Chapter 33: Happiness and Sorrow
If you ask Chen Qiang, who is the person he admires the most in this world, he can't say, if you ask him what he admires the most, there is only the system, the martial arts advanced system!
The system alone can change a person's innate talent, and this alone is enough for him to worship for a lifetime, boast to himself for a lifetime, and bury the secret in his heart forever!
Since the martial arts advanced system prompted that there were twelve lower-grade spirit stones at a depth of one and a half, he was convinced of this, and he dug with a mine hoe, and he would not even look at it at a depth of one and a half, and if he did not dig out twelve lower-grade spirit stones, he would not give up.
As for the little doubt in his heart, he had long been left behind, now was not the time to ponder the application of the system, he had time to deepen his understanding of the application of the system, and now was the time to dig up the spirit stone.
He has to dig spirit stones day and night, squander his youth with sweat, exchange his labor for fruits, and steal spirit stones with the system.
Twelve dazzling and crystalline lower-grade spirit stones were held in the palm of his hand, and Chen Qiang's whole person was fascinated by them, and the reward paid to the elder ten spirit stones had already been earned.
At this moment, he has completely forgotten the fact that he is 'working'.
Putting the twelve spirit stones into the storage bag, Chen Qiang put his palm on the pit that had just been excavated, in his imagination, the spirit stones should be produced in a pile.
"Ding, seventeen lower-grade spirit stones have been found, with a depth of three .9 meters, which can be dug up!"
The prompt sound of the system machinery gave Chen Qiang a surprise, and he continued to dig without saying a word.
The originally hard rock, after being cultivated by a rich aura all the year round, has become stronger than pig iron, and ordinary people really can't do the work of digging spirit stone mines, just digging the rocks will block them.
This is also the reason why the task of digging spirit stone mines is issued, and ordinary people will not be hired, and the ordinary old man that Chen Qiang met is purely an exception.
The rocks that had undergone a certain degree of metamorphosis, under the mine hoe that Chen Qiangfei spun, flew behind him one by one, like a rain of rocks.
He has now reached the late stage of foundation building, opened up the human dantian, and now can use the true yuan power in his body to bless the mine hoe, making the mine hoe sharper, and cutting through the hard rock, which is not much more laborious than cutting tofu, and the work efficiency is extremely high.
Three .9 meters, close to four meters thick of the rock, just a very short time, has been completely dug up by him, and another seventeen spirit stones have been swept into the bag.
After tasting the sweetness, he once again pressed his palm to the inside of what could already be called a mine.
"Ding, twenty-eight spirit stones have been found, with a depth of one or three meters, which can be dug up!"
Now, Chen Qiang has fully realized the joy of being a spirit stone miner. The sense of surprise of discovering the spirit stone, the sense of accomplishment of the spirit stone being dug up, and the satisfaction of the spirit stone being swept into the storage bag, this is the joy of being a spirit stone miner.
This kind of happiness is not unique to Chen Qiang, many spirit stone miners, can experience this kind of happiness, the moment a deeply buried spirit stone appears in front of them, many miners will be fascinated by the spirit stone brilliance, their minds are filled with spirit stones, forgetting the fact that they are 'working'.
In half an hour, the arrival of more than 2,000 lower grade spirit stones made the small abacus in Chen Qiang's heart crackle.
Twelve hours a day, two hours for cultivation, this is a necessary homework, two hours for sleeping, and sleep for brain fatigue in the later stage of foundation building, both of which are essential, as for other possibilities of wasting time, it can be avoided.
In this way, he can use eight hours a day to dig spirit stones, according to the current efficiency, he can dig out about 20,000 spirit stones a day, which is 600,000 a month, which is equivalent to 60 medium-grade spirit stones.
"The Drifting Snow Sect has paid a reward for a medium-grade spirit stone, if I don't pay ......!"
Chen Qiang felt that he should hand over a part of the spirit stones, at least he should not let the other party lose money, otherwise it was really unreasonable, as for the specific amount to be handed over, it could be a full 10,000, it could be 10,000, it could be more, but it would never exceed 20,000 lower-grade spirit stones, and the exact number would depend on the harvest.
"That's not right!"
Chen Qiang, who was calculating the numbers, suddenly slapped his head, he had just missed a little, according to the current work efficiency, in a month, there would not be enough to dig up the number of a hundred medium-grade spirit stones, and the advancement of all his qualifications, as well as the advancement of auxiliary professions, would require at least a hundred medium-grade spirit stones.
If the spirit stone is not enough to advance the number, he can't temporarily store the spirit stone in the system, he can only hide it, or put it in the storage bag provided by the Drifting Snow Sect, and a spirit stone can't be taken out of the mining area.
Chen Qiang asked himself, is the reward of one medium-grade spirit stone a month a month a small amount for a miscellaneous disciple in the foundation building period? It is not a little, and it can even be said to be a lot. Although many miscellaneous disciples died on the way to the mining area, what martial cultivator was not fighting for his life? Even if there were, it was a very few!
To be able to live a new life, to be able to embark on the road of martial cultivation, and to have the golden finger of the system, he is very grateful and cherishes it very much! He understands the truth, but the 'sharp decrease' of the spiritual stone harvest still makes him feel a faint sadness in his heart.
This faint sadness also made him look like the system, looking extremely mechanical, mechanical eyes, mechanical waving of the mine hoe, mechanical collection of the dug spirit stones into the storage bag, not even probing, just all the way forward!
Until—
With a 'bang', a hoe went down, directly chiseling through the rock wall, penetrating a little light.
The old man was stunned to see the human head that appeared, his eyes were blank, his face was blank, a lifeless young man, like a scarecrow in the farmland.
The old man's face also looked dazed, he had just knocked on the rock wall, and the feedback was extremely hollow, and he thought that there would be a big harvest, and he was surprised in his heart, but before this surprise could bloom on his face, it had already been shattered.
The young man's face, the old man knows, and he is still asking him for mining knowledge in the morning, but he hasn't seen him for most of the day, and he was hit like this!
This made the old man's heart sad, how many miners came with hope, looking forward to the happiness of being submerged by the spirit stone, but in the end, how many miners can really have this kind of happiness?
"Alas~!Young man, sit down and smoke a bag of cigarettes!" the old man sighed, took out two spiritual cigarettes, handed one to Chen Qiang, and sat directly on the ground and smoked.
"Smoke?!" Chen Qiang looked at the spiritual smoke that was handed to him in the shape of a cigar, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
He really didn't know that there was tobacco in this world, when he lit the spiritual smoke and smoked it, the taste was a little weird, it was not the same thing as the tobacco in the previous life, but it was also made of some kind of plant leaf stem, and there was a very light aura along with the smoke, which was different from the general aura, and seemed to contain some special ingredients, which could relieve anxiety.
"What a good thing!" Chen Qiang sighed as he swallowed the clouds.