Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Crystal Mine
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In the end, no one knows the price of Lao Duoke's transaction, but Cook can see from Lao Duoke's smile that he must have sold it at a good price, and then Lao Duoke took out a map of the mine distribution in the A3 area that he treasured, which Lao Duoke had walked through in the underground mine for more than ten years, and the three of Cook were grateful, and Lao Duoke was going home, after all, he got such a large fortune.
Cook tested it with the magic eye, and found that if the rock wrapped outside the magic crystal was thin, the magic eye could see the fluctuations of the magic elements emitted, but if the rock was too thick, the magic eye would not work at all, but even so, Cook was very satisfied, in fact, Cook suspected that his level was too low, but Cook did not immediately buy the stone with magic crystal that the magic eye saw here, because Cook didn't want to be noticed, so Cook planned to complete the task first, and then come back when he went back, this is also because the stone that Cook saw wrapped in the magic crystal was very small, and if it was too big, the rock might be very thick, so Cook had nothing to be reluctant to。
The three Cook did not hire a guide, and in such an unfamiliar environment, although the guide can play a good role, no one knows what kind of people these guides are, so the Cook and the three of them not only spent a lot of money to buy a Wizard's Guild's version of the A3 regional mine distribution map and the map given by Lao Duo to verify each other, but the three of them began to embark on the road of finding the magic crystal.
The Cooks are going to the old mine, on the other side of the A3 area, it is also the place where the magma in the more than 100 small volcanic eruptions gathers, but this was an extinct volcano before, so no one knew that the current more than 100 volcanic eruptions were rich in magic crystals before, at that time, they were excavated by digging the rocks formed after the magma cooled to dig the magic crystals, about ten kilometers away from the supply point in the A3 area, and the interval between them was the area of more than 100 volcanic eruption craters, and the Cooks walked the narrowest part of the volcanic eruption area。
In an hour, the three of Cook arrived at the Magic Crystal Mine, and the first thing the three of them saw was a big warning sign, because the magma spewed out of the more than 100 volcanic eruption vents flowed through the countless tunnels under the mine, so the tunnels collapsed from time to time, and the magma was diverted, so the Wizards' Guild would erect a warning sign.
What the three Cooks didn't expect was that at the entrance of this mine, it was actually very lively, most of them were buying and selling magic crystal rough stones, that is, the kind of stones that may be wrapped in magic crystals, known as rough stones, as well as selling digging tools, selling body lì potions, and selling magic torches, etc., the scale of which was no less than a supply point.
The three of Cook bought a set of digging tools, don't underestimate this digging tool, this is made of white iron by the dwarves, it is more expensive than weapons, otherwise they can't dig this hard rock at all: "Huh, what is this?"
Cook pointed to the arm-thick things in the boxes in the tent, the goods bought and sold here are in the tent, the dwarf boss saw what Cook pointed to, and said with a smile: "Haha, guest, you are very discerning, let me tell you, this is a sharp weapon for mining produced by our dwarves, engineering bombs." ”
"What can this thing do?" Cook asked as he quickly dropped what he was holding.
"It's for mining, just use a gap, stuff this engineering bomb in, and then pull it with a rope far away, boom! The ore is blown away, and you just need to pick the ore." The dwarven boss explained.
"And its power is equivalent to the Great Fireball?" Cook asked, looking at it with his magic eye, not finding any magic fluctuations.
"It's a small engineering bomb, it's the equivalent of a small fireball, but if it explodes in a crack in the stone, it's more powerful than releasing a small fireball. The dwarf replied very bluntly.
"Well, how much is this one, I bought them all. Cook gestured to the small engineering bomb, which was wrapped in an unknown hide.
"Ahh The dwarf said excitedly.
"Then I'll have six hundred points. "The last thing Cook lacks is points, not to mention the income brought by the demon pig herd before, let's just say that Cook can take out a potion casually, and it is not more than this price.
When Cook finished the delivery very happily, the dwarf directly hugged Cook, and then said: "Friend, we dwarves like you the most refreshing people, my name is Tatarusi, you can call me Tata. Only my friends can call me that, the closest friends. From the Red Maple tribe of the dwarven kingdom. ”
"Thank you for the compliment, my name is Cook, this is Lori, Mickey, this is Xiaolei, we are from the Peerless Academy. Cook also happily introduced himself.
"Oh my God, and such a cute little baby, Cook, you are too irresponsible as a father, how can you take a baby on an adventure?" Tatarusi looked at her little Lei, who was looking at her with curious eyes, and screamed at Cook.
"Hehe, dear Tata, don't you have a more advanced engineering bomb here?" Cook asked with a smile.
"No, the engineering bomb is a controlled item in our dwarven kingdom, so I still made it myself. Tatarusi shook his head in reply, and then said proudly.
"Yes, I didn't expect you to be an engineer Tata!" Lori said admiringly, engineer, dwarves are a special profession, many human mines have dwarves as engineers, and the excavation and layout of tunnels, as well as the mining of ore veins, all rely on these engineers.
