After about two months of training and running-in, the joint exploration team finally completed its preparations and officially set off. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Long before them, a caravan of adventurers had arrived. Unlike exploration teams, the task of the exploration team is to set up camp and repair roads. The camp will be very large and can accommodate three or four hundred people. This will not only be a camping ground for exploration teams, but will also be a simple smelter where the ore will be smelted as soon as it is discovered to determine its exact quality and estimate the value of the vein.

Moreover, if it is determined that this vein will be mined, the camp will also serve as a transit point between the mine and the outside world, a place similar to a processing plant, and a small fortress.

There is a saying on the earth that "if you want to get rich, you must first build roads", and it is similar in this world. To do great things, roads must be built first, and with convenient transportation, it is much more convenient to transport people or goods.

If nothing else, if there are no roads, horse-drawn carriages cannot come, and the tools needed for exploration, and the household goods needed to build a small smelter, can they be carried on their shoulders?

How much manpower does it take, and how much risk does it take!

Especially the terrain here is relatively northerly, which is a little better now, and in the middle of winter, it is common to have waist-down snow. If there is no road, the inside and outside traffic will be cut off. When the time comes, if something goes wrong, it will really be called the heavens and the earth.

Roads are built not only to facilitate the development of mines, but also for their own safety.

In about two months, a simple road was built. This road is really rudimentary, it is nothing more than the grass and trees on the road, the stones are removed, and then leveled a little. Don't look at this kind of road now, it's okay now, and there will be problems after a long time. Especially when it snows in the winter and melts in the spring, it will rot into a muddy mess.

But in any case, it is enough to make do with it now, and to make the carriage passable.

What is to come, we will talk about it in the future.

Not long after the road was repaired, the exploration team came.

Because of the delay of two months, the weather is already very cold at this time, but cold also has the advantage of being cold - when the weather is cold, all kinds of poisonous insects and poisonous snakes will hibernate, which is safer for exploration. As for the beasts and monsters that move around regardless of the cold, they move around anyway, even when it's hot, it makes no difference.

Adventurers are not afraid of the cold, and neither are the prospectors. In other words, compared to the less deadly cold, poisonous insects and poisonous snakes are more dangerous.

That's what the Ministry of Mines thought, so it deliberately delayed until the winter to start exploring.

What's more, even if you want to go faster, it's not convenient to start exploration when the roads are not repaired and the camp is not built.

Prospectors are not adventurers, they don't have the physique to fight black bears hand-to-hand, and they can't carry heavy supplies across mountains and mountains. However, they had to carry even more than the adventurers - it has been calculated that on average, an explorer would often bring out at least twenty pounds of various stones at one time in the mountains. To carry such a heavy load on your back, of course, you need a solid camp. With a reliable large rear, they were able to carry out this kind of high-intensity work.

Hoppes didn't think much of it, he was only happy that the trip was over.

"Whew...... It's so cold!" He jumped out of the carriage, looked at the snow-covered peaks, and couldn't help but say, "But the scenery is really beautiful!"

Indeed, there had been a heavy snowfall only a few days ago, but now the mountains were all wrapped in silver shirts, and in the clear sun, the sky was cloudless, and the blue sky and white peaks were set against it, which was refreshing.

These days are not studying or rushing, looking up, what you see is either the roof or the canopy, in short, I don't see the day, and now I can finally relax a little.

If it weren't for the repeated orders during this period of training, repeatedly admonishing him not to shout in the snowy mountains, he really wanted to shout at this moment and express the joy in his heart.

Just then, he heard a roar coming from a carriage behind him.

"Ahh

Hoppus covered his face with his hands, reluctant to look back.

Ruby had already rushed over in a rage, grabbed a pig-headed man who was yelling, and threw him to the frozen ground with a hard punch.

"You stupid pig, have you forgotten what you emphasized in class that you are not allowed to yell in the snow!"

The pig-headed man was really thick-skinned and thick-skinned, and he didn't bother to be punched by this punch, lying on the ground and still talking hard: "I'm not an explorer." ”

"If you don't have to be an explorer, you have to obey the rules! If you yell at you and an avalanche is shaken, the people who are exploring in the mountains will be in danger!"

"But everyone has just arrived, and they haven't gone into the mountains to explore yet. ”

"There are other adventurers in the mountains!"

"What does the other adventurers have to do with us?"

Ruby was so angry that his nose was crooked, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with this bastard, so he picked up his fist and punched him left and right, making the guy cry wolf, and the last pig's face turned blue and purple before he stopped.

"Lao Tzu is not as reasonable as a teacher in school, and he doesn't know how to convince people with reason, I am a rough person. After the fight, he clenched his fists coldly and made a rattling sound, "Rough people will only use rough methods to solve problems, do you understand?"

The pig-headed glare at him viciously.

"Very well, the next time I hear you yelling like this, I'll hit me with a stick!" Ruby ignored the pig-headed man's vicious gaze and turned away.

During the two-month intensive training, he was recognized by his teachers and classmates and was elected as the captain of the prospectors. As the captain, he needs to lead the team to inspect the camp and prepare a lot of things, so he doesn't have time to waste time here.

When he was far away, Hopps sighed and walked over to the pig-headed man who was still lying on the ground, and a faint green light from his hand fell on the pig-headed man's body.

"Fela, you know Ruby's temper, why do you still tease him?" he sighed, "Isn't it interesting to be beaten again for nothing?"

"Sooner or later, I'll ...... Give back his ......"

"You just had a little contradiction at the beginning, did you always target him?"

"There is a vendetta...... Must be repaid!"

"How can you get revenge on him as a chef?"

"There will always be ...... Chances. ”

Under the healing effect of natural spells, the injuries on the pig-headed man Fira quickly healed, and after a while, only faint traces remained. He thanked Hopps, got up, and turned to leave.

This chef Fira is a stunned young man, and he didn't know how to look at Ruby when he was training, and then the two sides quarreled and acted. Of course, Fira couldn't beat Ruby, and he was beaten, and after that, this guy held a grudge, and every once in a while he provoked Ruby, and he would be beaten every time, but he never knew repentance.

Hoppes has a gentle personality and knows a little natural magic, and every time he gets beaten, he will help him heal. After coming and going, his healing ability has grown considerably, and he and Fira have become friends.

It's just that Ferra's personality is more withdrawn and stubborn, and Hoppus's persuasion several times was useless, and this time it was the same.

Seeing that he and Ruby were busy going their separate ways, Hopps couldn't help but sigh.

(I really don't know what the Ministry of Mines thinks, why do you have to let Fira participate in this exploration?) )