Chapter 278: Flint
It only took ten minutes to go back and forth, and the Lord Matthew was talking to a few soldiers outside, and Flandy came out of the stone house.
"Sir, you're back!" Seeing Frandi's miraculous disappearance and miraculous appearance just now, Matthew's attitude towards Frandy has improved a lot.
"Well, I've got my clothes back, old Rod, take off your suit and put it on. ”
From the moment Flandi wanted to go to the fire cave to fetch flint instead of him, old Rhodes already trusted Flandy very much, and saw that he was holding a set of pure white clothes that he didn't know what to knit, so he obediently changed into this set of clothes.
However, since Flandy was holding the largest size, he looked very large when he wore it, and he even had to lift the sides of his pants to move forward.
"Let's go, old Rhodes. Matthew urged.
Several people continued to walk along the path halfway up the mountain, because old Rod's clothes were not suitable, so they walked very slowly, and everyone was not in a hurry, so they walked slowly with his speed.
With each step, Flandi felt the heat in the air increase a little bit, and one thing he discovered was that the fire elemental here was very abundant, much more abundant than in the Magic Tower.
Ten minutes later, after making a small turn along the path, he finally saw what the crowd called the fire cave.
It was almost to the top of the mountain, and there was nothing around but red stones, and in front of it was the entrance to the fire cave, which was not accurate, because it was a crack in the middle of a boulder.
The gap is very high, more than ten meters wide, and the width can be enough for three adults to pass side by side. Although there was no flame to be seen outside, the air near the gap was distorting, apparently extremely hot.
Twenty meters away from the gap, there was a winch, and the winch was coiled with iron chains.
The soldiers removed the cage from the cart, and Flandy discovered that there were several iron plates at the bottom of the cart.
The four of them worked together to lay the iron plate around the prisoner cart, forming an uncovered iron box.
"Old Rod, it's up to you now!" Matthew gestured in the direction of the gap.
"Abba, how are you feeling?" asked the woman holding the baby very nervously.
"Child, wait until I get back. "Old Rod felt very good, although the ice silkworm suit did not fit well, and it was inconvenient to walk, but he did not feel hot at all.
He saw that everyone, including Flandy, was sweating, but he felt very cool under the protection of the ice silkworm clothes.
This gave him a boost of confidence, and he took the end of the chain and walked towards the fire cave.
Everyone stared at the entrance of the fire cave, and saw that although old Rhodes walked slowly, he did not pause at all, and after arriving at the entrance of the fire cave, he strode forward without hesitation.
That is, about a minute, suddenly the iron chain on the winch shook and made a "bang, bang, bang" sound.
Matthew was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to push the winch.
The winch may not have been used for a while, and it was a bit difficult for the four soldiers to push together, and when Frandy saw that they were pushing so slowly, he simply started to push together.
His strength was even greater than that of the four soldiers combined, and now the winch spun twice as fast, and the chains whizzed back.
After a few turns, I saw that along the gap, a flaming stone with a human head was tied to the other end of the chain, and it was pulled out.
"Hey, Senior Flint!Old Rod has done a great job!" shouted Matthew happily.
"Superior flint?" Franky didn't understand, and didn't know how they graded the flints.
"Yes, it's a high-grade flint, you see, only the top layer is red, and the bottom is all white, and it's still so big, it should last at least a year!"
"Oh, it turned out to be the color. Franky made a secret note of it.
"Where's Abba, why hasn't Abba come out yet?" the woman's tears were about to flow out.
Flandi also wondered, it is said that even this flint has been pulled out, and old Rhodes should have come out a long time ago.
Before he could speak, a figure flashed at the entrance of the fire cave, and old Rhodes walked out with a cyan flint in one hand.
"Abba!" cried the woman, waving her arms in tears of joy.
"Ahh
Even the four soldiers couldn't control themselves from rushing forward, but the heat pushed them back.
"How are you, old Rod?"
The four soldiers shouted together, and what they were most worried about now was that old Rhodes suddenly collapsed on his way back.
But what they feared never happened, and old Rhodes walked slowly, but easily.
"Bell!" said "Bell!" Old Rhodes walked to the side of his prisoner's cart, threw the two flints in his hand, and smashed them on the iron plate that was cushioned.
Even the flint with the size of a human head was moved to the prisoner car by old Rhodes with a "bang".
Matthew looked at Old Rod a little dumbfounded, he had been to the fire cave many times, and six or seven times out of ten people had not moved since they entered the fire cave.
Even if I was barely able to escape, I had never seen such an easy, and I basically endured great pain and crawled out.
"Abba, Abba, how are you feeling?" the woman rushed to old Rod, despite the heat.
"I'm fine!" said old Rhodes took off his hood, and there was no injury at all.
"Thank you, thank you, sir, if it weren't for this dress, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to get out at all!"
Old Rod took off his ice silkworm clothes and thanked Brandy again and again.
"How does it feel?" asked Flandy.
"I don't feel hot at all, it's like a casual walk, your dress is really precious!"
He took off his ice silkworm robe, tidied it up, and put his hands in front of Franky's eyes.
"That's good. Franky took the ice silkworm suit.
"Sir, can you ......?" said Matthew, who saw that old Rhodes had come back without even a single burn on his body.
I knew that the ice silkworm cloak in Flandy's hand was not a little better than the fire-sheltering clothes of their ancestors.
"No!" Flandy flatly refused, he could certainly guess what Matthew was going to say.
"Alas......" Matthew sighed, he also knew that it was almost impossible to want the ice silkworm clothes, but this dress was related to the lives of countless people, so he could only muster up the courage to ask.
"But ......," Brandie mused, looking down.
"But what, sir?" said Matthew's hope again.
"Hehe, Matthew, it's impossible for you to want this garment, but I can make you stop smelting with flint in the future. ”
"Ah, how is that possible, without flint, then what do we use?"
"You'll know later, now that the flint has been taken out, can you go back?"
Flandy felt a little sorry for the inhabitants of this town, it was not worth it for generations of old people to die for flint, and he was going to negotiate with Minister Dean to either smelt the ore on the spot, or directly relocate all the residents of the town to the vicinity of the imperial capital.
"Of course, Old Rhodes has taken out a large piece of high-grade flint this time, two top-grade flints, and his contribution is indispensable, and the lord will definitely reward him. ”
"Then you can go back, I want to go in and have a look. Frandy was dressed in the ice silkworm suit in his hand.
If it weren't for the magic of the Ice Silkworm Suit, Matthew and Old Rod would have persuaded him not to go in, but now it has been proved that the Ice Silkworm Suit has an extremely strong defense against the fire cave, so there is nothing to say.
However, they still told them to pay attention to safety and so on, and then left.
After putting on the ice silkworm suit, Frandy carefully walked into the fire cave alone.
Sure enough, the ice silkworm clothes are really invulnerable, and he can't feel such a high temperature outside at all. On the contrary, there is something cool.
The hood of the ice silkworm clothes is a whole, and there is no room for the position of the eyes, but the ice silk here is relatively sparse, and it is hazy and can see the outside world.
Since he couldn't see clearly, Frandi simply closed his eyes and sensed it with the state of inward vision.
With his current mental power, he can almost sense a distance of about seventy or eighty meters, if it is in an open place, it is definitely not as good as the eyes, but in a narrow place like the fire cave, it is more real than "seeing" with the eyes.