"Primary, primary. I'm here to venture out and study the mining engineering here, because it was built under the command of one of the three senior engineers of our dwarven clan. Tatarusi said with some embarrassment.
Before Cook could reply, Tatarusi asked, "You want to go into the mines, too?"
"Yes, we also want to mine some Magic Crystal Rough. Cook nodded.
"Hehe, as a friend I don't have anything good for you, this is a map of the mine I made, the red area in it is the danger area, it may collapse at any time, the white area is the safe area, the black area is the unknown area, and the yellow area is the place where the magic crystal may be produced, I wish you good luck. Tatarusi was very bold and gave Cook a map, which Cook saw was a bit larger than the one Tatarusi was selling, and it was obviously the latest version.
"Thank you!" Cook thanked and took his leave.
"Humans blinded by wealth!" Tatarusi said to himself as he saw the three Cooks disappear into the hole of the mine, and in Tatarusi's opinion, it was definitely not a wise decision to take a baby on the adventure.
Cook has three more maps in his hand, but because Lao Duo is hand-drawn, it is different from the detailed map of the Wizards' Guild and the floor plan drawn by Tatarusi, but Cook still basically understands it, the main mine road is only about a few hundred meters long, it is not only wide, but also supported by metal supports, and the adventurers stationed on both sides of the main mine road for hundreds of meters are all adventurers, obviously they are all coming for the magic crystal, and after a rough count, there are hundreds of tents.
After the main mine road, there are five straight mine roads, these branch mines are composed of a small number of metal supports and stone supports, and there is no railway track in the mine here, because metal can be said to be very difficult to obtain in this world, even if it is pig iron, it is also one of the controlled materials of the empires of various countries, and it is constantly excavated and transported by manpower.
Cook looked at the map and chose Mine C on the feeder mine, the five feeder mines are ABCDE, where Mine A is gradually upward, BCD is basically parallel, E Mine is gradually downward, and there is an eye-catching number at the branch intersection in each feeder mine, on the map, just like the area of C3452, that is, the first subsidiary branch of the C branch vein enters the third mine. Then the next branch of the third mine goes to the fourth branch, and then the next branch goes to the fifth branch, and the last 2 is the second branch line under the fifth branch, which is very clear, this is the masterpiece of the dwarven engineer.
"Where are we going?" Lori watched as Cook studied the three maps, and to be honest, all Lori could read was the map of the Wizards' Guild, and the plan drawn by Lao Duoke's hand-drawn with Tatarussi's engineer Lori couldn't read at all.
"Go here in the C3323 area!" Cook gestured to somewhere on the map.
"Isn't this a danger zone?" asked Mickey, looking at where Cook was pointing, in surprise.
"I haven't entered the danger zone yet, but it's already the edge of the danger zone, I carefully studied these maps, and found that the direction of the ore vein is from here to here, and this place of my finger is the last part of the ore vein, I originally had a lot of hopes, but have you calculated, since we entered the mine, how many adventurers have we met who dug for magic crystals, full thirty-five, and thirty-five in less than twenty minutes, do you think about it, are there magic crystals elsewhere here?" Cook explained, but Cook ignored a problem, that is, this is the main ore vein area, all adventurers who enter and exit here must enter and exit here, what Cook doesn't know is that this mine is the largest of the three large mines, covering a radius of more than 100 kilometers, just ask, within a range of more than 100 kilometers, or in the countless passages at different levels, even if there are thousands of people, how many people can be scattered down.
"Alright then!" Lori and Mickey had no experience with it, but since Cook said so, they had to believe it.
The three of Cook began to move on, and as time went on, there were no more supports on the mine, except for some unexcavated stone pillars supporting the entire mine, and falling rocks could be seen on the road at any time, and the crumbling rocks on the surrounding mine walls made the three of them tremble.
"Huh!" Cook walked for a while and then used his magic eye to observe for a while, in an unmarked hole, Cook saw a magic light with his magic eye, Cook sighed lightly, and then pushed open the fence that had decayed, it could be seen that the fence was to seal the hole, but as time passed, the fence did not play the slightest role.
"Magic Crystal!" Cook looked at the top of the rock wall, and then used a miner's hoe to cut it down, it was a head-sized stone, but on one of the corners of the stone, a little red light was revealed, Cook smashed it with a hammer a few times, and smashed the stone very roughly, revealing a magic crystal the size of a pigeon's egg, and it was an inferior magic crystal, the color was a little dull, but even so, the three of Cook were pleasantly surprised.
"Cook, shouldn't we go back?" asked Lori as she looked at the crystal in her hand.
"Lori, I don't think it's that simple, this magic crystal can complete the task, but I think the quality and quantity of the magic crystal delivered must be directly related to the final reward. Cook said guessingly.
"Maybe!" Lori didn't know if what Cook said was true or not.
