Chapter Twenty-Five: Mining Northward (Asking for Votes!) )
The world was darkened by the violent wind and snow, and the temperature in the air had dropped to minus 180 degrees. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Boss, come and take a look here." In a gust of snow, Huang Shifeng wore a black leather armor and cloak and summoned Wang Xu.
Wang Xu stepped on the thick snow and walked over, squatted down and picked up a stone full of frost flowers.
"This is Yaohan iron ore. Dig them all out. Wang Xu said happily.
The Ice Hill slowly appeared in the wind and snow, and seven snow monsters carrying huge ice pickaxes jumped down and began to mine.
Today is the 8th day of the arrival of the second stage of hoarfrost. The ninth day when all the Otherworlders are gone.
"Boss, what are we going to do with all this ore?" Shi Qiang held an Ao Neng crystal in his hand, and while eating, he jumped lightly to Wang Xu's side and asked.
Wang Xu got up and said: "In the next step, we are not facing the stragglers before, we must have our own territory and our own city." These Yaohan iron ores are mutated from iron ore, which is extremely hard and an excellent conductor of energy. The iron ingots extracted, whether it is made into city wall bricks or processed into weapons and equipment, are desperately needed by us. ”
"Oooh! Boss, you're thinking long-term. Shi Qiang said with admiration.
Wang Xu patted him on the head and said, "What is this, start working." ”
For nine days, Wang Xu drove the Ice and Snow Gang all the way north, searching for the surviving snow elves and looking for resources at the same time.
Wang Xu stood on the black soil of the Ice and Snow Gang, looking at the three piles of resources on the Ice and Snow Gang.
These three pairs of things are the result of their nine days.
Three thousand Aonong Crystals, two thousand four hundred black ice, and about three tons of fat-dissolving steel.
Wang Xu didn't know how fat-dissolving steel was formed. But these solute steels can indeed form at the surface, especially near some of the rivers that were once there.
This kind of steel is of little use to Wang Xu, but in the previous conversation, he knew that the dragon clan has a huge demand for this kind of steel, so these things can be used as his biggest bargaining chip to win over the dragon clan in the future.
The distribution of iron ore in this area is very scattered and very small in number.
Seven snow monsters and Li Meng's four men spent half an hour digging out about half a ton of iron ore in the frozen rock, and then the iron ore here bottomed out.
Carrying the ice axe back to the ice and snow hill, Wang Xu drove the ice and snow gang to continue to move forward.
In the wind and snow, the ice and snow gang flew quickly to the north.
Today, the Ice and Snow Hill has been fully upgraded.
Wang Xu spent 3,200 Arcanon Crystals five days ago to unlock all the technologies of the Level 2 Ice and Snow Gang.
From a distance, you can see that around the Ice and Snow Gang, there is an invisible whirlpool, which constantly absorbs the cold air of the air and gathers towards the Ice and Snow Gang.
Under the effect of this whirlpool, the height of the ice and snow hill from the ground has increased from one meter to five meters today.
It also increases the movement speed of the Ice Hill from 3 meters per second to 5 meters. The conversion rate of black ice has been reduced from 24 hours per block to 20 hours.
Wang Xu sat on the ice and snow hill, looked at the two sides of the rapid advance, and said with a smile: "These 1,100 crystals have no white flowers. ”
"Master, haven't those snow beasts come out yet?" At this time, Liu Le came out of the tent and asked.
Wang Xu turned his head to look at a house on the east side of Bingxue Gang that seemed to be made of purple ice and said, "There are still seven days, wait." ”
That purple house is a wind and snow training ground, which is used to train new abilities of snow monsters, snow monsters, and snow beasts.
Eight days ago, after Wang Xu spent 1,000 Ao Neng Crystals to build the Wind and Snow Research Institute, he immediately sent all ten snow beasts to it for training.
The training time of each snow beast is 15 days, and the consumption of 50 black ice is currently the maximum number of 15 in a batch.
At that time, other people still had some doubts, thinking that it was not good for Wang Xu to send them all in so directly, after all, judging from the recent battles, the combat effectiveness of the snow beast was very crucial.
But Wang Xu didn't care: "Now that the people of the other world have left, we have no enemies. These two months are the time for safe development, and mining well is the key. ”
"There are no large areas of mineral deposits in the south, we have to go to the north, and there are many in the north." Wang Xu held a map of the Celestial Empire that was passively turned into ice cubes in his hand, and said while looking at it.
Li Shu looked around and asked, "Boss, do you think there are really only a few of us left on the earth?" We've all been gone for nine days, and we haven't seen anything except those monsters at night. ”
Wang Xu put down the map and said, "Calm down, just calculate the proportion of your survival." With such bad weather and such a vast land, if you can touch it, it will be shit luck. ”
Li Shu nodded when he heard this and said, "Oh, yes." ”
"How many months has your wife been?" Wang Xu looked at Liu Li, who was fiddling with ore in the distance, and asked.
