in the mines, and they didn't know anything about the outside world, at most they had heard a few words from the miners' mouths, so he patiently introduced the outside world briefly. But even so, the two children still listened attentively, and greedily swam in the "fantasy world" that Chenping recounted.
Whether it is the New Human Empire, the Free Star Domain, or the Human Federation, the technology is already very advanced, and Chenping really doesn't understand why Jumbo Star still uses such a backward mining method. In fact, when more than a dozen large mining machines come back, the efficiency of mining is definitely much stronger than that of these miners, and there is no need to torture these poor people at all! Chenping scolded Lu Si twice in his heart. Jumbo drove the mining machine and began to dig ore.
In the past two years, Chenping's physical fitness has improved a lot, and now it is not difficult to drive that mining machine at all. In just a few moments, he had already filled the levitating minecart behind him. Little Stone and Little Black picked up the loose ore and threw it into the minecart to increase the weight of the minecart as much as possible. Despite the young age of these two children, they found out early on that Chenping was different from the miners here. Both the speed of the miners and the quality of the ore are far stronger than those of ordinary miners, as if this teacher can know the distribution of all the ores here.
"Teacher, what kind of ore are these.?" When he stopped to rest after mining the second car of mine in Chenping, Xiao Shi asked with great interest.
"This is a cobalt mine, a little more precious than the heavy purple gold you usually dig up. However, the refining process of this thing is very cumbersome, and the amount of two minecarts can only be extracted as big as a fist......" Chenping picked up the kettle and explained in detail while drinking water, and after finishing speaking, he asked curiously: "By the way, do you have any rare mines produced here?" ”
"What does it mean to be rare?" Xiao Shi asked puzzled.
"It's just that the usual ore is different, and the ore rarely appears!" Chenping said.
"I don't know!" Little Stone shook his head and said.
"It's normal not to know!" There were only two children in front of him, and Chenping didn't have much hope in his heart.
"I know!" At this time, Xiao Hei on the side suddenly spoke.
"Oh, what do you know?" Seeing that this child, who rarely speaks, actually spoke, Chenping couldn't help but feel a little interested.
"I've seen ...... An ore that eats people! Xiao Hei looked at Chenping and said very seriously.
"Minerals that eat people?" Chenping was stunned when he heard this.
"Xiao Hei, you say that again, aren't you afraid ......" Xiao Shi just wanted to stop it, and gagged a piece of candy in Chenping's hand.
"Don't be afraid, Xiao Hei, you speak slowly!" Chenping handed another piece of candy to Xiao Hei's hand and said encouragingly.
"It's true!" Xiao Hei looked at the candy in his hand and said seriously: "That stone can really eat people, at that time I saw with my own eyes that the two people who dug up that stone with my father were eaten by it, and after I ran away, my father didn't come back!" ”
Speaking of his father's death, there was not much sadness in Xiao Hei's eyes, and that indifferent feeling made Chenping feel involuntarily painful in his heart. As for the ore that eats people, Chenping thinks it should be an extremely radioactive or devouring ore. And Xiao Hei repeatedly emphasized that he had seen it with his own eyes, that is, this ore would only work on creatures at close range, so the possibility of devouring properties would be a little greater.
"I was able to eat my stomach for the first time that day after digging that ore, so I remember it so clearly!" In order to show that he was not lying, Xiao Hei emphasized seriously.
"Full-fed?" Chenping was slightly stunned, and then understood that it should be the mine that got a big profit, so he increased the food for the day. And in this way, he suddenly came to his senses, and asked Xiao Hei with a smile: "Then how many times have you eaten a full stomach Xiao Hei?" ”
"It seems to be a ......" Xiao Shi was a little confused, he didn't remember very well.
"Twice!" Xiao Hei said with great certainty: "I have eaten a full stomach twice in total!" ”
"Only twice?" Chenping's face turned a little pale for no reason, and he felt more and more pity for the two children in front of him.
"Teacher, how many times have you eaten your stomach!" Xiao Hei sensitively noticed the change in Chenping's expression, so he asked curiously.
"You should ask the other way around, how many times have I been hungry!" Chenping smiled bitterly and patted Xiao Hei's head and exhaled deeply.
"......" The two children looked at Chenping in confusion, as if digesting the meaning of his words.
Slightly stimulated, Chenping launched a ruthless attack, and today he dug twelve truckloads of ore in one breath, and his hands began to go numb before he stopped. If the power of the silver star is used, it will not be a problem to dig dozens of cars, but for the sake of prudence, Chenping still suppressed this impulse. He knew it wasn't going to solve the problem. In the future, when they leave, these children will not be the same hungry life as before!
Now the most important thing is to figure out why you were sent here and complete your mission as soon as possible. At that time, if you have the resources to spare, you may be able to help these miners as much as you can. But now that I am in a difficult situation, it is indeed not the time to pity others.
"Blackie, do you remember what that man-eating ore looks like?" On the way back, Chenping asked.
"It was far away, I didn't see it clearly! I just saw that the red light flashed at that time, and the two miner uncles were eaten by the stone! Xiao Hei thought about it seriously for a moment, but still shook his head.
There was too little information about the "red light ......", and Chenping could never find a similar answer in his mind.
Fasten the minecarts to the conveyor belt of the rock wall and send them up to the top of the abyss, thus ending the day's work. After the above staff has verified the quantity, dinner will also be delivered. It's just that Chenping really didn't dare to compliment the food in the mine, and after reluctantly stuffing all the dinner into his stomach, he returned to his cave to prepare for "sleep". Although the mine did not give the miners much time to sleep, it was a full six hours. This is very precious for Chenping!
After four hours of training in the cave and two hours of deep sleep, Chenping has enough energy to cope with the next day's busy work. And at this time, Morning Star, who had been playing outside all day, would also come back and protect him while Morning Ping was asleep.
During this time, Morning Star had already had a clear understanding of the terrain and environment of the mine, and even the side of Treasure City had reconnoitred in detail. As long as Chenping's mission is completed, he can successfully escape from the Abyss Mine and leave this resource star in a spaceship from Treasure City. At Chenping's special request, every day when Morningstar came back, he would bring a little food, such as the candy that Chenping gave to the two children, which was what Morningstar got from the mine.
"It's just two pieces of candy, and those two boys are so happy that they can't bear to put their mouths down!" Recalling the appearance of the two boys when they ate candy, Chenping's desire to take them away became stronger and stronger.
"Don't be cranky, so many people can't be saved if you want to!" Morningstar sensed Chenping's thoughts, and couldn't help but remind.
"I know!" Chen Ping said helplessly: "So the most important thing now is to figure out the secrets of this mine and find the connector to complete this mission." When the time comes, let Xiaolong bring those ore beasts to destroy a round, and as for what will happen to the people below the abyss mine, it depends on their own fate! ”
"I don't think the organization's connector has been contacting you for so long, I'm afraid there was an accident, why don't you try to contact the headquarters and ask for instructions on the next step!" Morningstar said.
"Wait two more days, and if that bastard doesn't contact me again, that's all I can do!" Chenping thought about it for a while, and felt that this was the only way to work.