"There are still a few days left in our mission period, let's look for another day, and then go to the A2 area to hunt water monsters, I have already inquired, there is an underground lake there, and there are some low-level water monsters living in it, which can completely allow Mi Qi to complete the task." Cook said confidently.
"Where are we going now, then?" Lori nodded, then looked down the hallway.
"Since the magic crystal has been found here, let's go in and have a look from here, and we won't go far, just walk two kilometers. Cook looked at it, and then said.
On the two-kilometer route, Cook found an inferior magic crystal again, just when Cook was about to reach the bottom line of the two kilometers, a sharp roar came from the depths of the cave, Cook quickly extinguished the magic torch, and then let Big Mouth and Ka Ka go to investigate first, Big Mouth is a mutant crow, very adapted to the dark environment, and Ka Ka is not to mention, spiders are a race that lives in the dark.
"Huge guy?" "Huge guy?" But in ten minutes, Big Mouth and Kaka both brought back a news that surprised Cook, because Cook had been misled by the little bad, so he was very puzzled, it was the little gray gray, the little gray gray at that time had just been born, and it was indeed bigger than the little bad.
Bigmouth and Kaka exchanged ideas with Cook, and then Cook looked up and asked Mickey, "What monster walks upright and has two heads?"
"Two heads, walking upright, no!" Mickie said as she struggled to recall.
"Stupid, what kind of monster is walking upright, it must be some subhuman race. Lori said angrily.
"Subhumans walk upright and like dark environments, there you have it, two-headed ogre!" Mickey was said by Lori, and it immediately sounded, and Mickey even took out the Monster Illustrated Book, and opened the Two-Headed Ogre's Illustrated Book for Big Mouth and Ka Ka to see.
"This is it!" Cook said immediately after receiving the affirmation of the clicker and the big mouth.
Lori said nervously, "Let's go, Cook, ogres are gregarious, and there are more than a dozen ogre families in one family." ”
"A dozen? Kaka and Big Mouth are obviously talking about one. Cook asked, confused.
"Ogres are gregarious, but there are a very small number of ogres who belong to the wanderers, and the average is a female ogre, and they are just coming of age. Mickey also opened the magic book and said.
Cook sent Ka Ka to investigate again, but after half an hour, the news that Ka Ka brought back was still one, and Cook heard Mickey: "Is this two-headed ogre worth anything?"
"The two-headed ogre is a good coolie, and the demand for ogres in the various gladiatorial arenas is also very high, so the price is not bad. Mickey replied.
"Yes, this ogre is a good coolie, and with such a big size, he must be faster than us in mining. Cook's eyes lit up.
When the three of Cook saw the ogre, they were surprised to find that the ogre was actually wearing animal skins and holding a huge stick in his hand, and this guy was roasting meat with magma on the edge of the magma river, and a scorching smell spread out, even if the ogre was more than five meters high, Cook was not surprised, Cook was surprised that there was a bag-shaped thing on the back of this ogre that emitted a dazzling magical light under the gaze of the magic eye, and then Cook found that it was a dirty adventurer's backpack, and Cook didn't have to think about it to know that it was either a magic core or a magic crystal or something。
"Cook, let's go!" Lori said as she pulled Cook when she saw the ogre's appearance.
"Let's go, aren't we just here to practice? Let's go, let's find a good terrain and kill this guy. Cook had long been stunned by the magical light of an adventurer's backpack, where would he give up this wealth in his hands, Cook looked at it and found that this ogre was just about the same as the magic light emitted by the second-level demonic beast, but Cook ignored that the two-headed ogre belonged to sub-humans, which was completely different from the demonic beast.
Lori found out that Cook was right, and that going out on an adventure requires fighting, so Lori didn't object.
Cook and the three of them turned around and found that there was really no good place in this mine, but Cook still gritted his teeth and fought, Cook took out all the engineering bombs he bought, and at the top of a section of the mine, a large number of engineering bombs were arranged below, of which the largest one on the ground was fifty bundles, and Cook didn't use any connection, because thorns were the best connection, but Cook screwed the cables of the engineering bombs together, exposed his head, and then fixed the engineering bombs at the bottom of the mine, and the ground was sprinkled with thistles, and Lori and Mickey were in the dodge holes on both sides of the tunnel。
The dodge hole is a narrow cave with only one person high and one meter wide on both sides of the mine, and the depth is generally two or three meters deep, so that the narrow cave can not only avoid permeability, but also the mine hole has opened up the underground reservoir, and the water flow will flow along the mine, and the dodge hole can prevent people from being swept away by the water flow, and can also prevent the mine from collapsing, because the dodge hole is narrow and has a large bearing capacity, sometimes even if the mine collapses, the dodge hole will not collapse.
"It's weird!" Cook whispered to Lori and Mickey, and the two of them walked to their positions on both sides, and drank the invisibility potion, and the protective magic scroll was in their hands, and once they started attacking, the two of them would use the protective magic scroll to release a protective magic to themselves.