Chapter 39: The Skeleton
"I want to ask, I wonder if this seller accepts barter? I have a fetish, and I am willing to exchange it with him. An old man in Box 8 spoke
Shen Mu, who had not yet woken up from the 100,000 gold offer, heard that someone was going to exchange with him at this time, and he was happy in his heart, although there were indeed very few such ores in that magma
But he still has a lot, he didn't expect this ore to be so precious, originally thought it was just some super heat-resistant metals, but after a little thought, he understood:
I am afraid that even a piece of scrap metal will have incredible properties if it exists in that kind of place
I didn't expect that ore to be the best metal for making fire-type artifacts in this world, and this time I really found a treasure.
At this time, the chief manager of the auctioneer entered his private room with two staff members and discussed with him whether to barter
"Your Excellency, you just heard, I wonder if you would like to exchange with the guests in Box 8? Of course, the commission generated by your trading only needs to give us 500 gold intermediary commission. The old man said with some embarrassment
"It's not impossible to exchange, but I need to know what he is exchanging it for." Shen Mu thought for a while and said, he was also curious in his heart, there was something that could be compared to the materials used to make the artifact
"He said it was a very heavy metal, but because it was so heavy, it was still hidden somewhere, and he could take you there himself if you wished, but he didn't guarantee that you would be able to handle it;
This is a picture he took, you can see it," the manager conveyed truthfully
"What's the texture on this picture?" Shen Mu looked at a round ball in the photo, which seemed to be emitting radiation waves outward, a faint circular ripple image, and asked suspiciously
This is not what Shen Mu wants to ask, with his own knowledge, he will not care about these things, it is Katudin who wants him to ask
"I don't know, why don't I introduce you?"
"Okay, the auction continues, I'll go meet this gentleman," Shen Mu said after thinking for a while
"Okay, please come with me," the manager made a gesture and nodded to the staff on the side
"One hundred thousand gold for the first time...."The auctioneer's voice sounded again
The auction began again, and the attention of the people who were talking about it was once again attracted by the bidding
"This is Melinda. Ms. Warsaw, this is Kakarot. Mr. Chaosai, then I wish you all a nice chat. After introducing Shen Mu to the No. 8 box and introducing them, the manager quit the box with a familiar appearance.
The woman named Melinda is a young woman in her thirties who is about 1.75 tall, has long chestnut wavy hair, brown eyes, and a slightly plump figure.
"Hello, Ms. Melinda, just call me Kakarot, the manager Alden said that you are willing to exchange a message with me for materials that can make artifacts, which makes me curious, but I didn't expect you to be a lady" Shen Mu made a gentlemanly introduction
At the same time, he was indeed very surprised, this person who wanted to exchange items with himself was actually a charming and seductive beautiful woman, although this woman was dressed generously and decently, but when facing her, he couldn't help but think about it in his heart, and the pressure in his lower abdomen began to increase
"Yes, if you can come here in person, it means that you are interested in this thing, although I don't know what metal it is, and I can't detect it at all
But with its super-density and unusual weight, I can guarantee that it is a divine object no less than the elemental fire spirit. Melinda seems to have expected Shen Mu's arrival
"I'm more interested in that, can you tell me more about its appearance and everything you know?"