Li Shu scratched his snow-white hair, and said with a smile: "It's been five months." ”
Wang Xu smiled when he heard this, and said, "To be honest, I'm still looking forward to the birth of this child." ”
Li Meng on the side said: "Yes, I also listen to expectations." This may be the first child of mankind after the end of the world. ”
Wang Xu looked up at the snowflakes flying in the sky and said, "It may also be the first child with pure snow elf blood." ”
Hearing this, Li Shu's face suddenly flashed with a trace of pride and said, "Maybe I will be able to go down in history in the future." ”
"In the Snow Elf clan, you are already famous in history." For these people, Wang Xu prefers to call them snow elves.
Because navigating through such cold weather is no longer something that humans can sit out of.
Bing Xue Gang was moving forward quickly and accurately under Wang Xu's control.
The day passed quickly. In the dark night, an endless stream of chameleon monsters once again filled the heavens and the earth.
"These chameleons are mutating. You see, their claws and size are slowly getting bigger. Wang Xu said through the translucent ice crystal window of the ice coffin.
Lan Xingcai, who was standing beside Wang Xu, thought about it and said: "For these things, I think we should choose some countermeasures." If the sun doesn't rise one day, then we are in danger. ”
Wang Xu held her in his arms, touched the soft white rabbit along the collar of her shirt and said, "Don't worry about this. As long as we upgrade the Ice Ridge to Level 3, these things will not pose any threat to us. ”
Lan Xingcai, who was teased by Wang Xu, had a slightly confused face, and slightly leaned next to Wang Xu and said, "Master, my subordinates haven't served you for more than ten days." ”
Wang Xu took off his armor and said with a smile: "Yes, the pointed ears and snow monsters were crowded with us before, and it was really not good. In the future, the igloo for them is ready, and this place will belong to the two of us in the future. ”
Wang Xu smiled, and pulled out the armor of Lan Xingcai with three strikes and five divisions.
In order to be alone with Lan Xingcai, Wang Xu has built an igloo for Pointy Ears and Snow Monsters to defend against chameleon monsters in the past two days.
"Master......" Lan Xingcai hugged Wang Xu in confusion.
Wang Xu touched her silky skin, and a burst of evil thoughts suddenly flashed in his mind, and then let go of her and turned around and ran to the corner, took out a white nurse's suit, and said with an excited glint in her eyes burning with blue flames: "Come, Xingcai, put it on." ”
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The next morning, the shapeshifter retreated.
Wang Xu walked out of the ice coffin refreshed and found that the wind and snow had stopped.
The bright sunlight shining on the earth gives people an extra comfort.
Even though Wang Xu can no longer feel the heat in the sun, he still feels happy.
"Master, where are we going to the north?" Zhang Xinna asked with a staring at her pretty eyes.
Wang Xu thought for a while and said: "Go to the Northeast, where is my hometown, which is more familiar. And there's a lot of ore over there. ”
"That's quite far, we should be in Jiangsu and Zhejiang now." Liu Li pointed to the map and said.
Wang Xu waved his hand and said, "Don't hurry, go slowly." Although our first goal is mining this time, we also need to explore the current situation of the world and search for the surviving snow elves. ”
"Master, there are traces in the distance." At this time, the pointed ear, which was extremely acute, suddenly said.
Wang Xu followed the fingers of the pointed ears and looked to the northwest, behind some snow mounds, there were some footprints.
"Let's go, go over and have a look." Wang Xu pulled out his ice sword and flew over the ice and snow hill.
After getting closer, Wang Xu jumped off the ice and snow hill and found that there were messy human footprints on the snow, which were all large and small, and it seemed that men, women, and children all had them.
In terms of the number of styles, the number of people is between six and eight.
"They're barefoot, they're supposed to be snow elves." Wang Xu looked at the footprints and said.
"Damn, I don't know how long they've been gone." Li Shu looked at the footprints with an anxious face.
"It should have been at least five hours," Ms. Zhang said. ”
"Oh? How can you tell? Wang Xu asked curiously.
Zhang Xinna's face was slightly red, she lowered her head and pointed to the footprints and said, "The snow stopped at two o'clock last night." The footprints were not covered in snow, indicating that they were left after the snow. ”
"The snow stopped at two o'clock?" Wang Xu was stunned for a moment when he heard this.
Last night, he and Lan Xingcai had been upside down all night and didn't sleep. But he couldn't remember when the snow stopped.
Zhang Xinna turned her head and pointed to the distance, and said, "They seem to be heading north, and if we go on like this, we can probably catch up with them." ”
When Wang Xu heard this, he didn't think too much, turned his head and jumped on the ice and snow hill and said, "Let's go!" ”
When Wang Xu and the others were just driving the ice and snow forward, they were on a snow field about ten kilometers away from them.
"Sister, I can't walk." A ten-year-old child turned pale and knelt on the ground weakly.
The girl next to him, about fifteen or sixteen years old, in a tattered skirt, said, "Xiaoxin, don't stop. If we stop, we'll be taken back into slavery. Come on! ”
As she spoke, the girl's weak body lifted the boy on her back with difficulty and moved forward with difficulty.
About five hundred meters in front of the two of them, there were five young men running frantically, and they didn't seem to intend to take the two poor siblings with them.
Thump!
Without taking two steps, the girl lay directly on the snow, panting and taking out a frozen steamed bun that was harder than a stone, handed it to the young man and said, "Eat quickly, eat it and have the strength to run." ”
"Sister, I'...... I can't bite anymore, you can eat it. The little boy said, unconscious.