Chapter 6: Planning an Escape (2)
Instead of the miners, the work was organized by manpower, not to care for the miners, but only to complete the work as soon as possible. The sooner it is completed, the sooner the miners can mine? Expect the miners to be in trouble, and they will have to wait for a few years?
Mining is different, it is originally slow work and meticulous work, and the miners often can only dig about three spirit stone fragments after working for more than ten hours a day. Normal people can't do this kind of hard work at all. In ordinary regular spirit stone mines, normal miners can usually only work for three or five years.
Their benefits are far higher than those of other jobs on the ground, but only the young and strong poor people at the bottom are willing to do it. In a normal spirit stone mine, the labor efficiency of normal miners is much higher, and it is only possible to dig up more than a dozen spirit stone fragments every day.
And now Zero, you can easily dig for four hours, you can get twenty spirit stone fragments, and during this time, you can also sort out all the slag around you unconventionally, and the gap is not ordinary.
Speaking of which, the system should only be equivalent to a toddler of a few years old, and Zero himself can only be more naïve than the system, but the two of them think about the problem quite thoroughly. The basic plan of things is complete, and now Zero has begun to officially dig in the established direction.
Instead, dig for ten hours a day, then stop and practice for ten hours, set aside four hours for maneuvering, and return twice, which only takes half an hour at present, and may consume a lot of time in the future.
In this way, at six o'clock in the morning, "get up" to go to the negative layer to replenish the "swill", and then go to the pit to dig normally; after digging for ten hours, after three hours of on-the-spot cultivation, return to the negative layer, hand in three pieces of spirit stone at twenty o'clock, and replenish the "swill" for the second time. Then there was free rest, and of course Zero continued to practice for more than ten hours.
In the plan, it will take more than a year to repeat the cycle like this. It takes longer to start cultivating than it takes to dig, and after digging farther and farther, it is likely that you will have to have two or three hours, which you will have to use to travel back and forth.
The miners' army of slag clearers did not bother to glance at the skeletal slaves, who were almost struggling to walk, and even when they saw them approaching, they quickly covered their mouths and noses as far away as they could.
The other miners are basically insane, and they also turn a blind eye to these "outsiders". Only Zero will secretly observe, and the more outsiders clean up, the happier he will be, and in the future, he will dig tunnels, and a lot of "new garbage" will be generated, and at that time, there will be room for littering "garbage".
On the first day, Tunnel Zero actually lasted twelve hours. While digging the tunnel, I carefully tried to expand the hole as much as possible, and the excavated slag was properly arranged as much as possible, and the work was relatively heavy. His physical strength seemed to be endless, and the system was amazed.
After a day's hard work, the effect was great, and I actually "advanced" forty meters so far at once. Fragments of spirit stones, more than seventy pieces were obtained. Nowadays, the consumption of Zero's cultivation is also greater than in the past, and it used to take only one spirit stone fragment per hour of cultivation, but now it will consume three spirit stone fragments when it is two hours of cultivation.
No matter how big the consumption is, it is far from catching up with the harvest for the time being. These days, Zero has accumulated more than two hundred spirit stone fragments.
It turned out that the system had always wondered why he couldn't tell if Zero had cultivated True Qi? Promoted to the second level, his ability had improved a lot, and now he could see that Zero had cultivated to the True Qi stage very early, but the fluctuations were extremely weak, and the accumulation was very small. Less than negligible.
However, his strength has steadily improved, and his physique has become stronger and stronger. This vulgar "Golden Body Formula" seems to be very suitable for Zero.
The second promotion of the system, there has been a considerable leap in ability, and there is a new big discovery of Zero.
First of all, it is remarkable that the search range is extended to 10,000 meters. At the same time, it also shows that the unknown resources of Zero are too miraculous.
The system found that there are many low-level artificial intelligence around, and when I was at level zero before, I was ignorant, almost as "stupid" as them, and my ability to receive information was extremely weak, let alone actively searching for information.
When you are promoted to the first level, you have already made essential progress, and you have been passive in everything you do, and you don't know anything unless you receive instructions. After reaching the first level, you have a master, and from then on, everything has a practical meaning. The feeling of sharing the hardships with the host was very good.
The only dissatisfaction is that the level is too low, the ability is too weak, and only two "small systems" can be found, which cannot help the master.
One is the bear fat man, the password is ridiculous, that is, the "bear fat man", no matter how complicated it is, he may not be able to remember it himself, this is easy to crack. The other one is farther away, and the password is much more difficult, and I tried several times in the first two days but couldn't crack it, so I didn't pay attention to it.
