In the Black Iron Harbor, inside the Lord's Palace.

Anna looked at the parchment in her hand with a helpless expression on her face.

She was the only one in the study, and in order to open the way to the northern mountains and prevent emergencies in the mountains, Adès took most of her followers.

Now Anna is in charge of Black Iron Harbor, Zena is on the volcanic island, Barony is Jane, Molly has run to Ambo, and the mouth of the river is handed over to Hunter for management.

Fortunately, Adès and Molly have long implemented a set of internal management systems, even if the supervisor is not there for the time being, they can operate normally.

"What is the royal family going to do, is it going to send someone to spy on us?" Anna said to herself with the parchment, she thought about it for a moment, slapped the parchment on the table, and thought: this is not good, it seems that we will have to discuss it with Molly and Adès.

This is a child of the royal family again, and he is carrying support materials and a commendation order, what is the trouble?

She knows that she is not good at politics, this kind of intrigue can't be handled, this time the royal family sent someone to support, but who knows what the hell is going on inside.

After thinking about it, she pulled the rattle rope beside her, and after the attendant outside the door came in, Anna wrote a brief letter, and asked the attendant to send the simple letter to Molly and Adès, and these troubles should be left to them to worry about.

At this time, Adès was in the northern mountain range, and he looked at the disappearing mountain road in front of him, and was a little overwhelmed.

"What's the matter, why don't you leave?" Mia accompanied her young master to the front of the mountain road to investigate, and Bernie's scouts came back to tell everyone that there was no road ahead. So Adès left Nancy's apprentice behind and took Mia with him. Originally, I wanted to go ahead to let the wind out.

Who knew that when I got to the place where the scout said there was no way, there was really no way.

An unusually violent flash flood completely washed away and buried the original mountain road. I can't see the original face of the mountain road at all, all the big and small pebbles in front of me, the biggest one is the size of a horse-drawn cart, and the small one is the size of a human head, do you pave the road directly on it? Or wait for the earth element to come and dig them up?

Adès had a choice dilemma for a while.

"This road, completely washed away by the torrent, how to go?" said Adès angrily and turned to the little maid.

"Digging is laying a strip, there is an element of earth, how simple it is. Mia said with a roll of her eyes. She didn't understand what her young master sometimes thought.

"The earth elemental that appears every day must be summoned with gems, do you think you can summon it if you want to?"

"Do you want gems?" the little maid heard the word gems, and immediately turned into a little wealth fan.

Ades nodded, although this expenditure has been prepared in advance, but if it can be saved, it will be saved, if it is dug up, the workload will be large, and it may take a few more days. It's a gem every day.

"Young master, I don't think you can save this money, you see that there is a mountain col inside, and there is a mountain stream in the middle. That's where the torrent comes from, and when you dig it up, the terrain gets lower, and the water from the mountain stream will definitely flow through here. Mia looked inside in the direction the torrent was coming from. Immediately pointed to the terrain and explained to Adès.

"It seems that we can only dig up this place completely as if we were in the back camp. Then take a stone bridge and let the water flow down from the bottom of the bridge. Ades looked in the direction Mia pointed. agreed with the little maid's explanation.

"We also need to build a small dam in the mountain stream, and if the mountain stream is allowed to flow like it is now, if it rains again, there may be another flash flood." "The climate and terrain here are similar to those in the small village in the middle of the mountains, and Adès looked at the terrain and was a little worried about another flash flood.

"Then wait for the mountain road to be built, and then have time to repair it slowly, this is not in a hurry. Mia took two steps forward and jumped onto a large cobblestone, intending to go ahead and cross the torrent-swept mountain road to see ahead.

"Be careful, there are snakes underneath these stones. Adès saw the little maid jumping on a big rock and hurriedly reminded her.

"Young master, come and see if this is gold!!"

Mia jumped on the stone face, stepped over several large rocks, and suddenly pointed ahead and shouted loudly.

"Gold?" Ardès jumped on the cobblestone with some curiosity and came to Mia's side to take a look.

Not far in front of her, on top of a lying stone, shining golden under the reflection of the sun's rays, Adès was also blinded by this golden color, is this really gold?

A few steps forward, only the top of the large cobblestone lying horizontally was exposed, and most of the whole stone was buried by small stones nearby, and it was not entirely clear how big the large pebble really was.

Adès jumped on the glittering golden pebble and saw that it really looked like gold, and the texture of the pebble was white, like quartz, with large swaths of golden yellow metal attached to it.

Adès crouched down, pulled out his steel dagger, and scraped it on the pebbles, trying to scrape off the golden attachment on it to see if it was really gold.

Who knew that as soon as I used it, the golden metal would crumble, and it was very brittle.

Ades shook his head and smiled, stood up and said to Mia, "This is not gold. ”

"Ah, what else could this color be besides gold?" Mia didn't believe what her young master said.

"It's the same as the ones dug up by the goblin tribes, it's pyrite. Adès pointed to the back of the mountain road, indicating the location of the goblin tribe that had been laid down a few days ago.

"It can't be, isn't it? The goblin tribe is so far from here. Still not convinced, Mia walked over to Adès and crouched down to examine the pebbles.

"What are you lying about, if it's gold, such a big piece, I'm not happy and crazy, it means that there is a large gold mine nearby, who doesn't want it to be real. Adès pointed to the pebble beneath his feet, which was about six feet long and about four feet wide when it was exposed to the ground.

"It's really not gold?" Mia couldn't tell the difference between gold and other minerals, so she could only look up and ask her young master again.

"It's really not, you see I scratched it here, the fracture is uneven, and if you try it, it's very brittle. With that, Adès handed the dagger to Mia and told her to give it a try.

When Mia tried it, it was really brittle, and the golden metal collapsed before she could use any force.

"Gold is very soft, and if it were pried open like this, it would not crumble, and there would be no such fractures. ”

"Oh, I thought it was gold, such a big piece, if it were gold, it would have been issued. Mia stood up a little frustrated and stomped hard at the big pebbles.

Ades glanced at the nearby pebbles, and said: "You can make a fortune without gold, this is so far away from the goblin tribe, and there is pyrite, then this vein is quite large, we can't find gold, but we can earn the money back on the iron mine." ”

And, who says there's no gold in pyrite? (To be continued......)