"Gladly: it is a piece of metal, there is no doubt about it, and when we touch it with other metals, we find that when those metals touch it, it will quickly disintegrate and disappear;
It was found by my early haul group in the area of Boulder Peak, and its exact size should be a ball two meters in diameter
I beg your pardon for not being able to give you the exact number, because we can't get close to it at all, and it's in the shape of a giant circular crater, and it's right in the center
The crater is ten kilometers in diameter, and we can only get close to it for 50 meters at most, its magnetic field and radiation are very strong, and high-level martial artists or great magicians can't get close to within 50 meters, because the closer the body, the more intense discomfort it will produce and it will not be able to get close
It can be observed with an optical telescope, but if it is an electronic telescope, it can only be seen as a blur, and in the same way, it can be captured by an optical camera, but there will be strange lines on the photo, which cannot be captured by an electronic camera
Of course, there is another important point: there are several powerful magical beasts around it, and the manpower is simply not capable of defeating them, and we have organized a team of 40 mercenaries to drive away the magical beasts
There were twenty high-level professionals among them, but less than ten of them escaped in the end, and those magical beasts were not only terrifying in strength, but also attacked in a very strange way
It's not physical, it's not magical, it's not a mental attack, it's a way we don't even understand," Melinda explains
In desperation, we had no choice but to lure the beasts away and try to drag them out with an alloy wire rope, but unfortunately, metal objects could not approach or touch it
I can only use the tendons of the monster to make a net, and I want to pull it out, but it seems to have taken root, and the tendons of the beast are all broken, and I can't pull it even a bit
"IMHO, do you think this piece of information of yours is worth an elemental fire element?" Shen Mu frowned and said, these guys are too unreliable, and they want to exchange for a priceless elemental fire essence with a single news
"Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, but I think that a person who can obtain three elemental fire essences should have a way to collect that nameless metal, and we know that we have nothing to do with it, and we only hope that our efforts will be rewarded." Melinda said apologetically
That apologetic look made Shen Mu feel cautious and his liver trembled; Shen Mu felt that he was working so hard now: this woman was really terrible, why did she always think about that in front of her
Although he was talking about things on the surface, he was always thinking about how to push this woman down, could it be that he had held it for too long and needed to vent?
"It seems that you have to add attribute points to intelligence, the will is too low." Shen Mu thought secretly, and at the same time threw his attribute points that had not been assigned from level 45+ to level 60 on intelligence
This level was raised when he was cultivating in magma, and he also realized that it turned out that upgrading didn't have to kill monsters or anything, after all, this was reality, not a game, not to mention that he had long been wondering: Is it a system that he obtained?
As soon as this intelligence attribute was added, his intelligence reached 150 points, and his will rose to 35 points, and the flame in his lower abdomen began to gradually extinguish
In the future, he will be engaged in science and technology, and adding intelligence is also something he has already considered, and now he is just adding it in advance.
But as soon as this attribute was added, he felt that his eyes suddenly cleared, and he felt that his control over his body was higher than ever
He tried it with his eyes closed, and found that he could now control the work of any cell, such as a kind of cavernous cell, when he was concentrating.
And the system prompt is a good answer to his doubts: because of the breakthrough in intelligence, you have gained skills such as precise control and dual-purpose
Melinda saw Shen Mu close her eyes on the sofa, thinking that there was no more drama, but it was normal to think about it, who would pay for such news for you? Even if you find a place
There was no way to do anything about that strange thing, but the thought of the huge price the family had paid for it, and the despair it had become, made her sad:
"Why don't I take you to that place first, and then you decide after you check it out for yourself?" She said with a final effort
"Okay, is that far away? How long does it take to arrive? Shen Mu came back to his senses and asked
"Because there is no road, we need to go through the mountains and mountains, and it takes fifteen days to travel from here, and we can only pass through the jungle and swamp full of demonic beasts and poisonous insects along the way, so the speed is very slow, and the Boulder Peak itself is a Jedi, and basically no one will go there"
"Okay, I see, how do I contact you? I need to wait until after the tech competition to go. ”
Back in his box, Shen Mu communicated with the two great gods, Katudin and Gapailius
"Catudin, do you think that thing is the star skeleton you said?"
"That's right, it's weird, how can there be star debris on a planet?" Catudin replied with some hesitation
"Can you tell me what the star remains are and what they do?"
"The wreckage of the stars, as the name suggests, is the wreckage of the stars; But the remnants of the stars we define are not the remnants of ordinary planets, but the remnants of stars, as you should know:
The star is the sun, and when it ages and dies, the temperature disappears, it collapses, and it goes from a red giant-> white dwarf or red giant-> neutron star to death
Eventually, it will become a black hole, but this is not a law, and it is still possible for a neutron star with a very large mass to shrink and shrink and collapse into a black hole, and its interior will collapse again for some reason, resulting in an explosion
The entire star was blown to pieces and drifted through the universe; But because the mass of these fragments is too large, the gravitational pull is very terrifying, and the fragments should continue to absorb cosmic dust in the drift and become the heart of the stars
As a result, it grows and becomes a wandering planet, or a star attracts and becomes a member of a galaxy, so the star remains are basically impossible for the world to discover
The gravitational pull generated by its strong mass will make it grow and merge, so how can there be an intact fragment? Katudin explained