Now, I have finally been promoted to the second level, and my ability has been greatly improved, and the key is that I can also help my master escape from the sea of suffering, I am so satisfied and happy!
Nowadays, it is easy to find thirty or forty "small systems", and then look at those stupid guys, who look very much like the same kind, but they are not willing to deal with them at all, and they are ashamed. In the past, searching for information and materials had to take the trouble of "deceiving" them, but now it is easy to hide them without leaving the slightest trace.
After the promotion, it is easy to get a lot of new information and new materials at once, and you can make great progress with an in-depth understanding of this interface. The system felt more frightened than before, and it was already unusual, but now it is even more so.
Until he saw Zero stop "working", the system couldn't help but whisper to Zero: "Guess what, how many points did I consume when I advanced for the second time?"
Zero was amused, isn't it only me who can hear what you say in my heart? Why do you want to be so mysterious? I just want to guess, it's still a point, and then I think it's wrong, if it's really just one point, there's no reason to spend so much time, and besides, let yourself guess what?
He didn't realize it at this time, he was thinking much better now than when he first woke up, and his brain was dull as if it were rusting to death.
After only a dozen days, his experience was almost negligible, and it was difficult to realize the gap between the periods.
He hesitated, not daring to guess with certainty, could it be that ten points were consumed this time?
"Oh, the master is so wise!" the system praised.
Zero himself was taken aback, was it really ten points? He guessed that it was so, but he couldn't understand why.
The system happily took the initiative to introduce: "Consuming a point, I was promoted to the first level; at the first level, my ability was limited, and the help to the master was still small." Now that I have consumed ten more points, I have been promoted to the second level, which can be of great help to the master. ”
Infected by his companions, Zero is also happy. He asked, how many points do I have after eleven points?
He had always been curious about this mysterious resource, and he couldn't even believe that it was his own.
The system didn't answer directly this time, but slowly considered it. "The first time I was supposed to be level zero, you applied to the master to allow me to advance, and I shouldn't have seen the numbers at that time, that is, I didn't know how many points there were. ”
"The second time, I used one point to go up to the next level, and when I saw the number nine, I thought that there were nine points left...... And now, I see the new number eighty-nine. I can't be sure, how many points are there now?"
Zero himself began to ponder, yes, when he saw nine points in the first level, he thought that there were nine points left; he didn't expect that after consuming ten points, he rose to the second level, and obviously the original number was not just nine points! Then, now that he is in the second level, the eighty-nine points he saw may not be the real answer.
It's probably bigger. Zero hurriedly asked, look at it again, can you still advance now?
The system was startled, and hurriedly dissuaded: "Master, I don't need to advance now?"
Zero, don't worry, I just let you take a look, I didn't say that you should continue to advance again at this moment.
"What," the system didn't immediately understand the owner's intentions, and was a little cute.
Zero was so amused by him, if I could see it myself, why bother letting you see it?
The system finally reacted, hurriedly looked again, and found that there was indeed a hint of "promotion"!
If he thought about it seriously, judging from his previous experience, advancing to the third level should consume a full hundred points! This is an astonishing number, just thinking about it, he is very frightened! Moreover, it is obvious that the original number should definitely not be less than two hundred......
How much is it? Both System and Zero are trying to guess.
After a while, Zero stopped first, no longer wasting energy needlessly.
"I really don't want to go back and drink that muddy water twice a day, it tastes so disgusting and weird. Zero felt sick when he thought about it, and he was disgusted by the fact that he had been punished. I really hope the system will help him find a way to get rid of it.
The system thought carefully and replied, "We didn't pay attention to this when we started. Now it's not easy to solve. If you don't replenish food and water for a long time, I'm afraid it's hard to persevere, right? What can you do if you don't go back?"
Zero really doesn't know, if he doesn't drink that strange swill, will he be able to do it after a long time?
Zero muttered angrily, I don't know what the use of drinking that thing is, I just know that it will be disgusting for a long time.
"Huh?" The system suddenly remembered one thing, it had to replenish that "swill" every day, and that was for ordinary mortals, especially ordinary people who had not cultivated. But the owner may really be different from them, can he hold on without that thing?
The system was in a dilemma and fell silent. He began to search for relevant information, but in his eagerness he couldn't find a very suitable answer.
Zero is very alert and busy asking the system, do you have any new ideas or good solutions?
The system did not dare to hide it, so it had to tell the truth about its concerns.