Chapter 356: Cui Mian
"Do you mean this by fun?" asked Ollie, picking up a book and pointing to the words "Magic Trick Revealed" on the cover.
"I think this must be it!" Vic picked up another colorful booklet, and on the cover of it was a female goblin with flaming red lips scratching her head and posing in an S-shape.
Luka didn't feel hungry anymore.
Vic looked at the colorful pamphlet with great interest, and said: "If you want to know something, just ask me directly, in your hands, how dare I lie? As for getting so many books and magazines? You have also seen it, how cooperative I am, it is difficult to find an honest goblin like me these days!"
Who are you trying to escape along the way? Luca thought to himself, but he didn't say it directly, but turned a thousand words into two concise words: "Hehe." ”
Vic obviously didn't understand the full emotion carried in these two words, and flipped through the album by himself, his saliva was about to flow.
"Alright, don't look at it!" Lukka pulled the album out of his hand and set it aside, "Let's talk about it first, what's going on with the Deep Rock Mining Association, President Gavin, and the master?"
Vic stared at the pamphlet reluctantly, looking helpless.
"Hurry up!" Ollie slammed the trumpet greatsword on the table.
Vic looked at the cold light on the sword and involuntarily shrank back:
"Okay, okay, I just said no, is it necessary to be so violent?
"What did you just ask? Okay, I remembered, I didn't need that sword to help, I remembered, okay? Deep Rock Mining Association, right?
"If you want to talk about this deep rock mining association, its history is longer than the city itself. As you can see, the most important pillar industry in our city is mining, but in the beginning, there were no cities at all, only some mines that were in danger of collapsing at any time.
"More than 1,000 years ago, the first president of the Deep Rock Mining Association, with the goblins who struggled to survive in the underground caves, dug into the rock to build the earliest prototype of the city, and the name of the city "Deep Mine" is also abbreviated from the Deep Rock Mining Association.
"Later, as we expanded, the mine became what it is today. There are no so-called consuls, mayors and the like on the surface, and the Mining Association is the actual governing body here, and the president of the Mining Association is the de facto ruler of the deep mines. ”
Lukka looked at the information in his hand and nodded, "You're not lying. ”
"What kind of ore are you digging for?" asked Ollie curiously, "Iron ore and copper mines, but I didn't see a furnace or anything like that, don't you handle the ore yourself?"
Lukka secretly applauded Ollie in his heart, her question seemed random, but it really got to the point.
As long as these goblins need to do business with the outside world, there must be a way to leave, and the route to transport the trade goods may be easier to follow than the winding tunnels in the well area.
Moreover, the inhabitants here make a living from mining, and there is no sunlight underground, so food is a problem, although there are lizards that live underground to provide meat, but the street just now, there are obviously snacks made of plants. This also shows from another point of view that the underground city of deep mining must have contact with the outside world, and there is also the circulation of bulk goods.
Vic's answer was completely unexpected: "You didn't see the furnace because it was so polluted that it was in the far mines." We do dig copper and iron ore, but it's not much, and it's just enough to make tools. ”
"So what are you digging for? Don't tell me it's sugar mines. Luca remembered the mining of gnomes on the ground.
"Can you have a little common sense? Can sugar be produced in the mines? Do you really believe the dwarfs?" Vic immediately puffed up when he heard the word "sugar".
He climbed onto the table, flipped through the pile of books, opened a page and placed it in front of Luca, pointed to a dark green rock drawn on it, and said, "This is what we dug up, Cuimian." ”
The color of the print was a little saturated, and a stone turned out to be greener than Vic's face.
This color, if the texture is a little more transparent, whether it is in the world where Lucca originally lived, or in the Sunset Islands, will be regarded as a valuable jewelry. The stone on the painting is loose at first glance, with countless sand holes distributed on it, and no matter how you look at it, it is just a green stone.
"Is this a mine?" Ollie had never seen such an ore.
"Don't underestimate Cuimian, everything in our lives is inseparable from it. Even the 'sweet' life of the gnomes on the surface of the earth is due to it. Vic's nose wrinkled visibly in disgust as he said the word "sweet."
Lukka looked to the page, and behind the picture, a brief description of the ore was written in words. He looked at it for a moment, nodded to Ollie, and said, "He's right, it's exactly what it says in this book:
"Emerald, green or yellow-green solid, solid in texture, widely distributed in the caverns surrounding deep mines. For the time that is recorded, especially in the millennium after the construction of the Deep Mine City, Cuimian has been the main mineral collected by goblins.
"Although it looks like a stone, in essence, it is a slow-growing underground fungus that may have a growth cycle of more than 1,000 years, so it is still a non-renewable resource for deep mines. However, due to its abundant reserves, it can support tens of thousands of years at the mining speed of deep ore. ”
Ollie asked curiously, "What's the use of this thing?"
Lukka flipped back a page of the book and read it word by word:
"After simple treatment, the raw ore can be decomposed into several secondary products such as sugar, salt, starch and fiber. Among them, salt is an important condiment, starch mass is rich in vitamins in addition to starch and is the main source of goblin plant food, and fiber is the material used to produce various types of textiles. Moreover, in the interior of some green cotton, there will also be a small amount of crystal nuclei containing energy, which is the source of energy for deep mining machinery tools. ”
Ollie counted on her fingers and asked suspiciously, "What about sugar?"
"Don't mention sugar, okay?," Vic rubbed his pointed ears desperately, "We goblins don't eat sugar!